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Hundreds of Thousands in U.S. March for Peace…

IT’S ABOUT TIME!

Planned to coincide with the holiday commemorating assassinated Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, throngs of Americans took to the streets in well-planned demonstrations to protest the Emperor Bush II vendetta against Iraq. The U.S. has not witnessed such an outpouring of political opposition and anger since the height of the Vietnam War. The majority of protestors were new to such activism, which underscores the mass discontent directed at the Bush Whitehouse. It will be most interesting to see just who channels this potentially revolutionary energy—and where it’s directed. The Establishment Press had been working feverishly to ensure that the protests remain “safe” (i.e. “loyal” to the Capitalist status quo, non-radical—and definitely non-Socialist.) Just as during the Viet Nam demonstrations, the recent marches were dominated by Nationalist patriotic flag-waving, narrow self-interest, pacifist slogans, and Democrat Party manipulations reinforced by the obligatory liberal celebrities pleading for “non-violent, peaceful confrontation.” Nonetheless, we salute the people who turned out to display their outrage and desire for International Peace. It took courage to stand up to the Bush Administration’s dangerous and idiotic rush to War.

The conflict with Iraq began with Saddam Hussein’s 1991 invasion of the strategic oil port country of Kuwait. Saddam claimed, with some historic justification, that Kuwait was a part of Iraq. However, his action was a study in foolhardy adventurism, triggering the wrath of the Israeli-U.S. Capitalist Axis. The end result was the Gulf War, Saddam’s ignominious military defeat and the near total destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure. At the time of this massive human and cultural devastation U.S. militarists crowed that they had “bombed Iraq back to the Stone Age.”

With Iraq’s defeat the victorious Capitalist Axis, blessed by a compliant United Nations, forced intolerable “sanctions” on the country. These conditions amounted to the virtual surrender of State sovereignty and resulted in massive suffering for the Iraqi people, particularly children and the poor. This national degradation is reminiscent of the humiliating conditions imposed on Germany following World War I—conditions that directly paved the way for the ascension of Hitler and ultimately World War II. In the case of the Persian Gulf, the humiliation of Iraq fueled the smoldering flames of Fundamentalist Islamic Reaction.

The key point of the sanctions, the so-called “smoking gun,” is whether or not Saddam is continuing to build “weapons of mass destruction.” This “condition” represents the height of hypocrisy coming as it does from the U.S.—the only government ever to use The Bomb against another country; and from Israel who has been not only secretly developing such weapons, but has actually used espionage against its U.S. partner-in-crime to expand its own nuclear program of mass destruction. Israel knows its has the U.S. by the political balls, and the Arab world is fully aware of the gross double standards of this imperialist alliance.

Just as in the States, there is a growing segment of the Jewish Israeli population who oppose this crooked and perilous alliance. In other words, not all Israeli Jews are Zionists, just as not all Americans are Racist Imperialists.

There are a number of striking differences between the Vietnam and Iraq confrontations.

(1) The Vietnam Conflict was inaugurated under the Democratic Kennedy Administration (a typically American political ploy, using a Democratic Administration to effectively line-up the U.S. Working Class behind Capitalist War objectives.) The current Iraqi situation is the criminal creation of the corrupt George Bush (Republican) Dynasty. The fact that his election to office was highly questionable (to say the least) only served to ignite public mistrust and obvious lack of confidence.

(2) During the escalation of the Viet Nam War under the Republican Nixon Administration, the Democratic Party was viewed as the “Loyal Opposition.” During this current Iraqi Crisis, The Democratic Party showed it’s true (yellow) colors to the entire world by caving in to the Bush Reaction without so much as a pathetic squeak. In view of the American publics almost total cynicism regarding the electoral process, this could lead to some very interesting political consequences, such as a real challenge to the Two Party State Capitalist shell game that has dominated American politics since the Civil War.

[See also, NEW AEON SOCIALIST JOURNAL]

(3) The Viet Nam conflict was justified as part of “The War Against Godless Communism”; this second round of aggression against Iraq is blatantly—and unsuccessfully—playing the 9/11 “War Against (Fundamentalist Islamic) Terrorism” card. There exists a great deal of controversy and suspicion around this issue regarding just how much the Bush Administration knew in advance of the attack. Our slogan during the Gulf War was: U.S. HANDS OFF IRAQ! PEOPLE OF IRAQ…NO CONFIDENCE IN WESTERN FRONT GROUPS! LOCK UP SADDAM AND THROW AWAY THE KEY! We reaffirm these slogans today, adding only: FOR A GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING DOWN THE BUSH DYNASTY!

