The 2008 presidential comedy lineup is looking good. We already have the most popular semi-black candidate, even less frightening to white people than Colin Powell, and the family values heir apparent wife of an ex-president. Hey, if the Bush and Kennedy clans can reign supreme as democracy’s royal families why not the blue-state-talk-red-state-values clique? Join them with a senator who conducts a gas attack on his own people every time he opens his mouth and things are looking hysterical if unfortunately homicidal as well.
It can only get better, for laughs, and worse, for our future. The other wing of the ruling party has its own hysteria factor, with leaders of the pack running from an ex-war criminal who now loves war to the alleged hero of 911, said heroism amounting to appearing on TV to ask people not to immediately leave New York, if not the USA. While most of this sorry crew have already taken their shows to AIPAC, the jewish lobby in America , they will likely pay a mass visit to Israel soon if they haven't already. Just so that everyone can know what is most important to would be presidents of the USA. It seems they have to leave the White House , like Jimmy Carter, before they can even hint at the truth about Palestine.
And as feverish rhetoric about an Iranian threat even less believable than the wretched lies about Iraq,moves us closer to supporting the Israeli loonies in attacking that nation if not carrying on that idiocy ourselves, we’re seeing a revival of the cowardly criticism that failed to keep us out of Iraq.
Hardly a word can be spoken in opposition to this dementia about an Iranian threat without the speaker including a disclaimer which mentions what a terrible man Ahmadinejad is, especially in his expressing doubts about everything we are told about the holocaust story. The label “holocaust denier” is placed on the Iranian leader because his nation dared to support a conference which allowed open questioning of the tragic facts and figures of an event which has been the rationale for brutalizing a people who played no role in creating its reality; nor any of the mythology that follows every disaster but is deemed criminal to mention about this one.
The alleged denial of past events is not the problem; provable denial of present events is. While people like Ernest Zundel and Germar Rudolph, who have hurt nothing but some people’s feelings, are put in jail for questioning aspects of the holocaust story, no one in our government has yet been thrown into a cell over the traitorous deceit that got us into the Iraq war, killed more than three thousand Americans and a vastly larger and still unknown number of Iraqis. And the even bigger lies about Iran that promise more bloody insanity than our most recent destruction of a nation that never did anything to hurt us. Where does this end?
Certainly not among the sorry lot of political pimps who make the American Idol contestants look good by comparison. In fact, we might be better off if the country were run by some of the subjects our media mind managers dub newsworthy topics . Do we need a woman president? How about Brittany Spears ? A nice, unthreatening to white people, candidate? How about Oprah Winfrey? Get a woman and a black in one shot. Hey, millions would watch that state of the union address and even weep and moan at whether she had gained or lost weight since her last appearance. And we could watch Brittany’s hair grow back, with hourly bulletins from breathless media morons anxiously filling us in on what is really important.
Iran? Israel? An increase in the number of poor people in America? The lack of affordable health care in the richest economy in the world? An incredible foreign debt and dangerously increasing credit binge by that same economy? How can such trivial matters stack up against the death of a maligned celebrity whose large breasts and modest brains were the subject of fame, and whose sad life ended only to bring about a more shameful indulgence in ghoulish trivia mongering all over the major media.
Is it any wonder that some can feel blessed at being offered ruling class candidates who seem to be able to dress themselves and speak coherently, even if they can’t think their way through a crossword puzzle? Let alone a global crisis demanding intellect, morality and understanding that is completely beyond any of the politically challenged who vie for leadership in the most disabled rich and powerful country the world has ever known.
Duck and cover. Things may worse before they get better.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
iran the big lie israel the real threat
Iran, Israel,The Big Lie, and The Real Threat
by Frank Scott
The atrocity in Iraq continues, with greater opposition within the American ruling party, but no end in sight. It was made possible by reducing public consciousness to that of children in a day care center. But the latest assault on understanding material reality threatens even greater and more bloody injustice . If the continuing barrage of frenzied propaganda succeeds in casting Iran as global menace, and Ahmadinejad as global monster, there is no possible outcome but dreadful global failure .
Why this wild focus on Iran and its president? While many insist that only control of oil is at stake , the zealous core of opposition to the Islamic and Arab world remains the state of Israel, and its rabid supporters in the USA. It is hardly an either/or question, but even as oil’s importance is acknowledged, the enormous power of the Israeli lobby can continue to be denied only by those dense enough to deny global climate change.
Until recently, the existence and power of the lobby has gone unquestioned. This, in justified fear of its financial and political wrath , but also in guilty silence lest past tragedies befall the Jewish people again. How? The horrible experience of world war two has often distorted any sense of modern reality. In deference to memory of a terrible time for european Jews, we have allowed a longer lasting terrible time for those who had nothing to do with any part of that war .
