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Recently I was given a copy of the album ...AND THE GODS MADE WARS by White Rabbit Cult to listen to. Real-audio file, that just started downloading, is the song number two on that album, called Collateral Damage. Strange, a cult of white rabbit, an animal synonymous with timidity and bucolic tranquility, threw in on that album some powerful, mosh-pit-approved, tunes backed up with provocative, some may say annoyingly so, lyrics. The album is available through the Cult's own web site and through the amazon.com. When I was nineteen, a German composer, whose name I have long forgotten (although I still have the vinyl somewhere in Zagreb), made an early techno-rave EP titled "Nineteen." The song was recorded both in German and in English, and it had repeated its refrain ad nauseam: "In Vietnam it was nineteen" [the average age of the soldier] - that’s what "Collateral Damage" incessant repetition reminds me mostly of. White Rabbit Cult starts the CD with the, to an untrained ear slightly repulsive, track #1: "Invocation AC99" by paying homage to Jimi Hendrix's "...And the Gods Made Love" from the Electric Ladyland CD. I found the album’s generally unusual, eclectic, kind of beyond alternative, reminiscent of The Residents (not disclosing any personal information about its individual members), Skinny Puppy /RA/ (distorted industrial sound) or Laibach (they do take themselves that seriously). Laibach gone Hare Krishna.

"If any town should engage in Rebellion or Mutiny, fall into violent Factions, or refuse to pay the usual Tribute; the King hath two Methods of reducing them to Obedience. The first and the mildest Course is by keeping the Island hovering over such a Town, and the Lands about it; whereby he can deprive them of the Benefit of the Sun and the Rain, and consequently afflict the inhabitants with Death and Diseases. And if the Crime deserve it, they are at the same time pelted from above with great Stones, against which they have no Defence, but by creeping into Cellars or Caves, while the Roofs of their Houses are beaten to Pieces. But if they still continue obstinate, or offer to raise Insurrections; he proceeds to the last Remedy, by letting the Island drop directly upon their Heads, which makes a universal Destruction both of Houses and Men."

[Jonathan Swift, "The Flying Island of Laputa," Gulliver's Travels, Voyage III, Copied from David R. Steele’s article.]

NATO’s fierce critic David Ramsay Steele is not alone in using "Gulliver’s Travels" as a source of information: [Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Hugh] Shelton unveiled a talent for simile to describe the situation, comparing the American superpower with Lemuel Gulliver of "Gulliver's Travels," who was tied down by hundreds of tiny cords knotted by little people called Lilliputians.

Copyright 2000 Gannett Company, Inc. Gannett News Service February 21, 2000, Monday, FINAL EDITION Analysis: Pentagon bigwigs fighting wars - domestic - on several political fronts JOHN OMICINSKI; Gannett News Service; WASHINGTON

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