Satan is an Arms Dealer

It's true. That is, if one believes in such things as an anti-Christ, et al (I don't). If the Lord of Darkness were on this earth in human guise, working his evil into the fabric of our world, I think he (she?) would have to be an Arms Dealer. I capitalize that because, well, I think I should. We should pay more attention to these people. Most people think Satan would be a lawyer, and I would have to agree that perhaps his most powerful lieutentants have some pin-striped firm in New York, but Satan himself could be no more effective agent of death, misery and catastrophe than to be a prominent Arms Dealer.

If you think about the horrors of this world, virtually all of them can be directly traced to mass violence and state-sanctioned bloodshed. From soldiers marching in line behind billion-dollar tanks to guerillas scampering through the wilderness with AK-47s, slaughtering indiscriminately...or emerging from the dust like phantoms and ploughing RPGs into a wall of humanity. Where do these weapons come from? WMDs is a popular buzz-word these days, but I have to wonder why an RPG, or a cache of machine guns...or even a tank, isn't considered a weapon of mass destruction? Are you kidding me? Think of what you could do at the helm of an M1-A1 Abrahms tank let loose in, say the suburbs? How many houses, stores, schools, hospitals, warehouses and other structures could you flatten before the Guard finally arrived with more tanks? How many of those would it take and how many soldiers to bring you down? An Abrahms is no joke, mister! Howe many people could you kill? A hell of a lot! That's right! Now that's mass destruction, in my opinion. Imagine if Israel and Hezbollah had no weapons right now...they'd be throwing rocks and harsh language against each other across a fence.

Yet there are countless companies in the world that earn scads of profit by manufacturing and selling new and ever more effective weapons to the highest bidder! Of course, there are supposed to be certain international legal restraints put on the sales of anything more powerful than a hunting rifle but c'mon...where do you think the so-called "terrorists" of the world get their weapons? How hard do you really think it is, and how reluctant are these companies and their agents to accept a few more hundreds of millions of dollars in sales? Please.

Instead, imagine a world where weapons of any kind are extremely hard to get.

-Tell the NRA to go shove their rifles up their cold, dead ass. No need for "protection" fella, when nobody else has guns either. You want protection? Learn karate...of course, you'll have to ditch that huge beer gut, won't you?-

Imagine nobody but stable governments (if there is such a thing) able to buy weapons. But then, the stable governments would have no one else to blame when they feel the urge to inflict some state-building somewhere..."freedom" at gunpoint. No "terrorists" to point the finger at when they want to flex their military muscles, eh?

But goddamnit, it's the weapons manufacturers and the Arms Dealers who bribe the governments in the first place! And I'm not just talking about tanks and guns and bombs here! Think about the companies that make friggin' fighter jets, bombers, and big ole *!#$!*&% AIRCRAFT CARRIERS! NOW we're talking about weapons of mass destruction! Now we're talking billions, even trillions of dollars. That kind of money shapes the world. That kind of profit shapes foreign policy. Take a few minutes and go look up the 2005 Earnings Report for Northrop Grumman, for instance, or Boeing. Look at those numbers and then tell me that they don't have collossal power to change the future...to sow the seeds of constant war so that their insanely expensive product is always in demand. Remember that every business must constantly keep demand alive for its product. Do you think the Arms Dealers want world peace? That would be like an Air Conditioner salesman praying for a cold summer! Take some time to research and you'll find that the weapons industry is even more embedded in Washington (and London, and Paris, and Moscow, and Berlin, and Riyadh, etc.) than the Oil People! In a very real way, they are Washington.

The evils of this world are not, perhaps, created by weapons...but they are achieved with them. And that would not be possible if it weren't for a titanic industry that is allowed to exist against every law of human decency simply because they earn more money than the GDP of most small and some mid-size countries. That kind of money makes things happen: laws are ignored, entire administrations steered into state-sanctioned carnage, peoples enslaved, whole towns wiped off the map...cultures crushed under the boot, entire regions embroiled in hell for decades without the slightest hope of an end to the misery. Why? It's like everything else: So a few men can earn a lot of money. I'm sorry but it really is that simple. And it really is that sick.