As Above, So Below

Although this was written in response to S.3348 it seems to apply far more generally than I anticipated. Scary, I know. -M

RE: S.3348 – Accountable Capitalism Act

 (Read this piece of shit  by clicking here... after you read my shit down there)

This is an average guy who took the time

to let his representative know his mind

in the hope representative democracy

can still work for an average guy like me.

If I may speak freely, from what I've seen

I put the odds at highly unlikely

I'm white and male, my apologies

Still, I made my plea in digital poetry

and cast it out through a port #443.

Godspeed!

To: You

From: Me

Right Honorable, Most Merciful, Excellency...

Someday this bill will come before you, burn it, please

It's a chimera, an abomination crafted beautifully

Loot billionaires for a minute then the middle class eternally

You fix inequality with ninety-nine for them, one for me

I beg your forgiveness for remembering history

Those who fail to learn its lessons end up like me

No, thank you, Can’t afford it. Now, go away please.

Then, the Bill passed with bipartisan support. Unanimously!

Another unfunded liability for me and my family.

You have no shame, so I have no sympathy. Now, go away please.

This average guy would rather see "Government Accountability"

No, I'm not a communist, terrorist, or deranged mentally.

No, I don't have a weapon or bomb. Fine. Go ahead. Frisk me... again.

I'm a libertarian... Great! Another official with episodic A.D.D.

Hey, buddy! Over here. Focus, you son of a B…

Let's talk about the lay of the land, topography

"The level playing field" as you call it dishonestly

Decades from now this quote will be my legacy

because you couldn’t tax it, steal it, or charge a fee

"Give me Death or Government Accountability"

In the Land of the Free from sea to shining sea

Immediately, if not sooner, if you please. I said please.

That’s a win-win for you and me and our posterity.

All our future generations bounced on a knee

Our debt situation isn’t serious, it’s critical, seriously

it’s a choice of life or death, to be or not to be

I don't give a shit if Kaepernick took a knee

Hey, Rain-man, are you listening to me?

As above, so below", so the ancient saying goes.

What we’re taught is everything we know.

From father to son, from mother to the girl with the bow.

To wear the mantle this lesson you must know

As above, so below.

As above, so below.

Our example plants a seed or a field fallow.

As above, so below.

As above, so below.

Those who cannot control themselves

will seek to control every one else.

To demonstrate their power and prowess

It’s in our human genome, I guess

Blind ambition is sin in fancy dress

A virtue if we veil it in governance

that cares for the poor and powerless

At their own expense. What a hot mess!

If the People wont follow

then make them bow, they know.

It’s a fear and dominance show,

follow my lead, here we go

As above, so below.

As above, so below.

The need to sit upon every throne

is a contagion beneath the capitol dome

Everyone knows how the fanfare goes

As above, so below.

As above, so below.

Once more fortissimo

As above, so below.

You’re a busy man. I understand.

Heavy is the head but so is the hand.

That forms a fist in the gauntlet of hegemony

You’re perfect plan for all the land, most assuredly

Mirages look like an oasis in the sand. Lunacy!

Let’s speak honestly. Here’s the truth I see

Charity is the sister of accountability

both are birthed or stillborn at home invariably

If you can’t control yourself, don’t try steering me

If the blind lead the gullible it’s easy to see

Both fall down pursuant to the Law of Gravity

When plunder is enshrined in law, the law is insanity

Free from the chains of bondage to financial slavery

We have arrived in the land of bilk your money

The promised land of transfer payment thievery

Open your wallet says me, Ali Baba’s wet dreams

Plenty for Al Capon’s bride to be

The Artful Dodger picked her purse clean

Robin Hood, what an amateur!

We're the government, we rob everybody.

To each according to their criminality

to those upon the throne, our ruling royalty

by the indolent hand of noble bureaucracy

From those below the wealth is gleaned

A permanent flock of sheep to fleece

99 for the shepherds and none for me

Don’t kill them, just shear them vigorously

until they bleed.

Arbeit macht frei!

