“Americans haven’t yet discovered the barbed wire at the end of Disneyland,” said an old German leftist, leaving the US for home in 1948.
The billion dollar wall “against the Mexicans” makes it hard to ignore the barbed wall at this point.
The Mexicans call it a new capitalist Berlin Wall. From this perspective, NAFTA was forced upon us to seal Mexican labor inside Mexico where it can be preyed upon at US’ corporate leisure.
The problem is that there is booming demand for a serf/servant class in the US coupled with an unwillingness to even pay minimum wage for this kind of work. In order for the corporate elite to have its cake and eat it too, we spend tax money to build an anti-immigration Maginot Line to satisfy a beleagured white male working class.
However, with the bill of rights going, going gone! the wall is also a needed link in a Maximum Security Homeland Prison State. Someday only too soon European and Global news services will feature pictures of machine-gunned US citizens hanging in the barbed wire at the top…trying to get out of the country!
These strange fruits will likely be very white and very middle class, having finally found a rest in the prophesized wires at the edge of Disneyland.
Of course, these will no longer be US citizens according to the bold assertions soon to be codified by the neo-con nerds serving our unitary executive. These corpses will now belong to the global criminal class of non-US citizens that our Congress recently has declared to be unworthy of habeas corpus.
These “American” corpses will be erstwhile US citizens whose disloyal behavior, in the Ashcroftian language already previously formulated, has indicated that “they have functionally renounced their citizenship.” Detainable for life without charge at the whim of the President’s Men..
It will be the next fabricated internal crisis that will set a whole lot of us on the run to escape being dropped into the black hole of torture chambers in Syria or Poland that awaits such “non-citizen” suspects.
Sound harsh? It’s just another brick in the wall. How does the song go: “we don’t have no constitution; we don’t have no cop control; a dark chasm’s in our courtrooms;
Congress, leave our rights alone. ALONE. CONGRESS, LEAVE OUR RIGHTS ALONE.”
Our Snivel Rights for the most part. Unnecessary Rights whose abrogation means little in terms of our glutted imperial lifestyles. Our gas is still cheaper and the gadgets keep pouring out of Big Boxes right into our storage units. Somebody can still afford $650, one bedroom apartments. Thousand dollar black suits are still proper wear for the multitude of security, enforcement, hit men and jackals who are crammed like bees into the hives of Government.
Recent reports state that Eisenhower’s original indictment was of the “Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex.” It’s been a lock actually since 1948 (the real year of Orwell’s novel.).
The Congressional part has been oh-so obvious. But our Inner Manchurian Candidate always kicks in around election time. Then, as now, we rise to the bait of fresh elections, becoming politically active for a short season, only to lapse back into exhausted self-congratulation. We have done our part and have only the politicians to blame. Thank God for the Politicians!
It gives liberals and wannabe radicals the same comfortable deniability that Fox News offers to the even “Gooder Germans” who cue up to have their noses cleaned so that they can claim they never smelled any smoke from Auschwitz/Disneyland.
Paul Encimer - Time’s Up!