Have you noticed that the United States, which calls itself
the “land of the free”, has somehow become the land of unconditional surrender?
America’s demands for obedience take several forms:
- Unconditional surrender is demanded from formerly sovereign
nations
- Absolute submission is demanded by the police
- Zero tolerance is extended to juveniles, especially students
Just who the hell is the United States that everyone now
must obey her? How is it that everyone everywhere is now a potential criminal
who must be subdued and forced to submit or die?
Starting with the Germans and the Japanese in World War II,
America has demanded unconditional surrender from her defeated enemies. Instead
of treating them as sovereign states, America has treated them as criminal
entities, regardless of the causes for the wars through which we defeated them.
Whether it is declared wars, undeclared wars, police actions, humanitarian
interventions, or covert military actions, the end game is always the same:
surrender to America’s will or you will be killed. Those who refused to
surrender (e.g., North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq) are either still our enemies
or have been saddled with long-lasting genocidal impacts from our war making
(atomic fallout, Agent Orange, depleted uranium, etc.). America is a sore loser
and an even worse victor. Like Rome, we create a desert and call it peace.
Anyone who resists arrest in America is in danger of being
killed by police and sheriff departments who are authorized to use lethal force
in response to your resistance. It doesn’t matter if you stole a fountain drink
or a pack of gum, if you then resist arrest you may be tasered, shot, and/or
killed in response. And it’s extremely unlikely that any policeman or deputy
will ever be punished for what he or she does to you. Have you ever heard of
the phenomenon called “excited delirium”? That’s what they call a person’s
death struggle when he is being killed by the police. According to the police,
the perp must have been responsible for his own death because they certainly
cannot be held responsible for your death at their hands from the lethal force
they employed. Resist and you’ll be tasered, hogtied, and positioned with all
your weight (and/or a cop’s weight) on your chest until you suffocate. That’s ok,
because you were resisting arrest when you should have been absolutely
obedient. Who said life was fair?
And what’s happening in our school-to-prison pipelines is
absolutely moronic. Students who pull childish pranks, throw temper tantrums,
perform minor acts of vandalism, or even accidentally bring a knife to school
in their lunch bag are arrested, handcuffed by police, and taken to jail. And
what’s the result of such “zero tolerance” policies? Wrecked lives and swollen
prison populations; and you can still buy drugs including heroin in nearly
every school in the country. How can these kids believe us when we tell them
that the future is unlimited and they can do whatever they want without
limitation? Can you spell hypocrisy, or maybe schizophrenia?
Think about this situation for a while, and like me you may
come to the conclusion that all of this has little or nothing to do with
concepts of “right and wrong” but has a lot to do with the concepts of “control
and counter insurgency”. That’s right, COIN may or may not work in Afghanistan
but that’s no reason not to use it in the United States. A government that
seeks political power through the barrel of a gun (firearms, television, and
syringes) will have no qualms about using any tool available to subdue not just
its manufactured external enemies but even its own people.
Do you really think that the giant surveillance, police, and
military network erected since 9/11 was necessary to track down a few ragtag
terrorists living in some shithole in the Middle East? This whole monstrosity
is aimed at you, American citizens, and at all freedom-loving peoples
everywhere.
America’s fierce demands for unconditional surrender from
everyone remind me of the following passages from the New Testament:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17 (KJV)
The human population is growing fast, and the supplies of
food and potable water are dwindling. America is spending pennies on famine
relief and prevention but spending trillions of dollars on weapons and
technologies to suppress and control the eventual hungry masses who will demand
to be fed. Does any of this sound like a government which cares about the 99
percent, or is it one which cares mainly about the one percent who are more than willing to
kill the rest of us so that their comfortable lifestyle can continue?
