Blame the Predecessor, Not the Ideology: A Historical Leftist Tactic
The chaotic Occupy Wall Street movement is the result of the Democratic Party’s chaotic efforts to find villains for its chaotic economic policy, which has put 14 million Americans out of a job. The U.S. debt has now reached an unprecedented $15 trillion — greater than the total debt accured by all 41 presidents from George Washington to George H.W. Bush combined. That means a debt of $35,835 for every American household. The GDP fell from 4.5% growth in the first quarter of 2011 to 1.3% in the second quarter of 2011.
Instead of pulling up their socks and encouraging the production — not redistribution — of wealth, the leaders of the Democrat-run White House and U.S. Senate blamed former president George W. Bush for the current economic calamity. No American really bought it. So then the Democrats blamed the Japanese tsunami. No more luck. Blaming the Arab Spring and the European economic crisis did not do the trick either. Now the Democrats are blaming Wall Street — whatever that means — and America’s rich. They are the real evil. They are sucking the people’s blood, wrecking America.
In the sanctum sanctorum of the former Soviet empire, to which I once belonged, finding a scapegoat for the mistakes of a country’s leader was called “political necrophagy.” Although Marxism proclaimed the deciding role in history to be played by “the people,” the Marxists sitting on the Kremlin throne believed that only the leader counted. From the lips of Khrushchev himself, I used to hear over and over: “Change the public image of the leader, and you change history.”
The Kremlin’s secret “science” of political necrophagy was launched into the world on February 26, 1956. On that day, Khrushchev exposed “Stalin’s crimes” in a four-hour “secret speech” delivered at midnight under a cloud of mystery during the highly publicized XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, to emphasize its importance.
New York Times journalist Harry Schwartz wrote: “Mr. Khrushchev opened the doors and windows of a petrified structure. He let in fresh air and fresh ideas, producing changes which time already has shown are irreversible and fundamental.”
In actuality, Khrushchev’s “secret speech” was just a show intended to distract attention away from the brutality of Soviet Marxism and from his own image as “butcher of the Ukraine.” It was not Marxism’s fault that 20 million people had been barbarically killed in the Soviet Union in order to make Marxism the country’s only religion — it was all Stalin’s fault. It was not Marxism’s fault that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians had been executed during the years Khrushchev was the Kremlin’s viceroy in Kiev — that too was all Stalin’s fault.
A few days after Khrushchev had delivered his “secret speech,” his brand new spy chief, General Aleksandr Sakharovsky (the former chief Soviet intelligence adviser to Romania) slipped the text of it to my Romanian foreign intelligence service, the DIE. “This is the most secret document I have ever held in my hand,” Sakharovsky told us — with a wink.
He asked us to pass the “secret speech” to the Israeli Mossad, which had just begun discussing a secret barter arrangement with the DIE to allow Romanian Jews to emigrate to Israel in exchange for U.S. dollars. The DIE obediently leaked the secret speech to the Mossad, which at that time was closely cooperating with the American CIA.
In June 1956, Khrushchev’s “secret speech” was published by the New York Times, which acknowledged that it had gotten it from the CIA. There are many public versions about how that speech ended up at the New York Times — the Mossad is famous for obfuscating its operations. A few months later, however, Sakharovsky thanked DIE management for having helped him to introduce Khrushchev’s new “Communism with a human face” to the world.
Soon after that, Khrushchev’s “secret speech” was debated in all Communist Party organizations and media throughout the Soviet bloc. Marxism was rehabilitated.
Romania’s first Communist ruler, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, died only a few months after Khrushchev was overthrown, and political necrophagy moved to Romania as well. As one might expect in the Balkans, Romania’s political necrophagy took on a gloriously Byzantine coloration. “We do not need idols,” the new ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, told the plebs. Then Ceausescu “unmasked” his predecessor’s “unprecedented” cult of personality, and allowed the plebs to cast its eyes on the opulence of Gheorghiu-Dej’s palace. It was not long, however, before Ceausescu was proclaiming himself a “lay god,” and boasting that “a man like me is born only once every five hundred years.” A few years later, Ceausescu founded the first Communist dynasty and began alternately residing in 21 lavishly furnished palaces, 41 “residential villas” and 20 hunting lodges.
