That’s right. I’m not kidding. Britney’s sister is more important.

And it is happening, no doubt about that. In the “land of the free and home of the brave” — the U.S.A. Directly in the Defense Authorization Bill for 2008 (HR 1585), TruthNews has found some very troublesome words:

Section 1621 of the bill describes how they intend to increase the number of people in USNORTHCOM. Below is the appropriate subsection in which the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will submit a review of civilian and military positions within USNORTHCOM with the goal of increasing the number of reservists and civilians employed by USNORTHCOM. Clearly, they are anticipating massive civil unrest in this country if they intend on increasing the manpower available to USNORTHCOM.

USNORTHCOM is the U.S. Northern Command. Of the several U.S. commands around the globe, USNORTHCOM’s area of responsibility is none other than American turf. Why aren’t those soldiers placed under CENTCOM’s command where the “action” is? Because they need the soldiers to shoot U.S. citizens dead for what’s coming. In total disregard of the ancient Posse Comitatus Act (Google it up — I don’t feel like linking to the Wikipedia page today).

All the political tools for martial law are already in place; it’s all there: massive, newly built (by Halliburton) prisons to hold tens of thousands of dissidents, a plan to dismantle Congress and the courts (in another Executive order) under the pretense of “continuation of Government”, the secret No-Fly List with tens of thousands of enemies of the regime already on it. It’s just a matter of flicking the switch, and that switch is under the finger of the itinerary U.S President. The most convenient time to trigger it would be right before elections.

And this is all happening at the most unpleasant juncture of all: the collapse of the U.S. dollar. It’s been falling steadily in the last months, but it’s getting worse by the day. Don’t believe me? Here’s something noteworthy: the dollar fell 0.5%… in 5 minutes!

Whether you want to accept it or not, U.S. citizens will stage massive, violent upheavals once (note: I didn’t say “if”) the currency collapses. Still don’t think The People will explode in seething anger once they lose their homes, jobs, cars and good health? Imagine L.A.’s unrest during the last civil riots, multiplied throughout the whole country, and you might get an idea of how bad things will get.

If I were a bookie, I would start collecting bets and using that money right now to place my own, lump-sum bet on the possibility that the U.S. is months away from martial law and generalized military control. Of course… not in my wildest dreams would I accept dollars — instead, I would most likely collect bets from all incumbents in either Euros or solid gold.

I seriously hope this won’t happen. Because, if it does, it’ll basically be poor people shooting and smashing one another’s heads with baseball bats, and citizens that once were once fully free (they no longer are, by the way) will be completely powerless to stop the madness. And, of course, robber barons — those who have already wrecked the U.S. economy — will be safe and protected, secluded in their McMansions and guarded by private mercenaries, or in foreign land, happily enjoying the proceeds of their misdeeds.

First: I’m a guy.

Second: These pictures disgust and offend me. I believe them to be true (but I can’t conclusively prove them to be, and there are a few good arguments against that).

Third, If the acts depicted in the pictures were really rape (I already established I believe them to be), I would honestly have a very hard problem deciding whether to throw these soldiers in jail forever, or to slice their throats with my own hands. That should clear a few biases from my path.

However, I have a couple of objections (points to raise?) with the comments on the article.

I’m a man, not an abuser

To Yiva. No, men don’t hate women. At least not me, not anyone in my family and none of the people I regard as friends. It’s not a men thing to hate women. It’s an abusive thing, which does not equal men (but does correlate in a small minority of cases, just as it correlates with women as well).

I resent you calling me an abuser that rapes you, takes your picture and sells it online, because I’m not like that, and I am offended by your generalization. Naturally, I’m not as offended by your generalization as much as I am offended by the pictures (I’d say the rapes depicted on them offend me at least twenty times more), but I just didn’t think your gratuituous hate speech should go unobserved and uncontested.

Rape is rape. Calling anything else “rape” is misleading and treacherous, and devalues rape victims.

To womensspace (2): Sorry, but the act of creating the pictures is not rape, or a “version” of rape. Rape is rape. The act of taking the pictures is not. You’re deliberately misusing the words to create public confusion, and I resent that — not the least because it’s a blatant lie. Let’s call things by their names, instead of conveniently slapping “apple” on a “tomato” because “it’s a kind of red fruit”.

The confusion you seek to further is convenient for some people’s agendas because they (I suspect you fit the profile) would love nothing more than to eradicate most (if not all forms of) erotica in the name of “re-humanizing” women and regaining moral values. Which is nonsense!

The pictures are not porn. The pictures are a depiction of a violent act called rape. I detest your (untimely) seizure of these incidents as a “foot on the door” for you to inject your wrongheaded notions of morality.

Sex and porn are not what triggered these incidents. They also are not to blame for the decay in moral fiber.

Watching sex does not make people animals. Obedience does.

Want real moral fiber? Stop giving out sanctimonious morality theaters. Start parenting better. Infuse your children with a healthy dose of critical thought skills. Lest they become animals in the future, like the ones depicted in the picture. Animals, not because they watched one hour of porn too many, but because they “were simply following orders”.