[Milton]

<strong>Written By:</strong> Milton
<strong>Date:</strong> 2006-01-06 19:40:34
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Today they are harder to recognize than in previous years, their once proud bumper stickers and car magnets on pickup trucks and SUVs praising their Dear Leader now nowhere to be seen, evaporating like a morning fog, thrown into trash bins or stored inside closets, lest they be fingered as part of the ignorant legions of automatons that helped steer America directly towards its present predicament. Gone are the large W’s emblazoned on their vehicles, that blue “Wastika” showcasing blind loyalty to criminality and fascism, while advertising mental fragility and propensities to be the followers of incompetence. Missing from the giant trucks and monstrous SUV’s masking quite apparent deficiencies below the belt are the plethora of patriotism-laced and nationalism-filled slogans that reeked of machismo yet betrayed delicate insecurity, now conveniently hidden from view as their precious war for fictitious democracy and freedom continues its decent into quagmire and debacle. <p> Yet this vast army of sheeple lingers throughout the American landscape, for they have not quite surrendered to truth or reality, two concepts as unfamiliar to them as reason and logic. They have simply retreated back to the canopied forests where barbarians live, crawling under rocks and boulders, returning home only to await the beckoning calls of further war through the trumpets of fear and hatred. Like fair-weathered fans, hiding at the first sign of defeat, rising with the arrival of victory, wanting only to be seen with winners and associated with success, this army of followers abandons ship when trouble can be seen and defeat smelled, forgetting that a war and quagmire exists in Iraq, evading their complicity in furtherance of criminality, finding it easy to whitewash from their minds war crimes and the murder of over 120,000 Iraqi and American lives. <p> For they are the Army of Good Americans, fearing what they do not know or understand, easily led into the dark expanses of human nature, ignorant to the ease with which they are manipulated and made blind to the power they willingly cede to the criminals and murderers in power. Birthed from the rubble of the World Trade Center, rising like a phoenix on 9/11 to claim dominion over America, this army has been the oxygen-rich blood maintaining alive the criminals in office. They are the defenders of war crimes and the apologizers of corruption. Filled with the emotions and passion of mammalian instinct, making them unthinking, uncritical, illogical and without reason, the army of good Americans has become the key used by corporatists to unlocking imperial aspirations abroad and destroying freedoms and rights at home. It is this army – a large part of American society – that has become an oasis to corporatists whose ambitions would have otherwise perished in the deserts of the Middle East. <p> Their legions, marching lock step behind their Dear Leader, filled to the rafters with the fear, hatred, xenophobia and patriotism needed by authoritarian regimes to thrive, have become the conduits of destruction, violence, rape and murder, the co-conspirators of illegality and death. Easily they answered the call to scapegoat and hate that which they did not know, their fear magnified and manipulated by their puppeteers, becoming the pawns of expendability and the tools of power, their emotions abused, their religious beliefs manipulated, their vote exploited, their majority numbers used to invade and occupy foreign lands and pilfer the treasury at home. <p> To them 9/11 was their call to arms, that transcendental moment where imploding towers falling birthed trance-like obedience and blind faith to criminals, though preferring the cowardice of chicken hawks, the timidity of yellow elephants and the comfort of armchair warriors rather than the bravery of enlistment and deployment. After all, in the demented mind of the army of good Americans, those less fortunate, those relegated to the lower castes of society due to the weaknesses espoused by the failed theories of social Darwinism are destined to become the cannon fodder of America, returning either dead or maimed for life serving their role where “survival of the fittest” governs. <p> Sitting comfortably on their couches, engorging themselves with microwave dinners, watching reality television and the latest exploits of sensationalist news reports while thousands of innocents die in order to appease their thirst for vengeance, the army of good Americans pretends to support the troops through car magnets and ribbons, hiding behind the red, white and blue, hiding insecurities through the bravado of tough talk, yet in reality sacrifices nothing both for a war they asked for or for the soldiers their loud voices sent to hell on Earth.<p> Read the rest of this article <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11460.htm">here</a> or at his blog <a href="http://www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com/">here</a>.

[Guest]

Wow! This might be the best rant I've heard all week.
Beautiful.

[Guest]

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[Guest]

The jealousy is so palpable - impressive.

[Guest]

Jealousy of what? Such comment on this site would usually refer to a Canadian supposedly jealous of the USA. This is from an American website and sounds like an American talking to Americans. Doesn't even sound like a jealous Democrat to me. I do admit Canada has its own sheeples, just like Austria did in the 1930s.

"The seeds planted on 9/11 by the new Pearl Harbor have grown into a pestilence of weeds spreading like wildfire throughout the lands of the free and the home of the brave, causing a great rift among the peoples of America. Slowly this vast field of weed dries up the further away from reality it travels, the more denial it reaches for the more its branches turn crisp brown and attractive to the fire raging from Atlantic to Pacific that threatens the America both of good Americans and the rest of us."

[Guest]

>>The jealousy is so palpable - impressive.<<<

Barely contained.

[mk]

I hate to sound like one of the dreaded anons here, but what does this american (and pro-american at that) blog essay against corporatism have to do with Canada and "Eye on Uncle Sam" issues?

I think we all know there is a significant portion of the american people dedicated to the "old republic" and concerned about the changes by which legitimate governments tend toward corporatism. But since it is lacking accompanying editorial about how Canada's legitimate interests might be affected, what is the point?

[Milton]

I know some Canadians who are part of the "Good American" army. They vote for the same corrupt ruling political parties year after year after year after.... As for an editorial as to how this article is pertinent to the Canadian context, think for yourself. Do you have to have your opinion handed to you?

[mk]

No, I unfortunately already have plenty of my own opinions. Hence seeking the opinions of others in order to either reinforce or challenge them.

Maybe I need to ask more nicely (sorry, I had just woken up) what is the point of this article in Canadian context? What is our relationship to corporatism as a form of governance and how does it differ from the American situation? What risks are unique to Canada? Does our attitude toward the U.S. do anything to address those risks?

Again, sorry, I didn't mean to sound so abrupt. Without a relevant analysis from which to launch discussion, we risk descent into one of those unproductive flame wars.

You rightly point out that Canadians are vulnerable to the same "security state" politics, I assume you mean even when it involves different parties and social ideologies.

[Milton]

OK, I misinterpreted what you meant MK, sorry. You seem to have gotten the gist of what I meant though. One positive aspect of this article is that it shows that there are US citizens who can still think clearly and who won't pretend to see the emperors new clothes.