After Khrushchev, political necrophagy became the rule in the Kremlin. Brezhnev accused Khrushchev of having destroyed the unity of the Communist world. When Gorbachev came along, he accused Brezhnev of having devastating the Soviet economy. Gorbachev even had some of Brezhnev’s relatives arrested, in an obvious attempt to prove that the Soviet economy had been devastated by corrupt individuals, not by Marxism. For his part, Yeltsin accused Gorbachev’s perestroika of “leading the country to ruin,” and then Putin blamed Yeltsin for the “demise of the Soviet Union, the greatest catastrophe of the century.”
In 2004, when our war in Iraq encountered its first difficulties, the Democratic Party smuggled the Kremlin’s poltical necrophagy into the United States. Although that war was authorized by 296 House members and 76 senators, the leaders of the Democratic Party called it Bush’s war. “Bush lied, people died,” became the slogan of the Democratic Party, whose leaders suddenly forgot that they had also voted for that war.
The doormat at the entrance to the office of Democratic Party’s national chairman, Terry McAuliffe, depicted the U.S. president and it read “Give Bush the Boot.”Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, the minority leader, called President Bush a miserable failure. Retired general Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander who became a leader of the Democratic Party with an eye on the White House, asked Congress to “determine whether President Bush was a criminal by advocating a war against Saddam Hussein.” The 2004 Democratic National Convention focused almost exclusively on political necrophagy. In fact, except for Senator Joe Lieberman, all other speakers denigrated the U.S. president.
Two days after that convention ended, Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the Democratic nominee for the White House, stated that four more years of the Bush administration meant four more years of hell for America. Like her, I am also an immigrant. I have spent my 33 American years under six presidents — some better than others — but I have always felt that I was living in the best country on Earth. In fact, that is how the overwhelming majority of Americans also felt during that election year.
President Bush was re-elected, but the Democratic Party’s political necrophagy had sunk the United States’ international prestige so unbelievably low that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe had to certify to the rest of the world that the United States had free elections in November 2004.
Now we have important new elections coming up, and the Democratic Party is resorting to a new form of political necrophagy. “Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes” has become the new slogan of the Democratic Party. The result: Occupy Wall Street encampments.
American citizenship used to be the highest dream for millions of people striving for freedom who made it to the United States — as it was mine. Now, however, the Democratic Party is replacing American citizenship with a generic Ash-sha`b yurid isqat an-nizam (the people want to bring down the regime). “Bring an open mind and a sleeping bag,” the organizers of Occupy Wall Street posted on Facebook and Twitter. “It’s going to be big, it’s going to be global.”
This anarchist movement generated by the Democratic Party’s political necrophagy has indeed spread to over 200 U.S. cities and to 82 other countries.
Khrushchev’s political necrophagy shattered the Soviet Union’s image as the workers’ paradise. The Democratic Party’s political necrophagy and its Occupy Wall Street encampments are shattering the United States’ image as the leader of the Free World.
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I could write a whole book about political necrophagy, and maybe someday I will. Here I would only like to say that, in my experience, political necrophagy is a dangerous game. It hurts people’s national pride, and it usually turns against its perpetrator.
On October 14, 1964, Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader ever to be dethroned. The Soviet Politburo considered his political necrophagy so erratic and dangerous that it kept him under house arrest, guarded by the KGB, for the rest of his life. When Khrushchev died, Brezhnev decreed that his predecessor had badly harmed the country’s historical respect for the Kremlin, and that he was not worthy of being buried in the Kremlin Wall next to the other former leaders. The Soviet government even refused to pay for Khrushchev’s gravestone. In 1972, when I visited Khrushchev’s grave in the Novodevichi Cemetery, there was only a small, insignificant marker identifying it.
Leonid Brezhnev, who deposed Khrushchev, ended up being seen by the Russians, and by the rest of the world, as a self-aggrandizing cartoon. His political necrophagy and his cult of personality damaged the Soviet Union’s international standing to such a degree that the KGB decided to take over the Kremlin.
