Please tell me why should I not form a militia, or my own government? My own group of people who decide upon a book of laws? Why are they, then, not justified in killing where killing would otherwise be thought a crime? Because they are not your gang? Yes. And that is all. So at least we can be clear on that. There is no great morality that can be defended by any nation, and especially one that operates on the dictums the US does and engages in the hypocrisies that she historically has.

There is no such thing as Liberty and Democracy, nor Freedom when you seek dispensation of same from a Government. Because in the end, those glorious ideals and speeches and laws will be communicated with steel and blood and agony and murder, and based on reasons you may or may not agree with. Just as we see now. Just as we have seen in the past. Just as we will see again. For there is no law of society but force. Everything else is a conditional addendum. And to loan your body and will and force to the State—and unconditionally—is to forego your humanity and forge of your self a dull weapon.

Arguing that somehow the TROOPZ are justified in killing and causing and enflaming harm to humans simply because they are Tha TROOPZ (and having signed agreement with all that that entails, thus losing aforementioned individual will and blame) is a circular definition. Even if I pretend it makes sense, it only makes sense as long as you justify your gang having rights to harm others due to them being YOUR gang. Again, no moral advantage. No empirical truth. No great Ideal of Freedom or Beauty. Just force.

But okay. Say I allow for OUR gang being righteous in killing and causing harm in a giant Wrongness simply because they are OUR gang. If I say, at this point, that these soldiers are still responsible for helping crimes like the Iraq War to continue a day longer, you say, no—they must follow the will of the government, which represents the People. And I say O? Really? I only ask, then, what would be your answer to ending wars like this? For it seems the People do not want it. But there is no answer from these people at this point. They must now hem and haw and point to suits in D.C. and muse on what they will be strong or self-interested enough to do, wriggling around the truth that each person must be responsible for what they lend their heart and hand to.

You may say the system is self-correcting. The liars will be brought down, the war ended, the invasive P.A.T.R.I.O.T. laws repealed or adjusted....but how many humans have died behind this invasion that never should have happened? How much money burned and squirreled away by private contracting companies or men like Dick Cheney and his Halliburton friends? How many hundreds of thousands killed? How many children born mutated from the effects of spent uranium? How much the world polluted? How many American familes fractured? How many minds destroyed in Iraq? How much goodwill wasted in the world? How much hate for the Empire spawned? How many new enemies sworn in?

These things will not self-correct. And if they do, you may not like the redaction. Either way, I say the system is disastrous. I say the system is poison. A lie. A lullaby to mask the sounds of flames as the house burns down around us.

As long as we abdicate control of our destiny to politicians in D.C., and train our children to abdicate control of their own morality and ability to judge the Rightness of wars, then mass-murder can and will be desirable and initiated by tiny, scared, greedy men in rooms far away from the killing; waged by a brainless throng of soldier-tools, paid for by masses of people who don't consider themselves integral, responsible, and culpable (and thus will never consider withdrawing actual support (cash)); and blamed on other pawns, nations, reasons....

It is not that this administration is bad for the world. Because it was also the administration that launched the Vietnam War that I speak of. It is, too, the administration involved in the Iran Contra scandal and cutting secret hostage deals with Iran that I speak of. It is also Clinton's administration as well—read up beyond the dashing front page photos. He was elbow deep into some nasty shit, and he didn't care like ya think he did.

American government is a greedy, rotting cluster of self interest and propaganda. Some of us play with the spent casings of shorn- or worn-off ideology and it is our Sport. But this is all government, and this is the nature of the beast. Not just American government. Governments are anti-person, anti-planet, anti-kindness, and anti-reason. They are complex control and profit arrangements represented by well-funded advertisements designed to convince you and I that we are better off than we ever can be or will be with such devious and destructive entities amongst us.