Ferguson! The name was once unknown to all in the United States. Since Saturday, August 9, 2014 is has become synonymous with all that is wrong with policing the African American communities in the United States of America. This issue was raised in America the Dark in Wealth, Women and War in 2007.
While the paragraph below is essentially correct, certain points were missed in the work. One is that is that of White Privilege, and the other is that of Black-on-Black crime. We can still debate, challenge, and discuss White Privilege, however, Black-on-Black crime is a myth. All crime is essentially committed where there is opportunity. Blacks commit crimes against blacks, and whites commit crimes against whites because that is where the opportunity arises.
If written today, there would have been a deeper investigation of White Privilege, and far less bias. One learns as one goes.
December 3, 2014
America
While the paragraph below is essentially correct, certain points were missed in the work. One is that is that of White Privilege, and the other is that of Black-on-Black crime. We can still debate, challenge, and discuss White Privilege, however, Black-on-Black crime is a myth. All crime is essentially committed where there is opportunity. Blacks commit crimes against blacks, and whites commit crimes against whites because that is where the opportunity arises.
In this era where everything boils down to economic resources, race differences are still playing a disproportionately large component in the distribution of limited resources across socioeconomic lines. The relative poverty of the African American community is still worse than it is in the Anglo-Saxon community. The lack of opportunity is almost epidemic.
If written today, there would have been a deeper investigation of White Privilege, and far less bias. One learns as one goes.
Wealth, Women, and War is released in accordance with the solidarity principals of Occupy Wall Street adopted on February 9, 2012.Cliff Potts
December 3, 2014
While much has been written about the decision to use
our first atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , both targets, to the vexation of today’s Japan ,
were legitimate military targets. Both cities were engaged in military support
industries, and much of the production was decentralized to the employees’
homes to avoid the effects of a catastrophic strategic bombing raid on a single
centralized location. Both cities were heavy fortified against the type air
raid which was common to World War Two. The raid against both cities was no
different than any other raid, except of course in the limited number of
aircraft involved and the devastation cause by two, very primitive atomic
bombs.
At 8:00 A.M. on the morning of August 6, 1945, two
B-29 aircraft ventured into the airspace above Hiroshima . One was a chase and observation
aircraft. The other carried the world’s first practical enriched uranium
nuclear weapon. The rest, as they say, is history. Japan ’s
fatality figures and the U.S. ’s
figures vary widely. Japan
states that 150,000 died in the attack. The U.S. numbers the dead in the tens
of thousands. However, it was war, and it was a war started by Japan .
Both cities were sacrificed by humanity to bring World War Two to an end.
It is an oddity of history that the same twin
aircraft attack was used to drop the plutonium based atomic bomb on Nagasaki , yet the Japanese
government was ill prepared to defend against the second attack. If they were
so ill prepared and ineffective in the defense of their own cities perhaps the
lesson of history is that once you have lost control of the air it may be a
good idea to give up the industrialized fight.
Both cities, and the massacred populations could have
been spared if we had negotiated the surrender of Japan
on Japan ’s
terms in good faith. However, up to December 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the U.S.
and the Japanese were in negotiation in an attempt to avoid war. Japan
decided that it was in their best interest to destroy the Pacific Fleet and
take our ground forces captive for the duration of hostilities. At that point
in time, all good faith was lost.
All of the propaganda about Japan ’s forthcoming surrender prior
to the destruction of the two cities is second guessing by arm chair generals
and want-to-be politicians who were not there at the time, or had an
alternative political agenda. They were not facing the decision to send one
million U.S. Marines and Army troops to their death storming Japan ’s beaches. It is the typical
arrogance of youth to think that we today with the aid of clear hindsight are
better than our fathers who were grappling with the events as they unfolded in
the fog of war. If we can make accurate guesses about what might have been it
is only through the clarity of retrospection which was unavailable or
untrustworthy at the time. Once a combat begins all that matters is avenging
the blood and life of a lost buddy; political consideration goes out the
window. The war has to be brought to exhaustion. In the world of mechanized
warfare against civilian based militarized economies that is a costly
proposition.