Work makes you free the same lie they told me

E Pluribus Unum means "We serve monopolies"

Buy on Amazon, post on Facebook, insure with Geico

Lose it in Public Storage, find it, and sell it on Let Go

Get a nickel on the buck if the market is right

Repeat this mistake every day for the rest of your life

iPods, iPads, iPhones one through ten, iHomes

I need a vacation to rest my broken iBones

You know the drill, so here iGo...

As above, so below.

As above, so below.

Equality begins six feet down horizontally

Not a level playing field at forty-five degrees

No, thank you, Can’t afford it. Now, go away please.

I’ve got kids to feed. Your help is killing me.

First practice what you preach

Prove your wise enough to teach

Equity isn’t grab everything in reach

While lying to me through golden teeth

There is no honor among thieves

Even those who pontificate constantly

The banks just went bankrupt again? Oh, gee?

Even after I paid all those goddamn fees?

Deficit spending and freedom ain't free

Steal the money from my kid, age three

But don't touch a dime of my social security

That makes good financial sense to me

The kid may feel differently at age thirty-three

Oh, damn! Papa and Uncle Sam fucked me!

As the damage grows...

As above, so below

As above, so below

And the corruption shows...

As above, so below

As above, so below

Generations fall like dominoes...

As above, so below

As above, so below

Like a river flows and the sunlight glows

As above, so below

As above, so below

A seed or fallow

As above, so below

As above, so below

The hand both reaps and sows

As above, so below

As above, so below

The judge made a choice, easy as can be

Death before Government Accountability

Legally "equal" is two ropes on a gallows

None for them, two for me, consecutively.

Sentence to be carried out prestissimo

Stretch his neck. Courts adjourned. Gotta pee.

May God have mercy on your soul.

As above, so below

As above, so below

Before my last words I heard the judge clearly go…

Now, you’re free, you’re really free

I thought he was talkin' to his dick not me

I was wrong, dead wrong as could be...

Free at last, so totally free

But your widow still owes me

Damn, it burns when I pee!

Last words... Fuck it! Let's go.

So, the story goes...

As above, so below

As above, so below

As above, so below

As above, so below

Gratitude.gov

Sargon the Great "Inventor" of the wheel

Ladies and Gentlemen of these United States of America,
lend me your eyes...

Let us offer gratitude to our government for all it has done for us and our future generations. Mark this moment in your mind for we live in remarkable times. A new era has begun. We are fortunate to be the first in line of many generations of diminished expectations. Allow me to be the voice among the People to turn towards that city on a hill, Washington D.C., and offer our elected officials our Gratitude.gov.

Thank you for robbing us and our children of a future. Destitution requires little planning and no labor at all. Thank you for all the corruptions you engaged in and allowed. In truth, they were but one and the same. Thank you for the financial shenanigans you profited from, facilitated, ignored, or permitted by ineptitude. You have taught us so much about accountability by example. Our sincere gratitude for the bait and switch shell game of hope and change. It kept our patriotic fervor at a fevered pitch while our Republic was systematically dismantled and fleeced of its value and Values. Two birds, no stone. We appreciate the great efforts taken to devise solutions which compounded the problems and still managed to convince us progress was made. Thank you for all the byzantine political theater which tore our nation apart and turned neighbor against neighbor. What your performance may have lacked in substance was rewarded many times over in dissolution. You gave us all you had which was empty elocution and passionate mendacity. In return all you asked of us was our treasure, trust, and honor. Then, our sons and daughters limbs and lives to cover the balance. All unjust means in the pursuit of your own ends wrapped in red, white, and blue flags. You basked in the glory of the good times and shed accountability like a serpent’s skin when the rot of your corruptions burst through the thin, yet opaque veneer of law and national security redactions which you built to obscure our view. You enriched your families co-conspirators, and cronies ad nauseum with much at our great expense while we lavishly honored you with accolades and laurels.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, these reprobates are the culprits but we are to blame.

The First Rule of Republic:

“You have no one to blame but yourselves.”

Nevertheless, there is a Just God in Heaven. So, in our frustration and rage it is those lauded officers of state which we will set upon and tear limb from limb under the supernal Wheel of Revolution to Rights ourselves again. AMEN.

