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Flagwavers - a fable

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The following story could be true. Some of the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

I.

The United States of America was entering its twentieth year under the dictatorship of George W. Bush. After successfully stealing the 2000 and 2004 elections, with little outcry from the people or the corporate-controlled media, the Bush dictatorship had eliminated elections altogether, realizing that rigged voting machines, corrupt election officials and an equally corrupt United States Supreme Court no longer needed to conceal the dictatorship beneath a facade of democracy.

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The eleventh war in the “war against terrorism” was now underway. Intelligence information had allegedly revealed that the European nation of Belgium possessed “weapons of mass destruction,” and were prepared to use them. As proof the Bush dictatorship offered satellite images of vehicles delivering suspicious materials to an isolated warehouse.

As it turned out, these images were simply videos of Belgian children playing with remote-control operated toy trucks in an empty parking lot near an abandoned warehouse. So, just as the past ten wars had evolved before it, the Belgium conflict suddenly became a mission to bring “freedom, democracy and human rights to the Belgian people,” regardless of how many Belgian people had to be imprisoned, tortured or killed in the process.

Every weekend, in cities and towns throughout America, throngs of weekend warriors contemptuously drove past the plethora of homeless, disabled veterans living on city sidewalks as they made their way to “support the troops” rallies. But this time the corporate-controlled media, salivating once again over the ratings and profits the war against Belgium was reaping, no longer had to ignore anti-war protesters. PATRIOT ACT XIII had given the Bush dictatorship the power to declare any American who disagreed with its policies an “enemy combatant.” So all dissenters were now silently languishing in secret detention centers throughout the world, leaving the nation safely in the hands of the politicians, pundits, journalists, and celebrities who busily enhanced their careers hawking wars they had no intention of fighting in themselves.

II.

At the local bar in Anywheresville, USA, the latest recording from country singer Moby Teeth rattled on the jukebox in one corner of the room. In the other corner, the plasma television flashed a divided screen—one half showing a buxom blonde newscaster sycophantically grinning, the other showing a reporter in full combat attire standing in front of a smoldering pile of rubble.

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