e-Mailbox: Farrakhan’s assessment of America and more

Flocks of chickens are coming home to roost, signaling the Pirates’ inevitable departure from Iraq. The fallout of the Abu Ghraib abomination is yet another example of “blowback”: the unintended consequences of American aggression.

In the Seventies and Eighties, U.S. intelligence agencies spent billions of dollars to create the anti-Soviet jihad that metastasized into Osama bin Laden’s global “movement” – the ghastly legacy of the mad political sorcerers at the CIA. We can thank the same “permanent government” for systematically creating the infrastructure of the global narcotics network, through their alliances with criminal classes in every opium- and coca-growing country in which they operate. U.S. society became massively drug-polluted: blowback.

The Bush administration’s war against world order seeks to ring the Earth with law-free, American diktat zones, run by U.S. secret police – the truest expression of the Pirate’s global vision. The expansion of the hellish Guantanamo Bay prison regime to all of Iraq sanctioned wholesale depravity among the Abu Ghraib guards, as will be revealed in the coming days and weeks.

Blowback occurs when the Gestapo-like, global police state mechanism becomes generally known to the publics in the aggressor and victim nations – and to an alarmed planet full of potential victims. American psychological warfare, crafted to “break” the will of Iraqis, has exploded like a fumbled grenade. The blowback reverberates in American church congregations, such as the one in Dayton, Ohio where frequent contributor Maddi Bee posed the question: How Golden is This Rule?

Torture Orders roll downhill. Let’s not kid ourselves, people, that the High Command of our U.S. nazi administration doesn’t know almost every move in this torture/sexual abuse horror in Abu Ghraib prison and in prisons throughout Iraq and elsewhere.

Watch as the “excuse-makers” scurry around like cornered rats trying to find people to blame. Listen to the weak rhetoric bandied about by the Commander-in-Chief, the U.S. War President. Unlike H.S. Truman where the buck stopped, this weak president can’t abide bucks stopping anywhere near the vicinity of his soul.

Can you hear the screams of the tortured, sexually and mentally abused people in the middle of the night? Can you feel the tears of the Almighty falling from the sky? Can you even bear to know the traumas of the parents and spouses of these sons and daughters of Iraq and the US? Can you gaze at the swaggering, braggadocios military women and men pointing guns at genitals and snickering over the nudity of Iraqi men? Can you imagine how we would behave if our women were raped and our children tortured?

If we have any Collective Memory at all, we know the same things have been visited upon Native Americans and African Americans and others by the ruling powers here in the US. So, what do we expect our military and mercenaries to do in other lands?

Tell me, how does this Invasion/Occupation of Iraq solve any of the World’s Terror Problems? What I see is MORE EVIL unleashed from the pits of hell! Again, remember this: What goes around comes around. The Golden Rule has been stomped on and smashed. It has been Urinated on and Stuffed up the Asses of the Captured. Idolaters have laughed at it. It has been bombed and shot at. It has been Nuked and Mocked!

What do we do now? Because the Buck Stops With Us.

Maddi Bee invites your responses. Send to: [email protected]

Fatally warped

“In the Abu Ghraib pictures we see U.S. soldiers performing a slave master’s ritual, a specific, American kind of grotesquerie,” we wrote in our May 6 Cover Story, “America Unfit to ‘Change the World’.” White American Manifest Destiny, a killer ideology if ever there was one, doesn’t work so well in 21st Century Iraq.

Thoroughly ordinary young men and women pretend to be gods, lording over darker humanity. U.S. culture empowers them to act out their most hideous fantasies at the expense of “lesser” peoples. Lynndie England demanded that Iraqi men surrender their dignity by masturbating for her sick enjoyment. The Iraqi victims knew that the Americans’ pornographic theater could turn into a snuff film at any moment. To the Arab men, Pvt. England and Specialist Megan Ambuhl must have seemed like “Bay Watch” from Hell….

“This is not America,” said George Bush on Wednesday, pleading the national case to the Arab world. “America is a country of justice and law and freedom and treating people with respect.”

No, America is a country built on genocide, slavery and insatiable land-piracy, where even the lowest status white person is a king or queen compared to a “hajji” or “gook” or some other variety of “nigger.” This is the cultural well from which springs America’s ceaseless domestic and international wars, the fountainhead of aggression as a national trait.

It is also the national characteristic that renders Americans unfit to “change the world” – Bush’s favorite refrain. The same racism that encourages Americans to believe they have a right to dominate the planet, prevents them from perceiving non-whites as human beings – and brings out the dominatrix in Pvt. England.

Buffalo, New York activist Loretta Renford registers her outrage:

I urge all people to state their outrage about these abuses. While it is nothing new, it points to a systemic problem that few have dealt with. Certainly no president.

