Posted on 09/23/2006 12:13:11 AM PDT by B-Chan
Turn on the TV, open the newspaper, log on to the internet, and you'll see them: Muslim extremists, responding to the latest "outrage against Islam" like teenyboppers freaking out over the latest TV heartthrob. (Hot: Pope Benedict XVI. Not: Danish cartoons). They rant, they rage, they riot, they rape, all in the name of Allah. Tiredly, we change the channel to ESPN, flip to the horoscope, or click over to shavedasians.com. Of course the bastards are freaking out, we think. They're Muslims. Nothing new there. But they're all overseas. The ones we have here at home are all okay, right? And so we settle in for a night of sports, soap opera, and skin, washing away the cares of the working day with can after can of watery, ice-cold Coors Light. After a day at work like the one I had today, only the Silver Bullet eases the pain.
America sleeps on, unrecognizant of the fact that there are the better part of a billion people out there who hate our guts and want us to die -- and I mean REALLY die, as in forever. In Shitholistan, Imam Dirkadirka kills women and kids, blows up priceless works of art, and burns the Pope in effigy; meanwhile, in the good old U.S. of A, it's hey, another starlet got fake boobs! Those among us who do get excited over the jihad are universally dismissed as talk-radio junkies, conspiracy nutters, and Klansmen; hate is not a family value, after all, and war is not the answer; if only we sat down with the Muslims and discussed our differences we could live in peace. Kum bah yah, muhlorrrrd, kum-bah-yah...
Ah, sweet slumber. But will we ever wake up?
I'm not sure. I think we'll continue in our sleep until the bastards REALLY hit us. Until they bring the war to our neighborhoods and schools and shopping centers, killing us in huge numbers and disrupting our way of life, I think we'll just dream on. Eventually they'll turn smallpox loose on us or spread radioactive dust on the freeways or blow up a You-Know-What in a big city or three. That'll get us off the couch.
At that point, however, it may be too late for us to wake up.
The problem is not that we are stupid. Even an animal knows enough to fight back when a predator attacks. The obvious, sensible, and moral thing to do when someone tries to kill you is to kill him before he succeeds. When a group of people who live in countries where a particular religous or political system holds power join forces to try to kill you, the obvious, sensible, and moral thing to do is to make war on them until their religious or political system is dead and they are no longer capable of harming you. War need not be a dreary, dragged our Vietnam-like nightmare. There's nothing particularly complicated about making war. You kill the enemy, destroy his ability to make war, co-opt his culture and religion, set up a puppet state in his homeland, indoctrinate his children, and keep your boot on his face until those children are old enough to take over. Then you station a garrison in each country and leave.
If the American nation were operating according to this common-sense policy, the War on Terror -- whatever that is -- would have been over by now: no more civilians getting killed by accident by our troops, no more Gitmo, no more ethnic cleansing, no more Sunni vs Shiite. If we'd reacted to September 11 like sane, awake, aware people, on September 12 we would have been at war -- REAL war. We would have cranked up the airplane, tank, and bullet factories, instituted gas rationing, sold war bonds, raised a huge army, invaded Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the small fry, crushed all resistance as quickly and brutally as necessary, and installed military governments in each for fifty years.
It worked in Germany. It worked in Japan. Perhaps we should be asking ourselves "What would FDR do?"
But we don't. We didn't wake up on September 11, 2001 and decide as a nation to do what had to be done. Instead, we have allowed ourselves to be kept asleep -- by the political and media systems by which public opinion is manipulated.
This is no conspiracy theory; there is no big room where evil, cackling billionaires, politicians, and media moguls gather to hatch nefarious plans. Big shots in politics, business, and the media are as a whole no more "evil" than any other group of people. The people at the top levels of government and media do not all have memberships in some cabal of criminal conspirators; they simply share the same goal: to maintain the status quo. They are simply doing what we all do -- acting in their best interests. They have nothing to gain from a clash of civilizations (there's no money in a real world war); their best interests lie in keeping the public fat, sated, and entertained, thus preserving the system that gives them money and power.
