What If

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 15:02

What if?

What if The Netherlands invaded the United States?

What if The Netherlands invaded the United States to over throw a dictator and to restore a nation from a Theocratic Corporate-ocracy to a free Democracy? What if the Dutch forced the States electoral system from top to bottom to modernize and a trans national standardized voting system put into place. What if mandatory voting was made into law? What if in so invading the states under the premise of keeping Abortion legal and safe for all women the Dutch then made same sex domestic partners (whether gay or straight or something else) equal citizens with the same benefits of Marriage by way of a genderless state sanctioned commitment with all the rights as heterosexuals. What if these same liberal minded people came to re-introduce the idea of public schools for all people in the states whether they are legally a US citizen or not? What if the Dutch justified their goals under the auspices of fighting the tyranny of ignorance?

What if the tax system was overhauled so that money saved from the decommissioning of the Military, CIA and FBI was redirected to build up social security and healthcare for anyone with in the country? What if the money from the various previous failed wars on social issues (for example the war on drugs, terrorism, pornography etc.), was used to build domestic mass transit alternatives? What if the states prisons were shut down due to the unjust consequences of the fake war on drugs and a working rehabilitation system initiated instead. What though if Dutch service men and women were physically and sexually abusing American men and women and children caught in the detaining centers set up across the nation to ensure the peace of the land during this transition to Democracy?

What if the Dutch justified revamping National Education Policy by having Creationist theories taught at the elementary and secondary levels of school made unconstitutional? What if private schools were denied public funding and denied national academic recognition? What if due to the failures of the war on drugs that the current drug czar was expelled from the states and all drugs were legalized with a huge public education scheme like for tobacco put in place. What if marijuana became available from local State Cannabis and Recreational Pharmaceutical Outlet Stores and taxed properly thus making redundant the black market economy surrounding a natural plant?

What if massive building schemes were initiated across the land to beautiful the excesses of manmade architectural landscape so that strip malls and car parks were forced to be returned to nature as a woodland or wetland public park. What if loads of bicycles were imported from Holland and trans national bicycling paths put into place. What if new farm land and small old farms became protected national treasures from the threat of strip mall-ing and suburbanization tract housing schemes?

What if the invading Dutchmen used the new government to research and implement an alternative to petroleum based automotives. What if the new foreign interim Government Set up in Holland forbade the states from maintaining any alliances with foreign countries until it could better manage itself and those relations in responsible humanitarian ways? What if the Dutch and Spanish languages became viable alternatives to English in governmental affairs at the state and federal level? What if the Dutch invaders made prostitution legal and regulated and taxed it while ensuring public health and safety measures were put into place along with an education scheme? What if state governed brothels ensuring safe anonymous adult forms of leisurely pursuits were included as part of the definition of freedom and liberty.

What if the Dutch in reclaiming for their liberation efforts took back part of Manhattan and restored the long forgotten old streets beneath the former World Trade Center site and instead built more human sized buildings along with a public park monument to the memory of the people who died there and not to the buildings or architects or urban planners or politicians who opportunistically selfishly profiteered off of Nine Eleven?

What if the Dutch in all their hard working effort to restore Democracy and Liberty and Freedom to the Americans drained their own domestic economy back home in Holland causing much suffering and hardship for the Dutch citizens. What if in so helping the Americans the Netherlands began to deteriorate into a poorly educated excessively religious society with rampant under employment as various governmental structures decayed into useless bureaucracy. What if the Dutch began to protest and demand their Nation’s foreign policy started to focus on the needs of the Dutch and not on the Americans. What if the Dutch government stood to take over the American immense Corporate-ocracy wealth for a few of the Governments officials to get phenomenally wealthy from while paying for the foreign policy’s implementation by the taxing of the people of Holland?

What if the Dutch began to control the American borders and points of entry and stopped treating those passing across the border check points as criminals and terrorists but just let everyone in who pleased to enter the United States. What if the Dutch decided it was time for a new flag and resurrected the old forgotten flag of the Rattlesnake image with the text “Don’t Tread on Me” whilst updating it for the new American post Corporate-ocratic era? What if the government of the Netherlands decided every State in the revitalized new Union was issued a new flag to represent this new fledgling Democracy.