[NOTE: A successful National General Strike—an unprecedented event in U.S. history—will require a highly concentrated and sophisticated mass mobilization of Labor and Grassroots organizations. We are presenting the idea now in order to get the ball rolling, so to speak, by putting the word out there in the public domain. Under the right conditions such a General Strike could quickly evolve into a revolutionary action to overthrow the State Capitalist System with a minimum of violence. Obviously such a development would require a collective state of political consciousness far beyond what exists today in the United States. Many, many influential and dedicated individuals and organizations would have to put aside petty rivalries and come together to create an American Worker’s Revolution to complete the process the ancestor’s began when they kicked out the British Monarchy. It may well be a monumental goal of epic proportions, but not impossible. A few short weeks ago who would have believed that hundreds of thousands would have been mobilized to march on Washington and other U.S. cities? As economic and political conditions deteriorate, revolutionary consciousness can ignite quickly. The heat must be kept directed at the Bush Regime and also at State Capitalism in general—and not misdirected by the Democratic Party.]

(4) The Viet Nam War was conducted under forced U.S. military conscription. Today’s American army is (so far) voluntary. The American “Peace Movement” all but evaporated during the Persian Gulf War due to the easy high tech military victory and the fact that conscripted combatants were not involved. This is another reason why we view the current Peace Movement with reservation. We are willing to support such a Nationalist Peace Movement only so far as it will prevent another war with Iraq; however, in the long run lasting world peace will be achieved only by a concerted INTERNATIONALIST effort—and the creation of a SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALE will be essential to that victory.

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE of the FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

(5) Viet Nam represented a DEFEAT of U.S. militarism. With high technology, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the most colossal arsenal of weapons of mass destruction known to human history at its command, the United States today (despite its almost unbelievable military incompetence) is capable of destroying the infrastructure of any country that appears to pose a threat (real or imagined) to U.S. interests. We’re not just spouting rhetoric here. The United States as currently constituted poses a potentially fatal threat to the Earth.

Americans have finally begun to wake up to the threat of the Bush Dynasty Reaction, but the “Peace Movement” has a long way to go before it will pose a real threat to Bush and his Mega-Rich Buddies. It’s first task is to free itself from the illusions of pacifism and the delusion that the Capitalist State can be “reformed” to respond to the needs of the vast majority of people. In many ways the political, social and cultural atmosphere in the United States today is far more reactionary than that of the 60’s and 70’s. The demolition of Social Welfare and Justice Programs begun under the Clinton Democrat Administration is now all but complete. As the upper 15% of the population are given enormous tax breaks, the Working Class, Poor, Elderly and Disabled are facing unprecedented pay and benefit cuts, and constantly escalating costs for the necessities of existence.

Meanwhile the Environment remains a target for RAPE by The New Rome Oligarchy.

[See also, ACTION NOTES]

We would be remiss in this article if we failed to mention the heroic efforts of Peaceful Tomorrows, a coalition of family member survivors of 9/11. These Americans displayed the grace and dignity to overcome their personal sorrows and to rise above the prejudice of Nationalist anger, and to visit Iraq and join with Iraqis in a joint call for peace. This expression of spirituality is as meaningful and inspiring as a hundred organized marches.

[NOTE: Below are links to some EXCELLENT articles on the subject of the impending war.]

Today on the World Socialist Web Site

14 February 2003

News & Analysis
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The US terror alert
Washington employs fear and panic as instruments of war
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/terr-f14.shtml

"Human shields" charge
Bush prepares alibi for slaughter in Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/shld-f14.shtml

The tasks facing the anti-war movement
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/demo-f12.shtml

Britain: Why are troops really deployed in London?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/secu-f14.shtml

Powell's Al Qaeda-Baghdad link falls apart
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/iraq-f14.shtml

Behind the posturing
Canada has decided to join in war on Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/can-f14.shtml

Ankara lines up behind a war against Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/turk-f14.shtml

The Bush budget: subverting Medicare and Medicaid
Part four of five articles on Bush's 2004 budget proposal
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/budg-f14.shtml

Statement of RAWA's anti-war demonstration in Islamabad [February 26,2003]

The US Government Wants War,
the People of US and the World Want Peace!

