This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

What they do to someone else today, they will do to you tomorrow. What they care about within others is what they care about within you. When the Bush Administration first set up the Guantanamo prison their goal was to free themselves from the clutches and needless entanglements of American Justice. But only for the worst of the worst of international terrorists. Held without attorneys or civil rights. Held without trial or sentence, but only the worst of the worst.

The King deports alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador without trial and in the face of a Federal Judge’s order to the contrary. Write it down and remember that. If the King says you’re guilty, by god, you’re guilty. International terrorists! The worst of the worst! Venezuelan street gang members, not exactly the same threshold, is it?

I’m certain many are bad hombres and desperados who deserve deportation. But as we’ve seen so far, the King’s Administration makes mistakes. Once you enter that Black Site prison in El Salvador. You will never be heard from again. The King will throw you in the deepest darkest dungeon or Gulag or concentration camp. And all preconceived notions of American justice evaporate like Clarence Thomas’s travel schedule. As a nation begins to regress eight hundred years back in the middle ages working ourselves up to the 1930s Nazi Germany.

Ignore a Federal Judge? Sure, why not? What are they going to do about it? Joe Stalin asked how many divisions the Pope had. Threaten the King with the law? Are you kidding? Have you been sleeping? You can’t touch the King. He’s beyond the law now. He has transcended and defeated law and order and stands only under the judgement of heaven.

He’s coming for his enemies and silencing the press. Bernie Sanders is packing them in with his anti-Trump town halls. The media chooses to cover the tragic story of a nightclub fire in Macedonia. NBC (Not Believable Content) sponsors a poll. And wow! Golly gosh! Can you believe it?  The King is way more popular now among Republicans than he was in 2017. Back when he was being impeached and faced numerous court challenges. It was a completely objective poll. They asked Nazis at random if they approved of der Fuehrer? And seven out of ten Nazis said, “oh, yes! We do!”

Most Germans knew nothing about concentration camps. Any more than you know about what is going on at the airport or the railroad yard in your town. The wolf can begin to throw off his sheep’s clothing now shutting down Radio Marti. For more than a generation, Republicans supported Cuban nationalism. Cuban voters were Republican voters! Well, no more! “My Grandma, what big eyes you have!” To the King, they’re just more Hispanics needing to be shipped out. Cuba or El Salvador any place that ain’t here.

What law will protect you? When they say that you are a gang member or a terrorist? When you disappear into a black site? Oh well, I can’t see it, so it doesn’t really affect me. They won’t arrest me! I’m not one of them.

Using a wartime law from 1798 to avoid courts and hearings. The King is unhappy his deportation scheme was critical to his propaganda plan. “Happy Jews enjoying their resettlement!” It’s all about Blitzkrieg! You’ve got to get those shipment numbers up! Speed is everything, quick before some nosey ass Federal Judge gets a wild hair up their ass and tries to intervene. The King says “Yes!” and the Federal Judge says “No!” And who will win in this “new” Amerika? Against a King who has transcended justice?

Immediately after claiming he has no further territorial ambitions besides Greenland, Panama and maybe Canada. The King attacks the Houthis in Yemen. The King has been jonesing for this for a long time. Kick the shit out of some little guys look tough and fuck the civilian casualties. They’ll get the message to get out of town quick enough. The King is tough, and the vengeance of the King is swift! Sending a message to Iran, you’re next.

Doesn’t it all have a familiar ring to it somehow? First the Sudetenland and then we make Austria the 51^st state! Greenland is mistreating Amerikans! And then the King meets with Vladimir Putin, and they decide to split Greenland right down the middle.

There will be no recession! Soon maybe, an executive order from the King outlawing a recession or even outlawing mentioning the word recession. One in six Americans are underwater on their car payment. OPEC predicts lower oil demand in the states due to slow economic growth. But there will be no recession by order of the King. Canada and Portugal are considering cancelling their twenty-billion-dollar order of F-35 fighter jets from McDonald-Douglas. There will be no recession.  

Doing away with USAID means a large oversupply of commodities. Farmers for Trump! No recession. Witholding funds from farmers at a critical time (Now) means fewer farms across the Midwest. Let them eat cake! Let them go bust! What’s it to me? It’s just the market correcting itself. It’s just numbers! It’s not like its people or something.

Twenty five percent tariffs will keep all but the stupid and necessitous from America’s automotive showrooms. Traffic along the Canadian border is said down 80% but there will be no recession.

Overpriced real estate and overpriced car loans and insurance push Amerikans to the brink. And with just one good sneeze, that’s that. First goes the fast food and optional dining. Then you begin to see your neighbors selling their largess. Their motorcycles, bass boats and jet skis and toys of middleclass prosperity. Then come the real estate yard signs. Price Reduced! Foreclosure! Not a recession. Not a recession at all.

Did you hear what the King said about the over one hundred Americans who died in storms across the South this weekend? He said, nothing! What? Is he supposed to care or something? Why should the King care? About a few unimportant little people. He didn’t know any of them so, why should he pretend to care?

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”  ― John Steinbeck

“If you can’t say fuck, you can’t say fuck the government.”  – Lenny Bruce