My Apology to All of the Tortured and Maimed Political Prisoners of the United States Empire

If you speak it out it is treason. If you say stop they keep going. We live in ugly times. American globalization is the rebirth of colonialism. Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are the targets. When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the preface for Henri Alleg's La Question he asked “is fifteen years enough time to transform victims into executioners?” The French empire he spoke of was just recovering from the brutal onslaught of Hitler. Fresh in the memory of the horrified survivors were Gestapo men dragging people off into rooms and torturing them. The terrifying rumors of gas chambers and mass-executions were no longer rumors. People came back, writers like Charlotte Delbo were expressing their pain. The Nazi application of colonial practice to the European scene had terrified the stagnant and bored bourgeois. The French Sartre was speaking to had begun to reenact the same practices over in the colony. French police in Algeria were using methods of torture like electrodes which would offend the proper bourgeois conscious. The trick the French government used when they enacted such violence was an old one. We heard this before. They, those others, those brown people, that inferior race. The French used the same racist crap that came out of the Nazis mouths to justify their colonial oppression. Nazi racism disgusted the world because it was targeted against white people. This idea was touched upon by the great writers of the anti-colonial error. Have you read Frantz Fanon? How about Aime Cesaire? Its alright, but you should.
The United State, yes that rabid dog of the west is frothing at the mouth. The States saw what Hitler did and wondered how they could do the same. When it joined the Second World War the countries liberated knew the conditions imposed by American occupation would be harsh. Have you ever considered why Germany was split, basically in half by the United States and the Soviet Union? The division of Germany was white on white colonialism. America, the bastard half aborted child of Europe now occupied swaths of it. France was made to give into corporate pressure in order to receive any reconstruction aid from the Empire. Europe was now occupied. Eventually this Fourth Reich began to get distracted. It already emasculated the ruined Japanese. No one had told the hard fighting Imperial Japanese soldiers that only white men can have empires. Japan was repressed with brutality even incomprehensible to the Nazis. After the military was defeated the American forces bombed the civilians ending with the genocidal murders of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan, the modern Icarus, the sufferer of American-European colonial racism.
The torture, raping, and murder of the Japanese people by the United States had left the American Government with very orientalist tastes. Not to long after the horrific endeavors of the Second World War the States went into Korea, and then Vietnam. The taste for exotic peoples. It would seem that Washington DC is a cannibalistic animal. It must consume the lives of other people to remain content. The debacle was twisted. The imperial capitalist desires of the states showed the world the lengths it would go to feed its appetite. When the rest of the world was renewing the Geneva Convention the states were absent, the reason being, Napalm. See the generals of fascist America like to see people burn alive. So, America chose to keep napalm in its arsenal. The horrific outcomes of yet another imperial endeavor struck a cord with the people. Mass protests occurred. Who would of thought in America, the bastion of anti-revolutionary sentiment, the people took to the streets. What happened? The draft happened. Enough rich kids were coming home maimed. Corporate CEO s couldn't bare looking at their armless son at the twelve course dinners. They couldn't, for this moment, bare to see their own boys die for their greed. Imagine, bourgeois sentiment stopped the war, not the hippies. The yuppies convinced the government that if we should ever make another colonial attempt we should only allow the poor to die for it. The theory of surplus population and the divine superiority of the rich requires this.
Vietnam ended the large scale imperial attempt in the far east. China would not speak to the Americans. Japan was subjugated, and the Philippines were controlled. The cold war raged on. The cold war was essentially a class war. The Soviets were supposed to represent the people, the proletariat. The States and their allies were meant to be the vanguards of the rich, the bourgeois. America and Europe vs. a Caricature of a Marxist classless state. The American war against communism was a ploy to stifle free thinking at home. So while America and Russia killed people who were different all around the globe, Americans were arrested, tortured, and killed at home. The cold war was an era of America the police state. Swat teams beating blacks. National guardsmen shooting students. It was an awful time. America did everything it could to refurbish and reinvent the Nazi model. America wanted a new colonialism. It got this. The world was forced to join sides. The first world, we chose to consider ourselves the first. Next we called the Soviets, Chinese, and the so called “red factions” were put in the camp called the second world, although Maoist China and Stalinist Russia were not known for cooperation. Finally the chessboard. The map was drawn with the prizes, all the old colonies would be known as the third world. The stages where the two big camps would fight for control. The empires had gotten too big, and the stakes too high. Now in almost feudal like fashion, the armies of these big factions clash in third world theaters. Killing others who consider joining the other side. Murder again and again, all for imperial gain. The cold war ended. The world could take a breath. One of the two evil empires competing for power had fallen. To the dismay of the poor it was the one who had at least pretended to be on their side. The Bourgeois American Empire looked upon the world with victorious conquest. One is reminded of when the Scots stood on the side of Hadrian's Wall Ready to pick apart the Roman cities around Britain. The American dog frothed at the mouth and expanded its power.