What if former members of the American Armed Forces were lured into jobs for domestic Policing of the new Union and to implement and ensure it ideals were met on the street? What if various local Militias from Ohio and West Virginia to Tennessee and Montana were trading in fire arms and making armed resistance to the new state of the States. What if these local insurgents were based in religious affiliations between Protestants and Catholics?

What if George Bush Junior and Senior and their respective white house administrations were put on trial in The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity? What if the Republican Party was banned and new parties were allowed to be formed.

What if the Americans left Iraq to manage its own affairs and oil reserves itself for better or worse. What if the Americans service men and women in Iraq were just brought home and we rebuilt our own nation.

 

Incredibly Stylish Kitchen Cabinets

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 13:46

The following are subject headings or first lines from e-mails deemed junk mail by my Microsoft Outlook e-mail program. These were selections from nearly all of yesterday’s junk mail. I’m not certain what the point is here in collecting these lines and attempting to shape them into a haiku poetic like assemblage of an essay here. The thing is I obsessive follow all my mail - junk or not and after awhile of reading daily junk mail I find certain themes creepy. Sometimes it is the name listed as the sender which matches the names of friends or relatives long since departed – I have not included the names of the sender though as perhaps that is another association of ideas essay altogether. Other times the content of the junk mail has me wondering who takes the time to invent and send out information such as this. Clearly a few themes present themselves such as dubious pharmaceutical outlets purveying Vicodin, Viagra and Valium. Then there are the stock marketers, online bachelor degrees to name a few. And yet i still cannot explain why I am compelled to put this together here - maybe to document in a electronic archaelogical way thus preserving these irritations as the themes in junk e-mail shift over time. I honestly have no idea what this all means.

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RE: House was called, moreover
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Want your pills? We have them
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Shares market stand outs
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Is your boyfriend hurting PERCOCET solutions

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Current Matches K_ J_ is within 29 miles of your location
She want a bigger pee pee

Family vacations
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She want bigger pee pee
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The weekend edition when in doubt claim ignorance

Share the love from 55 pounds
Ready to register your domain name
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Online bachelor’s degree
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Play hostile skies

Hola!
Do you have enough life insurance?
Online Master’s degree
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50 questions
Get an online degree faster than ever
Thinking out loud
It takes more than money
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Updating my address book

Conclusions:

This has been an incredible waste of time. But then so has most of my life to date. I just have the unshakeable feeling that junk e-mail means something and yet it is just beyond my grasp as to what that is. Like when trying to recall something that is on the tip of the tongue – its name is meaningful and yet simultaneously forgotten. Perhaps these e-mails are nothing more than the arbitrary symptom of the relentless march of capitalisms excesses. I wonder though does anyone else feel compelled to waste their time like this?

 

Crying Wolf

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 14:37

Crying wolf -A rant, as a form of speech, doesn't seek to accomplish or change anything; it exists to give release to the person articulating the rant.

My gut has been a problem since before the High Holidays one of the consequences of that is that I am beyond very cranky and that I have to fight with myself to be polite on even the most mundane social level. The gut problems affect my body’s serotonin level which leaves me depressed. So I am generally cranky and depressed and it’s winter at such high latitude. So again writing for me is a therapy space for frustrations beyond me. It’s no secret writing can be psychologically cathartic. It doesn’t reflect my objective experience only my twisted mind fuck of a subjective take on things that are bigger than me that go against the grains of my conscience like the politics back home.

As far as the left and right in the states (I have on more than one occasion had a laugh from listening to Rush Limbaugh – and in theory I support his work – in practice though I don’t really care what he says)… NPR and the voice of the left of center are colored to some degree to suit themselves as well. In the states though the left is still globally speaking to the far right of center so I wouldn’t say NPR and all that is pushing things really past the left of center. The Democrats are still after all a right winged party just left of the repuglicanz. Anyways I used to vote Republican but I never will again and in theory the old Republicans ideally were a great lot of nation builders. My hero’s Lincoln and Whitman were Republicans after all but they were entirely a different sort than Bush II and family. What I find unforgivably sad about the present day politix of the current administration is how much it is disillusioning vast populations and not just for Europeans or the Americas - from the people I met in Pakistan and Yemen this was also the case so now everyone is looking for something else to believe in when it comes to government, nation building and national identity – The Republicans might as well dismantle Lady Liberty and put her pieces in cold storage.

