TO THE 21st CENTURY LICE

“O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” From To a Louse by Robert Burns

I learned that poem in high school eons ago. I was so impressed with those words, with that sentiment, that even after all these years, I can still remember that line whenever a story arises that reminds me. And I am reminded these days by many human actions, but today particularly by two.

The first is the celebration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France to which Putin, the President of the nation that basically won WW2 for the Allied side, has been disinvited due to his aggressive war with Ukraine. Seems to me, if you are going to disinvite national leaders due to their aggression towards other countries, the first country that should be excluded is the U.S. Would Russia even make it even to the #2 spot considering the actions of NATO over the past 75 years? To quote Tucker Carlson in his response to a caustic comment from Hillary decrying Carlson’s willingness to sit with Putin, to talk to him, to hear what he had to say rather than just beating him up with a sledgehammer or a nuclear weapon, “How’s Libya doing?”

In fact, while I’m at it, why not ask about all the Native wars for land theft? We started that before we started with England in 1775, continued with them during what I prefer to call the first American Revolution (we’re now working on the 2nd - god and the universe willing),

First of all, how many times have we invaded Haiti and, like the Roman Empire with the Jews, never did forgive them for freeing themselves, although in the case of Judea, just trying to free themselves from empire brought the unforgiving wrath of Rome onto Judea. And France, that paragon of pacifism, with American help, forced them to pay reparations for their freedom. Haiti didn’t even finish paying off France for their freeing themselves from enslavement until 1947. See? Sometimes reparations are paid. Watch as the U.S. once again, claiming concern, invades Haiti in order to “help” by turning hellish into hell.

The Mexican American War of 1846-48 enabled the U.S. to steal California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming from Mexico, making Putin look like a fool just going after Crimea. No worries, we’re still #1 in land theft. Then followed a multitude of wars with the tribes and finally 1860-65, the Civil War which finally tested the ability of the federal government to override the state’s right to secede from the Union. The end of slavery was never part of Lincoln’s agenda except out of spite. It was an exercise in federal control outweighing state’s rights. Something we’re still dealing with in 2024.

While I’m pretty sure the U.S. managed to find a fight somewhere in the interim, I will jump to Spain with the propagandized even then Spanish-American War of 1898. Was this the war in which the U.S. first used the lie that we were simply illegally, criminally interjecting ourselves into the fight between the imperialist Spain and Cuba because of our heartfelt concern? What I don’t understand is how does this still work with the American public over 100 years later! This added to the U.S. collection not just Cuba, but the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam. So how come Hawaii ended up as a “state” while Puerto Rico is a “territory”. Personally, I think both should be given their freedom.

Then we managed to involve ourselves in the war that didn’t end any wars, WW1. We got into that under the President we were told in school was one of our best Presidents, the one who permitted the showing of “Birth of a Nation” in the White House, expressed admiration for its “truth” and held a record as a complete racist. And also the one who flushed our nation down the toilet for his own power by agreeing to sign the Federal Reserve into law upon his becoming President. Oh, and he also promised to keep us out of WW1.

After that, multiple invasions of Central and South America including invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1924, Nicaragua in 1933, the Russian Civil War 1917 to 1923, I believe the government also focused on its enmity with the American population in the 20’s and 30’s. Wilson, the hero of high school teachers of the 50’s everywhere, signed the Sedition Act into law in 1917.

Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist who ran for President five times, the last time from a prison cell due to Wilson’s unconstitutional Sedition Act which penalized those who dared to criticize WW1. His sentence was commuted by President Harding, one of the first acts of his presidency. Unlike the laurels placed on Wilson’s head, we were instructed in high school that Harding was the most corrupt president we ever had. Of course, Trump wasn’t even born yet.

Harding was also the President who first used the platitude “We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation”. Didn’t improve it for me even when Kennedy plagiarized it and changed a few words. Another of his quotes was “I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.” He might have been more successful had he chosen a career in romance fiction. The U.S. concentrated on arresting communists, those daring to live in what we call a democracy with preferences for a government not controlled by a capitalist economy. We are free as long as we remain within the boundaries of our cages.

WW2 was actually an outgrowth of WW1 whose purpose I believe was to prove we really are allowing ourselves to be led by idiots with a maturity level of the average 12 year old boy. The nazification of Germany as well as its antisemitism was aided considerably by the American raptor class, and all those fervent members of the American Eugenics Society who believed that the accrual of obscene wealth, generally gained by nefarious means was proof positive of their own superiority. They provided financing, weapons, steel, and technological support (through IBM) to assist the Third Reich in its stated goal of lasting 1000 years, and, of course, killing all the Jews (and Gypsies). Coca Cola even provided Fanta, the favorite flavor of 40’s fascists for whom the Coca Cola company created it.