This is the lesson the Allies taught the people of Dresden , Germany England .
It was a raid using conventional incendiary weapons. They were called magnesium
pencils; they were long and thin and made specifically to scatter as they fell.
They were designed to start fires over a wide swath on the ground. The raid was
accomplished by units of the Royal Air force and the U.S. Army Air Force. Like
so many raids against German targets in World War Two, it was a night raid.
When the sun rose the next day, the heart of Dresden was obliterated. Initial Allied
estimates, later revised by historians, set the fatality count at approximately
100,000. Currently historians calculate the mortality figure from the raid at
10,000 to 15,000.
In the late 1940s, the Germans were demoralized and
in retreat. The massive Soviet war machine, driven in blood lust for revenge,
drove the Nazis back into Germany .
Dresden was on the retreat path, and many of the
German Army’s once arrogant and unstoppable hordes halted to reorganize a
fighting resistance in Dresden .
The city was swollen with the influx of military personnel. The Allied high
command knew exactly what it was doing when it targeted Dresden . It was attempting to annihilate the
entire Germany Army in retreat from the Russian front. This swell of German
military units intermixing with the local population is the primary reason that
there is confusion as to how many people lost their lives in the Dresden firestorm.[1]
Having little to no air opposition, as the Luftwaffe was all but nonexistent at the
time, the Allied bombers unloaded tons of incendiary munitions on the center of
the city. This is another good indication that the raid was purely anti-personnel,
and not designed to destroy specific industrial sights. The center of the city
is where the retreating troop had amassed to regroup and reform a line of
resistance. The resulting fire storm reached estimated temperatures in the
thousands of degrees. The streets melted and began to burn. Those who were not
burned in the fires were suffocated in their shelters as the oxygen was consumed
by the fire itself. Some of the survivors of the raid topside were cooked to
death as the bomb shelters became brick and concrete ovens. The center of the
city, for all intents and purposes, was eradicated. The Allied high command who
ordered this raid did so for one reason; they wanted to wipe out the German
Army in the East. It worked.
For the record this case is not sighted in any
attempt to second guess our forefathers. Those who ordered the removal of the
documents knew exactly what they had done and why. It was not until the late
1940s that the raid was brought to light by those who flew it. When it did come
to light, no one mourned the atrocity.
The Islamic governments want to disregard or
discredit the Holocaust and the mass executions of the Jews. They are loath to
be reminded that the Turks committed such atrocities against the Armenians.
Only the most ardent historian will bother to recount the ventures of Vlad
Dracul, the Impaler, who butchered the Turks, as well as his own people in and
around Transylvania for sadistic pleasure. The
lesson of Dresden , Hiroshima ,
and Nagasaki ,
is too easy to forget. There are echoes of “I don’t know, and I don’t care”
here as well. To do so is perilous. The Islamic nations are drawing from a bank
of good will which may soon be exhausted. When pushed to the brink, the
children of European ancestry can, and have, resorted to tactics reminiscent of
the most barbaric War Lord of any region of the globe. No single race or creed
has a corner on the market of horrendous cruelty.
Be very clear about this. There are wars which are
government wars. These would be wars like the U.S. War of 1812 which was as
contentious Vietnam .
The Mexican American War was considered Poke’s War at the time. The Spanish
American War which was popular in the media but not a point of high patriotism
for most U.S.
Citizens. World War One gave birth to the ACLU to protect the rights of the
many who were protesting the war. Korea
and Vietnam
both fall under this category.
On the other hand there are the wars which grasp the
full support of the U.S.
population. These include the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War
Two. The war of Texas independence from Mexico
also falls under this category.