Anyhow my writing is my literal stab at exercising and maintaining my own personal freedom of speech. If you don’t use it you’ll loose it! Plus I like to have fun with self publishing. It is my time to go back into kindergarten and be allowed to use every bad word for a few minutes before going back into thinking and speaking properly. Doing this reveals my inner psycho self to me and keeps me informed of my depressive handicapped condition (which is admittedly in winter mode). So you should only be worrying when I am not writing or not writing anything worrisome!

Regarding the US’s catastrophic sins of selfishness compared to various EU sins: No matter that Holland or the EU or Belgium have their bad side they do especially in the Dutch speaking world they are really into fascist politix and shamelessly so. Whenever I have to drive into provincial Flanders at every turn on the side of buildings are billboards for the new extreme right party Vlaams Belang (think Flemish first) which is the reincarnation of the outlawed Vlaams Bloc (Deemed unconstitutional for it’s blatant racist platform). Keep in mind while we are on comparisons that outlawed Islamist political parties in Pakistan for example result in members who are still active ending up in jail. In Belgium though they just rename the party re-receive denied state funds and carry on with business as usual. Pakistan should be praised for a change in this comparison. As far as EU sins though compared to my Vader land of Amerika – the difference is the EU members aren’t off invading Afghanistan, Iraq or threatening to do so in Iran and Syria – neither are they holding people hostage as criminals in a Cuban based prison camp without so much as a trial. Neither does the EU have any one in office who got there originally by a miscarriage of election in breech of democratic processes current with the times we live in – Neither are they pandering fear as a way to make political gains and to rewrite constitutional guarantees and neither are they thank God a military superpower. So I do firmly believe that different rules apply to the states until there is a balance of power. As long as the states has this Military Industrial complex with Zionist influences acting out of order with democracy and globally acceptable norms then I feel the States can defend itself from my exercising my rights with my creative freedom of thought, speech and press.

For all the talk I hear (from people I know still in the states) about the other half of the nation that is against Bush II well they aren’t making the news over here with whatever they are doing. The half of the nation back home against a second Bush II administration term are not taking to the streets in peaceful or bloody protests – there is no revolution occurring so they are silently complicit to the Bush II second terms regime agenda.

Suggested viewing
Raspberry Reich by Bruce la Bruce!
Extremism is fashionable and pornographic again! Yee haw!

C’mon America do your country a favor and at least be equally as critical of your government as it is powerful and influential! This is what I am committed to doing with self publishing in this blogette. That is why my blog is as it is and not as I intended a fun comparison of life in Belgium with life back in old Ohio. I must though confess that when these kinds of repug- thugs (republican thugs) are in the oval office or as I like to say in the awful orifice! Well I find these times in a way more fun because then I feel I have permission to have an anarchical hatred of the USA/CIA/Industrialist Complexes – I mean I really feel inspired to explore my freedoms of thought, speech and press however impolite or offensive that maybe. And I like being cranky! It makes me smile and chuckle all on my own!

Despite being persistantly cranky I do literally count my blessings. My man and the dogs are at the top of the list. As is Belgium and our home here in Bru-town. I am also VERY thankful to be out of the states at this time. It's a funny twist of fate in that my partner and I wanted to stay in the states and it turned out to be in our best interest to make our home here after all. I am fast approaching two years away from our old home there in Ohio without a visit and I really don’t want to go back at all. In fact that is all a very conscious personal protest to things there. I only wish my father would visit me here or that we could visit each other in Canada and Mexico so I could remain true to my deepest conviction in this matter. If the states won’t let Bart live there with me then I want nothing to do with that country for that is not freedom. I don’t care what they call it marriage or same sex partnership the states has gone too far in my personal life too many times – just try going through puberty with sodomy laws in a Christian theocracy of a suburb! Until the states changes this samesex binational issue in our favor I will not go around speaking about my birthplace positively! After learning what I have about my fatherland from my life experience and its present vantage point outside of the states I will never see it the same again.

