Surrealistas: Iraq
messenger
"Can we be asked to toss onto the dunghill this unlimited capacity to
say NO which is the entire secret of human progress in order to watch
and wonder at what is going on without us at the other end of the
world?" – André Breton, Preface to "The Political Position of
Surrealism"
War is not "inevitable." Surrealism has always known that the worst is
NEVER inevitable. Liberated imagination, unbound by profit and power,
can reintegrate a world divided by cynical conspiracies. Does the
parade of rotting suits in the White House REALLY know something we
don't, besides how to make crime pay? When America's friends – Israel,
Indonesia, Turkey, and the rest of the pack – invade neighbors or feed
their own people to the mangle, the U.S. cries "encore," and showers
the stage with gifts of money and guns. Thus with Iraq when Saddam
Hussein was America's Friendly Spook. But time made the lovers
restless, and now Iraq is a blood-clotted doormat on the path to
future conquests. Some 200,000 killed in the orgy of Desert Storm,
perhaps a million and a half more (mostly children under the age of 5;
but we LOVE the children!) felled by genocidal sanctions, and yet more
by persistent air strikes that form the decade's wallpaper: What is
the U.S. without its objects of corrupt desire?
And being pals with the U.S. is as slippery a proposition as being a
Mafia stoolie. Since Hussein passed from being a Friendly Spook to
being an Invaluable Monster his days have been numbered, and now his
number is up. The U.S. smokes all proposals for a non-violent
resolution (as it had barricaded all routes to a peaceful settlement
in 1990.) Even as we write, another Iraqi proposal for the
unconditional return of weapons inspectors is angrily denounced as a
"stalling" tactic before it is even considered. It will quickly be
forgotten amid the banquet of oily sensationalism scented with
patriotic spices, that the White House feeds its media teat-suckers to
regurgitate, lap up, and regurgitate again. Imagine trying to stall
the war! Brazen! Incomprehensible!
SO WE WILL NOT BUY THE INEVITABLE!
Remember: The U.S. is NOT some "new kid on the block" who must
over-compensate for his anonymity by pissing bullets at each social
"slight," but THE practitioner of concentrated power, the Big Boy.
Expedient "provocations" are exploited at regular intervals as a
diversion for a bored audience.. Here and there, dreams have been
flattened to a desert where peace cannot exist even as a mirage, where
decency "digs in" underground and predators nourish themselves on what
is most abandoned. We know (without any "experts") that a politician's
mouth is a spigot of lies; AND we do not wish to drown! It will take
many hands DREAMING IN UNION to turn off that filthy fountain. AND it
is not too early to begin.
WE DEMAND A CHANGE IN TARGETS!
We know the U.S. indulges periodically in scratching its itches, not
bothered by where the infection actually lies. Iraq constitutes a
threat to imperial complacency: the West dreams it is on the right
side, demanding a revolving collection of those on the wrong side. Yet
WHO passes out weapons like flowers? WHO mugs world labor? WHO houses
the most corporate thieves and killers? WHO is afraid to see itself as
it passes a shop window? WHO holds the deepest and most dangerous
myths about itself and kills religiously for those delusions? The
answer is clear: if the U.S. is to bomb nations based upon their
potential for damage, then it should begin at home, as an act of
charity to the world about which it pretends to care.
But what hands feed this beast? You already know the answer, though
you are moving into denial: the oil companies, the military/industrial
complex and the rest of the usual suspects that bankroll the White
House joined in this murderous game of red light/green light by an
anaesthetized servant class of pundits and intellectuals, whom we
single out for blame because of the betrayal of a particular trust.
InfoContainment has become the greatest tool for the maintenance of
power, and those Ministries of Truth, which were historically
dedicated to countering government and business malfeasance, now dine
with the Swine and lick up slop fallen from their lips. THAT (only
slightly digested) becomes our breakfast news. But we demand full
disclosure, by force if necessary, and (as always) array ourselves
against the forces of miserablism and the trivialization of desire.
So, we are suspended in permanent crisis by our Invaluable Monsters.
It is past time to return to our senses and reason our way our of this
mess.
SO WE HAVE SOME GENTLE PROPOSITIONS FOR THE PIMP AND ITS TARTS!
BEING THAT…
…Complacency and obedience are untenable positions when war is
prospected;
…War on Iraq is not inevitable unless the U.S. demands it be; The U.S.
is contemptuous of any peace which threatens profit and power;
…The U.S. breathes war, being the largest arms dealer in the world,
being the world's strongest military force, being an economy that
relies on military spending for the development of its technology
sector, and being the club-happy cop that readily employs violence to
expand the economic prospects for itself and its partners-in-crime;
…The U.S. has a bloodlust for Iraq, having made it the first
spectacular casualty of the New World Order, crushing it underfoot for
a decade, and mechanically plotting to rain yet more horror on its
people;
…The U.S. is deceitful, having opportunistically presented Saddam
Hussein as a friend and then again as a monster, having exploited and
brutally dashed the hopes of Iraq's Shi'ites and Kurds, having
sabotaged the UNSCOM weapons inspection team by loading it with spies,
and having supplied disinformation to its own media for the sole
purpose of advancing war;
…The U.S. has perversely accomplished all this while claiming to
command a moral high ground;
…America's sidekick Britain is just as reprehensible;
…Australia or any other country which fails to oppose the war does so
to their escalating disgrace;
…Bush and Blair pretend to hold the positions of ultimate
responsibility and so should be held responsible even though they are
puppets of their respective political machines;
WE DECLARE
that it is no longer enough to denounce the murderous policies of Bush
and Blair. We demand these men be bodily dragged from their seats of
power, weighed down with a red stone for every lost life that can be
laid at their feet, and thrown into the most unforgiving depths of the
sea.
