Essays
Protest Thisby RC Edrington IVF pregnancy
Protest the fact that full-time poets live in cardboard boxes and eat in rundown soup kitchens you try to drive out of your manicured neighborhoods.
You manipulated Jim Jones kool-aid drinking liberal elitist pigs. You're the same bastards that jack each other off at Holier than thou college sponsored poetry readings.
I know you. You dumb pathetic fools. You hate me because I know the real you. You hate me because my mind functions outside your whitewashed bullshit reality.
Don't you fools have anything better to do than protest a war that will only bring liberation to people that have had genocide thrown at them? You lack something to protest? Protest that fact that your government can be implicated in the slaughter of a president. See JFK, you self-righteous fools. Protest the fact that your last "free" election was decided in a closed room by men who were not elected or sworn to act in your interest.
This stupid war isn't about oil, but if you believe it is, then the blood belongs on your hands ... not mine. I don't own a car. I long ago dropped out of your consume-or-be-consumed society. I am not a "productive" citizen in your version of reality. I am a writer (more like hack) two steps away from sleeping in a cardboard box. And I don't blame that on your damn government. I blame it on you. You are your government, or at least you're responsible for the one you have due to your foolishness and complacent lives of "quiet desperation". You’re the slime spending billions on Internet child porn instead of on something that may broaden your minds ... or at least show you glimpses of a reality outside your tunnel vision.
Iraq supplies 14% of your oil, you dumb fools. That's nothing. The heroic French get 40% of theirs from Iraq in exchange for missiles. Yes, the French motive is real damn pure. As is the Germans whose engineers built the underground bunkers in Iraq. You should have told Iraq to take a hike years ago. The whores in Saudi Arabia would go orgasmic and do somersaults to fill that gap. Hell, Kuwait owes you one after you kicked Iraq's ass out of there. You don't think they would cop you some oil for the cause? And don't forget the fact that you have enough oil stored up to provide gas at about .40 cents a gallon for the next 50 years.
Politics bore me. Bores me even more than you over-educated idiots (in Fine Arts most likely), that don't realize the condition of your cease-fire in 1991 demanded Iraq's total disarmament of "weapons of mass destruction". I hate that term. To me "ignorance by choice" is a weapon of mass destruction. Anyway, if Saddam didn't like the terms, he shouldn't have signed the deal and the U.S. troops should have marched into Baghdad. The milk has been spilt you idiots, so quit whining. You didn't protest the first war, so you don't deserve to protest this one. And if you were too young then, too bad ... that just means you are too young to know what you’re talking about now. Go read some history books (from the victors, losers, and hell go read the secret memos of the Bavarian Illuminati if they exist ... but read all sides), then get back to me. If this was about oil, Poppa Bush and his men of secret handshakes would have marched into Baghdad 12 years ago. He had manipulated U.S. public opinion on his side (meaning you). Your reasons for the first Gulf War were even more contrived then than they are now. Fools.
It's been 12 years and 14 useless UN resolutions later and Hitler Jr still has his weapons. Weapons he used for Genocide. You know what that is boys and girls? Buy a damn history book and see Adolf Hitler. See how many people died because we chose not to enter that war until we were attacked ... while we sat back and ignored rumors of concentration camps and gas ovens. In the dusty stacks of your University library there are spools of file footage that will show you what chemical weapons did to the Kurds. You like movies of dead, bloated bodies on dusty dirt streets? You want to see what the body of a human looks like run through a plastic shredder? Those videos are for you. Go pop some microwave popcorn and enjoy. And why weren't you fools protesting when we went into Bosnia for the same damn reasons? You sorry bastards have selective morality. You're only protesting this war because it's being ran by a Republican and not a Democrat, you hypocritical morons ... but guess what ... the Republicans and the Democrats are on the same side, and it sure as hell isn't yours.