Working separately towards the same ends, these government, big biz, and media elites act as if they were a single conspiracy -- call them the Bread and Circuses gang -- manipulating information, opinions, and money as necessary so that food and gas stay cheap and we remain distracted from ugly, scary, and dull issues of war and peace. Idiotic sports games, moronic celebrity "news", pornography, and other brain-dead "entertainment" designed to appeal to the basic physical drives are their method of control for the citizens of too-tired-to-care America. As long as there's food on the shelves, gas in the pumps, beer in the fridge, and sports on TV, the average American doesn't give a tinker's damn about anything outside of his own day-to-day life. After a hard day's work at his soul-crushing job, the typical Joe Sixpack is too numb to care abour Imam Dirkadirka from Shitholistan. Like giant infants, we are kept in a state of childhood, recognizing as important only pleasure and pain.
Violence itself won't wake us up, even on a large scale. More people died on September 11, 2001 than on December 7, 1941, yet by the nxt day we were being urged to live our lives as usual. This will continue to be the policy of the powers that be no matter how many of us they kill. Even if the Muzis were to blow up New York, the politicians in Washington (both parties) will desperately hand-job us along, grimly vowing to "bring these terrorists to justice" in exchange for our going to work, paying our bills, downloading porn, and of course showing "respect for Islam, which is, after all, a religion of peace." The almighty news media will chime in, cameras rolling as the Usual Suspects (CAIR, ANSWER, the French) march for "peace" over the dead bodies of our own people. And the sluts and studs of the fim, music, TV, and radio empires will bravely speak out against "racial profiling" and "torture camps" as if they knew what the hell they were talking about. No, even if another skyscraper full of moms and dads and brothers and sisters goes down in flames there will be no mass uprising of the American people a la Pearl Harbor; instead, we will be urged to emulate the gentle Jesus of Scripture and continue turning our cheeks to the enemy. (The angry, whip-cracking Jesus that drove the moneychangers out of the Temple will not be mentioned.) Unless the attack makes the price of gas go up, kills satellite TV, cuts off the electricity, or causes sports to be canceled, Americans outside of the blast zone will keep their asses on the couch no matter what happens. And any of us who dare to cry out for the conquest and destruction of our enemies will be branded as haters, racists, and jingoists, just as we are today.
No, I think the Muzis will have to hit us hard, several times, over and over, before we get the wake-up call. I think it will require death and destruction on a massive scale -- a scale large enough to interrupt TV, sports, cheap gas, and regular power -- to make us "wake up". Three dollar gas or football games being interrupted for boring Presidential speeches aren't going to cut it. In other words, I don't think the people of America will respond to the Muzi menauce until we're in a REAL war. I think that we'll finally get off the couch only when the carnage and damage reaches the point where the majority of us are suffering -- REALLY SUFFERING, as in death, radiation, economic collapse, lost relatives, and infrastructure destruction -- as a result of the Muzis and their jihad. Three dollar gas? Try FIFTY DOLLAR gas -- or no gas available at any price. Humiliating airport patdowns? How about NO AIR TRAVEL without government permit! Lousy cellular coverage? Imagine NO WIRELESS PHONE SERVICE without federal permission! Police roadbocks to check for drunk drivers? Picture your town under curfew from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 am, said curfew enforced by National Guardsmen in Humvees! That's what a REAL war would be like.
At that point, however, the level of confidence in the Federal government would be so low that serious social disruption will be possible. We'll be “awake” — but in the chaos of radiation, rioting, burning mosques, food shortages, wrecked cities, undrinkable water, and disrupton of the military and civilian chain of command, I wonder if we'll be in any position to do anything positive to save our civilization. If that ever happens, all bets are off.
I'm not proposing any solutions to this problem. Voting won't help. Both parties are owned by the bread-and-circuses gang, so it's more of the same no matter who wins. Writing letters to the editor won't help. The guys at the top don't give a damn what you think, and, except for The New York Times and The Washington Post the papers don't get read anymore anyway. Marching around with signs is pointless. The anti-war losers can put ten times as many people on the streets as we patriots can. We middle-class types have to work for a living. The ingrates are in general younger, cuter, and funnier than we are, making them better for TV.