Being anti American as an American is the result of a truly free country and it makes it a great nation but more and more there are new constraints on expressing thoughts against the states. Anyway I will not ever happily pay taxes to a excessively motorized over militarized war mongering police state without national health care or decent educational systems politely without giving in my two cents worth of criticism! Critical analysis can make a better nation and people and this is what is lacking from the states these days! At this point in history there it is indeed a very patriotic thing to be vitriolic in expressing anti-American speech plus given what the states is doing these days that is easy, fun as well as good for the nation and world.

Cranky anarchist expat Matt

 

From My Own Outpost of Tyranny

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 13:28

The days of America as Oscar Wilde’s “friendly giant” sharing his secret garden with children for a renewed lease on life are as much a nostalgic memory as is reading that old childrens story. Today it’s America the dimwitted Orc from J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings books. What is such a disappointment is that America the blundering land of the oversized Orcs riding around the landscape in SUVs are not even caught under such a spell as interesting as Saurons. The character of Sauron for the land of the American Orcs isn’t just one way cool sinister dude of a bad guy in a long white beard with flowing white robes but a boring group of people who dress like health, wealth and happiness Christian bankers sporting cowboy boots on occasion: The disappointing Bush II second term administration.

Strange though to see recently on TV here the “last march of the Ents” on CNN International during the rerunning of the California flood disaster with scenes of huge swaths of forest greenery caught up in a mud slide in what has to be the most underrated video news clip of late. Ents if you aren't up on your Tolkien mythology are a rare species of walking and talking trees and in these days of parking lots, freeways and endless sub-urban sprawls, trees are as rare a Tolkien’s Ents. It’s hard when you live in or come from a parking lot strip mall of a state like Ohio to feel sorry for a garden of a state like California suffering from bad weather. It is rather amusing though how for Californians Ohio isn’t on their map because their map has one big foreign country in the middle of it called the Fly Over States before reaching the East coast of California - New York City capitol of East Kalifornia.

Where is Gore Vidal in the media these days? Even though I could easily pick up a book for some consoling word from him I feel a need for him in the media talking some sense to the masses along with Noam Chomsky. Even I am guilty of being a part of the collective United States of Amnesia. I would sincerely like to shake hands with Gore Vidal and peer into his eyes and have a few drinks with him – I’m not so certain I would like him but I would like to find that out for myself and anyway I like what he writes. The thing is I could probably use more of John Waters wit and epigrammatic observations to cheer me up. Funny how it is that John Waters is now a figure of compassion and defender of the working class which must be an unintentional by product of not loosing his sense of humor.

All day yesterday I spent Googling online to find an interview I once read about an actor researching a part where he was to play some character out west so he didn’t shower for two weeks and it was the first time when he would go for a piss and got his dick out that he could smell his own cock. For some reason I have the memory of having read that article rattling around in my head and yet I can’t remember what magazine or actor despite remembering all those details from when I read it. That article amused me because Hollywood (male) actors always seem to have no apparent sexual equipment unlike women actors or if they do like super sized cod pieces with room for the whole family’s collection of the jewels.

Did I ever tell you (keep in mind that for the most part the US TV programming that comes to Belgium is quite a few seasons behind the times so we here are still viewing West Wing episodes made by Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme). One of my most favorite characters on the west wing is cup cake craving Ainsley Hayes the republican woman played by Emily Procter – although I really like every West Wing character a lot and the actors who play them but hers really stands out in my mind. I like her southern accent and her virtues of the republican party that are such great theories but that are certainly not anything the Bush’s are involved in much less practice or that Ray-gun guy or Nixon for that matter were up to. Speaking of repugs…..

Condoleeeeeza Riceez used the term Outpost of Tyranny to describe the new satellites to the Axis of Evil. I wish if the states were going to be so BAD that they could do it with style and class instead of like an episode of the evil Beverly Hillbillies or an inbred Andy Griffith show. Hysterical words from Condoleeza Rice: “we will spread Freedom and Democracy though out the world” – which ends up sounding like a bull dozer of a threat to flatten the world rather than an actively elected choice by citizens of far away places. Well good thing then she is so completely high IQ-ed and educated, musically accomplished, African American and a woman to be the new mouth piece for US Ministry Propaganda, Lies and Misinformation.