What an enemy can expect in a government war is harsh
warfare. However, they are usually short lived and end with relatively
swiftness and reside only within the time frame of the President who presides
over them. The Mexican American War and the Korean Conflict are good examples
of this. On the other hand, a people’s war, can last forever. It is brutal out
of all proportions to the incident which set it off, and will not be abated
until the people achieve their acceptable end, or the opposition is forced into
unconditional surrender. There is a big difference, and that difference seems
to be lost in the world dialogue of today.
Over the past four years, since the beginning of
Operation Iraqi Freedom, even under the conservative White House’s media spin,
stories have been popping up detailing the sorry condition of U.S. forces. This may, of course,
be some sort of black propaganda operation to lull our advisors into a sense of
superiority, and perpetuate the war for the sake of some of the
administration’s supporters. It could also be some sort of spin to keep the
people of the United States
in a constant state of concern. The politically correct term is that the U.S.
military is over extended, and equipment is in sad shape. What we are hearing
is that this condition extends to our Navy as well.
The only thing standing between the U.S. and an out right invasion by
massive forces is our Navy, and like the Army and Marine Corps they are ill prepared
to address such a threat. Ships are in storage, under the care of private
contractors, which were to be refitted and re-commissioned, are in deplorable
condition. The contractors who were hired to maintain these vessels have
ignored them. Entire keels are rusted out. Hulls are full of holes. New ships
cannot be launched fast enough to replace an aging fleet that has been in
service long past their effectiveness. Aircraft Carriers are put to sea with
limited maneuverability and launch capability. We love to be told how we are
superior to our adversaries, but since the end of the Cold War, our military,
even under the neo-conservatives boast of a strong defense, has been neglected.[2]
The Bush administration has cut enlisted men’s pay by
33%, and is creating a poverty class among the veterans amputated by road-side
bombs in Iraq .
This neglect can only be called
criminal. Yet, no one is screaming for the resignations of those responsible.
The apathy and indifference of capitalism rears its ugly side in so many
aspects of this current conflict that it is unfathomable that the people have
become stupefied into accepting the carnage and
the disregard. However, Operation Iraqi Freedom is a government war, and barring
the election of another neo-conservative in November of 2008, it will probably
be abandoned. Unless, of course, there is another 9/11 type incident on U.S. soil in late 2007 or early 2008 to whip the
people of the United States
into some kind of international feeding frenzy.
It is highly unlikely that the U.S. will be invaded by massive
troops. It is far more likely that our opponents will send in something akin to
Tiger Teams (small groups of operatives to engage in sabotage). We have
evidence that we are presently being infiltrated through Mexico as seen in the thwarted Fort Dix U.S. Even
if another 9/11-type attack was to occur on U.S. soil, it is hard to say that
this Administration would get the support to pursue a punitive course of
action. Whatever else can be said, the Bush Administration through design or
incompetence has done a great deal of harm to the nation’s credibility. Again
it is worth remembering the words of Robert Greene in The 48 Laws of Power:
Keep people off-balance and in the dark by
never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you
are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them in smoke, and by the time
they realize you intentions, it will be too late ….[3]
The Bush Administration, unfortunately, is keeping
the American people “off-balance and in the dark.” As such we are running
around with all sorts of conspiracy theories about the illuminati and the
Freemasons, the New World Order, the U.N., and Israel . The people, functioning in
fear, cannot grasp that the enemy of the people is residing in Saudi Arabia
and are very good friends of the Bush family. Much of this was pointed out in
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
If Mr. Moore’s information can be considered
trustworthy, then the one thing Moore failed to note is that the Taliban in
Afghanistan, and Saddam in Iraq represented two geopolitical entities who were
causing the Saudis a great deal of concern. Both nations posed threats to the
rule of the Saiad. Afghanistan
was attempting to export its form of Islamic republic to Saudi Arabia , and Iraq was blamed for threatening the
Saudis during Desert Storm. How true that threat was is unknown. Like this war in Iraq , Desert Storm is shrouded in a
series of lies and controversy.
Either this is the leadership of a man who has taken
the competitive ideals of capitalism to a level which is out of control, or
this is standard operating procedure of the United States of America and it has
gone relatively undetected by the majority of it citizens until now. Either way
we are on some kind of collision course with history.