A Pallet of Prozac, Please

(American diplomacy meets Game of Thrones Edition)

It may come as a bit of a surprise to our Federal policymakers that they do not possess the authority to set policy for the planet. Many people around the globe, myself included, are wondering if those who govern from inside the Beltway have gone out of their minds. To wit:

• We are currently levying sanctions on Russia without any tangible proof of wrongdoing. Aside from the a priori argument “because we said so”, there is nothing substantive to our accusations.

• We are pursuing sanctions against Iran based on similar thin air evidence. 

• Venezuela is getting our sanction cold shoulder as well, but in the case of Caracas, it's more personality based than political.

The list goes on and on but I will not to economize time for both of us. Now, none of these things are overtly Cersei insane in the Game of Thrones known as US politics. To the contrary, these Tywinesque punitive mandates issued via the Twitter raven have become rather routine. Disturbing sure, but not irrefutably bats in the belfry like King Joffrey.

This is very reminiscent of the Lannister’s rule of law. Do as we command or we will lay siege and have your head on a pike at the Red Keep by nightfall.

Nevertheless, the bellicose behavior of our policymakers which many people around the globe, myself included, consider outlandish now constitutes American diplomacy terra firma. Perhaps, we can just chalk the bravado and bad manners up to Sansa Stark youthful naivety. That would be nice and expedient. So, let's assume it's inexperience, ignorance, bad advice from a Maestrer who's been sipping his own Milk of the Poppy, or anything other than malice at work in the Beltway belfry. We can dispatch the issue as quickly as a faceless man.

But then, there is this issue of sanctioning anyone who doesn't respect our sanctions. That is straight up cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs stuff. It's a warning to every other sovereign nation on the pale blue dot that America’s leadership is in need of a Costco size pallet of Prozac addressed:

Residents, et al.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The Nut Factory, USA.

This all encompassing dictatorial threat to friend and (perceived) foe alike seems very un-American to me, many people around the globe included. Rather than the acts of an enlightened republic, we are issuing the ultimatums of a senile emperor. A very dangerous and increasingly paranoid emperor who isn't so certain that his reign is just, that truth will out, and that good will always triumphs over evil. A demented and twisted king whose final decree would be, "Burn them. Burn them all!"


Where's a Kingslayer when you need one?


Our diplomatic energies, like all human endeavors, can produce either heat or Light. Justice, Truth and Goodness only produce Light. We have become far too fond of dragons.

