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Coming Soon! From Common Courage Press Recent Stories July 15, 2003 Uri Avnery The Bi-National State: The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb   July 14, 2003 Lisa Taraki Hot Days in Ramallah Walter Brasch Bush: the Pretend Captain SOA Watch Training Colombia's Killers in the US Dan Bacher Yurok Tribe Denounces Klamath River Salmon Killers Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Intelligence Unglued Website of the Day Coalition for Democratic Rights and Civil Liberties July 12 / 13, 2003 Arthur Mitzman The Double Wall Before the Future Standard Schaefer The Coming Financial Reality: an Interview with Michael Hudson John Feffer A Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang Ron Jacobs Shades of Gray in Iran Elaine Cassel Judicial Terrorism Against the Bill of Rights Tom Stephens Civil Liberties After 9/11 David Lindorff New White House Slogan: "Case Closed. Just Move On" Jason Leopold The Mini-War Against Iraq Prior to 9/11 Lee Sustar What's Behind the Crisis in Liberia? Mickey Z. AIDS Dissent and Africa Sam Hamod Semitic is a Language Group, Not a Race or Ethnic Group Ramzy Baroud Awaiting Justice on an Old Blanket Jeffrey St. Clair Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller Adam Engel Parable of the Lobbyist Robert Sanders A Review of Ralph Lopez's American Dream Poets' Basement Albert, Witherup, Guthrie   July 11, 2003 Conn Hallinan The Coin of Empire Tim Wise God Responds to Bush Mokhiber / Weissman The Two Faces of Bush in Africa Edward S. Herman Whitewashing Sandra Day O'Connor David Orr Coffeen-gate: What's Going on at the Sierra Club Foundation? David Lindorff An Iraq War & Occupation Glossary Website of the Day Dead Malls   July 10, 2003 Ron Jacobs Dealing with the Devil: the Bloody Profits of General Dynamics Sean Donahue Bush and the Paramillitaries: Coddling Terrorists in Colombia Yemi Toure Who Outted Bush in Afrika? Robert Jensen Politics and Sustainability: an Interview with Wes Jackson Ali Abunimah US Leaves Injured Iraqis Untreated Joanne Mariner Federal Courts, Not Military Commissions Website of the Day Electronic Iraq   July 9, 2003 David Lindorff Is the Media Finally Turning on Bush? David Krieger and Angela McCracken 10 Myths About Nuclear Weapons Mickey Z. Why Speak Out? Lee Sustar The Great Medicare Fraud John Chuckman The Worst Kind of Lie Gary Leupp "Pacifist" Japan and the Occupation of Iraq Website of the Day Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years   July 8, 2003 Elaine Cassel Bully on the Bench: the Pathological Dissents of Scalia Alan Maass Nights of Fire and Rage in Benton Harbor Chris Floyd Troubled Sleep: Getting Used to the American Gulag Linda S. Heard America's Kangaroo Justice Brian Cloughley They Tell Lies to Nodders Charles Sullivan Bush the Christian? Saul Landau The Intelligence Culture in the National Security Age Website of the Day Occupation Watch   July 7, 2003 William Blum The Anti-Empire Report Harvey Wasserman The Nuke with a Hole in Its Head Ramzy Baroud Peace for All the Wrong Reasons Simon Jones What Progressives Should Think About Iran Lesley McCulloch Fear, Pain and Shame in Aceh Uri Avnery The Draw Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 7/3   July 4 / 6, 2003 Patrick Cockburn Dead on the Fourth of July Frederick Douglass What is Freedom to a Slave? Martha Honey Bush and Africa: Racism, Exploitation and Neglect Jeffrey St. Clair The Rat in the Grain: Amstutz and the Looting of Iraqi Agriculture Standard Schaefer Rule by Fed: Anyone But Greenspan in 2004 Lenni Brenner Jefferson is for Today Elaine Cassel Fucking Furious on the Fourth Ben Tripp How Free Are We? Wayne Madsen A Sad Independence Day John Stanton Happy Birthday, America! 227 Years of War Jim Lobe Bush's Surreal AIDS Appointment John Blair Return to Marble Hill: Indiana's Rusting Nuke Lisa Walsh Thomas Heavy Reckoning at Qaim David Vest Wake Up and Smell the Dynamite Adam Engel Queer as Grass Poets' Basement Christian, Witherup, Albert & St. Clair Website of the Weekend The Lipstick Librarian   July 3, 2003 Patrick W. Gavin The Meaning of Gettysburg Thomas W. Croft There Was a Reason They Called It the Casino Economy David Lindorff Outlawing Subversives: Hong Kong and the US John Chuckman Lessons from the American Revolution Jackson Thoreau New Far-Right Scheme: Impeach Supreme Court Justices Stan Goff "Bring 'Em On?": a Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 7/3 July 2, 2003 Diane Christian Good Killing and Bad Killing Richard Falk After Iraq, Does UN War Prevention Have a Future? 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Dan Smith The Occupation of Iraq: Descending into the Quagmire Tim Wise Race and Destruction in Black and White Neve Gordon The Roadmap and the Wall Chris Floyd The Revelation of St. George: "God Told Me to Strike Saddam" Elaine Cassel Kentucky Woman Uri Avnery Hope in Dark Times Steve Perry Bush's Wars Web Log 6/30 Website of the Day Bush El Hombre   June 28 / 29, 2003 M. Shahid Alam Bernard Lewis: Scholarship or Sophistry? Jeffrey St. Clair Meet Steven Griles: Big Oil's Inside Man Laura Carlsen Democracy's Future: From the Polls or the Populace? Alan Maass You Call These Democrats an Alternative? C.Y. Gopinath Bush and Kindergarten Noah Leavitt Bush, the Death Penalty and International Law Joanne Mariner Rehnquist Family Values Ignacio Chapela Tenure, Censorship and Biotech at Berkeley Bob Scowcroft Bush's Squeeze on Organic Farmers Jon Brown Tom Delay: "I am the Government" Kam Zarrabi Keep Your Hands Off Iran, Please! 