Sunday, November 30, 2008
EMPEROR OBAMA IN THE TRUMAN SHOW
Paul Encimer presents
EMPEROR OBAMA IN
THE TRUMAN SHOW
Some people believe that fascism is brand new with DubBush,and that it has met its end with the election of Barack Obama. But Mussolini defined fascism as corporate militarism. Eisenhower in his famous Kiss Off address gave it a uniquely American name: the Military/Industrial Complex.
It was the Korean War that provided our native Fascism’s bipartisan template. The defining difference: the Republicans – then as now –“want war” while the Democrats - whether today or yesteryear - are firmly “opposed to peace.” Barack Obama won't want to change that. (When JFK woke up to the truth of Ike's Complex, his consciousness was unceremoniously terminated.) After almost seventy years in action I think it’s fair to continue to call both parties Fascist
Korea enabled the incipient Julius Caesarism of FDR to evolve into the Augustus Caesarism of the amazing Harry Truman. Truman’s nonproclamation of war against that rocky, freezing Asian peninsula turned Congress into the Emperor’s Rump as surely as Cromwell’s lockout of Parliament did 300 year earlier. Truman managed all this, like DubBush, with a popularity rating in the low twenties.
DubBush allegedly solaces himself by identifying with Churchill, but it should be Truman. Harry, not Winston, was the real hero of 1948/84. It was Harry who first scared the hell out of the American people and made the Cold War a way of life It was Harry who killed the “peace dividend” and enabled the military-industrial complex to mature into the junk bond Warfare State that enriches our elites to this very day. It was Harry‘s National Security State that’s morphed into our Homeland Police State. It was Harry who institutionalized the foreign policy which pits an eternally good us against an eternally evil them. DubBush inherits all this. His regime invented none of it.
We are likely to laugh at the parallel of DubBush with either Winston C.or Harry T. Isn’t it like comparing the first somewhat heroic Napoleon with his frankly farcical nephew, Napoleon III? sure, but the joke is onus. Remember when the Fuehrer restored himself as the Kaiser, it was -mustache for mustache, indeed ridiculous - Charlie Chaplin playing Frederich Nietzsche - but it didn’t turn out to be all that funny.
With the atrocity of the Iraq War, DubBush offers the finishing touches on an extended War he shares with his father and Bill Clinton. Clinton’s million dead is on a par with Dad & Dub’s million plus. These three Presidents, teamed together with the Military/Industrial/Congressional Complex, have passed the Korean War’s 2 million dead civilians and, with the help of Speaker Nancy Betrayus and her Democrats, are chasing Vietnam’s 3 million mark. This long Iraq War has become a centerpiece of a Middle East War that rivals the Thirty Years War that devastated Germany in the 17th century. (25 years for this one so far if you include the Eighties war that we egged Iraq into with Iran) And you can bet that Obama will engineer no exit that doesn't take the oil with our Corporations.
Old CIA hands, Frank Stockton and Philip Agee, first made the apt comparison of Korea with the Iraq war. Sec.of State Acheson made it known that Korea was outside our defense perimeter, tempting the North Koreans into an invasion of the South that was loaded with leftists eager to put an end to the American puppet regime of Syngman Rhee.
Out of this, Truman produced a Cold War that lasted a generation - successfully casting the war weary and prostrate Soviet Union for the very Agro Hitlerian role, recently vacated.
Truman’s National Security Council document NSC-68 (the predecessor of P-NAC) laid out the script in advance – with the US projecting onto the Soviet Union our own Imperial Shadow, as we connived for Economic and Military Global Dominance. All that we needed was a pretext to scare the American people into Mobilizing for Permanent War. Korea was the pretext.
In a later repeat, DadBush’s State Department used Kuwait as a lure to initiate the destruction of Iraq, neutralizing the threat to Israel. DadBush’s erstwhile neocon cronies sought to finish the war, laying out their strategy in an updated version of NSC-68 in the P-NAC document. All they needed was a similar pretext – as P-NAC put it, “another Pearl Harbor.” 9ll was it.
Both Truman and the Bushes/Clinton faced the same horror– the possible outbreak of peace. Nothing is more frightening to our elites than the successful termination of the CorporateWarfare State. The specter of peace means the end of the Great Barbeque of endless war. The Warfare State took us out of the depression and kept us out. "Fighting the good fight for the Free Market" is still the myth to be observed, "Hanging on for dear life to Crony Capitalism" is the reality to be served. Larry Summers and the others are rested and ready to continue funding The Right War.
DubBush has successfully replaced Communism with Terrorism, an accomplishment impossible, however, without the crucial work of Carter and Clinton in building up al Quaeda through the Soviet-Afghan and Yugoslavian wars. Otherwise DubBush could never have been able to establish Islamofascism as the suitable candidate for an Endless War on Terror to succeed the Cold War. Obama's Afghanistan Surge Strategy guarentees the success of this substitution of one very profitable Junk Bond warfare for yet another Humanitarian War so beloved by his Clintonite accomplices.