USA vs USSR

U.S. Constitutional System	Soviet System
Bill of Rights to protect individual rights with access to independent judiciary enforced. While this may have been true at one time, the courts have rendered increasingly narrow interpretations of individual Rights to the point where it is now legal for the President to summarily execute an American citizen by declaring them an Unlawful Combatant. That is capricious, legal, and it is murder. As for the independent judiciary, the rise of activist judges have turned the bench into their personal political principalities. Built on a foundation of case law where one poor decision can give birth to millions more and our Principles be damned.	Soviet constitution states protections, but there was no independent judiciary Rights? Sure, you got rights. Abstract though they may be, just like every other country.  You have the right to choose from what is offered.  You have the right to throw yourself on the mercy of the State.  You have the right to be systematically swindled by those who administer administrative law.  You have the right to a legal system where the common person stands no chance of finding justice without a high priced "Priest of the Temple" to plea their petitions before the "Gods".  Certain restrictions may apply.
Free elections American elections are duopolized by two  massive, private corporations which hold no Constitutional validity, yet the Democratic and Republican parties are the gatekeepers of power for the United States. While they appear to be two separate institutions each representing  distinctly different constituencies, they both answer to the same "powers that be".  This makes our ostensibly free elections the illusion of Republic. By definition the United States is an Oligarchy.  ˈäləˌɡärkē noun a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.	Government-controlled elections
Representative government at federal, state, and local levels This is true, but whom are they representing? In search of an answer to this question, two university professors did a great deal of research and they came to some stark, but not surprising conclusions. See their work here.	Central Committee of Communist Party in control of central, state, and local government
Police under civilian control Once again, this was true in the past but in our effort to fight the Drug War and now terrorism, we have turned our civilian police force into a para-military force which could rival many nations armies. Often the police officers are ex-military and are working in neighborhoods where they do not reside. The effect is one of an occupying force rather than local law enforcement. We have watched as Homeland Security and other Federal agencies have become far more involved in local law enforcement. Currently, every form of electronic communication transmitted from one American citizen to another is filtered through the National Security Agency (for our protection, of course). Edward Snowden currently has a warrant for blowing the whistle on this glaring violation of our Fourth Amendment Rights. You remember, the Inalienable Rights we received from our Creator. They just ain’t so anymore. On the matter of controlling dissent, we already know that most civil rights leaders were tailed by the FBI. More recently environmental activists and third party candidates have their daily activities recorded in «Official Use Only» dossiers. Let us not forget the newly created “free protest zones“ within a nation that was a free protest zone.	Police under party control; active secret police unit to control dissent
Free press Free is an ambiguous term in this case. While there is a commercial press, it is not necessarily a free press. Corporate sponsors and political heavyweights exert pressure on news outlets by virtue of being the wealth and the power by which media lives or dies. Mr. Turner did not reach the pinnacle of media by saying “no” to the “powers that be”. Here’s an example of America’s “free” press. As media opinions have narrowed, our options have followed suit. We are offered a few schools of thought to battle one another over, but in the end the People’s debate is background noise. The decision was made long before the average person became aware there was a choice to be made. Indeed, today E pluribus Unum, means “We serve monopolies”.	State-controlled press
Military under control of elected civilian government A civilian is in charge of the military, many civilians. They are the executives of our largest defense contractors. Since 1967, the year of my birth, the United States has been at war 51% of my days. Those born after 9/11/2001 have never known a day of peace. Dwight Eisenhower, began his military career as a Second Lieutenant in World War One and ended World War Two as the Supreme Allied Commander, then went on to be the Occupational Governor of Germany and eventually the President of the United States (Resume provided to disarm the “Communist”, “Hippie” or Conspiracy Nut” dismissals). President Eisenhower closed his public career by issuing the American People a stark warning about the military industrial complex. We ignored his appeal and now our military and our brave sons and daughters have become mercenaries for merchants. We live in comfort and ease while we fight a “war” with no declared enemies, no rules of engagement, and no exit strategy. War without end. A nation which remains at war for decades and feels no ill effects (e.g. - Rationing) cannot be a moral nation for they have made war a thing of leisure. Terrorism is a tactic. It’s not an enemy. We can no more defeat a tactic than we can defeat frontal attack or encirclement. The war on terror is nothing more than a license to kill anyone, anywhere, without conscience or consequence. That is a power no lawful nation should abide or exercise ever.	Military under control of central leadership of bodies Communist Party
Extensive private property ownership Indeed, Americans own a great deal of real property. We live in a big country which dwarfs all European nations. The United States is the third largest nation-state on earth. Yet, home equity ratios have been dwindling since the early 1950’s. The property is privately owned, but mostly by the bank We are increasingly house poor. A home is the largest investment most working people will ever make, and the viability and burden of that investment has been slowly ebbing from middle-class America. Many of those working and dream of being middle-class have a $15 an hour job which will provide the down-payment on lunch.	State ownership of major industries; very limited private ownership
In Conclusion Yes, we knew that all along, so WTF are we putting so much time and treasure to becoming the necromancers of the USSR!?!	In Occlusion In short, Communism sucks. It withers the human soul, depreciates the human being, and turns them into dysfunctional and despondent hive dwellers. Bees do hive thinking well. Humans do not. Stop trying.

“Some pipe dreams are so magnificent and appealing to the human mind that their golden visions last an entire lifetime. Taunting you, shimmering there, just out of your grasp. The dream persists long after the memories of the millions who perished in the last attempt to possess it. Your Precious, your gleaming socialist dream lasts long enough for you to commence the slaughter again. The necromancer lives once more.” 

Now, look away, close your eyes, and pretend you never read these words.

