American Violence: Disorganized and
Organized
By
Frank Scott
"The West won the
world not by the superiority of
its ideas or values or religion
but rather by its superiority in
applying organized violence.
Westerners often forget this
fact, non-Westerners never do”: Samuel
P. Huntington
February 17, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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The latest American slaughter of
innocents - at home instead of abroad -
has led to the usual outpourings from
political leaders expressing prayers and
sympathy and then switching to attacks
on the evil weapons wielders that
completely avoid the social system
relying on massive weapons production
and their wielding by military forces
glorified for making wars.
The bloody horror in Florida that took
seventeen lives is known to everyone in
the USA but that same population is kept
relatively ignorant of the bloody horror
being perpetrated everyday in Yemen,
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and
Palestine/Israel – to mention only the
Middle East – by people using the
armaments we sell them, when they’re not
being used by our own military which we
train to use our weapons to kill people;
foreigners, until further notice.
The guilt tripping about guns belonging
to individuals from what passes for
liberals and the protection of the right
of individuals to have guns from what
passes for conservatives is the
two-sides-of-the-same-coin debate that
does nothing to stop the massive profits
of the weapons industry and the
attempted perpetuation of the empire
represented by those profits.
The military styled
murder weapon
used by the mentally troubled killer of
innocents in Florida is the same one
used by allegedly normal military
personnel to mass murder innocent
foreigners who are made to seem enemies
and adversaries in the same way the
troubled Floridian may have seen his
innocent victims. And the nature of a
society which has suicides increasing
along with mass murders often committed
by the suicidal must be distracted by
consciousness control which highlights
alleged deformities in individual
character while protecting a diseased
social organism now devouring its own
along with outside victims.
It is much easier to feel the shock and
pain when we see innocent Americans
suffering at the hands of a usually
mentally ill individual but the mind
management that keeps us from seeing the
massive horrors that our social weapons
problem produces under the control of a
mentally deranged political economics
are never dealt with in what passes for
a debate between people manipulated to
disrespect one another instead of the
system that manipulates them into an
easy to control divided population of
identity groups that can’t possibly act
as a democracy. This even as that false
definition of reality is driven through
the skulls of both into thinking what
each has is democracy and the other
threatens it. Honest well meaning
conservatives reduced to geeks
confronted by sincere dedicated liberals
reduced to twits while the weapons
makers continue banking hundreds of
billions and leave them clawing at one
another with charges and countercharges
at a court owned and operated by the
capitalist munitions industry.
The guaranteed outcome of this
demlib-repcon hissy fit form of politics
is the continued economics of mass
murder when what we need is a united
confrontation with the minority power
that needs to be replaced in order to
save all and not just some of the future
victims. Until we do that, suicides,
mass murders both foreign and domestic,
and further economic collapse are not
merely threatened but assured.
This article was originally
published by "Legalienate"
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