The American
People, as a People, are Criminally Insane
Part 3/3
By Larry Romanoff for PRAVDA, February
18,2021
I have in the past
been accused of being 'anti-American' and, while that was perhaps true, those
sentiments were directed primarily to the US government and its agencies and
not the people of the nation, on the grounds that, democracy notwithstanding,
the people were not responsible for the atrocities of the psychopathic criminal
enterprise acting as their government.
My stance has
changed. Just as leaves cannot turn color and roots cannot wither without the
silent knowledge of the whole tree, no government can commit centuries of
unremitting wars and atrocities against other peoples and nations without the
knowledge and approval of the great majority of its population.
In America, violence is a universal value, like democracy and pet food. This is how it was several hundred years ago, and not much has changed:
The truth of
"The First Thanksgiving", if we can identify one such event as
representative, is rather less harmonious than the mythical schoolbook
narrative. (1) Here is one
typical celebration reported by an eyewitness, when a group of White settlers
trapped about 700 natives, mostly women and children, at the Mystic River near
Boston. The Governor of the area, a Mr. William Bradford, wrote in his diary
the following graphic description: "To see them frying in the fire, and
the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible; but
the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice and they Gave Praise Thereof to God".
There were many more similar events, not to thank God for the harvest but to
celebrate murderous victories over the natives. During some of these
multi-ethnic Thanksgiving feasts in New York City, residents cut the heads off
natives and made sport of kicking them through the streets of Manhattan like
soccer balls.
A US Governor Joseph Dudley declared in 1704 a "General Thanksgiving for God's infinite goodness to extend His favors in defeating the expeditions of the [natives] against us, and the good success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands". Another Christian, thankful for the invention of smallpox, wrote, "It pleased God to visite these Indeans with a great sickness, and such a mortalitie that of a 1000 and a half of them dyed, and many of them did rott above ground for want of burial."
For years, some of
the best-paying jobs in America were of killing Indians, and The Boy Scouts of
America was conceived to prepare small boys for this career. John Kozy wrote,
"The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. The
Europeans who colonized America were neither tolerant or enlightened; they were
the dregs of society, and they even despised each other." (2)
America as a nation was spawned in a violence that has existed uninterrupted
for 500 years. The guns and killings in society, the hundreds of wars initiated
against innocent nations and peoples, the century-long history of torture, the
constant daily violence on television, in childrens' games, and in the streets
and schools, are all merely symptoms of a deeply-ingrained pathological violent
nature of America. Karl Weiss observed that America today is "a society of
force so shot through with violence that any other value has little or no
meaning".
The US is the most
heavily armed civilian society in the world, with only 4% of the world's
population owning more guns than all other citizens in the entire rest of the
world. American civilians own more firearms (about 400 million) than do all the
police forces and military (about 225 million) in the world. The American
Military News states, "US civilians own 400 million guns compared to
military’s 4.5 million." (3)
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The US has hundreds
of mass killings in schools, at least one per week. In one 6-month period from
2012, there were 40 of these at universities and 40 in kindergartens and
elementary schools. American schools have armed officers and kindergarten
children wear bulletproof backpacks. Many nations and provinces have their
national flower or animal, but US States have a "State gun". In
China, parents look for new homes near good schools but Americans use the
number of killings by neighborhood as their main reference when buying a new
home.
Let's turn to some
foreign affairs examples and see how they relate to the people of the US.
We can recall the
US military destroyed supplies of potable water in Iraq, resulting in more than
500,000 infant deaths, with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright saying
those deaths were "worth it" to teach Saddam a lesson. How did the
American people react, to the fact of Albright's genocide and to her casual
appreciation of her own handiwork? They didn't. I could find no trace anywhere
of objection by the American people to this inhumanity.
The US military
fired into Iraq millions of artillery rounds containing depleted uranium which
vaporises and permeates everything including humans, with Iraq experiencing
several hundred thousand hideously deformed births; babies with anywhere from
no heads to three heads, babies born with their internal organs or brains
entirely outside their body cavities or crania, babies with any number of limbs
emanating from any and every part of their bodies, and a great many categorised
by UN physicians as "unidentifiable lumps of flesh". How did
Americans as a people react to this revelation? They didn't. Not a murmur that
I could find anywhere.
One hospital in
Iraq was cataloguing all the deformed births, preserving the fetuses,
maintaining accurate records and photographs, evidence the US government did
not want exposed. Their solution was to launch an airstrike, bombing the entire
hospital to rubble, not only destroying all the records and evidence but
killing all the victims along with the medical staff who were cataloguing it.
This wasn't a secret. How did Americans as a people react to this unspeakable
crime? They didn't. No complaints anywhere.
Still with Iraq,
the US government was displeased with the foreign news emanating from the
country during the invasion, providing evidence contrary to the official cone
of silence desired. In response the US military ran a tank into downtown
Baghdad, adjacent to the hotel where foreign journalists were encamped, and
blew out the entire floor of the hotel. This wasn't a secret. The American
people and their media were completely silent to this deliberate murder of many
reporters, to say nothing of suppressing freedom of the press.
