Fascism Comes to West Point!

P R E L I M I N A R Y - P A R A G R A P H S

There hasn’t been a whole lot of news topics inspiring me to post originals these days.  China’s problems aren’t going away overnight.  This is why the markets were down 470 points today.  I told you this downtrend was the real thing, but all these commentators pronounce that the “crisis has passed” after not allowing nearly enough time.  Some theorize that the people of China still don’t have the cash they should so vast malls are almost empty with only three shops in them, and large vast stadiums go unused- - and apartment buildings newly build just languish over the months only to fall into a state of gradual disrepair.  It seems that China’s whole goal is to build up a productive economy based on exports to other countries and not their own consumers.  So this “Communist Government” invites all these outside capitalists in their country making people like Michelle Bachman happy.  The right wing loves the way workers in China have no rights and can only dream that we’d do the same thing in America.  It is the goal of these later day Libertarians to fulfill the 1980 libertarian platform of David Koch, which abolishes the EPA and OSHA and the departments of energy and education and whatever, and would eliminate Social Security and Medicare and AFDC and corporate income tax.

Sometimes Norman Goldman has a major attitude problem.  For instance the Pope delivered a message on compassion and forgiveness.  For instance when dealing with a woman who’s had an abortion you should deal with her with sensitivity and empathy realizing the emotional trauma she’s gone through.  But Norman says “Well who are YOU to deem to forgive MY sins!”  And went on a rant about how women who’ve had abortions didn’t do anything wrong but were exercising their “rights’ or something.  But the problem is-- - most first degree murderers – and abortion is pre meditated murder - - would get off lightly with a pat on the wrist and told not to sin again.  Most first degree murderers end up on death row.  So perhaps Norman Goldman can try and exercise just a little humility and respect for the person of Jesus Christ, whom the Catholics believe has the power to grand absolution from sin.  But instead Norman goes off on a major rant about their not being a shred of evidence for any Catholic belief.

I continued to be puzzled why various Sunni nations are at odds with ISIS.  They both have the Solifist Islamic belief referring to Yemen and Saudi Arabia and ISIS.  Perhaps the thing isn't religious but dates back to Saudi Arabia's basic hostility to Iraq and the Bath Party.  As you know a lot of the soldiers of ISIS are old defunct officers in the Iraq army who were Bathists.  They just got radicalized.  It seems to me that is ISIS is at war with "Everybody" they should be a thing of the past by now.  Clearly they are getting more support than our media is letting on.  They're getting it from somewhere, perhaps from Turkey, who's efforts to become our allies in the anti ISIS cause is a bit dubious.  And if we are at war with Solifism itself, perhaps congress should investigate the connection between Saudi Arabia and 9 - 11.  Because we know how tight the Bush family is with the Saudis.  Shawn Hannity calls the Saudis "our trusted allies" and I"m wondering why.  Saudi Arabia has the third biggest military in the world, which is bigger than Iran.  So it is the Saudis who we have more to fear from than Iran.  But somehow the media isn't letting us know these things.  They have to pretend to hate each other.  But the proof is in the pudding.  Iran is the group that has dedicated the most of their military to fighting ISIS forces.  But we regard Iran as chopped liver or something.  I don't get it.  If the Saudis "Bombed the crap out of ISIS strongholds" the way Shawn Hannity suggest, then ISIS shouldn't be a problem on the world scene anymore, should it?

This is Tuesday September 1, 2015.   Money draw call came at one thirty but I never heard my name called.  In soap land the big question now is who is going to buy “Basic Black” and the two rivals are Nicole and Teresa, or maybe somehow they could contract as co investors, which would be really trippy.  I missed out on the morning refreshments.  In the afternoon I got two cups of iced tea from Rico.  This guy was going around cutting everyone’s nails and so I submitted to having mine cut - - kind of short.  The line wasn’t long and I was behind Nancy Bell.  I gave [name] the check for $1068.00 I had written out.  That makes $54.00 in my account which first puzzled me because I thought [name] said “minus $10.68” which left me puzzled.  I got my twenty and grabbed one Kit Kat bar and left for the store.  I bought a turquoise lighter and a fourth pack of cigarettes for the day.  I have written down all the outlays of cigarettes I’ve done.  tever, and would eliminate Social Security and Medicare and AFDC and corporate income tax.