I’ve felt for a long time that the nazis did not really lose that war, just went into hiding back under their rock of choice until it was again safe to show their reptilian faces. And that time apparently is now. It isn’t Marxism, it isn’t communism, and it certainly isn’t socialism that our war is about. It is quite clearly what it was 90 years ago when our raptor class engaged in a conspiracy fact and tried to bring down our government and replace it with a Mussolini-type dictatorship in 1934. The originals may be long gone, just like the Roman Empire, but we still apparently must fight the wars they created by their actions. The raptor class heirs live on. The Rockefellers for one have been involved every step of the way.

After that, there was the Korean War which I believe we lost, then Vietnam, ditto, the Gulf War when we intervened after encouraging Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait, a very wealthy Arab nation. I understand the U.S. even created a special disorder to commemorate this war called the Gulf War Syndrome, no doubt related to using our soldiers as guinea pigs for unknown chemical concoctions.

Can’t really call it a war, but there was the 1954 Iranian coup in which the KGB….sorry, that should be the CIA. I get confused sometimes in my attempt to correlate a government which advertises itself as a democracy with a government with a long history of overthrowing foreign governments which don’t benefit the raptor class So in 1954 the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mosadegh who had the nerve to try to seize the oil owned by Great Britain and the U.S. just because it happened to be on Iranian soil. Thus making yet another enemy of yet another country that initially sought to be our friend. You can’t be friends with the schoolyard bully, not when you have something he wants for himself. But what happens when the bully makes enemies of the entire schoolyard, except maybe for another bully or two?

After that, there was the Laotian Civil War from 1959-1975, the Lebanon “crisis” in 1958, the Bay of Pigs in 1961, the Dominican Civil War in 1965-66, the Korean “conflict” from 1966-69, the Cambodian Civil War from 1967-75, then Lebanon (again) Intervention - 1982-84, the Grenada (not even embarrassed!) invasion - 1983, the bombing of Libya in 1986, the Panama invasion of 1989-90. I almost forgot about Nicaragua and the Contras we supported from 1979-1990. And wasn’t there a Chilean coup in there somewhere as well?

Nothing new to report for the 21st century. The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan for 20 years which accomplished nothing, besides preventing American citizens from having the health care and parental leave available in every actual first world nation and of course, made the obscenely rich war merchants obscenely richer.

Then there was the false flag of 9/11 which I call the biggest bank robbery in human history. When will the movie be made and who will play the many faces of Osama bin Laden? And of course that led conveniently into the lies that brought us into Iraq, destroying that nation. Then Libya, once the richest country in Africa, now a failed state with open air slave markets, apparently more acceptable to this, the exceptional nation, the greatest nation that ever existed, the city on a hill. They just don’t tell us that this magic hill is made of the remains of dead or outdated gadgetry sacrificed to the planned obsolescence of a society dedicated solely to profiteering over everything, including life itself. A hill that has also amassed hundreds of millions of bodies of the dead sacrificed to the increased wealth and power of the raptor class. All told, in the entirety of its existence, from 1781 to 2024, not even 250 years, the U.S. has had a total of 17 years when we weren’t at war - maybe.

So just in case France slept through American history 101 (as well as their own), neither country should be permitted to commemorate the end of WW2. Who should go? Obama? The person involved in the Ukrainian coup that’s created the current mess? Biden the Bloodthirsty, the one who has deliberately exacerbated the situation that left Putin with the belief that he had no choice but to invade in order to protect the Russian border. Apparently, protecting one’s border is no longer in style. I guess that went out with the Bay of Pigs.

It took France exactly six weeks to fold to the nazi invaders and another six minutes to begin handing over their Jewish citizens. The Russians on the other hand, fought ferociously. They lost over 25 million citizens, more than any other country. Without the U.S.S.R., the west would have lost to the nazis a lot sooner than its naked resurgence in 2019. Why is this commemoration even being held in France? Considering their WW2 record, they are the ones who shouldn’t be invited to attend. Come to think of it, why are we celebrating the end of WW2 when we’ve done nothing but fight and kill each other since it’s end?

The U.S. thinks it can outlaw “hate” speech of its residents. A suggestion: Instead of trying to outlaw feelings, how about outlawing acts of hatred. And I can think of no act more hateful than war, bombing populations of people, destroying nations, let alone the carbon cost. I suppose the fake alarm over carbon could also be a third trek into hypocrisy. But I don’t think it is hypocrisy as much as a manipulative act of contempt by the raptors for the perceived stupidity of the people. Think about it. Stop fighting and we’ll no longer have to worry about eating meat, cooking with gas or drinking coffee again. We need to outlaw war and vote out of existence governments that believe it is their right to kill.

I did say there were two groups especially that set off my hypocrisy alarm. I have addressed only one here. The second group will just have to wait its turn.