The Asians Never Attacked America

How nerve wracking it was for the right during the Vietnam War era. There was the strong conviction that if the forces of Ho Chi Minh were not repulsed then it was only a question of time before those forces invaded and occupied the United States through relying on sheer statistical superiority.

Lyndon B. Johnson was one of the craftiest legislative leaders in American history. His ability to shrewdly dicker and make a minimum wage law or Medicare was a thing of great natural beauty.

The inherent Johnson tragedy lay in the fact that when he assumed the presidency he began making decisions in the realm of war and peace for which he was profoundly ill suited. The Gulf of Tonkin was rigged to display North Vietnamese animus toward the U.S. that did not exist in reality.

An astute French historian and political scientist named Jean Lacouture told all that were willing to read and listen that the Vietnamese independent movement was strongly embraced by Ho Chi Minh's father. Ho Chi Minh told any Americans willing to read or listen that his sturdy admiration for George Washington stemmed from that great general's fight for independence from British rule whereas he and other Vietnamese wished to end foreign dominance as well.

The New World Order propaganda was so successful in the case of President Johnson that he stated his paranoiac fears in recordings that were unearthed and played as well as committed to paper by historian Michael Beschloss. To Johnson the issue was simple.

If America did not prevail in Southeast Asia then it was only a question of time until their forces overwhelmed the U.S. and raped America's wives and daughters.

The reality was stated by Noam Chomsky and others in the anti-war movement. After all the smoke cleared the very corporate sector freezing in its collective boots over a preeminent Asia would be achieving grand profits in a new united Vietnam. This is what is now occurring in Vietnam.

With all the strident voices of the pro-Vietnam War forces some fundamental logical holes were never filled. It was one thing for China to stand off forces invading their own nation in a land war. Even General Douglas MacArthur recognized that reality and urged against confronting China in a land war. Regrettably he advocated unleashing America's nuclear weaponry.

The cry went up from panicky Vietnam War hawks that if the Communists were not stopped in Vietnam then it was only time before they invaded San Francisco Harbor. This presumed a strong sea assault by Chinese and presumably other Communist forces that would eventuate with a successful attack on American soil.

Let us now turn back the clock. Those who attacked this theory, erroneous and ultimately harmful as it was, had their patriotism called into question by many. Others were content to resort to allegations of cowardice or extreme naiveté.

All of this happened almost one full generation before a Tea Party or Sarah Palin.

Osama Uncertainty Akin to JFK

Peter Dale Scott, who has written so much about what is presented as government fact and the realities that lie hidden often well beneath the surface, coined the term Deep Politics to encompass this realm.

The powers that be that reside in the highest echelons of government have sought to squelch any such inquiry as falling under the heading of conspiracy theory. To be a conspiracy theorist is to live in a wild world devoid of reality.

Initially using the conspiracy theory pejorative worked superbly as a means of denouncing anyone who dared suggest that the official theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination that a troubled former Marine loner holding presumably strong Marxist leanings was responsible for the assassination of a popular American president.

Initially any questioning of official dogma was considered crackpot theorizing by a substantial majority of Americans. Eventually as the white heat of analysis was put to the lone gunman theory more Americans, ultimately encompassing a majority, doubted an official theory that was embraced in the Warren Commission Report, the government's investigative conclusion of what occurred.

An official government investigation of 9/11 drew a pat conclusion that a group of Muslim extremists under the influence of Osama Bin Laden was responsible for everything that happened on that tragic day. Critics not only complained that the 9/11 Commission's conclusions contained the same kind of pat simplicity that embodied the Warren Commission Report into the JFK assassination.

These critics pointed to the fact that not only was a commission not appointed until angry complaints were launched from family members of 9/11 victims, but also that the request for an independent query was squelched while the two key figures to testify, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, would only do so in executive session and jointly.

With the current revelation that Osama Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was gunned down in Pakistan last Sunday night by a team of Navy Seals, those in the power vortex have already pointed out that those who question a rush to judgment and focus on the series of contradictory accounts relating to facts surrounding Bin Laden's death fall under the category of conspiracy theorists that will never believe anything that mainstream government and media figures report.

While much speculation has occurred on how the Pakistan government as well as residents within the affluent community in which Bin Laden had allegedly lived for as long as five or six years, were unaware of what was happening, another important question needs to be considered.

As someone considered so brilliant a strategist that he was responsible for bringing down the economy of the Soviet Union as well as severely damaging that of the United States had selected a spot for building a compound designed to protect him from those pursuing him in an affluent residential area under the shadow of Pakistan's equivalent of West Point. It was also an area inhabited by many of Pakistan's top generals.

