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Nobody
Wants This to Happen
by Mark
Sashine
OpEdNews.Com
There is
a general concept among the liberal media in this country that the
surrendering of nearly all the civil liberties to the Big Father in
Washington happened so fast because our society is paralyzed by fear.
The horrible attack on 9/11 resulting in mass casualties in the
middle of the most powerful country in the world destroyed the American
sense of omnipotence and unlimited safety, created a vacuum in the heads
and hearts of the electorate and initiated the wave of irrational feelings, which brought
us to the authoritarian
plutocracy.
Considering
this premise it would be only prudent to reveal the possible consequences
of these actions, so that, hopefully, the real fear of those will replace
the currently ruling fear of illusion.
1.
What will happen on the foreign theater.
Starting
from the year 2001 our country does not have a foreign policy. Instead we
proclaimed a childish,
“hurt giant” approach and are
engaged in throwing toys and
stones at other children in the sandbox and beyond. Our presence on the foreign soil is predominantly military
with the big business in the wake. Our “war on terrorism” cannot be
won due to the simple truth that terrorism as a separate entity does not
exist. Terrorists were, are and always will be
the tools of the bigger
fish, namely corrupt
governments, money sharks and political goons.
We are not even dreaming of hurting any of those. Thus we are
engaged in perpetual roaming around the world with destructive force
funded by the hysterical American taxpayer.
We introduced ourselves as another threat to the
peace and prosperity of the Humanity, even more dangerous because
of our weapons of mass destruction.
The
UN is dead. It is only a
matter of time before one or several European states will leave it. Most
likely those will be Germany and France who will form a new alliance,
urging the European Union to develop its own military might in the
anticipation of the direct
confrontation with us. Britain will oust Tony Blair and the new government
will start seeking cooperation with France and Germany.
They will be supported by Canada and Australia, also by
Serbia. The united European forces will
first and foremost take over all the
functions our military now is performing in Europe under the
premise that the Europeans are not technically at war
with “terrorists” , thus local officials do not have to worry
about security for their troops and
civilians alike. Our European bases will be liquidated or isolated, so
that the terrorists, if they
wanted to would be quite
comfortable with the targets.
The same thing will happen in Japan.
Our new treacherous friend Russia will suck from us as much as possible
until it sucks us dry after which we one day will find ourselves
openly confronted by the powerful revived
Soviet Empire.
Our
businesses abroad will find themselves at a huge disadvantage.
Citing the excess costs of the special security measures for our
enterprises and employees the local governments will ask for the higher
commissions, fees and bribes. They also will
insist on our people being isolated from the local populace, thus
protecting their own
people from the possible attacks. Our
companies will have to hire their own security personnel. As the locals
will not be reliable, these
personnel will have to be imported from the US. Besides their high cost
those people will become targets themselves.
This will result in the gradual decay of American business
abroad, layoffs and turmoil,
and will also directly affect the consumer prices in the US. The US
companies’ stocks will plummet permanently.
At the same time the non-American companies, especially Asian, will
be most welcome and their
competitive edge will increase
throughout the world.
Americans
abroad, such as private citizens, tourists, advisers, missionaries,
volunteers and students will be the first casualties of this process. As
the military can isolate themselves
at least for a while, it is impossible for the private citizen.
This will result in the
general tendency on behalf of
the foreign governments to
restrict and
gradually minimize
the presence of the American civilians on their soil.
As we officially proclaimed all our people to be targets,
those people endanger the locals around them. There will be a
cascade effect of rising fees and/or
denying services to our citizens. It will start first in the small,
private – operated B&B hotels and will spread
like a fire through all the entertainment and transportation
industries. It will be only a
matter of time before our young students will be denied invitations
to the European universities, the airline companies will refuse the
Americans to fly, the
galleries and theaters will cancel contracts and the tourist companies
will become increasingly
vague with the American
groups. Our people
abroad will have to be registered
and their movement will be severely regulated. The international travel companies will push for the total
exemption of their legal responsibilities
when it comes to the travelers
with our passport.
Pure
American entertainment abroad, such as Disney-France will lose millions
because of the lack of
attendance. All of this will create a resentment on the part of our
citizens and they will curb their travel
following the recommendations of the State Department. The US
dollar will go down as well
as US exports and this will be the second big blow to the US economy.
Our
officially proclaimed global
spying mechanism will result
in severing the Internet contacts. As spying on the Internet cannot be
confined to the US soil, the citizens of other countries will request from
their governments to protect them from our prying. This will result
in disconnecting us
from the World Internet system. As
another precautionary measure the World Net system will adopt French and
German languages as the primary ones, thus effectively isolating us
culturally.
Our
people throughout the world will become pariahs, targets
for resentment, a global nuisance.
They will be treated very similarly to the way the
Soviets were treated during
the Cold War.
2.
What will happen internally.
