American Martyr or Terrorist Nutjob?
and a poem, of course…
Okay, well whilst I’m in no way advocating the actions of Joe Stack in Austin, Texas recently, I did take the time to read his ‘manifesto’ (suicide note) which you can find widely on line.
It made me wonder, what it really takes for an ordinary guy to lose it so completely? His letter, if you believe any of it, clearly shows you why. Of course he will now be vilified by the media and deemed a terrorist by society, but I challenge you to find five things in his reasoning that you disagree with. Everything he wrote I’m hearing said a lot by Americans these days. He reached the point where his life was not worth continuing and seems to have been attempting to do something to make change happen. So what does it take to step over the line, and how many more Joe Stacks are we going to see over the months to come?
Is he a martyr for the dying American dream, or a nutjob with a grudge?
You tell me.
Rolling ‘Isms by Carey Lenehan
Inspiration, expressionism,
as slippery as an oiled rope
or an iced eel,
as elusive as an alien encounter
and
equally inexplicable,
febrile and fluctuating,
so that every attempt
to clutch and secure it for nourishment,
admonition,
or rescue
is nullified
and fluttering fingertips,
stroke only the merest hint of creativity
before encountering,
empty space…
Idealism, as ephemeral as a notion
held in the head of an opium poppy,
or couched in the eye
of an insurgent child,
paraded in the hopes and dreams
of proud patriots,
trampled beneath burgeoning immorality,
no more now,
than a momentary glimmer
of human possibility,
eroded by reality
and the benefit of experience,
clouded by daily misery
or a sense that
no one is listening any more,
any effort to bring it into the light
fracturing the fragile fabric of conviction
before converting it to doubt.
Socialism, a downtrodden concept
of community,
embracing consideration and communal responsibilty,
derided and long undervalued
by a first world that refuses to diet
even though it is dying of obesity.
Sullying a sytem of sharing
egalitarian values,
demonised for suggesting,
that what’s yours,
might also be mine…and everyone elses.
God Forbid!
From this we scatter fearful,
and all the useful definitions in between
become blurred to insignificance
as we sink into a sea of greed,
or an ocean of self servingness
in its abject rejection
Capitalism, an ever turning wheel of torturous dispossession
carving a rut
through the fettered fabric of humanity
disavowing our intent
to do good
leading us astray with devilish temptations
Promises of endless richesse
beyond our wildest dreams
yet,
with surgical precision,
whilst we look the other way,
slicing and dicing the herd
determining who floats and who falls
by counting the zeros on a ledger
and saying
not only
that Greed is Good
but
that Greed is All
Nihilism, a moment of insanity,
a seismic fracture, sinking through mental structure
and a need to be noticed,
no matter what
because all that might once have been of value
has become meaningless,
and democracy
has failed.
The cost?
Broken dreams and shattered expectations
flying into the sun,
blinked out in a blaze of inglory,
rolling a fiery ‘Ism through the clouds,
towards the source of a pain that will never end,
sinking angry teeth into a world
that does not care
Desperate to be heard,
dying silenced.
The Obama Deception
I’ve just finished watching the new Alex Jones film, ‘The Obama Deception’. You can find it readily on the web.
It’s probably interesting to those who knew nothing about the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission or the CFR, or who still remain uninformed about the extent to which international bankers are manipulating politics globally, or who can’t see for themselves the connections to Wall Street and long-term corruption issues afflicting most of the new White House appointees, but it is also true to say that there’s nothing particularly new being said in the film.
However, I suppose if a thousand previously uninformed people watch it and educate themselves, then it’s probably been worth the effort, although there appears to me to be, even for Alex Jones, a marked lack of balance or factual verification in the movie, so even the convinced might get tired half way through. Anyone who has already been informing themselves over the last five years (most of AJ’s Truthers would be in this category) will not find anything surprising or new here.
Alex Jones reminds me of a character in Stephen King’s apocalyptical novel ‘The Stand’. Anyone who’s read it will identify. Alex Jones is ‘The Monster Shouter’, the crazy survivor in his underpants running the streets with a placard shouting ‘The Monsters are Coming, The Monsters are Coming!’ in the midst of the worst disaster ever to affect the USA. Ironically, with his very shouting, the Monster shouter made monsters out of a bunch of other survivors who beat him to death with his own placard. Watch out Alex.
We can and should accept that the world has been stitched up when we weren’t looking by a bunch of bankers, principally those surrounding JP Morgan, Rothschild and the Rockefellers. The Fedman Sachs Reserve and it’s ex-employees are still running things, only now they are running them into a cess pit for their own ends. I’ve known this for a long time now and am largely unsurprised by the turn of current world events. It means that it is also no real surprise to see which of the big institutions are surviving this, clearly manufactured, credit catastrophe. They are those on the right side of the MRR fence. Citigroup, AIG, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and anyone who has been in bed with them in an intimate and mutually beneficial way. Game players in fact. It’s been orchestrated for a long time. It was only really a matter of ‘when’.
There’s no shortage of analysts since the Thatcher/Reagan/Bush 1 days who were clearly saying where the financial bubble was headed and what would happen at the end of it. Consequent de-regulation allowed them to put us where we are and gave them the freedom to create for themselves a phenomenal amount of false wealth. No surprises here then. Unless you were in a coma for the last twenty years…. oh, sorry, you were…..
All the suckers who took out mortgages over these last ten years who couldn’t afford it, should have known that it was bullshit, that the money neither existed or was owed. Doesn’t matter if it was US or UK subprime market or all these dodgy financial products that suddenly had Joe Public thinking about getting rich quick. Every single one of them had the integrity of a Madoff Ponzi scheme. Every man, woman and their dog jumped on the chance to get rich for nothing through property and investments. I could see that they were all going to get burned and they did, friends, family and complete strangers alike. It’s the reason I have no mortgage on my property and live in a country where financial products are fiercely regulated so that the population are never bankrupted except by the State! Good or bad, it means we aren’t as fucked up in France as the rest of you are. Friends I left behind in the UK and a whole world of others chose to believe it would not happen to them and through greed they got stupid.
So now our eyes are open. The ten commandments are starting to make sense. Our mother’s wisdom that you can’t get something for nothing seems incredibly profound. It’s important not to look away. The shadow men are very much out in the open today which is mostly thanks to people like Alex Jones and brings us to something of an axis point. If we let them be comfortable there, they will shrug off their cowls and stay, openly flaunting their ownership of the world and subjugating the population to serve them. If we make life hard for them, however, then perhaps we have the first chance since forever to dethrone them. If Alex Jones is useful in showing the uninformed who exactly runs the planet, then that has to be a good thing, although I suspect that neither he nor a anyone else can or will do anything about it until its way too late. History bears this out also.
Barack Obama, Man or Myth?
Ode to Barack Obama
So, Barack,
Democratic candidate
for change,
you made it
to November.
You came,
you saw,
you conquered,
but many people
did not vote
for you
because
You have the wrong coloured skin
but I
think you rock
So
Barack, man of many words,
some believable,
You have your chance
to change the world
so, will you,
or will you stuff it up?
