Yes, America, I am a thought criminal. Consider my confession:
I am not wasting the effort in refuting this ideologically near-sighted spew. However we need to know what thought-fertilizer fuels the enemy. At least, Marx peppered his Communist Manifesto with some populism, however perverse.
1. While I have deep reservations about the death penalty for a number of reasons, I will gladly suspend those misgivings once the gradually intensifying social unrest reaches critical mass. Little would please me more than to see the likes of Bush, Cheney, Condi, OÂ’Reilly, Perle, Clarence Thomas, Bolton, Negroponte and a host of others who have committed and enabled some of the most grievous crimes in history dangling lifelessly from the end of a rope.
| Unable to compete in the field of ideas, Beauzeau falls back on tradition and wants to kill his political enemies. He would allows serial killers like Ted Bundy, mass murderers like Richard Speck, and child murderers like the animal that killed Jessica Lunsford to live long and prosper. |
2. I view Zionism as a mental disease. The criminal apparatuses which pass themselves off as governmental structures in DC and Jerusalem do need to be “wiped off the map.” A majority of the constituencies in both the US and Israel view their governments with disgust and contempt. Both ruling bodies are infected with supporters of the Zionist plague and frequently implement policies which serve to inflict abject misery on millions of human beings.
I view Zionism as a political movement. Whether it's an idea whose time has passed or not is open to debate, but that it was a successful political movement is not. The "criminal apparatuses" in Washington and Jerusalem were voted in by their constituents. The infestation of Zionists is probably explained by the fact that they're more organized than rival Paleostinian groups.
Judging by results, this is a good thing. Paleostine in the West Bank is full of bloodthirsty nutcases under the ineffectual control of Abbas. In Gaza it's full of even more bloodthirsty nutcases under the more effective control of Hamas. Jordan is the only Israeli neighbor that's not a basket case: Egypt is ruled by an hereditary dictatorship with a democratic veneer; Lebanon was until recently a colony of Syria and Hezbollah is now trying to make it a colony of Iran; and Syria is a one-party dictatorship in the classic mold. |
3. While I am not a direct participant, I wish the Animal Liberation Front great success in their endeavors. Under our depraved system of capitalism, the property ALF destroys and the profits they stymie are sacred. Yet the billions of sentient beings they champion are mere objects which we can wantonly subject to maiming, torture and death.
| Under Beauzeau's depraved system, we'll avoid hurting any white mice while we allow humans to keel over in large numbers. I'm old enough to remember when polio was a disease that happened to kids you knew. Typhoid, smallpox, and diptheria weren't conquered that long ago. There are reasonable limits to everything, of course -- allergies are more common today than they were in the heady days of my youth, because we isolate ourselves from the great outdoors -- but Beauzeau is welcome to go live in NWFP so his kids can catch monkey pox and polio while he tries to argue the local mullahs out of slaughtering goats. |
4. I loath the Holocaust industry. Zionists have hijacked and exploited a horrific tragedy, cynically employed it to enact their own ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians, and used it as a justification for the continued existence of the monstrous state of Israel. While it is profoundly tragic that the Nazis tortured and murdered so many Jews, there were also significant numbers of Romas, homosexuals, and socialists who suffered similar fates. Besides, there have been many genocides throughout human history, including the one we have been inflicting upon Iraqis through the Gulf War, ClintonÂ’s heinous economic sanctions, and the present illegal occupation.
So, really, it's six million dead Jews, a few million dead Slavs, only a few hundred thousand dead Gypsies, no count I can recall seeing on dead homosexuals and socialists, so we should get over it and move on dot org. So the Nazis tried to exterminate the whole people -- men, women, children, babies at the breast. Big deal.
No one denigrates all the non-Jews murdered by the Nazis. Certainly no Jew I've ever talked to has. The term "holocaust" is generally applied only to the Jewish portion of the Nazi murders, the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The numbers for all victims are usually put between 9 and 11 million, which means Jews accounted for the majority of the dead by any measure. Only the Gypsies suffered as much proportionately, though all of the victims suffered the same individually.
None of them, Slavs and Gypsies included, are as important to Beauzeau as the Saudis and Syrians being killed in droves by the American troops and their Iraqi allies in support of an elected Iraqi government. This is "genocide" by definition, because he says it's so.
