RE-THINKING ALOUD : …in the Last Days of America’s Hegemony, Part 6

Louisiana State Police officers leave the scene of crime where three police officers were killed on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. PHOTO |FILE

What you need to know:

The US military is fed by a canny weaponry department that is actually – some can be surprised – non state. It is an outsmarting arrangement of the highest calibre. This is it: gun manufacturers that the US taxpayers buy from are private. I insist: the defence budget is therefore paid to private citizens who hold shares or/and run manufacturing of warheads, guns, bullets and other technologies. This in all honest comes back to square one: that the US security is an item of business – by extension, the whole world security is!

On a note that the military structure of the USA is past ‘defence’ very few can deny. Again on the line of thought that the US military complex is destructive both internally and externally, only idiots can doubt. Take the weaponry department and its influence for example – you will prove any of the two arguments.

The US military is fed by a canny weaponry department that is actually – some can be surprised – non state. It is an outsmarting arrangement of the highest calibre. This is it: gun manufacturers that the US taxpayers buy from are private. I insist: the defence budget is therefore paid to private citizens who hold shares or/and run manufacturing of warheads, guns, bullets and other technologies. This in all honest comes back to square one: that the US security is an item of business – by extension, the whole world security is!

From previous treatises of this article, I have noted that the gravity of the US imperialism lies in her military complex. She has a mighty army sparred to action by a double digit number of security, defence and spy agencies. They are feeders of intelligence to the military, the senate and congress, the public and the judiciary. In the same vein I have indicated that those agencies have conditioned both the political climate of America and the public views. In the words of Julian Assange: ‘they look for information, they create lies and misinform the public in order to meet premeditated ends’.

One learns, off the foregoing, that intelligence units are de facto powers that run the US. They pull feats by framing situations, profiling personalities and tempering public opinions. That means in most cases the agencies are ones who project baseline views that guide politicians, lawyers and public thought. In short: they rule! If it is in the army’s interest the agencies simply inform POTUS that Russia is giving chemical weapons to Syria – inflaming the political divides. Or, that a small East African State – Burundi – is carrying out silent genocide on her people – this leading into strategic sanctions.

All is reminiscent of ancient Rome. In old Rome, there was power for army generals – they possessed legionaries and the intelligence – thus they were the ultimate power. The laurels of senate were to debate blah blah and receive fat bribes to endorse actions. Rome was in fact ruled by armies. That became her eventual problem…Can Americans really decide their fate?

It depends on how far you are misled to believe. In the immediate preceding issue, I submitted that the president – or any other politician - is at mercy of intelligence gatherers. When the three preceding presidents lay blame for their misdeeds, they name intelligence and military ranks. Donald Trump has been showing this distrust openly and often. Barack Obama regretted having been misled by intelligence on situations in Libya thus, he says, ‘it was a mistake to unseat Muammar Ghaddafi’. George W. Bush noted that he acted on false Intel about Iraq’s chemical weapons. POTUS is the first citizen of the US, if he can be mixed up then who cannot?

Among commoners – average to low citizens – people are not righteous to demand guns off streets. Of late, killings that are in reasonableness terrorism, madness and senselessness are fraying. Children are being shot ‘en mass’ in schools, tens are being killed in public by loitering gun owners and a lot of assaults are tagged to the problem of guns ownership. Who is able to take guns off the streets? No one. This is because; guns sales earn fat checks to weaponry investors – in reality they are traders in lives than security. Weird intelligence reports have it that the problem isn’t guns ownership…a comedy?

That guns are not cause of street killings. The president, senators and congress folks are vehemently in support of guns sales no matter how many losing lives. To extend the market, guns are becoming cheaper and widespread instead of limiting circulation! Evidence that America is off track on basic issues of security – as long as there is money…

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