Is Mr. Bush a traitor? If Mr. Moore’s, Mr. Phillips,
and Mr. Burman’s assertions about the global empire of the United States are accurate, then
that is the only logical conclusion. Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, and countless others,
including the Supreme Court Justices who intervened without jurisdiction, are
traitors to the Constitution of the United States and murderers. What
other conclusion can be drawn? This is not politics as usual! This is criminal,
and it borderlines on clinical insanity.
It seems that as long as Joe Six-pack has his booze,
broads, and baseball or basketball, and his “baby” can go shopping for the
latest techno gadget, he is not going to look around to see what has happened. Moore ’s film was released
before the 2004 election cycle and the whole of the conservative force put Bush
back in office. By the time Joe Six-Pack does wake up, it will be too late.
Should the unlikely occur, and someone was to amass
an army to challenge the U.S.
on U.S. soil, the United States
would be hard pressed to repel such an invasion. Our troops are capable, but so
overused in Iraq and Afghanistan that, even after the swiftest
redeployment back to the U.S. ,
they would be virtually combat ineffective. Moreover, they would be hard
pressed to be re-supplied.
This is apparent in the supply of small arms
ammunition available in the U.S.
currently. Even the renowned sportsman’s center Cheaper-Than-Dirt is no longer
able to supply large quantities of 9mm, 7.62X39, and .223 ammunition to law
enforcement professionals.[4]
All of the ammunition houses in the United States
are now turning out quantities needed for the war effort in Iraq . Our police, the front line,
and first responder force in any domestic situation are now using twenty to
thirty year old ammunition imported to the U.S.
from Argentina ,
and other foreign nations not engaged in Bush’s war. This stuff is left over
from the Vietnam
era. This should thrill the anti-gun lobby. It doesn’t, however, say much for
about our capacity to defend ourselves from foreign aggression, terrorism, or
even violent street crime in the United States .
Are we now abandoning our own streets to criminals,
and a few citizens desperately trying to defend themselves, just so the
wealthiest in the nation can grab the massive profiteering potential in Iraq , or investment in the industrialization of China ?
In a sense that is what the current situation boils down to.
The government of the United States is behaving
hypocritically. These men are not acting as if they are playing in favor of the
people of the United States .
At best, the only good thing that can be pointed out is that the rate of
violent crime, according to the FBI, is not yet increasing. “Yet” is the
optimum word there as there is every indication, based on the science already
presented, that the current social situation is an incubator for aggressive
street crime.
Our leadership says the right things, they tell us
what we want to hear, and then do little or nothing to insure that we are
protected from the forces we have engaged while perpetuating situations which
can only lead to further violence. This schizophrenia of the body politic may
not be unusual in a democracy, but we are supposed to be a republic where such
abuses and bi-polar disorders are minimized. One has to wonder where this is
leading.
There is a grave misconception concerning the U.S.
which the world has. Perhaps this is a misconception is one of our own making
to serve our own ends. Such is hard to say. Simply put the misconception is:
the U.S.
doesn’t have the tenacity to engage in a protracted war of attrition. We are
warned to never underestimate our enemy. We may have a tendency to overestimate
the capability of our adversary. This certainly seems to be the case concerning
the Soviet Union during the darkest days of
the Cold War. While they, whoever “they” are, are as capable, cunning and
clever like we are. It would be their mistake to assume that we are not as
capable, cunning, clever, creative, and stubborn as any culture on the globe.
In some of the darkest examples of U.S. history there is evidence of just how
malevolent the citizens of the United
States can get when threatened. Our war
against the various tribes of Native Americans lasted from the time of the
first settlements at Jamestown
to the closing days of the 1800s.
