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Punks vs. vampires

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Posted on Apr 19 2000
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One of the great offshoots of America’s social dysfunction is real-life Geraldo Syndrome; by this I mean seeing mutually antagonistic parties go at it, none of which merits any sympathy at all.

Never mind the trailer trash and ghetto scum on daytime scandal shows, though. The mean streets of Washington, D.C. provided real-life comedy that no staged event can match. I refer, of course, to Commie Punks protesting in the streets during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) vampire pow wow.

Here in Saipan, we don’t have rioting Commie Punks, and the IMF is nowhere in immediate evidence. Those are two blessings we should no doubt heed. I don’t know which is worse, being confronted by a mayonnaise colored woman with hairy armpits and a nose ring wanting to quote Marx to you, or being cornered by a slick talking Shylock trying to sink his syndicate’s financial fangs into your community’s neck.

On the latter note, you will, of course, understand my appreciation of the role that conventional banks play in economies. I am, however, a bit suspicious of international organizations that throw their weight around and are the financial organs for shady networks of the global elite. Of course, if many of the countries that they deal with are so stupid and corrupt that they invite these banksters onto their turf, then the countries get what they deserve and they don’t get any sympathy from me.

On that note, maybe the IMF, and/or the World Bank, is just a more efficient way of paying off corrupt officials in the second and third worlds for the benefit of corporate concerns. Sort of a wholesale arrangement. Who can argue with that? I don’t care either way. Just leave me out of it.

Here in Saipan, we can see the forest for the trees, since the distance is so vast. And, as I’ve said before, the forest looks like so: America has–in a social sense–reverted to its European roots. The revolution of 1776 is over, folks. The patriots won for a few innings, but the game goes squarely to the Euro-Socialists, as a genetic craving for authority asserted itself more powerfully than entropy itself.

The news coverage of the Commie Punks looks to me European. Even the scrawny, un-bathed, waif-like appearance of the kids looks more like modern Europe to me than the America I remember. These kids are confronting authority as a protest because they want MORE authority. Without totalitarian government to guide every movement in their lives, they are lost little sheep. How very, very European.

And, a shady network of political and financial elite, hammering out their plans for ramming their agendas down the throats of a global list of countries. How very European as well.

Of course, not all Europeans are socialists, and many have been forced by economic necessity to leave their native lands for more accommodating places (Saipan included, by the way). Still, Europe at large, with its craving for big government, it the face of America’s future.

So the IMF vampires and the Commie Punks actually have more in common than they think. That the events plastered on your TV screen happened in Seattle and Washington, not London and Brussels, is the real story.

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