America At War, Inc.

Exodus Chapter 20

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me, and showing mercy to thousands of those that love Me and keep My commandments.

    This below was in my email account when I woke up this morning and took the bait:

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Hunter S. Thompson's Prophetic 9/11 Essay Still Haunts Us

"The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time."

As the disintegrated twin towers were still smoldering in New York, the great Hunter S. Thompson penned a prophetic essay from his “fortified compound” in Woody Creek, Colorado. The famed gonzo journalist knew what was in store for the United States. And the world. 

Below is the essay that the great American writer published at ESPN just a few days after the dreadful 9/11 attacks. 

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It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colo., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning, and as usual I was writing about sports. But not for long. Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter devastation coming out of New York on TV.

Even ESPN was broadcasting war news. It was the worst disaster in the history of the United States, including Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake and probably the Battle of Antietam in 1862, when 23,000 were slaughtered in one day.

The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday). The final numbers, including those from the supposedly impregnable Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington, likely will be higher. Anything that kills 300 trained firefighters in two hours is a world-class disaster.

And it was not even Bombs that caused this massive damage. No nuclear missiles were launched from any foreign soil, no enemy bombers flew over New York and Washington to rain death on innocent Americans. No. It was four commercial jetliners.

They were the first flights of the day from American and United Airlines, piloted by skilled and loyal U.S. citizens, and there was nothing suspicious about them when they took off from Newark, N.J., and Dulles in D.C. and Logan in Boston on routine cross-country flights to the West Coast with fully-loaded fuel tanks -- which would soon explode on impact and utterly destroy the world-famous Twin Towers of downtown Manhattan's World Trade Center. Boom! Boom! Just like that.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

Nothing -- even George Bush's $350 billion "Star Wars" missile defense system -- could have prevented Tuesday's attack, and it cost next to nothing to pull off. Fewer than 20 unarmed Suicide soldiers from some apparently primitive country somewhere on the other side of the world took out the World Trade Center and half the Pentagon with three quick and costless strikes on one day. The efficiency of it was terrifying.

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.

OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy. 

 

Sloan Bashinsky

On Larry King Live, I watched George Perot do his best to talk President Daddy Bush out of saving Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's army, because it didn't matter who ruled Kuwait, its oil would be sold to America, and Kuwait was not worth one American military casualty. it later came out that Saddam had polled the American ambassador regarding America's position on Iraq taking part of Kuwait, and the ambassador said America had no position on that. Taking that as a green light, Saddam sent his army into Kuwait. 

Iraq was an American ally against Iran. Saddam and Daddy Bush were buddies dating back to when Daddy Bush was Director of the CIA. I watched President Daddy Bush say on national television that he could not allow the American way of life to be threatened. It was Kuwait's oil he could not allow to be threatened. So, he formed the Coalition that Saudi Arabia allowed to stage within its borders to take Kuwait away from Saddam. 

It infuriated the Saudi Prince Osama bin Laden, who had been an American ally fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, that his country had allowed infidel troops to operate out of Islam's most holy land. After 911, I read an open letter online from Osama to Americans, in which he explained what caused him to orchestrate 9/11, and he told Americans that President Baby Bush was easy to bait and they needed to replace him. 

Easy to bait. No shit. For what Osama hoped for more than anything was President Baby Bush would go to war in Afghanistan, which had been a graveyard for the Soviet Union and for England. 

Three nights before 9/11, I was asked by a familiar voice in my sleep, "Will you make a prayer for a Divne Intervention for all of Humanity?" I woke up, wondered what that was about, made the prayer, and went back to sleep. 

On 9/11, I hoped President Baby Bush would not start another Vietnam-like war in a distant land, which would be a terrible trap and would last a long time. It did not occur to me that President Baby Bush would start two such wars.

After American invaded Afghanistan, I got involved in a Christian Science Monitor discussion group about whether America should also invade Iraq, which, for all I saw, had nothing to do with 9/11. I was astounded over how many people in that discussion were rabid for America to also invade Iraq. I said it was a trap. It was not worth one American soldier casualty. I laid Jesus on them, who had said in the Gospels to resist not one who does evil, and to turn the other cheek and to pray for a do good to one's enemies. That set them ablaze. 

As time passed, it became crystal clear to me that the Iraq war, like the Vietnam, war, was an invented rich white men's war for corporate profit, in which black American troops in Iraq were picking those rich white men's cotton. I felt the same about the war in Afghanistan, which had immense natural mineral deposits and through which there long had been a dream of running a natural gas pipeline from the east into the Persian Gulf. Vice-President Cheney had been the CEO of Halliburton Industries, the likely candidate to build that pipeline. 

Clearly, President Baby Bush had turned the American military over to Cheney. Perhaps President Bush remembered that President John F. Kennedy had opposed a war in Vietnam and had been shot and killed. Then, his brother Bobby, when he was running for president, had opposed war in Vietnam and he was shot and killed. Then, Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcom X had opposed war in Vietnam and they were shot and killed. Perhaps Cheney had privately reminded Baby Bush of that? 

I was told in my sleep before Barack Obama received the Democratic Party nomination in 2016, that he had the potential to be the Anti-Christ. He proved it after he was elected and he accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace knowing he would continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he said that Afghanistan's and Iraq's natural resources should be monetized to repay America for its costs in those wars. 

By the time Joe Biden got elected president, America mostly was out of Iraq. Biden caught bloody political hell for pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. Now, he seems to be inching America into fighting Russia in Ukraine, where nuclear reactors are surrounded by exploding bombs and rockets.

So what was the Divine Intervention for which I was asked to pray? I don't have a clue, but the voice that has been with me since early 1987 put me up to run a spoof culture-jamming campaign for president, which was announced in two episodes of The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast and at The Redneck Mystic Lawyer for President on the Unicorn ticket blog.  

https://youtu.be/lMS67yJ1kWE

https://youtu.be/WNjLjovK24Q

https://redneckmysticlawyerforpresident.blogspot.com/

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