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July 15, 2003 Considering the Obvious Fool Us Once, Fool Us Twice...Please By GAIUS PUBLIUS "When you make an enemy of the United States, you'd better watch out. Sooner or later we will get you." Paul Bremer, U.S administrator of Iraq This has been a hard piece to write. It may be a hard one to read. There are a number of questions that need to be asked these days, and I'll try to tackle them in the coming series of articles. Today's question: Why, in the face of the obvious, does Bush enjoy such broad popular support? The Song of the Popular Mind We've read a lot in the semi-mainstream press about how Bush has been fooling us -- about the war, about a lot of things. John Kerry now claims he was led down the garden path regarding the invasion of Iraq, and other voices are starting to be heard, sounding a similar note. We're even seeing the leaky start of what could be an interesting stream of evidence. But if the public was fooled, how come? This one blames the government, that one the media, another the intelligence community, still others what's preached in the churches. Some just credit (if "credit" is the word) the ebb and flow of received ideas, the ever-changing song of the collective popular mind. Many are kind enough to fault the presumed good nature of the American people, who in the face of just-don't-know, always give the boss a break, take the Prez at his word. What could be more generous than that, more good-natured? But no matter what song these commentators sing, it's a variation on the same sad theme -- it's not the people's fault, but someone else's. The devil made them do it. Hmmm -- does this sound familiar, suspicious? It's enough to start you thinking. So let's consider for a moment whether the current state of things -- the lies, the belief in lies, the deeds, our support -- is not someone else's fault after all, but falls to the people themselves and not to their "leaders." It's an article of faith on the Left that the people (that is, the People) will always "wake up" whenever they learn the truth; that the people (er, People) are reasonable and need only be well informed to act wisely. But what if we've been awake all along, all of us, and are already as "well informed" as we wish to be? The implications of that thought are huge (I told you this would be hard to read), but let's set those aside for later. First let's examine the assertion itself. Maybe we won't need to fault the public after all; perhaps, after pausing to reflect, we really can blame our leaders, elected and otherwise. Fool Me Twice -- Please So let's begin. From recent polling data we learn that as of recently, 1/3 of Americans think the U.S. Army has already found Saddam's weapons of mass destruction; that 22% think these (non-existent) weapons were used against our invading, liberating forces; that half of all Americans think Iraqis were among the 9/11 hijackers; and that 2/3 think that war in Iraq was justified, whether or not the weapons that sold it are actually found. The first three of those statements are so obviously false, they cannot be thought true by any but the isolated and the deceased. For example, if you heard enough news to know that 9/11 occurred, you certainly heard, at some point, what country the perps were from. So are the American people just stupid ("addled" as one commentator puts it), or is something else going on? Unless you really believe that Americans are less smart than the whole rest of the world -- in fact, are less smart than you yourself (such an elitist thought!) -- one can't help but consider the other conclusion, that things are exactly as most people want them, and if the facts are in the way, then goodbye facts. In other words, one must consider that not only are the press and whistle-blower announcements swimming up the stream of Bushist damage control; they also swim up the stream of what the public, or a good part of it, wants and is determined to believe. An Experiment You Can Try at Home Look at it another way -- how obvious are Bush's lies? Do you think real grown-ups are truly deceived by them? Were you fooled by them when you heard them, one by one, come out of his mouth? Do you think John Kerry and other Beltway luminaries were fooled? (If so, what does that say about them?) Is it possible most folks don't know that Bush "stretches" (Twain's word) when he serves up a floating soup of words why we need to bomb those Iraqis, those Iranians, those Syrians, those Koreans, those (insert brown-skinned non-Christian enemy here)? Do you imagine most people care that the number of innocent dead Afghanis is greater than the number of innocent dead New Yorkers? If you think they do care, about the truth of any of these things, try this experiment -- tell them about it. Really. Stop people you know and people you don't, and tell them. Expose them to the facts, just the basics -- and if you like, expose them to their Christian principles as well, the simple stuff, like "what you do to the least" and so on. Then note the responses. Sample the public