M A I N - A R T I C L E

The following may be just one man’s opinion but it’s still scarey to think that such ideas are broached in the US Military.  I wonder what Lindsey Graham or CarleyFeurina think of this mad man’s rant at West Point.  This is an actual speech.  The author makes clear that his motivation is hatred of Islam. He includes the false myth of origins of Western Asian violence toward the United States lying in antiquity rather than in blowback. He includes the lie, now popular on all sides, of Iran pursuing nuclear weapons.

He announces, after the recent U.S. losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, that U.S. armies always win. Then he admits that the U.S. is losing but says this is because of insufficient support for the wars and for making the wars about an “economic system, culture, values, morals, and laws.”

The key weapon in this war, he says, is information. U.S. crimes are not the problem; the problem, he writes, is any information distributed about U.S. crimes — which information is only damaging because the United States is the pinnacle of support for the rule of law. It wouldn’t matter if you spread news about crimes by some more lawless nation. But when you share news about crimes by the United States it hurts the U.S. cause which is upholding the rule of law and leading the world to lawfulness. The United States is the all-time world champion of the rule of law, we’re told, in a 95-page screed that never mentions the Kellogg-Briand Pact and only belatedly brings up the United Nations Charter in order to pretend that it permits all U.S. wars.

You can pack a lot of existing lies about U.S. wars and some new ones into 95 pages. So, for example, Walter Cronkite lost the Tet Offensive (and by the logic of the rest of this article, should have been immediately murdered on air). The mythical liberal media is busy reporting on the U.S. killing of civilians, and the worst voices in public discourse are those of treasonous U.S. lawyers. They are the most damaging, again, because the United States is the preeminent leader of lawibidingness.

The treasonous antiwar lawyers number 40, and the author hints that he has them on a list. Though whether this is a real list like Obama’s kill list or something more like McCarthy’s is not clear. I lean toward the latter, primarily because the list of offenses run through to fill up 95 pages includes such an array that few if any lawyers have been engaged in all of them. The offenses range from the most modest questioning of particular atrocities to prosecuting Bush and Cheney in court. Nobody doing the latter has any voice in U.S. corporate media, and a blacklist for Congress or for the U.S. Institute of “Peace” would hardly be needed if created.

The 40 unnamed treasonous scholars are, in this treatise, given the acronym CLOACA, which in good fascist form of course means a sewer or an orifice for excreting feces or urine. Their supposed crimes include:

• failing to concede that violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict by Muslims permit the waiving of those laws for the U.S. government;
• interpreting the supposed standards of “distinction” and “proportionality,” which the author admits are totally open to interpretation, to mean something the author doesn’t like;
• opposing lawless imprisonment and torture;
• opposing murder by drone;
• supporting the supposed duty to warn people before you kill them;
• counting dead bodies (which is too “macabre” even though the U.S. is supposedly devoted to “minimizing civilian casualties” not to mention Western scientific superiority);
• upholding laws; pointing out facts, laws, or counterproductive results;
• filing suits in court;
• or criticizing war advocates.

The heart of the matter seems to be this: opposing war amounts to supporting war by an enemy. And, nonetheless, among the reasons offered to explain CLOACA joining the enemy are “anti-militarism,” and “pernicious pacifism.” So actual opposition to war drives people to oppose war, which amounts to supporting war for the enemy. I think I’ve got it.

The prescriptions to heal this illness center on waging total war. The author proposes both dropping nuclear bombs and capturing hearts and minds. No doubt as part of his leading support for lawfulness, he demands that there be no restraint on U.S. warmaking against Muslims. That means no limit in time or place, a rewriting of any laws of war by the U.S. military, and no trust in the “marketplace of ideas.” The U.S. must use PSYOPS, must impose loyalty oaths, must fire disloyal scholars from their jobs, must prosecute them for “material support of terrorism” and for treason, and must proceed to murder them in any time and place.