Paul Craig Roberts Whines: Where Is The Peace Movement?
( Forward this to Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts at: instituteforpe@protonmail.com )
Repeatedly over the last couple of years, Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts has wondered about/complained about/whined about the inaction of, and near invisibility of the so-called peace movement, in the runup to what looks to be a near certain, fast approaching, nuclear war between Russia/Iran/China/North Korea on the one hand, and the CONUS/U$$A, Inc./Pentagon/NATO/EU/Japan/Australia/Taiwan/South Korea on the other hand.
I’ll take a crack at answering him. We used to be in contact in past years, Paul Craig Roberts and I, but not in recent years.. No matter, I have a few thoughts with respect to his mournful plaint.
First of all: in past years and decades many of us peace protesters spent an uncomfortable amount of time in the Red-White-and-Blue Empire’s prisons/prison camps/city and county jails/for-profit detention facilities/correctional centers/etc. Being repeatedly arrested, handcuffed, chained, criminally charged and tried, convicted, detained, caged - - losing weeks, months and even years of life in the process, suffering devastating economic ruin, loss of reputation, fractured careers, enduring serial threats of beating, rape, murder, having our houses and apartments broken into by Lawless Humorless Moralless Stupid Primitive Criminally Corrupt Imperial Control Agents, aka, FBI and sundry affiliated, low-life scumbags with guns and badges - - coming out of jail and prison with a little box containing a change of used clothes, a cheap bus ticket back to the place where we were arrested, and maybe $60 that we managed to save from our 10 cents pay per hour prison job, after our commissary tab is/was deducted from our meager “earnings.”
Well, sir, Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts, have you ever ONCE IN YOUR LIFE? - - even ONE TIME had to endure or experience that? And then had to repeatedly try to get back on your feet - - with exactly, precisely NOTHING to your name, and an FBI arrest and incarceration record as you try to rent some cheap, crackerbox apartment on the poor side of town, and get a job, ANY DEAD END SHIT JOB AT ALL? - - that pays nothing and has no benefits and barely sustains you at a poverty level.
Well, have ya now, Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts? Short answer: no, sir, you never have. You have no concept of that whatsoever. It is foreign to your comprehension or life experience. You and your “Supply Side Economics” never made a dent in that; never even came anywhere close.
You make a big deal of originally hailing from Georgia.
Well, guess what?? What a small world, man! Because you see, I’ve also lived in Georgia. I’ve been arrested in Georgia. I’ve been to jail in Georgia. I know a side of Georgia that is completely alien to your life experience.
Secondly: while you were riding around New York City and Washington-DC in limousines in the 1980s, going to black tie soirees in Georgetown, Potomac, the Hamptons, the Kennedy Center, the Upper East Side and Upper West Side, many millions of the rest of us down South were working like slaves, living in shotgun shacks, toiling on/in loading docks, mines, mills, trawlers, packing houses, warehouses, fabrication yards, farm fields, etc. at low pay and for long hours.
You professed to me in past years to know little or nothing at all about what Oliver North was doing in the Basement of the White House in the 1980s (way underground in the secret tunnels), with his Iran-Contra shenanigans, since your bailiwick was the national economy and high finance, that sort of thing. You know, you had your thumb on the spread sheets of Wall Street, Treasury bills and bonds, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Budget, the ebb and flow of many billions, even trillions of dollars.
And yet - - a poor boy way down in the Deep South in the pre-Internet years, somehow found the research, newsletters, pulp magazine articles and books of independent, fearless investigators and authors like Mae Brussell, John Judge, Alex Constantine and others of that ilk, who even then were exposing the massive cocaine trafficking though Mena-Arkansas, Iran-Contra, the concomitant criminal complicity of Bill and Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Zapata Petroleum, Oliver North and other vile players in that murderous business; and how even then $700 billion dirty narco-dollars per annum were being laundered through the big banks and brokerages on Wall Street.