For many decades,
the US military employed no snipers. Military adventures were conducted with
brute force, and snipers were universally depicted in books and movies asthe
lowest form of cowards who avoided "a fair fight" by hiding in trees
and bushes while killing people who didn't even know they were there. That
changed. Now that the US has them, snipers are the highest level of hero;
witness Chris Kyle, sniper extraordinaire who killed more than 100 people. Kyle
was good at his job and loved it: "I loved killing. I only wish I could
have done more of it." In one account he claimed his favorite kill was a
1,000-yard shot where he blew the brains out of an infant's head while it was
cradled in its mother's arms. How did Americans as a people react to this
event-ridden news? They celebrated it with movies and books, and they built
bronze statues in commemoration of the man. The movie was directed by Clint
Eastwood - "Dirty Harry" in more than name. Amazon included the film
in "Best Sellers - TV Shows Kids & Family - Legend of the American
Sniper". Kyle's memoir was the #1 New York Times bestselling book for
nearly a year, and the movie was nominated for six academy awards, including
best picture. San Antonio, Texas erected a 9-foot statue as "A fitting
tribute to an American hero."
As to the
interference in the governments of other nations, the US media have voiced no
objections and aside from a few brave souls writing books that Amazon
suppresses or refuses to sell, there is nothing from the American people. They
seem happy they are being taught to hate Chinese, Russians and Iranians, and
voice no objection to their government's current attempted destruction of
Venezuela, the decades-long suppression of Cuba, nor the horrific misery and
death toll their government has inflicted on the nations of South and Central
America, Asia and Africa. Since Vietnam, the American people increasingly
approve of their nation's criminal misadventures abroad, this approval
transformed now into active praise.
The American people
seem proud that their country has removed more than 50 legitimate governments
and replaced them with brutal dictatorships. The same is true of the American
record of assassinations of world leaders. Not a peep from Americans anywhere.
Today these assassinations are so popular (Khadaffi, binLaden, Solemani) that
the people party in the streets on the news that their President has killed
someone in another country that he didn't like.
It was the same
with the revelations of the immense torture regime established by Bush,
Rumsfeld and Cheney. Not a murmur anywhere. Moreover, torture became embedded
in the new definition of democracy for many Americans, Hollywood celebrating it
with a popular TV series where the American hero tortures people in the name of
Good. Congress was, if anything, worse than the American people. President
Obama at first threatened to make public the entire photo and video record of
the atrocities. Having been convinced otherwise, packages of the entire affair
were prepared for each member of Congress and stored in a secure location for
individual pick-up. Shortly thereafter, the CIA began having second thoughts
and obtained an order for the repossession of those torture packages. But they
needn't have worried; the packages were still in their original secure
location. The Members of Congress didn't even care enough to pick them up.
The American
people, as a people, raise no objection to the widely-known and undisputed fact
that their government, military and CIA have interfered in virtually every
election in every foreign country during the past 75 years. In total, of the
200 or so main countries in the world today, only three have not been either
directly invaded, subjected to brutal military, diplomatic and/or financial
pressures, been overwhelmed with American propaganda in their media,
encountered huge interference in their national elections, and/or otherwise
suffered massive interference from the US government. Results include poverty,
misery, illiteracy, and tens of millions of deaths. While the American people
may be unaware of the specifics and details in each case, almost no American is
unaware of the circumstances of all these cases. And what is the response of
the American people, as a people, to this litany of 100 years of
unremittingbullying and abuse of all nations including so-called 'allies'? Only
silence. There are no signs that Americans care of the damage their nation
inflicts on the world on a daily basis.
Fidel Castro is in
the Guinness Book of World Records as the person to have survived the most
assassination attempts. In 2006, the BBC produced a documentary titled
"638 Ways to Kill Castro". The US media dismissed it as a description
of "the various ways people and governments have tried to assassinate
Fidel Castro over the years". But it wasn't various "people and
governments"; it was entirely the US government behind those plots. The
media further dismissed this by categorising many of the attempts on Castro's
life as "humorous", and average Americans appear to share that
sentiment. For sixty years, no Americans have been unaware of any of this, and
for sixty years no Americans have objected to any of it.
Cuba is of course
only one of a great many nations the US government has destroyed or maintained
in abject poverty. There are at least 100 of these, and still counting. Most of
Latin America is in this position, with Venezuela today being driven into
poverty and famine from a refusal to permit wholesale American looting of the
country, as are Iran, Syria, and many others. Trump has, for four years, done
his very best to ruin China's economy and major corporations. No Americans are
unaware of this. Do Americans as a people object to this devastating bullying?
Not that I'm aware of. If anything, they seem proud of it.
Are Americans as a
people inherently evil? Yes, I would say so, for the most part. Are Americans
as a people, and from their government down, criminally insane? I don't see how
we could avoid answering in the affirmative.
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Mr. Romanoff's writing has been translated into 28 languages and his
articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in
more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English-language platforms.
Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held
senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an
international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at
Shanghai's Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs
to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing
a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the
contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney's new anthology 'When
China Sneezes'. His full archive can be seen at https://www.moonofshanghai.com/ and http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/
He can be contacted
at: 2186604556@qq.com
Notes
(1) https://rense.com/general60/lie.htm
(2)https://www.globalresearch.ca/violence-the-american-way-of-life/5318698
(5) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/08/my-god-and-my-glock-theology-of-guns.html
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