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June 12, 2007
by Mike Palecek
Just got back from looking outside.
This is Iowa.
How you doing?
Well.
Is this a great country?
Or what?
That is the question.
Looking for the truth about America. It's become a cottage industry these days.
Most of us are in the habit of believing things - especially when they come from mainstream sources. We believe things mostly because we see them on TV, or because a "respected" expert or leader assures us they are true.
Geezuz, don't do that.
The JFK airport terror plot? Fugheddabout it.
Well, sure, I'm an idiot if it turns out to be true.
But that's where we are, where we're heading, to the place where nobody believes anything coming out of Washington, D.C., printed in our major newspapers, seen on TV, heard on the radio, because we know it's all lies - the way the folks leaning on the bar in the Rusty Sickle in downtown Moscow must have felt about each pronouncement that came from the Kremlin, Tass, Pravda.
Just shaking their heads, saying, what a lying bunch of sons of midgets and musk ox.
Show me the difference.
The only difference is that it is us, and it's now, and it's here - and we can't believe this is happening to us. And we will deny it is happening to us for the rest of our lives.
Remember those press conferences on TV where the director of Homeland Security stands up there with the director of the FBI?
They are sporting spanking new "Look The Fuck Out" terror-orange hardhats and T-shirts and padded vests, with hip waders, and camo, waterproof hunting boots cut to the calf.
Duck calls sticking out of their back pockets.
That was leading up to the last presidential election.
They don't have those anymore. I wonder why.
We're getting ready to blow the fuck out of the Iranians - who are each and everyone born terrorists of course - and so now we have to have terrorists in a New York City airport.
(Article Continues Below)
Well ... to show that it makes perfect sense to kill the Iranians.
Time to re-Duct Tape your windows, dude.
We forget too easily.
Remember.
Remember how George W. Bush came to power.
A coup d'etat.
He stole The Presidential Election.
Twice.
Abetted by The Supreme Court and The Free Press.
We, some of us - I, suspect he and his junta engineered 911, murdered Paul Wellstone, lied about WMD.
The fuckers have secret prisons in Poland and Romania and Disneyland and they torture people.
All this for power.
Is there anything they are not capable of?
They ignore global warming and are likely contemplating the use of first-strike nuclear weapons.
George W. Bush and his group threaten the very existence of civilization.
G. W. Hitler. Genghis Khan. Idi Amin. Pol Pot. Mussolini. Marquis de Sade.
George Steinbrenner.
Who else ya got?
They will all some day be documented in the same "Villainous Fuckers Of History" Ken Burns special if the human race survives the Bush family era.
George W. Bush.
During the period of the scandal that brought George W. Bush to power - the stealing of the election, we all waited and waited and waited, and when it was over I considered tossing a concrete block through the military recruiter's office over by the Sioux City mall.
I thought how can we let our children see that the way we deal with such profound corruption is to do nothing.
I thought we should resist.
I drove past the recruiters' offices, considered how I might make my escape, etc. I asked friends if they would like to join me. None did.
They said, are you crazy?
It just might be a lunatic you're looking for.
I stood outside on our patio, my arms outstretched, in the rain, wearing only waterproof boots cut to the calf, considering the relative weight of a sheet of paper and a concrete block.
I decided to keep writing.
I published a book in 2001 called KGB - Killing George Bush - about prisoners in the Woodbury County jail in Sioux City, Iowa.
It's not about George W., but George Sr.
In the one newspaper passed around to all the cell blocks, the prisoners read about the arrest of General Pinochet for war crimes.
And they figure that there are also war criminals up here that need to be arrested. They decide we need a Truth Commission in the United States. We need to get some shit worked out.
Before we go any further, let's figure out this History thing.
Find out where we've been, what we've done, who we are.
And these prisoners, who are considered bottom of the barrel human beings - the folks who come to mind when you see a dirty diaper in the gutter, the ones who the rest of us stand on in order to reach the fruit at the top of the tree - decide they will try to bring about some justice in these United States.
In the only way they know how. Because the free press and the elected and all the good people have done nothing.
This passage is from KGB, published by Publish America.
Publish America is definitely not a prestigious publisher, but it's something. At least KGB is out there, available. That's how I see it.
I have gone the whole route of submitting to big publishers, agents, all that, over years.
With Publish America I was at least able to get one of my books in print, my first one.
My thanks to them.
In this passage below we go inside the very private world of D Block at nighttime lockdown, the end of another day in prison.
This is Iowa.
Where all the prisons are paid for, the police ubiquitous, they want to ticket us.
seeya
- Mike
 
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Mike Palecek [send him email] is an activist for peace and social justice. He served time in federal prison for civil disobedience and has run for US Congress. He has authored a number of books [click here to view] on behalf of the cause.
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