Whether one chooses to believe that Pakistan's leadership was backing the United States or Bin Laden, the proposition makes no sense of building a compound in that area. Suspicion would emerge either way.

There is also the question of normal curiosity. Neighbors would have had every reason to be concerned, especially in a nation with the volatility of Pakistan, that those living in the compound were so concerned about their privacy that they would not allow trash to be picked up, burning it themselves,

They were also so concerned about privacy that, rather than allowing youngsters to retrieve balls that had gone into the compound, they would simply give them money to buy new ones.

Anyone incorporating the account of any Bin Laden type living under such circumstances into a James Bond style movie script would be scorned and ridiculed by reviewers and film viewers alike, but only in the event that it ever saw the light of day.

There is also the puzzling question of the world's most wanted man being gunned down in a compound shared by couriers and wives, but not bodyguards. This allegedly super brilliant world terrorist would hardly have been functioning without bodyguards.

There is yet another key issue that needs to be explained. Many of us recall those pictures we were shown of discarded needles from an Afghanistan cave where Bin Laden had temporarily hidden. Here was a sickly man who needed constant dialysis attention or he would die.

Now we are told without explanation to scrap the old theory that existed until the report of Bin Laden's assassionation. Oops, for years we thought he was this sickly man barely being kept alive through dialysis treatments and being forced to move from cave to cave in mountainous Afghanistan to escape death or capture. Now please disregard that theory, ladies and gentlemen of the world.

Failure to disregard what we seek to have you disregard makes you fall into the dangerous company of those perpetually bothersome conspiracy theorists in our midst.

Homo rapiens, Evolution, Murdering the Planet

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure."

--Agent Smith from The Matrix

One is expected to know things, to believe things. Knowing and believing are all in your head - there is nothing in your heart. If you cannot feel that the earth is your grandmother, then of course you will find it easy to rape her, to behave as if she is under your dominion. You will find it easy to believe that we humans are the dominant species, and to act as though the earth and everything on it are ours to do with as we please. ... if all human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish.

--Russell Means

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

--C.S. Lewis

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

--William Faulkner

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Purveyors of pop culture, indigenous movement leaders, renowned academics, literary giants, and powerful philosophers alike have admonished us that we humans need to change our evil ways. So given our amazing cognitive abilities and capacities to adapt our behaviors, why do we continue with our pathological parasitism?

Steve Best, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UTEP, and a leading philosopher in the animal liberation movement, suggested that perhaps humanity is, "A biological experiment with advanced primate intelligence gone horribly wrong, as if all of planet earth is an Island of Dr. Moreau set up by an evil God."

While hopelessly anthropocentric apologists for humanity's ongoing rape of the Earth and its inhabitants will probably dismiss Best's observation as the ravings of a misanthropic animal fanatic, critical thinking people of conscience and humility will consider the possibility that Best may be right.

Certainly there is no dearth of evidence supporting the fact that the human evolutionary path has veered into a deadly and destructive cul-de-sac. Homo rapiens have succeeded Homo sapiens in humanity's evolutionary development. How long can we sustain, or better yet, how long will the Earth allow us to sustain a "civilization" that is premised on violence, greed, over-consumption, endless growth, "success" and pleasure attained at the expense of the suffering of other sentient beings, narcissism, ego fulfillment, and a host of other nauseating grotesqueries? It doesn't take much contemplation of the human race to leave one yearning for the companionship of Moreau's Beast Folk.

Not unlike the Zionists in Palestine, the broader human race clings to an aggressive, violent and defensive way of interfacing with the world as a perverse reaction to having been vulnerable and victimized. We have maximized our frontal lobes, opposable thumbs, and capacities to engage in complex social behaviors in such a way that we are now uber-predators, so firmly astride the top of the food chain even were all non-human animals to somehow join forces and assail us, they'd be overwhelmingly defeated. Early hominids probably perceived their numerous predators as monsters. In collectively equipping ourselves to fight those `monsters,' we have ignored Nietzsche's cautionary aphorism and become more than monsters; we have morphed into world-destroying abominations.

Western Civilization (read Eurocentric, patriarchal, capitalist, speciesist, imperialist, and Christian), the most powerful perpetrator in the brutal and merciless assault on non-human animals and the Earth, codified its sociopathic license to rape by inventing an anthropomorphic deity that gave it the "divine right" to dominate and exploit. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth," proclaimed the Christian deity in an ancient tome written by a collection of largely unknown authors. And since many still hold the Bible to be sacrosanct, dominionism remains deeply embedded in our collective psyche.