How would you like a weapon of mass destruction shoved up your ass? Oh no, Saddam would never do it. He is as gutless as you are. He only works behind the scenes, behind closed doors ... wait this is starting to sound like how your government works. Anyway, I am quite sure he would be more than happy to pawn a weapon off onto some terrorist group that would be more than willing to shove it up your ass. They already hit New York. Maybe they should aim for San Fran this time and show you protesters what reality feels like. And reality is that the Arabs hate you and your government because you have allowed your government to play hypocritical cop in the Middle East. They see you for the immoral bastards that you are. Sad thing, though, they are just as immoral as you are. Innocent people die because you both are pretty sad excuses for human beings.
But then you have been conditioned to be sad little human beings, and you have accepted it quite quietly ... as long as you can drive your over-priced cars, live in your over-priced houses, and play with your over-priced toys. You people are slaves! No, you are worse than slaves. At least a slave knows he is a slave and tries to find freedom. Instead, you spend your entire life working to obtain things you will never own! You will never pay that house off ... you don't own it ... as long as you suck the air on this planet, baby, you have to pay taxes on their land to stay on it! You don't own a car ... you are renting the damn thing so when you have paid for it after 5 years the damn thing breaks down, or they pass some new environmental law making it obsolete and you have to rent a new one. It's a cycle ... you are a slave. Plus, add up all the damn taxes you pay. It is estimated that the average American zombie pays 50% of their income in taxes. And check this out fools; slaves in ancient Rome had over 100 holidays per year. How many do you have? Now shut up, slaves, before I bitch slap further into a reality you refuse to face.
If Saddam had his way, you would be dead. He hates you more than I do. Okay, maybe that's a lie, but he does hate you at least as much as I do. And don't even pretend you can think for yourself. You never have. Don't even pretend I feel anything more for Bush Jr. than disgust for him, and the entire bend over and let us fuck you in the ass military industrial conspiracy complex. That's right, you damn conservative swine. I have no use for you either. I have no use for politicians or the peasants that serve them. Just leave me to my bottle to help me get through this misery of just being alive. Hell, if you people weren't so lame I would have nothing to laugh at and would end up putting a gun in my mouth and pulling the damn trigger. Splat! Anyway, Bush Jr. is only launching this war for poppa Bush. But fuck man, be honest, if someone tried to assassinate your daddy, you would send troops to fuck them up too. I can relate. It's the street thing. My cocks bigger than yours. My gang is meaner than yours. An eye for an eye and all that shit. If you can't relate, you're a liar. Or selectively blind. But hey, I already knew that.
The bottom line is, you manipulated media idiots are gonna look like the fools I already know you are when the Iraqi people are liberated and no longer have to fear torture, mass killings, or be forced to live like animals when they have enough oil to live at least as well as the slaves of America do ... if they didn't have a dictator skimming the till. Ask them, you fools, what this war is really about. In this day and age, no one's motives are pure. Not you protesters and not the governments. But if a country and its people are liberated (even by accident), regardless of what the real motives are or aren't, it's a damn good thing. While some would argue degrees of slavery is still slavery ... I say wrong ... in Iraq I can't drink single malt scotch, scratch my nuts, scribble poetry, and lose my god forsaken soul between the warm, quivering thighs of young nubile ... well you get the point.
Historical lesson number one: The motive behind the Revolutionary War was so a few business men could make big bucks on the backs of poor immigrants without having to cough up their profits to a king. Well, actually, they became the new kings, but there are better writers than me that have produced volumes on that topic. Hell, back then the British considered us terrorists. And we were ... and damn good ones. But regardless of the motives (the hidden and overt), because of that war, I have the freedom to write this piece and you have the freedom to look like idiots on TV protesting a war you don't even understand. I am all about freedom. Maybe I can sell a few poetry chapbooks to the soon-to-be newly liberated Iraqis, who may have a thirst for what life in America is like. You slaves sure don't buy any.
(c) 2003 RC Edrington