I have thought seriously over the last week, about getting an American flag tattooed on my left arm. Actually, I first thought of this as I watched George W. Bush get sworn in as President of The United States. The SECOND time. I started to realize that there was something going on in this country that I had never seen before. I’ve seen some pretty bizarre things go on in this country during my life as an American, but this was different.
I grew up with people like Dick Nixon, Lester Maddox, George Wallace, and a lot of really crafty, crusty, right-wing politicians everywhere. But this was different. This was…weird.
I've loved this country for 51 years, and I'm getting a little sick and tired of these people that must have crawled out of smoking brimstone pits in the earth, that are trying to pass themselves off as "Americans."
I'm not sure why they're here, or what they think they're trying to do. I mean, I know what they’re trying to do, but I don’t know why. Are they part of some large, subversive group that wants to take over the United States?
What they’re saying makes absolutely no sense, and won’t even benefit “Big Business” if there’s no one to work in factories for 8 bucks an hour because they’re too sick, don’t have money for the bus fare after paying for one medication, and spend most of their time trying to find places to live before they get kicked out again for not paying the rent...because they can’t.
I think the reason a lot of people haven't gone nuts before now in opposition to them, is that we're in a kind of shock that didn’t exist before…oh…2000 or so.
I went to grade school in the 60's and early 70's. Even back then, with Richard Nixon as president (who hated everybody except Elvis), no one, and I mean NO ONE would do the kind of shit that is being done on a regular basis by the New Psychotic Republicans. (“NPR’s.” Nice, huh?)
Persecuting a war as Commander-in-Chief without any regard for the armed forces you send into battle? Being more upset about how the press will look at the “Americans killed,” and “Americans wounded” numbers than the fact that those numbers are people? Seen it. Taped it. Watched it twice. It’s been done. Nixon’s the one!
And sure, we had racism, beatings, riots over Civil Rights, long haired folks being jumped by rednecks and having their hair cut off, all kinds of wild stuff going on. I’ve got to say, watching “Richard the 1st” Daley send in wave after wave of police with batons as an 8 year-old on a black & white TV, to beat the living shit out of anything that moved in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, was quite disturbing.
I remember we were in a motel, on a family vacation. I was horrified, and I was more horrified when I looked at the expression on my father’s face as he stared at the screen.
I also watched the breaking news on the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
And believe me, Kent State wasn’t a cake walk. Even as a child, I could almost see it in my mind. Students acting all kinds of 1960’s pissed-off, nervous,, angry cops, and “regular guys” in the National Guard scared, sweating, not really knowing what to do. Someone yells, a shot is fired somehow, and all of a sudden all hell breaks loose. It was a tragedy for everyone involved, and the country itself. “How did that happen HERE?,” we all asked ourselves.
But our teachers, administrators, civic leaders, elected political officials, you name it, while they may have said horrible things over some bourbon on the rocks with their friends after work, they still grudgingly accepted the very core principals that make America different from other countries.
There were no arguments about whether or not the Constitution of the United States guaranteed religious freedom, or was rather a document printed on Sacred Christian parchment, with the Lord as the ultimate authority over the governing of the American People. No one would have listened to crap like that.
I watched protests that rather strongly implied that Richard Nixon should be impeached, but I never heard anyone accuse him of being part of a secret Muslim plot to take over the country, that he was really a Nazi in disguise (unless they were joking among themselves), or accused him of paving the way for a communist takeover of the United States because he opened up diplomatic relations with China.
Whites and blacks would tussle at school, but once it was over, it was over, and there weren't any weapons. Somebody would get jumped, then they'd get jumped, and then that was that. We’d all go back to worrying about increasing our G.I. Joe collections (12” Joes, mind you), how icky girls were, and watching our favorite shows like “Rat Patrol,” “The Green Hornet,” and “Fireball XL-5.”
