This piece is about insanity in America , how to spot it and how to
deal with it.
Amid young men going on a spree to mass-kill moviegoers and
school children, an older American kills his sister and burns the house in
which they both live. When the firefighters arrive to put down the blaze, he
shoots at them, kills two and kills himself. He leaves a note to tell the world
that killing people was the best thing he liked to do when alive. Yet, none of
the mass killers looked or sounded so abnormal before committing their deeds as
to convince someone they were evil enough to require being dealt with before it
was too late. How could that be?
To try and answer that question, we do an experiment.
Suppose you have a friend who looks normal in what he does, and sounds normal
in what he says. Once in a while he talks to you about a neighbor who is a bad
person but you let the words go in one ear and out the other. One day, you
become so curious about that neighbor, you decide to listen to the words of
your friend as he describes him, even ask a few follow-up questions of your own
in an attempt to discover and determine what is really going on.
You find that your friend is calling his neighbor a bad
person because he does not beat his wife, he tells his children to be polite
and be helpful to others, he is generous towards other people, and he remains a
forgiving person never to hold a grudge against someone. You conclude that the
neighbor is not a bad person but that the one you thought was your friend is
actually insane. You ask him what he would like to see done to that neighbor,
and he gives you a list of things he would like to see done to him. You take
the list to the authorities and recommend that they do to your so-called friend
what he would have liked to see done to his neighbor.
You apply this method of discovery to the small circle of
friends who surround you so as to find out who is normal, who may not be, and
who may be insane. You also apply the method at the level of the nation to
assess the level of sanity of the people who hold megaphones loud enough to
shape the culture of the nation, and to tell its young as well as its old who
is good and who is evil; who to love and who to hate.
To this end, you may begin a journey of discovery by going
over what your neocon friends are saying with regard to Chuck Hagel; nominated
to be America 's
secretary of defense. This man is a saint and yet, they are saying he is a bad
person because he puts the interests of America
ahead of those of Israel
– something he says he does because he is an American senator and not an
Israeli one. Horror of horror, they cry at this assertion. And they add that no
one can be a good American unless they devote themselves to the causes of Israel absolutely
and unequivocally, something they must repeat at every occasion like a nun who
is forever mumbling the rosary.
Listen carefully to what William Kristol, Elliott Abrams,
Rachel Abrams and Noah Pollak are saying and what they are writing about Chuck
Hagel. Follow what they do in their capacity as executives of what they call
“The Emergency Committee for Israel .”
And look at the new website they have created to attack the man and portray him
as evil because of the good things he is doing for America , for its people and for the
world.
When you will have listened, when you will have followed and
when you will have looked, you will come to determine that Chuck Hagel is the
saint America needs today more than anything else. And you will determine that
Kristol, Abrams, Pollak and all the neocons are made of the same psychological
material that the serial killers who plague the nation are made of. Indeed,
they are the very thing that is spreading insanity in America , and
the ultimate authors of all the misery in the land.