Again the world has been plunged into a newly terrifying nightmare. The US and its allies are willing to destroy Saddam Hussain's regime- the regime with which till yesterday they were allied and which they supported in the war against Iran- and impose their own puppet government on the Iraqi people and by doing so repeat the ghastly tragedy of the Gulf War in which Saddam survived but the war caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people.

While a war against terrorism in the name of democracy is the excuse for the attack, the people of Afghanistan, at least, know well the hidden nature of these claims and excuses.

First the terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was the favorite son - the recent American pronouncements against this hangman are meaningless. Then Osama and Mullah Omar occupied his place and now finally they polished the grim appearance of the "Northern Alliance", beautifying them with pantaloons and neckties, and imposed them on our people.

Will America do better than this in Iraq? The Iraqi people have suffered and been pushed to the limit by the crimes of Saddam's regime but this has never meant that they ask the US and its allies to save them with military intervention. The change of government in each country is the prerogative of the people of that country, otherwise the result will be neither stable nor sustainable for the long term. The puppet regimes of Parcham and Khalq followed by the criminal Jehadi regime, the Taliban and finally the re-imposition of the Jehadis, with Karzai as the President, are all proof of this claim.

Even Afghan and other children throughout the world ask why, if the US wants to destroy rulers like Saddam Hussain, has it imposed the war criminals and professional terrorists, who are worse than Saddams, in Afghanistan?

If the US considers Saddam as a threat to the peace and security of the world and region and for this reason intends to disarm Iraq, then why does it support Israel, which is equipped with atomic weapons and is the butcher of the Palestinian people?

Why doesn't the US government, which without any strong evidence or facts claims that the Iraqi regime has connections with Al Qaida, seriously consider these suspicions regarding other Arabic countries? Why doesn't the US government, which calls itself the champion of democracy, pay any respect to the voices of millions of anti-war people around the globe?

The answers to all these questions are crystal clear to everyone:

It is the oil of Iraq (the most important oil reserve in the world), the domination of the Middle East, the threatening and bullying of other countries and finally the desire to surpass its rivals that makes the US government resolute and determined to invade Iraq. It should be noted that still it is not clear which countries will come under attack after the occupation of Iraq.

The US and Britain governments have been exposed as warmongering and hegemonic regimes.

But what is clear in today's world is the stand and wishes of the majority of the people who are separate from their governments.

The people of the world and of the US in particular will not allow the Bush administration to misuse the 11th September incident and, in their name and under the banner of democracy, impose war and bring catastrophe on poor and suffering nations.

Just now the anti-war and anti-jingoism call of the people is so strong in the US, the UK, and all over the world that Bush and Tony Blair can't overlook or ignore it.

The majority of UN Security Council members are also standing against the US and British jingoism, and emphasizing the continuation of the UN inspectors' work. But this is not enough. We must all stand against the war on Iraq and never let it happen.

The Afghan people who have suffered in the fires of war for the past 25 years deeply hate war more than most other nations, but unfortunately in Afghanistan they cannot mingle their anti-war protest voices with the millions of other anti-war protestors around the world because of the domination of the fundamentalist dictatorship in Afghanistan.

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is pleased that at least in Pakistan through today's demonstration it can announce its solidarity with all peace-loving movements in every nook and corner of the world and can represent and echo the choked and muted voice of its fettered nation against war and warmongers.

Down with terrorism and jingoism!
Long live peace, freedom and democracy!

[18. Ostara 2003]

REDS TAKE OVER EDITORIAL OFFICE…

Gnostic Communications is Spring Site-Cleaning!

Following an intense period of reevaluation spanning several months, the Editorial Office of The Gnostic Pagan Tradition/New Aeon Socialist Movement is in the process of implementing some very important changes on the site that will definitely bring its Message of Modern Gnosticism truer to form.

The Initiation process has been completely eliminated in favor of a less “authoritarian,” freer participation. This has been advocated for two major reasons: (1) Such an open Tradition or School is closer to the original intent of Gnostic Humanism, and is more aligned to the Liberating Spirit of The New Aeon we continue to visualize, project & celebrate. (2) The fact that we were offering free instruction on the Web was draining time & energy. So in the months ahead ALL the instruction will be posted on the site—and serious students may pursue our “teachings” as they see fit.

