American Sunset
"Look, dear! Don't the chemtrails look lovely
tonight..."
John Kaminski | November 8 2004
Comment: Kaminski is right but we have
to remember that cowardly people draw an illusory sense of protection from
'being on the winning team' even if they know deep down that they are sacrificing
their children's future.
Oh, the gnashing of teeth, the beating of breasts,
the wailings of woe.
Bush and the Republicans stole the election! Big surprise, eh? The neocon
Nazis have done nothing but break the law since before they ever took office.
You were expecting fair play from them, perchance?
Much as I admire many of my friends who are desperately trying to tell everyone
that the exit polls matched the election results in all the states with a
paper trail, but didn't in states without one - suspiciously and substantially
favoring Bush instead - they all are, to put it politely, whizzing into the
wind. Perhaps they hope to find a prosecutor aspiring to career suicide, or
maybe a judge who wishes to see his family killed in some kind of odd accident,
an inexplicable plane crash, perhaps..
Of course, it is of some substantive concern that the American electoral process
has been placed in the hands of partisan corporations, guaranteeing about
as much integrity as typical government reports saying antidepressants are
good for children, or the feds have no idea who committed the anthrax murders,
or corporations should not be held liable for their lethal products because
it's bad for business.
Your vote didn't count last time. Why would you expect it would now?
And anyway, here's a more important question.
How, in an election year where the central questions should have been about
waging wars based on well-known lies and throwing away the lives of American
soldiers chasing phantoms who don't exist - as well as questioning the cynical
coverup of the greatest crime in American history, which 3,000 Americans were
murdered by these same phantoms .... how could these momentous questions be
overshadowed on election day by a relatively irrelevant brouhaha about gay
marriage?
In fact, it was because the loyal opposition chose not to mention these issues,
but instead participated in the media coverup of these crimes, because in
fact there is only one party in this country - the party of the banks. On
that level this election was a complete sham. There was no real contest. So
why are you so upset about the results of an election in which both candidates
were saying the same thing? Hell, it's only too appropriate the results were
manipulated, given the insincere similarity of the candidates.
Evil electronic electioneering and deliberately distracting debates are not
the top stories of this election.
When all was said and done, your vote didn't really matter because John Kerry
essentially agreed with everything Bush had done during his capital-crime-plagued
first term. (Capital crimes, as in treason and mass murder.) Kerry promised
to INCREASE the war effort in Iraq. He accepts the reality of the cover story
of Arab hijackers. He helped write the Patriot Act. Fifteen years ago, he
helped cover up the BCCI scandal, another one of the great robberies in American
history.
So, why are so many so upset that Republican vote-counting executives stole
the election for Bush in Ohio, Florida, Georgia, and God knows where else?
We know having Kerry, Bush's fraternity brother, in the White House would
have made absolutely no difference in terms of government policy.
So why is everyone so upset that Kerry so quickly conceded, getting himself
out that contrived dog-and-pony show as fast as possible? Why is anyone upset
that Kerry lost? Nothing would have changed!
Why bother working to overturn an election when success would mean installing
a candidate who would do nothing different from the man who won? Now that's
what I call a totally futile effort.
No, there is a bigger question than vote fraud, or the manipulation of public
opinion by unscrupulous media corporations, or the fact that the two political
parties are actually one, and that the loyal opposition seeks only to emulate
the party in power rather than oppose it, which means it no longer has a chance
of winning anything.
The biggest question of all is about the caliber - and the sanity - of the
American people.
The mask is off now.
The lies used to justify the continuing slaughter of innocent people in Iraq
fester like an infected scab on the psyche of the American people, who have
become so twisted in their pursuit of narcotized tranquility that they are
now even cheering the deaths of their own children who come home in boxes
we are not allowed to see. How much more insane can it get before blissful
blackness will alleviate our misery?
If souls were faces, Americans would gaze into their bathroom mirrors each
morning and see their rotting skin covered with oozing sores, putrescent pustules
of their suicidal disease caused by their intransigent focus on tormenting
trivialities, caused by their willing ignorance of their soldiers - their
own children - raping Iraqi children, blowing Iraqi families to bits, then,
as their deeds set into their curdled spirits, coming home and hanging themselves
in the shattering silence of realizing their own horrified depravity.
Do you have a child in the military?
Chances are fairly good - if he is still alive - he has become a murderer,
or a rapist, or that he has become sickened to the point that his life is
ruined, which means that your life is ruined, if you have any feelings at
all.
This is America 2004. A willing blindness drapes the land like a shroud, where
old men beat their war drums and young men say, "hey, this is really
cool!" in the millisecond before they lose a limb to a land mine, or
frag an unknown family into bleeding bits of twitching protoplasm.
Americans have not only lost their souls into insane religious practices,
they've lost their brains as well. What other country on Earth can't even
keep track of its own voting process, that offers two candidates who are handpicked
androids of the power elite, who both cheerily endorse senseless killing of
people already oppressed by enemies invented by the very people who fight
them?
I ask again: Do you have a child in the military?
Because if you don't, you will soon. What will you do when your child is drafted
into the military and sent to Iraq to kill innocent people for reasons that
you know in your heart are lies?
Will you wave your flag, like most Americans do, just as you have dutifully
cast your vote?
The election is over. It didn't matter who won. What matters is that America
has lost, and Americans eagerly helped her lose, just as Americans eagerly
kill people all over the world for reasons that they know are lies. Since
both candidates were pursuing the same policies in regard to making unjust
war, in this election, Americans voted overwhelmingly - almost 100 percent
- to kill their own children for reasons that they know are lies. And kill
anyone else within convenient shooting distance.
Long live the empire. Let the killing continue.
Stop whining about the vote. You got exactly what you deserved. A homicidal
liar with the weaponry - and the willingness - to kill everyone on the planet.
This is the new American dream, and it's your worst nightmare.
You have only yourself to thank for not paying attention. Have a nice day.
John Kaminski's essays have appeared on hundreds of websites around the world
and have been collected into two anthologies. The latest, titled "The
Perfect Enemy," is available at http://www.johnkaminski.com/
Comment
From Scott T Davis
11-6-4
Dear Jeff,
Again, Mr Kaminski hits American society right between their dazed and glazed
eyes with his ten pound literary hammer!
American Sunset chronicles the sad level of denial and depravity much of American
society has so cleverly been guided to.
I am afraid, though, Mr Kaminski is beating a comatose society in vain. But
God Bless him for the effort.
Comment
Alton Raines
11-6-4
I always hate it when I find myself in agreement with Kaminski,
but when he's right, he's right. We've got this shitkicker from Texas now
for another four years, and very likely the advent of an apocalypse with him.
Oh yeah, roll your eyes, Mr. and Mrs. Bush supporter, but you have been so
psychologically hijacked and hoodwinked by the NeoCon conspiracy... nay, the
NeoCon VIRUS, injected into the American bloodstream on 911, that you can't
see straight. You can't see anything but war for peace, anymore. There are
no other answers for you. You've made a compact with death and hell. It's
a black and white reality all the way. We have our warlord, our grand leader
in the "war on terra" and I have no doubts he will take us to ever
new heights of bloodshed and imperialism throughout the mideast, in the name
of 'democracy.' So sick and so ill is our nation that we have precisely the
leader we deserve, and God truly help us all. It's going to be a dark, dark
ride.
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