The Anglo-Saxon population defeated the Native
Americans by taking possession of the land and holding it. Once a farm was set
in place, the farmer was reluctant to give it up. Furthermore, once he took possession
of the land, even if it was eventually won back by the Native Americans, the
Anglo-Saxon did not recognize the rights of the Native American. The farm, once
homesteaded, was passed down to the next-of-kin. Nothing short of genocide was
going to keep the Anglo-Saxon off the homestead. This is why the French, and
Spanish colonies in the North American Continent failed, and why the English
settlements survived to eventually flourish.
The English came to stay. The others came to do
business and go back home. Without a clear technological advantage, the Native
Americans were incapable of resisting the steady flow of organized European
settlers. The lack of organization of the various tribes inhabiting the U.S.
mainland was another reason which the Native Americans had little chance of
success against the invading Europeans.
As time progressed, the settler’s weaponry, through a
succession of wars both here and in Europe ,
became better, but it was still not a deciding factor. While Hollywood , epically in the Westerns of the
1950s glamorized the Colt .45 and the Winchester Repeater, the average
settler’s armament was the double barreled, brake-action shotgun. It was
inexpensive for the cash strapped farmer and it was dependable. In rate of fire
it was slightly better than the flintlocks brought over from England in the early colonial days.
It was not Mr. Colt’s repeater that won the West, it
was the Sharp’s buffalo gun. This 50 caliber, long barreled ball and cap rifle
was used extensively to hunt down the bison upon which the Native American drew
his sustenance. Initially the bison was hunted for food as augmentation of the
trapper’s trader’s diet not too dissimilar to that of the Native American. Then
they were hunted for their pelts. At this point the bison were killed, skinned,
and the meat left to rot. Eventually, as the settlers moved west with the
railroad, the bison were hunted for sport from the trains. Entire herds were
obliterated without concern for proper husbandry or environmental
ramifications. This massive killing deprived the Native Americans of a primary
food source. Over time, the Anglo-Saxon population took the entire land mass of
North America by starving out the Native
Americans. Deprived of food, the Native Americans could no longer resist. This
is not different from what we have seen in recent years in Africa .
To add insult to injury, rather than openly absorb
the Native Americans into the dominant population, the Anglo-Saxon victor moved
them, often by force, to reservations. While not popular to admit, the
reservations are the precursors to internment camps, concentration camps, and
refugee camps of later eras. Moreover, the European settlers did not do a lot
better with Native American captives than Nazi Germany did with the Jews. While
the Washington
government never had a plan to eradicate the Native Americans, they did not
shed any real tears as starvation, deprivation, and disease took its toll on
the reservation.
For the sake of accuracy, what also cannot be denied
is that Hispanics and African Americans also had a hand in the killing and
internment of the Native Americans. Spain ,
from 1842 until they lost their holdings in the Western Hemisphere,
aggressively subjugated the natives of the Caribbean, Mexico , and Central and South
America . The Spanish are not Anglo-Saxon. The Saxon line did not
drive that far south in Europe . The Aztec and
Inca populations all but vanished under Spanish rule. Even today the surviving
indigenous peoples in Latin America are at the
low end of the economic spectrum and often the victims of government reprisals.
Though the media pays little attention to what is happening south of the Texas border, stories of
rebellion and reprisal do surface from time to time.
When World War Two erupted and intelligence was being
radioed from our West Cost to Japan
under the instructions of Imperial Japan, the U.S. again undertook forced relocation
and internment. Anyone who was of Japanese descent was moved out of the coastal
region. This action, initiated by the Roosevelt
administration, was taken even though it was directly objected to by J. Edgar
Hoover the director of the FBI. Years later, the U.S. government apologized to the
Japanese-Americans. They paid token reparation to the survivors of the
relocation for the blatant violation of their rights under the Constitution of
the United States .
Such legal sophistication was utterly lost during the early days of the U.S.
involvement in World War Two.
This action was supported by the general consensus of
the population as a whole. The people of the United
States saw themselves as citizens of the United States
and not members of segmented and segregated sub-cultures within the common
geographical borders. Patriotism, like true love, is blind. In the end even J.
