Buddy Christ and the H-Bomb
The week that was that was...
© Bryan Zepp Jamieson
http://www.mytown.ca
10/7/06
I was reading about the chemical fire outside of Raleigh and realizing
that Putsch's last and biggest excuse for his monomaniacal and
America-hating regime had just gone in the toilet.
The whole reason for Putsch's actions, he says, is to protect Americans
from terrorists.
Yet here we have an explosion - or something - at a massive chemical
plant, that resulted in a fire and explosions which had the potential to
kill tens of thousands of people just outside of the second largest
urban area in the south.
Nobody knows how it started. No employees were nearby. Nobody was
watching. Nobody knows how it started, and it was twelve hours before
they even knew how big a danger it presented.
Good job of protecting America from terrorists there, Putsch. Now he'll
have to round up another 10,000 innocent people and throw them in his
Gulags to show that he's serious about fighting terrorism.
Meanwhile, the residents of Raleigh can thank their lucky stars they
aren't on all fours on the sidewalks throwing their lungs up, no thanks
to Putsch, who wants to protect the airlines from people who use mousse
in their hair, but not to protect us from attacks on chemical plants or
weapons shipped in at the harbors, which he wants to sell to friends of
bin Laden.
In an ideal world, people would be trying to vote on issues such as the
fake war on terror (actually a war on freedom), and the immense damage
the corporate state is doing to the living standards of people
throughout the country.
But instead, they are all talking about the pageboy scandal.
Now, granted, the pageboy scandal is having a major effect on the
election. Republicans are getting creamed at the polls, and even Putsch,
who didn't have a damn thing to do with the pageboy scandal, has dropped
ten points in a week. The rest of the GOP is in a similar meltdown, and
it's beginning to look like they have now fallen so far out of public
favor that not even Diebold can steal enough votes to save their
majority in the House. They might even lose the Senate.
Nor is it devoid of humor. ABC, the network that ran the discredited
"Path to 9/11," utterly disgraced itself last Sunday by running a
segment on their newscast about GOP operative Matt Drudge in which they
compared Drudge to Walter Cronkite, and within days they found
themselves in a pissing match with the fedora fraud when he claimed that
their report on Hastert's coverup of the Foley problem was a prank on
ABC's part. Couldn't happen to a nicer network. Four days later and they
are still sniping, and ABC's credibility is now officially in the toilet.
But this all comes at a time when far more important stuff is going on.
For example: did you know that Russia is warning Putsch not to fire
conventionally-armed ICBMs at North Korea because of the risk of an
accidental nuclear retaliation from Russia? Now, there was a time when a
story like that might have grabbed a few headlines. Even if Russia only
has 500 nuclear weapons that work (and they're actually believed to have
2,000 or so) that's still FIVE HUNDRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS. That would be
enough to disrupt the baseball playoffs, people. This could be serious.
I don't like the idea of a little weirdo like Kim Jong-il playing with
nukes, either, but I don't think threatening to bomb him and risking a
wider nuclear exchange is exactly the way to show him why only grown-ups
should be allowed to play with nukes.
People hate and despise the Republicans over the Foley scandal, and
there's certainly nothing wrong with hating and despising Republicans
after the way they've behaved over the past 25 years or so, but there
are so many more solid reasons to do so.
The assault on the constitution and the rights of the people, for
starters. People say the bill that Putsch signed robbing us of our
constitutional rights won't stand up in court, but I'm not so sure of
that; fascists have been infiltrating the courts for 25 years now, and
have four seats on the Supreme Court. Their notion of justice involves
the right of the people to serve, rather than to govern.
Then there's all the other corruption. Chickenhawking teenage boys may
be a tacky way for a Congressman to spend his time (Foley was busily
e-seducing a teenage boy while the rest of Congress was debating funding
for the Iraq occupation), but nobody noticed that a top aide to Rove
abruptly resigned Friday afternoon. The aide in question has multiple
links to master corrupter Jack Abramoff. Something's about to break there.
Let's not forget Iraq and Afghanistan. Baghdad may fall at any time now,
and nobody is quite sure what that portends for the Green Zone.
Afghanistan is in nearly as bad a shape, with the Brits openly talking
about abandoning the region as a lost cause. In Canada, debate rages
over whether Afghanistan is worth the Canadian lives and cost, and the
Harper government survives only because he is getting support from Bloc
Quebeçois. In Baghdad, one of the loonier developments in the occupation
is the role of "Buddy Christ," the winking, thumbs-up Jesus from the
movie Dogma. Someone has been putting out propaganda, memos falsely
attributed to the US command there, of plans for violence and
subjugation, and using the odd movie icon as some sort of American
symbol. Propaganda written by one culture for another tends to be odd
and stilted (in the early days of the invasion of Baghdad, Sadr party
spokesman "Baghdad Bob" announced that while American soldiers were
fighting in Iraq, their wives at home were sleeping with Homer Simpson),
but "Buddy Christ" is definitely one of the stranger manifestations.
So, there's a lot of stuff going on that is more important than La Cage
au Foley. Yes, that includes "Buddy Christ." But the whole Foley thing
is doing a great job of showing the mendacity and cowardice of the
American right, as they try to deal with the scandal by blaming the
victims, blaming the Democrats, blaming Clinton, blaming the media, and
blaming homosexuals. In short, blaming everyone while they cower from
the political fallout.
Right wingers are liars, moral frauds, and cowards. If the original
scandal was a minor deal, the fact that the public has now seen the true
nature of the GOP, and is repulsed, is a very important, and very
welcome development.
--
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004
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