mind of your own town and you are likely to confirm the polls, to learn that a few do care (they already know you're right); more disbelieve you, dispute you, become angry with you; and even more don't want to hear what you say, will avoid you. And if you're afraid to try the experiment for fear of the reaction, that's information as well. What Else Can We Ignore? Now that you see where this is going, let's take it further. To what else do Mr. and Ms. America seem to turn a blind eye? How can most people not know we're torturing suspected enemies in hidden holes, or farming out torture to other lovers of freedom in the Coalition of the Willing (for example, Pakistan)? The popular TV series "24" suggested as much, several times and vividly, with nary a peep across America. More -- don't you think most people know that the Constitution is being massively violated, with (insert brown-skinned non-Christian enemy here) as victim? Of course they do, in the same way they know that petty thieves are routinely raped in prison (evidence? those "here-comes-Bubba" jokes we all make); and that blacks are regularly beaten in police stations and on the street. (The last is so not-news it's not even reported, unless the tape means good ratings on TV.) Still more -- do you imagine most people don't understand that the Screaming Right (Rush and Reed, Savage and Sean) is a brutal and vicious crew? Of course they do. Even his supporters know Rush is vicious -- his meanness is his virtue. (Don't believe me? Imagine his imitators attempting to compete on niceness.) Finally -- do you imagine that punishing "Christian" America fails to see Ashcroft as one of their own, an iconic Dimsdale figure from deep in the national psyche? Can Ashcroft and his intent be so obvious to us and not to everyone else? Or is punishing "Christianity," the problem for us, actually the virtue for his fans and silent supporters? Torture, the violated Constitution, the brutality of the Right, punishing justice -- the list goes on and on. You can add to it yourself. Just ask, what else is just too obvious to ignore? See, that wasn't so hard. You found three more already. (Note the theme, by the way -- torture, punishment, violation; we'll deal with that later.) The Bad News Is, the People Aren't Stupid So what does all this mean? Either Americans are really, really dumb and couldn't see the obvious if you painted it on the set of America's Most Wanted, or things are exactly how most Americans want them to be, thank you very much. And if the second, how familiar. The murder of blacks in the South occurred with the knowledge and silent complicity of whole towns, whole states. Many were occasions for picnics. If the polls are true, the deaths in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and the promised killings to come, occur with the assent of most of the nation (and on this Fourth of July, were occasions for picnics). Not through your assent, of course; but the assent of the many who shout you down or turn away in "disbelief." What does all this mean? That your unspoken fears may be correct. That the nation may really be peopled with Rushes and Reeds, with Savage Seans, with Cheneys and Lotts after all, more than enough of them to form the standing majority we've watched all our lives, enough to fuel that madness the nation is heir to -- those Puritan hate-and-torture frenzies many take part in, and many more passively enjoy. Was McCarthy an aberration? Was Nixon and his "Silent Majority," those open and closeted bigots who couldn't wait to end their own long national nightmare (the Sixties)? The Silent Majority put Nixon in office, twice. Was Reagan an aberration, with his attacks on the poor, his enthronement of greed made good, greed made god? They called themselves the "Moral" Majority that time round and put him in office twice as well. And did any American, friend or foe, really believe that a gleeful Texas executioner was in fact a "compassionate conservative?" You'd have to have been a real dimbo to buy that one. The second 2000 debate showed his awful eagerness (and perhaps ours as well). What if all this misdirectional language (Silent Majority; Moral Majority; Morning in America; I'm a uniter, not a divider; I am not a crook; Saddam can kill us with nukes), all these lies, are not handed us to fool us? What if they're offered instead as ground cover, a wink-wink story that the hard-minded can hide behind as they go about the business of punishment and revenge -- that sordid Jonathan Edwards war on the generous humanist spirit? Do we dare think that thought? Judge Judy Tells All Whatever the truth about who's the majority, this whole drama really is about the Culture War, and the culture of the majority can be a beast. It's the classic sado-masochistic Christianity of Erich Fromm's seminal work, Escape From Freedom, his still-modern explanation of what the Germans saw in Hitler, and liked so much. Why don't Americans demand more justice from police? Maybe they just don't want to. Maybe they really do want to punish and pick clean society's easy targets, the brown, the poor and the underprivileged, whether criminal or otherwise. The cops do it now, as do predatory lenders. Soon the tax code will take up the task as well, all with the assent of the "moral" majority. Need more evidence of this public