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Amerika Über Alles (Again)
Manuel Miles
Note to anti-police-state/antiwar activists everywhere: the "new
McCarthyism" is nothing new, as its name might even suggest. It’s as
Amerikan as apple flag and The Pie. The USA has been a goose-
stepping, imperial state since at least the early nineteenth century,
and it’s not the first state of its kind in history, not by a long
shot. Witch hunting, as its name also suggests, is not a new practice
in the USA. The Salem trials were the instrument of statist mass
hysteria of their day. History then hurls the Alien-Sedition Act at
us, followed by the Trail of Tears, Lincoln’s mass imprisonment of
dissenters and dissolution of the legal government of Maryland, the
persecution of German-Americans in Part One of the World War and of
the Japanese-Americans in Part Two, Joe McCarthy and the House Un-
American Activities Committee, the Left/ Right coalition against them
dirty hippie peaceniks during the War Against Viet Nam, and numerous
other rounds of totalitarian terror campaigns which I haven’t the
time and space to even summarise because it’s the entire history of
the USA. So wake up and smell the decaf; this is no change of
direction or sudden loss of imagined freedoms which the Imperial US
State never deigned to grant its serfs in the first place. A slight
lessening of the harassment of dissenters occurs when the Empire is
not feeling either particularly rambunctious or particularly
threatened, but as soon as it hits one of its expansionist peaks, the
pretence and the gloves both come off. Both wings of the Empire’s
ruling oligarchy have dropped their masks recently, much to the
apparent astonishment of Libertarians and peaceniks who should not
have been surprised in the least. First, it was "discovered" with
great cries of shock that liberals were suddenly becoming gung-ho
warmongers, as if there were no historical record of Wilson, FDR and
LBJ—all three of whom had campaigned as "peace candidates"! Next came
the "shocking revelation" that the so-called neo-cons were actually
not opposed to massive expansion of government powers (even in the
domestic arena of education where Bush, with the collaboration of a
major Democratic Senator, is poised to sign the biggest, most
expensive federal-interference-in-education bill in US history). As
for the absurd self- deluding hopes that the neo-cons would actually
oppose imperial wars of expansion, the recent bloodthirsty, fascistic
positions of the fifth columnist "libertarian/neo-con" Cato Institute
and Free[sic]Republic have revealed any such pipe dreams to be just
so much political opium smoke. Now, all over the Internet, one can
read of how shocked the naive amo
ng the antiwar forces are. This doesn’t speak well for how well we have educated
ourselves, especially in world and USA history. I can only conclude that too many of
the younger generation of Liberty-lovers have not read
enough history and that, worse still, we older ones have not bothered to educate them.
Look for that to change. We need a massive, ongoing "teach-in" for ourselves and the
rest of society as well, and I am starting it. Yo
ur first assignment, peaceniks, is to read MANY histories of Rome. If
you fail to see the parallels to the Amerikan Empire (and all
others), then you should drop out of the school of Liberty; you
belong with the fifth columnists at the Cato Institute for Imperial
War and Expansion. For those who want to read ahead, after you have
done your research into ancient Rome, try reading actual USA history.
Surprisingly enough, there is some of it out there, buried among the
gloss-overs and paeans to the glory of the Imperial State(s). If you
have any desire to be nostalgic for the wonderful American past of
freedom and opportunity, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, then you had
better not poke your nose into the snake pit that is historical
Amerika. Consider this to be fair warning; more will follow.
Manuel Miles
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