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2006-09-01

Friends, Brothers, and Morons of the Vegetative States of America,
please genuflect for your Corporatist Overlords, the hoaxmeisters which have
effortlessly tele-opiated you at least since the 'magic bullet'.      Moo! 

We RESIDE in  ABOMI-Nation, ruled by the APO-STATE  [my coins/js]
Sorry that I've lived under-a-rock,for half of the last decade...
but the song below still has the most profound political lyrics
that I know of! .... it was played a few times on NY radio in 1992.
I have the record, soundtrack, and soda-pop... ENJOY!

Television, Drug of the Free
by Disposable Heroes of Hipocrisy (Michael Franti, 1991)

One nation under god has turned into
one nation under the influence of one drug

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., it satellite links
our united states of unconsciousness
apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching

T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent
of our nation reads books daily  [um, sorta, maybe]
why most people think Central America means Kansas
socialism means unamerican
and apartheid is a new headache remedy

absorbed in its world it's so hard to find us
it shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our nation
should remind us that we're sitting too close to…

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is the stomping ground
for political candidates
where bears in the woods
are chased by grecian formula'd bald eagles

T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsored by enironmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special
it's the perpetuation of the two-party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
where sound bite politics are served
to the fastfood culture
where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
race baiting is the way to get elected
Willie Horton or will he not get elected on…

(chorus)
Televison, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., is it the reflector or the director
does it imitate us or do we imitate it
because a child watches 1500 murders
before he's twelve years old
and we wonder how we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than abhor the horror
T.V. is the place where armchair generals
and quarterbacks can experience first hand
the excitement of video warfare
as the themesong is sung in the background

sugar sweet sitcoms that leave us with
a bad actor taste while pop stars metamorphosize
into soda pop stars you saw the video
you heard the soundtrack
well now go buy the soft drink
well, the only cola that I support
is a union C.O.L.A. (cost of living allowance) on…

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

Back again, "new and improved"
we return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commmercials
CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless" "fresh frozen" light yet filling" and
"military intelligence" have become standard

T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own army
is now called "friendly fire"

T.V. is the place where the pursuit of
happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
where toothpaste and cars
have become sex objects
where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple
on…

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

BingoTheClowno @ 02/09/06 08:54:36
http://shogo.gnn.tv/blogs/12425/Zappa_s_Prescience<Subject: The American people are incredibly poorly equiiped!

I agree with you that Mr. Marolis does not [fathom?] understand the true meaning of fascism,  but I also doubt that you go far enough in your attempt to understand the fascism of the U. S. society and state [No Jerome! You said you read all John's emails! ==> FASCISM is the chewy core theme to John's teleological construct of political expediency... / spoken by a fan not a foe! thanks guys; apparently a dozen people here are not comatose and 100% cornpone toob-fed by the FAUX News] .  The best "simple'' definition of fascism I have read is that provided by George Jackson in Blood in My Eye.  I have not read that great book in a couple of decades, but, as I recall, he defined fascism as the unity of the bourgeoisie and the government.  While not an academic definition, it is short, sweet and to the point.
Mr. Margolis does demolish the simulations of "objectivity" by the very fascists, themselves,  but, because he does not understand the true meaning of fascism, he is no help to those who want to understand the world as it is.  I had not heard of him before reading your message, but I gather ...

P. S.:  I believe in Santa Claus.  I believe in the Tooth Fairy.  I believe in the Easter Bunny.  I believe, with the poor GI, who has been overseas for almost a year, that his wife was pregnant for ten months before she gave birth to his child, last month.  I also believe that 19 Muslim Extremists hijacked four airliners and flew three of them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.  Finally, I believe that the fourth plane did not attack another U. S. target, only because passengers prevented this dastardly act, while making wireless telephone calls to loved ones all over the country from altitudes of more than [five] 30,000 feet.  I believe.  I believe!  I believe!  [WHEE!]  [Jesus and 'Elmbrook Church' LOVE  'the downtrodden!'   ha3!]

"NOTICE:  Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President and his Cabinet.

This article is similar to many others that are critical of the fascist Bush administration.  They make many good points, but completely miss the connection between our very mature American capitalist economic system, with its concentration of enormous amounts of capital into the hands of a small group of capitalists, and how the American capitalist class uses its economic power to literally purchase the political power required to create a fascist state.  In other words, they completely miss the very important point that fascism is the natural outcome of a mature capitalist economic system in which the vast bulk of the capital is controlled by a very small group of people.