The New New Deal

I was going to rip you off, and probably myself in the process, by reprinting my 240 Candles piece but I thought you deserve better. America deserves better. This is exactly the line of reasoning which is conspicuously absent from our government apparatchiks. Therefore, I will buck this disheartening trend and take this opportunity to remind Americans that the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence on the Second of July. It was only read publicly on the Fourth. The Founders had to flee Philadelphia because they had just committed Treason. They were now armed felons sworn to bring down the State. So, if you love your Liberty hug an armed felon. It was their type who gave us real Freedom, not the freedom to a 40 hour work week, V.A. loans, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Home mortgage deductions, Federally enforced Ponzi schemes, or the “right" to be a slave to your cell phone. Thank God, the Founding Felons had something more Principled in mind and may God forgive us for forgetting that.

With that being said, I’ve elected to rip us all off by reprinting the Purpose in Patriotism instead. That’s the beauty of being an aging writer, increasingly we’ve already written all there is to be said. That's the deal...

The Purpose in Patriotism

I understand, times are tough and patriotic displays are one place we can afford to cut spending. A few dollars for fireworks on the Fourth and a "Support Our Troops" bumper sticker for under three bucks. That's about all we've got, just like everyone else. Oh, and we sing the National Anthem before baseball games. We all do that too. Things have cooled over the past couple decades, and we don't want to look like Nationalists. They are all murdering racists.

Being a patriot got a bad rap in the 1980's when love of America took a back seat to the white supremacist, gun-toting lunatic in the woods of wherever who was certain the Guberment (not a typo) was gonna kill us in them FEMA camps the UN was setting up. Oddly enough, this redefinition of patriotism took place at the same time being a "Global citizen" came into fashion.

Weird, huh? I'm not saying it was a conspiracy. It's just one of those perfectly timed, well-planned coincidences that happen rather frequently. Sort of like those chemical weapon attacks made by some deranged leader on his own people (and who has decided to stop using Federal Reserve Notes) right before the U.S. takes a pining to invading the "madman's" country like Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Remember Chemical Ali? It kinda' makes you wonder, "Who would be crazy enough to stock these lunatics with chemical weapons?" It's damn peculiar. I mean mighty damn peculiar.

Nevertheless, patriotism is a good thing because it reminds us that even when we disagree, we're still all on the same side. That's important. Otherwise, we might turn into disparate, feuding factions. We'd be susceptible to manipulations by a biased media who told us what to think and feel rather than what happened in the world today. That would be propaganda, not news. United we stand, right?

If we didn't hang together, the next thing we'd know we'd be jumping from one endless war to another and swindled by corrupt politicians who were in bed with sleazy business tycoons. The perpetrators of giant financial scams would remain nameless while Congress ran up the debt on the national charge card like reckless teenagers on a spending spree once they realize they're never gonna' pay it off. Political parties would be defrauding the voters, political candidates would walk away from felonies free as can be in a country where the people don't give a s#!t about their future because they don't see one.

It's all been so mismanaged for so long it's hopeless. No matter who you vote for, it's just more of the same disastrous policies that got us to this place of despair. Just take a Valium, smoke an Oxycontin, shoot some heroin, pull the covers over your head and hope it all goes away. Worst case scenario, you can just shoot yourself and call it an endless night, right?

The Last American

View of The Last American

The law has become lawlessness wrapped in self-righteous petty crusades. Crusades to make others conform to our will not only the old fashioned way, but over the years we have dedicated ourselves and other peoples money into finding more technology driven solutions. Cointelpro was decades ago. Mere child’s play that managed to get a few of its victims to dive headlong from sixth story hotel windows and this very night I came to understand why.

From our first Fourth of July parade we are lied to in a systematic way by those who teach us about the nature of our nation. The very foundation of “Rule of Law” is a prevarication. The true Rule of Law is the same barbaric violence and coercion employed by homo erectus. Although anthropologists claim their species is extinct, I am surrounded by them this very night. They grunt and brandish their clubs and spears to “properly” motivate me. Their stench makes me dry heave and their savage manners repulse me.

Barbarism is the new American value. We inflict law at the point of a gun from the bottom up, while in the unholy halls of our Capitol the most blatant crimes go unnoticed, uncharged, and unpunished. These are the arbitrary ways of the corroded and corrosive cartel we are prisoners of operates. We used to be a free country, now we are all suspects or perpetrators, victims or victimizers, prey and predators all in our stations.

