This Has Become Routine

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

In his comment on the mass shootings at the Oregon community college, President Obama said: “This has become routine.”

So have police shootings of unarmed and unresisting Americans.

So have numerous other undesirable and deplorable happenings, such as the foreclosure on the homes of millions of Americans, while the “banks too big to fail” are bailed out with trillions of dollars, and such as foreign policy lies that have destroyed seven countries, bringing the US and Europe millions of refugees.

In addition there are the foreign policy lies that have brought the US and Europe into conflict with Russia, and the economic lies that shield the extraordinary concentration of income and wealth of the One Percent.

Also routine is Washington’s obliteration of weddings, funerals, and medical centers with bombs and drones. Two days after Obama expressed his despair, frustration and anger over the Oregon mass shootings, a US air strike hit a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. According to numerous news reports, at least 19 people were killed, including 12 members of Doctors Without Borders, and another 37 wounded. The US air strike killed one person on the operating table, and intensive care patients burned to death in their beds.

For Washington, these mass murders are only “collateral damage,” nothing warranting a presidential statement displaying despair, anger, and frustration.

Obama says he can do nothing about mass shootings, but he could certainly call off his illegal wars and deep-six his reckless and coercive approach toward Russia before we are incinerated. As Vladimir Putin said at the UN, “We [meaning Russia] can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world.”

Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.

Somebody in Washington had better listen to this man, because Washington is no longer The
Unipower. There are now three superpowers—Russia, China, and the US—and probably in that order.

In America all forms of evil and corruption have become routine. Bob Dylan told us that vice and corruption have become routine: “People’s lives today are filled on so many levels with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. . . . We don’t see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of vice on a daily basis—everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life and the mockery of it, everywhere we look.” http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/style-trends/info-2015/bob-dylan-aarp-the-magazine-full-interview.4.html

Vice is Washington’s signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness and the mockery and destruction of human life.

The Golden Rule is to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way. Do we really want other countries to bomb and invade us, to reduce our towns and cities to rubble, to destroy our social and economic infrastructure, to kill millions of us and make most of the rest of us into refugees?

This is what America has done to the world. This is why Vladimir Putin said Russia can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world and why he asked America, “Do you realize what you have done?”

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robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

Putin da, Hussein nyet

Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze

Disregard all the death and destruction, I believe that what worries Washington most is that they are losing the propaganda war. Look at the incredible rise in RT popularity, now ‘liked’ by 3 million FB users. See rt.com for latest story.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

What a sad state of affairs. I despair.

Wip
Wip

Could this all be a plan? When was the last time a huge number of citizens turned on its own government? Well, yes, I guess it does happen. But a super power? A country that from the outside looks soooooo friggin rich?

yahsure
yahsure

Trump’s talking about refugee camp’s for these Syrians,In the middle east sound’s good.But doesn’t get any air time. I sure don’t want them here.

kokoda
kokoda

Excellent comparison of Obama’s rant aimed at gun control, while avoiding all the killings that he and the U.S, are responsible for in the U.S. and around the world.

Anonymous
Anonymous

What has become routine is government mandated gun free zones showing how badly government is at protecting you.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

We need an American Spring.

Phil from Oz
Phil from Oz

Robert – with more privately-held guns than head of population, an “American Spring” would be quite THE event . . . . .

Hopefully the coverage will be free to air, since I have issues with pay per view, when the “Service Providers” are profiting (handsomely) from the misfortune of others . . . .

llpoh
llpoh

robert – and just what would an an American Spring accomplish? I mean, the Arab Spring has been so successful and all. (sarcasm off).

Unless there are leaders – real, honest, good leaders – with an ideology already developed, an American Spring will be nothing more than anarchy. Blood would be shed, but nothing appropriate would be implemented.

Fact is, there is already something ready to be implemented. It is called the Constitution. But folks do not realize that implementing the Constitution is the answer. All they know is that they are mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore. And that, sir, is no ideology. At the moment, an American Spring would simply end with more authoritarian leaders in power than are already there.

Really, all that needs to be done is to re-establish the Constitution, and all the crap would fall away.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

@Llpoh

The American Spring begins the moment people begin to set up alternative institutions.

When people remove their children from public schools

When the majority of the people participate in the Black/Grey Economy to some measure.

When competing stores of wealth begin to appear and are accepted within a community

When the state begins to struggle to fill its security forces and begin to lower standards

7 million workers didn’t even bother to report their earning last year – tax revolt

The country will have to break up into regions that can be reasonably governed.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Like we didn’t already know Obama was full of crap about guns.

Back in PA Mike
Back in PA Mike

Great video love the statistics over rhetoric.

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