Israel’s pristine status in American consciousness has meant near obliteration of the Palestinian people, and most of the Arab and Islamic world as well . A great mass of humanity has been reduced to invisibility except as terrorists or religious fanatics , as they are depicted by jewish organizations working to protect a colonial European state, and by the American political and media establishment .
The major rationale for Israel’s existence is the holocaust, the rabid persecution of European jews by the nazis in world war two. Perpetuation of the memory of this dreadful history has become the most powerful religious movement in the modern world, accorded the status of theocratic faith, not to be questioned by any, and to be ritually worshipped by all.
This has led to intellectual pogroms in Europe where those who dare to question any parts of the holocaust story are charged with heresy and imprisoned. Revenge is not only visited on the Palestinian people, who had nothing to do with any part of it, but on europeans who audaciously use supposed democratic liberties in order to freely question history.
Treating a material event as a sanctified subject open to no investigation but that of true believers is a form of religious fanaticism. Where biblical mythology about virgin birth, the parting of the red sea, or immaterial spirits communicating with material beings are all subject to intellectual challenge, this historic event is placed above and beyond the human pale and any questioning of its substance treated as political blasphemy.
If this irrationalism were confined to a handful of individuals currently in prison, it would be serious enough. But when it becomes the root cause of moving toward potential nuclear war , it must be confronted before it leads to even more destruction than has already been created in its tsunami like waves of devastation .
Iraq and Saddam Hussein were deemed threats to Israel, and its supporters in the USA played a major role in bringing about the destruction of that nation and its leader. This was to protect a state still seen as a haven for a threatened people, even if the threats are almost entirely neuro-psychiatric and only become material as a result of its pariah presence in the middle east. But present claims that Iran poses an even deadlier threat to Israel, which induce a chorus of support from the American government, means this irrationalism in the service of collective neurosis needs to be confronted before it destroys not only collective sanity, but collective civilization as well.
Attempting to portray Iran as a nuclear menace to Israel and the world, in that order, even though it has no nuclear weapons and Israel has hundreds, is not merely a sign of dementia . It is indication of near idiocy in a society that can be repeatedly manipulated into believing such totally crackpot notions that have no foundation in the material world but exist only in a world of superstitious psycho-fantasy.
While many groups have been terrifying their members by depicting Ahmadinejad as bent on exterminating Jews, the Israeli lobby has been doing the same job on our government . This has led to congressional leaders and future presidential candidates lining up in support of this totally preposterous fiction. The purveyors of this notion are completely delusional, but rather than being sedated or institutionalized, they preside over and control some of our most powerful institutions. They wield frightening influence over an American public and could lead it to act in ignorant support of such hallucinatory fears .
Part of this dementia involves a very dangerous ethnocentric idea; that jewish suffering was, is, and will always be a central aspect of human history, and must not only be acknowledged as such, endlessly, but also atoned for as such, endlessly. No criticism of this central point, especially as it involves the holocaust, can be treated with anything but contemptuous disregard for the rights of any who fail to toe this ethnocentric line. After Ahmadinejad dared to have Tehran host a conference on the holocaust, with revisionists who might be imprisoned in Europe allowed to speak their minds openly in Iran, he and his nation became a greater menace to that ethnocentric folly than Iraq and Saddam ever were.
When a supposedly enlightened civilization is threatening, once again, to attack another nation , in great part because of its alleged threat to the Jewish state and Jews, there can be no further denial on the part of the majority who will pay a terrible price. It is time to confine theological, biblical and metaphysical belief systems about the past to the imagination and the church, remove them from political economics , and face material reality before it is too late. Until rational, factual, scientifically provable conditions are confronted and dealt with, irrational and near stark raving insane fears could bring about even greater suffering for humanity than past ignorance has already caused. That rational analysis of our world leads to an unmistakable conclusion:
A Euro-jewish and anti-democratic state in the middle east, and its extremist supporters in the USA, are a major threat to the global future. Israel, not Iran is the problem. Face it, and deal with it.
Copyright (c) 2007 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
This text may be used and shared in accordance with the
fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be
archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that
the author is notified and no fee is charged for access.
Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on
other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author
frank scott
email: frank@marin.cc.ca.us
Frank Scott writes political commentary which appears in the Coastal Post, a monthly publication from Marin County, California, and on numerous web sites .
by Frank Scott
The atrocity in Iraq continues, with greater opposition within the American ruling party, but no end in sight. It was made possible by reducing public consciousness to that of children in a day care center. But the latest assault on understanding material reality threatens even greater and more bloody injustice . If the continuing barrage of frenzied propaganda succeeds in casting Iran as global menace, and Ahmadinejad as global monster, there is no possible outcome but dreadful global failure .
Why this wild focus on Iran and its president? While many insist that only control of oil is at stake , the zealous core of opposition to the Islamic and Arab world remains the state of Israel, and its rabid supporters in the USA. It is hardly an either/or question, but even as oil’s importance is acknowledged, the enormous power of the Israeli lobby can continue to be denied only by those dense enough to deny global climate change.
