America's Killer Elite: Cho, Lanza, Bales, Ridgway and the One Percent
By John Stanton
"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans." Robert F. Kennedy, executed in 1968
The American Suicide Gunman has joined the ranks of the Jihadist Suicide Bomber. Both are products of their cultures.
And the naysayers in the USA claim that the country does not produce anything of value anymore.
That is incorrect.
Americans are Earth's number one, hands-down top dog killers. Americans produce the world's top murderers/suicide gunmen (both government sanctioned and freelance). We play the most violent games with glorious military/paramilitary overtones and undertones. We populate the globe with advanced weaponry either selling it to the good, the bad and the ugly or we use it to destroy seen and unseen enemies and things.
We even wipe out wolves with glee justifying the slaughter on behalf of those most American of Americans, the rancher and farmer. According to the New York Times in December of 2012, "Yellowstone National Park's best-known wolf, beloved by many tourists and valued by scientists who tracked its movements, was shot and killed on Thursday outside the park's boundaries. The wolf, known as 832F to researchers, was the alpha female of the park's highly visible Lamar Canyon pack and had become so well known that some wildlife watchers referred to her as a rock star. The animal had been a tourist favorite for most of the past six years. "She is the most famous wolf in the world," said Jimmy Jones, a wildlife photographer who lives in Los Angeles and whose portrait of 832F appears in the current issue of the magazine American Scientist.Wildlife advocates say that the wolf populations are not large enough to withstand state-sanctioned harvests and that the animals attract tourist money."
American's nearly drove their own mascot, The Bald Eagle, to extinction.
The USA, in fact, does not discriminate in its creation and use of violence. Everything is literally "game." We treat ourselves just as violently as, say, we treat the Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians, Afghans, Wolves, Children, et al. We do not, in fact, take good care of each other in the USA. In fact, the One Percent is setting itself the task of cutting away unemployment benefits, social security, medicare and public education. Such is the ruse of the alarmist Fiscal Cliff. The moniker should be the Auterity Cliff.
At any rate, when a nation believes in the puffery and propaganda of mainstream media (One Percent Owned and Operated) allowing its leaders to engage in wars of folly around the globe, while its own infrastructure collapses, it is clearly symptomatic of a serious national cognitive malady. Americans are so immersed in themselves and the unreality of nonsensical things that they just "don't want to talk about IT."
IT is the reality of life in all its splendor and disgust. War, politics, economics, crime, cultural dynamics and a host of other critical subjects are ignored or hidden from view. Dancing with the Stars gets more discussion time than the latest US military casualties in Afghanistan (Mike Guillory and Nelson Trent on December 14, 2012) or a police officer shot down in the line of duty (Chris Parson of Missouri on December 15, 2012).
Now late in 2012 there is much grief, as there should be, over the child killings at Sandy Hook in Newtown Connecticut. A narrative will be found or made, of course, to sooth the collective consciousness. Mental disability is on call as it always is. The American Flag is lowered yet again. Might as well keep it at half mast since more madness is sure to follow.
What Next?
What is the USA going to do in response to Adam Lanza's killing spree? What strategies, operations and tactics can be designed and employed stop the next suicide gunman who will no doubt attempt to set a new domestic record for confirmed kills?
