Last night, I thought of a NEW WORD.

Now, maybe this does not seem like a big deal to you. But, I think you will agree when you read it that it is fills a niche that before now has been empty. Not that I wish that niche had to be filled.

Before launching my new word, I did some research in the "Government" section of Roget's Thesaurus, just to make sure about it, and I used my limited Greek to polish it up a bit.

There are lots of words for various forms of government: bureaucracy, meritocracy, plutocracy, aristocracy, autocracy, democracy (which, of course, we DON'T have in this country).

There's also gerontocracy, theocracy, mobocracy and even--LOL--BEERocracy
(yes! believe it or not, Roget's really lists that one!).

But, none of them quite describes what we have in this country any more. Fascism, despotism, and tyranny are getting overworked, or else they seem a little melodramatic.
They pale in comparison to the government we have now, and conjure up images of rulers of bygone eras. We now surpass them completely in wickedness and depravity, not to mention in our sick and prostituted scientific "expertise."

What we have, in fact, is a

PSYCHOPATHOCRACY.
[seye ko pa THOK ra see]

Rule by madmen.

This word delineates a regime that uses depleted uranium and other weapons of mass destruction promiscuously, and that gives these weapons to its allies to use as well,
a regime that believes that ANY form of torture is legitimate, and so incarcerates and tortures the innocent and children, even after condemning them to a slow death by radiation poisoning.

It characterizes a regime that can go to bed and sleep at night after refusing to investigate the rape of its own female pawns, that can plan and execute terrorism at home and abroad, and that in its reckless pursuit of total dominance over the entire globe cares nothing for future generations or for its own citizens.

It describes a regime that twists every institution of a free people to serve its own heinous ends, and in general defies all international law and the moral conscience of Mankind.

It signifies the present government of the United States of America.

These are some of its victims.

A victim of Depleted Uranium. Photo: Dr. Jenan Hassan
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Baby2003.htm

Fadel, 7 years old, came from Basra, South of Iraq. Depleted uranium, with its metal poison and radiation, has damaged her liver and kidneys. A needle was injected into her body to draw out the abdominal dropsy. Her scream of pain was heard all over the hospital corridor.
(In the leukaemia ward of Mansour Teaching Children's Hospital, Baghdad)

Photo: Copyright by Takashi Morizumi
http://www.chimerafilms.co.uk/children3.html

Victims of Israel's attack on Lebanon, Summer, 2006. Photo: "From Israel to Lebanon" http://pvanhoof.be/files/fromisraeltolebanon.info/fromisraeltolebanon.in...
America supplied weapons for the attack by its client state.

Victims of depleted uranium in Afghanistan. Photo: M. Miraki
http://www.rense.com/general74/afgg.htm

May God have mercy on us all.
Hajja Romi