GET NATO A COMIC BOOK

The United States acts like the leader of an Action Comics team of Super Heroes (NATO) that rampages around the world slaughtering innocents at will in their obsession to control the world. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia have all felt our death spitting drones, if not boots on the ground. The lists grows like a cancer on our body politic. When a few brave folks speak up in protest, they are marginalized forthwith. Uncle Sam simply sighs and says "It ain't me doing all that damage. We're simply a single member of NATO".


Bunk! NATO is our show from top to bottom and we're paying most of the tab for these bankrupting and murderous ventures. Bringing that story to light was the real focus of protest weekend but it was replaced by our macho police chief with tears in his eyes choking up about his armor suited cops being attacked a teeny tiny fringe group. Meanwhile 24 Chicagoans are drilled with lead in a 24 hour period and neither Police Chief McCarthy, Uncle Sam nor the NATO command lifts a finger to stop this daily senseless carnage. The millions of guns circulated by the gun industry and their illegal sales entrepreneurs is what should really get Police Chief McCarthy's tears flowing. Those folks put a bulls eye on every cop and every law abiding citizen.

Let's get NATO a comic book to bolster their super hero status and then a billion dollar movie scrip. Though he may be a Methuselah, I'd pick war loving Senator John "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb" McCain to star.

Also published in the Daily Herald, June 2, 2012