From Korea on, the American Emperor has never been naked. Whether Ike, Jack, Jimmy, right on through to Barack, the Emperor has all the appurtances of Imperial prerogative - the ax, the scepter, the globe, the robe, the crown, the fearsome frown, the boots hobnailed with looted jewels for grinding third world faces forever. Instead, it was the jackals of the Congress and the vultures of the Media who consistently proclaimed the Emperor’s “nakedness” as a ruse to cover their own impotence. Barack will bare all again for a world hoping for a kinder, gentler American Empire.
The difference with DubBush and his anxious Neocons from Obama and his Neolibs is that the Neocoms thought the time was ripe for open fascism. While the earlier Emperors were happy to have the velvet bedroom slippers covering the hobnailed boots, Bush and his cronies wanted us to know that the boot is going to be in our faces. They wanted us to see the mud and shit in the tread before they rubbed it in.
Obama looks cute in those velvet bedroom slippers and his new administration is jack-booted and ready to go. In our duopolistic political world, we are foolish to expect anything different from Obama-fronted Democrats. It is not just a case of submission to Corporate Militarism (fascism) or even enthusiastic cooperation. Now we will see some "brilliant innovations."
With twelve years in the House, Cynthia McKinney made it clear to me when she was touring the Emerald Republic that it is a distraction to distinguish Blue Dog Democrats from Progressives. "They are all Blue Dogs," she told me flatly. That resonates with political reality. The abortive "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act"was supported by every Progressive Congress member except Dennis Kucinich and Pete Stark. Neolib Democrats (both Progs and Dogs) are the fitting successors to Neocons Bush and Cheney, led as usual by House Speaker Nazi Pelosi. Her taste for torture explains why impeachment was and will not be on the Democratic Leadership’s fabled table. The wood is so wet from waterboarding demonstrations for Congressional insiders that it wrecks the flimsy paper that the constitution is written on.
This means that under Obama, we can expect no return to a Republic any time soon. If he plays by the rules he will go down in History alive - to raise millions for His Library. Roosevelt and Truman definitively wrote the Congress out of the document. Obama is in the wrong position (Emperor)to want a script change. The next Constitution is in OUR political future and will perforce have to be rewritten in our own blood on our own bodies before we wake up enough to reassert our inalienable rights.
EMPEROR OBAMA IN
THE TRUMAN SHOW
Some people believe that fascism is brand new with DubBush,and that it has met its end with the election of Barack Obama. But Mussolini defined fascism as corporate militarism. Eisenhower in his famous Kiss Off address gave it a uniquely American name: the Military/Industrial Complex.
It was the Korean War that provided our native Fascism’s bipartisan template. The defining difference: the Republicans – then as now –“want war” while the Democrats - whether today or yesteryear - are firmly “opposed to peace.” Barack Obama won't want to change that. (When JFK woke up to the truth of Ike's Complex, his consciousness was unceremoniously terminated.) After almost seventy years in action I think it’s fair to continue to call both parties Fascist
Korea enabled the incipient Julius Caesarism of FDR to evolve into the Augustus Caesarism of the amazing Harry Truman. Truman’s nonproclamation of war against that rocky, freezing Asian peninsula turned Congress into the Emperor’s Rump as surely as Cromwell’s lockout of Parliament did 300 year earlier. Truman managed all this, like DubBush, with a popularity rating in the low twenties.
DubBush allegedly solaces himself by identifying with Churchill, but it should be Truman. Harry, not Winston, was the real hero of 1948/84. It was Harry who first scared the hell out of the American people and made the Cold War a way of life It was Harry who killed the “peace dividend” and enabled the military-industrial complex to mature into the junk bond Warfare State that enriches our elites to this very day. It was Harry‘s National Security State that’s morphed into our Homeland Police State. It was Harry who institutionalized the foreign policy which pits an eternally good us against an eternally evil them. DubBush inherits all this. His regime invented none of it.
We are likely to laugh at the parallel of DubBush with either Winston C.or Harry T. Isn’t it like comparing the first somewhat heroic Napoleon with his frankly farcical nephew, Napoleon III? sure, but the joke is onus. Remember when the Fuehrer restored himself as the Kaiser, it was -mustache for mustache, indeed ridiculous - Charlie Chaplin playing Frederich Nietzsche - but it didn’t turn out to be all that funny.
With the atrocity of the Iraq War, DubBush offers the finishing touches on an extended War he shares with his father and Bill Clinton. Clinton’s million dead is on a par with Dad & Dub’s million plus. These three Presidents, teamed together with the Military/Industrial/Congressional Complex, have passed the Korean War’s 2 million dead civilians and, with the help of Speaker Nancy Betrayus and her Democrats, are chasing Vietnam’s 3 million mark. This long Iraq War has become a centerpiece of a Middle East War that rivals the Thirty Years War that devastated Germany in the 17th century. (25 years for this one so far if you include the Eighties war that we egged Iraq into with Iran) And you can bet that Obama will engineer no exit that doesn't take the oil with our Corporations.
