It's important to keep things as polarized as we can get them. That way any truth that gets past the censors and the self-censoring will get lost in the noise of animal hatred. And that's vital, all that hatred. We need that hatred to detonate the bomb.
So Cindy Sheehan's both helping and hurting. By getting out front the way she did, and then beating two retreats in one, she's helped strengthen the flagging bigots on the right wing side; but by bringing the iceberg to Texas she's caused people whose minds were made up to rethink their positions some, some of them a lot. By insisting on a hearing she gained a lot of the oooh and ahhh sympathy of folks who are infantilized beyond rational thought, and at least a grudging nod from the calloused and skeptical.
A mom, with a slain son, talking tough and getting right up in the President's face - in a media-event sort of way. People think the President talks to them when he addresses the nation, and he sort of does, but he's also very distant from the common run of Americans; he lives inside a space that's made out of artificial material, fictional material, a virtual place inside a virtual architecture.
And in a real way, Cindy Sheehan went in there after him. And he just ran off into another part of the building and closed his eyes and waited for her to leave.
But then that letter shows up.
So then the real world has to be backfired, and that's used up a lot of hatred. Hatred we're going to need pretty soon.
The heroic villains were actually worried the first part of the week, you could feel it in the air, you could smell it - the truth was leaking onto the stage. But now it's okay again.
She's gone, even if she comes back, and she lied about what happened.
I can't prove that of course, but I'm pretty sure Tony Tersch isn't lying when he says he didn't doctor the email she sent him, and she says the email he got was doctored.
That's pretty much a binary and it will either get consumed in the premature heat it's generated or it will divide things up in a new and interesting way. But we may not have time for interesting things. It's late, and it's getting later.
That heat is premature because we don't want things getting too hot and too out in the open until it's too late, absolutely too late - so that when the time comes people will be desperate and terrified and ready for any kind of comfort they can find.
Getting the truth, or what little of it can be contained in language and metaphor, simple enough for most Americans to understand and out in the open air - now, while it's still possible to avoid the irrevocable - makes it too likely someone will find a way to smooth things over, and then where will we be?
Having to reconstruct some kind of functioning human society out of the wreckage of this one would be so much work! It's so much easier to just blow everything up and forget about it.
So Sheehan saying she never said that her son died for Israel is good, because it fills the Zionists with confidence, and we need them to have that confidence, we need them to keep driving, full speed ahead.
But on the other hand she did get it out there. People did have to think about it. And there is quite a bit of non-bigoted confirmation for the idea that Israel and its drones were behind the planning for and execution of the invasion and occupation, and are now actively assembling the tools and weaponry for an assault on Iran as well, though there's much less evidence for the Iran part.
Still, a little basic logical connecting and it falls into place pretty clearly.
It helps that most Americans can't find either Israel or Iraq or Iran on a map, so the idea that Iran and Iraq are obvious major threats to Israel will seem murky and debatable - but clearly-marked maps are getting too easy to find.
So that endangers the plan. It's possible someone might figure out a way to hit the brakes before the center of gravity is all the way through the guardrail.We are headed exactly there, but at this point only the front wheels are airborne. Miracles do happen, unlikely events can occur and will then appear miraculous, saviors do appear, people do get rescued, the day does get saved.
So we need to encourage those stalwart workers in the cess-filled trenches; they've been shown they aren't perfect, their prophets are marginal, their dreams as flimsy as anyone elses are, the key to the worlds between worlds may not work this time. They're nervous. We need to help them with those doubts, because they're vital parts of this exercise in annihilation.
So a few of the widely available confirmations that whoever said that, about the assault and invasion of Iraq being a Jewish plot to benefit Israel, wasn't completely loopy, are presented here - that they may be subject to the same clamorous scorn and bile.
In the hopes that they can then be dealt with as swiftly and concisely as Sheehan's now-unauthored assertion was, and we can get back to preparing for the end of human life on earth.
"General Anthony Zinni, ret., a past chief of the U.S. Central Command and President Bush's former Middle East special envoy, told "60 Minutes" on Sunday that the neoconservatives' role in pushing the war for Israel's benefit was "the worst-kept secret in Washington." Three days earlier, Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, rose on the Senate floor to defend a newspaper essay he had written earlier in the month making the same charge. Both men complained that they had been unfairly labeled antisemitic for speaking out."The Forward "a legendary name in American journalism and a revered institution in American Jewish life" 28.May.04
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"Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990 - it's the threat against Israel," Zelikow told a crowd at the University of Virginia on Sep. 10, 2002, speaking on a panel of foreign policy experts assessing the impact of 9/11 and the future of the war on the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation.IPS-Inter Press Service 29.Mar.04
"And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don't care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn't want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell," said Zelikow.
Philip Zelikow - member President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 2001-2003; executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission
speaking at the University of Virginia 10.Sep.02