Until recently, the existence and power of the lobby has gone unquestioned. This, in justified fear of its financial and political wrath , but also in guilty silence lest past tragedies befall the Jewish people again. How? The horrible experience of world war two has often distorted any sense of modern reality. In deference to memory of a terrible time for european Jews, we have allowed a longer lasting terrible time for those who had nothing to do with any part of that war .
Israel’s pristine status in American consciousness has meant near obliteration of the Palestinian people, and most of the Arab and Islamic world as well . A great mass of humanity has been reduced to invisibility except as terrorists or religious fanatics , as they are depicted by jewish organizations working to protect a colonial European state, and by the American political and media establishment .
The major rationale for Israel’s existence is the holocaust, the rabid persecution of European jews by the nazis in world war two. Perpetuation of the memory of this dreadful history has become the most powerful religious movement in the modern world, accorded the status of theocratic faith, not to be questioned by any, and to be ritually worshipped by all.
This has led to intellectual pogroms in Europe where those who dare to question any parts of the holocaust story are charged with heresy and imprisoned. Revenge is not only visited on the Palestinian people, who had nothing to do with any part of it, but on europeans who audaciously use supposed democratic liberties in order to freely question history.
Treating a material event as a sanctified subject open to no investigation but that of true believers is a form of religious fanaticism. Where biblical mythology about virgin birth, the parting of the red sea, or immaterial spirits communicating with material beings are all subject to intellectual challenge, this historic event is placed above and beyond the human pale and any questioning of its substance treated as political blasphemy.
If this irrationalism were confined to a handful of individuals currently in prison, it would be serious enough. But when it becomes the root cause of moving toward potential nuclear war , it must be confronted before it leads to even more destruction than has already been created in its tsunami like waves of devastation .
Iraq and Saddam Hussein were deemed threats to Israel, and its supporters in the USA played a major role in bringing about the destruction of that nation and its leader. This was to protect a state still seen as a haven for a threatened people, even if the threats are almost entirely neuro-psychiatric and only become material as a result of its pariah presence in the middle east. But present claims that Iran poses an even deadlier threat to Israel, which induce a chorus of support from the American government, means this irrationalism in the service of collective neurosis needs to be confronted before it destroys not only collective sanity, but collective civilization as well.
Attempting to portray Iran as a nuclear menace to Israel and the world, in that order, even though it has no nuclear weapons and Israel has hundreds, is not merely a sign of dementia . It is indication of near idiocy in a society that can be repeatedly manipulated into believing such totally crackpot notions that have no foundation in the material world but exist only in a world of superstitious psycho-fantasy.
While many groups have been terrifying their members by depicting Ahmadinejad as bent on exterminating Jews, the Israeli lobby has been doing the same job on our government . This has led to congressional leaders and future presidential candidates lining up in support of this totally preposterous fiction. The purveyors of this notion are completely delusional, but rather than being sedated or institutionalized, they preside over and control some of our most powerful institutions. They wield frightening influence over an American public and could lead it to act in ignorant support of such hallucinatory fears .
Part of this dementia involves a very dangerous ethnocentric idea; that jewish suffering was, is, and will always be a central aspect of human history, and must not only be acknowledged as such, endlessly, but also atoned for as such, endlessly. No criticism of this central point, especially as it involves the holocaust, can be treated with anything but contemptuous disregard for the rights of any who fail to toe this ethnocentric line. After Ahmadinejad dared to have Tehran host a conference on the holocaust, with revisionists who might be imprisoned in Europe allowed to speak their minds openly in Iran, he and his nation became a greater menace to that ethnocentric folly than Iraq and Saddam ever were.
When a supposedly enlightened civilization is threatening, once again, to attack another nation , in great part because of its alleged threat to the Jewish state and Jews, there can be no further denial on the part of the majority who will pay a terrible price. It is time to confine theological, biblical and metaphysical belief systems about the past to the imagination and the church, remove them from political economics , and face material reality before it is too late. Until rational, factual, scientifically provable conditions are confronted and dealt with, irrational and near stark raving insane fears could bring about even greater suffering for humanity than past ignorance has already caused. That rational analysis of our world leads to an unmistakable conclusion:
A Euro-jewish and anti-democratic state in the middle east, and its extremist supporters in the USA, are a major threat to the global future. Israel, not Iran is the problem. Face it, and deal with it.
Copyright (c) 2007 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
This text may be used and shared in accordance with the
fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be
archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that
the author is notified and no fee is charged for access.
Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on
other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the author
frank scott
email: frank@marin.cc.ca.us
Frank Scott writes political commentary which appears in the Coastal Post, a monthly publication from Marin County, California, and on numerous web sites .