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Adam Engel
May
19, 2003
Bloated
and paranoid addicts of sugar, salt, lard, beer, nicotine, aspartame and MSG –
Oh, Boobus Americanus, carnivorous sheep, slaughtering and led to slaughter –
Uncle Sam is YOU!
Fighting
fighting fighting. Against whom? Has
any “foreign enemy” ever tried to mess with my freedoms? Any man, woman, or child from the Mid-East
(or France) ever once caused me grief and aggravation by obliterating people,
forests, cities in my name while simultaneously snooping on me, stripping me of
my “cherished freedoms,” all on my dumb tax-payer dime? No way. Never ever. It’s YOU, Jackson. It’s
always been YOU. THE MAN says jump and
YOU jump. THE MAN says “Wreck the
joint” and YOU smash everything in sight, and leave me holding the bag.
I
can’t, I won’t blame “America,” for what is a nation but a fiction, a set of
laws agreed upon by it’s people, in a real democracy, or enforced by its elite,
as in whatever we have now? America
might not be such a bad place if YOU stood up to the MAN instead of running to
fight every war HE gets himself into, waving HIS symbols, hating HIS enemies
even if formerly they were HIS friends, even if his enemy is YOU. That’s the deal isn’t it? YOU’LL do anything HE says, so long as the
enemy ain’t YOU.
And
why? Cause it’s “YOUR” country? It is not YOUR country, it hasn’t been for
years (if it ever was), and YOU know it. Even so. If a band of thieves broke
into YOUR house and wrecked the place and abused YOUR children would YOU excuse
them because they did it all in “YOUR” home?
When they decide to do the same thing to some poor family two blocks
away, a family YOU’VE never met, a family YOU have nothing to do with, will YOU
go along with them on their terror-fest because the idea was hatched in “YOUR”
home? Do I have to push the analogy
further or do YOU get the point? I know YOU’RE not big on subtlety, but this
seems pretty cut and dry.
YOU
are an ignorant, violent, boorish people addicted to bad food and overpriced
drugs. I know, I know: it’s the Media, the Corporations, the Government, the
Evil Gnomes From Outer Space. Well, maybe if YOU weren’t so dazed and confused
we wouldn’t be in this mess. What kind
of power would a first rate third-rate moron like Dubya possibly have over a
free and informed populace, which would demand the truth from ALL media sources
and probably wouldn’t care to buy ninety percent of the junk the “all-powerful”
Corporations sell daily by the Garbage Bag-full? Such a people would never buy the idea that a legal fiction had
the “rights” of an individual person (whoever thought THAT one up deserves to
be dictator, as opposed to Il Dufus who merely stumbled into the job).
Don’t
gimme that crap YOU don’t know about the thousands slaughtered for no damn good
reason in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine just cause YOU didn’t see the corpses in
the New York Times or YOUR local gazette.
YOU saw the photos of cruise missiles smashing into cities. Think Uncle
Sam’s gonna waste millions in hardware to smoke empty buildings?
“We”
did it all for the thousands killed in the WTC. Oh really? Then why aren’t “we” clamoring for an
investigation into just who did all that killing? I grew up with someone who
died there, as did my wife. I smelled
the burning from my West Side apartment. YOU didn’t. Yet YOU wave yer little flags like when teacher told YOU in the fifth
grade about how grand it all was. Send
teenagers (who should be living and studying life instead of destroying it)
thousands of miles away to kill other teenagers and teenagers’ children just so
YOU can feel safe in your twice mortgaged shoe-box of a house, so you can march
off to your corporate cubicle or whatever cage you sweep for your keep?
That
“it’s not the American peoples’ fault, it’s their government” line wore thin
years ago. Isn’t this supposed to be a government “of the people, by the people
and for the people?” Then how do we
point the finger at the government if the government is us? Of course, it’s not
us, not even remotely so, but that doesn’t excuse YOU for pretending that it
is. There’s the “evil,” as Dubya, who
wrenched that term back from the 19th century, might say. Pretending that “we” are all in this
together. “United We Stand.” Isn’t that what the corporate sponsored billboards
and banners say?
So,
what to do?
Nothing.
Shut yer yap, if YOU know what’s good for ya. Eat yer Beef-a-Roni. Suck yer Bud. Chew yer corporate cud, crud, crude, cruel, crucifixion of the
real. What’s on TV? I hear they’re making last week into a movie. Or was it
next week, or the week before? Well
anyhow, one of these weeks is going to be coming to a theater near YOU. Then on
video. They signed Today and Tomorrow
to play the leads. Yesterday’s in it too, but YOU know how it is in show biz
once you’re 30 hours old. The roles stop comin’. Gotta get what you can.