Kids from the Middle East, Asia, India, Europe, and yes, even Kansas, were welcomed in our schools, and probably got tired of us all asking them question after stupid question about camels, Panda Bears, blue people with 12 arms, Kings and Queens, or what it was like to grow up without running water and toilets. In Kansas.
But now, seemingly out of nowhere, come these insane robots, the likes of which we’ve never seen, channeling one of the founders of the John Birch Society, Fred Koch, father of those wild 'n crazy Koch brothers, Chuck and Davey.
They are led by a weeping, pathetic looking potato-boy pushing the ideology of W. Cleon Skousen. Check that boy Skousen out. He’s a hoot. He wrote a book called, “The 5,000 Year Leap,” that Glenn uses to mine material for his $32 million dollar-a-year rants.
I got this from Salon on Skousen, but if you want to refute the source, just read the book:
“…Skousen was too extreme even for the conservative activists of the Goldwater era, but Glenn Beck has now rescued him from the remainder pile of history, and introduced him to a receptive new audience”
The “conservative activists of the Goldwater era” they’re talking about happens to be…you guessed it! The John Birch Society. His mentor, hero, and source of his income was TOO RADICAL for the John Birch Society.
Skousen had thankfully been buried and his ideas laid to rest with him, until Beck dug up his rotting corpse in a fit of newly minted Mormon righteousness. (Skousen was a Latter Day Saint, and Beck became intrigued with him. I’m not blaming Mormons here. They had even buried him too.)
But, back to ‘ol Freddie Koch, Chuck ‘n Davy’s Dad. Do some research on old king Frederick. It's either amazing or extremely frightening, or both. Thanks for turning Russia into a giant oil-producing machine that would continue to roll like an unstoppable leviathan over millions of Russians during Stalin's "cleansing," and then envelope the world with Communism after WWII! ‘Atta boy Freddie!
No wonder he hated communism so much. He probably unconsciously hated himself for being so weak-willed and greedy that he fed his coffers with money dripping in blood and body parts in return for getting'em all set-up there in Ruskieville so pretty-like in the first place. That was the seed money (apparently quite a few seeds were involved) that gave birth to Koch Industries. I’d love to hear a sound-bite from that son of a bitch, sent straight from Hell.
“Here ya go boys. Here’s an empire I built with blood-soaked money from a tyrant. I got paid by Joseph Stalin to help him become one of the most powerful men on earth by harnessing the vast oil resources of Russia, and introducing him to cutting-edge refining techniques, allowing him to wield incredible power, and kill millions of men, women, and children! Enjoy!”
And they did.
I always tell my children to make money any way they can, and then cloud what they do by using hate and fear to cover their tracks. We’ll see if they can become billionaire manipulators of world politics like Dave and Chuck.
Hell, I was an American before most of these New Psychotic Republicans were. Well, Mitch McConnell doesn’t count, because he’s really a turtle, and turtles live much, much longer than most humans do.
Somehow these aliens from the planet Xenophobe have adapted to breathing the earth’s atmosphere, and are able to take human form. It doesn’t always work quite right though, hence John Boehner’s sickly orange skin, and McConnell’s reptilian turtle-chin and neck.
So, I’ve been thinking about this since 2004, and now, fueled by the attempted coup in Wisconsin in plain sight of the American People, and the realization that this is unlike any political struggle I have ever seen in this country since my birth in 1960, I can’t think of a better time to get an American flag tattoo.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. While our attention is diverted by terrorism, the economy, the fear of getting sick, overpopulation, and whatever else gives you the willies at night, these people are trying to take over our country. Plain and simple.
They’ve already got the Supreme Court. For those of you who don’t know, the Supreme Court USED to be a place where great legal minds (all of them American, no aliens from Xenophobe were allowed) heard very important cases, and interpreted how the Constitution of the United States would apply in that particular case.