Yury Andropov, the first KGB officer to be enthroned in the Kremlin, began the process of transforming the Soviet Union into a country in which, behind a facade of Marxism, the ruler’s political police took precedence over the original tool for running the country — the Communist Party. Already terminally ill, Andropov died before accomplishing his task.
Mikhail Gorbachev, whose glasnost and perestroika were depicted as an act of political necrophagy intended to change Russia’s historical traditions, ended in exile.
In December 1989, Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu was executed. The Extraordinary Court that sentenced him to death decided that his political necrophagy and his subsequent outrageous cult of personality had dishonored Romania’s traditional respect for its leaders, and that he did not even deserve a coffin and grave. Ceausescu corpse was therefore dumped into a bag and tossed into the trash at a soccer stadium.
The Soviet Union and Communist Romania were extreme cases. But political necrophagy will not work here either. The United States has a long tradition of respecting its elected leaders. During World War II, 405,399 Americans gave their lives in order to defeat Nazism and the Holocaust, but the U.S. remained sturdily united behind its president. The United States held elections during that war, but no one running for office had even thought about harming the country’s unity in a quest for personal victory.
No political necrophagy and no Occupy Wall Street demonstrators mobs will be able to change that American tradition.
I’m so glad to see you in these pages. You should be speaking in all the schools of the land. The real history of communism has been wiped out of the textbooks. Great historical perspective. I hope your prediction is true. What Obama is doing is unprecedented and comes straight out of the Alinsky manuals he was trained in.
Mary it is a mistake to ascribe all of Obama to Alinski. It all precedes Alinski by more than a generation and is the system rather than the person. We need to understand what Pacepa is saying here.
The power of the United States is not based on any one person but on a concept that has always been rejected by the majority but when it has been followed always produces growth and prosperity.
Mt 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Insead we expect a corrupt tree to yield the best of fruit.
I don’t quite understand the objection to Mary’s point, Whit; I think we generally agree that whether it’s Alinsky disseminating these ideas and tactics, or Aptheker, or Chomsky (all three lionized within academic circles that nurtured and subsidized Obama), the political necrophagy perfected in the Soviet Union is being deployed here today.
And I think most people don’t realize the central role being played by k-12 educators, in addition to college teachers, in disseminating a very censored, propagandistic, pro-socialist version of historical events leading us to this point. Lt. Gen. Pacepa and people like him are desperately needed on college campuses today.
Alinsky and “Rules for Radicals” importance is not in any original thinking, because he blatantly wasn’t capable of such, but in his explicit codification of the tactics of the radical left.
He provided a handy dandy pocket guide about how to do it. Prior to that it was only the more “intelligent” (superficially) that managed to work through the process. After Alinsky every leftard moron could pick up his book and go through it step by step, usually with it open to the appropriate page so they didn’t forget anything.
Yes, as the ancient Greeks taught, history does appear in patterns; which—according to them—we appear to be in the third stage, that of the evil dogs of chaos ravaging the city, but in war, soon to be driven out by the purging fires of purification, . . .
As very often occurs, both the recent immigrant and—as with a Michelle Malkin say, or a Bobby Jindal, or even, a Henry Kissinger, or a common laborer—that one of a generation removed, brings a fresher and less well-known perspective, and with attendant energy and facts. I am thus prompted to think that, many a would-be immigrant makes a better American than a born citizen, and spurring others of us to more and better things, . . . oh well, . . .
In his opening p. with his use of “chaotic”, I took our author’s transgression of a rule, to be quite effective, . . .
“Communism with a Human face.”
Somehow, I am reminded of Freddy Krueger…
#Occupy Elm Street
It is a great exaggeration to say that Khrushchev died under house arrest, Sure, he was closely watched by KGB but it was not a house arrest. The same goes for Mr. Pacepa’s opinion about Gorbachev’s exile. It is rubbish. He also writes, “In actuality, Khrushchev’s “secret speech” was just a show intended to distract attention away from the brutality of Soviet Marxism and from his own image as “butcher of the Ukraine.” Again, reality was not that simplistic. Enough to mention just one aspect – members of Politburo wanted to guarantee their own security and safety, they did not need Stalins anymore keeping an ax over their heads. And that was a great achievement for the entire country and one of the reasons to overthrow Khrushchev himself. After that speech the “democracy” in the USSR grew tenfold, maybe more, depending on the exact number of members of Politburo at the time for whom this Party democracy was intended.
