Princesses And Prislamists

One message today that seemed to be prominent was beware of dangerous beliefs—somebody might adopt them and act on them.

Good point.

For example, you've got that very dangerous First Amendment thing to believe in, as if it had some kind of principles backing it up, or might actually mean what it says, which is a ludicrous proposition.

But what I was struck by today were two stories, two angles of this narrative, which seemed to aptly illustrate a piece of old news—the USA has a very weird, deranged, culture whose ability to melt together in the pot is overwhelmed by its tendency to divide into what Obama called "irreconcilable" differences. Whereas in marriages that is grounds for a divorce, in the USA it is patchwork to make a psychedelic quilt.

On the one hand (maybe it's the right one), you have the princess phenomenon, where little girls decide the best thing to hope to be when they grow up, or for that matter the best thing to be right now, is a little princess. And so they read and believe in fairy tale ethics and outcomes, that life is about their receiving the royal treatment and obviously everybody with a clue is going to recognize this and treat them accordingly.

American boys it is alleged have similar fantasies built up around their wanting to be super heroes.

The fear is that all this fantasizing about being the super-center of the universe will make kids grow up into narcissistic creeps, who will at best be set up to have their bloated pink bubbles of romantic blarney popped by the real world—and probably by all those competing princesses and supermen. At worst, oh they might invade the world and "Americanize" it.

It's swell that parents today want their children to have good self esteem, but even back in the day, when they had lots of princesses running around, mostly they didn't have that many of them, and they led crappy lives. It's true, that if you are a princess today, you probably have a pretty good time, but again the professional marketplace is pretty slim in terms of demand for those positions.

Meanwhile, on that other, lefter, darker hand, we have this story, also about the fears generated by somebody believing in something, but this time it isn't pink little narcissists in training, but something almost as scary—Islamists training in US prisons to be terrorists.

Generally, these terrorists are homegrown, "black", and converted to what is being called by prison staff "Prislam". Why are they attracted to this instead of say knitting or the bridge club? Because there is a long tradition in American prisons of certain, weirder, forms of Islam being used to reform and/or radicalize black inmates, Malcolm X being the most famous example. Whereas Malcolm eventually adopted a kinder, gentler view of Islam, which we note only seems to have helped him get killed, the trend these days seems to be that Islam, as it does in so many places in the world where the US "man" is hated, helps to channel vengeful attitudes into jihadist designs.

Of course, part of the economy of this story is that it feeds into the current "keep the terrorists in Gitmo and out of domestic prisons" chant that is building daily in support of keeping and maybe enlarging the American gulag for people suspected of being, but never convicted of being, terrorists. That chant coincides with the other, clearer expression of American barbarism, the notion that we've arrived at a time when torture is OK, because hey—it saves American lives (because Dick Cheney says so)!

So far at least, few mainstreamers want to be on record plainly calling Islam the religion of terrorism, but the not so sub-text can't be lost on people, that maybe along with locking up potentially dangerous stuff like human rights and freedom, we might want to classify Islam as "too dangerous for prison consumption" and even better adopt the Coulter Doctrine and begin the open and mass conversion of all Moslems to Christianity—starting with black inmates in US prisons.

In fact, a review of the Coulter Doctrine, in toto, might be helpful here in showing just how much poor chastised Ann's ideas have actually shaped the USA's policies in the world:

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

And it is still is war...going on eight years now. And the new warrior-in-chief shows no signs of ending the wars, but is instead branding and expanding them as his own.

Maybe, as is predicted in the Bible for the leopard and the kid (little goat), one day the big black Prislamists will lie down with the pink little Princesses and peace will reign.

Yeah, maybe that will happen, and maybe pigs will fly out of your butt today.

(jk)

USA Tortures and Murders Its Own Children

GAO: Schools restrain, confine (torture, murder) disabled children

So why would the USA have a problem torturing and murdering other people's children?

It isn't as if public education has ever been about anything other than battering children into being obedient imperial servants, but the USA regularly commits institutional child abuse, including torture and murder, because the kids they're doing this to are "special needs" and who the fuck cares anything about them?

It's just like when the USA bombs the crap out of some stinking mountain village in Afghanipak—hey the only people killed there are "bad guys" right, and if scores of some alien poor people's kids get blown up too, not only can the USA claim the bad guys did it, but who gives a shit anyway? In fact, if you did give a shit about it, it probably means you are a terrorist, or a supporter of terrorism.

Of course, if you're an American, you are a supporter of terrorism, especially against kids.

