This imaginary Mt. Carmel is a lot like America, but America is under attack a lot like Waco. Where are real Americans to go? Many consider Canada these days. Here at this Mt. Carmel the sons of light gather, but in America even the sons of darkness are free to gather. The predicament we find ourselves in is not without solutions. That's not the problem. Seems we've gone out of our way to prop up something that doesn't work anymore, which is getting in the way of something new that will work. Natural Democracy is still working in the world. Natural Democracy is the reason why the democratic form of government works at all.
These essays will write it again here. The Bush tax cuts set to expire this year should just expire since tax cuts during wartime was/is a totally (turn Truman over in his grave) treasonous idea in the first place. Sure our trillion-dollar war in Iraq officially ended again August 30th but nobody talks about the more expensive mercenary forces moving in to replace the troops leaving. The Iraq government still won't form this many months since the last election because of a civil war worthy division we've created there over whether or not the country should belong to Iran who we gave the country to or not. Told you right-wingers are in cahoots with Iran. The truth is these Bush tax cuts were originally set to be repealed this year in the first place because they were never paid for, and this original treason has been an albatross around the neck of the states who are now going bankrupt. The rich should pay their fair share in taxes especially during wartime. At least pay for the tax cut before having one, as opposed to paying with closed schools, fired teachers, and un-repaired bridges.
Perhaps the good news will be that gridlock again saves the day, similar to what preceded the economic upturn in the 90's, as a profoundly divided Congress and Senate simply fail to agree, and do nothing between now and December. They are really good at doing nothing. Then the filthy rich, "who are just barely hanging on" will pay a slightly different percentage in taxes, the current uncertainty gives way to the certainty of a done deal, and just watch America prosper another day. Thus gridlock in government saves the day again, causing the deficit to no longer be an about-to-explode balloon.
VII. Unstable Ground Below Us
It's actually still unclear where to point the finger at for the source of these assaults on America since all the evidence creates a tangled web of all the suspects consisting of Israel, the new rich upper-class version of homosapien, the military industrial boondoggle machine, or the reality of our own incompetence. Maybe there's some other foreign country out there capable of influencing America to the point of a web of everybody. Peace loving Muslims did not attack America on 9/11. The Koran reads like it should be the most tolerant and accepting religion in the world, but admittedly that doesn't seem to be the reality of the members of that faith.
Ninety three percent of the 779 Guantanimo "enemy combatant" prisoners either had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, or terrorism, or were completely innocent. Is the culprit Israel, or what America now has in common with Israel, something that happens with war time militarized societies? The country is being deliberately poisoned with anti-Muslim bigotry that used to be peculiar to the state of Israel. This has been staring us all in the face since those obviously not written by anyone remotely Muslim anthrax letters intended to influence a wounded America against the Muslim world.
We don't need the spirit of our country waco'd. Right at the front door on the left side of the drawing was where David Koresh greeted cattle trucks full of armed attackers that Sunday morning, and was immediately shot possibly along with his 4 year old son when the siege began. That was the beginning of a 51 day siege under oppressive fire upon Mt Carmel, depicted in this drawing between an American flag, also flown by the original Davidians, and a sheet hanging out a window with a peace sign on it, which is where the oppressed Davidians also hung out messages to the outside world like a famous one in sympathy for Rodney King, who was also assaulted by authority for no justifiable reason around that time. An obedient media demonized them while the authorities tormented the cowering Davidians for 51 days. Women and children were shot at through the roofs.
Any Branch Davidians who did leave or else survived some other way were charged with murder, and some may even be getting out of prison these days. Mt. Carmel had to be occupied past the day of the massacre because of a court order stating that someone from the Davidians had to be occupying Mt. Carmel at all times till a certain date in order for them to be granted ownership of the property. That may explain why many Davidians would not leave and why authorities became so desperate to make sure no Davidians survived past the court ordered date. Many Davidians held fast because to them it was a spiritual battle between good and evil, light and darkness, admittedly not unlike the religious state of Israel. Then they were all viciously burned alive or shot in a government-sanctioned massacre.
What has been happening to this country since that day of bloodguilt? These days it becomes obvious that much of the Patriot Act-legalized phone surveillance is being used for political lynching like Blagojevich whose recent case was a hung jury. Is this really a good reason for legalizing big brother surveillance abuses of power? Israel, it turns out, is behind much of this surveillance through Amdocs Inc., who was recently implicated in a drug and credit card fraud case that had Israeli connections because Amdocs had leaked phone data to compromise the investigation. There was also a story recently of four Israelis arrested for being behind those fraud emails from Nigeria we all have to delete in our email.
Ken Star's old Whitewater investigation revealed Comverse, another Israeli telecommunications company might have been behind a comment by President Clinton to Monica Lewinsky about "someone tapping the phone line," during that impeachment setup assault on the country. The Israeli influence begins to look like a blackmail or extortionist setup powerful enough to drag us into three wars, while Congress falls all over themselves to sign a resolution supporting Israeli piracy in international waters, and the most similar-to-WWII-German-Socialist-Party-with-name-beginning-with-N-like embargo on Earth. The rest of the world pretty much unanimously condemns the Israeli attack. On May 6 while financial regulations involving the breaking up of the banks is debated in the Senate, the stock market suddenly took a 1000 point dip in a couple minutes. It soon after regains 600 points and the story is that someone's fat finger on a blackberry pressed the wrong button. The next day the breakup the banks amendment is defeated 61 to 33 and provisions to audit the FED are removed from the same bill put there to fix the disaster of deregulation that banks have become. It may not be extortion but it sure plays out like a chapter of the book "Daemon" by Daniel Surarez.
In Chili another mine disaster has left 33 people buried alive and trapped deep underground beneath shaken and unstable earth. We don't have the technology to get them back out in less than four months, kind of like the bleeding wound in the Gulf of Mexico on TV for four months. It's unimaginable, the ordeal those miners must now live with alone in the dark below the Earth. Like a metaphor of our current collective plight, we seem also trapped in our own designs, and the only hope we seem to have is to wait it out. The Sign of the Mourning of Isis gesture made by the woman on the drawing refers to a stage of the Great Work where the work ahead has begun, however the task ahead is still long and arduous, and there is no end in sight. Looks like some of that volcano ash made it in the stratosphere after all. Grumpy old man winter's coming, and he looks angry.
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