On October 30, former President Bill Clinton gave a campaign speech for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. Speaking at the Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church, Clinton attempted to persuade American Muslims in that crucial swing state to vote for Harris despite her support for the Joe Biden administration’s disastrous Middle East policy.
It did not go well. For one thing, Harris went on to lose Michigan (and the election) in stunning fashion. There was also immediate backlash.
As the Huffington Post put it, “Bill Clinton Justifies The Mass Killings Of Palestinians In Racist Michigan Speech.”
Clinton’s support for mass murder is not surprising. After all, this is the same Bill Clinton who presided over the massacre of American citizens and their foreign national guests at the Mount Carmel church and residence outside of Waco during the first year of his presidency.
The Waco slaughter was accompanied by a massive state and regime media disinformation campaign to convince the American people that the good folks to be sacrificed on the state’s altar were raving lunatics, armed to the teeth, and intent on waging war on downtown Waco.
The demonic entity that the propaganda portrayed the Christians of Mount Carmel as was pure fantasy. But decades later, the demon has slithered onto the world stage for real. That demon is Israel, and just like the fantasy version, the real demon was Made in America™.
The Waco propaganda was so good, more than thirty years later it still exists in the public mind. On the same day Clinton gave his pro-genocide speech, Stephen Colbert told a Waco joke during the opening monologue of The Late Show:
“[Elon] Musk already has eleven children and sources say he wants to gather them all together by creating a family compound in Texas. And you know a story is always going to end well when it starts with a compound in Texas.”
A “compound in Texas” is clearly a reference to the Mount Carmel church and home, which the state and its minions demonized as a compound with a “bunker” run by “lieutenants.” Did some deep state apparatchik submit that joke to The Late Show staff as a subtle threat against Musk (who heavily endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign)?
The state certainly has been filled with levity recently:
“State Department spokesman Matt Miller on Monday [November 4] made a joke and laughed when pressed about Israel failing to meet U.S. requests to allow more aid into Gaza as it’s imposing a starvation blockade on the northern part of the Strip.”
The point is that the state’s Waco talking points still resonate. In fact, they have become part of a larger propaganda template routinely used by the United States Imperial Government (USIG).
As the Soviet Union was in free fall, the USIG launched its war of choice against Iraq in 1991. It even got the Soviets to diplomatically back the Desert Storm adventure. As George Carlin put it:
“We couldn’t wait for that Cold War to be over, could we? Couldn’t wait for the Cold War to be over so we can go and play with our toys in the sand. Go and play with our toys in the sand.”
The USIG took most of the toys it had been training with to fight the Soviet Union and unleashed them on its own client state:
“Desert Storm was, in effect, the NATO–Warsaw Pact war that never was, pitting largely Soviet weaponry, doctrine, and tactics against a Coalition, which reflected NATO strategic thinking.”
Desert Storm, like all U.S. wars, was based on lies. The Cold War was over, so the fantasy of international communism taking over America was obsolete. After Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, President George H. W. Bush went with a fan favorite and accused Hussein of being “Hitler Revisited.” The regime falsely claimed Iraq was poised to invade Saudi Arabia and that its soldiers had murdered over 300 babies by taking them from their incubators and “on the cold floor to die.”
At Mount Carmel, the imperial information warfare directorate and some of the toys from Desert Storm were deployed on the mainland to crush Americans who had the misfortune of drawing the AFT’s attention during budget season. As Libertarian Institute Executive Director Scott Horton put it:
“…these are Texans. These people are 100 miles up the road. But they’re a foreign nation. They’re Iraqis dude. You could just drop the nuke on them and…the housewives of Northwest Austin would have been happy with that.”
David Koresh, the preacher who oversaw Mount Carmel, was the new Saddam Hussein; the new Hitler. As Horton observed, the propaganda template became locked in.
The template was deployed over and over again, most famously during the Iraq War in 2003. Saddam Hussein was the new Hitler. (Again.) His regime possessed illegal weapons of mass destruction. And he was bad to his own people. As Horton put it, “That’s all Waco was. It was Iraq War II writ small.”
Koresh might have been a morally indefensible man, but the government never provided any evidence he broke any law. Saddam was a monster (which is why he worked for years as a U.S. government proxy) and he brutally repressed his own people, but he did not have the fantasy nuclear weapons the Bush regime pretended he did. Nor did he have ties to Al Qaeda.
Israel, meanwhile, fully fits the template. It is run by madmen who peddle religious kookery. It has illegal nuclear weapons. It is mean to its own people. It has supported Al Qaeda and ISIS. It has slaughtered U.S. military personnel. It interferes with American democracy. It is committing genocide. It is attempting to spark a regional war. Israel even kills little newborn babies for real, the way Iraq did in the fantasy.
The state is a disease masquerading as its own cure. Keep that in mind when the likes of Bill Clinton tell you Israel is defending western civilization.
