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Borgs for Bush
by arendt
When half the population starts behaving like zombies from
a TV space opera, it is time for those few Americans who have
not handed over their free will to the Bush brain laundromat to
consider their predicament. We are not talking partisan politics
anymore; we are talking mind control, psychological manipulation,
and technology so intrusive that it approaches the mythical Borg.
The name Borg even fits. Bush supporters are increasingly nothing
but Brain-dead Obscurantist Religious Groupies. They are
simultaneously unthinking, and intolerant of anyone who dares
to think. They think they are religious, but in reality they are
groupies for authoritarianism. People who genuinely think for
themselves, of both liberal and conservative persuasions, long
ago reached a mental breaking point with the verbal contortions
of this "its never my fault", "God is on my side, not yours" gang
of thugs and ayatollahs.
The Borgs of Star Trek fame really are a valid role model for
Americans who obey the Bush party line no matter how illogical it
becomes, no matter how clearly it is not in their self-interest to obey
it. Every dittohead might as well be channeling the Borg Queen. Any
day now I expect Clear Channel to offer free surgical implantation of
a radio that only tunes in lunatic right wing hate-mongering.
But, as seen on TV, the Borgs are no laughing matter. It is they who
tell pollsters they approve of George Bush and his obscene policies.
It is they who say that demonizing everyone who opposes them is moral.
It is they who have sold their birthright as Americans to grovel at the feet
of the Texas Taliban. It is they who volunteer to go to Iraq with bulls-
eyes painted on their ill-armored bodies and vehicles for the greater
profit of Halliburton. It is they who are gulled into violating the Geneva
Convention. And, it is they who blame all this on "godless liberals".
Oh, puhleez.
Ever hear a Borg even allude to an authority other than their own hive
mind? Who knows if its Cheney or Rumsfeld or Rove or the PNAC or
Rupert Murdoch or Newt Gingrich (or his henchman Grover Norquist) or
Pat Robertson or Sun Myung Moon or someone hiding out in Area 51
who is really running the hive? What is clear, though, is that George W.
Bush is just the User Interface for the hive mind, just the face and voice
that give the "orders that must be obeyed" to the armies of darkness
that have been created.
Techies have mercilessly satirized Microsoft as the Internet version
of the Borg. They have applied the trademark "absorb and extend" mantra
of the Borg to the Microsoft's "copy and corrupt" racketeering business
model. It is easy to see the same copy-and-corrupt scheme in action
as the corporate Borg have turned the media into one big propaganda
machine for the kind of anti-democratic behavior seen on reality TV.
They have corrupted political debate into shout-fests and news reporting
into five second soundbites and inflammatory videos - the audio and
video equivalents of simplistic, inflammatory, rabble-rousing agitprop.
Bush's Borg are extremely well funded and absolutely immune from any
kind of lawsuit, much less any kind of government investigation. This
has made the game very one sided. The Borg's get to try scheme after
illegal, duplicitous scheme; and when they fail, the only consequence is
that they have spent some of their bottomless pile of money. No matter
how illegal the Congressional moves of Tom DeLay, no matter how
unconstitutional the Executive Orders of George W. Bush and the claims
of Executive Privilege of Dick Cheney, no matter how unethical the
associations, fulminations, and confiscations of Antonin Scalia, there is
never any hint of prosecution, much less punishment or prohibition.
On the other hand, every Borg success takes a bite out of American
democracy. The 2000 election phony felon disenfranchisment is a
model for future vote fraud. The Patriot Act has gutted the U.S. Constiution.
The Bush budgets have ruined Medicare and soon, Social Security, not
to mention the economy. Bush has ruined our standing in the world by
tearing up treaties, denying the Geneva Convention, and waging illegal
offensive warfare. To destroy is so much easier than to create, as the
future of America will sadly demonstrate.
The Borg strategy module is, unfortunately, not stupid. They leave that
to the drabs who buy their Leo Straussian lies and bunkum. They believe in
strategic conquest on the cheap, the coup d'etat, not the fair and open acquisition
of democratic power. The Bush Borg target the most critical nexuses of power -
the bottlenecks and citadels of Constitutional government. First they disrupt their
honest functioning; then they occupy them. At each nexus, they kick out anyone
who does not give his total and unswerving loyalty to the Bush Junta. Each
nexus gives them access to more and higher centers of power.
So, now we have Cabinet agencies full of bureaucrats who withhold information
from Congress on Bush's orders, and White House economists who make
up fantasy budget projections to cover Bush's butt. We have a totally
fanatical House of Representatives, led by uber-Borg Tom DeLay. In
this Munich beerhall excuse for a legislative body, DeLay calls votes
at midnight on unread legislation, calls the D.C. police to intervene in
Congressional business, refuses to investigate any G.O.P. wrong-doing,
no matter how obvious, and joins the Borg chorus proclaiming America
to have always been a Christian nation. We have Antonin Scalia declaring
himself to be a theocrat and pouring scorn from the bench as he confiscates
reporters notes.
Are these people publicly accountable servants? Or are they zombie
cultists tearing the guts out of American democracy? Either Hollywood
is filming a bad remake of "The Puppet Masters" on Capitol Hill, or
we need to call Captain Janeway.
We need a Borgs for Bush street theatre brigade marching at the GOP
convention! They could carry TVs playing John Carpenter's "They Live".
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