hard-mindedness? Look at the broad popularity of those punishing reality shows -- the avenging angel cop busts, the afternoon courtroom morality plays, the people-are-stupid talk shows like Springer and his friends. First look at the shows themselves; how brutal, how Puritan. Then look at those who watch them. What secret glee. What proof that the punishment we mete is deeply deserved. And who is that viewer? Don't kid yourself -- it's not the Barroom Betty, the Backwoods Sam, the Truckstop Jim of cliched imagination. These shows are popular. The viewer is my neighbor and yours. It's the man down the street with the law degree and the job at Motorola, the one who hates affirmative action because, frankly, he just wants more for himself. It's the relative with the high-paying union job and a hatred of immigrants stealing his hard-earned (Left-won) wages. It's the rebellious party-hearty college kid who thinks everyone (but him) gets away with way too much. Judge Judy and her ilk say a lot about us -- about our greed, our hate, our fear, our need to punish. Our "leaders" seem to pander to that, but perhaps they don't guide us at all, but follow along. Perhaps we lead them, order from the menu, and let them deliver. Did the hanging Southern posse ride at night because the rest of the town secretly (ineffectively) said No, or secretly (complicitly) said Yes? One could easily believe the latter. If the nation as a whole really thought it vile to demonize the poor as "welfare queens," Reagan would never have rounded first base, much less made it to the White House. If the nation as a whole really objected to mass murder in Texas prisons, we'd have thrown Bush out with the bathwater he rode in on. Denial is Not a River, It's a State We like to think the American people are in denial (for a reason no one can specify); but it perhaps it's more respectful to give them credit for knowing what they want and choosing it. These are adults, after all, same as the rest of us. Perhaps it's we who are in denial, we who refuse to admit the obvious. Perhaps, just maybe, what I'm saying is too painful even to examine, much less, if necessary, admit. Trust me, this is painful for me as well. Like many, I've spent a lifetime trying to have faith in the majority. I still may succeed, but alas, the election approaches. I told you this would be tough to read. I could be wrong in everything I'm saying (I would love to be wrong in every word of this). But if you think this reasoning is false, please prove it. Go back to that experiment above and confront those people with the facts. Stop them on street corners (literally), ask them at work. Then honestly confront your understanding of the results, whatever they are. As we often tell others, you can't get out of this state, this condition, by denying the truth. It's time to look at those awkward poll results with respect for the answers. Vote for the Public of Your Choice I've written in an earlier article that the 2004 election will be a referendum, not on the candidates, but on the voters, on the American people. After watching the seemingly inexplicable poll results of the last few weeks, I believe this even more strongly. The current round of Republicans has made the obvious blatant. The ground cover, the plausible-sounding explanation, has eroded laughably; we've blown right past plausible headed toward childish and desperate. Even a fool must understand the choices by now. Do we torture the non-white races or don't we? Do we imprison dissent or don't we? Do we bomb Moslems or don't we? Do we rake to our Reaganesque selves the goods of the earth, or don't we? Do we fight with the whole rest of the world? As a people, a nation, who are we? The current crew has made these questions more explicit than any in a lifetime. It's an excellent time to take a vote. If Bush is indeed elected in 2004, the people will truly have spoken. And if they do, what a brutal, damning thing they will have said. More in a bit. We are not done with this. And may more questions need asking. But next time, something more encouraging. The latest polls may reveal where we are; but where are we going? Your correspondent, Gaius Publius Gaius Publius is a writer living in the United States. He can be reached at gaius_publius@earthlink.net. Weekend Edition Features for July 12/13, 2003 Arthur Mitzman The Double Wall Before the Future Standard Schaefer The Coming Financial Reality: an Interview with Michael Hudson John Feffer A Fearful Symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang Ron Jacobs Shades of Gray in Iran Elaine Cassel Judicial Terrorism Against the Bill of Rights Tom Stephens Civil Liberties After 9/11 David Lindorff New White House Slogan: "Case Closed. Just Move On" Jason Leopold The Mini-War Against Iraq Prior to 9/11 Lee Sustar What's Behind the Crisis in Liberia? Mickey Z. AIDS Dissent and Africa Sam Hamod Semitic is a Language Group, Not a Race or Ethnic Group Ramzy Baroud Awaiting Justice on an Old Blanket Jeffrey St. Clair Savage Incongruities: the Photographic Life of Lee Miller Adam Engel Parable of the Lobbyist Robert Sanders A Review of Ralph Lopez's American Dream Poets' Basement Albert, Witherup, Guthrie   Keep CounterPunch Alive: Make a Tax-Deductible Donation Today Online! home / subscribe / about us / books / archives / search / links /