Readers who relate to THE GNOSTIC PAGAN TRADITION’S RITUAL SYSTEM ARE FREE TO INITIATE THEMSELVES AS GNOSTIC PAGANS AS PRESENTED ON THIS SITE & IN THE FOUNDING DOCUMENT.

Additionally, the membership-oriented New Aeon Socialist Movement has been dropped. Maintaining such an organization on limited material resources was interfering with our editorial and publishing efforts. And perhaps more importantly, taking into consideration the critical events of the day, it was felt that trying to create and sustain yet another Socialist splinter group would prove to be a distraction from the IMMEDIATE NECESSITY FOR ORGANIZED REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST LEADERSHIP. We are not yet in a position to fully recommend one organization over another, but will continue to review the options on the NEW AEON SOCIALIST JOURNAL pages of this site.

In the meantime we have a War to Fight.

So let’s get back to work…

DOWN WITH WAR CRIMINALS BUSH & BLAIR!

FOR INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL REVOLUTION!

[21. Ostara 2003]

Their own Bloody Bible pronounced Judgment…

They Shall Reap What They Have Sown!

AMERICAN & BRITISH BARBARIANS!!!

To no one’s great surprise International War Criminals Bush & Blair launched their vicious attack against the long-suffering people of Iraq. In order to make an example of Saddam Hussein, the contemptible “leaders” of the Capitalist World Disorder once again invoked the full force of their Corrupt & Degenerate Armed Forces to persecute, torture and kill unarmed masses in a nation they will soon recolonialize and McDonaldize in the Image of the Demiurge (Satan, Exploitation).

We have absolutely no sympathy for the Capitalist Rank-and-File Military who cheered the rain of destruction and death launched against the Iraqi People—as if it were just not another stupid video game.

The gloves are off—the Capitalists must be stopped before they destroy everything worth living for.

FOR INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL REVOLUTION NOW!!!

Click on the photo link above for more Socialist coverage of the Capitalist War

Against an Entire People.

ANYONE May be Next!

WORLD PUBLIC ENEMY #1

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[1. Nuit 2004]

Battle of the Tyrants

King George Bush II vs. Dictator Saddam.

Megabore vs. Megadeath.

The Supreme Personification of USA Mediocrity vs. Formerly CIA Sanctioned Anti-Communist Iraqi Lunatic.

Now that Saddam was dug out from his bunker, the U.S. Establishment & Media hacks are out for his blood—in order to justify the years of murdering tens of thousands innocent Iraqis because of a falling out of the Reactionary Ruling Orders. Saddam survived for months under the most crippling conditions; how long would the pampered, idiot Bush or his Mentor-in-War Crime Cheney survive under similar conditions without their phalanx of hairstylists, financiers, armed thugs or flunkies?

Probably less than 10 minutes.

Saddam was a political monster, but he was a castoff reflection of a much more sinister & potentially suicidal problem on a global scale—State Capitalist Corporate America. Acting in a diabolic concert, the entrenched & economically inbred Capitalists of the United States and the so-called “United Kingdom” have been warping & corrupting & manipulating international politics for over two hundred years. With the devastating defeat of International Socialism symbolized by the fall of the politically degenerated Soviet Union under the traitor Gorbochov, culture in the U.S.-Anglo Axis has increasingly devolved into the gutter of sexist tripe and nationalist propaganda fostered by media pimps & exhibitionist social climbers.

Those many individuals & groups who (usually for their own self-interest) seek to deny the Historical Materialist (Marxist) interpretation of the interplay between basic economic factors & social reality are either in denial extremis or, more often the case, lying.

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The tendency of activist groups in the United States who oppose the War of Aggression against Iraq is to resurrect the narrow, patriotic slogan so popular during the Vietnam War, “Bring the Troops Home Now!” While Gnostic Communications supports just about any means that will get the Imperialist troops out of Iraq, we take issue with this nationalistic slogan.

The slogan denies both the collective & personal responsibility that got the troops “over there” in the first place.

