View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 8

In the wake of or, rather, amidst the patently scandalous, inexcusably depraved and unspeakably barbaric gangster-class unprovoked assault on the Islamic Revolutionary Republic of Iran, and the downright craven and dastardly massacre of the topmost leadership of the Iranian Government, including the country’s Supreme Spiritual Leader, the 86-year-old Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hossein Khamenei, the political propaganda wing of the MAGA-Republican Government of the United States of America has been crudely and knavishly using the widely alleged massacre of some 42,000 Anti-Government Protesters in the Iranian capital of Tehran, and other parts of that country, to justify the unfathomably criminal assault on Iran by the Trump-led Government of the United States of America and the Netanyahu-led Terror-Raining Likud Party Government of an unapologetically racist and fascist Zionist Republic of Israel on the aforementioned Shia-Islamic dominated Republic.

What, naturally, is being deviously and deliberately ignored in the telling of the preceding story of extortionate brutality is the readily accessible and verifiable fact of the Netanyahu regime’s genocidal slaughter of at least some 100,000 (One-Hundred-Thousand) Gaza-resident Palestinians and the West Bank, illegally settled and/or occupied by Israelis with the brazen complicity of the government in Tel-Aviv. It is almost as if to cavalierly suggest that the Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu envisages itself to exist way over and above the limits of the tenets and the principles of the Geneva Convention and the Universal Rule of Law and the Declaration of Human Rights.

Which is fundamentally and essentially why one finds it extremely difficult to accept the trite and tired morally self-righteous narrative that, somehow, it is Iran, and not the MAGA ring-wing Thuggocrats and their Corporate Likud Zionist Terrorists in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, to be certain, who have unconscionably arrogated to themselves and their allies and associates an inviolable predatory existence beyond the pale of civility, justice and universal principle of peaceful coexistence.

Now, this is unarguably a patently preposterous and a Beckettian absurdist stance and ideological posture to take, as that often-quoted Akan folk philosophical dictum has it: “Anytime that one is self-righteously tempted to point one’s index-finger at a neighbor in anger, you, the accuser, must take a critical look at the direction in which one’s own three other thumb-tamped fingers are pointing.” In Judeo-Christian terms, the foregoing maxim is strikingly akin to conveniently ignoring to remove the metaphorical log blighting or distorting one’s own sight or vision, while disdainfully and unwisely pointing towards the relatively mite-sized speck in your neighbor;s eyes.

In sum, the more histrionically and pontifically self-infatuated Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu and their morally clueless minions and subalterns attempt to make their counterparts in Tehran and Pyongyang look like the mirror-image of Lucifer, the more irredeemably Satanic these self-deluded “Leaders of the Free and the Civilized World” make an ineffable mockery of themselves.

You see, the Buck-Passing Architect of the globally infamous Agenda-2025 Erasure of the Continental African Foundation of Colonial and Postcolonial United States of America, and the effective evisceration of the egalitarian public policy of Affirmative Action (AA), lately redesignated as DEI - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Policy Initiative, would be extremely hard put to pretend as if the Elon Musk-concocted Pro-Apartheid DOGE - Department of Government Efficiency - the Orwellian Program of the “Whitefication” or the Neo-Nazification of the United States of America, were any practically better than the alleged massacre of some 42,000 Anti-Government Protesters in Tehran not very long ago.

What with the hundreds of thousands, to speak much less about the millions of Federal-Government Employed Civil Servants, a remarkable percentage of whom were officially classified as Ethnic Non-White Americans, who were summarily dismissed and effectively rendered jobless and homeless, all in the farcical name of making for the more efficient and cost-effective administration of the United States’ Federal Government, even as the Trump Clan and its associates and hangers-on creamed American taxpayers and blue-collar workers beyond comfortable survival and existence? On the latter count, of course, the obvious reference is to the statistically countless numbers of the torrents and battalions of dismissed and laid-off civil and public servants deliberately and systematically pauperized past the brink of suicide and other psychological and mentally related and deliberately engineered “massacres.” You see, it is not as if the veritable and the unarguably homicidal and literally obscene and politically orgiastic upending of the livelihoods and the economic survival of the millions of bona fide American citizens by Messrs. Musk and Trump were any less malignant than the 7,000 and/or the 42,000 Iranians allegedly massacred by the Islamo-Theocratic regime in Tehran.

In the opinion of quite a significant number of friends, relatives and total strangers and acquaintances that this author has had the chance and the privilege to discuss this most barbaric assault on Iran by the leader of the self-proclaimed most powerful mega-nation on Planet Earth, the Islamic Republic has already more than adequately paid for its inalienable right of access to ownership of the Nuke, or Nuclear-Weapons Capability, just like the self-obsessed and the God-Complex Afflicted or Addicted MAGA Thugs and the Apostles of the Ultra-Right-Wing Donald Trump-led US Republican Party, all vehement and virulent protestations to the contrary by Mr. Trump and a megalomaniacal war-crime indicted Prime Minister Benjamin “Mileikowsky” Netanyahu notwithstanding. Then also, Yours Truly finds the fierce and the heroic and the collective national self-defense by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council Government to be strikingly emulative for the politically effete and morally bankrupt likes of Ghana’s President John “Brazil Embraer Caper” Dramani Mahama, who are desperately clamoring for a Veto Power on the United Nations Security Council to be ceded to these thoroughgoing corrupt Political Scam-Artists on the cheap or without breaking a sweat, as it were, rather than earn their keep like the Trump-strafing “Ayatollites” of Tehran and Mashhad.

Which is precisely why if it is not already tabled among the list of the items being presently negotiated between the United States and Iran by their respective diplomatic principals in Islamabad, then it is an imperative necessity for Iran to demand to be inducted into full and permanent membership among the Veto Powers of the United Nations Security Council, a morally and a politically compelling demand that ought to be immutably and irreversibly etched in stone, literally speaking. It goes without saying that it is still a Darwinian, Dog-Eat-Dog World out there.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: okoampaahoofekwame@gmail.com

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