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Kirwan Articles
The Legacy of Fear
December
28, 2002
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A lot of Americans had a great time
over the recent holiday. For some, there was even time to think a lot about
the world we're no longer living in.
Everyone needs a break now and
again, but now reality is again raising its ever-shifting shape to taunt us
with tantalizing fantasies amid the darker mysteries that each successive
hour seems to bring. So, here we are with the New Year just over the
horizon and so much still riding on the imbecility of our cutthroat band of
self-proclaimed pirates. Ah to live under the subjugation in the company of
the damned, who now seem to occupy every corner of almost every agenda,
with their cries of absolutisms on everything from re-writing the
Constitution, to 'taking over the world' in their spare-time.
Perhaps this is the actual
beginning of payback for all the karma that the USA has built up over all
the years - all the slaughter, all the theft, all the duplicity and the
lies - or maybe this is just the prologue for what's to come. One thing is
clear: there aren't enough people now, with spine enough intact, to
confront the spreading darkness that is sweeping over this troubled
continent. Yet despite our shortcomings - the coming year promises not to
contain a single dull moment anywhere!
How is it that we have come to
live in fear of Fear itself? How has this impossible circumstance become
the center of our lives? And when, if ever, will Americans remove the
blinders and choose to see what's really taking place beneath this
dictatorship of tyrants who call themselves our leaders.
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For over twenty years we've been
living in a world of unreality, a fantasy contrived to make the lies
believable. With the dawning of 'Morning in America' in the Reagan years,
we began to live in the world of George Orwell's Double-Speak. We went from
the world's largest creditor nation to the worlds leading debtor nation,
and we called that America's Golden Age.
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We tripled the size of
government, and gave huge tax breaks to the rich, while we deepened the
problems of the wage-slaves who make everything possible. But perhaps best
of all we were introduced to the government's complicity in inter-national
criminal activity. The US government went into the drug trade to facilitate
the illegal sale of weapons and armaments to our then enemies - and nothing
was done about it. There were a few slaps on the wrist for a few of the
underlings, but the major players pleaded stupidity (Reagan in particular)
and of course he was believed.
Now most of those then charged
underlings are back in their old positions, or in places very similar, and
it is as though time has moved backwards to continue the tiresome
Republican march to take us back to the 1950s, to that time before there
was dissent.
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Along the way to this ultra-right
Nirvana, some things have begun to change in the home of the free - no
longer brave. Perhaps the most striking change has been the
institutionalization of the double standard - in nearly every walk of life.
Beginning with Bush Two, who got away with stealing the Office of the
Presidency - what could he or any of is co-conspirators ever have to fear
now, - from any
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lesser action which any of them have
now chosen to undertake? They're virtually impervious to criticism or
prosecution from any 'authority' - because they enjoy the full complicity
of the United States Supreme Court in their dirty little plot to "take
over the world."
This point has not been lost upon
the wider world outside the U.S. But as far as US citizens are concerned we
seem to be, for the most part, in permanent and impenetrable denial. The
price of everything now determines who will benefit and who will only pay.
From taxes to the smallest legal infraction - the rich need not fear any
law, any investigation, or any challenge to their every whim. While those
less fortunate must pay, and pay, and pay at every turn for every minor
alteration in their lives. While in the world of million-billionaires, life
has never been better.
But there have been casualties, as
we continue to upend our former way of life. One of the first is the trust
and assistance we once could count on from law enforcement officials, back
when these were manageably few. Today there's an alphabet soup of agencies
and 'operatives' and special agents far too numerous to mention here - much
less keep track of within the burgeoning police-state-world that we once
called home.
When an officer was involved with
trying to question or arrest an individual, most people felt reassurance
that the action being attempted was lawful and potentially necessary. Now,
everything is clouded by a fear of becoming too involved - because today
everyone is suddenly 'suspect' - possibly part of one of the many unseen
enemy legions that now 'threaten all Americans.' This begins to mark the
death of public trust in public safety, as well as adding to a growing
doubt of all who wear a badge of any kind.
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This creation comes to us from the
Department of Injustice, presided over by J. Edgar Ashcroft, our new
arbiter of public morality: This from a man who is afraid of the power of
the female form, afraid of the very idea of dissent in all its forms.
Ashcroft is an automaton, a human being who denies all that makes a human
being - human.
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Bush picked Ashcroft and the Senate
confirmed him to regulate the lives of all Americans. It fell to Ashcroft
to crush the spark of life from every person who might disagree or
challenge anything that is now deemed to be required - so that the public
safety is assured, and the sheep can be protected from every threat that
might possibly become a problem. Welcome to the world of restricted choices
in the name of SECURITY in all its darkest forms. Under the above system -
it now appears that very soon - we'll all be headed directly into an
unimaginable Hell that will have been created by our own fear of even
THINKING that the impossible may have already come to pass. How far is that
from the America that so many of us grew up in, not all that long ago?
Now the nation is facing the onset
of a 2nd WAR, being promoted as a logical extension of the one we started
on Afghanistan, but never finished. Problem now is that there is no proof
of what the US alleges that Saddam has done or maybe is doing. When pressed
to provide evidence of "Saddam's lies and his deceptions" the US
is silent. This after the United States removed 8,000 pages from Iraq's
submission to the UN.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.24C.wh.8000.pgs.htm
The reason for the removal of the
documents was simple. The 'proof ' of "Saddam's deceptions" is in
the fact that the US not only knows how much Iraq actually has, but 'we'
know this because we're the ones who furnished and in some cases created
these Weapons of Mass Destruction for Iraq in the first place. To reveal
our 'proof' would mean that we'd have to divulge the names of both private
corporations and the US government agencies that were involved in this
illegal activity from the 1970s up to the present time. But now that story
has been told - not released through the American mass media - but it's
here:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.21A.us.firms.iraq.htm
Where does this leave the
population of the United States as we approach the dawn of the year 2003?
It leaves us a very frightened people, a population that is now afraid of
its own government as much as it is afraid of any slithering shadowy enemy
from beyond our borders.
The only solution for this kind of
fear - is to openly object, in numbers, and in public. The alternative to
not doing so, is to become ever more frightened of everything whether that
originates from the federal government or the 'enemy.' Shorthand for the
source of this fear is "The Enemy Within." Ask yourself these two
questions. Can you live with it? And for how long can you endure this new
death by a thousand cuts, brought to you by your own government?
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