Collectively citizens in the U.S. sat by while the Bush Dynasty ambushed the political process in the United States. Aligned with the fake-Labour Party’s Tony Blair, the Anglo-American Axis used the pretext of 9/11 to launch its illegal invasion & desecration of Iraq. While it’s true that in a bourgeois democracy the cards are stacked against the common people, more could have been done on the grassroots level to actively resist Bush II dragging the world down to the most dangerous level since the Cold War. Instead of taking personal political responsibility, the majority of citizens opposed to war & the Bush ascendancy trusted the Democrats to prevent the dual catastrophe. What the Democrats did was to prove once again that they were the Dweedldee to the Republican Dweedledumb of Corporate State Capitalism.

On the personal or individual level, “Bring Our Troops Home,” implies that “the troops” are innocent victims of the “System.”

They are not.

At least not in this specific regard (considering the fact that just about everybody in varying degrees is a "victim" of State Capitalism.)

The United States military is a voluntary force today. While many (if not the majority) of recruits sign-up motivated by a desire to economically and educationally improve their lives, they are volunteering to be part of the most iniquitous & destructive institution known to human history. In this age of easy access to instant information, the lame excuse that recruits “don’t know any better” just doesn’t wash today. The aggression against Iraq is a question of mass murder and Imperialist troops are an integral component of murdering people.

The Military inoculates in recruits the age-old fallacy that it is somehow a good thing to kill people the State declares to be its enemies. They elevate to glory (and get voted into political office) the very, very few members of the Oligarchy who serve in this heinous exercise in human genocide. While members of the Oligarchy in the Military get the plushest assignments, rank-and-file soldiers are routinely denied health benefits or protections. They are often used like guinea pigs & abandoned when schemes go wrong. The Modern Military is the penultimate front guard of the Rulers who are not only destroying each other, but are destroying the culture & beings of the entire world

Silence to murder implies Consent.

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The U.S.-British Axis paid $30Million$$$ to the Iraqi traitor who tipped them off to the location of Saddam Hussein’s sons in order for the Imperialists to kill them and display their dead bodies to the International Community. It’s no coincidence that the bounty contained the number 30, the number attributed to the Biblical traitor Judas. The Imperialists wanted to grind the lesson home to the Arab World that the Western Axis considers them less than scum. Is this a way to create a peaceful world?

The Western Oligarchs of The New Rome are only concerned with Domination & Greed.

All the People of the World are One Race and Citizens of One Planet with Many Dimensions. This is the true revelation of The New Aeon of The Crowned & Conquering Child 2012.

Freedom from this current post-modern Dark Age is not just going to “happen.” True liberation requires active Love and Will—and political struggle.

There is obviously much to do.

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Regarding supposedly “spiritual alternatives” and particularly the current fad ($$$SALE, SALE, SALE$$$) of “Gnosticism,” according to most “traditionalists” (mostly academics & up-market "encounter group" style entrepreneurs) the primary definition of a Gnostic is a person who believes that the phenomenal universe is “evil” and that Gnosis of the “One True God” can only be gained by a rejection of the world and all earth-based philosophies of evolution & change. This is certainly a historically valid point, particularly as it pertains to the Judaeo-Christian monastic Gnostic sect that composed the Egyptian Coptic Texts. Additionally, the traditionalists assert that real Gnostics adhere solely to the revelation of the ancient Gnostic Scriptures. Carried to its logical conclusion, such a Gnosticism rejects as non-beneficial the knowledge of science & technology—as well as participation in political & social movements that attempt to alleviate pain & oppression.

This view provides a convenient out for people who follow the prevailing apathetic & egocentric defeatist attitude so pervaisive under decadent Capitalist society where everybody’s out to make a buck with no regard to planetary consequences—and who at the same time want to appear like they’re substituting something profoundly meaningful in the place of social or political action. These people must be very thick-skinned to see suffering & then ignore it.

This traditional Gnosticism is really another form of Religious Fundamentalism—and readers are encouraged to reject such a narrow & archaic mindset.

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GNOSTIC COMMUNICATIONS asserts that it is the Human Mind that projects the dualistic concepts of “Good” and “Evil” into the phenomenal world. Further, the universe has many dimensions that THE HUMAN MIND WAS CREATED TO EXPLORE.

As to the experience of “God” (UNIFIED AWARENESS) the orthodox view of a hyper-externalized, supernatural god is as one-dimensional as that of the most rigid Atheist.