And of course posting rants on the Internet is a complete waste of time.
So I'll simply end by repeating my point: The real war hasn't even begun yet. Nothing will happen until the suffering of war reaches into the homes of the typical American. If that never happens, great. If it does, then plan now so as to be able to protect yourself, your family, and your property when everything goes to hell.
God forbid, of course.
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"Instead, we have allowed ourselves to be kept asleep -- by the political and media systems by which public opinion is manipulated."
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Thanks.
I think we'll remove Irans' nuclear program by ourselves within 6 months. President Bush is not Neville Chamberlain.
And I think it will be very loud - loud enough to wake-up both the muzzies AND the USA.
That is my hope.............FRegards
LIFE DURING WARTIME
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons
packed up and ready to go
Heard of some gravesites, out by the highway
a place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto
I've lived all over this town
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey
I ain't got time for that now
Transmit the message, to the receiver
hope for an answer some day
I got three passports, couple of visas
don't even know my real name
High on a hillside, trucks are loading
everything's ready to roll
I sleep in the daytime, I work in the nightime
I might not ever get home
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
This ain't no mudd club, or C. B. G. B.
I ain't got time for that now
Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit?
Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
You oughta know not to stand by the window
somebody might see you up there
I got some groceries, some peanut butter
to last a couple of days
But I ain't got no speakers
ain't got no headphones
ain't got no records to play
Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time?
Can't write a letter, can't send a postcard
I can't write nothing at all
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
I'd love you hold you, I'd like to kiss you
I ain't got no time for that now
Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock
we blended in with the crowd
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines
I know that ain't allowed
We dress like students, we dress like housewives
or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle so many times now
don't know what I look like!
You make me shiver, I feel so tender
we make a pretty good team
Don't get exhausted, I'll do some driving
you ought to get you some sleep
Get you instructions, follow directions
then you should change your address
Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day
whatever you think is best
Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks?
They won't help me survive
My chest is aching, burns like a furnace
the burning keeps me alive
Try to stay healthy, physical fitness
don't want to catch no disease
Try to be careful, don't take no chances
you better watch what you say
"So I'll simply end by repeating my point: The real war hasn't even begun yet. Nothing will happen until the suffering of war reaches into the homes of the typical American. If that never happens, great. If it does, then plan now so as to be able to protect yourself, your family, and your property when everything goes to hell."
I've been saying for a while now that this "WAR" will come to our streets before we become serious about fighting it. Then, it will be up to those of us who seriously love our country to fight back.
Sad that so many do not get IT!
Hope all is well with your Soldier!
Here's a link to some ads during WW2.
http://www.lileks.com/oldads/40s/1.html
The "new gas range" for Christmas that you WON'T get until the war is over! "Which Christmas?...What year?...Who knows? Buy War Bonds!
It's been a lonnnnng week...
...and the days are getting shorter.
War need not be a dreary, dragged our Vietnam-like nightmare. There's nothing particularly complicated about making war. You kill the enemy, destroy his ability to make war, co-opt his culture and religion, set up a puppet state in his homeland, indoctrinate his children, and keep your boot on his face until those children are old enough to take over. Then you station a garrison in each country and leave.
If the American nation were operating according to this common-sense policy, the War on Terror -- whatever that is -- would have been over by now: no more civilians getting killed by accident by our troops, no more Gitmo, no more ethnic cleansing, no more Sunni vs Shiite. If we'd reacted to September 11 like sane, awake, aware people, on September 12 we would have been at war -- REAL war. We would have cranked up the airplane, tank, and bullet factories, instituted gas rationing, sold war bonds, raised a huge army, invaded Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the small fry, crushed all resistance as quickly and brutally as necessary, and installed military governments in each for fifty years.
Bravo!
We received a phone call last night from Robert. He is doing well, but they've been busy out on missions for the past three weeks with little time for sleep, much less anything else. No other details were given. He sounded sooo good. Thanks for inquiring and God Bless.
Our children will be stationed locally for the first time in 14 years.
We are really excited.
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