Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.53.0303311827370.17972@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Arm Amerika !!
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:27:49 -0500 (EST)
Arm Amerika !! A number of people here fully expect Bush and other National-Capitalists to declare either a STATE OF EMERGENCY or MARTIAL LAW, come the 2004 elections. As far as I know this would be unprecedented in this country; it would effectively forestall or cancel them! Bush's sense of absolute rightness, use of force, and so-called Divine Guidance - coupled with a devoted and private non-draft (professional) army, is almost a guarantee of success. The religious Right - which has at times been suspicious of Congress itself - would be pleased; it's hard to imagine a resistance from a disarmed Left. At the moment, the Courts are his; Congress is his. The Courts would agree with martial law; Congress would be irrelevant. There are enough troops to go around. Seize the Stock Exchange! The TV networks! Register everyone! Export the Arabs! The Jews! What to do? If this scenario occurs, Amerika will not be stopped, at least for the foreseeable future. The only reason we are "bombing Baghdad back to the stone age" is because of Congress and other limited resistance. And who is to say we are not doing this? And who is to say that martial law has not already been declared - is already underway? It's surprising that this paranoid scenario is not being taken seriously at this point; people whisper and wait. And for what? By the time the "state of emergency" is evident, even to "ordinary citizens," resistance would be futile! A fate or fact accomplished! A coop of state! Consider the parallel with late Weimar - right-wing loyalists supporting dubiously-elected leaders, deep collusion with the corporate and private sectors, anti-semitisms, issues of lebensraum, marching columns, new technologies of war and propaganda, technologies of censorship and con- trol, faltering economies, absolutist leaders, nativist and fundamentalist sympathies! The similarities are unnerving! Should we begin to arm? To organize alternatives to a problematic Net? (Fidonet, wireless networking, etc.?) To create disinformation campaigns? To create the phalanx? The fifth column? The resistance? The escape-route from the Camps? Sabotage? Wreckers? The Underground? The Underground railroad? The assassination-squad? The death-squad? Should we contact other groups? World-wide? Which other groups? Should we import guns and psychedelics? Export rhetoric? Testimony? Should we emigrate? Proclaim our innocence? Or should we be led like sheep to the slaughter !! ===