When a person insists on the existence of “The One True Almighty God” they are usually referring to their own Mortal Ego or the Demiurge.

Just as all living creatures perceive the world according to their particular physical constitution, the human mind/brain projects the idea of God into the world according to its level of evolution (the Aeons.) The current level of evolution implies a total freedom from the constraints of the mortal ego to allow the release of Unified Awareness from within.

The Gnostic Pagan School defines Gnosis as being the cyclical & evolutionary revelation of Unified Awareness through human understanding, outwardly manifesting as an enhanced expression of creativity. This is a Modern Gnostic & Existentialist Spirituality that advocates release of the Self (daemon) through a process of ritual devotion & scientific illumination. It is The New Aeon of The Conquering Child reflection of LOVE ALIGNED WITH WILL.

The Human Mind is a doorway to the experiencing of multi-dimensional reality.

THE "NEW AGE" IS DEAD.

RING IN THE NEW AEON OF GNOSIS.

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[27. Nuit 2004]

SUPPORT SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY 2004 PRESEDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

GNOSTIC COMMUNICATIONS endorses the Socialist Equality Party’s 2004 Presidential Campaign.

From the SEP Campaign announcement: The SEP is running on a democratic and socialist program to defend the interests of working people and to oppose war, social reaction and attacks on democratic rights. Its candidates are Bill Van Auken for president and Jim Lawrence for vice president. Bill Van Auken, 54, is a full-time writer for the World Socialist Web Site. He lives in New York City. Jim Lawrence, 65, is a retired auto worker, who worked at General Motors plants in the Dayton, Ohio, area for 30 years. He is a member of United Auto Workers Local 696 and has run as a socialist candidate for Congress.

Under the prevailing reactionary political climate in the United States a Socialist candidate could only garner a small minority of votes, but the purpose of the campaign is to present a socialist challenge to the Democrat/Republican status quo and to provide an organizational tool for on-going political education & action.

For more information on the Socialist Equality Party campaign & how readers can get involved, refer to SEP 2004 PRESEDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

[29. Nuit 2004]

“TRAFFIC” STALLS IN ANTI-TERROR PROPAGANDA

The USA Network’s three-part mini-series “Traffic” is propelled by dramatic tension in the first two installments, only to grind down to a disappointing concluding episode.

Based on the film of the same name, the plot of the mini-series illustrates the corrupting effects drug and human smuggling have on all levels of society.

Three major plot lines effectively intertwine with each other: The trafficking of “illegal” immigrants brought into the USA in large shipping containers; heroin smuggling and addiction; and the plight of a rogue DEA agent and its effect on his wife and son in a witness protection type program.

The first two episodes are riveting, with good production values, including an intelligent script.

Unfortunately in the concluding episode, the script succumbs to a trite anti-drug message, predictability, and the now customary & obligatory USA-As-Savior-of-the-World propaganda. The DEA agent is vindicated, the United States is saved from a terrorist smallpox plot, the son’s naughty Seattle girlfriend overdoses, and the bad guys (predominately Asians & Arabs) get punished. It’s all so fast, so black & white, and such a departure from the multi-shading that went before, that one is left feeling duped.

But then that’s what propaganda does best…

[26. Astarte 2004]

Solution to Social Security

Republican Financial Budget Czar Allan Greenspan recommended that Social Security benefits be slashed & the age of retirement raised.

GNOSTIC COMMUNICATIONS suggests the following:

When people reach the age of retirement the Government should automatically send them cyanide capsules. It would be cost effective & save $billions$ that can be invested in the military. The politicians would benefit too since they could raise their salaries & perks every month with no scruffy “senior citizens” to worry about. Most retirees will opt to take the pill rather than live in the financial misery they deserve for not working harder & saving more money while they had

the chance.

[17. Isis 2004]

“Black” Preachers Show Their True Colors

In a remarkable display of intolerance, a group of African-American ministers with strong ties to the Washington Establishment held an outdoor press conference today to condemn Gay Rights in general, and Gay Marriage in particular.

