The Monument
If I were an oligarch – and no oligarch would ever do what I'm proposing here even though it would cost them nothing – I would build a black obelisk with the names of every U.S. senator and representative who voted to give Israel money since October 7th.
I would put the monument on a quiet 5-acre plot of land in some upper middle class suburban area. Free admission, a very simple, concise, non-emotionally inflammatory set of adjacent boards explaining which bills included the additional funding for "Israel's security." No need for any hot rhetoric excoriating the brutality of Israel and America. Lists of war material supplied should also be included on the weather-proof display boards.
- 10,000 bombs
- 1 million rounds of ammo
- 1,000 tanks
- etc.
Lots of flowers, well-maintained grounds with a walking path, quiet spots for people to ponder the nature of democracy.
And a small building whose inner walls would be covered in photos of the dead children, the elderly murdered at roadside checkpoints. No rooms, just one long hallway bedecked in the photos of blasted humans, leveled neighborhoods, destroyed mosques, bombed out universities and crumpled churches.
A nice, big giant black slab like from the 2001 movie based on Arthur C. Clarke's book, filled with the full names of the American politicians who voted for genocide in 2023 & 2024.
Monuments are always built for the victims of evil leaders. The evil leaders themselves never get called out though. In democracy, it's worse because the bloat of the representative bodies and the general ignorance of the citizenry means you can be a warpig your entire career and still escape notice. What if the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington had a giant slab of all the politicians who backed its escalation?
The Monument would change this. Instead of commemorating the anonymous dead, we can begin memorializing the people who cause death.
I sat down and wrote letters to my representatives in Congress. I even printed out the envelopes on the laser printer 😄. Please consider doing the same. Democracy is fake, but saying nothing at all is much worse than spending the time to share your concerns with someone who putatively represents American citizens.