Today, in America we are almost twenty years away from the cold war. America has embarked on many a small colonial campaigns we don't speak too much about. Somalia, the first Iraq, Serbia, and others. We have a war on drugs. Which can be translated as a war, funded by taxes taken from people, and pharmaceutical companies. The Pharmaceutical monopoly on the drug trade is outrageous. The government violates other countries neutrality to enforce this Tylenol empire. So the war on drugs raged on. The laws strengthened and the jails filled with the poor. Why do so many poor use drugs? Health insurance is only available to the rich and those of moderate wealth. As long as this is so the poor will use drugs. The prisons will bulge representative of class injustice. The more poor in jail, the more space for the rich. The war on drugs was a continuation of the cold war. It was a war of empire against the people in favor of the bourgeois. The poor will end paying the the bill of the rich. They want more so we are supposed to give it up. A custom of old imperial courts was the poor were to avert their eyes from the emperor. We are supposed to stand out of the way and look to the other side when the rich progress.
America has begun a new war. It is called the war on terror. How absurd! What is a war on terror? I remember, the news said we were attacked. The people were scared. The men in the capital screamed for revenge. The colonial revivalists saw a new chance. Empire! America began a unilateral campaign of conquest in the third world. The euphemisms flowed preemptive warfare, establishing democracy, protecting freedom, never forgetting, and more. What were we supposed to never forget? Do you know how many poor tenants and small business owners were forced to relocate when the towers were built? They fought within the system to protect their homes and property. They were able to take the case all the way to the supreme court. The supreme court refused a trial and the designers tore down the homes and businesses. Do you remember the greed and excess that went into building it? What does the name mean? World Trade? Did it rein-vision the world with New York as its capital? When the building was attacked and fell who were the victims? 2750 was the final number. Multiply this by a thousand and you probably have only a fraction of the people killed for American greed. Worse still the aftermath. Our rights disappeared in the rubble of that building.
The Patriot Act, all of our rights eroding away. Jingoism. National pride blinding the people's senses. America becomes viewed around the world as a giant slobbering brute. The country will show up at your home and beat you to death with its threat of democracy and capitalism. So we occupy kill and murder. We rape and burn in the name of our glorious god. The god of America, cash. This god is green, and made of paper. The country will allow so much suffering for, so long as those who suffer are either poor or not-white. Oh, America land of free, home of brave. How free are we? We have cameras at traffic lights, and armed guards on the streets. How brave are we? Racism motivates our soldiers to rape little girls in third world countries. I don't want to be free and brave if that is what it means in the American context.
Imagine you are in Abu Ghraib, Baghram, or Guantanamo. You do not speak the same language as your captor. Your clothes have been taken away. You are naked and bruised. No crime has been read to you. They take you out, and beat you. You are “water-boarded” and burnt. These are the things they tell the people about. Now think of what really goes on. Thrown up against the wall, choked, cut with razor blades. They pull your finger nails out. They violate you with glass bottles. You starve, and never sleep. You here screams night and day. How far have we come since the holocaust? You are alone. Scared trapped. The conditions are miserable. What do you do? Nothing. Eventually you are taken out back and shot against the wall.
Don't worry too much. They were Nazis. They were Soviets. They were Imperialists. We are Americans those things don't happen here, well sometimes they do, but its alright. This is America. Aren't you glad you live here? Isn't America wonderful? No, it isn't. No, I'm not glad I live here. I'm sorry. Not to you. Not to the propagators, instigators and racists. I am sorry to the six year old boy in Iraq whose mother was raped by American soldiers and father was shot out back trying to stop them. I'm sorry for the world he has to grow up in. The war on terror, is a war of terror against the people of the world. America, what have you done?