Quoting from the Sexist & Racist Unholy Bible, these patriarchal goons-in-white-collars screeched that, just as the nasty Semitic desert god Yahweh or Jehovah supposedly destroyed the wicked Pagan Sodom & Gomorrah, he (the Egocentric Demiurge) will in like manner certainly strike down with equal self-righteous & divine petulance the evil—and secular—United States if Gay Marriage were to be legally sanctioned. So we are treated to the spectacle of black preachers supporting Bush's call for a Constitutional Amendment in order to codify denial of Civil Rights to homosexuals.

This holier-than-thou Washington D.C.(The New Rome) press conference would be a sick joke if it weren't so grotesque & tragic.

These despicable representatives of Fundamentalist State Christianity went on to make the disgusting & inaccurate statement that equating Gay Rights with Civil Rights was somehow demeaning to the Civil Rights Struggle. In fact, Gay Rights is a logical & enlightened EXTENSION of Civil Rights. These ignorant & sell-out Christian “Leaders” have not only revealed their own hypocrisy & ignorance, they are also still attempting to constrain Civil Rights within the confines of the Church and under their misguided control.

The preachers-of-prejudice are nothing more or less than paid religious propagandists for State Capitalism.

SHAME ON THEM!

If these so-called black “Christian” Fundamentalists were in any way consistent in their biblical mindset, they must look longingly to the good old days when Africans were slaves to the Ancient Egyptians and the Hebrews—and to the days of slavery in the pre-Civil War South when the Bible was invoked to justify enslavement of Africans, and later the practice of segregation and White Christian Reaction.

Instead of clerical dress, these ministerial bigots should wear white hoods and robes with the emblazoned initials "KKK".

They are NOT “role models” for any contemporary African-American Community & must be opposed just like any other sexist group.

Unlike these wolves in sheep’s clothing, Martin Luther King Jr. was prepared to take the Civil Rights Movement into the arena of Class Struggle. There is no doubt he would have EMBRACED Gay Rights as well.

He would certainly have denounced the denouncers.

[26. Sekhmet 2004]

$BILLIONAIRESS$ “KETCHUP QUEEN” SEES RED!

Spoiled “Ketchup Queen” & First Lady Wannabe Teresa Heinz-Kerry spilled over & staged a tantrum during the opening “festivities” of the capitalist Democratic Party Convention in Boston tonight.

Earlier in the day Mrs. Kerry was caught on video tape while delivering a belligerent speech with specious & sinister implications blasting her Skull & Bones husband’s opponents as “Un-American.” It was not immediately evident if Queen Kerry was referring to the thousands of anti-war protestors corralled outside in cop controlled phony “free speech zones;" to the Bush gang in general, or both. What’s important is that Heinz-Kerry's rancorous speech was memorialized & broadcast to the world.

Following this revealing display of privileged pique, a reporter asked Kerry what she meant by “Un-American.”

Realizing that she had gone too far and got caught, Madame Kerry denied ever using the term “Un-American” and then stormed away.

However, Queen Ketchup hadn’t finished her Marie Antoinette act.

With cameras still rolling, the vindictive Heinz-Kerry raced back to the reporter, accused him of being a liar and “putting words” in her mouth. Next, sounding more like the proverbial fishwife than the pampered heiress to a tomato sauce fortune, Heinz-Kerry told the reporter to "Shove it!"

Her extraordinarily quirky 15-minute debut in the “Global Village” over, the cameras were abruptly turned off.

Almost immediately the bourgeois press began the Big Spin.

The implications and gross character flaws represented in the original speech were down played & ignored; and all of a sudden the incident was dressed up to show how “forthright” and “gutsy” Heinz-Kerry was!

The term “Un-American” has definite negative connotations in the United States besides the Tomato Queen's obvious pandering to the current U.S. knuckles-scrapping-the-ground prejudicial Nationalist mentality.

During the 1950’s the House Un-American Activities anti-Communist vendetta ruined thousands of previously productive lives in the Government’s obsession with finding Reds under every bed. The fact that Kerry’s wife would resurrect this emotionally loaded term should not be such a surprise. Bourgeois Democracy in the United States was effectively dealt a deathblow by the phony Bush II election & subsequent creation of the pre-fascist “Homeland Security” bureaucracy. The differences between the Democratic and Republican Parties have always been miniscule. Combined they both represent The Two-Faced Party of Capitalism, War and Reaction.

It won’t matter in the slightest what Capitalist gets elected in November.

La Kerry’s forthright bitchiness is simply a preview of coming attractions of civil horror & social abuse.

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