Old CIA hands, Frank Stockton and Philip Agee, first made the apt comparison of Korea with the Iraq war. Sec.of State Acheson made it known that Korea was outside our defense perimeter, tempting the North Koreans into an invasion of the South that was loaded with leftists eager to put an end to the American puppet regime of Syngman Rhee.
Out of this, Truman produced a Cold War that lasted a generation - successfully casting the war weary and prostrate Soviet Union for the very Agro Hitlerian role, recently vacated.
Truman’s National Security Council document NSC-68 (the predecessor of P-NAC) laid out the script in advance – with the US projecting onto the Soviet Union our own Imperial Shadow, as we connived for Economic and Military Global Dominance. All that we needed was a pretext to scare the American people into Mobilizing for Permanent War. Korea was the pretext.
In a later repeat, DadBush’s State Department used Kuwait as a lure to initiate the destruction of Iraq, neutralizing the threat to Israel. DadBush’s erstwhile neocon cronies sought to finish the war, laying out their strategy in an updated version of NSC-68 in the P-NAC document. All they needed was a similar pretext – as P-NAC put it, “another Pearl Harbor.” 9ll was it.
Both Truman and the Bushes/Clinton faced the same horror– the possible outbreak of peace. Nothing is more frightening to our elites than the successful termination of the CorporateWarfare State. The specter of peace means the end of the Great Barbeque of endless war. The Warfare State took us out of the depression and kept us out. "Fighting the good fight for the Free Market" is still the myth to be observed, "Hanging on for dear life to Crony Capitalism" is the reality to be served. Larry Summers and the others are rested and ready to continue funding The Right War.
DubBush has successfully replaced Communism with Terrorism, an accomplishment impossible, however, without the crucial work of Carter and Clinton in building up al Quaeda through the Soviet-Afghan and Yugoslavian wars. Otherwise DubBush could never have been able to establish Islamofascism as the suitable candidate for an Endless War on Terror to succeed the Cold War. Obama's Afghanistan Surge Strategy guarentees the success of this substitution of one very profitable Junk Bond warfare for yet another Humanitarian War so beloved by his Clintonite accomplices.
From Korea on, the American Emperor has never been naked. Whether Ike, Jack, Jimmy, right on through to Barack, the Emperor has all the appurtances of Imperial prerogative - the ax, the scepter, the globe, the robe, the crown, the fearsome frown, the boots hobnailed with looted jewels for grinding third world faces forever. Instead, it was the jackals of the Congress and the vultures of the Media who consistently proclaimed the Emperor’s “nakedness” as a ruse to cover their own impotence. Barack will bare all again for a world hoping for a kinder, gentler American Empire.
The difference with DubBush and his anxious Neocons from Obama and his Neolibs is that the Neocoms thought the time was ripe for open fascism. While the earlier Emperors were happy to have the velvet bedroom slippers covering the hobnailed boots, Bush and his cronies wanted us to know that the boot is going to be in our faces. They wanted us to see the mud and shit in the tread before they rubbed it in.
Obama looks cute in those velvet bedroom slippers and his new administration is jack-booted and ready to go. In our duopolistic political world, we are foolish to expect anything different from Obama-fronted Democrats. It is not just a case of submission to Corporate Militarism (fascism) or even enthusiastic cooperation. Now we will see some "brilliant innovations."
With twelve years in the House, Cynthia McKinney made it clear to me when she was touring the Emerald Republic that it is a distraction to distinguish Blue Dog Democrats from Progressives. "They are all Blue Dogs," she told me flatly. That resonates with political reality. The abortive "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act"was supported by every Progressive Congress member except Dennis Kucinich and Pete Stark. Neolib Democrats (both Progs and Dogs) are the fitting successors to Neocons Bush and Cheney, led as usual by House Speaker Nazi Pelosi. Her taste for torture explains why impeachment was and will not be on the Democratic Leadership’s fabled table. The wood is so wet from waterboarding demonstrations for Congressional insiders that it wrecks the flimsy paper that the constitution is written on.
This means that under Obama, we can expect no return to a Republic any time soon. If he plays by the rules he will go down in History alive - to raise millions for His Library. Roosevelt and Truman definitively wrote the Congress out of the document. Obama is in the wrong position (Emperor)to want a script change. The next Constitution is in OUR political future and will perforce have to be rewritten in our own blood on our own bodies before we wake up enough to reassert our inalienable rights.
Labels: Blue Dog Democrats, Constitutional Government, Emperor Bush, Emperor Obama, Truman Show
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