This used to involve discussion, active participation, writing and filing dissenting opinions, even when your vote was not on the winning side, just so history would have your opinion chronicled when that case was studied later by law students, active attorneys, or anybody that wanted to, just because they could, being American ‘an all.
Now the Gang of Five rules as One, and they’re not what you’d call a real talkative, thoughtful bunch. As Chief Justice Roberts has stated on numerous occasions, and I quote, “We just call balls and strikes based on direct interpretation of the Constitution.”
Too bad the Founding Fathers made the greatest founding document of a country so far in the history of the world, with mechanisms in place that specifically addressed the fact that they knew the times “would be ‘a-changin,’” and to look upon the document in the future as a living, breathing document, a foundation for further development as we change with time, only to have five sociopathic neanderthals I wouldn’t want to have mow my lawn, much less interpret the law, piss all over it.
If they had known THAT would have happened, there’d probably be a part in it that stated, “And, if so ever one who judges the laws of the land regards his office as one who would officiate a game of tennis or other sporting ventures, that individual shall be transferred from his legal position to the more appropriate office of athletic official.”
Now the NPR’s have taken the House of Representatives, after stalling anything the President has tried to accomplish since taking office in the Senate. When I say “anything,” I mean “anything.” Take a look at everything the NPR’s placed “holds” on that were a product of attempted Democratic legislation since Obama’s inauguration. Anything.
Now, on top of everything else that’s been troubling me since “W II - Return of The Sith Lords,” we now have the attempted coup of a state's government by a power-hungry NPR who sees his state's constitution as something he can change with the swipe of a pen, all while acting completely calm about it.
He sounded real calm the other day in the 10-minute phone call he took from someone he thought was David Koch. Yes, it's on youtube. Yes, it's real. Yes, it's just as priceless as old Nixon tapes where he blathers on an on about negroes, kikes, hippies, and John Lennon. Priceless.
When the local police and the Dane County Sheriff’s Department refused to play bully for Walker anymore, he called in the Wisconsin State Highway Patrol. I haven’t been able to hear anything further since 2230 hours day before yesterday about it, because I was sick, and then the entire Pacific Ocean turned into a maelstrom of death. After I finish this, I’ll search the web to see how the troopers liked being used as bad guys, and how much further this farce has gone.
UPDATE: My father just told me that Walker “signed into law” the bill stripping state employees of any ability to negotiate on their behalf now, and forever. I’m not too worried though. Anyone can sign any piece of paper they want, that says whatever they want it to. It doesn’t mean that it’s legally binding though, even if it’s signed by the Governor of Wisconsin, The King of Siam, or Santa Claus. This isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of HIS end. He’s done more for the Democratic Party than they could have accomplished with millions from drug companies, insurance companies, oil companies, and personal checks from the Koch ‘bros. ‘Atta boy Scottie!
UPDATED UPDATE: Yeah…just saw some stuff on the news about the “process” and how the “votes” were counted to “pass” the bill. Oh…this is going to be a LOT of fun to watch…
So, now more than ever, I’ve been thinking about that tattoo. I have a friend that’s an amazing tattoo artist. I’m not really a “tattoo” kinda guy, but he could do a really nice, bold, beautiful tattoo of the American flag on my left arm in a couple of hours.
That way when somebody calls me a socialist, a terrorist, a Nazi, a communist, a traitor to the flag for supporting religious freedom, or any of the other popular terms used by New Psychotic Republicans from the planet Xenophobe to describe anyone that doesn't think exactly like John Boehner, I can pull up the sleeve of my T-shirt, make a fist, look them straight in the eye, and say something really bright and witty that they'll understand...like,
"Oh yeah? Communist? Well FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!"
Okay, okay...that's silly. I’d never REALLY do something like that. Not when I can have it tattooed on my ass, pull down my pants, and tell them to kiss the flag...
* Song title used by permission from "Call Me Lightning," from their album of the same name, "When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free." Rock and roll is not dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpEP1bJ5d6E&feature=related
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