Capitalist Killers Versus the Social Democratic Protectors

If my spiritual and ideological nephew, namely, Mayor Zohran “The Shining Satr” Kwame(-Atoapoma) Mamdani, is not the proverbial medical prescription that the genius, old doctor ordered or, better yet, the panacea for the direly needed thorough cleaning up of our near-irreparable Primitive-Capitalist-created behemoth mess that is the socioeconomic catastrophe of September 11 proportions that is New York City and, to be certain, the unarguably MAGA Solid Waste of fecal political agenda that is the entire ramshackle socioeconomic, cultural and psychological dungheap and the moral desert that is the United States of America under the gross misgovernance of the pathologically racist and brazenlt self-preening Fascist and Neo-Nazi leadership of President Donald John Trump’s Right-Wing “Conservative” Republican Party, in the inimitably eloquent, memorable and the colorful words of current New York City Mayor Zohran “The Shining Star” Kwame-Atoapoma (The Brave and Relentless Anti-Corruption Musketeer) Mamdani, then, of course, a hitherto nonesuch expert of American History and Socioeconomic Development will have to promptly and immediately step up to the proverbial plate, in American Baseball parlance, and tell the rest of us, 360-Plus-Million Human Souls that make up the citizenry of our self-proclaimed most technologically advanced and civilized Mega-Nation in the Contemporary Era, precisely which of our leaders best answers to the ideologcally and the politically unimpeachable description of The Man of this Season of Primitive-Capitalist Acquisitiveness and the total and the abject neglect of our globally and conventionally sanctioned Principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The obvious allusion here, of course, it to the recent discovery made by the scarcely 9-month-old government of 35-year-old Mr. Kwame(-Atoapoma) Mamdani, and publicly disclosed just a couple of days before the 25th-Anniversary Commemoration of the unspeakably Apocalyptic Multi-Airplane Bombing of the Twin Towers of the erstwhile New York City-located World Trade Center (WTC) by the globally infamous, albeit morally justifiable - at least by the lights of a remarkable number of the ardent critics of America’s blatantly Pro-Zionist and irrationally Darwinian Foreign Policy - Osama Bin Laden-created, led and commanded Al-Qaeda Network of Islamist “Freedom Fighters” on September 11, 2001.

The aforesaid shocking public disclosure regarding some deliberately hidden official government documents suggesting that, in fact, the extant New York City Government of Mayor Rudolph “Rudy” (The Reindeer) William Louis Giuliani, 82 years old, as of this writing, the recently disbarred former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, had been fully well-aware of the fact that the contents and the quality of the air in the immediate vicinity and the environs of the collapsed Twin Towers of the World Trade Center was highly toxic and unsuitable for human intake or consumption in the weeks and the months following the WTC Disaster; and yet, the Giuliani Administration ordered New York City and Hundreds of Thousands of Tri-State Area (that is, residents and commuters from such contiguous or neighboring states as New Jersey, Connecticut, as well as the New York Metropolitan Area, of course) and far well beyond to return to work in Lower-Manhattan, an area that is the metaphorical and the metonymic nerve center of the global economy, generally designated as Wall Street, the internationally recognized cusp of the global economy, on grounds that the asbestos and other chemically toxic saturated air that continued to hung around the aforementioned geographical locations in the New York Metropolis was perfectly kosher or safe to breathe (See “After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality” New York Times 9/7/26).

Even more horrific to learn is the spine-chilling fact that this most morally depraved decision by the kleptocratic and incurably self-serving leadership of the Republican Party-sponsored Giuliani Administration to cover up this most significant health-related knowledge was essentially and primarily to protect both the local and the Federal Government from massive tranches of injury-related lawsuits that were apt to be filed by victims of the WTC Disaster which, we also learn, had been hinted to the relevant Government Officials by some of our National Intelligence and Security Agencies.

In the wake of the latter revelation, some extant highly placed officials in the Government of then President George Walker Bush (that is Bush II or President George Bush Junior) have reportedly emerged from the proverbial woodwork to vehemently deny that, in fact, any such serious and credible intelligence regarding the possibility of a massive and a multi-pronged Al-Qaeda assault on several key and highly sensitive architectural landmarks, installations and institutions had been passed on to the relevant authorities.

Now the problem that we have here, which is strikingly akin to similar widely alleged disclosures in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-orchestrated multi-pronged assault on Gaza’s northern border with the Jewish State of Israel, is one of the political integrity of our leaders. Recently, for example, the major Israeli newspaper Haaretz, reported that, in fact, 10 days before the Hamas assault, Prime Minister Benjamin “Mileikowsky” Netanyahu had been in receipt of credible intelligence pointing towards the imminent occurrence of such catastrophic event being in the offing but had, somehow, cavalierly chose to brush it aside and, instead, resorted to doing business as usual.

As of this writing, the Netanyahu regime had reportedly denied receiving any such vital intelligence, and even threatening to file a libel suit against the Haaretz newspaper (See “Netanyahu Denies Being Warned of Impending Hamas Attack 10 Days Before October 7” ABC News). Ultimately, what is most significant to highlight here is the fact that while it may not have been overtly intended, still any critically thinking bona fide and patriotic American Citizen cannot absolutely rule out the fact that the timing of Mayor Mamdani’s release of the documents indicating that, in fact, a self-preening pathologically bigoted MAGA Capitalists far prefer to jealously guard and protect their personal bank accounts and Wall Street stocks and insider-trading humongous investment profits than the general health and wellbeing of the overwhelming majority of hardworking American Citizens and Residents.

Which is, of course, another oblique way of saying that in releasing the Post-9/11 Documents indicating that, in fact, the Giuliani Administration and its immediate successors, predominantly Republican and Ideologically Conservative - these rabidly racist and fascist crooked politicians seem to prefer the latter descriptive terminology to all else - were never about the inalienable and the collective wellbeing of the American People. This clearly appears to be the unimpeachable distinction between the “Capitalist Ideology,” as brazenly preached and practiced by the MAGA Republicans and other rearguard collusive collaborators in the so-called Mainstream or Traditional Democratic Party Leadership, on the one hand, and the Democratic Socialists whose main and foremost raison d'etre is to ensure that all hardworking Americans on the bottom rungs of the socioeconomic ladder are availed adequate and well-deserved opportunities to make ends meet, and not be savagely cannibalized as prime grist and veritable items on the menu of the MAGA-Republican dinnertable.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]