Death and the New Frontier

[SteppingRazor]

http://blogs.southflorida.com/citylink_dansweeney/2007/08/death_and_the_new_frontier.html


Radical cartoonist Ted Ralls' view of Pat Tillman, that he was some sort of lame Bush poster boy, has begun to look more and more dim as time has gone on, especially now that word comes down that Tillman's death wasn't even a friendly fire incident, but more of a fragging.

I usually depend on Wonkette for little more than a sort of political version of Perez Hilton or TMZ.com (did you see whose vomit Jean Schmidt was cleaning off herself in the bathroom? OMG! WTF?), but under the cruel heading of "Dept. of Political Assassinations," Wonkette has offered the most disturbing summary of the Tillman case yet. Some of the 20 bullet points offered there:

# He was shot three times in the forehead at close range with an American M-16.
# This was after he was shot in the chest, legs and hand.
# And this was after he screamed to the “friendlies” that he was Pat Tillman and please stop shooting him.
# But they didn’t; they executed him.
# They were Americans.
# There wasn’t even an “enemy” around; not only was nobody shot by “enemy fire,” no equipment was shot by “enemy fire.”
# “Members of Tillman’s unit burned his body armor and uniform in an apparent attempt to hide the fact that he was killed by friendly fire.”
# Army medical examiners tried to get a criminal investigation opened, but they were shut down.
# The Army brass who conspired to shut down any criminal investigation into the U.S. assassination of Pat Tillman sent “congratulatory e-mails” to each other after shutting down the snoops.
# The Pentagon heavily promoted Tillman’s enlistment and service as both a recruitment tool and a domestic propaganda tool.
# The Pentagon maintained for long after his murder that Tillman died in combat, finally admitting to his family that “friendly fire” killed him — which wasn’t exactly true, either.
# Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, who commanded Tillman’s base in Afghanistan at the time of his assassination, dismissed Tillman’s family’s attempts to find out what happened. Why? Because Pat Tillman was an atheist, like his family, so they were having “a hard time letting it go.”

More here. That last one really gets me. These sort of Jesus-freak radicals have no place in our government, military or otherwise. It's just this sort of egg-sucking halfwit that is giving our country a bad name, turning what started as a righteous cause post-9/11 into a bloody, stupid religious crusade. If Ralph Kauzlarich loves Jesus so much, I say we fucking crucify him. He'll be nearer his God than any of us.

Of course, that'll never happen. The right people never get nailed to the wall — or the cross, as the case may be. Now, Joe Biden says that the Senate won't impeach A.G.A.G. because there's no "smoking gun," despite the fact that any idiot with a PC and Internet access can hop online, go to YouTube and see for himself how Alberto Gonzalez willfully, deliberately perjured himself before Congress. No smoking gun? Jesus, Joe, it happened right in front of you.

How embarrassing is it that this guy's running for president on the Democratic Party ticket. I understand now why senators are never elected president — the senatorial process is a castrating experience. If you spend as much time there as Joe Biden, you turn into some sort of delicate, hysterical eunuch, with neither the will nor the intestinal fortitude to remove even a corrupt attorney-general, much less a degenerate, war criminal of a president.

And, sweet Jesus, a lot of people need to be removed from politics these days. Mike Gravel has apparently decided to dress in drag and back Sam Brownback. Chief Justice John Roberts sneaked away to some nameless island off the coast of Maine, and then began flopping around like a fish out of water and babbling incoherently. Certifiably crazy talk show host Michael Savage attributed the disturbing incident to some sort of Democratic plot, and doctors dismissed the event as an "ideopathic seizure," meaning that Roberts had a massive seizure from no known cause. But sources close to the jurist say that it wasn't a seizure at all, but that the Chief Justice was suddenly seized by a vicious bout of speaking in tongues, something that had to be covered up as a seizure — we could not, after all, have a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court turn out to be a snake-handling, jabbering Jesus freak, worse than anyone who attends church with Ralph Kauzlarich. That, after all, would be it — the final death knell of the Republican Party. They'd be hounded across the country by angry mobs wielding torches and pitchforks, dragged out from inside penthouses and under slimy rocks, and tarred and feathered like a group of biblical scapegoats. A Republican wouldn't be elected in this country for another 90 years.

So enough talk of John Roberts' speaking in tongues. No one needs that heavy thought on their brain, least of all me. What does it mean, this terrible portent, this pigfucking omen? At the very least, it means we got a lot more than we bargained for when this guy donned the black robes. How long till he has one of these mad tongue-speaking sessions while in trial? How long before the solicitor-general begins to argue the government's case, only to be greeted with the ravings and writhings of a Supreme Court justice doped up on rattlesnake venom and wrathful messages from God?

No one is safe from the craziness anymore. Politics is a giant padded room that breeds insanity. Even the celebrity tabloids are reporting violence and horror when they briefly touch on the presidential race. One reported that Angie and Brad came to blows in an argument over the merits of Edwards or Obama.

And the primaries are five to six months away. By that time, Angie and Brad will have been found dead on the floor of their Beverly Hills home, which will look their house after the gunplay in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. John Roberts will have suspended the elections because "God told him to." The military under newly minted five-star general Ralph Kauzlarich will declare Bush king for life and begin rounding up the dissidents. Joe Biden will giggle hysterically and say something like, "No one could have done anything to prevent this" as they put a sack over his head and throw him in the back of an unmarked minivan.


See you at Gitmo.

[tom_paine]

1. K & R for Murdered Patriot and True American, Pat Tillman

:patriot:

Murdered by Loyal Bushies. Ordered Killed by Royal Bushies. 95% certainty.