Zombies: American as Apple Pie in Obamastan

Just in time for Halloween comes an interesting take on the zombie phenomenon in America. Pop culture seems to be saturated with zombies in movies, video games and on television with the smash hit AMC series The Walking Dead. The genre had seemingly died years ago after the umpteenth Dawn of the Dead sequel but is back and more popular than ever in 2014 America.

John Whitehead of the civil rights organization The Rutherford Institute has a new piece out on the allure of zombies in America. The piece is entitled “Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State” from which I excerpt:

Fear and paranoia have become hallmarks of the modern American experience, impacting how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us.

Nowhere is this epidemic of fear and paranoia more aptly mirrored than in the culture’s fascination with zombies, exacerbated by the hit television series The Walking Dead, in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they’re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans.

Zombies have experienced such a surge in popularity in recent years that you don’t have to look very far anymore to find them lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc in movie blockbusters such as World War Z, running for their lives in 5K charity races, battling corsets in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and even putting government agents through their paces in mock military drills arranged by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

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Here’s the curious thing: while zombies may be the personification of our darkest fears, they embody the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent. Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications, track our movements, criminalize our every action, treat us like suspects, and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons?

For years now, the government has been carrying out military training drills with zombies as the enemy. In 2011, the DOD created a 31-page instruction manual for how to protect America from a terrorist attack carried out by zombie forces. In 2012, the CDC released a guide for surviving a zombie plague. That was followed by training drills for members of the military.

Interesting and more than a little bit spooky in that the military and government actually have a game-plan on how to respond to zombie attacks.  I had not realized that but it does make sense in a perverse sort of way. You don’t have to be a raving paranoid to believe that the government views certain segments of the populace as enemies because none of this surveillance and police state crap makes sense otherwise.

I have long viewed the zombie fascination as being more of a metaphor for the state of American society in general. One needs only go to a shopping mall or discount retail outlet to see it. I stopped by my local Wal-Mart superstore last week to pick up some beer on the way home and could not help but notice the demeanor and disheveled state of many of the shoppers. They shuffled up and down the aisles of the grocery department loading their squeaky-wheeled carts with cheap food items but many seemed to be afflicted with a thousand yard stare. You can see a certain sense of quiet desperation in these folks and it's saddening and freaky at the same time. President Barack Obama sold the economic snake oil and six years of Federal Reserve market manipulation has worked wonders for a few but reduced large segments of average Americans to casualties bereft of hope.

The ones at Wal-Mart are the lucky ones, they still have two nickels to rub together no matter how broken that their spirits may be in this land of greed, corruption, militarism and woe. The "zombies" are a bit more upper class at the local shopping mall, a garish assortment of expensive retail outlets that peddle the same cheap made in China shit as you find at Wally World at full mark-up. Never mind that some borderline slave is working under brutal, sweatshop work conditions, Americans will eagerly shell out the dough. This is especially so if they can continue to just put in on those little plastic instruments of indentured servitude to the global banking mafia. They are as soul dead as their "walker' counterparts despite their narcissism and inability to stop gibbering into their cellphones.

But for some real American zombie action one needs to only check out the annual Black Friday door buster bonanza sales. The carnage gets worse each year and while we are not quite at the limb-ripping, flesh-eating stage yet there are plenty of people rushing the barricades each Thanksgiving night who will be ready to rumble if the ever time comes.

Zombies are a perfect sign of the times and are now as American as apple pie in Obamastan.

Brilliant Idea! Ebola Victims Brought to U.S.

Just when you thought that the corporate scam that is Obamacare was the greatest healthcare related disaster of the modern era the news has broken that two victims of the deadly Ebola Virus are coming to the USA. The American aid workers who contacted the virus in Liberia are being flown to Atlanta for treatment. Despite the humanitarian idea to treat the duo - Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol - at a highly advanced medical facility, it is apparent that any serious consideration of the risk of the virus getting out of containment didn't cross the minds of our political elite who made the call. The aid organization, Samaritan's Purse, has been coordinating the transfer with the Atlanta based Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. State Department. Considering that the State Department is headed by the abject moron John "Skull and Bones" Kerry, the potential for disaster always looms whenever it becomes involved in anything let alone bringing victims of a deadly and highly contagious disease into the domestic U.S.

Ebola has never before been introduced into the United States so the big question is why now? The virus has a 90 percent fatality rate and there is no vaccine although according to a CNN story one is currently in the experimental stage. Officials are downplaying the understandable public concern over the infected individuals being flown in but the American people have been fed a diet of popular culture fictional epics on infectious disease outbreaks and bio-hazards so good luck with that. Ironic that Atlanta happens to be one of the setting for the hit zombie apocalypse television series "The Walking Dead" isn't it?.

Libertarian financial blog Zero Hedge in a piece entitled "WHO Warns Ebola Outbreak Out Of Control, "High Risk Of Spread To Other Countries" cites an AP story expressing concerns of the World Health Organization over the rapid spread of the current outbreak:

Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO's director-general, said the meeting in Conakry "must be a turning point" in the battle against Ebola, which is now sickening people in three African capitals for the first time in history.

"If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries," she said, as the WHO formally launched a $100 million response plan that includes deploying hundreds more health care workers.

So once again - absolutely brilliant fucking idea to bring the victims here.

An Ebola pandemic, especially if it escapes containment would make the Black Death look relatively mild. That pox wiped out as many as 200 million people (as estimated by historians) but society was relatively primitive back them. In the modern high-tech society that we live in today a pandemic of a disease with a 90 percent fatality rate would cripple economies, shut down systems of transportation and fill the streets with rotting corpses like something out of Stephen King's classic horror novel "The Stand".

As horrific as it is to contemplate the human toll of a massive contagion it is even more chilling to imagine what the government response to an outbreak would be. The United States in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 has gone through a steady transformation into a militarized police state, civil liberties have been eroded and the government has already successfully been weaponized against the common folk. Can you imagine what would be ordered by Obama and his rogue regime to contain Ebola were it to actually get into the general population? The state would run amok and further consolidate its already awesome power imposing its will with extreme prejudice. It's just like the former Obama White House Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once remarked -" never let a serious crisis go to waste". It would trigger martial law on a grand scale, especially now that matters of national emergency are all consolidated under the massive Department of Homeland Security including FEMA.

Treating the two Samaritan's Purse workers in one of the nation's largest transportation hubs just seems like way to much of a risk to take - I mean why even take a chance on something like this? It is just more of the same lunacy of the US establishment as they continue to play games with other people's lives as they impose their derangement upon the people who have absolutely no say in the matter.

This place just gets more insane by the fucking day!