The yearly U.S. state ritual, the
“State of the Union” address to Congress, was performed last
night by the Federal politicians of America- the president, U.S.
senators, and representatives in the House. [1]
Perhaps you've
forgotten about it already. I'm a bit tardy since I've been under
stress and distraction thanks to my U.S. secret police persecutors. I
think I will start posting about that.
This speech,
delivered by the president to Congress, is an increasingly empty
political show, put on in an attempt by the elites (political and
media) to reinforce the indoctrination of the populace. An empty
display of pseudo-democracy, it is in part a self-report card by the
president, who brags of alleged achievements, and in part yet another
injection of America Is Wonderful and Getting Better propaganda.
No doubt the vast
majority of the American populace does not sit in front of their TVs
to watch this boring, anodyne political spectacle, yet the
establishment propaganda system (“the media”) treat it as a Big
Event, which it is decidedly not. So they will “analyze” it (make
obvious, non-incisive comments about it) and the rival politicians of
the Other Party (in this case the GOP, Gang Of Plunderers) will carp
in ways that avoid mention of the real crimes of Obama. [2]
Bad enough I am
forced to waste any part of my life thinking about Obama and his
crimes against humanity.
Obama just this
past week cruelly unleashed police state goons to round up endangered
Central American women and children to forcibly deport them to what
for at least some will be death at the hands of gangs. Some
apologists for Obama on the left see this as an attempt to appease
the right. But having deported over 2 million people during his
reign- a record for any president- and failing to stop rightists from
ignoring that fact completely (the white racists and xenophobes
insist that “their” country is being “taken over” by
Hispanics) I'm confident that Obama, an intelligent (and immoral)
man, realizes that deporting a few hundred more won't win him any
kudos from rightists, and from the racists and demagogues who insist
he is a Kenyan-born Muslim socialist (cf. Donald Trump, e.g.).
Let's remember,
Obama is never going to run for office again for the rest of his
life. So what he does now isn't determined by electoral
considerations. No one should still pretend that he's doing anything
he doesn't really want to do.
Obama does these
things because he is an oppressor. He has shown this in many ways.
Under him, the civil liberties and human rights holocaust begun under
the Bush regime has intensified, not abated. This has come about
Obama has treated
the outrageous cases of police murders of blacks, even of 12 year old
Tamir Rice, gunned down in broad daylight in Cincinnati, a crime
captured on camera and yet exonerated by “the authorities,” with
malign neglect. At most, he has tried to pour oil on troubled waters
to trick the aggrieved into cooling out, to pacify them while doing
nothing at all about the “problem.” Obama (and his “black”
Attorneys General, first the millionaire corporate lawyer Eric
Holder, Jr., and now Loretta “The Confiscator” Lynch) instead act
as all their predecessors have, as aiders and abettors of police
repression of the black underclass. The reason “bad apple”
killer-cops are supported by state power is because the low level of
terror these murders create is seen as a useful intimidation tactic
to keep the black underclass submissive.
Once again, we see
that class trumps race in determining political loyalty
and action by particular individuals. And that the power system is
so structured that only those dedicated to its underlying values and
interests can rise within it.
But I do believe that Obama only fooled those who wanted on some
level to be fooled. Unlike people who should have known better
(prominently among them directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, and
the very intelligent Christian philosopher and activist
Here's another massive ongoing crime against humanity that Obama is
assiduously aiding and abetting: the relentless Israeli campaign to
suffocate the Palestinian people. Obama currently is making a deal
with Israel that will run for ten years after he leaves office to
increase the handout of free military “aid” to Israel by 50%, to
$4.5 billion a year.
By the way, it's “illegal” for Palestinians to even collect
rainwater. The Israeli army, the so-called “Israeli Defense Force,”
destroys cisterns and anything else constructed to collect rainwater.
This on top of the “settlements” taking atleast 75% of the water
of the West Bank for their own use.
One thing Obama
said in his televised oration that was so outrageous in its brazen
cynicism was his vow to “close Guantanamo,” the U.S. military
prison-torture center in occupied Cuban territory.
He certainly has
his nerve. When he was elected, seven years ago, way back in 2008, he
vowed to close the prison within a year. What he has done instead is
refuse to release even prisoners “cleared for release” years ago.
[And it has just been revealed that the military- which he is the
commander-in-chief of, as per the U.S. Constitution- has been
deliberately obstructing the release of “cleared” prisoners for
years by being uncooperative with foreign officials whose countries
have agreed in principle to accept “detainees” for “relocation.”
Tactics include refusing to provide medical records (with the cynical
excuse of “respecting the prisoner's privacy”!) refusing to allow
delegations to stay overnight at the sprawling base, and other forms
of stonewalling.]