The Big Lie About 'Islamic Fascism'
By Eric Margolis
08/29/06 "Lew Rockwell" -- -- The latest big lie unveiled by Washington's neoconservatives are the poisonous terms, "Islamo-Fascists" and "Islamic Fascists." They are the new, hot buzzwords among America's far right and Christian fundamentalists.
President George W. Bush made a point last week of using "Islamofacists" when recently speaking of Hezbullah and Hamas – both, by the way, democratically elected parties. A Canadian government minister from the Conservative Party compared Lebanon's Hezbullah to Nazi Germany.
The term "Islamofascist" is utterly without meaning, but packed with emotional explosives. It is a propaganda creation worthy Dr. Goebbles,  [ correct name is GOEBBELS] and the latest expression of the big lie technique being used by neocons in Washington's propaganda war against its enemies in the Muslim World.
This ugly term was probably first coined in Israel – as was the other hugely successful propaganda term, "terrorism" – to dehumanize and demonize opponents and deny them any rational political motivation, hence removing any need to deal with their grievances and demands.
As the brilliant humanist Sir Peter Ustinov so succinctly put it, "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."

Both the terms "terrorism" and "fascist" have been so abused and overused that they have lost any original meaning. The best modern definition I've read of fascism comes in former Colombia University Professor Robert Paxton's superb 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism.
Paxton defines fascism's essence, which he aptly terms its "emotional lava" as: 1. a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional solutions; 2. belief one's group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint; 5. fear of foreign "contamination."
Fascism demands a succession of wars, foreign conquests, and national threats to keep the nation in a state of fear, anxiety and patriotic hypertension. Those who disagree are branded ideological traitors. All successful fascists regimes, Paxton points out, allied themselves to traditional conservative parties, and to the military-industrial complex.
Highly conservative and militaristic regimes are not necessarily fascist, says Paxton. True fascism requires relentless aggression abroad and a semi-religious adoration of the regime at home.

None of the many Muslim groups opposing US-British control of the Mideast fit Paxton's definitive analysis. The only truly fascist group ever to emerge in the Mideast was Lebanon's Maronite Christian Phalange Party in the 1930's which, ironically, became an ally of Israel's rightwing in the 1980's.
It is grotesque watching the Bush Administration and Tony Blair maintain the ludicrous pretense they are re-fighting World War II. The only similarity between that era and today is the cultivation of fear, war fever and racist-religious hate by US neoconservatives and America's religious far right, which is now boiling with hatred for anything Muslim.
Under the guise of fighting a "third world war" against "Islamic fascism," America's far right is infecting its own nation with the harbingers of WWII totalitarianism.

In the western world, hatred of Muslims has become a key ideological hallmark of rightwing parties. We see this overtly in the United States, France, Italy, Holland, Denmark, Poland, and, most lately, Canada, and more subtly expressed in Britain and Belgium. The huge uproar over blatantly anti-Muslim cartoons published in Denmark laid bare the seething Islamophobia spreading through western society.
There is nothing in any part of the Muslim World that resembles the corporate fascist states of western history. In fact, clan and tribal-based traditional Islamic society, with its fragmented power structures, local loyalties, and consensus decision-making, is about as far as possible from western industrial state fascism.

The Muslim World is replete with brutal dictatorships, feudal monarchies, and corrupt military-run states, but none of these regimes, however deplorable, fits the standard definition of fascism. Most, in fact, are America's allies.
Nor do underground Islamic militant groups ("terrorists" in western terminology). They are either focused on liberating land from foreign occupation, overthrowing "un-Islamic" regimes, driving western influence from their region, or imposing theocracy based on early Islamic democracy.
Claims by fevered neoconservatives that Muslim radicals plan to somehow impose a worldwide Islamic caliphate are lurid fantasies worthy of Dr. Fu Manchu and yet another example of the big lie technique that worked so well over Iraq.
As Prof. Andrew Bosworth notes in an incisive essay on so-called Islamic fascism, "Islamic fundamentalism is a transnational movement inherently opposed to the pseudo-nationalism necessary for fascism."

However, there are plenty of modern fascists. But to find them, you have to go to North America and Europe. These neo-fascists advocate "preemptive attacks against all potential enemies," grabbing other nation's resources, overthrowing uncooperative governments, military dominance of the world, hatred of Semites (Muslims in this case [albeit temporarily, until the hoax of Christian Zionism becomes EXPOSED some fing day by a responsible [sic] Christian authoritative body ] ), adherence to [absurdity buffet, the  best  appetizer served to whet appetites for atrocities! WHEE!] biblical prophecies, hatred of all who fail to agree, intensified police controls, and curtailment of "liberal" political rights.
They revel in flag-waving, patriotic melodrama, demonstrations of military power, and use the mantle of patriotism to feather the nests of the military-industrial complex, colluding legislators and lobbyists. They urge war to the death, fought, of course, by other people's children. They have turned important sectors of the media into propaganda organs and brought the Pentagon largely under their control.
Now, the neoconservatives are busy whipping up war against Syria and Iran to keep themselves in power and maintain the political dynamics of this 21st century revival of fascism.
The real modern fascists are not in the Muslim World, but Washington. The neocons screaming fascist the loudest, are the true fascists themselves. It's a pity that communist and leftist propaganda so debased the term "neo-fascist" that it has become almost meaningless. Because that is what we should be calling the so-called neocons, for that is what they really are.

August 29, 2006
Eric Margolis, contributing foreign editor for Sun National Media Canada, is the author of War at the Top of the World. See his website. http://www.ericmargolis.com/
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