verse 9. the state of national insecurity




the directorate of national insecurity--




the joint chiefs of staff, the director of the cia, the head of the national security agency,




the president<u+00b4>s national security advisor, the chief of homeland security,




the secretary of state, the attorney general, the chair of the senate committee on intelligence,




the president of the good old usa--




all answer to the 1% in a plutocracy posing as ersatz democracy,




kowtowing to big money, to wall streeters and their cohorts,




to oil barons, the multinational corporations, the drone makers,




to the vast network of contractors for the cia, nsa, and homeland insecurity,




all enjoying secret giveaways for their private pockets




(estimated at a classified $4+ trillion for the war on terror),




big $$$ to the gmo inventors, big pharma profiting from provisions in <u+201c>fast track<u+201d> free trade agreements,




to insurance racketeers serving up sickness under <u+201c>obamacare,<u+201d>




and all their lesser but well rewarded staff of hangers-on,




all thinking that what the 1% want the 90% will get--




the shaft, not even the trickle-down.




the terrorism of war lubricates the shaft,




the state of national insecurity shoves it up the ass of any boogeyman foreign terrorist created




and any bold peacemaker in the homeland is at risk.




in the homeland all the agencies of repression mobilize to track the good guy.




whistle-blowers, dead or alive, by any means necessary!




the nsa passes on what poses as intelligence to the multiplying police agencies.




the fbi infiltrates the peacemakers, tells local cops how to des-occupy the street scat.




big brother listens to every word you speak,




and if you don<u+00b4>t think zombie, puts you on the list.




the department of war brings official terror instruments to the homeland,




arms local police forces with <u+201c>surplus<u+201d> military armaments




to provoke and then violently suppress peaceful demonstrators




protesting police murder and immunity from prosecution.




the state of national insecurity has more sophisticated apparatuses than mr. orwell




or adolf hitler could envision.




so efficient that no homeland gestapo is needed--




at least not time yet for domestic death squads




like those created by ronnie raygun in central america in the 1980s




and now the murderous narco-state in mexico fashioned by nafta and the war on drugs,




and the neo-nazi thugs in the ukraine overthrowing the government




to get western access to the oil, gas, business opportunity and nato bases




and start a new cold war with russia.




the national insecurity agency, a monstrosity almost beyond comprehension,




scrutinizes billions of private messages of everyone, everywhere,




abroad the heads of state of allies are listened to for clues as to their thoughts and policies.




everywhere searching for intelligence to compile lists of supposed terrorists to kill,




at home compiling lists of millions among the thinking and peaceful,




people like you and me, now with fbi files,




suspect because we oppose the terrorism of the super-rogue.




we pacifists are potential terrorists.




the president of nice words and dirty deeds




says <u+201c>reform,<u+201d> but will as always follow the dirty way.




there can be no balance of privacy and security, only cover-ups of what is really going on.




the 2015 <u+201c>freedom act<u+201d> to limit the nsa is a long way from curtailing surveillance.




the nsa searches for commercial advantage to pass on to business cronies.




nsa still spies on friend and foe, sabotages computer systems of <u+201c>enemies,<u+201d> like china,




conspires to facilitate then cloak in secrecy the official terrorism of the super rogue.




the state of national insecurity could be considered a fourth branch of government,




the military, security, and police agencies supposedly




backing the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.




given their centrality, these agencies are better considered




as a state reduced to its all-powerful repressive apparatus,




to its authoritarian essence.




its centrality and power unchecked and not counterbalanced




by executive, legislative, or judicial power.




these branches respond to and do the bidding of the repressive apparatus.




the agencies that directly constitute the repressive apparatus<u+2014>




the department of war, the joint chiefs of war staff,




and the special forces created by the military (better termed death squads),




the central intelligence assassins, the national insecurity agency,




the national insecurity advisors around the pres,




homeland insecurity, the injustice department, the federal bureau of cointelpro,




local trigger happy police, the national guard against insurgency<u+2026>.




the senate insecurity committee diapers their unwiped asses.




together these agencies have spawned a vast array of private contracting corporations




that is well beyond the <u+201c>military-industrial complex<u+201d> that president eisenhower warned against.




it is these days not just the big corporations producing weapons,




now it is private contractors that do much of the dirty counter-terrorism work,




the computer surveillance and sabotage work, the spy work on corporate competitors,




the listening in on allies like the german chanciler or reformists like the president of brazil.




secret mercenary work to disrupt and kill.




the shadow private complex takes in trillions with no oversight or accountability.




the state of national insecurity is state agencies in symbiosis with a huge complex of private entities




contracted to share and profit from the dirty work.




