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They are coming. We are coming to you! You try to prepare the children but how do you prepare for B-1 Bombers and F-16 Jets flying overhead or for foot soldiers pushing at your door? Imagine – there’s no escape. Neighbors are mesmerized by the animated, 3-D images of the attack to come. The talking…
February 28, 2008 3 min read Free to read
They are coming. We are coming to you! You try to prepare the children but how do you prepare for B-1 Bombers and F-16 Jets flying overhead or for foot soldiers pushing at your door? Imagine – there’s no escape. Neighbors are mesmerized by the animated, 3-D images of the attack to come. The talking heads are saying it will be better than any sporting event! Your destruction brought to the world live. What technology! You feel helpless. Your experiences, your humanity is of no importance to Motss. It’s his job. His reputation at stake! The show must go on.
Now, now, the saviors, the delivers of “democracy,” and above all “freedom,” tell you to be responsible for cleaning up your home! The delivers will of course help with private contractors, building a home in the middle of your destroyed neighborhood and guarding against any form of retaliation on your part. Take responsibility for restoring order! Head of homes (and gov’t) have been replaced with clones of the saviors. They sound like your people and look like your people, but their interests lie not with the devastation you and others experience but with the saviors and their needs to obtain oil, and build an embassy, bring contractors from their lands and other foreign lands to yours, to build, to profit from what has been a blatant violation of human rights. In short, global dominance is the only thing real on this earth as long as the U.S. corporate capitalists exist! Destruction of your home boosts the profits of oil companies and security contractors. Elected Republicrats have kept their capitalist cronies quite happy, for it’s all about corporate capital. Real democracy, real freedom can’t exist anywhere without the threat of corporate capitalists, world bullies, cold and calculating, doing what they do best – conquer and destroy human life!
This is not a comedy if you are at all human and really human (not another Hollywood produced pod thing). If you are human, you are with the people in Iraq. You’ve been with them since the spin began. Motss’ production only convinced you of the insanity of this government’s ruling class and its capitalist ideology. You have always understood you are witnessing a tragedy.
The average American adult, heavily in debt to the production of “innocence,” is committed to assurances that the U.S. Empire will continue to bulldoze its way from one country to another where it suspects people are in need of “freedom” and democracy from some despot, tyrant, or dictator. The silence of these average Americans exemplifies a “partnership” with the cheering mob! Homegrown tyrants here are free to roam the world in search of bounty for profit! And spin masters like “Conrad Brean” are a valued commodity now, since the days of Reagan Production, Inc., and people, particularly the young with no knowledge of yesterdays, like our Mr. Brean, have turned out pages and pages of narrative epiphanies about “evils” lurking “on the darkside” to defend the interest of the American Empire.
So what happened? It’s America, for heaven’s sake! They’ll remember Reagan’s warning: look to the children. Look to family interests and feel betrayed. Naked and awake, they can see the words rolling down the teleprompter and the speaker, having a hard time keeping up, calls out the words as he catches tumbling down: terrorists… interests… 9-11… terrorists, again… change… more change…
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