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Want
to See the World Implode
by
Jim Donahue
I'd
like to see some real hell unleashed in the upcoming year.
I want a briefcase full of weaponized toxins to explode in front of
the New York Stock Exchange. I want to see political assassinations
take place all over Amerika, melee assassinations, live on television
during a press conference. I want power outages to roll their way
through the countryside, from Boston to D.C. to Miami to Dallas to Los
Angeles to San Francisco to Seattle and back again. I want the economy
to collapse into a pile of green ashes. I want 401(k) plans and IRAs
and mutual fund investments to disappear. I want the twelve Federal
Reserve Bank branches to go up in flames.
I want new laws, more
laws, bigger laws. I want laws that prohibit smoking in public, in
private, on the high seas, and on the moon. I want drug laws that will
put a high school student in the electric chair for smoking a joint.
I want a big, fat, unabashed tax increase that will impoverish most of
the nation (politicians and their friends, of course, will not only be
exempt from paying any taxes but will receive an astonishing pay
raise). I want to
see concentration camps for everyone.
I want all demonstrations to be banned unless they support the
government, and I want all anti-government demonstrators to be treated
as harshly as possible. I want another Kent State, another Chicago,
another Vietnam. I want war all day long, body bags coming home by the
thousands, and I want the draft reinstated by New Year‘s Day 2004. I
want military recruiters on every high school and college campus from
coast to coast. I want habeas corpus to be obliterated, warrants and
due process gone, and all written recognition of civil and human
rights to be burned. I want to be punished for even attempting to
write this column.
I want congress dissolved, the court system abolished, and martial law
to be established. I want Amerika to be run in secret, by men whose
names and locations are unknown to the public. I want fascism,
totalitarianism, tyranny. I want a system of terror and fear and
death. I want targeted killings of subversives. I want poisoned water
supplies for dissenting regions. I want hell for everyone, all at
once, with no sweet talk.
Because then, maybe, the sheeple of Amerika will wake up and see what
is happening to them. Then they may come to realize that none of it is
for their own good. They might, just maybe, stand up for themselves
and fight back against the government/industrial complex that has been
abusing and oppressing them, bit by bit, for the better part of the
20th century (and thus far, the whole of the 21st). The Amerikan
people have been conditioned over the past several decades to always
accept, though sometimes reluctantly, small infringements on their
rights, abuses of power, lies by politicians, unnecessary wars, and
all kinds of usurpation, from embezzlement to corporate fraud. Only
large-scale fraud and corruption have been able to catch the
people’s attention and call them to action.
And the times really have changed-for the worse. Now, egregious acts can
be committed against people, as long as the rationalization is
frightening enough, or the phraseology is Orwellian enough. So, I’d
like to see Amerika explode, immediately, with no warning, into a
cesspool of blatant governmental abuse and inexcusable violence. The
faster we get to the wretched depths of hell, the more likely we are to
be able to get back home. After all, if hell is where we are already
headed, a brief visit would be better than an eternity.
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