Frankenstein's Monster Is On the Loose

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Frankenstein's monster is on the loose

By Luciana Bohne
Online Journal Contributing Writer

September 2, 2005—Well, yes, there is a kind of shocking distillation of meaning in the catastrophe that hit the city of New Orleans. It's as if the belly of the beast that is the US imperial leviathan has been turned over—its underbelly exposed. There, you can see the reality: two nations, one rich, one poor; one televised, the other invisible—until now.

Abject poverty, criminal infrastructural neglect, opportunistic defunding of minimal preventive planning, disaster relief resources otherwise engaged abroad in protecting the interests of oligarchs, industrial poisons erupting at a mere shrug of nature from their thin disguise just beneath the urban surface of triumphant financial capitalism—a river of murderous toxins running free, running free in the streets of the city of sweetness, the city of food, the city of jazz like a Frankenstein's monster shaking loose his chains and going after its creator:

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Welcome to the Plan for the New American Century. Welcome to the New World Order. Welcome. It stands exposed. Right there in New Orleans.

America, welcome to your planned future as a domestic, internal third world. Welcome to personal and public chronic indebtedness. Welcome to a bloated "defense" budget that cannot assist you, let alone "defend" you from a hurricane in the age of science. Welcome to the offensive budget that makes your country dependent on China for daily loans. Welcome to the multicolored ribbons in support of a war that kills your troops—your children, who are not here, not at home to help with their strength, their youth, their bravery, their idealism in pulling you out of the toxic flood waters.

Welcome. Dr. Frankenstein's monster's vengeance is at our door.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/090205Bohne/090205bohne.html

[Kni7es]

1. The New World Order

It's here. What do you think of it? I mysef am a little disappointed... thought it would be a lot cooler...

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2. I've always known it to be

Old World Colonialism.

And that means rape,pillage,plunder and cultural conquest.

Candy and whiskey and theft of the land.
New Name-Same Old Song
Racism-Feudalism

Neo-classical Economics replaces Manifest Destiny as the rationalization. End result the same.

Imperial arrogance — purblind militarism — blood, treasure, and precious life squandered in the sands of Iraq — neglect of the poor — willful disregard of known dangers to our cities and to the planet itself: Are these symptoms of what Martin Luther King Jr. meant when he warned: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death"?

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3. kicked and nominated!

[Wind Dancer]

4. Great article!

Thanks for posting!

[CatWoman]

5. I was thinking along the same lines

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4595652&mesg_id=4595652

[RightSightBrightLite]

6. Luciana is in the writin' zone lately

her past 5 essays have been on my best list for that week
also published on www.informationclearinghouse.info often

I think they started with the image of the fed. gov. coming to the rescue on a white horse, so to speak and machevellianly work backward from that public relations 'goal' and blame the public for 'going wild' to ratchet up the level of control supposedly required in a situation where resources were agonizingly, mysteriously limited, instead of just getting the job done, because of simple basic human instincts of sincere compassion, altruism, anyone?

the jewels and gold are kept under lock and key, while the children, the poor are left to roam free, with no safety, basic security