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The New Evil Empire 
America has become what Nazi Germany 
and the Soviet Union used to be

By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
2-28-4


Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist threat? Or how
about the Third Reich, the creator of which became the chief metaphor
for evil in the 20th century?   Most Americans, certainly those
younger than 30, don't remember either. Hell, they don't even remember
Vietnam or Nixon or The Beatles. The terms and their connotations are
totally unfamiliar, unless encountered in history texts. Millions of
Americans simply do not remember what America used to stand for -
freedom, justice, equality - and as a result, don't fully comprehend
the appalling reality of what America has become.   Once upon a time,
back in the days of Elvis and the hula hoop, when I was a little
shaver, I was taught in school that when Germany took over France,
Poland and other European countries, that was wrong, and the United
States sacrificed almost a half million of its own young people to
reverse those situations in the name of freedom. And that happened
twice, 1916-18 and 1941-45.   In the same vein, I grew up being taught
that the Soviet Union's annexation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
and all of Eastern Europe was an evil deed, and that for many years in
a period called the Cold War, the American military objective was
aimed at overturning this unjust oppression. Back in the 1950s when I
was in elementary school, we used to have routine Civil Defense drills
where we used to have to hide under our desks pretending we were about
to be nuked by the Russians. Really!   It's a new world now. For one
thing, the population of the planet has doubled in those mere 50
years. And for another, it is the United States that is now sweeping
the world, scooping up all these other countries in the name of
capitalist democracy, and telling lies about why it has to go to war.
And instead of railing against the powerful giant stealing freedom
from all these hapless victims, as it did in years past, the American
press is now cheering it, justifying it in the increasingly ambivalent
names of capitalism and democracy. Worse, the American people are
cheering it, too, something that's never really happened in U.S.
history, when the people support a war that they know is based on
lies.   Of course, the American press is cheering it because it is the
American military doing it. Even the German and Russian press aren't
really criticizing it in a serious way. Because there is no country
that can oppose America, which spends more on its military than all
the other countries in the world combined, yet still complains that it
needs to spend more, even as its bridges and schools are falling apart
and its manufacturing base has completely disappeared, precipitating
its imminent economic collapse. Still the military spending increases,
and war plans ooze out like an evil ink stain spreading across the
globe.   The evil empire, number one threat to peace in the world, is
now the United States. No more Red Menace. No more Third Reich. Now
it's a War on Terror executed by the biggest terrorist of all -
America, the nation that killed its own people by the thousands in
order to trigger World War III and capture all the world's oil fields.
  Now the shoe is obviously on the other foot. The United States has
now assumed the role of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia at their worst
and all rolled into one. It has troops poised and threatening in 127
other countries. By the diabolical mechanisms of the World Trade
Organization and the International Monetary Fund, it has already
plundered most other countries financially, stealing their utilities
and impoverishing their inhabitants. And those nations who resist this
financial con game, like Yugoslavia, are simply invaded and coerced
into servitude. Those nations who play the game, like Russia and
Argentina, are reduced to abject poverty with a few pro-Western
billionaires owning everything.   And woe to those nations who won't
play the game, like Iraq. They are obliterated and turned into
permanent war zones. Their people are murdered in their sleep by
hopped-up American soldiers who are told by their cynical leaders that
they are spreading democracy, when really what they are spreading are
endless opportunities for plunder by politically connected
corporations.   And America's leader lie about absolutely everything.
Never at any time in my personal history has there been a time when an
American president has not at least accidentally told the truth about
something, but that time is now.   Once upon a time, Americans used to
preach the cause of freedom and justice for all. It's actually written
in their Pledge of Allegiance. But they don't adhere to that anymore.
After all, Americans have canceled their Bill of Rights, which once
made them famous - made them loved! - all over the world. Now they are
feared all over the world. Reviled. When Americans launched their
worldwide war on terror - based on a treasonous event in which they
killed large numbers of their own people - they betrayed the whole
world. They betrayed every dream of freedom anybody ever had anywhere.
  The people who did it did it for a few billion dollars. Can you
blame them? It's easy money blowing up countries and blaming it on
somebody else. Even you might do it if you had the chance. Americans
support such an idea. It's capitalism at its best, controlling the
market, make money on the destruction by selling the weapons, make
money on the reconstruction by involving your friends in the
contracts, no public bids, of course. So you lose a few dark-skinned
lives. The world is overpopulated anyway. Look at it as population
control (although that it another, much larger topic).   Things have
become so ugly in the United States that the liberal opposition
candidate for president tells peace activists to "Get over it!" That
there will be no peace no matter who is president. That America is
united to overrun and ravish the whole world, simply because there is
no one to stop it. This is the America that was venerated and admired
all over the world. This is what America became when there was no
other power to keep it honest. It became dishonest - and a killer
nation.   People overseas make a mistake when the say they have
nothing against the American people, that it is simply the American
government they loathe and fear. It is the American people who have
permitted this to happen, and they who bear the blame and will reap
the whirlwind for their inaction.   Once, America set an example for
the world to establish representative government and take care of its
less fortunate. Today, America is still setting an example for the
world, an example that democracy is a hoax, and that all we can expect
for our children's futures is a dark abyss of endless war based on
phony pretenses.   The thing that made the episodes with Nazi Germany
and Soviet Union have happy endings was that there was somebody to
fight for freedom ready to rescue those oppressed by military tyranny
from a foreign power.   But now, who is ready to defend the freedom of
those in Afghanistan, or in Iraq, or in Macedonia, Serbia, the
Philippines, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Iran, Syria, Lebanon,
Pakistan, Nicaragua, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala ... or
Palestine?   Who is ready to defend freedom now that the Americans
have declared freedom incompatible with security?   But these things
tend to even out over time. Rome wasn't built in a day and it took
centuries to fall apart, but eventually it was picked apart by jackals
and sycophantic traitors from within.   The world will yet have the
last laugh on America, after its own leaders have finished picking the
bones of its financially depleted carcass.   Because Americans have
given up defending true freedom around the world, the day will soon
arrive (sooner than they think) when they will have to defend their
own freedom against the very monster they have created by their own
selfish indifference. The corporate beast that consumes freedom around
the world will one day soon turn its gaping jaws on America itself,
and the Americans, who have decided to forget how to defend true
freedom around the world, will necessarily have forgotten how to
defend their own.   Once upon a time, when I was a little shaver and
the president was some guy named Ike, I was told that America was the
greatest nation in the world because it was a champion of freedom and
justice, and rescued the oppressed whenever people were in trouble.  
So ... were they lying then and telling the truth now, or telling the
truth then and lying now?   And when the rest of the world comes
calling to rectify this murderous tyranny and worldwide oppression
that America now practices, what will you say to them when they aim
their guns at you? That you didn't know?
   John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection of his Internet essays published by Dandelion Books and
featured on hundreds of websites around the world. For more
information on how to get this book or to financially support his work
(seriously needed now), go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/. Or, to
read some more of his recent essays for free, go to
http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
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