Addling
Us Not So Softy
By Rand Clifford
05 August, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The
first thing people think when something happens like the bridge collapse
in Minneapolis the other day: TERRORISTS!
Later, when ragheads with
long scraggly beards have been ruled out as a cause, we can sheepishly
approach the reality of our infrastructure decaying all around us while
we lack funds to address the hyper-overdue problem because there are
so many foreigners with resources we covet that we have to blow to bits.
Gaze with wonder at any shock-and-awe extravaganza on your TV, feel
a little safer maybe because a lot of our "enemies" have been
vaporized, their infrastructures demolished...but at some point, consider
the costs.
Costs mean money, not any
of those wimpy ideals Christ rambled about. Okay, we’re supposed
to be a Christian nation, just recite the Pledge of Allegiance to yourself
under your breath: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America. And to the plutocracy for which it stands, one nation
whose leaders decide what God wants, corporatized, with liberty and
justice for sale". Amen, eh.
Thou Shalt Not Not Kill.
Okay, we got that one. But all this killing gets expensive if you’re
not in the profit loop...or if you’re near the business end of
a smart bomb. Soon it’ll be half of every dollar taxed off of
our top that goes directly for killing people in distant lands because
God screwed up and put our resources in the wrong place. Godammit, what
if you shed a front tooth...put it under your pillow, and that faggot
Tooth Fairy went and put your reward under the arm (they can but dream
of pillows) of some shadowy little wretch that is all joints and head
and bloated belly thousands of miles away. Be time to kick some ass.
So we are doing just that,
now that our leaders got the green light from God. He knows he screwed
up, and he’s counting on us to set things straight. We can’t
let Him down.
Rand Clifford is a novelist and essayist living in
Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay
retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING and TIMING are published by StarChief
Press: http://www.starchiefpress.com
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