Strike The Root Blog

The late great Frank Zappa once said, “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.”

Consider the following:

Ecuador’s president has just effectively told Washington to kiss that country’s national rear end—he’s vowed not to renew the US Federal Megastate’s expiring “lease” on a death base within its borders. (He has left open the option of renewing the lease on the condition that Ecuador can set up its own death base in Miami, but something tells me that may go over like a lead balloon with the imperial bureaucrats, not to mention Miamians.)

Frustrated US troops in Iraq are engaging in some civil slackery, what they jokingly refer to as “search and avoid” missions: Parking their humvees in some out of the way place and pretending to be on patrol. Seems its done wonders for their life preservation.

The empire’s pretty curtains are falling away, revealing a hollow and empty husk; a mere facade.

So my question is this: If Ecuadoran bureaucrats refuse to heed the empire’s demands, and if the empire’s own stormtroopers are refusing to follow orders—why don’t millions of Americans do likewise here at home?

UPDATE: Roger Young’s latest blog post shames me into remembering that not nearly enough imperial stormtroopers are slacking off as much as they should be.  

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