And Sammy was really much to be preferred over an imperfect attempt to accomodate most of the competing parties within the country. |
5. I long for the collapse of the American Empire. While we canÂ’t predict what will arise to fill the ensuing vacuum, at least it will present an opportunity for us to create a more humane and just sociopolitical order.
Something like what Zim-bob-we has, no doubt. Or would Beauzeau prefer something along the lines of Soddy Arabia? Probably he's waiting for the Soviet Union to come back.
When the American empire eventually does collapse, the world will be deprived of a society that was founded on the principle of individual liberty -- a principle that's been under assault almost from the time the ink dried on the Constitution. A bit of that American ideal has rubbed off in places in Europe and the Far East, but I believe that if we go, so go the other places where the idea of liberty has been struggling to take root.
When the American empire eventually collapses, the world will be left to societies that are ruled, rather than governed. Those who set themselves up to tell others what to think and how to behave will have no check. It will be a world of mullahs and satraps and commissars and soviets and gauleiters.
We will cease to be The People and we will become The Masses. That thought sickens me. |
6. I believe the world would be a much better place if Wall Street and Madison Avenue ceased to exist. The greed, narcissism, and exploitation spewing forth from the entities and industries they represent are toxins to the human soul.
| I believe the world would be a much better place if it was Beauzeau free. The rest of us would then be free from periodic narcissistic manifestos spewing forth pre-digested opinions of people who're incapable of predictive thinking. |
7. I admire and support demonized people and entities such as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Hamas as true champions of victimized people. Our ruling class portrays them as “threats” and “terrorists” because they have the cajones to stand up to the biggest, meanest, and most powerful bullies in history. Are they perfect? No. Are they admirable? Definitely.
Compañero Beauzeau mispelled "cojones."
Chavez is a bully and a blowhard. Castro is an old-style commie who impoverished a fairly prosperous nation while kissing the Russian foot. He's now well into his dotage and the world will be a better place when he passes from the stage, to be briefly replaced by his brother and heir.
Beauzeau's admiration for Hamas, I find breathtaking, as though he's looked for the most evil organization he can think of to admire. If he had been alive in 1939 he'd have had a picture of Hitler or Tojo on his wall.
In the last paragraphs of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, he expressed the idealistic hope that the new Russia would be known for the pyatiletka (5-year plan) rather than for the pogrom. That was before the Yezhovshchina, and it was, of course, before Trotsky died with a hatchet in his head. |
8. I despise the American flag. Since 9/11, it’s nearly ubiquitous presence has helped foster a cancerous form of patriotism and nativism. The “Stars and Stripes” has become a symbol of imperialism, oppression, and state terrorism. And yes, I have burned an American flag.
| Glad to hear it. I support your right to burn the flag. I also support the right of your fellow citizens to take umbrage and poke you in the eye. |
9. I consider capitalism to be an abomination and a crime against humanity, the rest of the sentient beings on the planet, and the Earth. I am aggressively pursuing its demise through my intellectual efforts, including writing, educating, motivating, and publishing on my brain-child, Thomas PaineÂ’s Corner at http://www.bestcyrano.org/thomaspaine/.
| Somehow we guessed you were an "anticapitalist." We've also got a pretty good assessment of your IQ. And "sentient" refers to the ability to feel or to perceive. It is not the same thing as "sapient." Codfish are sentient, but not sapient. So are nudibranches, for that matter. |
10. I have known, befriended, and helped so-called “illegal” immigrants, and will continue to do so. People flooding the United States from Mexico are doing so because of the abject poverty caused by our neoliberal economic terrorism, NAFTA, and our support of their right wing oligarchs who joyfully implement the Washington Consensus, a recipe for misery for the poor and working class amongst their people. “Illegal immigration” is a forced migration caused by the ever-growing hubris and avarice of our moneyed elite.
| If something's against the law it's illegal. No need for quotes. Since capitalism's such an abomination, why are all the Mexicans coming here? Why aren't Americans going there? You can complain about right wing oligarchs all you want, but the country's problems are rooted a lot more deeply in the legacy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Think long on the implications of that name. It ruled Messico for most of the 20th century. Unlike any major American party, it's a member of the Socialist International. |
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