They say when you fight and enemy too long you take on their worst attributes. We have fought many enemies for far too long and we have become abomination. So, utterly deranged in our thoughts and customs that it all seems quite normal to invade another and call it beneficence, to kill another and call it mercy, to destroy everything we touch and call it freedom. The previous assumes that dropping a bomb on something can be considered a “touch”.

I was born in January 1967, and since my birth America has been at war 51% of my days. Those born in 1992 have never known a single day of peace. This is what we call “normal” because we have become twisted creatures unable to discern virtue from vice, Freedom from slavery, War from Peace, and Love from Hate. We stand on a solid sand and issue arbitrary edicts which satisfy our immediate designs and forsake our sacred principles. Principles obstructed the putrid black bile we vomit from our mouths and call justice this day.

An opiate epidemic moves through our streets like the Angel of Death through Egypt, but rather than being a sign of the Most High God our plague is a sign of the Most High in government and their cronies. The sign is $. As a means of providing “justice” to the land we allow the perpetrators of these crimes to retire with multi-million dollar bonuses and 401Ks while the victims we march off to our prisons. May God forgive us, but where He would find cause is a mystery.

Tolerance is the final cry of a dying civilization. Not tolerance for one another. No, there is no space for that, but tolerance for those who brought their civilization to its death rattle. As we decapitate, eviscerate, and incarcerate one other, the despots who poison our minds with horrors of WMDs, Russian hacking, and manufactured demons at every turn are immune from providing the most basic information1 of their activities and those of the “republic” which act in our names.

We celebrate the banning of plastic straws because they might hurt the fucking fishies, but we don’t hesitate a moment to invade someones bedroom and watch them masturbate night after night and then claim that there is something wrong with them!!! Because this is our God given right, right? You fucking sick motherfuckers. Well, fuck yourselves, too.

Love,
The Last American

1 Like, Where is the 21 Trillion dollars we gave you?

P.S. - If you're wondering about that last paragraph... I threw it in there to prove my point. It's the only one that your putting any real thought into. The rest of them make no real difference to you which makes me... The Last American.

Distances and Math

The Killing Silence

I hear it in the idle chatter of nostalgic old men. And the rasp of a full bird colonel who says, “They're all terrorists. It's either us or them.” He sets a chiseled gaze at the camera,
clears his throat, and then... I'll be God damned if I split my budget
with those goldbricking old men! I hear it in the announcer’s voice who laments, “It’s a slaughter... down by seventeen runs! Our Cubbies aren’t coming back from this one. Unless they pull out the big guns.” I hear it in the lies of the shopping network pitch “This is real Tasmanian chocolate brown crystal shit. Thousands above what anyone sane would pay for it, and it’s a ring pop so you can all suck it. Back in a bit.” I hear it in the bake sales, and fall fashion lines, and every mass shooting survivor who cries, “Give up your guns. Guns took my best friends lives!” Cut to the studio anchor wiping her misty eyes “The whole nation is mourning and paralyzed.” I hear it in the sermon of the Pastor
who speaks on the Sanctity of American life. Brits, and Canadians, too,
because God loves those guys. Praise God! and Open your Bibles to Genesis, Verse 12 in Chapter 25.

"Now, these are the generations of Ishmael,

Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian,

Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael,

by their names, according to their generations:

the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth;and Kedar,

and Adbeel..."

[Fades to silence] Half a world away a bombardier has Ishmael’s DNA in his sights. Praise God! We got those guys! The secondary must have been a mile high. High fives! I hear it in the certain voices of petty crusaders as they externally moralize and internally self-aggrandize. Saved a soul while a family dies. An acceptable price. Pass the ammunition and Praise Jesus Christ! Ain't that nice? The killing silence where we demonize, commit homicide, and cannibalize.
When you stand before the Throne, what will you say? I tell you the truth, you will rue that day. I tell you the truth, that you might understand. The Stain of Cain is the blood on your hands. Remaining silent is a guilty man’s Right. Take the Fifth its a value equal to the real Tasmanian chocolate brown shit.