The American Republic, the flickering flame of freedom, justice, liberty and the guaranteed right for the pursuit of happiness by the land owning class, was extinguished the day the National Security Act was wrought into existence on July 26, 1947. The day the American Empire was born.
After Stalingrad fell, the unending resource of Soviet manpower poured westward, and when Berlin was taken by the Soviets, the American powers that be recognized an incredible opportunity to sell the biggest rip-off in history to the American public.
When the dust had settled, the American industries that had emerged from the ruins of World War II got hungry. Fat government contracts to build all sorts of patriotic Nazi slaughtering toys had fattened up their scrawny frames, so long deprived by the Great Depression.
It was the dawn of a new age; there was work to be had, bustling business and Americans had the money to employ. But with no more Nazis to fight, no more bombs were needed to blow up people and their houses and their crops and their lands and their capitols.
New Nazis were needed and in a brilliant coup of reason, the powers that be, those who own the most money, which means those who get the fattest government contracts, decided to wage war on communism.
It was ingenious, because any sensible person knows that communism isn't an actual tangible entity, but an idea. Waging war on communism is almost as silly as waging war on terrorism.
Anyways, it was decided we would go to war with the Boogey Man because he is everywhere and nowhere at once - clearly a clever fellow. Either way, the industries that discovered building things that blow things up was really profitable when there was a war, and this contributed greatly to politician's campaigns.
In return, the politicians blew things up. And so, the military-industrial complex reared its ugly head and declared war on the ideas that threatened the liberties and freedoms of American citizens.
Citizens owned large estates and led luxurious tax-free lives, afraid that the Marxists would try to take their money away but not scared enough to build themselves bomb shelters. That would take away from tennis time.
And then our first and very own commie-killing president signed away the republic, guaranteed by the Constitution, and instead fashioned the National Security State. It promised to protect the innocence of the American people from those evil powers that lurk in the dangerous world beyond our shores, determined to crush our free markets and steal our politicians' and CFOs' real estate.
In one brilliant stroke, America lost her republic and entered the birthing pains of an empire. Truman's signing of the National Security Act created the National Security Council. It was a cabal consisting of the secretary of defense and the secretary of state.
It was designed to crunch out foreign policy that maximized the security of the homeland that was under constant threat from the neo-Mongol hordes spreading their devil ideas of atheism and collective farming across Eurasia.
The moment the council met, American foreign policy became a euphemism for the agenda of national security. The defense industries all rejoiced. Now all parties were satisfied, and the politicians stayed in power due to the money funneled into their campaigns and pockets by the defense industries.
In turn, the defense industries got their wars and their fat contracts which in turn went back to the politicians and their campaigns. The American public was kept in perpetual fear of the Boogey Man, poised to lob nukes at their nice suburban homes.
And so America triumphantly charged to protect third-world countries that were already pretty occupied with farming rice paddies from the evil barbarian hordes. Proxy wars aimed at legitimizing and satisfying the appetites of the military industrial empire were fought in jungle villages by Americans unable to afford college degrees.
These Americans protected the rights of their fellow corporate magnates -the rights to fix stock prices and embezzle government contracts while their puppet politicians belched bellicose rhetoric and enjoyed fat war chests.
The war chests fueled their campaigns against the communist boogey men trying to infiltrate American politics. People were blacklisted, lives were shattered, and Joe McCarthy died in a gutter, with bottle in hand, from a rotten liver.
And so now, we thank our government for yet another war. It only makes sense. With defense industries receiving massive amounts of money from the federal government, an unholy marriage has emerged.
The flow of money from grubby politicians' hands to grubby corporate hands has been controlling public and foreign policy since the creation of the National Security state in 1947.
As a result all common sense and reason has been way laid for the protection of the National Security State. The powers that be have no interest in laying down the command of the empire.
It thrives because of the American public's imagination stoked by the corporate media. The truth is that America has a nasty habit of conjuring up monsters abroad, and then blowing up a lot of innocent people. It's a savage system the empire has perfected, because it's those imaginary monsters that put gas in the empire's tanks.
Jonathon Morris is a UMass student. He can be reached at jonathonmorris66@yahoo.com.
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