By Mickey Walker – April 26, 2009
Setting the Stage
Something just hit me. Say you wanted to create a
world boom economy where arms and bullets flourished and mercenaries were
paid 10 times the price of real soldiers and real armies. What do you
do? First, you start a war. Scare up the people with visions of
mushroom clouds in our cities on national TV. To increase profits, fuel several wars/insurgencies 'round
the world. Keep the war corporation crony plates spinning. Scare
all nations with suicide bombings here, there, and everywhere. Scare
up the oil-rich Arabs with rumors of terrorists so that they will pay through
the nose for intelligence from private sources to keep their oil refineries
safe. Hire a bunch of former intelligence officers from the CIA who know
how to steal data and where it is and who has control of it. Then you
play the terrorists against the nations who fear them and are willing to pay for
"protection" as in the days of Al Capone. Business is always
good, and you always win. If a certain area is not paying
"protection" bucks what do you do? Well what did Al Capone
do? Why, a grocery just blew itself up or a hardware
store burned down. Back then, businesses protected themselves by
using Al Capone’s protection services when the terrorist was also Al
Capone. He played a double roll and got to double dip. Great work
if you can get it.
So enter the 21st Century, and bingo, instantly, "protection"
(a lucrative offshoot of war against terrorists) is big bidness,
worldwide. Instead of merchants in Chicago, it's become nations of the
world who are the customers. They got more money. And they pay through the nose for
protection, especially the countries with oil. No wonder Bernie Kerick,
ex police chief of NYC and Giuliani's partner, got 10 million dollars in stock
warrants from selling tazers to city and state governments all over the
world. Big business, protection. It rules. How did
Eisenhower foretell such a danger in our government getting into bed with the
war corporation contractors? Chilling.
Then came Blackwater, a finely-tuned, world-class
intelligence/protection organization, offering protection, spreading its
tentacles to the four corners of the earth. Wouldn't it make a great spy
novel where the terrorists and the heads of state and protection companies were
like the wrestling game? You know, where each opponent conspires to give
the crowd an emotional reaction where one wins and the other loses for a while,
and then the tables turn suddenly and the other wins? And the wrestlers
go out together for drinks afterwards? I can just hear the dialogue where
a Milo Minderbinder-type character sets the terrorists against a country,
say Albania, shooting up the countryside, killing, looting as Milo waits
for the phone to ring in his US secret underground corporate headquarters
of a company named, say, Muddywater. It rings. It's the president
of Albania, begging for Muddywater protection services at any cost.
Just so happens that Milo is top-heavy in secret operatives in Rome at the time
(what a coincidence to be so close to Albania; give those terrorist bombers who
scared up the Albanians a bonus). So the Muddywater operatives fly their
hi-tech 'copters over to Albania and do their thing, the terrorists recede
from their Albania rampage, Milo is paid a few hundred million Euro dollars
(subtle, ain’t it?), and everybody wins. The phone rings
again. Milo tells his aide that the King of Saudi reports bombings
just miles from the palace. "What do we have to offer them that's
close by? Nothing? Then deploy from North Carolina at twice the
rate, etc. They can stand it." You get the dialogue. So then
the aide says they are already committed to Lebanon for the coming
quarter. Milo says to drop Lebanon like a shoe because (drum roll)
"Who got de money? And who don't?" The aide smiles,
knowingly. "But hire some more CIA rejects off the street and
we will do Lebanon, too, just tell them we might be a few days late. Who
else they gonna call?" Milo shuffles some papers on his
desk. "New subject." he says to his aide. "We
need some pesos. Who you got in Mexico? Just some poor rebels
who think they got a cause, right? Send some of our men down with some
C4. Blow up a pyramid or two, you know the old ones, the Mayan
ruins. Make it Chichen Itza, the big pyramid. Nobody's been scared
up enough in Yucatan for too long.......tourists think it's a safe haven there,
and we will show them different. The government of Mexico gets
a billion dollars a day from tourists. Chichen Itza, the big
one. Yeah. Have them take out a cenote or two, you know, where
the tourists swim and play while they're there. That will get the phones
ringing."
Wow. Think of the all them protection bucks.
