The Sense of Greater Urgency
From Kalpulli Community
My Dear Relatives Everywhere,
On December 25th, 2009, in the afternoon, those who love war, and are attempting to maintain the American Empire, received a huge gift, when a very confused and alienated young man from Nigeria attempted to blow up an airliner on its approach to Detroit Metropolitan airport. Why do I call this a huge gift to some very bad guys? Since this near tragedy happened, we have been hearing about lapses in the various security agencies from Yemen to Nigeria to Holland and finally the United States. In one of his broadcasts, Mr. Mike Malloy, one of the few principled and progressive talk show hosts working in the United States, more than suggested that there are forces in the national security establishment which are determined to weaken an already weak and unprincipled president, namely Barack Hussein Obama. We are not engaging in conspiratorial craziness. Anybody who understands the state mentality; anybody who understands how state imperialism actually works would not be the least bit surprised that the events of Christmas Day, December 25th, were authored by factions within the ruling classes of this country. It is not my purpose to suggest that what Noam Chomsky calls the national security state is a monolith. When empires decline and ultimately fall, there will always be factions which move further and further apart like tectonic plates on this planet. In his play Hamlet Shakespeare famously quotes that "there is something rotten in Denmark tonight." I can't speak for Denmark, but it is more than abundantly clear that there is something super rotten in the United States as you read these words. We have the imperial presidency disintegration exponentially. We have what Mumia Abu Jamal calls the "pretty brown face of empire," who has never seen a principle he likes, who is surrounded by the worst of the worst, beginning with Rahm Emanuel, white house chief of staff. On top of that, there is a virulent reorganized right wing cancer in this country which is determined to destroy the first African American to preside over the affairs of this republic. He has neither the ethics nor the courage to stand up to them. What we need, my dear relatives everywhere, is a bottom-up revolution. In my position as founder and director of Kalpulli Turtle Island Multiversity, I respectfully call upon people around the world to email the White House and bluntly tell Barack Hussein Obama to remove the following people from their positions: Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Susan Rise (ambassador to the U.N.), Robert Gates (that exercise in senility presiding over the Pentagon), and Stanley McChrystal, the head of occupation forces in Afghanistan, who should be court-marshaled just for being a snarling general. Let us see what we can do together to break the back of this trajectory which includes endless war, mounting personal violence, environmental degradation on a gigantic scale and greed which was not lessened by the current economic crisis. Let us give the pretty brown face of empire no rest until he has an epiphany and takes the first tentative steps towards the abolition of the military industrial media academic complex that the late and lamented President Eisenhower warned us about in 1961. Finally my relatives, pursuant to the previous letter, Kalpulli Turtle Island Multiversity has a post office box and once again if everybody on this planet who cares about the environment, womens' rights, peace, health, and all of the other positive basics would send a dollar or more to the address on this website, this bottom up revolution can move forward and we can change the narrative and substance of the world community. On behalf of my fellow board members, I thank you in advance for your involvement and your contributions. Borrowing the words from a great native story, let us see what we can do together.
Sincerely yours,
Brother Ray Tricomo
Kalpulli Turtle Island Multiversity
P.O. Box 28152
St. Paul, MN 55128
U.S.A.