As the sun set on monarchial rule and the Enlightenment unfolded, we humans entered what appeared to be a golden age of "liberal democracy," reason, and free markets. Yet ironically, this transition marked the advent of the darkest and most psychopathic phase of Homo rapien existence. Kings were replaced by soulless corporations; Descartes' mechanistic worldview assured us that non-human animals don't consciously suffer, thus enabling guilt-free industrialization of their torture and murder; and capitalism spawned runaway growth, unbridled avarice, and a deep obsession with property and profits. Buttressed by new and powerful theoretical underpinnings, we began our relentless attack on the Earth and its inhabitants in a futile effort to slake our seemingly insatiable thirst for control, prosperity and security.

Catalyzed and sustained by the deep-seated terror of an animal sans fang or claw and by our most despicable attributes, such as gluttony, belligerence, self-centeredness, and mean-spiritedness (each of which has been validated in some way by the fundamental theologies and philosophies of our society), we have unleashed an apocalyptic Hell upon the rest of the world.

Overpopulation, deforestation, Climate Change, nuclear waste, potential nuclear destruction, the Sixth Extinction, rampant pollution, potable water shortages, factory farming, and endless resource wars are the bitter harvest the world is reaping from the noxious seeds we've sown.

While Senator James Inhofe, George Bush 41, and myriad other ardent supporters of Western Civilization, the American Way of Life, corporatism, imperialism, patriarchy, speciesism, and a host of other malevolent social, cultural, political and economic dynamics which comprise the anthropocentric mechanisms by which we dominate and exploit the planet, may have deluded themselves into believing that the rape, pillage and plunder by which we exist is morally palatable (or perhaps they simply don't care), there are plenty of people who are deeply concerned. These individuals want to find a way to develop that "natural equilibrium" to which Agent Smith referred by breaking down the physical and psychological barriers we've erected, rejoining nature, and ceasing to exist as alienated, belligerent, and vampiric entities.

Hence the questions become, are we human animals a lost cause and does Mother Earth need to eradicate us to enable life to perpetuate on this planet?

A widely accepted notion is that peaceful, gentle Homo sapiens began their metamorphosis to barbaric Homo rapiens about 10,000 years ago when hunter-gatherers became sedentary agrarians--working the land meant that ruthless men rose to power by hoarding surpluses, territorial wars were waged, and women and animals were subjugated. However, it is much more likely that our ancestors were brutal war-mongers as far back as 45,000 years ago. Evidence indicates that when early Homo sapiens migrated from Africa into Europe, they waged a 15,000 year genocide that eventually drove the Neanderthals to extinction. Even the Bible, which many Homo rapien apologists utilize as a validation for our savage domination of the planet, provides numerous examples of our cruel propensities. Poignant example number one is Cain murdering Abel.

We know how bad we can be. Now how good can we become?

Our moral evolution is not necessarily limited by our genetic make-up. It has become obvious that the common characterization of nature versus nurture is a false dichotomy. Genetics and learning dialectically shape who we become and how we interact with the world, both individually and collectively. So the lines between humanity's innate tendencies and those qualities we acquire through parenting, education, and experience are often blurred and indiscernible.

Humanity, past and present, is filled with examples of compassionate, courageous, and decent human beings, clearly indicating that Homo sapiens remain extant, that savagery is not programmed into our DNA and that developing a more "natural equilibrium" with our surrounding environment is within the realm of possibility.

However, those who wish to shape social and human evolution in such a way that Homo rapiens become endangered, and eventually make their way to the species' graveyard of extinction, need to realize that they are not attending a tea party. This is a war-philosophically, psychologically and physically. If humanity is going to "become good," those who want to make it happen need to enter the fray.

It is no easy task to simultaneously function within a planet murdering system and to struggle against it. While the opposition is indistinct, difficult to identify, and ever-shifting, Homo sapiens resisting the evolutionary inertia toward sociopathy encounter enemies frequently throughout their day to day existence.

Approximately four out of 100 humans are born with no conscience or capacity to empathize. Those individuals, like Cheney, Olmert, Petraeus, Kissinger, Palin, and Condi Rice, are readily identifiable foes. Those who comprise the rest of the Homo rapien population are not as easy to discern. Many are covert in their allegiance to savagery. Some people are akin to the fabled missing link, as they comprise characteristics of both species.

At times they are allies, but they can also align with the opposition. Complicating matters still further is the fact that it is possible for an individual to evolve from one species to another. So one day they could be friend and the next foe-or vice versa.

When one considers that the stakes are incalculably high, that Homo rapiens will fight to the death to maintain their hegemony, and that the institutionalized violence perpetrated by the status quo is intense and ubiquitous, those who challenge their dominionism must employ the most holistic, pluralistic, and militant tactics possible, including (but not limited to) education, outreach to minority groups, grass roots social service programs, boycotts, strikes, picketing, letters, petitions, networking, legislative efforts, veganism, monkey wrenching, and direct action.