Once again, Obama
posed as a Friend of Immigrants- even placing a “dreamer” as a
prop next to wife Michelle- while in the midst of launching vicious
predawn raids on the abodes of refugee mothers and children. He's
going to “continue the work that needs to be done- fixing our
broken immigration system,” applause from Democrats starts- and a
laundry list of faux-liberal items off a checklist- gun control,
minimum wage, etc. In fact, in almost every case, he never lifted a
finger to do a thing, except when he actively worked to make things
worse, as in the case of the millions of immigrants forced to live
quasi-underground existences in the U.S. In other cases he did very
little. [3]
This is the same
tune he sang during his national debut, the speech he delivered at
the Democratic Party's national convention in 2004. I was revolted by
that phony speech at the time, as it was standard Democratic Party
deceit that could have been cribbed from an endless series of
Democratic Party con men- Mario Cuomo, Hubert Humphrey, Adlai
Stevenson, et al, who always talk liberal and behave as reactionaries
in practice. (Cuomo's sole achievement as NY State governor was a
massive prison expansion; Humphrey was a cheerleader for the criminal
Vietnam war as LBJ's vice-president; Stevenson was a Cold War
Democrat.)
He had to put in a
boast about ordering the assassination of Osama bin Laden (he didn't
phrase it like that, of course- he's far too dishonest for that) in
the context of talking about how much he was “bombing” ISIS.
These acts he labeled “bringing to justice,” the usual sinister
euphemism he uses for violent retribution.
A sample of
Obama's breast-beating bragging from The Speech: “The United States
of America is the most powerful nation on Earth. Period. It’s not
even close. We spend more on our military than the next eight nations
combined. Our troops are the finest fighting force in the history of
the world. No nation dares to attack us or our allies because they
know that’s the path to ruin. Surveys show our standing around the
world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it
comes to every important international issue, people of the world do
not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead. They call us.” Note the
combination of national chauvinism and the implied self-serving
compliment to his own “stewardship” of the empire this boast
displays. This “pride” in their destructive power is surely scary
to many of the world's people, who have been on the receiving end of
the U.S. “big stick.”
His
hosannas for the Greatness of the U.S., and his own fabulous
achievements, naturally would have been spoiled by mentioning how the
U.S. (and him) rushes bombs and bullets to Israel every time it
devastates Gaza yet again, or now it is currently making possible the
destruction of large parts of Yemen, and the starvation conditions
there, by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state lackeys, flying planes
purchases from the U.S., and dropping bombs supplied by the U.S. The
Saudis have bombed medical facilities 70 times in Yemen, including a
facility for the blind. Taking after the U.S., they just bombed a
Doctors
Without Borders hospital (Médecins
Sans Frontières). MSF keeps giving out their GPS coordinates,
thinking that will spare them attacks. They need to start giving out
FALSE coordinates, for empty lots and such, instead. It's obvious
that evil nations like Saudi Arabia and the U.S. only use the
information for accurate targetting! [4]
I
suppose I should mention his ''ruefulness'' about what is called
partisan gridlock, the refusal of the rival imperialist capitalist
parties (the Democrats and Republicans) to come together in one happy
ruling clan. That's been a recurring theme throughout his reign. All
I'll say is it is entirely due to GOP (Gang Of Plunderers)
fanaticism.
Obama's
eighth and last State of the Union speech. I'm glad that's
over
with. Another ritual of the power class we can do without, being
force-fed their guff.
1] The U.S. has a bicameral
national legislature, consisting of the “House of Representatives,”
with 435 members, elected from 435 electoral districts roughly equal
in population and encompassing all the area of the 50 states, and the
Senate, with 100 senators, each state having two. Thus, the U.S.
Senate is one of the most profoundly anti-democratic elected
institutions on earth. The approximately 20 least populous states
have forty senators, while California, with the same population as
those states, gets two. As the least populous states are mostly very
reactionary, such as the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
(Cheney-Land) and so on, this is yet another device that makes and
keeps the U.S. a rightwing nation.
2] Here's a typical example of
anodyne media “reaction” from the next morning's (January 13)
“news” broadcast on U.S. government radio propaganda network,
“Morning Edition,” as orated by co-host Steven Inskeep from his
script. According to Inskeep, Obama's speech was “both sweeping and
relaxed. He [Obama] offered a defense of his record along with a long
term vision” blah blah.
Inskeep just last week did a
brown-nosing “interview” with Obama, aired over two days on NPR.
One thing the weaselly propagandists of NPR know how to do is
genuflect before their political masters.
3] The “dreamers” are those
cruelly duped young offspring of immigrants, who lack citizenship and
grew up in America, whom Obama tricked into believing that somehow
their status would be “regularized” and they could live in
America without the constant fear of summary deportation (sans
possessions and money), be able to go to college, work, live what is
considered a normal life.
4] See “A Hospital Bombedin Yemen,” The Atlantic, January 10, 2016
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