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So, the good news is, the US is going to turn Fallujah into a forced labor camp and the population gonna be ID-ed with retinal scanning. Because who needs pesky numbers on your forearm in the age of what Giorgio Agamben calls bio-political tattooing.
Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.
"You have to say, 'Here are the rules,' and you are firm and fair. That radiates stability," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon, intelligence officer for the First Regimental Combat Team, the Marine regiment that took the western half of Fallujah during the US assault and expects to be based downtown for some time.
Bellon asserted that previous attempts to win trust from Iraqis suspicious of US intentions had telegraphed weakness by asking, " 'What are your needs? What are your emotional needs?' All this Oprah [stuff]," he said. "They want to figure out who the dominant tribe is and say, 'I'm with you.' We need to be the benevolent, dominant tribe.
For a moment I was delighted by this latest Cartmanism from our War Effort svengalis (and when I say Cartmanism I mean that the neocons are prone to pathological lying, except for occasional gleeful sociopathic return-of-the-repressed moments of complete lucid Nietzschean "whatevah! I do what I want!" truth, and those moments make me feel as respected as I imagine a conversation with Mephistophelis would, sipping brandy and pouring over small print. Like, the devil doesn't just want me for my firm bouncy soul, but also likes me for my mind.)
I especially like the use of the term "tribe." I see that The Administration has adopted my theory that all global problems should be approached anthropologically. I just didn't mean that the ethnographic primer would be constituted from the trifecta of Mein Kampf, The Leviathan and Napoleon Chagnon's The Fierce People, but no one can ever agree on methodology anyways. Anyway, Our Leader* is obviously synchronizing the new "no Oprah" policy internationally AND domestically as the successor to Tom Ridge "brings 9/11 symbolism into the Cabinet." We can be sure that the former NYPD-er who cleaned up New York but good under Giuliani's awesome policies won't be caught engaging in passive-aggressive actions like sending Homeland Security forces after Texas lawmakers forced to resort to fleeing the state in order to prevent illegal gerrymandering, I mean redistricting. Hopefully he will also decide that the Terrormeter is too Sesame Street.
Then I got on Instant Messanger with pnts ( to debrief )
But peeps, I wanna leave you with even more good news! From the spiritual heirs of the people who brought you the Terror -Futures market, there is a new videogame for everyone who was REALLY SCARED on 9/11 in Cincinatti and Des Moines. From the Press Release: "SURVIVOR is a 3-rd person Disaster Survival Game designed for all platforms. anyone who likes to know how it feels being aboard the Titanic after she hit the iceberg, could go for a try." Apparently this game is for you if you also would like to know what it felt like to be in the WTC after the planes hit, in Hiroshima with your skin on fire in 1945 and more recently in that shopping mall in Paraguay where 300+ people burned alive. Neat, huh?
*
And when I say Our Leader, I mean...
[On Edit: I crossposted this entry to the freespeech blog. Over there I receive a lot of spam comments from "online poker" and "online casino"--these comments, far from being the usual illucid string-of-letters gibberish are entertaining in that they are inexplicably kind of like esoteric theological fortune cookies. This is what online casino had to say in response:
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which ‘God’ appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible. by casino online
Seriously, you wanna see some really weird shit? Check out the responses to my Neo vs. the Neocons essay posted over therel. Here is a sample wisdom from casinogames: The fundamentalists, by ‘knowing’ the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or of any honest intellectual inquiry. by casino games]
[And also: if you are in the mood to feel like killing yourself, go read the discussions on the "Survivor" forums:
here is a sample:
Post Subject: How about a pogrom scenario?
Hiroshima sounds interesting, but how much fun can running from an atomic firestorm be? I’d like to know how it feels being in a ghetto during its liquidation, like say Krakow, 1943. Imagine the screams of woman and children rising above the shouts of soldiers, broken only by the cracks of gun shots and dog barks as you try to evade the Schutzstaffel and escape the city.
I’m talking highly interactive game levels here; “Do I hide in the attic or take to the sewers?” For a subquest you could smuggle out a family heirloom in your ass. A hero experience could involve helping family members escape: "Should I save bubby or the baby?” Grandma may slow you down but the kid might cry at the wrong time. Special abilities include ‘playing dead’, bribery, and the occasional salute.