I lived, traveled, studied, worked, protested and went to jail throughout the South in those years - - Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas. I saw, heard, was told, read and learned a lot. I watched high-rise corporate towers, banks and condos pop up like mushrooms from one end of Florida to the other, as the narcos, criminally complicit financiers, wealthy realtors and construction companies laundered hundreds of billions of dirty narco-bucks through the Florida real estate/construction/banking industries.
I heard all about the corruption of Bill Clinton and the criminal dealings in Mena, years before the Clintons rose to national, political prominence. I have talked with and shaken hands with people who were personal acquaintances of Bill Clinton. I learned about the many billions of dollars worth of illicit drugs being run into and through Arkansas by the CIA and Pentagon during the Clintons’ Little Rock years, and about the tons of drugs coming onshore in shrimp trawlers down on the Gulf Coast.
Meanwhile, Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts, with the PhD in Economics, didn’t notice nuthin’ - - in the aggregate TRILLION$ of filthy, blood drenched narco-dollars were being laundered through the banks, real estate brokers and brokerage houses in Arkansas, Florida and on Wall Street during his tenure in government - - and “Dr. Supply Side Economics” was oblivious. \sarcasm\
I was a really poor boy, a nonviolent peace protester down South, without two nickels to rub together, and by all lights, I knew far more about what was going on in the world and in the CONUS/U$$A, Inc. than he did.
He sat on super-secret committees for Ronald Reagan and was chauffeured around Washington-DC and New York City in limousines, while I was shuttled around the South in handcuffs and chains by the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service.
My third and final point is therefore:
Hey, Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts!! - - Mr./Dr./PhD/Top-Secret-Security-Clearance-Guy who was a professor at really big universities! A Hoover Institute Fellow! A Wall Street Journal editor! A nationally syndicated newspaper columnist! Assistant Secretary of the Treasury! A Sooper-Dooper-Secret-National-Security-Advisor to Ronald Reagan!
Yeah, you!! You want peace?? Do you?? Let’s see you get your snifty-difty PhD carcass out on the nuclear missile silo launch lids, climb up and over the security fences, and nonviolently protest against the preparations and plans for nuclear war. Let’s see you demonstrate your heartfelt convictions and get drug away at gunpoint in handcuffs and chains, and spend weeks/months/years in jails/prisons/detention centers.
What’s that you say?? The price is too high?? You’re way too good to be caged/locked up/incarcerated in the numerous jails/prisons/correctional centers of the Red-White-and-Blue Empire, cheek by jowl with coarse, crude, violent, criminal riffraff with poor impulse control??
That’s O.K. for the Richard Sauders of the world, but not for highfalutin gentlemen of refined distinction such as yourself??
Alright, then, Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts. Enjoy your upcoming buffet of cumulo-mushroom nuages.
For want of moral courage the CONUS/U$$A, Inc. will go down very hard, never to rise again.
The petro-dollar is kaput, an exploitive, violent, massively criminally corrupt, bloodily melancholy, political-economic footnote in history. It is officially defunct and now dying, every day, more and more. The Pentagon and all the vassal states, armed militias, and military, paramilitary and mercenary organizations/agencies/groups under its global demonic satrapy will be going down terribly brutally. It could even happen this year, before Christmas, any day, week, month or time now.
I and a relatively few others have paid a high price for our repeated, nonviolent, peaceful forays onto nuclear missile silo launch lids and other nonviolent demonstrations, in protest against preparations for nuclear war. With absolutely NO SUPPORT at all from Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts or the vast majority of you, Dear Readers, for that matter.
Now the time is almost here when Dr. (sic) Paul Craig Roberts and a great many of you, Dear Readers, will also pay a high price - - for what you have done, and also for what you have conspicuously failed to do.
You won’t sit this one out, no you will not - - you will not passively watch it on TV, like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Grenada, Panama, etc., as if you were watching a televised college football game with pompom girls and marching bands. This one will be coming home with extreme savagery.
National karma is a real bitch, the intensely negative, demonic, violent sort, that is.
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