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January 27, 2006
Red Alert
by Soren Wuerth

My Brother’s Keeper

     My brother builds houses when he’s not working as an electrician. He contributes to his small mill-town community, and is well known as a hard worker and proud father. He’s a good citizen and a decent American, in many respects.

     When I called him the other night, he had just finished watching the Seahawks tame the Panthers to win a Super Bowl bid.

     We discussed the latest news:  Google’s reluctance to give the Justice Department open access to its files, the FBI’s obsession with “eco-terrorists” (not meaning, apparently, the likes of Don Young), and Bush’s illicit wiretapping.

     “It’s the same thing as looking into people’s homes, and they do it everyplace in the United States,” he said. “We know there’s child molesters out there so we’re going to look in everyone’s homes. It’s not targeted. It’s random. They’re building profiles on everyone in the United States.”

     “They want your credit card records, your bank records and, if you buy things from stores, they can search through your receipts and now the Internet,” he said.

     He had a house he’s building broken into recently and lost thousands of dollars in tools. So the following night, he stayed in the unfinished house. Then his wife called, sounding panicked. Someone was breaking into his other home.

     The police caught the burglar later that night, however. They told my sister-in-law that there have been thousands of robberies in their rural industrial town in the past month.

     Meanwhile, the FBI proclaimed last week that “ecoterrorists” are “the number one domestic terror group.”

     The perverted government agency has spent untold millions on trying to round up a bunch of granola-crunching greenies that torched a ski resort in Colorado a number of years back. No one has ever been hurt in any of the so-called “ELF” arsons, but the FBI, with all the nervous obsession of a pedophile, has spent years infiltrating environmental groups to find the “nation’s number one domestic terrorists.”

     “You have to admit, though,” my brother said, “that something should be done about those people.”

     To the delight of the FBI, the television news programs my brother watches must be showing lots of horrific images of the Vail arson.

     “Wait a second,” I said. “What about those miners who were killed in West Virginia? Wouldn’t you agree that 13 people dying in coal mine is worse than the burning down of a ski resort? What if the FBI had used its resources to instead investigate the mining company that continued operations despite numerous accident reports and operational problems?”

     Other potential FBI projects came to mind: investigating congressional scandals, the torture training camp at the School of Americas, the pharmaceutical industry.

     But I kept thinking about my brother sleeping on the cold plywood floor of his new house and the increasing social problems of his economically depressed town.

     With, for example, Ford’s announcement that it will cut a quarter of its North American workforce, we can expect to see successive and more voluminous waves of the working poor, the unemployed, and the hopelessly indebted take desperate measures to mitigate their suffering.

     “Don’t worry,” is the message the oligarchy will send, “at least we are watching.”





















 Soren Wuerth is perhaps Alaska's best known community activist. He resides in an undisclosed location in rural Alaska and can be reached at soren@insurgent49.com.
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