Supporting character’s not bad. As Boris Karloff once said, “A Yesterday is a
working Day.” Something like that.
Remember Boris? The guy whose
make-up informed YOUR nightmare visions of Frankenstein’s monster (that’s Mr.
Frankenstein, to YOU, Jackson). Speaking
of Frankenstein…oh, never mind.
Peek-a-boo.
I see YOU. Eating snacks before the telly.
Man on the screen says
“We
like you.”
Astounded,
mouth full of chewy goodness, YOU gurgle,
“You
like …me?”
“We
love you. Very much.”
“Love.
Loooovvvvve. Love ME?”
“We’ve
always loved you.”
“Love.
Gooooooooood. Love good.”
“But
there are people who want to hurt us.”
“Hurt…you?”
“If
they hurt us, who will love you?”
“Love.
Good. No hurt. No hurt you!”
“You
wouldn’t want bad people to hurt us, would you?”
“Bad.
Bad. No hurt. Love.”
“You’ll
protect us, won’t you?”
“Me.
Protect. You. You me protect. No hurt love. Kill. Kill. KILL!”
And
so on. YOU’VE been through it all before, I’m sure. And it’s a good thing, a noble thing, that YOU want to protect
the guys on TV who appear to love YOU, beasts that YOU are. But let’s be clear.
What do I get outta this? I’m not the
guys on TV. In fact, I hate the guys on TV.
It’s not me they claim to love, but YOU. And to be honest, I’m not alone.
There are almost six billion of us, and we hate those guys on TV.
So,
it comes down to this. It’s us against YOU, whoever YOU are, and the Guys on
TV. I refuse to take any blame for all this. I’ve been fighting YOU since Reagan.
True, I should have done more to protest the First Gulf Massacre, but it was
such a tidal wave of YOU, YOU everywhere with yer oompah music and waving yer
little flags. And it seemed to be over pretty quick – until the sanctions.
YOU
are a danger to myself and others. Think about it. Would THE MAN have any power
whatsoever without YOU? Who’s he gonna
get to do HIS dirty work, me? But with
YOU and your unquestioning obedience HE’s got Auschwitz, the Gulag, Hiroshima,
Vietnam, Iraq and all sorts of global chess games – and guess who’s the pawn?
I mean, YOU put Hitler into power (or your Nazi counterpart, Fidelius
Germanicus; same thing). True, YOU and your kids ended up cannon fodder ten
years later and had your cities bombed, but I ended up in concentration camps
(and I’m not just talking about Jews and Gypsies, but Communists, Anarchists,
Conscientious objectors, clergymen, intellectuals, dissidents; in short, all
the folks who are what YOU are not: free.)
I
guess, ultimately, it’s YOUR cowardice that gets me the most. I don’t honestly
believe YOU’RE stupid – willfully ignorant, yes, but not stupid. YOU’LL just do anything, ANYTHING to anyone
to save your pasty skin. Be honest:
YOU’RE terrified; hence, the “war on terror.” YOU hope maybe THE MAN will make
fear go away? The fear that began when Daddy…uh, okay…let’s not go there. Suffice it to say that THE MAN controls YOU
through fear – and that’s a lot more powerful than Stupidity.
Anyway,
YOU and I are through. There’s nothing left between us. As Michael Corleone said to his weak,
stupid, cowardly brother Fredo, “You’re nothing to me now. You’re not a
brother, you’re not a friend…”
Yes,
I believe in what the founding fathers said about the peoples’ right to
dissolve a government that turns on them. And hell yeah I believe in the Second
Amendment, though unfortunately, with a mega Trillion Military built on “the
American peoples’ tax dollars,” the opportunity to form a “well-regulated
militia” to protect myself and others against the tyranny YOU support is long
past.
But
don’t worry. I’ll think of something. Me and the five billion some-odd other
folks who want to save the world from YOU.
Adam Engel is not YOUR
“countryman” or “fellow citizen.” He’d
feel safer confronting a real enemy, with or without arms, than a mob of rats
like YOU (patriots seldom travel alone, eh?) with YOUR symbols and “United We
Stand” yackety yak one Nation under a vengeful, psycho god in love with DEATH
go tell it to Dubya and Perle and the Gang.
Johnsons and other Free People can
contact Engel at bartleby.samsa@verizon.net. No patriotic SPAM or pre-fab slogans,
please.