What kind of people would grant an authoritarian regime the constitution-eviscerating power of The Patriot Act without even reading it? What kind of people would renew or extend it?
What kind people would claim to condemn a barbaric, illegal war, repeatedly claim they were lied to and deceived into it, while they keep opening the purse and handing over the angry peoples' billions MORE to keeping funding such a war?
What kind of people would keep defending or rationalize or vote for these kind of people?
Yes, the Freepers are a nightmare. But not the entire extent of our long late nightmare. The rest is harder to characterize, but the word facilitation came to my mind a lot today. You can't exactly call yesterday's war spending vote "Republican obstructionism"...
Facilitating Fascism
J'accuse by Zbignew Zinghcopyleft 2006
What kind of doctors has the United States trained who stand by idly while prison guards force-feed prisoners in Guantanamo Bay with plastic pipes shoved down the noses of the shackled and tortured?
What kind of psychologists have we educated who assist the Pentagon inventing new ways to torture men and women, breaking their minds without breaking their skin; who help create government propaganda, plant false news stories, devise “psy-ops” to mislead us all?
What kind of lawyers are these who work for the Department of “Justice”, the “Defense” Department, the Pentagon or the White House, who waste their careers finding legal loop-holes justifying torture, deceit, eavesdropping and imprisonment without charge?
What manner of scientists, hardware and software engineers have we graduated who dedicate their intelligence and creativity to devising deadlier weapons, more secretive ways to snoop, and more innovative ways to kill?
What types of ministers, priests, rabbis, chaplains and reverends are these who mutter empty palliatives to their congregations, run through empty chants and mindless prayers and paeans to Love and Holiness in pursuit of a Life to Come, while today, right now, human carrion burns in their names, and naught do they do at all?
What types of writers, journalists, editors, reporters, actors, what types of men and women are these who slavishly say and write and do as they are told knowing that they spread lies and deception and blather?
Although this nation is led by a few, its actions are facilitated by many. We are the facilitators – the professionals, the educated, the trained – we are the ones whose skills and knowledge keep the whole machinery moving, the cogs oiled, the system operating smoothly. Without the collaboration of the entire class of facilitators, nothing happens. No invasions occur, no bombs drop, no one is tortured, no one is disappeared, no doublespeak is spoken. The minority of “Leaders” do not actually commit hands-on crimes. You will not find Mr. Rumsfeld's, Mr. Cheney's, Mr. Bush's fingerprints at the crime scenes in Iraq any more than you could find Mr. Kissinger's on the casket of Allende. The leaders lead, but their employees, the facilitator classes, do the deeds.
I deny that America is a land of fools. We all know. Everyone of us. What some do not know, they do not want to know. The myth of propaganda is that it imparts falsehoods to the people. The truth of propaganda is that it discovers the falsehoods that the people want to believe, and imparts it to them as they want it.
The hypnotist cannot hypnotize someone who is not willing.
The falsehoods disseminated by the Leaders and the Media are the alibis for the Many doing what they want to do anyway. Propaganda is the cover for the crime: We did not know what we were doing. We were deceived. We were dupes. We were fools. Therefore, we can profit and do what we do with a clear conscience.
J'accuse!
There is no one in the educated world who cannot know the truth if s/he will know it.
The psychologists, lawyers, writers, reporters, ministers, scientists, engineers and doctors who deny the reality of the harm they do as employees and as gladiators-for-hire for this global empire would also deny the nose on their face.
The brightest minds on earth gave us the nuclear bomb... deployed by the dumbest, most venal minds on earth. Science and medicine and the law, in the service of military aggression, do not discover knowledge, heal or seek truth. Rather, they become weapons themselves, no better than cudgels wielded by cavemen. The scientist, doctor, psychologist, chaplain or reporter who sell their services, and their professional oaths, their professional creeds, their professional standards, for the sake of a Job, a Career and Security, do not deserve the name “professionals.” These are not real doctors, psychologists, lawyers or scientists who “research” on behalf of their clients and employers how better to harm people, how more efficiently to interrogate them, how more effectively to kill them, how to sell them more drugs, more lies and more harmful products, how to develop more intrusive technologies to probe private lives. They are prostitutes. They are mice. They are the facilitators of crime. They know it. We know it.
J'accuse!
It is not endless polite protest and demonstrations - as and where permitted - that will stop war and aggression. Nor will socially responsible investing nor voting for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum nor giving to charity nor meditating nor even publishing trivial little essays like this.
What puts a stop to all is when the majority of the facilitators of fascism – the professionals, the psychologists, lawyers, doctors, writers, reporters, teachers, ministers, priests, rabbis, scientists and engineers decide, at last... if ever... to rebel against the employment that makes them well-salaried galley slaves rowing to the beat of a danse macabre.
Let there be Leaks.
Let there be breaks in the ranks.
Let there be Dissenters.
Let there evolve vertebrate professionals and the evolution of a new facilitator class. One with true professionalism. A facilitator class with class.
last modified Wed 22 Feb 2006 03:54 PM This site is driven by PikiePikie
***************************************************************8
The materials that appear on this website are available free of charge. They are published in the hope that the materials will be useful, entertaining and, possibly, enlightening. You can redistribute verbatim copies of the material on this website without charge; however, you may not change or alter the material.
If you distribute copies of any of the material that appear on this website you must give the recipient all the rights that you have. You many not impose additional restrictions or claim additional rights. You must also show the recipient this notice and license, acknowledge the name of the author of the material and the author's copyright. It is not your responsibility to force others to comply with these terms or conditions.
You may not use, copy, modify or distribute these materials except as described above, or with the express, written authority of the author of the material. By copying or distributing any of the material appearing on this website you agree to the items and conditions set forth herein.
This license is inspired by the Gnu General Public Licence.
http://www.ersarts.com/cgi-bin/pikie/ersarts/ersarts.py?FacilitatingFascism
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