Think of the enormity of such a world scheme. And if we just remember
Rumsfeld's "snow" memos and "Keep the terror alert
elevated." how can we lose? Nobody can prove that terrorism is
a Hollywood-staged production. It's real. It lives. Life is
good in the wrestling bidness and even better in the terrorist
bidness. Everybody wins. Except the American taxpayer.
The Aftermath
The recent “tea party” tax day demonstrations on April 15th
are a phenomenon and most perplexing. Why now, have the taxpayers decided to demonstrate about the trillions
and trillions of dollars we have been borrowing and spending (much of it off-budget
for Bush’s wars) that has ominous signs of bankrupting the nation’s Treasury
for future generations? Why
now? Why not, 8 years ago when we
began to send our troops overseas to occupy two countries? Didn’t we think that might blow a big
hole in our budget and Treasury and put our future financial system in harm’s
way? Why in any one of the eight
years of borrowing trillions from the Chinese, the Arabs, and the Japanese to
finance our wars didn’t we rise up and protest on tax day of 2002 or 2006 or
2008? Why now? When our national debt has run up to
(who knows) perhaps 15 Trillion dollars and counting? How many Americans are willing to acknowledge that Bush and
his Neocon Congress hid debt off the books like Andersen Accounting did to
accommodate Enron stealing billions from millions of people? It’s true. But why attack Obama’s economic policies when he is only
trying to clean up the mess left by the Bushites who borrowed and spent America
into a place of no return? Why,
all of a sudden, have American taxpayers taken, indignantly to “tax tea
parties” to express their disdain for government spending when the Neocon fox
(no pun on TV stations intended) has been raiding the government henhouse (US
Treasury) for the past 8 years?
So, after 90 days in office as president, now it’s Obama who
is the big spender, is it? Why
were there no outrages in Bush’s corrupt financial and spending habits before
now? And how much of what he kept off the books (off budget) is still a
secret? And why weren’t we “tea
party” enraged when that annual off-budget TAX hit us right in the pocketbook to
where it would be inevitable that someday we would have to pay the piper? I smell a rat. And he is the same Neocon rat who caused all this financial
disaster of debt that grips the whole world like a giant angry squid. We are the grasshopper who spent all of
our money fiddling and dancing when we should have managed our financial house
instead of looking the other way, watching football, and CNN while our own
government encouraged stealing Treasury dollars we didn’t even have. We had to borrow from the Chinese to
pay the robbers. What an
insult! Why didn’t Americans do
tax revolt “tea parties” about that atrocity? Obama is in rescue mode. He is trying to save the American bank with dire and
desperate measures (that may not work anyway), but he is trying. And here come those who started the
mess, organizing tax revolt “tea parties” against government spending. Didn’t
they know there would be a day of reckoning? Sure they did. But pay no mind. Just
project the blame on the liberals (as if the finger-pointers were ever true
conservatives). They are outraged by “earmarks” a favorite catch word of the
Neocons when trashing the Democrats. I got one question for them: How big is the Iraq War “earmark” that lined all the war corporation cronies’
pockets for the past 6 years?! Maybe 5 Trillion dollars more in the hole and still counting? You want to compare that ongoing GOP-darling
earmark to increasing funding for the SCHIPS program for child healthcare? Don’t be silly.
We the taxpayers are the big loser. What do we do now? Shall we demonstrate and thwart any
attempt Obama might have to rescue our financial system from becoming burnt
slap up? Shall we now take to
protesting the way our government is spending our dollars when we have looked
the other way for 8 years, back to the time of Clinton when we had a government
surplus, not a deficit? Shall we
let our sudden self-righteousness over how our government spends our tax
dollars strangle us and reason at the same time? For the past 8 years our government has been steered by
monsters who encouraged stealing from the Treasury for no-bid government
contracts linked to a war started over lies about weapons of mass destruction
that were never found. They borrowed
money, bankrupted our Treasury, bought condos in Dubai, and got filthy rich on
ongoing Elephant size earmarks (all legal, too). So let the light affix its beam on the reality of why our
taxes might go up: to repair,
rescue, and salvage our nation and our financial system that was torpedoed by
the Neocon hypocrites who now organize the cutesy “tax tea parties” to assuage
their own guilt and hand in the destruction of America. 