September 7, 2007
by Volt Penn

While attending a German school in Odessa, Russia, ten year old Lev Davidovich Bronstein revolted. Little Lev hated the fact that instead of speaking in the High German he'd always loved, he would be forced to speak in the crass Czar's lowdown lingo. Lev went on to become Leon Trotsky, the revolutionary whose ideas would influence 20th Century Russia, 21st Century America and the world.

While leading the Red Army as its first commander and the People's Commissar of War, the obsessive/compulsive Trotsky hatched a formula to control his soldiers. Death be damned in his 'Permanent revolution', to Trotsky to die for the state was not only necessary, it was mandatory. And what, someone might ask, does all that hate have to do with us today?

Neoconservatives. Abbreviated into Neocons, they have taken a neurotic Jew's concept of enduring war like magnates to lead, but just as long as the pain and suffering is inflicted on others, and takes place in a god forsaken land, far away from American shopping centers.

The likes of Pearle, Wolfowitz, Feith, et al have conjured this brand-new brand of permanent revolution, and 'we the people' are seen as one more Russian herd, paid-hirelings in the Neocon's never-ending death march, called American Imperialism. Because to Neocons 'we the people' are light headed thrill seekers, giddy wheel of fortune spinners, drooling celebrity watchers, and frantic Consumer Units.

Neocons are arrogant, but they are far from incompetent. The facts are everywhere. Bush's approval rating?  So what if only 30% of everybody-and-their-mother still support a forever lost-on-the-page president? The Republican or Democrat whose motorcade glides down Pennsylvania Ave. in '09 is a non-issue. No politician worth their weight in bribes will ever give up the unitary powers recently hammered into the Neocons' Project and implemented by the big dick, Cheney.

The Neocons have already drawn up a NeoConstitution, calling it the 'Project for the new American century'. The Trotsky lovers who signed this black market agreement, dream about living to see their names written up in history, or at least flashed on Fox News at the bottom of your T.V. screen.

Remember 'a thousand points of light'? Its central theme was to 'stay the course'. At the time the emerging Project warned that it 'wouldn't be prudent' if we went all the way to Baghdad.

Then, the Project's national propaganda posturing was blown away by a sax player's stiff tool - a 'Big Job' who occupied the Oval Office for eight years. In 2000 came a coup d'état authorized and sanctioned by our Supreme Court. The Project's son-of-a-mouthpiece told everyone 'if you're not with us you're against us', 'Mission Accomplished', and 'if we don't kill 'em over there, they'll kill us over here'.

If all this reads like it's out of a Marvelous Comic titled THE BLACK HALO, copyright '95-volt penn, by Jove you're right. The Project's main lynch pin was, is, and always has been Mr. Big Business - Oil. The price of crude had been set in frog hides, but after 9/11, Neocons decided that trading dead Muslims for dead dinosaurs was a fee we all could afford to pay. Now the whole world hates us, our greenbacks are shriveling into thin air, and inflation has blown up in our face.

We are in a permanent state of war that is hell for those involved. As Trotsky might say if he were still here trying to wash the blood from his hands, thousands of times a day, 'In a state of everlasting transformation, death is a natural consequence, and inconsequential'. 

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You see pal, Neocons have known all along that Sunnis hate Shiites and Shiites hate Sunnis. It's in the Project; why else disband an Iraqi Sunni army, immediately install a Shiite government, then later on, pay Sunni's to kill Shiites? But here's the real genius in the Project; when Iran offers to help its Shiite brethren, the Neocons go Trotsky on us and want to Nuke the Mullahs in Iran.

Ever since Shadrack, Meshack and Abendigo refused to bow down to King Nebuchadnezzar's golden Babylonian calf, Mesopotamia has held the title as epicenter of permanent war. Who else but Neocons could love a place where one group has been pitted against the other, forever? But that's part of the Project; a syncopatic government that kisses the military industrial's complex, and a bloated Pentagon that buries teenagers in a sand dune for 20,000 G's a pop. Go figure.

It's part of the Neocon's Project to melt the entire Middle East into atomic glass. But like the 'thousand points of light' on Chernobyl's Geiger counter, it will only take 10-15 years before Big Oil can go back in to drill crude. How else can the Neocon war machine be forever fed?

In the meantime 'We the people' still have to make money while hooked on the Neocon inflation/recession corkscrew. 'We the people' exist in a daily cycle where our principal and wealth spirals up, gets tangled in Wall Street's ticker tape parade, then  comes crashing down. Billionaires are made in a day, the middle class are evicted by night and the old, sick and lame are left to dumpster graze. It's all in the Project.

Ever since Lee Atwater tied Willie Horton around the neck of Michael Dukakis, the Neocon Project has been slipping a shiv between the ribs of America's body politic and systematically stabbing the Constitution. For all of us who revere that sacred document like it was Gutenberg's Bible, that wound will prove to be fatal.

Too many have, for too long, held the belief that the Neocons were nothing but dull intellectuals acting out Trotsky's hang-ups. Yet, in reality they are sharp assassins who have hid their daggers behind star-spangled conservative suspenders. The Neocons have already twisted the knife deep into Iraq, Iran and the entire Middle East. Now 'We the people' are left mortally wounded. We must pull out that deadly blade, before it's too late - for all of us.

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Have Penn they'll listen. Volt Penn writes speeches for Progressive Populists and reasoned arguments for those on the left of center. He has also written speeches for anybody who has read his work. You can reach Volt Penn through his artist friend, b.b.kemp, at bbkemp@bbkemp.com

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