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Speaking in Forked Tongues
It is now clear that from the beginning of its illegitimate reign, the Bush Administration's intelligence community has been obtaining its information from two sources only. From reading the runes in the bowel movements of its agents, and from a careful study of George Orwell's 1984. The bowel movements have produced the expected results: interpretations of events based on shit, while 1984 has provided the framework for worldwide domination through rewriting history as it happens and insuring that the future is paralysed by the fear of imminent attack. Giving certainty to the insanity is Georgie's God. As George Monbiot points out in The Kingdom of America, humanity is suffering the embarrassment and possible annihilation from a nation that has lost its mind. In their unformed hearts, Americans believe they are a chosen people whose rule is divine. There is a growing number of articles being written on the fundamentalist mindset of Bush and his crazies, but Monbiot traces the lumplump belief back to the nation's beginning, to the fervid expostulations of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. The United States was founded by fanatical, fundamentalist Puritans who came to believe that God favoured them above all others (especially the native Indians). That divine favour has energised a righteous fervour ever since. Take this recent quote from US Attorney General, John Ashcroft (he forgets to mention King Coin, but God has doubtless forgiven him): "Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus." But it wasn't until George W. Bush stole the 2000 election and installed himself as God's right-hand apostle, that this religious hubris turned into a national psychosis. Under The Burning Shrub, the lust for Armageddon among religious fundamentalists is no longer a fantasy. Strutting the world stage, The Little Emperor is almost incapable of opening his mouth without attributing the ensuing gibberish to the will of God. And they're all in on it, from Congress and the government right down to the sag-jowled man and woman in the street. With lines like: "This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take awhile," Bush has opened the Pandora's box of robot mentation that is at the heart of the simpleton religiosity. His exploitation of Biblical fear has turned America into the most dangerous nation on earth. From what I have seen and from reading Monbiot and others, it is impossible not to conclude that America is on its way to becoming a fundamentalist nightmare more closely resembling Nazi Germany than a Christian theme park for bubbas. Related articles: |
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