Coastal
Post Online
June, 2003
Empire Of A Racist God
By Frank Scott
Americans fear another terrorist attack
here in the USA , almost guaranteed by the policies of our court appointed
regime. The potential attackers are seen as fundamentalist fanatics, but the
most dangerous holy warriors are in our own
governing cult. These zealots
are an alliance of true believers whose schemes are predicated on their total
faith in a god they claim to know, personally. This god represents them,
and they represent "him," as
specially chosen agents for carrying out "his" wishes.
Their imperial jihad against
terrorists is really part of a continuing global war of the rich, lighter
skinned west against the poor, darker
skinned rest. It pits the generational recipients of the benefits of colonial
power against the descendants of the colonized and slaved, on whose backs and
geographic wealth much of western
civilization was built.
It conducts this war based on the
political and economic power of poorly developed democracy and richly developed
capitalism. Its ideology relies
in great part on a belief in religious and racial superiority that finds-in
complete contradiction to science-some humans better, closer to god, than others. Historically it has treated those
others-the overwhelming majority-not only as lesser in the eyes of this perverse god, but often as creatures lower
in status than the domestic pets on which this enlightened civilization
lavishes great affection and wealth.
The current phase of this racial holy
war began long before the events of 911. It will continue until an
international democratic movement becomes politically empowered, and translates
the more benign biblical teachings and
beliefs of that majority into political economics that end the control of
Judeo-Christian global capital over the people of the world.
That will mean closing the gap
between the rich minority, its upper class servants, and the great mass of the
world's people, now numbering more poor and suffering than ever before. This is
not due to an explosion of population, as malthusians believe, but to an
explosion of human and environmental
destruction. This massive assault on nature and reason is a direct
result of the privately dominated system of religious marketing that has run
rampant under what some call neoliberal policy, totally out of any public
control, real or symbolic.
Christian and Jewish fanatics have
taken leadership of this system in the
US and Israel to form the unholy alliance of USrael. Their policies of
racial and religious domination rest comfortably on a base of global
corporatism.
The rich and most powerful USA,
supposedly a beacon of democracy, reduces its citizens to
consumers-"United Shoppers of America"- whose only exercise of choice comes, at great cost, when
charging purchases with their credit cards.
Israel, a supposed nation of high
ideals realized after past sufferings,
has been transformed into a tragedy of hypocrisy and crimes against
humanity. As their rulers terrify and alienate the world, many Americans sink
more deeply into debt and fear, while Israelis are destroying an indigenous
population in order to create a
"promised Land" of peace and tranquillity. It is difficult to say
which leaders are more deranged, or
which population more confused, as it follows leaders who follow a seemingly
rich and racist god of merchandising.
The inhumanity of war is fully
accepted by this god-squad leadership, since they find biblical rationale for
it, whether using old or new testaments. War is also bad business, in that it
kills consumers, but even this cash consciousness is unachievable in the lurid
atmosphere of the empire of market god.
The secular market, as old as the
urge to communicate and trade, has been transformed into a mystical form of
selfish personal aggrandizement. Instead of bringing people together in
commerce, it alienates them with its gigantic size, its minority controllers,
and its single minded pursuit of private profit, without regard for human and
environmental costs. The democratic impulse of fair trade among humans has
become anti-democratic "free" trade among the corporate inhuman. This
perverse form of progress has brought the world closer to economic and
ecologic disaster.
The USA is running its greatest
deficits in history; without imported
foreign capital and a consumer credit binge, the whole economy might go up in
smoke. The underground commerce of undocumented workers and "off the
books" business, along with drugs, gambling and pornography, is supplying
much of the dollar power of this "free" market, giving more lies to its religious zealot propagandists of moral value
The religious belief is handmaiden to
the economic policy. Together, they fill a moral cesspool to overflowing and
threaten to completely inundate the social and natural environment.
The search for Iraq's invisible
weapons of mass destruction that
rationalized that helpless nation's defeat has done more to reveal the empire's
economics of mass disfunction, its politics of mass corruption, its media of
mass distortion and its language of mass confusion. Acts of terror have
increased, and the continued persecution of the Palestinians, worse since the
Iraqi government was destroyed,
has made the suffering and
hopelessness that are the source of suicidal terrorism even more unbearable.
The fundamentalist leaders of USrael believe in the most violent biblical
mythology, but ideas from antiquity and fable mixed with modern weapons of mass
murder can only spell disaster, which is what these fanatics would welcome,
since it is based on biblical "prophecy."
Biblical stories of people rising from slavery, striving for social justice, of a prophet
called a prince of peace, are part of
what create movements to change the world for the better. The religious
believers in that movement may have to
call themselves something other than Judeo-Christian. The owner-controllers of
that religious business are serving as executive staff for global capitalism,
and represent the greatest threat to humanity.
The good news is that they are a minority. The bad news is that they are
in charge.