July 4th: Independence Day

Posted by Ming the Merciless as Guest Author, Ming the Merciless, Politics, Rants

I cannot even begin to express how disillusioned I am with America. It’s broken. Far more badly than we can bear to admit, I think.

George the Honest, whose election to the throne is littered with scandal and irregularities so monstrous that only the insane and the ignorant can maintain their belief that America has free and open elections.

George the Liberator, invading other countries to free them from the yoke of oppression under the thumb of dictators who view civil and human rights as optional. The hypocrisy is so mind boggling, I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

George the Protector, invading other countries, destroying their infrastructure, throwing them into what amounts to civil war and building a wall of civilian bodies between America and her enemies in the name of fighting terror.

George the Just, to whom the laws do not apply and who may override due process at a whim, both to free his friends from the imposition of well-earned punishment and to imprison, without charge or proof or oversight, those that he deems deserving.

George the Humanitarian, who does not authorize torture in prisons on foreign soil solely by virtue of redefining the word torture to exclude water boarding, sleep deprivation, beatings, and other atrocities too horrible to contemplate.

George the Economist, who makes sure Dick Cheney’s Halliburton empire can squeeze out those last few American tax dollars in war profits while under equipped American soldiers are being maimed and crippled in record numbers and being dumped into a VA system that George’s Republican cronies have been financially gutting.

George the Enlightened, who does his best to ensure America will become a Christian Church-State with law based on mythology and whose policies restrict, and will ultimately cause the exodus of, the very sort of minds that helped propel America to the heights she has achieved while American children learn creationism in science classrooms and the wealthy travel to other countries to have their ailments treated with stem-cell therapy and their abortions in clean, safe clinics.

George the Environmentalist, who does not believe in global warming and who sees national park lands and wildlife refuges not as something of value, but as a barrier to providing oil drilling rights to family friends.

George the Patriarch, whose business it is what books you read, who you visit, who you talk to and what you say to them, and whose minions are exempt from the requirement of procuring a search warrant in their quest to keep Americans safe from themselves.

Certainly Congress shares some of the blame for allowing this to continue for as long as it has, but George, who in his coke-addled mind sees himself as the infallible God Emperor of Imperialist America, has worked diligently to render the other branches of government impotent and assume a lion’s share of the power and so he (and his handlers) must assume the lion’s share of the blame.

So, on this Independence Day, all hail America’s Motherfucking King George IV, the man that stole our country.

How did this happen?