The now wan, decrepit, senile mass murderer George H.W. Bush was the perfect "Dad" for his drunken, mass murdering, coward spawn George W. Bush
WORLD NEWS
By Dallas Darling
12/23/2013
Deep in the "
Green Hell," at least to outsiders who studied the
Mundurucu headhunters of
Brazil's
Amazon Rainforest, the Mundurucu had reduced their enemies to frightful and even subhuman status. In addition, they literally turned their enemies into game-hunting animals. A high status had been conferred on the taker of a human trophy head and was believed to have attained special influence with the supernatural powers of the forest.(1)
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Mundurucu |
The raids were carefully planned, well executed. In the cover of the predawn darkness, the Mundurucu men would circle a village, their shaman quietly blowing a sleep trance on the people within.
The attack began at dawn with incendiary arrows landing on thatched houses. As the attackers ran screaming out of the forest into the village, as many men and women as possible fleeing their burning huts were decapitated.(2)
Instead of an
Amazonian "Green Hell," this week twenty-four years ago (
December 20,
1989)
Panama turned into the "Red-White-and-Blue
Hell."
A tribal commander-in-chief ordered 25000 troops to "kick a little ass," to invade and occupy the densely populated country. Like the
Mundrucu and other head-hunting tribes, this raid cut-off another head of state. The head would be brought back and imprisoned as a trophy and
sign of courage.
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Noriega became a threat to Bush's CIA dope running operations |
But in the process of removing Panama's head of state, Manual
Noriega, 5,
000 innocent civilians heads were removed too, utterly slaughtered. More than 60,000 people were left homeless. Some captured prisoners were executed.
Such a disproportionate use of force in a densely populated area was not even sporting. It was a show of force to "kick the
Vietnam Syndrome." It served as a prelude to
Gulf War I.
Cutting-off Panama's head of state was also a way of testing new weaponry and battle strategies, rapid reactionary forces that would become a permanent part of the
Pentagon's and its new face of war in the future. It was a trial balloon to see how the public would react in deploying
National Guard Units.
Above all, it meant more funding for the Pentagon which had blown a sleep trance on the people "without," not within Panama.
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Bush with ex-drug running partner Manuel Noriega |
The U.S. invasion of Panama was a collectivized psychological warfare imposed on the region.
President Manual Noriega, formerly on the
CIA's payroll, had supported the
Contador peace treaty with the
Nicaraguan Sandinistas. Panama would no longer be used as a base of operations to attack
Nicaragua.
Taking Panama's head of state was a warning against other signatories.
Panama and Panamanians were attacked simply by existing.
Within hours of the invasion, morgues overflowed in
Panama City and
Cologne.
Hospital directors and doctors appealed to
Latin America and
Europe for medical supplies and bandages, since the
U.S. only provided missiles and bullets.
Future thoughts and actions in storming the
Canal Zone to regain lands and sovereignty were laid to rest. In the U.S., a president was granted magical powers, weapons systems regained supernatural forces.
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Murdering physical, moral coward George W. Bush followed in Daddy's footsteps |
The military invasion itself had mesmerizing effect on the people of Panama. It put into power a new and more compliant head of state. Thousands of political suspects and opponents were arrested and jailed, their offices searched and destroyed. Unions and universities were purged of nationalists and socialists. Those who embraced
Liberation Theologies were hunted down and imprisoned and tortured.
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Destruction of the military barracks in Panama City |
Just as President Manual Noriega's head was extradited, confined to a Floridian prison, many heads in Chorillo and Cologne neighborhoods were take too, cut off, decapitated. It did not matter. These Mestizo and Mulatto barrios, where political activists thrived, were labeled subhuman.
Artillery shells and rockets, tanks, machine guns and flame throwers, incinerated buildings and burned people to death. Some shredded by military vehicles.
When President
George H.W. Bush was asked if the invasion was really worth the loss of life, he said, "Every human life is precious, and yet I have to answer, yes, it has been worth it."(3)
The Soviet Union had just collapsed.
General Colin Powell declared that, "We have to put a shingle outside our door saying, 'Superpower lives here.'"(4) Like the Mundurucu, headhunting and war had simply been a given of the U.S.'s existence.(5)
There have been other beheadings in many other countries.
The world watched in horror as many innocent civilians had their heads taken.
Indirect evidence suggested the Mundurucu head-hunters were limited by the shortage of high-quality protein. The prevailing density-dependent factor in the environment was the quantity of game in rain forests. By eliminating competitors, they had more to eat.(6) As for the U.S., its justification for head-hunting is feeding an exploitive corporate system and war machine that feeds on cheap resources, cheap labor and products, and cash crops.
Among other head-hunting tribes, heads were taken purposefully to seek revenge and deliver a blow to a group.
The loss of a head among tribes caused great distress since it meant a loss of power. An important member, usually a skilled hunter, was gone.
Therefore, it meant the loss of communal power.
Revenge attacks were merely attempts at recovering some lost power.
Disproportionate "power and military disorder" and "
Vietnam 'vengeance' syndrome" has decapitated millions. Every so often, the U.S. suffers from a reprisal attack, like
Sept. 11, 2001. Can an empire ever lose its head, specifically in the areas of reason and sanity? As it head-hunts around the world looking to surround nations and kill and murder more heads of states and other humans, will it ever break its ritualized and heady violence?
Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)
Dallas Darling is the author of
Politics 501: An
A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and
Action, Some
Nations Above God: 52 Weekly
Reflections On Modern-Day
Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of
John's Apocalyptic
Vision, and
The Other Side Of
Christianity: Reflections on
Faith, Politics,
Spirituality,
History, and
Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.
(1)
Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature.
Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press,
2004., p.
111.
(2) Ibid., p. 113.
(3)
Blum, William.
Killing Hope:
U.S. Military And CIA Interventions Since
World War II.
Monroe, Maine:
Common Courage Press., p.
305.
(4) Ibid., p.
311.
(5) Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature., p. 113.
(6) Ibid., p. 113.
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