The
effect of our failure on the
foreign theater will be
felt by all the branches
of our economy primarily through the rise of retail prices and
massive layoffs. As there will be less and less leverage to contradict this
effect, the government will rely on the artificial measures such as
subsidizing, increasing the deficit and political repressions. We will
become more and more hysterical.
The purchase of foreign
goods will be declared unpatriotic. Japanese cars will not be
serviced at "patriotic"
gas stations.. Small ethnic
businesses, such as restaurants, dry- cleaners, oriental stores,
etc, will go out of business. As those will not be replaced,
women of the country will be urged to go back to the kitchens.
Layoffs will become more and more gender-
and racially biased. The level
of life will continue to spiral down while officially we will
achieve victory after victory. Elections will be postponed indefinitely. The only growing industry will be the military
complex. We will complete the missile shield and by that time we will
realize that it can not protect us. Another
enormous entity will be the
Homeland Security agency, which by that
time will absorb nearly all other agencies. The
President will assume the Director’s
responsibilities and all the members of the Cabinet will become his
deputies. The Chairs of the biggest private corporations will form a
Supreme Soviet. Federal Grand
Jury will be dismissed.
There will be several crashes on the Wall St. until one day it will
become a secret entity and
its activities will no more be a public knowledge.
Stocks will stop trading and the
economy will go belly–up. Free
enterprise will disappear. This will be called a victory of the
Law and Order. Politically
we will be at War. The Bill
of Rights will be suspended. ACLU will close. The NRA will become a part
of the Homeland Security. Citizens will be encouraged to actively uproot all the dissent. Posses will be organized in all
communities to hunt down potential
terrorists, unpatriotic thinkers, dissenters, pro-choice activists,
professors of the universities, feminists,
whatever. Foreigners will leave
our country and never return. So will the migrant workers. The American
Church of God will be
established, with the
President as a defender of the Faith. Other religions will be prohibited and all the loyal citizens
will be told to join the new Church under the premise that
United we stand.
To
survive in such situation is
a full- time job, not even to
mention protecting your
family. Thus
the average American will stop working.
There will be a lot of activity and noise, but no
meaningful results. This will bring shortages in everything except
guns. The environment
will become worse, diseases will spread, medical attention will cease to
exist. AIDS will be everywhere, but it will be forbidden to mention. We
will occupy the first place
in the infant mortality and number of prisons. There will be
several major industrial disasters after which our Space Program will
stop. NASA will join the Homeland Security. Taxes will rise exponentially,
while being collected automatically.
Several
industries and professions will die. Among them journalism, law, medical,
creative writing, financial planning, travel
agencies, liberal
sciences, history studies, local
sheriffs, all occupations associated with the civil liberties and
environment. EPA will join the Homeland Security. Our people will be
officially proclaimed the freest and the happiest in the world. That will
coincide with starting the war with Canada and Mexico.
Borders will be closed.
Banks will be only for money storage and will earn no interest. The
Black market will flourish with drugs, booze and eventually with food.
Young people will roam
with no purpose or join posses. Our infrastructure will rot because
we will spend so much time on security that there will be nothing
left for simple maintenance. People
will stop moving around the country and car dealerships will close.
Gas prices will soar, so will utility bills. There will only
be debit cards because no-one will have credit.
Homelessness will be prohibited as well as unemployment. Those
discharged from jobs will have to register with the Homeland Security as
potential terrorists and accept work
for minimal pay at the
service of the military. Computers will
be in every house, not as tools, but as surveillance devices
registering our activities. Children in schools will have to report on their parents. The
universities will be called
Patriotic Schools and will
teach only technical disciplines in a classified environment. Due to the
lack of scientific cooperation with the outside world our technology
levels will drop. Strict screening
screening for political loyalty will result in the prevalence of morons and idiots in all branches of the
System whenever there could be perks. This will result in low quality of
our hardware, military blunders, corruption, loss of life and total
failure in that exact
security which it is all about.
Eventually
the "United States" will disintegrate. There will be a Southern
Confederacy, a Northeast Alliance, a Republic of California and the Wild
West with the capital in Chicago. The
only reasonable life by that time will be in
the former Indian reservations because the
remaining sane
Americans will live there.
Grotesque
as it may seem all of the above is not inevitable. Nobody wants it to
happen to our lovely country, which we all love and cherish. But it
is very probable, plausible and real.
This is what we should be afraid of if we think a
little about
what is happening now.
Suggested
books on the topic of this article: G. Orwell's "1984",
" Animal Farm", Zamiatin's "We", Hucksley's "
Brave new World", Bertold > Brecht's " Fear and Desperation
of the Third Empire", Hans Fallada's " Everyone Dies
Alone", Henrich Buell's " Through the Eyes of a
Clown," Howard Zinn's " People's History of the US".
The crown jewel would be " The Gulag Archipelago", by
Solszhenitzyn.
Mark
Sashine panurg@att.net is
an engineer and an aspiring writer. This
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