a connection between public dissent and subsequent sexual misconduct charges has popped up often enough in Rummy’s Pentagon to create at least a reasonable suspicion that heretics are being punished
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October 12, 2005
WB: Rummy’s Blackmail Ring
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The old man, Rumpy, of the DoD is in touch with his sexuality. Oiled up nightly in his wrestling tights he’s ready for man o man or man o woman action. His first move is a strong tug up for a man fisted wedgie on any tree star, for star, five star general. The opponent calls complaint to the ref, the ref turns toward Rump who does the finishing school “moi”, left hand touching right elbow at tummy level, right hand spread delicately over chest, big round innocent eyes. Then Rumpy, fast on his feet physically and mentally, he points his ginger finger and states, “my opponent was doing the behind the locker room gropefest with some unknown mammal before the match. He could have spread disease.” Ref gives the you’re out of here sign.
Governor Arnie of Transylvania and California sitting in a corporate sponsor (Blackwater) box is hounded for a comment. “In my day we did not play the wrestling this way. When the opponent was disqualified for unsexual activities, his family was gathered by the river bank, and the good police would force his head into the water repeatedly. If the man drowned, it was proof of his deviancy.”
After the match the colonels, majors and generals sitting in a hurricane fenced restricted area are let out through the unlocked door where they first re-sign their commitment to defending the President of the United States who defends democracy, freedom and women’s rights everywhere. Chastity belts given a jiggle to test the lock by a Blackwater defender of the public faith while a DoD inspector general standing by looks on. They take their assigned seats on the busses which bring them back to their monastic rooms at the Pentagon.
Posted by: christofay | Oct 12 2005 8:09 utc | 1
My cell was 8 ft by 6 ft, the same size as the detainees’ cages at Guantanamo. It was my turn to be humiliated every time I was taken to have a shower. Naked, I had to run my hands through my hair to show that I was not concealing a weapon in it. Then mouth open, tongue up, down, nothing inside. Right arm up, nothing in my armpit. Left arm up. Lift the right testicle, nothing hidden. Lift the left. Turn around, bend over, spread your buttocks, knowing a camera was displaying my naked image as male and female guards watched. It didn’t matter that I was an army captain, a graduate of West Point, the elite US military academy. It didn’t matter that my religious beliefs prohibited me from being fully naked in front of strangers. It didn’t matter that I hadn’t been charged with a crime. It didn’t matter that my wife and daughter had no idea where I was. And it certainly didn’t matter that I was a loyal American citizen and, above all, innocent… I knew why I had been arrested: it was because I am a Muslim.
James Yee: An American in chains
Sounds like panopticonic sado-sexual blackmail to me…
These guys really are criminally insane.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 12 2005 8:13 utc | 2
Oh, and don’t forget allegations against Scott Ritter for sexual encounters with under-aged girls..
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 12 2005 8:29 utc | 3
So thats why they want to be in everyones bedroom….. they need to watch……
in order to make moral judgement, not on the act itself, but as a means to test
loyality. So…. in order to have sex, you must first submit to loyality, you must
not only be a whore, but one that always remembers the supremacy of the
pimp.
Its enough to make one nostalgic for Bill and Monica.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 12 2005 9:32 utc | 4
So thats why they want to be in everyones bedroom….. they need to watch……
in order to make moral judgement, not on the act itself, but as a means to test
loyality. So…. in order to have sex, you must first submit to loyality, you must
not only be a whore, but one that always remembers the supremacy of the
pimp.
No wonder they hated Bill and Monica so much, they did it for free.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 12 2005 9:34 utc | 5
So thats why they want to be in everyones bedroom….. they need to watch……
in order to make moral judgement, not on the act itself, but as a means to test
loyality. So…. in order to have sex, you must first submit to loyality, you must
not only be a whore, but one that always remembers the supremacy of the
pimp.
Its enough to make one nostalgic for Bill and Monica.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 12 2005 9:35 utc | 6
Hmm if this is Rumsfield’s M.O. it indicates that he probably has some pretty weird skeletons in his closet.
The bloke never happened across my radar until the inception of the BushCo regime. Whe I did take a good look at him then it struck me that here was someone that was just wrapped too tight.
I had thought his obsession with neatness eg his most damning condemnation is that something has become “untidy”, was just some sort of anal fixation left over from Mom bein a bit harsh during toilet training.
This is a whole other thing though. It’s weird when things seem to be so cliched they just couldn’t possibly be true.
I always think that when someones behaviour so obviously indicates some weird predilection, that the behaviour mustn’t happen because even someone like rummy with the personal insight of a wombat, must see how cliched their act is.
The weirdest thing is of course that so often people are those cliches. I mean you would think that every rock spider on the planet would know that getting a job as a scoutmaster ‘telegraphs the punch’. Every year scoutmasters get plucked for fiddling about just like wicked Uncle Ernie.
So as implausible as it should be Rummy may well keep some leather clad gimps in his dungeon.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Oct 12 2005 10:55 utc | 8
I was struck by this quote in the linked article about Hitler’s purge.
“But Hitler didn’t care about consequences. He was only interested in results. And any attempts to get him to change his mind were a complete waste of time. The generals didn’t realize they were dealing with a man who never changed his mind once he made a firm decision and would do anything to achieve a desired goal.”
It sounds a lot like our current president. When I saw him strutting around that aircraft carrier durring “Mission Accomplished” I kept flashing on an old newsreel of a strange little guy on a stage at Nuremberg. I once searched for video clips to compare body language but didn’t have any luck. It would be an interesting comparison.
