OpEdNews - Page 4 of Article: "No Innocent Bystanders," by Mickey Z

I agree with Mickey Z. We are brothers in anger.

Mickey Z:

Are any of you ashamed of the epidemics of preventable diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc.? ... the presidential lies, electoral fraud, limited debates ... the largest prison population on the planet, corporate control of public land, public airwaves ... infringement of our civil liberties, bloated defense budget, unilateral military interventions, war crimes committed in our name, legalization of torture? ...

Among many reasons, I hate America for the near-extermination and subsequent oppression of its indigenous population. I hate it for its role in the African slave trade and for dropping bombs on civilians ... I hate it for propping up brutal dictators like Suharto, Pinochet, Duvalier, Hussein, Marcos, and the Shah of Iran.

I was amazed to read in "Bystanders" about New Zealand sheep that learn to undo the latches and are shot before they can teach the skill to others. And I would imagine there are also American sheep who encounter the same circumstances?

But in America, as Noam Chomsky relates, sometimes the shots are subtle, soft-tipped bullets that dissolve and cannot be traced, perhaps like some faux cancer agents that might kill a Jack Ruby before he can tell us about the real cancer that is Gerald Ford, Allen Dulles and George Bush Sr.

I f you come from the more privilaged classes, if you're a white middle-class person, then the chances that you are going to be subjected to literal state terror are very slight. It could happen, but it's slight. What will happen is that you'll be marginalized, excluded. Instead of becoming part of the privileged elite, you'll be driving a taxi cab. It's not torture, but very few people are going to select that option, if they have a choice. And the ones who do select it will never be heard from again. ... It could be worse, but it's enough to discipline people.

Why don't you please just leave then?

Mickey Z says out loud what many have heard from the Tories who defend America.

Well, it's like what that old famous bank robber said when asked why he robbed banks, "That's where the money is."

This is where the fight is.

This is where it is happening. Why go to Canada and eat northern pike for breakfast or to Paris to sit outside drinking coffee and writing about terrible Americans when you can be right here with terrible Americans, right next to terrible Americans, fighting them, pointing toward the ghettos and the glacier slush, shaking them awake with every breath you have in you?

Wouldn't it be more fun to play wreck-em derby with the most powerful idiots this planet has ever produced than take a melancholy boat ride through Venice at dusk?

I dunno. Maybe.

Mickey Z takes inspiration from William Blum:

I'm committed to fighting U.S. foreign policy, the greatest threat to peace and happiness in the world, and being in the United States is the best place for carrying out the battle. This is the belly of the beast, and I try to be an ulcer inside of it.

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