Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Dear George,   The foundation that supports Fortress America is built of many stones.  However, the biggest stone, the strongest stone, the stone that out stones all the other stones is Christian paranoia.  This is the paranoia that expends so much energy doing battle against make- believe evils it has no energy left for the real ones.   The midwife of Christian paranoia is a conversion experience that arrives on a flood of euphoric emotion, complete with tears and cries of joy.  It is a conversion born of the ego and not the soul. The paranoia arises because such a conversion is one built upon a foundation of sand, and the man who builds his house on sand lives in terror of the rain.   This necessitates the construction of a protective wall around the believer’s faith because the smallest trickle of water could leave it in disarray.    The protective wall is necessary for another reason:  There is always the danger that an ego-based conversion grounded in emotion could transition into a soul-based conversion grounded in a spiritual experience.  A spiritual experience is a transrational experience, one that transcends both reason and emotion.  It is silent, never articulated, more like an almost imperceptible shift in existence after which everything is different even though it is still the same.  The faith built upon the rock of spiritual experience is a dangerous faith that will move mountains to correct the wrongs of the world.  It is a faith that can ruin the status quo.   Christian paranoia is the angel with the flaming sword that keeps faith from finding the soul.  This paranoia thrives on noise, on the babble of prayers yapped to an empty heaven, on the cries of outrage over bare boobs and queers.  It is this noise that fogs the soul for it keeps the silence at bay, the silence that is the cracked door through which the Spirit quietly enters the soul and transforms it.      Your admirer, Belacqua Jones 9:03:45 PM    comment []

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Dear George,   A cardinal rule of politics is, “Don’t mess with your base,” and here you are, doing just that!  Look, a substantial portion of your base is made up of angry white males, a demographic that cuts across economic and class lines.  These are the good people who want to return America back to the Americans by sending our illegal aliens back home, and here you are talking about “guest workers.”  Not a good idea.     The key word here is, illegal.  We are a nation of law, not men.  What kind of example are we setting for the emerging democracies of the world if we allow this rampant illegality to go unchallenged?  The problem is that far too many people simply shrug their shoulders, throw up their hands and claim it’s impossible to deport 11 million people.  What nonsense!  It’s simply a matter of logistics.  Look, Hitler deported 7 million Jews out of Germany.  Surely, we could go them 4 million better.  (The difference here is that where the Germans killed their deportees, we’re simply destroying their lives.)  As the world’s leading producer of beef, it would be no problem to assemble enough cattle cars to transport 11 million people to the Tex-Mex border.  Granted, not every illegal is from Mexico, but it would be quicker and easier to drop everyone at same location.   I’m getting sick and tired of people saying this is a racist policy.  It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with national security.  It’s a sad fact that you really can’t tell the difference between a Mexican and an Arab.  So, we have to get rid of the brown skin.  It’s no more racist than the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.   I know a lot of your reluctance has to do with your special relation with Mexico’s president, Vicente Fox, but let’s face facts.  Mexico, like the rest of Central and South America, in on the cusp of electing a leftist government.  So, you really don’t owe him a thing.  Besides, can you think of a better way to destabilize a leftist country than by dumping 11 million deportees in their lap?   So lets get the base back in the barn in time for the midterms.  Start drafting that executive order and getting those cattle cars ready, it’s time America returned to the purity of her Christian roots.   Your admirer, Belacqua Jones       4:42:02 AM    comment []

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