LONDON HAS FALLEN and the Ongoing War Against the American People

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON MARCH 06

There are some minor spoilers but I promise you, it really doesn’t matter anyway.

London Has Fallen was a mediocre propagandized American action movie that is a sequel to the equally mediocre propagandized American action movie, Olympus Has Fallen.  London Has Fallen certainly has more action than its predecessor, more explosions, more killing, which should make most of the American movie going audience elated as they sit on their butter-stained theater seats and salivate as the unbridled jingoism, proudly parades the screen from beginning to end.

The movie follows the bellicose Secret Service Top Agent Mike Banning, who’s in charge of the Presidential Protection Division, again as he aggressively fights to save his Commander and Chief, the President of the United States of America.  Again he’s saving him from the evil, character-less terrorists that are hell bent on destroying America’s way of life, even on British soil this time around.

The British Prime Minister died after mysterious circumstances which led the leaders of the free world to conjoin in London to attend his funeral.  Here is when the evil-doers decide to make their move by blowing up various London City land marks in a massive ambush to kill all the world’s leaders.  The Canadian, French, Italian and Japanese Prime Ministers, through separate simultaneous attacks, are discarded as the focus to save the United States President from assassination is well, the only focus the movie cares to focus on.

Aamir Barkawi is the terrorist mastermind behind all the attacks because of revenge against the west for bombing his daughter’s wedding in Pakistan.  This massive explosion, executed by a US military drone, almost killed Barkawi but he got away. Barkawi is an arms dealer, said to be responsible for destabilizing many poor countries in order to sell them weapons to fight each other with.  Create the demand then create the supply, I thought that was the United States’ foreign policy monetary enterprise.  In London Has Fallen the evil terrorists are the one’s initiating all the instability around the world apparently, just because they are evil.    

London Has Fallen is pure propaganda, not only politically but also deeply psychologically.  This movie will further the USA down that deep dark xenophobic hole and continue to blind its own citizens to the realities of how the world really is.  There are many moments in the movie that I wouldn’t want to be a member of any region of the Middle East.  Not because what the movie is espousing is right but because how effective it is at convincing white people to fear anyone of color.  There’s a scene toward the end of the movie where Gerard Butler’s character Banning beats a terrorist to near death while telling him the problem with “you people” as he punches harder and harder.  Banning is inflaming a desire of many Americans to hurt an enemy that the corporate operated media machine tells them is an enemy.  The Military Industrial Complex along with the office of the President tell the American people that an enemy wants to hurt them and their families.  That enemy is simply known as ‘terrorist’ which is a brush that the Government and its Corporate Media conspirator can paint anywhere they want to paint it.

The war carried out by the America/Corporate elite is inside not outside its borders.  The war is against the every people who blindly believe, because they are told day-in and day-out, that America is the greatest country on the planet Earth.  Yet there is no real evidence that supports this belief.  This is also why religion is so powerful in America because it too is not supportable when it is subject to the scrutiny of evidence. Most Americans, certainly not all, fashion their lives around a fantasy that is presented to them by the very institutions that have sworn to protect them.

Many of the citizens of America are not treated with any kind of human dignity.  When this crucial necessity is waylaid in support of control, this becomes indicative to a decline of a civilization.  The only real reason why it’s hanging on as long as it has is because of a mass tsunami of distraction available to the average American citizen.  The War on Drugs is a joke, it’s a political slogan that’s been reduced to a weathered stained bumper sticker stuck to the backs of 30 year old rusted trailers.  Americans are on drugs, they are on illegal drugs and legal big pharma drugs and are convinced there’s an actual difference.  They are on the drug of alcohol which provides the necessary hostility required for them to fight each other over their ludicrous beliefs.  They are on one of the biggest drugs of them all, they are addicted to television, with its sports, its MMA fighting, and now throw in social media.  They are addicted to the detached nature of the cell phone and the banal music that it plays.

Sadly the biggest drug of them all is America itself.  The country of America is a drug, a very persuasive drug that is quite rapidly addicting the world.  It’s illusion of freedom is too strong in order to shock this nation out of its sedated lethargy.  Hope exists in movies now, in video games, in the flowing vapid river of Facebook posts, hope exists at lottery ticket booths and fictionalized Church sessions, it exists during binge-watching a horde of TV shows that dramatize our desires for a better world, or better people using actors that read scripts written by boardroom writers.  

What can we really do to get out of this hole that our leaders have led us so cunningly into?  What can we do to un-do what has been done?  What do we want, what are we really doing here?  We want centralization, we are in a pursuit for relevancy.  Is that our human legacy outside of the very few that reach beyond the limitations of the emotional human project?  Is Newton, Tesla and Einstein the exception, among few others compared to the human population entering this mass idea of a civilization, to the devastating rule that we are all doomed to be perpetually ignorant?  Is the majority of us chasing ghosts and angels as we attempt to understand the nature of reality or are we not even doing that?  

There are so many people whose potential development has been systematically neutralized by the education system, the media and their corporate and governmental sponsors.  In life we are told we are free and are able to get away with what we want but that’s not an actual reality.  Most of us are shut down to which we seek vengeance, not with the potential of our minds, no, we retreat to virtual simulation to save us from feeling pathetic.  We live on the internet, we vent through video games.

What has happened to us?  We are sick, we are desperate, we are lonely, we are loveless, and we are strangers among friends.  We are separated within crowds, the raw reality is that we have been abandoned, not by ideas but the idea of ideas, we have been left marooned on our little individual planets under the belief that we are connected even though there is very little to qualify that. 

London Has Fallen, with its main character almost behaving nihilistically, was a movie, but underneath all its gloss and so called glory, its abandon us all, it’s a movie that acted irresponsibly, it’s knowingly misleading its audience into the belief of ‘it’s us against them’ then it goes on to say not only ‘fuck them’ but ‘fucking kill every last one of them’.  This level of detachment in a seemingly and certainly a celebrated civilized society speaks volumes of the effectiveness of its propaganda machine.

((Sorry I wanted to go on about how it’s all going to turn around when people clue in to how they are being misled….but I just couldn’t.  I don’t want to be a pessimist or a cynic but I just can’t see an out and I don’t want this article to end with the kind of hope for the future the propagandized film London Has Fallen has falsely left us with.))