Edgar Hoover went along with the internment of Japanese-Americans.
What makes matters worse from a Civil Rights
perspective, is that the tactic worked and Japanese intelligence of U.S.
activity, including troop movements, vanished. Once the Japanese population was
moved off the coast, Japan
was blind. Camp X-Ray
in Cuba ,
to our embarrassment, does have historic precedence.
The worse case of protracted civil strife in the face
of law has to be the Anglo-Saxon’s relations with the African Americans. In
spite of the 14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments
to the Constitution, under the doctrine of “Separate but Equal,” African Americans
under the industrialized, civilized, enlightened Anglo-Saxon culture still
suffered disproportionate economic and social deprivation. Their civil tights
under law were routinely violated violently. While the Civil War ended in 1865
with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Confederate reprisals, a
protracted struggle against the African American community continued for an
additional 99 years.
Any view of history at which one can rationally look
falls short of explaining segregation or the rampant codification of the racial
discrimination which persisted from 1865 to 1964. No only were African Americans
violated at will, but Anglo-Saxon Americans were often punished severely for
having the audacity to associate with members of the African American
community. U.S.
history is endemic with stories of race riots focusing on the torment and
punishment of the African American community in the Southern States of the old
confederacy. But the Northern
States Boston , Philadelphia ,
Chicago , and Los Angeles
as it did in Little Rock , Arkansas
It was no safer to be an outspoken critic of racial
segregation in Chicago , Illinois ,
or Washington , D.C.
in the 1950s then it was in Birmingham ,
Alabama Indianapolis ,
Indiana Indiana today still has a much more Southern
Agrarian culture than it does a Northern Industrial Culture.
Even now, some 43 years later, the dominant culture
of the U.S.
is still struggling to find an
equitable way to address the effects of institutional racism. Equity still does
not exist between “Black America” and “White America.” Many Anglo-Saxon men
feel wrongly put upon by the Affirmative Action programs used to create racial
equity, and many African Americans feel jilted, or left behind, now that Washington has decided
to phase out many of the race based social programs. The nation still can’t seem to find a balance. In
part, based on a summation of street level observations, the African American community
does not want to integrate into the Anglo-Saxon community, and the Anglo-Saxon
community doesn’t want to fully accept the African American culture. Even the
African American community, as seen in a recent edition of Ebony Magazine, has referred to this as a Culture of Disrespect.[5]
One can observe that even the African American
community is having some serious issues with certain aspects of its own
culture. This Culture of Disrespect may play a bigger role in the ongoing
racial strife than even the experts want to admit.
Mark H. Moral in the Wednesday, July 5, 2007 edition
of La Vida News’ The Black Voice,
writes in Bury the N-word, that
“Racial slur has no place whatsoever in U.S. society, especially among
Blacks.” He goes onto say:
Let us not tempt fate and risk repeating
history by allowing [the N-word] to continue to settle deeper into our
consciousness. With every utterance of it, we spit in the face of progress. We
disgrace our elders and ancestors and we show that their sacrifices were made
in vain. We release the spirit of hatred that conjured up the term in the first
place.
This “spirit of hatred” can be seen in an incident
which occurred in Austin , Texas
A similar incident has been recorded in Dallas , Texas
In this era where everything boils down to economic
resources, race differences are still playing a disproportionately large
component in the distribution of limited resources across socioeconomic lines.
The relative poverty of the African American community is still worse than it
is in the Anglo-Saxon community. The lack of opportunity is almost epidemic.
Modernism promised an end to disease, famine, war,
pestilence. It promised a humanitarian paradise when science and reason paved
the way to greater and greater prosperity. It was the promise of FDR’s New
Deal, and Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society. This promise never manifested.
DDT cleared away great swaths of insects, and almost eliminated whole species
of birds. CFC gave us cheap air conditioning, and disposable products, filled
our land fills and depleted the protective ozone layer. As to the new
enlightened human nature, we were promised a kinder and gentler nation, and we
end up with leadership like George W. Bush. After a while, all the promises
proved to be an illusion and we were left with the harsh cruelty of a social
culture gone mad with greed and selfishness. As one little ditty put it:
The economic prison has no door.