England and Graner as well as others are pathetic and obviously mentally ill to grin and do the things that they have perpetrated against these human beings. I don’t care if they are prisoners. Where is their discipline and moral restraint? Every human being has a stop watch in their brain…unless they are mentally dysfunctional. The rules of punishment should take place. Ms. England had the mental capacity to note that one prisoner, was “getting hard.”

Please spare me the rhetoric that she is innocent and was just following orders.

Let’s not play games as has been done with police brutality throughout the years. The buck stops here.

Bush stands before the American public and rambles aimlessly to convince us that the troops are doing a good job. What the hell is this? Stop playing us like you play your instruments. Our daughters and sons are dying for what? I wonder how sympathetic many of you would be if it were your loved one on display like we are observing?

In North Carolina, Fayetteville State University Professor Victor Hebert is appalled at the misuse of language to minimize high crimes.

The media and pirates have done it again. Playing word tricks, the horror, violence, degradation, depravity, murder, atrocity, demoralization, sexual assault, rape, destruction of humanity, and assault on human decency and dignity perpetuated by the basest of animal aggression and violence, has been labeled “abuse.”

My understanding of abuse is simple mistreatment. We call abuse not feeding our dog or cat, and not feeding our kids on time. We use criminal terms to describe offenses against persons such as rape, violent assault, aggravated murder, violent aggression, murder, forcible rape, etc. I don’t know of any instance where “abuse” is a crime.

What the criminals did in Iraq were crimes of the highest order, and not abuse as we know it. And, these crimes were perpetuated by men and women at the highest levels of rank in Iraq, the finest that money can buy.

If what is done in Iraq is abuse, then we owe Kobe Bryant an apology, and many others who did what these people did and condoned that are now locked away for life, or executed.

I get sick every time I see the word abuse attached to what has happened in Iraq. The stage is now set to pardon these people, or as the headlines in our local paper assert: “Rumsfeld apologizes for prison ‘abuse.’” And, “Soldier charged with ‘abuse.’” What happened and is happening is beyond abuse or we will have to throw out our own criminal “injustice” system and call what Charles Manson did a “boys will be boys” party.

Is the term “abuse” now truly redefined? It is a palpable travesty to see grown men and women in the United States Senate and Congress asking questions about “abuse” when they ought to be describing what is happening according to our own laws. That whole inquiry is a “dog and pony” show.

Minister Salaam and Sister Halimah Allah write:

We could not agree more with your May 6, 2004 article, “America Unfit!” The analogy is that “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!” Few of those in power ever concede that might does not make right!

The scriptures of the Holy Qur’an say: “Corruption has appeared upon the land and upon the seas on account of what man’s hands have wrought.”

Jennifer Thompson, from St. Louis, Missouri, sees the hand of a third party in the U.S.-Iraq mix.

I recently listened to the Honorable Louis Farrakhan in a press conference held in Washington, D.C. He brought a great deal of clarity to some issues of this engagement in the Iraq war. Your article also brought clarity. I am now listening to learn how much this country is committed to protect Israel at the expense of occupying Iraq, soon going after Iran, Syria, and any other Middle Eastern country threatening the survival of Israel. Farrakhan implies that it is the occupation of America in Iraq that has created the recent deaths of soldiers. I totally agree with that, but more importantly the American people, all of us, are now targets for any retribution for trying to protect Israel.

However, I also agree with you that it is that good ole American hatred that is responsible for the photos of prisoner abuse currently being played all over the world. Farrakhan has also stated that these were “home-grown” examples of the hatred in America. The fact that they were socialized to become arrogant and demeaning of difference is what being an American is today.

But if you understand what Farrakhan is suggesting, it makes perfect sense. American neo-conservatives are on a mission to eliminate any country that could be threatening to Israel and its current existence. It is believed Israel has all of the weapons of mass destruction and no other Middle Eastern country should stockpile them. But it was WMDs that served the purpose to go after Saddam. Bin Laden was lost in the search, but he continues to create havoc in Afghanistan.

What is not being discussed is how the Administration believes it needs to change how the world does business, and should adopt the policies and mindsets of America.

As your article eloquently demonstrated it is the mentality of hatred that is perverse in America, and has contributed to its success as a world leader. Unfortunately, the servicemen and women who are involved in the photo fiasco are only expressing what they have been taught by their trainers. You have a president who says, “Go get ’em boys,” and now a country that cannot stomach how dirty American military tactics are.

For those of us who know no better, we can only assume that these activities do not impact our lives, but in fact they do. What will happen if Israel becomes more powerful than America? Why is it so important to protect Israel? It is totally unfathomable that no one can explain why we are fighting in this war on terror, except Farrakhan. None of the major networks covered the story, but I can tell you the room was full and C-Span was there.

