Blacks, Superblacks and Black-Blacks.

[byronius]

I swear to the Space Monkey that reading Kim Stanley Robinson makes you smarter. I’m almost through with Sixty Days and Counting, the third volume in his Forty Days Of Rain cycle; it’s the best yet. Damn, this guy’s good.

One of the sub-themes deals with an issue I take very seriously: Superblacks. These are hyper-insulated intelligence groups created ostensibly for the purpose of plausible deniability by administrations that need extra-legal sevices. Under the Bush-Cheney regime, as in the book, it is apparent that new forms of this type of intelligence operation have been created to exert influence on domestic politics as well as individual citizens. The illegal NSA mass-wiretapping of the US citizenry is just a tip of this hideous iceberg; there are far greater taxpayer dollars being diverted into private enterprises that then fund these ‘Superblacks’, as they are called, so that absolutely no oversight can be conducted.

‘Black-Black’ is an even more isolated type of group, and even more dangerous to the Republic. In Sixty Days And Counting, KSR brilliantly explores the enormous problems faced by an incoming Democratic President, Phil Chase. One of Chase’s main science advisors has personal knowledge of one of these ‘Black-Black’ organizations, which is wholly independent from the US Government, and as an ideological extension of the prior administration, writes software to skew elections, gathers or fabricates blackmail materials to destroy and/or influence important citizens, and occasionally assassinates.

The advisor, Frank Chalmers, discovers that the prior administration (ala Bush/Cheney) has essentially set up a true Shadow Government: wholly independent entities with bottomless funding arrangements and back doors into every part of the conventional government, whose only purpose is the return the prior administration to power, or at least to subvert the will of the new administration, thereby reducing the dangers inherent in democracy (as conservatives view it), and totally marginalizing the public’s will.

I haven’t finished the book yet. I don’t know if Chalmers or Chase solves the problem; I doubt it. It gave me a chill to realize that this isn’t conspiracy theory at all; this is the arachnid soul of the neoconservative, writ large, with my tax money. They are anti-democratic and anti-American in the broadest sense; sort of Master-Criminals, like the Joker, except without Batman. The Joker to the Tenth Power, in control, enormously wealthy and powerful, and with total access to and some influence over every bit of human activity on the planet. God Damn Them.

This isn’t just a book. This is an important warning. This has now happened; the evidence is quite real. Obama or Clinton will have to deal with Cheney’s Shadow Government, or else.

Or else we remain a nation secretly ruled by a cabal of intelligent but insane Black-Blacks.

Root them out. They are a danger to the Republic. They serve no good purpose, certainly not the security of the United States.

What a great book. Kim Stanley Robinson is a hero to me for writing this.

And, oh yeah — thanks, Republican Party. Thanks a lot. They couldn’t have done it without you.

[donkeyotay]

1. Too good to fall off the front page already.

It's an important subject - how much can the new administration actually change anything. Thanks, I'll put Kim Stanley Robinson on my reading list.

[donkeyotay]

2. delete - double post.