What If America Was Really Invaded?
If the U.S. government's defensive response was anything like it was on 9/11/2001, and the invasion was anything like
we imagined during the Cold War, you could rest assured that all the targets would be destroyed, the perps would get
away, and America would never figure out who actually did it.
Oh sure, the posers in Washington would SAY they knew who did it, but wouldn't offer any proof, and would say they
couldn't release the proof they had because it would jeopardize national security.
While the bombs were raining down on American cities, our president would remain in an elementary school classroom
reading a story about goats to children, even though he had had advance warning that the attack was going to take place.
Later he would pick some hapless country far away to obliterate, saying this was where the proof he refused to produce
indicated he should bomb, even though the perpetrators he claimed to name all came from another country, a country that
was a nominal ally and leading oil supplier. Oddly, it would later be discovered that the country he chose to obliterate
had been chosen for obliteration long before the invasion for which it was blamed actually occurred.
The president would also introduce a series of police state legislative measures designed to keep the actions of
corporate military suppliers concealed from the public. In the name of national security, these measures would be
hastily approved by the Congress, even though most who would vote for them would not even read what these measures
actually prescribed. Maybe they already knew and didn't have to. Curiously, these measures would later seem to have been
drawn up long before the invasion actually happened.
As enemy bombers streaked toward their targets, American air defenses would not be able to respond to the obvious
threat because apparent orders from Washington mandated that they stand down until further notice, and because too few
of the jet interceptors were loaded with actually live ammunition. Later, the president would say, "We had no idea this
would happen," and promote the officers who carried out the nonaction to positions of much greater authority. The vice
president would say, "I didn't know what was happening until I saw it on television."
It would only be much later that some newspaper reports would reluctantly reveal that the president in fact did have
plenty of advance notice, and that the efforts of some legitimately diligent FBI agents on the trail of possible
invaders were stifled by their politically appointed superiors.
After the disaster and recovery operations began, officials would cover up the cleanup so that bombs planted
strategically in targeted buildings that were not actually hit would not be discovered by snooping reporters. Some
members of the press (very few, actually) would ask why buildings that were supposedly bombed actually fell as if they
were demolished from within, but these questions would quickly fade from the news as the president issued a series of
hysterical terror alerts that kept the media focused on possible future attacks rather than thoroughly analyzing the one
that just happened.
And as Congressional hearings were proposed to pinpoint the causes and perpetrators of the invasion, the administration
in Washington would move to limit the scope of the investigation, explaining that a probe of unlimited scope would
impede its efforts to get to the bottom of what really happened. And most amazingly of all, the American people would
believe him.
Although U.S. officials would refuse to release the proof it had against the suspicious characters it claimed to be the
perpetrators, it would nevertheless jail thousands of innocent people it deemed as "threats" to national security, even
though there was no direct connection (other than maybe a little sympathy) between those arrested and the actual
invasion.
And a little further down the line, the government would devise a sweeping new reorganization plan to further guarantee
that the actual perpetrators and the true motive for the invasion would never be discovered, although the government
would continue to ramp up its plans to invade this country or that in retribution for the invasion, even though the
countries chosen for these deadly high-tech assaults would seem to be possessors of natural resources coveted by
military suppliers rather than nation-states with provable connections to the invasion.
And a little further down the line than that, the government would reluctantly conclude that the real reason for the
invasion was that the American people had simply been allowed to have too much freedom, and that to prevent future
invasions (which could happen at any moment!), this freedom had to be curtailed in the name of security. Again,
amazingly, the American people would applaud this line of reasoning, then flee into their houses behind drawn curtains
and hope none of this would ever happen again.
Very soon after that, the history books would show that the real cause of this unprecedented invasion was clearly that
Americans had simply practiced too much freedom, and because faraway terrorists had come to envy that freedom, to covet
it, and were willing to destroy it for everyone because they couldn't have it for themselves, it had become clear to the
president that unabridged freedom was certainly the greatest threat to freedom in the world, and it simply had to be
curtailed wherever it raised its ominous head.
So this is what would happen if America ever was really invaded. The powers that be would determine — because they do
have and have always had our best interests at heart — that unregulated freedom is the singlemost significant threat to
the kind of "freedom" they seek to preserve.
And this is what we now teach, what you hear on TV every single freaking day, the new American ethos: that freedom is a
threat to freedom!
Repeat it, roll it over on your tongue, sing it for me one time ...
" ... freedom is a threat to freedom .... "
Be sure to remember that when you cast your vote that won't matter.
Because this is what would happen if America was really invaded.
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- John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the coast of Florida and thinks voting is the penalty you pay for not speaking
up between elections.