Radically Revised to Include This Weekend's Updates: How the Always Brutal, Often Murderous Past of Capitalist U.S. Governance Enables Its Ever-More-Evil JesuNazi Present

If We Are to Understand How We Became Our Planet's Apocalypse Nation, We Must All Fearlessly Admit Our Blood-Drenched History 

(Editor's Note: Never before have I rewritten a published blog post as thoroughly as I have rewritten this one, a challenging process that reveals by the delays it imposed on publication the extreme, mostly emotional difficulty I had in verbally focusing on my chosen material. I have therefore, in embarrassment so acute it borders on mortification,  deleted the original version,  an act of revisionism unprecedented in all my years of blogging. I have also expanded the text to include this weekend's updates, thereby avoiding back-to-back publication of two separate posts. While this version is unquestionably better than its predecessor -- attentive readers will recognize its improvements as motivated entirely by sharpened focus rather than correction or retraction --  such re-evaluation is probably never truly complete. That's why I have no doubt I will many times more revisit the subject -- how we (and myself in particular) reflexively wrapped our experiences of ever-intensifying USian malevolence in shrouds of complacency -- a sin of which we are all to some extent guilty regardless of how raised any one of us might have imagined our consciousness to be. Meanwhile I offer my heartfelt apology for the original text's premature expostulation./LB)

"Robert Kennedy’s death, like the President's, was mourned as an extension of senseless violence; events moved on, and the profound alterations that these deaths…brought in the equation of power in America was perceived as random…. What is odd is not that some people thought it was all random, but that so many intelligent people refused to believe that it might be anything else. Nothing can measure more graphically how limited was the general understanding of what is possible in America."

Comment: again, as in my two preceding posts, we begin with never-avenged atrocities that define "what is possible" in the homeland of the U.S. Empire; again, as before, I take this approach because I am convinced we cannot truly comprehend the terminal magnitude of the horrors the United States is inflicting on ourselves, our species and our planet without first acknowledging at least some of the preceding outrages that regardless of the vehemence and constancy of our opposition nevertheless define us as citizens of the most wantonly murderous empire in all human history.

But this time I also confess my own guilt in acts of self-censorship that make me a telling example of how for years we the people reflexively adjusted, like the proverbial frog, to the stealthily imposed JesuNazism and fascism in general that is now bursting terribly into boil as demonstrated by our suddenly accelerated reduction to credit-card serfdom and for-profit prison slavery.  
    
Here too is my own belated Memorial Day eulogy for some of our more politically revealing dead and wounded -- belated because (given how the warmongers have perverted Decoration Day's original post-Civil-War "memory and tears" into a grotesque celebration of the Empire's conquer-the-world agenda) -- I had originally planned to ignore the holiday entirely.

(To read the rest, go here.)