Perhaps its time the Bush II second term administration just sort of drifted away like a lost helium balloon and carried on being the “Democratically Elected” (huge tongue in cheek) President of the Planet so that the Americans could get on with electing a leader, preferably a woman for change, (I hereby nominate Martha Stewart) to run the country at home. Preferably they could start rising up, up and away in their beautiful balloon, before the good people of the states are dragged into invading Iran under the auspices of Nuke control so that Israel can feel safe at night. Meanwhile no one much worries about North Korea but then it is so very far from these issues and not really harming anyone anyway. Isn’t it time the US got on with building a better landscape within the US? Isn’t it time the US began building an infrastructure that was concerned not with various wars but with building a nation from within again to tackle issues of education, health care, homelessness, unemployement, under employment and the care of the enviroment. Isn’t it time the US once again began trying to be a nation that could be a light and beacon for other nations to model themselves after. Isn’t it time to build a nation of citizens rather than automotive based consumers and trapped inmates? Maybe the Bush II second term administration can pack up their bags and just go manage their world view from some concrete compound in Israel and leave the Americans alone from being held hostage by extreme corporatist multi national security agendas: Security agendas based on subconscious fears arising from foreign policies lacking a basic awareness of the complexities of humanity.

Dream on Dude…..

Meanwhile I get daily mass emailing proffering Xanax, Vicodan, Valium and the like. Remember Quaaludes? Then amongst all that I get junk mail offering ways to get off pain killers. I used to get junk mail to increase my penis size - that worried me – what did they know that I didn’t? Then I got emails to get and maintain erections. Whenever I scan these junk mails I get instantly paranoid of the names of the sender and I begin to feel the power of suggestion and want drugs and then alternately worry that I’m becoming like the mother in the film Requiem for a Dream or that eventually that will be me. That movie broke my heart because the mother really reminded me of my mom except my mom was alive back then and on chemo-therapy. In between all that history of junk mail in my inbox were north African originated emails from desperate types who wanted to share millions of dollars due to inheritance banking schemes to protect the money at stake – I think those emails, including all the pharmacological resources were really phony CIA/Zionist originated emails for god only knows what reason. The junk emails I get about erection tablets made me curious in experimental ways. More and more though I just feel seriously mentally deranged and suicidal thoughts are presenting themselves to me during the day and at night even though I don’t really feel like doing myself in. It seems too messy and stressful and complicated for no real gain to bother with conniving fail safe techniques to turn the lights out for good. The thing is I do need some help with some of the worries on my mind but I can’t seem to communicate with anyone and it’s not just a consequence of the omni present language dysphoria of living here that I actually take comfort in. It’s just at the moment I feel a bit trapped not within languages but within my own inability to communicate beyond myself. Then all the news from the states just really breaks my heart and mind to hear. More and more I feel deranged and marginalized on planet earth and given the facts of this political planet perhaps that is healthy. Still I can help wonder what is in my gut and my mind that bothers me so... more and more I fear it is some sort of alien implant.

Sometimes to slap some sense into my self pitying tendencies l open the book Time Suspended by Jerman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer and Pieter Van Bogaert. I look at pages on Ramallah and I try to consider all the nameless shattered lives and fragmentary places of old Palestine. There is nothing I can do for their tragic story except think on them and thinking about their situation reminds me that I have so much more to be thankful for. (The thought of which makes me think that these unnamed Palestinians are even in this virtual writing way giving me something good and yet what am I doing for them?). I wonder why Hollywood hasn’t made some sort of documentary on life in present day Palestine. And if not obviously Hollywood then why hasn’t someone else somewhere else made a film about what is going on in Palestine from the Palestinians point of view. So I have this weird thankfulness for things way beyond my idea of control about where one is born and the consequences of location on birth. I can’t explain it but we all live with this consequence to some degree or another whether we choose to see it or not. Humor and not loosing or misplacing ones sense of humor is the key to surviving these weird days no matter where you are on Planet Earth. Maybe it’s time for the Selfish Giant to consider why spring hasn’t yet arrived there for the last four years.

From My own Outpost of Tyranny: Conclusions Now That the Great American Experiment in Democracy is over.