Re: What do you think of the US?

• From: "John P. Mullen" <jomullen@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:43:37 -0600

Michael O'Neill wrote:

John P. Mullen wrote:

Hi,

My son has an assignment for High School  The question is "What do you
think of the US."  He is supposed to ask numerous types of people,
including a stranger.

If you want to make a comment, please try to keep it to a short
paragraph.  There is only so much BW available.

:-)

Thanks,

John Mullen

Hi John.

Here are several short paragraphs for your delectation. You may want to
vet them for accuracy and content before passing them on to your son.
Righto. Bad Stuff First:

America is:

A rogue state promoting terrorism around the world but particularly in
the Western Hemisphere, which it regards as its own, backed by nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction that they continually
develop in defiance of all test bans.

A training ground for terrorists, where right wing dictators can source
arms and munitions, find moneys to fund their outrageous lifestyles that
their people have to pay for generations, and where their agents learn to
torture their political opponents and ordinary people in the School of
the Americas in Fort Benning.

A criminal nexus where the government, security services, organized crime
and petty criminals make common cause and prey on the law-abiding members
of society.

A killing ground for presidents who get in the way of the Military
Industrial Intelligence Complex OR the Bush Dynasty - is there a
difference?

A corrupt democracy run by incompetent front men on behalf of élite
deviants whose credo "nothing is true - everything is possible" is heard
during their frolics in the Bohemian Grove.

A place where the fabric of the poorer strata society has been eroded for
over thirty years by hard drugs imported by the CIA aided and abetted by
the FBI and DEA, organizations staffed by leftovers from the crew that
killed a president.

A country where being connected to the élite means never having to say
you're sorry - or do time in prison - even if you kill a president.

An economic fraud supported by (i) the Dollar as a World Reserve Currency
(ii) the proxy control of oil distribution (iii) arms and drugs sales
world-wide (iv) direct control of the World Bank.

The only Country ever convicted by the World Court of Terrorism - the
only country to have ignored a judgement of the World Court

The supported of Israel, a country which practices Plantation Policy and
the only country to have ignored a UN Resolution for 30 years.

A divided country, where left wing liberals have lost the fight against
right wing conservatives, but where the leaders of both have been
subverted by the corruption endemic to that society.

The purveyor of future wars of expansion as the empire collapses from
within, socially and economically, due to the twin depredations of the
personal alienation that arises from the unravelling of the social web
and the financial cost of foreign aggressive war campaigns, invasions and
poorly planned occupations.

The only country that has set up to be killed its own people in numbers
to whip up fervour to justify foreign military adventures.

A country whose current military strategy is based on the doctrine of
pre-emptive strikes.

A country whose targets for pre-emptive strikes include any country that
may become an economic threat to its long term prosperity.

A country whose government views its citizens merely as a cannon fodder
in foreign wars, the survivors merely as a means to pay debts incurred in
foreign wars, whose economy is set up to benefit the few who supply goods
and materiel to support foreign wars and whose strategists regard the
rest of the world as places to wage foreign wars.

A country where a disproportionate number of black people are in prison.

A country where a disproportionate number of black people are in prison
awaiting the death sentence.

A country whose majority of good people don't know, or else don't want to
know the crimes that are committed daily in their name by the agents
acting on behalf of the minority of élite deviants who rule their lives.

==========================================================

I you want evidence for any or all of this may I suggest a visit to the
National Security Archive as a starting point. The section on Henry
Kissinger is interesting, although I'm not sure that a well brought up
American boy in High School is ready for it. The section on Saddam is
enlightening and shows the duplicitous nature of American diplomacy at
its best.

Further references to google include "Operation Northwoods" [I have a
copy somewhere if you need it] and "War is a Racket" by Major General
Smedly Darlington Butler.

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

You could also try "War is the health of the State" by Randolph Bourne, a
satirical piece with a lot of truth in it, like most good satire.

http://struggle.ws/hist_texts/warhealthstate1918.html

<watch out for Echelon - its and ANARCHIST website>

And a commentary:

http://www.zetetics.com/mac/articles/warfreem.html

And some context:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/WarHealth_PeoplesHx.html

Finally there's that piece by Mark Twain, not published before his death,
"The War Prayer".

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/warprayer.html

Now for the good stuff:

==========================================================

The only country that has put a man on the moon.

The only country that has understood the capitalist economic system.

The only non-african country where black people can rise to high office.

A country where the talents of people of Jewish origin are used to the
full and not repressed.

The only country that puts [most of] its decision making process by the
President on the written record.

A country whose ordinary people are very polite and friendly.

A country where religious tolerance is practised, at least in public.

A country where the experience of city life is becoming understood.

A country that celebrates wealth without guilt.

A country where several of my best online friends dwell.

==========================================================

FWIW

M.

Thanks,

John Mullen
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