written back in 2016
Skid Row Politics.
Have you ever seen the elimination of skid row by
redevelopment?
They tear down, they rebuild, they modernize and does skid
row go away? No, it just moves somewhere else. To Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan,
nearly all the countries in Central and South America, all of Africa and nearly
every other country around the world. They've all been skid row to the Western
Empire. Tear‘em down, put ‘em new
leaders in power, destroy their infrastructure, rebuild, give them more
weapons, and woo la, a new Skid Row pops up somewhere else, nowadays in the Country
we just call it "redeveloped". You can hate skid row but you can't
kill it. Know why?
Trying to kill tyranny with tyranny is as old a concept as,
well, let's say, trying to establish democracy by tyranny. It doesn't work but
when you live in a society such as ours it's easy to believe that changing who
is in the government actually changes something. Many countries have had a
series of tyrants running their military and it's never changed a thing.
Different faces, same results. We're about to try and elect a woman as
President, right after the black man, who came after the southern sax playing
Welfare Killer and corporate lover, who came after the Great Communicator
and in between a couple of them there was the former head of the CIA and
his son who ran the presidency as if he were a simpleton King with his
henchman, Oliver "Dick Cheney" Cromwell. Not a dimes worth of
difference between any of them. We have the same problems even though we call
them by different names.
We don't have educational segregation but now we don't even
have an educational system. We don't have Vietnam, Chile, Guatemala, Cambodia,
Palestine, the Cold War but now we have Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, War on
Terror. There are probably ten other major conflicts we've been involved in and
the stage is being set for the next generation wars, the wars we can manage
from the air but even that isn't new because we tried to eliminate the Vietnam
Cong and North Vietnamese by dropping record numbers of bombs from B-52's
which were the untouchable war machine like the stealth technology is today.
B-52's dropped their payloads from so high in the atmosphere military generals
laughed at how easy it was. Look what we gained. Some people say we are
governed by the military it's not just the use of technology to establish
dominance by violence but is just as much of what's in the hearts and minds of
political leaders. And in this age of subliminal violence that dominates and
controls us, militarism and religion is at the heart of and in the minds of all
those who wrongly believe that deadly force rids the world of cruel and violent
ideas.
ISIS is the creation of men who think they are god but who
essentially don't believe in anything except power and wealth. Isn't it ironic
that Congress and the President are in agreement, finally. Obama put off his
immigration policy, for the sake of democrats struggling to win election or
re-election, as if immigration reform doesn't exist. Both parties here in the
US have no new ideas because the world they are creating is not new, except in
it's title, New World Order. It's all about oil, resource control, and
religious hegemony. Make no mistake about it, folks, we are living in the end
times though there will be no return of gods form of fascism but the complete
elimination of all forms of dissent. They are willing , ever since, 9/11 to
throw the baby of freedom out with the bath water of fascism. Unfortunately,
ISIS, as the Taliban before it, or Zionism, or Nazism before that, all have the
distinction of looking like formidable myths, but, in reality, are only
ideologies, coming from the inside because of what's happening outside of us.
We have been brainwashed with media hype for decades now on how we need to
defend ourselves and if you believe the media, which is a creation of the
military/CIA/industrial complex to make us fearful.
Whenever I hear of a new threat, I look around me, at the
inhabitants of my local community and what do I see? Parents of all ethnic and
cultural beliefs and fears simply going about their business of trying to get
their kids educated, working, and trying to survive without a thought about
ISIS or the Taliban or the wars in the Middle East. Maybe some of them have
sons and daughters who are in the military so they have concerns for them but
could care less or know even less about the politics of what their kids are
involved in. How can anyone really know the depths of insanity our politics can
muster for the sake of ideologies that have been so corrupted and abused, that
very few knowledgeable people even try to piece together everything that's
wrong. The one's who are supposed to know and create an atmosphere of
democracy, which only an informed public needs in order to make legitimate
choices, give us cliche, simple scenarios about complex issues.
We went to war in Iraq and probably, Afghanistan on a lie. The
Taliban was more vicious than ISIS and had control of Afghanistan for one
reason and one reason only. The United States helped them, despite knowing
their religious zealotry, to defeat the Russians, who were as foolish then as
we are now. If we think we can kill all those who hate with precision air
attacks, then there's probably a thousand other places on the planet that have
to be scoured. Syria is a good example of a foreign, religious, weapons
industry centered war. ISIS came out of Syria but inside Syria and nearly every
other North African and middle eastern, sub-continent country are the seeds for
violence and hatred. From our side, hate and violence comes from a more
intricate philosophy that is as anti-democratic as it is anti-freedom. All one
has to do is look around and it's obvious. People won't be contained by borders
nor will they sit still if their homes are destroyed, nor will they forget.
That's the problem, Obama and America. The people won't
forget.
Stop colluding with fascism.