What intrigues about Tim's message was the implication that the war on terrorism, by all sides, is fundamentally about racism, although camouflaged by political and economic drapery. As was, and is, imperialism and its bastard clone, capitalism.
Demonizing the enemy, whether by skin color, by class, by income, by intelligence (the finest idiocy of all) is precursor to savage aggression against challengers of privilege, of prejudice, of claims of superiority. Bush has killed hundreds in Texas due to his Connecticut-cultivated racism inherited from the Bush family tree of privilege. He will kill more in thrall to smart-asses in his administration willing to wage war to the Middle East, or around the world, to enlarge their inferior-fearing stature, their yearning for superiority -- fearing to displease higher authority. Cheney the Mole could care less about the harm his drive for wealth has caused, in the exculpatory capitalist tradition -- as from the earliest roots of American moneyed-aristocracy, itself founded upon imitating the long-lived British class ranking humans by intelligence (bias), blood purity, stolen loot, number of servants, proper accent, rhetorical escapism, aversion to labor and addiction to brutality. Jefferson, Franklin, a fools' parade of alleged proponents of freedom, all richly enjoyed the good life while extolling the virtues of liberty and independence from entrenched power. Read my musings, artful rhetoricians, fat-ass lazy, mind-fuckers. Sure, Jesse Jackson, one among many clusterfucking whites and coloreds, is in that mold, of preaching one way and living corruptly another. Perquisites of power and wealth and rhetoric and aint-I-bad controversy are irresistable. All celebrity-drunk would-be leaders -- constitutional yellers, well-fed defenders of civil liberties, crankyankers of causes --contemn the populace, their emotionally abused customers, without whom there would be no yokel applauders of pixie-dusters. Balck and white racism is not only about race, never was. What it is about is blind-faith believing that the enemy, the challenger to privilege (the right to be left alone except for sucking the bank's bloodstream), is contemptible and needs killing now and then to affirm the supreme rights of auto-narcotizing bandits, even though privilege is supported by deprivations of the un-privileged, or more indelicately lying to the bug-eyed, the under-privileged. Perceptive citizen units can see who's scared witless about the threat of losing it all and being a nobody, totally transparent. "A religious fundamentalist, armed and dangerous," said a terrorist-wanted poster. Put another way, an American racist supremacist believing in one god, yo mamma mammon.