Arlady, do you work for Putin? There is absolutely nothing in your innuendoed missive close to truth. Party democracy? Really?
Our mission work in current Russia testifies abundantly to the effectiveness of Soviet brutality. It made little difference who the leader was, the system was brutal.
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Mr. Polishchuk, I distinctly recall a passage in one of Sergei Krushchev’s books in which he says that, when he wanted to talk in privacy to his father after Nikita Krushchev was deposed, he had to go outside with him because the walls of Nikita Krushchev’s home was bugged by the KGB. They knew that the KGB also had directional microphones that they could use to listen to the Krushchevs speaking outdoors but figured that the odds were slightly better that the KGB might not bother to do that while they were certain that the indoor microphones were being monitored.
Now, you may want to quibble about the precise meaning of “house arrest” but I submit that knowing every word you utter in your own house (and probably outside of it too) is being monitored is close enough to meet my definition.
Excellent insight on the tactics of Marxism from someone who has lived it. It is chilling to see Soviet techniques being utilized by the Left in this country…although not a new phenomenon for them. But there are a lot of useful idiots, especially in my age group, who have no idea how they are being manipulated. The problem is that for all their talk about maintaining “open minds” they are very close-minded when it comes to learning more about Marxism and its real-world implications. They refuse to read articles such as this one and get angry when asked to do so. The truth is too uncomfortable for them. So they’ll walk around with their Che t-shirts and remain useful idiots.
Thank you, General Pacepa, for shedding light on this subject!
“So they’ll walk around with their Che t-shirts and remain useful idiots.”
“”To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary…These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! (El Paredón)” –Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara”
More good quotations at:
http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
How can we get messages like this out to the dupes who actually believe what is said by this administration instead of what is done? When I try to send something like this out to people on my mailing list, I either get no response, or a “Oh, hi, how are you?” message.
Barbara we do not need to convert these unbelievers but we do need to state where we stand and why we stand there. Most of the Wall Street Occupiers are looking at advantage for themselves with little thought of the disadvantage to others. They cannot be made to understand that the golden rule is for my benefit more than yours. They do not understand the principle of not gleaning your field or reaping the corners thereof. Rather we are to reap the corners of the field and then give them the bread it produces.
Perhaps what the author describes about communist rulers always blaming their predecessors for their failures and the failures of communism inspired Obama and his minions to organize the OWS protests. Some have suggested that OWS is really a primer for what the Obamanoids might try to pull before the election next year. It goes something like this: the protestors get out of hand, riot a little, cause more than a little mayhem and presto Obama declares a state of emergency and suspends the elections and then dares anyone to do anything about it. Given that the election next year could mark the beginning of a generation long stint for the dems in the political wilderness it stands to reason that they will likely do pretty much whatever it takes to prevent this from happening.
It will take a bit more than that. Constitutionally 0bama has no authority to suspend elections, only the states do and I doubt the states would go along with such a plan.
Thanks Ion, great insight. For pointing out that the, blame game is ‘NO game’ at all and must be taken very seriously. The constant harping from the msm isn’t simply obnoxious sour grapes. One can only conclude it is conditioning! Deliberate and constant, highly charged and dark accusations (towards an idea or person) from our political leadership is reinforced through the media until that idea is accepted as demonic fact. At least for some. (ie; look in anybodies comments section). The practice of PC plays a supporting role in this as does multiculturalism in as much as labeling and categorizing people into breeds.
Did no one notice that his reference to GDP decline from 4.5% growth in the 1st Qtr 2011 to 1.3% growth in the 2nd Qtr of 2011 is for South Africa? When was the last time that U.S. GDP grew by 4.5%? Obama would have a field day if it had ever been that during his Presidency. Check the link. I like this fellow, but how can anyone miss such a glaring mistake?
True; But looking over our GDP, We may as well be a third world country.