this complex, the merging of government agencies and private corporations,




does the bidding of the entire plutocracy, united by thirst for war and empire abroad




and social control on the home front.




a government that once had some lawful protections is transformed into a regime of repressive lawlessness




that jails or kills innocents




and accords impunity to the criminality of the agents of the repressive apparatus.




the state of national insecurity corporatizes its global operations,




with no oversight or accountability.




a terror apparatus within the state of national insecurity.




subservient to the 1%,




non-responsive to the courts or congress.




this state has its homeland, fortress america;




it has its dogma, the war on terror;




it has its policy guidelines, neoliberalism;




it has its ideology to instill in the populace, the religion of zombyism<u+2014>




america first, racism, sexism, the war of all against all,




imposed cultural ethos of competition and individualism that compliment insecurity and proneness to violence.




large sectors of the populace are taught to view militarism and violence as a source of pride,




criticism and resistance are unmanly cowardice, deserving of repressive punishment.




the national state of insecurity has its creative think tanks;




it has its political action groups to spread millions around the electoral landscape;




it has its means of avoiding accountability, a drawn curtain blocking heinous crimes,




a kind of shari-like code of security and impunity




a cloak of secrecy so dark only the top criminals who command it know what is going on...




unlike their counterparts declaring jihad, the bearded male islamic fanatics,




reacting to the violence perpetrated upon their peoples with their own gross violence,




these macho warriors of the insecurity complex,




dress in suits and ties, don<u+2019>t sport beards, and don<u+2019>t wave the bible




when they proclaim <u+201c>death to terrorists<u+201d>




and at home intimidate the rabble with teargas and clubs and guns,




central to the state of national insecurity is a criminal organization,




a pivot for organizing the ruthless pursuit of the imperial vision.




the cia has a long, long, long history of deadly interventions and dirty tricks.




the torture episode publicized of late is only the shivering tip of a very dense iceberg of official terrorism.




after many years of cover-up the senate select committee on intelligence




finally exhibited a semblance of courage in december 2014.




in spite of being spied upon by the insecurity apparatus




the committee issued a report critical of cia <u+201c>enhanced interrogation<u+201d>




that was central to the war on terror in the bush years,




suspended under obama in favor of drone attacks and more troops in afghanistan.




committee chairwoman feinstein termed cia activity <u+201c>misguided.<u+201d>




the president blandly admitted <u+201c>we tortured some folks.<u+201d>




the head of the cia, unsuccessful in attempts to suppress the report on grounds of <u+201c>national security<u+201d>




and former vice-president cheney, a principal architect of the war on terror,




an array of those involved,




all rose to defend the indefensible in extensive media coverage,




while not a single victim<u+00b4>s story was aired.




the best that was said in official discourse is that torture is <u+201c>unfortunate<u+201d> and occasionally <u+201c>never again.<u+201d>




there is immunity for all perpetrators,




the cia director and the battery of agents in covert operations,




president bush, vp cheney, the attorney general and a battery of lawyers involved,




the secretary of war, rumsfeld.




no one will be prosecuted under american or international law




for gross violations of human rights,




for crimes against humanity




or any other violation of law and international treaties.




no consequences for kidnappings and renditions to black torture sights,




for indefinite imprisonment in guantanamo,




for interrogation techniques that included




rectal feeding (liquefied gourmet middle eastern cuisine no doubt)




rectal hydration (convenient substitute for a water fountain)




diapers <u+201c>generally not to exceed 72 hours<u+201d> (no latrines, on delayed order from private contractors)




cramped confinement, stress positions, insect placement, total darkness, sleep deprivation,




infliction of pain, hunger, and humiliation, threats of rape and execution,




<u+201c>walling<u+201d>, facial hold and slap, and the most notorious--waterboarding.




donald trump asked about reinstating waterboarding said, <u+201c>you bet your ass.<u+201d>




these are heinous crimes committed by persons devoid of humanity,




the gestapo of our era responsible to institutions serving only the most perverse ends.




lest we forget, american judges in 1946 condemned nazi torturers to death by hanging.




the only sane response by american citizens is prosecution of those responsible.




hurrah to code pink that attempted to make a citizen<u+00b4>s arrest of henry kissinger for his crimes,




the good ladies were forcibly evited from a senate armed services hearing on imperial strategy




and labeled by warlord senator john mccain as <u+201c>low-life scum<u+201d>,




no doubt a projection of his own war-mongering character.




for the institution that sponsored these depravities there is only one remedy,




abolish the cia. along with the national security agency that monitors all of us,




and homeland security that that creates long lines at airport,




and ridiculously has us take off our shoes before boarding an airplane.
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dale johnson