And then the free radicals of imagination shall refresh that sea.
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September 2002
And collectively supported by….
John Quincy Adams
Hannah Cadaver
Thomas Clarkson
Barrett John Erickson
Brandon Freels
Parry Harnden
Dale Houstman
Stuart Inman
Rob Marsden
Vernon Masterson
Evi Möchel
Pierre Petiot
Ribitch
M.K. Shibek
Andrew Torch
Jay Woolrich
Xtian
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f.woodhead
elected
politician ( ok bush a bit shaky but still head of a democracy) cos you dont
agree with him this makes the world a better place because?
"messenger" <antif...@end-war.com> wrote in message
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> War Metamorphosis: Friendly Spooks Into Invaluable Monsters
>
> "Can we be asked to toss onto the dunghill this unlimited capacity to
> say NO which is the entire secret of human progress in order to watch
> and wonder at what is going on without us at the other end of the
> Surrealism"
>
> War is not "inevitable." Surrealism has always known that the worst is
> NEVER inevitable. Liberated imagination, unbound by profit and power,
> can reintegrate a world divided by cynical conspiracies. Does the
> parade of rotting suits in the White House REALLY know something we
> Indonesia, Turkey, and the rest of the pack - invade neighbors or feed
>
> .Complacency and obedience are untenable positions when war is
> prospected;
>
> .War on Iraq is not inevitable unless the U.S. demands it be; The U.S.
> is contemptuous of any peace which threatens profit and power;
>
> being the world's strongest military force, being an economy that
> relies on military spending for the development of its technology
> sector, and being the club-happy cop that readily employs violence to
> expand the economic prospects for itself and its partners-in-crime;
>
> spectacular casualty of the New World Order, crushing it underfoot for
> a decade, and mechanically plotting to rain yet more horror on its
> people;
>
> Hussein as a friend and then again as a monster, having exploited and
> brutally dashed the hopes of Iraq's Shi'ites and Kurds, having
> sabotaged the UNSCOM weapons inspection team by loading it with spies,
> and having supplied disinformation to its own media for the sole
> purpose of advancing war;
>
> command a moral high ground;
>
>
> .Australia or any other country which fails to oppose the war does so
> to their escalating disgrace;
>
> .Bush and Blair pretend to hold the positions of ultimate
> responsibility and so should be held responsible even though they are
> puppets of their respective political machines;
>
> WE DECLARE
>
> that it is no longer enough to denounce the murderous policies of Bush
> and Blair. We demand these men be bodily dragged from their seats of
> power, weighed down with a red stone for every lost life that can be
> laid at their feet, and thrown into the most unforgiving depths of the
> sea.
>
> And then the free radicals of imagination shall refresh that sea.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> September 2002
>
arealman
moronic actor feels they have to do the same.
Now you have started on here.
Try and use some original vocabulary of is your world a lucuna as theirs
appears to be.
messenger wrote in message ...
arealman
kit spanos wrote in message ...
>"arealman" <Ma...@Playboy.com> wrote in message
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>> Ever since some prick in hollywood used the word Surrealism , every other
>> moronic actor feels they have to do the same.
>>
>> Now you have started on here.
>>
>> Try and use some original vocabulary of is your world a lucuna as theirs
>> appears to be.
>
> What?
>
> Repeat: What?
messenger
> so you would let a murderous dictator carry on and excute a lawfully
> elected
> politician ( ok bush a bit shaky but still head of a democracy) cos you dont
> agree with him this makes the world a better place because?
Iraqis would undoubtedly benefit by disposing of their own criminal
leaders. (Of course, if they tried to pursue an independent path they
would still have to contend with America's designs for the region.)
The point here, though, is that those of us in western countries also
need a regime change, at the very least.
-- Parry
arealman
kit spanos wrote in message ...
>"arealman" <Ma...@Playboy.com> wrote in message
>> Is your's what eh though devoid of original thought
>
DICK !
Sherlock Holmes
You come over to this country, unable to write properly, never mind think
logically etc.........
--
Sherlock Holmes
"arealman" <Ma...@Playboy.com> wrote in message
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arealman
kit spanos wrote in message ...
>"arealman" <Ma...@Playboy.com> wrote in message
>some words to use.
You really do have difficulty with english don't you. The i should be a
capital thus "I" , go learn the language should be " go and learn the
language " and........
Comprehension is another aspect. "Dick" is not a threat. Dick is a
contemptuous expression used in response to your inane post.
You have a better day tomorrow !