Posted by: Dan | Oct 12 2005 14:41 utc | 9
Every single general, or congressman who is even minimally healthy has a natural, God-given need for sex; and that’s all a corrupt blackmailer has to know to steal our democracy. Simply choose a few powerful D.C. players, women included, and follow them around with a camera. Bingo! The blackmailer has J. Edgar Hoover style files to bully democracy into submission.
We’ve gotta get rid of this Puritanical menace. Yes, hypocrisy should remain the tribute paid by vice to virtue, or however that goes; but, only within reason. And it isn’t reasonable to turn our democracy over to lousy blackmailers simply because we like sex, and need sex to remain physically and mentally healthy.
Posted by: yesh | Oct 12 2005 15:09 utc | 10
What is striking about the neo-con ideology is that they know of no errors and dissent is unmercifully ground into dust. Another historical parallel; Stalinist purges.
Previous divorces from reality led directly to Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia, and ultimately to a bunker in Berlin.
All that has happened in the past 5 years to the USA, 9-11, Iraq Occupation, Hurricanes Katerina and Rita could be blamed on incompetence or really bad luck. But, ultimately, the Bush Aide in Ron Suskind’s NYT article spelled it all out “We’re an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality.”
Truth, reality, expert knowledge, and science are all as ephemeral as star dust to true believers now in control of the US government.
Posted by: Jim S | Oct 12 2005 16:22 utc | 11
“Truth, reality, expert knowledge, and science are all as ephemeral as star dust to true believers now in control of the US government.”
True Believers get a lot of help from the prior and quite stubborn acceptance of certain critical ideas by a superficially fickle but fundamentally trustworthy (to them) majority.
For instance:
Ordinary Americans are simply suffering from occupation fatigue – the inevitable wearniness of a seemingly interminable and unexpectedly costly military operation in Iraq. A majority of Americans is desirous of a speedy end to this particular enterprise, from which they have already withdrawn their confidence, and yet have no fundamental quarrel with the global interventionism and military expansionism which led us there in the first place and which promise further misadventures and miscarriages down the road.
In other words, Americans want a nap, a break, a breather – but are not begging to put the ’empire’, with its grandiose rhetoric and perpetual, credulity-begging claims to the defense of US citizens and interests, to bed.
No real change of course demanded, but a rest stop sought.
Posted by: Pat | Oct 12 2005 16:36 utc | 12
Just curious Pat, is that your position as well?
I have watched you change your views over the years, not very much but ever so slightly and just wonder where you are now.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 12 2005 16:57 utc | 13
Anybody who has read many official documents—including those making headlines in the last year or more—has seen plenty of redactions (those portions that are blacked out or otherwise made unreadable). This, we’re told, is for legitimate reasons, such as “national security” or “protecting intelligence sources and methods.” But now we have absolute, incontrovertible proof that the government also censors completely innocuous material simply because they don’t like it:
Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 12 2005 17:18 utc | 14
Are you asking, dan, if I seek merely a rest stop, too?
No.
But a rest stop is what I see.
Posted by: Pat | Oct 12 2005 17:19 utc | 15
Pat,
I guess the best we can hope for is a rest stop. Most of us are too busy trying to make a living and raise a family that we don’t have the time or the energy to study war. I don’t see any way us joe sixpacks are going to stop the rich and powerful from being rich and powerful.
I will continue to bitch about it though.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 12 2005 17:38 utc | 16
Dan (10:41):
Personal analogies between Hitler and Bush can be overdrawn. Hitler was poor, destitute at times, was sober – even a vegetarian – and served bravely in WWI, winning an Iron Cross. (Not that I admire Hitler.) Bush was born rich, was spoiled rotten, became an alcoholic, avoided Viet Nam and failed to honor the commitment he made that got him out of that war. Hitler was also a mesmerizing speaker. Bush? Well, there are Bushisms.
Hitler was the real leader and prime mover of the fascist movement in Germany. Bush was chosen by our neo-fascists to be their public face; he is the weak link in the neocon cabal, a front man that can’t stand up on his own. He’s in trouble now largely because his main props Rove and Cheney are in trouble. (Rumsfeld seems self-employed to me.)
Republicans like to say character matters, so they put one up for president. If Bush were more like Hitler, we might be in far worse shape right now. (Not that I’m grateful for Bush.)
Posted by: lonesomeG | Oct 12 2005 18:51 utc | 17
Accusing others or improper or just too much sex, of being dirty, slovenly, uncontrolled, loud mouthed, disorganised, badly dressed, not diligent enough (not submissive enough), having too many children, being petty criminals, and so on, has been the staple of slave owners, the upper classes, towards the poor, the slaves, from Sumeria to Victorian England. To today…
At present, In the US, for upper-class / establishment rejects, traitors, the only accusation from that constellation that can hold, be believed, and have an effect is illicit, improper sex.
After all, they wear spiffing uniforms or designer suits and Gucci shoes, have scintillating teeth, and don’t steal potatoes.
Never mind that the sexual ‘crimes’ or ‘sins’ mentioned for forcibly retired Generals or Billy C. are so trivial that not even Joe 6 would consider them worthy of discussion. (footnotes skipped.)
Drug (alcohol) addiction, traditionally used to stigmatise the lower classes, can’t be mentioned. That would scare the powerful no end – as would serious sexual accusations – rape, pedophilia, etc.
So these mild ‘sexual misdenamours (sp)’ function as a sort of secret code, signalling that the person is to be rejected for a reason that is not real, a reason that won’t affect their standing in personal relations, but spells:
You have to clear off and shut up NOW. Or else !
The US public accepts all this, that is why it works.
Posted by: Noisette | Oct 12 2005 19:36 utc | 18
