Unspeakable evil and its discontents

Posted by Vi Ransel on Thomas Paine's Corner:

Propaganda. Shooting. Bayoneting. Beating. Bombing. Burning. Poisoning. Hunting down. Confining. Electrocuting. Hanging.

Would any of these methods, and more, been considered too extreme to use against the Germans and the Japanese during WWII? Are any of these methods, to now include kidnapping for torture and targeted assassination, deemed too extreme for Americans to use to counter “terrorism?”

Are not the recipients of these “gifts” of American Manifest Destiny entitled to refuse them by whatever means necessary? Have they no rights but to say “yes” to their own subjugation, mutilation and murder? And are those unarmed, or those unable to reciprocate these “gifts” – civilians, the elderly, women and children – not entitled to have someone stand up and defend them? Do those with no voice or rights, like children and animals, deserve no consideration precisely because they are unarmed and unable to resist? Is the moral high ground to be found under the iron boot of tyranny? Must one turn the other cheek when it, too, will be eaten off your face?

The machine to be raged against, however, is not a machine. It is a sociopathic set of people. The system that enables the Fordism of death and destruction is a set of rules consciously created and administered by perhaps point-oh-one percent of the system’s most lavish recipients, enforced by its multi-millionare minions and held up to the rest of us as an inevitable law of nature, to which there is no alternative. And as we participate in this Great Game, we become the racket ball of the ultra rich, who have us inculcated, enticed, bribed and coerced into submission to their dominion.

These “people” are individual sociopaths without a shred of empathy for fellow beings, human or otherwise, who make the daily decision to crush the rest of us into the dirt under their feet. Everybody and everything below billionaire-level is “fair” prey for the vicious, ruthless, deliberate decision-makers who create a daily holocaust to serve their insatiable lust for power, a lust they themselves cannot, or will not, control. And like any bully, they bully – as if daring someone to stop them – until someone or something smacks them down. Since they lack the ability and/or will to control their murderous, sociopathic tendencies, they need someone else to create that discipline for them. Like giant, temper tantrum-throwing two-year-old tyrants, they need time out. And it’s our job to give it to them – by whatever means we can – to stop the murder they deliberately decide on, which only serves to fuel their insatiable lust.

They appear to be asking Earth to stop them in one giant, extinction event evoked by their bullying hubris, and in that event, take the rest of us along to the woodshed of failed evolutionary experiments. The only question left is will we go with them willingly, or will we put up a fight?

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