I cannot express how disturbing these events affect me, since I have a daughter serving as a United States Marine in this awful mess. The nation could withdraw, but Bush is not having it, just like he would not admit that weapons of mass destruction did not exist, but launched his missiles anyway.

May Peace be with you and this wonderful publication.

Alicia Balassa has a plan to stop the madness.

Black Commentator is hard-hitting today! Can it get any worse out there in Bush La-La land? As a woman, as a human being, as an American citizen, I am filled with shame after the last incident of torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail. I am filled with shame for my country, for my nation, and most of all for the poor people of Iraq, and all the poor people across the Third World who have and continue to suffer from the unethical, immoral practices of our country in the name of “safe-guarding American interests” and in the name of “Democracy.”

I’m just praying we pull out of Iraq as soon as possible, and bring our troops home immediately!!! Give Iraq back to the Iraqi people, and for God’s sake, for the sake of our national pride and honor as a people, let us stop dominating the world with our unfair business and environmental practices, our total disregard for peoples’ cultural and religious differences (if they are different from the Anglo white American norm), and whose resources, land, and cheap labor is all we want, leaving them to live in slums, landless, devastated by our funneling money to corrupt governments and militia armies of our own making. It’s just got to stop.

We are the most corrupt country in the whole world, without a doubt. If there are countries that are corrupt and use sadistic tactics with their prisoners, you can be sure we taught them how to do it. Our country is the most sadistic, ethnocentric, religious right wing warmongering culture of obscene mass consumption, sucking the world’s resources as fast as we can while the rest of the world falls further and further into poverty and misery. It appears we seem to have total disregard for life. Why can’t they (the Pirates who control this nation and the world) see we all come from the same Great Mother.

Let’s begin, on this Mother’s Day, to honor her in all her manifestations and glory. It is time to bring the “Grandmother Council” back into our own system of government, as the original Seneca and Iroquois tribes had as their system of government. If we had such a council, there would be no more war. One man, such as the maniac we now have leading our country, is a recipe for disaster. To rectify the damage that has been done by this administration and this one maniac will take many, many years. Our democracy is, as Fela, the great Nigerian singer, said: “Dem all Crazy!”

Eloise Bradley sees the nation through the wide lens of time.

Of all the websites and all the writing on any given subject you cover, I have found yours to be the clearest, sanest, strongest and most devastating to our feeble minded powers that be. You cannot loathe Bush, et. al. more than I do but you certainly state it better.

I am a “white” (hate that term but for description’s sake use it here) lady of nearly seventy. I have been a left-leanin’ commie pinko liberal all my adult life. I was southern born but NEVER bought into the thinking of my time. I do recognize that I was, indeed, stunted by it all the same. It gets into your bones and bloodstream like heavy metal contamination. It is a sickness that I don’t see many folks fighting and yet it MUST be fought and fought hard if it is to be driven back.

From Gamila Zahran’s vantage point, Uncle Sam is naked to the world.

A very smart couple by the name of John and Diane Stanley sent us this letter from Ireland.

Donald Webber is an American now living in Seoul, Korea.

Having just read your piece “America Unfit to Change the World” (via the link provided at Rense.com), I would like to thank you for your remarkably keen, sharp-witted analysis.

Surely, as I know you will agree, the racist underpinnings of American worldwide hegemony have not yet begun to be challenged in the mainstream press as a thoughtful approach to the topic would require.

We’re always glad to hear from Maria Luisa Etchart, an Argentine currently living in Costa Rica.

I love the English language, maybe because I devoted many hours of my life to learning the little I know. The main reason for learning English was to be able to read some authors I considered vital in their original version.

But the use of the English language by American authorities sets me off balance. In recent years I had to incorporate terms such as “friendly fire” (firing at a person can’t possibly be considered as a friendly action), “preemptive attack” (even the media enjoyed the perspective of attacking and destroying a distant country that few Americans know anything about, except that it is sitting on an enormous oil well), “collateral damage” – fancy words to express that civilians, women and children included, can be easily killed ignoring the Geneva Convention, cities can be bombed, houses destroyed without producing any visible emotion of repulse in most of the inhabitants of “the land of the free.”

We could also assume that before pronouncing the word “democracy” they should remember it means “government of the people, by the people and for the people” and not just having the chance to vote for the least of several evils and keep fingers crossed hoping they don’t do too much harm while in office. As of yesterday I have to add the word “contractor” to this preposterous list, as “somebody hired to torture and interrogate prisoners.” Among these contractors I can guess there must be a number of beings (human is omitted on purpose) with vast experience in training South American army men during the “cold war” (can a war be cold, can blood be cold?) to catch, torture and disappear people with the wrong political ideas. Remember the School of the Americas in Panama?