It is a cage with no ceiling.
It is a cell with no floor.
No bars to tell the real score.
Work should find a decent reward.
Work, thrift, wisdom stored,
Yet, willing labor is gored,
The prisoner has no reward.[6]
We do this to our own people here in the United States ,
how much worse is it in nations whose people we have decided are beneath us?
Even at the microscopic level of the single detention
camp for the political prisoners from Afghanistan
one can see the harbinger for further civil abuses extending from the perceived
need to secure the United
States . If further evidence is needed to
convince you just how bad it can get, just research Andersonville ,
the Confederate Civil War prisoner of war camp. Again the question has to be
asked: if we do this to our own people what shall happen to the people of a
specific racial origin and a specific creed which we perceive as a threat?
This section began as a discussion of the effects of
an armed military invasion of the United States . So far we have
covered certain generalities from the past to illustrate what an invasion force
of the future could expect. What we have not done is explore the event itself.
It stands to reason that some of our major cities
would be destroyed in some kind of pre-invasion attack. As to how much of a
shock that would be to the average U.S citizen would depend greatly on the
nature of such a war. If it were a surprise attack, then shock and confusion
would be expected. If, on the other hand, it was the final act of a protracted
global war, similar in nature to the Allied invasion of Normandy , psychologically the people would
be prepared. For the past twenty years there have been a number of Hollywood depictions of such an event. It is usually centered
on a Soviet invasion of the United
States . In the late 1980s there was Amerika on network television. This was
preceded by Red Dawn. Other films are
The Day After on ABC, and HBO’s By
the Dawn’s Early Light. Added to this
you have Jericho ,
which seems to be loosely based on Alas, Babylon
Based on the current fare of today’s market, any
depiction of the United
States being victorious against such an
invasion is denounced as being falsely patriotic. The U.S. is often compared to Rome in its last days and the twilight of the
English Empire. The U.S.
is depicted as soft, weak, and decadent. Those depictions are not necessarily
un-American, they are a voice which needs to be heard and considered. There is
no doubt that rampant capitalism has torn the social fabric of the nation by
encouraging the win-at-all-cost individualistic competition. Such extremes are
part of the experience of living in a dynamic society ideals as time progress.
If socialism was bad, then capitalism by default must be good, and unrestrained
capitalism must be best. As today’s youth grow up in the dismal expression of
run-away capitalism, they too will look for something that works better within
society. This is the natural progression over time.
Under certain stimuli, the effects of our infighting
will soon give way to the effects of a greater threat. Even after being
interned, and treated as criminals and enemies of the State, Japanese Americans
came to the aid of the nation. They distinguished themselves as men and women of
courage and valor for a nation which blatantly and officially did not trust
them. African Americans fought the Government itself for the right to fight the
Nazis, and no sub-culture in the United States owed the nation less.
Even Native American, who lost the continent to the Anglo-Saxon invaders,
volunteered to defeat the Japanese. This is not propaganda, this is fact. First
generation Italian and Irish, some of whom had fought bloody feuds to control
the booze and vice rackets in the 1920s, stormed the beaches at Anzio and Normandy .
The Greatest Generation also
contained some of the biggest criminals in U.S. history. This, too, is nothing
new. The Rodney King riots in L.A.
were in direct opposition to police abuse inflicted upon the African American
community. The viciously rival street gangs ceased their “turf” competition to
address, in civil rebellion, the perceived threat posed by the establishment.
Should a greater threat to the United States occur, based on the
illustrations dating from the 1920s to the 1990s, then there is every reason to
believe that the uncivil dysfunctional communities within the nation today will
coalesce in a protracted stand for the duration of the conflict.