There are a lot of possibilities for a Disaster Survival Game here.]
Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.
"You have to say, 'Here are the rules,' and you are firm and fair. That radiates stability," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon, intelligence officer for the First Regimental Combat Team, the Marine regiment that took the western half of Fallujah during the US assault and expects to be based downtown for some time.
Bellon asserted that previous attempts to win trust from Iraqis suspicious of US intentions had telegraphed weakness by asking, " 'What are your needs? What are your emotional needs?' All this Oprah [stuff]," he said. "They want to figure out who the dominant tribe is and say, 'I'm with you.' We need to be the benevolent, dominant tribe.
For a moment I was delighted by this latest Cartmanism from our War Effort svengalis (and when I say Cartmanism I mean that the neocons are prone to pathological lying, except for occasional gleeful sociopathic return-of-the-repressed moments of complete lucid Nietzschean "whatevah! I do what I want!" truth, and those moments make me feel as respected as I imagine a conversation with Mephistophelis would, sipping brandy and pouring over small print. Like, the devil doesn't just want me for my firm bouncy soul, but also likes me for my mind.)
I especially like the use of the term "tribe." I see that The Administration has adopted my theory that all global problems should be approached anthropologically. I just didn't mean that the ethnographic primer would be constituted from the trifecta of Mein Kampf, The Leviathan and Napoleon Chagnon's The Fierce People, but no one can ever agree on methodology anyways. Anyway, Our Leader* is obviously synchronizing the new "no Oprah" policy internationally AND domestically as the successor to Tom Ridge "brings 9/11 symbolism into the Cabinet." We can be sure that the former NYPD-er who cleaned up New York but good under Giuliani's awesome policies won't be caught engaging in passive-aggressive actions like sending Homeland Security forces after Texas lawmakers forced to resort to fleeing the state in order to prevent illegal gerrymandering, I mean redistricting. Hopefully he will also decide that the Terrormeter is too Sesame Street.
Then I got on Instant Messanger with pnts ( to debrief )
But peeps, I wanna leave you with even more good news! From the spiritual heirs of the people who brought you the Terror -Futures market, there is a new videogame for everyone who was REALLY SCARED on 9/11 in Cincinatti and Des Moines. From the Press Release: "SURVIVOR is a 3-rd person Disaster Survival Game designed for all platforms. anyone who likes to know how it feels being aboard the Titanic after she hit the iceberg, could go for a try." Apparently this game is for you if you also would like to know what it felt like to be in the WTC after the planes hit, in Hiroshima with your skin on fire in 1945 and more recently in that shopping mall in Paraguay where 300+ people burned alive. Neat, huh?
*
And when I say Our Leader, I mean...
[On Edit: I crossposted this entry to the freespeech blog. Over there I receive a lot of spam comments from "online poker" and "online casino"--these comments, far from being the usual illucid string-of-letters gibberish are entertaining in that they are inexplicably kind of like esoteric theological fortune cookies. This is what online casino had to say in response:
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which ‘God’ appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible. by casino online
Seriously, you wanna see some really weird shit? Check out the responses to my Neo vs. the Neocons essay posted over therel. Here is a sample wisdom from casinogames: The fundamentalists, by ‘knowing’ the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or of any honest intellectual inquiry. by casino games]
[And also: if you are in the mood to feel like killing yourself, go read the discussions on the "Survivor" forums:
here is a sample:
Post Subject: How about a pogrom scenario?
Hiroshima sounds interesting, but how much fun can running from an atomic firestorm be? I’d like to know how it feels being in a ghetto during its liquidation, like say Krakow, 1943. Imagine the screams of woman and children rising above the shouts of soldiers, broken only by the cracks of gun shots and dog barks as you try to evade the Schutzstaffel and escape the city.
I’m talking highly interactive game levels here; “Do I hide in the attic or take to the sewers?” For a subquest you could smuggle out a family heirloom in your ass. A hero experience could involve helping family members escape: "Should I save bubby or the baby?” Grandma may slow you down but the kid might cry at the wrong time. Special abilities include ‘playing dead’, bribery, and the occasional salute.
There are a lot of possibilities for a Disaster Survival Game here.]