(jk)

Tortures of a Simple Faith

There are so many monstrous creatures, pretending to be human beings, wandering around in the USA these days, and particularly occupying places of authority and power, that the human minority might contemplate if, to be fair to this increasing majority, they might amend the Constitution of the United States to better reflect monstrous opinions. As it is, the monsters have made that fragile human document, and its radical assumption of inalienable rights possessed by humans, a monstrous joke.

One of the problems is that the US Constitution was written by men who believed in the primacy of reason over faith, at least in regards to the regulation of governments and the governed. And while modern monsters are full to the brim with reasons, and excuses, and self-justifications, and legal defenses of all sorts (e.g., the Nuremberg defense), which altogether spice up and render a noxious American brand of faith; that brave but so brief brand of American reason died ever so long ago—perhaps about the time the ink dried on the ratified sheepskin back in the ancient day (of 1791).

These days the monsters are mainly faith-based, and utterly alienated from the notion of there being any right whatsoever that is inalienable, except the right of every person to confess his error and accept the monster's worldview. Life after all is a 24-7, nano-nagging, negotiation. As Alonzo Harris says in Training Day, "It's not what you know, it's what you can prove." And what you can prove, or what you choose to prove, is often these days a reflection of one's faith in what ought to be proved, no matter any facts or truths that might contradict one's faith.

In short, there's just no time any longer for reflection and fundamentally changing one's mind. Once you've settled upon what is correct to believe, or to believe in, that's it. Discussions or debates are conducted not to provide convincing arguments for the verity of one's view, or to calculate the merits and weaknesses of a diversity of views, but to destroy the enemy and provide a good gladiatorial entertainment. What Americans most appreciate these days is not reason, but passion and conviction, even for stupid and heinous ends.

Vacillators, which is just a fancy word for contemplators, are flipflopping wimps.

Actors of simple, and especially ruthless, faith are real men (and the women who unfortunately still need to ape them to be heard in the dimwitted din that ensues).

So, it is not surprising to hear that a new Pew (Forum on Religion and Public Life) poll shows that a strong majority of Americans (71%) favor torture being used on suspected evil-doers, and amongst these bloodthirsty torture-approvers, the church-going faithful are the most in favor of tormenting alleged badguys,

Now, in my experience, if you want to find somebody who possesses a dangerously deficient understanding of the Bible, look for a Christian, especially a "white Evangelical Protestant" Christian. Those doofuses will believe anything, and also they will ignore anything, for example Jesus plainly saying this:

"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you"—Matthew 5:44

So, how do you do that while waterboarding an enemy? Or worse, somebody you don't even know for sure is an enemy but who just might be one of those? Or how do you do that by getting somebody else to do the waterboarding for your lazy, murderous, monstrous butt?

As it stands now, the United States is a pro-torture nation, and this view is most strongly supported amongst groups whose allegedly most important faith condemns that very view.

Americans have always been a nation of skimmers and headline readers, or Cliff's Notes consumers. They pay lip service to "rights" and "freedom" as things which sound good to most people, and which they figure most people ought to have, in amounts restrained by the power of government to control others from abridging their own, pretty much unlimited, rights and freedom. But when it comes to actually reading the rule books, whether it is the Bible or the Constitution, they're too busy and anyway, if they were to discover their faith was contradicted by the rules or some silly thing Jesus might have said, they would utter the universal rebuke—"whatever"—and keep right on happily sinning.

Still, there is a sense amongst the monsters that this arrogant course of conduct has its risks, and that especially now with the world seemingly in severe flux, and with that Hawaiian fellow of an allegedly socialist complexion in charge, it is most definitely time to pay homage to the monster's favorite rule, the one which they all do know and cherish—the right to accrue a large and potent arsenal of guns.

Another Pew poll shows the USA, after eight years of horrific violence being America's chief export to the world, moving from the pro-gun-regulation side of things to supporting protecting gun ownership rights as being the more important concern. Only in the communist northeast, where people live like livestock, and the place is increasingly run by gun-phobic females who think mind-altering college educations are vitally important, is there a resilient hatred of Second Amendment rights.

Where the deer and the antelope and the white male still roam and rule however, brother-and-sister survivalist (often supremacist) is gunning up, and buying pretty much all the ammo in sight.

If there isn't an Apocalypse coming pretty soon, one is likely to pop off just by accident, what with all the guns and bullets being hoarded by the Second Amendment faithful.

Well, at least when the Apocalypse comes, Jesus might be able to straighten out his nitwit followers about what he thinks about their love of torture. Most of them won't be able to hear a thing of course, as they've taken to constantly wearing ear protectors along with their bio-hazard suits.

(jk)