Haiku #404

Those who rule us do 

Because we allow them to 

Suss this human zoo 

The Flaming Warrior

I was surprised, damn near shocked, at the speed at which the story of the serving soldier who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy disappeared. I heard Rachel Maddow mention it once and I saw a brief video of an ambulance driving away. The man died. I remember the monks burning in Saigon. Those were powerful and effective images. A flaming warrior could have been an even more pointed message. And that is why we only glimpsed it. If it were not for the nearly universal presence of cameras, I believe that warrior's story would have been 100% censored. But I will never forget him or his righteous sacrifice. I hope the stench of the burning man got into that Embassy.…

About January 6th, 2021 <sigh>

I keep bringing up the Reichstag fire metaphor on various media but that takes patience because it is very clear that few know the history of anything that's farther away than their own backyard.

I suppose that the tale of how Hitler used the false flag fire to blame those he held as "others" and then used those "others" to propel him further up the pyramid of power: that whole sordid story has to be driven into the minds of the current population. If the Jan. 6th riot had not been so badly planned, Trump might have gotten his very visible and suspect "others" against whom to ignite a campaign of revenge. 

But 45 dropped the ball. It was a mob of his own who took the fall and, so, he didn't get his ideal scapegoats. Fortunately. It may have been said before in different words: Trump couldn't run a government but, neither could he ruin one.