THE WAR MENTALITY - WAR ON ......fill in the blank.

After the President's speech last night, which I didn't watch, it is time to publish my War blog which I wrote over a month ago.  First he said we shouldn't live in fear of ISIS, and second, we now have a War On Cancer.

Notice how good programs are now always labeled as a "war", except actual wars involving the military.  War on Cancer and War on this and that helps make actual, real war seem innocuous.  I mean who can object to a War on Cancer - a noble cause.  In fact, most real wars are labeled something else.  For example, the Department of War is now called The Department of Defense and real wars are given labels like Operation Desert Storm or "mission" to do something.   This subtle but effective word play makes "war" seem like a good thing to most amerikans.  That is how propaganda and indoctrination works.

If you remember, in a recent blog post, I said I do not worry about ISIS ever having a direct effect on me and I do not live in fear(more on that later) of ISIS.  And my position is not based on the fact that US troops are battling the current enemy.  For the moment, I lost my statics to show you why I don't fear ISIS, but I do remember the last item on the list and the lowest probability was that a person is 8 time more likely to be killed by a policeman in amerika than by ISIS!  If I can find the list, I will publish it later.

Over ten years ago, the fascist state started a "WAR ON TERRORISM" and destroyed a country base on "Weapons of Mass Destruction".  Remember that lie which was a very effective tool for creating FEAR(that word again). At the time of creating the "War On Terrorism",  I thought, this is every rightwing Nazi lover's dream - a never ending war.  A recently published book on terrorists supports my belief.  I haven't read the book, but according to reviews, the author concludes that there will always be terrorists.  It is part of human make-up nature;  it is part of our DNA.   And remember that the terrorists can be either internal or external.  But they will always be with us resulting in a NEVER ENDING WAR ON TERRORISM.

Of course, the war lovers will tell you that terrorism can be eliminated with enough fascist state control and a US world wide military police force.  All you have to do for the war on terrorism to succeed they say, is give up all your freedoms and allow total surveillance of everything you do.  In other words live in a totally oppressive totalitarian state.

And what can you expect this never ending war on terrorism to bring us?  Well let's look at another never ending war, the WAR ON DRUGS.  That war has been going on for 40 to 50 years and what do the American people have to show for it?  We have bloated police forces and police agencies(FBI, etc.) with bloated budgets with confiscation of private property which allows them to buy military style hardware that seems to mostly be used to play games(exercises) and to intimidate civilians.  The result of course is a I am God mentality among police which has resulted in increased police brutality and the use of excessive force.  AND OF COURSE, DRUG USE HAS ALL BUT CEASED TO EXIST!  Hah, Hah, my joke! It has probably lead to an increase in legal drugs(prescription drugs) which is capitalism in action.  Another result has been that many people who have committed minor drug use offenses are serving prison terms longer than those given to murderers.

This increase in the prison population has also benefitted capitalists on two fronts.  First, the prison system has been more and more privatized and two, prisoners can now do work(forced to work?) for major corporation at very low wages.  While this does help the prisoner get useful job skills, it also encourages filling the prisons with more and more prisoners.  And overloading of the prison system is a problem in amerika.   Privatization of social functions and services is a common tool used in creating a fascist state.  Turn these societal functions over to corporations which funnel money to the elite ruling class who then spend more money on getting patsies elected who then vote to privatize more government functions.  And the viscous cycle goes on and on.

So what can you seriously expect from the War On Terrorism??  More war.  More spending of your tax dollars and "privatization of war" called security forces and of course, less terrorism, right?  I mean the war on terrorism has been going on for at least 10 years and there is way less terrorism now days.  Right?  I mean you hardly hear terrorism and terrorists mentioned in the media.  Ha, Ha, another one of my jokes.

These are just some thoughts on where the world is heading and who is leading the charge - and again I ask "why do people love war?!"

Probably FEAR will be my next blog.   I'll demonstrate how fear is created and exploited to create fascism.  And I'll give you some personal examples and also nationally inspired examples, and how fear is exploited to control the ignorant, and I truly mean ignorant masses.