The War on The War on Terror

Ben Heine / MWC NEWS

I think it might be possible to trace virtually every action by our government since 9/11 to these and only these stealthy motivations.  Every time these agendas have diverged from the actual interests of true global and national security, their requirements always assume precedent.  Often this agenda is even advanced to the detriment of security.

This document does not advocate the use of illegal or violent means to attempt to undo the strategies of the neocon policymakers.  I do wish to point out here the myths, fabrications and lies that a pernicious administration abetted by a continuing docile opposition and a complicit media have allowed to become the new accepted wisdom.  We need to examine all the facile assumptions that have been fed us by those who would presume to program our national consciousness.  It is my assertion here that the whole “War on Terror” is a fraud of the first water and should be dispelled forthwith.  

I am not asserting here that there is no such thing as terror in the world.  Where the disagreement comes is in an understanding of the root causes of such a phenomenon and an effective appropriate means for dealing with it.  

In spite of what has been blasted at us from the speaker of every radio and the screen of every TV since 9/11, our freedoms and our obscenely high standard of living are only indirectly responsible for the rise of international terrorism.  World terrorism, first of all, is not some monolithic enterprise directed primarily at the United States by the “Islamo-fascists.”  Terrorism, even though universally condemned, may at least be rationalized after a fashion as the last resort of a brutalized group of people with no real options to resist a tactically superior oppressor possessing overwhelmingly greater resources.  

We in this country have absolutely no idea of what terrorism is.  I hate to say it, but that is exactly the way the Republicans, the current administration and even most of the Congressional Democrats want it.  If you are going to set up a bugaboo to scare and control the ignorant and little children, it is best if they don’t know too much about your made-up phantom be he the old Russian Bear or a Tamil Tiger.  Unfortunately the biggest factor that stands in the way of any proper addressing of the issue of terrorism, domestic or international is our government itself.  We must awaken to the fact that our government (Republicans and Democrats) is not interested in any semblance of security for the American people.

We should make every attempt to ridicule the authorities and so befuddle them by means of false alarms, use of code words in your communications to flood the data mining equipment and other creative hoaxes that the system grinds to a halt. Please consult your attorney before attempting any such activities to determine their legality.

Some of you may say, “Won’t this foil some legitimate attempts at thwarting real terrorists?”   I hate to say this, but I don’t think anyone is actually doing anything substantive in this country to thwart terrorism, actual or imagined.  All the highly publicized raids and arrests of “terrorist cells” that are so widely proclaimed in front page headlines one week are quietly retracted on the back pages weeks later, if at all.

This administration is far more interested in spying on its critics and opponents than they are on thwarting terrorists.  Even the President in his last State of The Union address lied about the only four (four!) examples he could find of attempts to prevent terrorist attacks. I am willing to admit there are some sincere lower level officials who may actually buy into this “War on Terror” crap.  I can assure you none of the higher ups do.  That is why every citizen who still values his/her liberty must do everything to resist and destroy this “War on Terror” and completely discredit and hinder its advocates.

Due to the obscene uses to which 9/11 has been put, I truly wish the event could be exorcized from the collective American memory and never mentioned again!  There is no value in reminding ourselves of the tragic passing of our fellows on that horrible day if these events are to be continuously and unremittingly used as a psychic cattle prod to keep us all terrorized and compliant. The use of the constant recapitulation of the 9/11 mantra by cynical public officials and demagogues is the most profound desecration of the memory of the victims imaginable. 

The reason I even bring this up is that I see a pretty clear pattern of behavior – a conspiracy of stonewalling, deceit and fraud that began prior to 9/11 and continued through all the “remedial” actions the “War on Terror” was supposed to effect in the world:  The Patriot Act, illegal wiretaps, rendition, torture, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the present unobserved, unreported war in Iran.

The few members of the electorate that still held to some hope of change through the electoral process have now pretty much fallen back into the great unwashed millions who just don’t give the south end of a rat for politics. This leaves those of us who still possess a sense of outrage over the ham handed theft of our Republic and the destruction of the planet under the jack-boot of “American Democracy” with a damned small space in which to maneuver.  

If a real Revolution is being planned and such organizing is indeed being done, it must be really deep, deep underground.  I am also surprised that more young Muslim-American men have not taken violent action against this government.  Is it possible that the lesson of the massacre of the Black Panthers is still remembered?  A couple of sting operations have netted some clueless, hopelessly inept young Muslims here and abroad.  If we must pin our hopes for revolutionary resistance to American Imperialism only on these totally misguided incompetents, we had better give up completely.  

These men and women of the Bush Administration are not just your garden-variety second story burglars.  These are, to a man (and woman), deeply corrupt people for which no crime, no atrocity is too repulsive.  I know it is hard to keep this in mind when we are bombarded daily with pictures of them entertaining celebrities, kissing babies and distributing largess to ragged, photo-op unfortunates.  I hyperbole you not, these are mass murderers, thieves and liars of a magnitude that dwarfs human imagination.