Letter from
Lhasa, number 200. (Johnson 2006): Nemesis
by Roberto Abraham
Scaruffi
Johnson, C., Nemesis. The Last Days of the American Republic, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt
and Company, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 2006.
(Johnson 2006).
Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson is a one
of those authors, whose volume of information and disinformation combines with
the absolute inability to order and to interpret it. There are authors mixing
ignorance with absence of analytic skill. In Chalmers Johnson, some para-journalistic
abundance of information combines with his absolute absence of analytic skills.
Nemesis
represents some impossible achievement and/or punishment. The sub-title is
openly deceptive and senseless. “Last days” means nothing. Monsters and monstrosities
can live for a long time. Apocalyptic tones are frequently seducing but not
really scientific. That the USA be a republic is a high disputable point of
view. A President claiming to be the high commander but actually powerless
relatively to the militarist bloc, a Congress devolving its powers to such
President or Presidency, a lobotomised population, more than half a century of
secrecy about the costs of its military, spreading illegality, insane criminals
actually leading “government” institutions with insane criminals as their
praetorians: is this a Res Publica?!
Chalmers Johnson opens his
book with the unlikely theory of the blowback. There is no automatic blowback
to imperialisms or barbarianisms. In addition, all these imaginary blowbacks have
all the characteristics of inside jobs. Alias,
“government”/State’s terrorisms and self-terrorisms are just tools for
annihilating already lobotomised populations.
Chalmers Johnson is just a
conspiracy theorist believing and diffusing the conspiracy theories built from
official propaganda machines. There is no divine punishment. There is no
terrorist assault from third world proletariat or sub-proletariat. It is
everything built from the imperial centres and their branches. The single and
isolated insane or desperate person may always exist and act. Organised actions
are not really possible without “government”/State promotion and assistance.
That old scholars simulate to believe in tales is not really admissible. Either
they are idiots or butchers’ accomplices, or simply desperately fearful
self-castrated chaps. What explains “brilliant” academic careers and why they
be finally let free to express late and innocuous “doubts”.
Nobody attacked the USA. As
in previous occasion, also from other Presidents, attacks were needed for
justifying wars and other State’s crimes and terrorism. When U.S. Presidents
believe that attacks are indispensable, they give the order to invent or to
create them. There are not blowbacks. There are only inside jobs ordered from
institutional centres. And there is naturally, as a complement, a lot of
propaganda and brainwashing for idiotic subjects, for the State’s slaves.
The recipe of Chalmers
Johnson is the restoration of a never existed Constitutional government by
overcoming militarism and imperialism, what is an impossible dream and a tale.
Reality does not work in that way. Did a Constitutional government ever exist
in the USA? Chalmers Johnson only cultivated the tale of the imaginary golden
past.
“The civilization we are in
the process of destroying in Iraq is part of our own heritage.” (Johnson 2006, p. 53). What would you have
expected from gangs of insane criminals led from a Bush and Cheney? There is
anything and anybody better in the USA-British area? Ah, there is Chalmers Johnson who has suddenly discovered that
he has been working for his whole life for that insane and criminal machine!
As Chalmers Johnson
concludes in his considerations on Roman history, if one creates a powerful
bureaucracy, that powerful bureaucracy will use its power. The solution is
never to create a more powerful bureaucracy for controlling another powerful
one. Or, this is the solution if one has to govern louses. It is useless to
imagine self-conscious citizens where there are only louses with the need to be
exploited. The imaginary good CIA of Chalmers Johnson never existed. It is made
only of insane and criminal praetorians of insane and criminal presidents and,
eventually, vice presidents. Massive torture and kidnapping, after having
invented and built the “Islamic” enemies, are not a new practice. They are just
continuous recurrences.
Also Afghanistan, as a lot
of other places, was devastated from the U.S. policies and covert operations,
already before the Soviet occupation. There, or also there, they financed some
of the same people they later used, in some way, for the 11 September 2011, and
the same now they claim to fight. If one needs wars, one needs to invent and to
create enemies. It is just business.
The practice of paying
association and political parties is the technique of recruiting parallel
militias and militians for State’s crimes and terrorism. It is a worldwide
practice of the USA and of the British Empire, and also of other [sub-]powers. (Johnson 2006, p. 152) refers about the
case of some NGO in same specific context paid from the USA through one of its
political parties. Idiotic and insanely criminal louses fighting others’ wars
are always buyable and/or manageable.
Absolute
and diffuse secrecy is absolutely indispensable for State’ insanities and
crimes. On the other side, publicity and information need people wishing them,
not just louses brainwashed since the birth. Is Chalmers
Johnson sure that people like to have rights and to be informed? Anyway, insane
and criminal louse fear publicity. It is a good rule to grant them the maximum
of publicity and to remove whatever defence they may built against the publicity
of their insanities and crimes.
Parliaments without power
are not a novelty. It is only that now it is absolutely evident and public that
electors had no power and equally elected representatives be without any real
power. Reality
unmasked propaganda. However, probably, electors do not really mind. Chalmers Johnson minds. If it is more than 50 years
that the US military expenditure is a secret, evidently the US parliament has
not even the control on some basic variable of the US budget. If it allowed to
be expropriated from any real control on the military expenditure, it was
because evidently there was a basic contempt for the electors and their formal
representatives. On the other side, the USA are not a free union. They come out
from a civil war which defeated those who had affirmed their right to secede.
Militarism had its first apotheosis then. It is not a late excrescence. The
same Lincoln was controlled from the militarist bloc without controlling it. It
finally liquidated him. Lincoln was fearful facing generals, who were evidently
uncontrollable. The point is not that a Republic be better than a military
dictatorship, although under civilian cover. The US soldiers were and are
corrupted. The US politics was and is corrupted. Chalmers Johnson tries to
create the myths that there is a solution. Even religion is, in the USA,
corrupted and controlled from a corrupted militarist bloc it serves. It is the
same in the whole Anglophone area. It is largely the same outside the
Anglophone area. Those who try to sell mega-recipes and great solutions are
generally liars. Sometimes there are not great solutions and there are not
little solutions.
The absolute isolationist
recipe of Chalmers Johnson is outside reality. The USA have built an Empire
following insane logics of bureaucratic proliferation and stupidity. They
cannot simply dismantle such an Empire now covering the whole world of military
bases and armies. Actually, they cannot and may not do anything. The USA have
not a domination model. They have a domination practice made of physical
occupation of the world by their armies and bases. It is a model largely
inefficient and with other very serious pathologies. The USA are dominated by
incurable compulsive disorders making them incapable of whatever planning and
cure. They can eventually collapse but they cannot simply give up their Empire.
Giving up their Empire would lead to the disintegration of the same USA, what
would improve the life and the happiness of the US space populations. However,
that would be absolutely inconceivable for the insane and criminal chaps of the
US militarist bloc, who controls the US politics, institutions and Presidency.
Chalmers Johnson dreams to
save what cannot be saved and to restore what never existed.
Johnson, C., Nemesis. The Last Days of the American Republic, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt
and Company, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 2006.
