The Supine American

To:-- Progressive Magazine

Re:-- American apathy in face of economic deprivation and dispossession.

Howard Zinn is right to point out that during the Revolutionary War and the Great Depression, locals took matters into their own hands and forcibly prevented foreclosures. In my view, and the obsessions of the false-issue left notwithstanding, this is one of the reasons we have the Second Amendment. Things do come to that from time to time.

Alas, by pointing that out, Zinn indirectly points to the political degeneracy of modern US-Americans, who are too uninformed and too cowardly to do anything about their present conditions.

What could be more pathetic than allowing yourself to frisked and searched before being let into a corraled Mall to listen to pop-renditions of "..and home of the brave..." ?

What could be more spineless than to meekly accept guard dogs and keflar encased kops armed with automatics to "patrol" trains, on the grounds that some terrorsit "might" at some possible time do something?

Quiver, quiver, quiver....

But even if Murkans were to cynch in their CheezO belly sags and make like tough, their government has a whole host of crowd control weapons at its 1984ish disposal. Mass-tasers.... Sonic-Boom-Beams.... Slippery Jelly.... and CATs to scoop up the human refuse and send them to some temporary detention and re-wiring facility.

(Oh? You thought these were being developed for use in Afghanistan did you?)

Nah... the only thing that would get US-Americans to revolt at this point would be for some revo-hackers to jam all TV bandwiths. A shocked and dismayed nation would start rioting in the streets and would not be pacified until FEMA erected temporary big screens and handed out free CheezOs.

Munch, munch, munch. But keep on trying Zinn... :)

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