The United
States is a violent society. However, that
propensity towards violence turned against an outside aggressor should never be
discounted. In a very strange twist, that aggression and violence, which we condemn
and loath in our streets, may very well be our salvation in the long run. That,
in and of itself, is a chilling thought, have the neo-conservatives
orchestrated the deprivation to push the youth of the United States towards a
mode of violence just to have a pool of fighters ready when the nation needs
them?
So, what can an invading Army expect? There will be a
certain amount of capitulation. Many of those who capitulate during the day,
will themselves be resistance fighters by night. Some, however, will simply
roll over and play dutiful little lap dogs with the invaders. This is
especially true with those who think that an aggressor can be appeased.
Joseph Kennedy, as Ambassador to England , was, like Chamberlin, sure
that Adolph Hitler was a reasonable man, and that a deal could be cut to
prevent war. They both were wrong.
There are echoes through time coming from Kissinger’s
speech during his recent visit to China . He exalted doing business
with the Communist Chinese government while telling the neo-conservative
business community to tone down the rhetoric concerning war with China
because the Chinese economic growth was a fact of life.
One thing that does have to be noted is that along
with China ’s
economic expansion has been there military modernization. This is being
accomplished with the aid of Russia
following the signing to the Sino-Russian friendship pact. All of this economic
growth funded in some part through the flow of capital from U.S. consumers. How that is going
to play out is anyone’s guess.
In the interior reaches of the United States , many small
communities will find themselves in some isolation following an initial strike.
However, that isolation will not be as dramatic as depicted on CBS’ Jericho Babylon
For the sake of brevity, it is sufficient to say that
the small arms owned by some eight million U.S. citizens would be of little
value against mechanized weaponry. However, even the relatively unarmed French
Resistance utilized the underground ability of the previously distained French
Communist, and were able to terrorize the Nazi occupiers. The same holds true
for the even more impoverished Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto when they rebelled
against the Nazis in the late 1940s. Desperate people, who would otherwise
despise one another, will fight along side one another for a common cause when
needed.
The United
States of America may not survive a war. It
may become a shattered hulk of what it once was. Such things are indeed
possible. However, giving up without a fight? Rolling over and playing dead to
a foreign aggressor? That is not going to happen. People today are willing
taking on economic loss in order to do what they can do to insure that the
country remains safe.
The worse case scenario, in such an event, is that
the invasion force, whoever, they are, will still be obliterated. While the U.S. would probably not be able to wholly stop a
mechanized invasion using tactical nuclear weapons, it can resurrect the
finalized research from Fort Detrick in Maryland ,
and unleash a variety of biological weapons on an overpopulated foe, and let
the dooms-day-bug do the job.
This of course is all speculation. Most likely, a
global war of the level of World War Two will not occur again. For better or
worse, the lessons of globalized business, which has aided the acquisition of
wealth for so many, will be brought home to the best and brightest of the local
community. The necessity of armed conflict will continue to be limited to
isolated hot spots around the globe. This section of the report was written
only as a cautionary note to not underestimate the ability or resolve of the
general population of the United
States of America . The U.S. has made that mistake concerning others,
and it would be ill advised if that mistake was made concerning the U.S.
The Korea and Vietnam
era leadership is passing away, a new generation is in charge, and it is a generation
which seems bent on proving a point.
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There is a possible political agenda to minimize the raid’s effectiveness
within the history books. The alternative reasoning for the revision of the
account is to minimize historic accountability and legitimize the rationale for
the raid. The destruction of the German army, in retrospect, may not be
sufficient cause to the scholastic sensitivities and political correctness of
the current era. Germany
is now an ally.
[2]
Based on insider conversations with people who are in the military currently,
and or have retired, and care more about the nation than they do about the
conservative agenda. Though I cannot cite it, I have information that the
conditions of the U.S.
fleet in dry-dock are dismal due, in part, to the lack of proper care by
civilian military industrial contractors.
[3]
Maxwell, J. C. (2003). Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know. New York : Center Street , p.
64.
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Potts, C. (2008). Jesus, Do You Really Live? Unpublished.
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