Brandishing the Arbusto Doctrine

YESTERDAY I WROTE ABOUT the Iraq-style crowd explosions that were timed to injure and scare people during the height of the Mexican Independence Day. I talked about a shape that is manifesting in more than one place, this increase of aggression and oppression and intrusion on the People by their Governments in the name of security. (Whose security is the question! And what is being secured.) Russia, USA, Mexico. All these places that the Corruptos shush the fears and awarenesses of those who pay their salaries, telling us that for our own good they are chaining us to the bed at night. I talked of FeCal signaling increased aggression and oppression with all this nonsense about “an end to a culture of “impunity and tolerance” of crime,” which (I’ll repeat) is sort of a laugh in the face of his illegitimate presidency, and all the other blatant corruption in Mexican government.

The crowd-bombings that pop up in so many places—ever since the USA invaded and occupied Iraq in its latest quest for other nations’ and peoples’ resources—are not typical to Mexico. And FeCal’s self-important Whoop-Ass I Am Der HistoryMan proclamations smeared with a thick helping of militarization or increased policing are not foreign to the eyes and ears of those who have been inundated with the Decider’s masturbatory rhetoric either:

At a meeting of his Security Cabinet and the nation’s governors in Mexico City, Calderon declared that the government’s response would define his generation for posterity.

“This is a moment of historical definition,” he said. “What we do or leave undone after this 15th of September will forever mark the way in which Mexicans will remember this moment in our history.”

The Security Cabinet and the governors agreed on an anti-kidnapping strategy that includes a specially trained police unit that will operate in every state and the Federal District of Mexico City, improved communications systems and toughened prosecution of criminals.

Mexico’s Defense Ministry also approved supplying local police forces with automatic weapons.

—Battle erupts near ranch of ex-Mexico President Fox; Gunmen’s attack is latest in a spate of violence to push through Mexico

Oh I should probably throw this in here somewhere

Authorities said the attack had the earmarks of a terrorist bombing, designed to sow panic and insecurity among the public to pressure Calderon into scaling back his campaign against the gangs of Mexico. Polls suggest that public support for Calderon’s 21-month crackdown against the gangs is flagging.

And perhaps this:

Acting on an anonymous tip, police in central Zacatecas state Thursday arrested three men suspected of involvement in the Morelia attacks. But the federal attorney general’s office said investigators had determined that the men were not involved.

The elites in so many nations lie and steal and cheat their way into power. And then once there, they do nothing to alleviate the imbalances and injustices that drive so many less-empowered humans to find other ways to support themselves or find tenable ways and places to live. These lying murdering richmen only help obscure the causes of so many of the world’s illnesses because it is inescapably tied to what feeds them in many ways! These elites only increase punitive and violent means because they have no faith in truth or collective wisdom or openness—or they know instinctively that these things would mean their undoing. These power-grabbers only have faith in weaponry and force and violence because they suspect it is all that can protect them and their means. Just like rich men living behind gates with guard dogs, always fearful others will steal their treasure.

The primary difference between the drug cartels and the government to my mind, is one has more money for better advertising.