Durable goods fell at a rate -3.0 percent 2nd Qtr, compared with a decrease of -4.3 percent. We’re still falling, we just hit an up draft to slow the pace.I think the President said something about crosswinds, he must think we’re going sideways…
Also worth noting, growth was mostly public. Grrrr.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom. Anyone who has read the translations of the Kremlin’s files on the US Communist Party, such as the book “Dupes”, has had to wonder what happened post-1991 to those in America who pledged allegiance to the USSR. I doubted a friend who said back in 2008 that they had taken control of the Democratic Party. Now, with three years under a communist president and two years under a communist president and congress, I realize my friend was right. We live in an Orwellian world where the truth is covered in newspeak. Liberal means communist, but we cannot say that. Most of our media are America’s version of Pravda. Recent polls of everyday Americans are hopeful, and the elections of 2012 will tell whether the Marxists remain in power.
This article is a public service. Thank you Mr. Pacepa. I hope you become a regular PJ media contributor.
I have long stated that the ONLY planning that the criminal in the white house does or is capable of, is to plan who to blame before he initiates one of his crimes. I knew it is an Alinsky tactic, but I didn’t realize the long pedigree the tactic has. Of course, it’s no surprise that the Soviets invented the tactic…they pretty much invented Obama.
I learned a new word, necrophagy, “the practice of feeding on carrion” that so fits the tactics of the Democratic Party especially since 2000 and the demonization of George W. Bush. Bush survived the first 4 years of the negative agitprop but this is the tactic that got Obama elected in 2008 and may get him elected again in 2012 if it continues to be abetted by his enablers and fellow travelers that have either infiltrated or taken over every sphere of influence on public opinion except perhaps radio and the internet. It thoroughly explains the so called “double standard,” the voracious feeding of the media vultures on Republican carrion compared to the impenetrable, glowing cocoon surrounding the Left. As long as the vapid ignorance epitomized by the OWS crowd, reflects the knowledge of a majority of the electorate, which the left has assiduously and surreptitiously sought to diminish over the past few decades, the Left will continue to dominate the political arena. The Left has not and has no intention to let up. They know that what they’re doing, the outright lies, libelous innuendo and character assassinations are being continuously exposed to public view but they obviously are not concerned, confident that the dumbing down process has been a huge success; the old credo of the Left, “the ends justify the means.” The only way to defeat American exceptionalism is to make us an unexceptional, self destructive nation of perpetual victims who consider confiscation from the rich and government handouts a right and government control a solution to all the problems created by Capitalism, corporate “greed,” the profit motive and the “evil exploitation” of the poor. America is at a tipping point. If Obama wins in 2012 we’ll go over the edge and will likely never recover from yet another failed experiment in Socialism. I may not be around to see it but my children and surely my grandchildren will and that’s a disheartening and hopefully overly pessimistic thought.
This article accurately and interestingly details a strategy employed by our country’s enemies, but these strategies are not the central culprit in our current dissolution. Rather, we are being destroyed by our country’s prevalent moral code.
Although much of this moral code comes from the left, its trajectory is also supported by the right. Specifically, the morality of “need” and the morality of “the public good” are used to justify every confiscatory tax and despotic regulation that is destroying us. This morality comes from both conservative Christians as well as liberal Marxists.
Until I can stand in the public square and openly declare the superiority of my individual rights and self-interest over the “needs of others” or the “public good”, the vision of our country given by the Founders is in grave risk. The morality of “need” and “public good” has been used to justify every evil regime in the world for the past 150 years. Ayn Rand called it altruism. Whatever it is called, it is sickening to watch it destroy our once, wonderful country.
I agree.
Both Left and Right in the US came from the Social Gospel of the 1870′s.
Jesus didn’t appear in 1844- yet most American Christian churchs remain millenial (Baptist, Pentocost, Latter-day, Adventist, etc.)
The South kept postponing the advent of the New Millenial Year, first due in 1808, when Slavery would end (that’s why we celebrate the New Year).
To Lincoln, it really was always about the slavery- that’s why his good dad left Kentucky. He couldn’t bear to watch it anymore.
Lincoln tried every compromise, to no avail, to defend the constitutional rights of 1/8 of southern citizens born on our soil.
States are not born with rights- only individuals.
