The Poet's Eye
commentary by Lightning Rod
The Poets' Eye is skeptical without being cynical, innocent without being naive and critical without being judgemental.
The Psychology of Terror
(02-07-04)
“The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.”--Lenin
It is slightly ironic that the American government, under the direction of jr. Bush, should declare war on terrorism. The US government is by far the champion terrorist organization on earth.
Consider “the release over Hiroshima and Nagasaki of artificial, man-made suns that rained down heat, gamma rays, and radioactive fallout” These acts were consciously designed to terrorize the Japanese into submitting to surrender. Not only did the bombings achieve their immediate intended effect, they also established the US as the ‘Supreme Intimidator.’ And for the next forty years the world lived in terror of the atomic bombs raining down. This sounds like terrorism to me.
More recently in Afghanistan and Iraq we have used the military tactic that we gloriously call ‘Shock and Awe.” This is the very essence of terrorism. The message it is intended to deliver is, “We are the biggest, baddest mofo’s on the block and resistence is useless.”
Our current government has wasted no time in capitalizing on the tragic events of 9/11. They have used these events to institute a continuing reign of terror on our country and the world. They are training us to submit to searches and invasions of our personal information. Under license of fear they are binding and raping us.
The Bush administration is spending the political currency that they won in the lottery of 9/11 to institute a open ended ‘war’ with no concrete enemy. When will the ‘War on Terror’ be won? Never. Not as long as there is an evil thought in this world. Not as long as there are oppressed peoples and disease and starvation. The ‘War on Terror’ will not be over until they have used it as an excuse to fuck you to the last inch, not until the world is a benign concentration camp and we all watch the same TV shows.
As I write, the current regime is using the terror of unemployment and economic insecurity to keep the proles in line. It is spending our money directly into the pockets of its cronies and trying to pass it off as a noble cause. It is not a nobel cause, it is terrorism.
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