After the horror of the Civil War, it seems that people grew impatient with waiting for God to show up. The new (old) idea was to gain government power and force people to be better.
I wonder if some felt we had disappointed God, to point that he postponed the Rapture- leading to the Civil War by men.
Karl Marx watched the Temperance and Millerite movements with great interest-
before he left New York to become a political advisor to Bismark’s new German Sparta, and to organize the first union, the Longshoreman’s Union in what became Germany.
We get phrases such as ‘clogging the works’ and ‘saboteur’ from the good Mr. Marx. He had Dutch workers throwing their wooden shoes (sabots) into the gears of the new textile machines.
The insight about the Democratic Party’s necrophagy tactic is really important here. In a well-functioning democracy, the opposition is known and thought of as “the LOYAL opposition.” What necrophagy does is convert the idea of honorable and honest people opposing one another on principle to the non-democratic idea that the political opposition is criminal. You can’t have a functioning democracy when anyone who disagrees with the ruling political party is treated as a criminal.
Democracy is not only people following the rules, but people having a certain attitude towards one another. Obama treats Republicans not as the loyal opposition, but as enemies. In this, he is exactly like the Communist party leaders that General Pacepa describes.
I would place the point at which political necrophagy replaced loyal opposition at the 2000 election. The Democrat establishment never accepted the outcome of that election. They refused to recognize the legitimacy of the election, and having seized power in 2008, refused to recognize the traditions of bipartisanship. Harry Ried recently exercised the “nuclear option”.
I’m afraid that this piece is a little late. The fracture is there, and can’t be fixed, because bipartisanship is dead, and the differences irreconcilable. And things are worse in Europe.
It is, after all, in the nature of things that the victim eventually gets tired of being victimized. The Left has lied to me all my life, and I could never get people to believe it. How many times must we observe the double-standards? I guess until our own, personal ox is being gored, we just don’t care. Well, now they’ve got our full attention. Is it too late? Maybe for us, who are alive, but let’s see what we can do to help those who come after. Also, no matter how bad things are, I remember how bad it was when Ronny came riding to the rescue last time. Things can change pretty quickly, once you have the scum in a headlock.
First, though, let us call those who wish to enslave us what they are: liars, cheats, thieves, murderers; and stop falling for their childish arguments. “Nyah, nyah, I can’t hear you”, does not merit a response. It merits a spanking.
That is why Pravda was so important to the communist part in the soviet union. Just look at our main stream news media here in America. Can you tell the difference from Pravda and our media? I can not!
Human Nature to blame others for our shortcomings. It always comes back to bite you because it reflects bad character. I guess it is the nature of bureaucrats to snivel like this in order to survive within the bureaucracy.
I was unaware that Andropov’s rise to General Secretary reflected rise of KGB within Communist Party. Not unlike rise of the Zeta Cartel against their former employers — Cartel del Golfo. If you are the muscle and everybody is afraid of you — why not make a move?
Well said. Well said, all.
This is a consolidation movement.
Asymetrical war tactics without bullets.
“Deep Capture” of bureaucracy hiring, electronic order entry (markets), media (re Hearst), and university (tax evasion funding).
The Soviet Communists are back-
they just moved to better pastures and changed the label!
and ode to OWS:
Fractured
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Rage, Rage against the dying of the light.
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Alas poor Yorick! The Truth is dead
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And in her stead
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A Greek chorus repeating, repeating
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The oldest MYTHS.
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Covet a blood-soaked cloak of brothers who already paid
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The highest ransom.
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Aspiring martyr cries WOE, you OWE, ME! ME! ME!.
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A MEME, creation of failed dreams, legacy of failed & fractured past
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Upside down, backwards, inside-out, theatre of absurdities
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Grotesque plastic imitation, replace reality
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& Usurp the place of the righteous, poison the innocents,
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Preach them, Teach them, Use them
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Accuse, Deny, Cry,
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Try to buy judgment with a LIE.
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Yesterday, I heard this-
“Oakland businesses closed ‘in cooperation with the Directives of the OWS General Assembly’”
Vultures indeed. I do hope the invaluable Mr. Pacepa is a frequent contributor.
Sir, duty calls.