- There were once golden days, when the U.S. was led by
virtuous patriots, who were connected to the people and to the land and
who created feelings of national community and a hope for a better life
for all. I'm talking about the times of the heroic George Washington, the
steadfast Dwight D. Eisenhower, and our president, murdered by the New
World Order, John F. Kennedy.
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- America is a work in progress. It has repeatedly striven
to rid itself of its own inner contradictions. Back then, it was also a
spiritual force and admired by most of the world. Today, the man at the
helm of our government, George W. Bush, is a serial liar, a bloody fool,
a contemptible fraud and a stooge for the Plutocrats and the international
schemers. Today, we are hated as a menace to peace. If you don't feel angry
and in despair about where America is today, then maybe you should.
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- These Plutocrats, without the people's permission and
in contempt of our Constitution, acting as a "Shadow Government,"
have built an "Imperial Empire." It serves, not the American
people, but their own powerful clients, such as scoundrels, like the Military-Industrial
Complex and Big Oil. (1)
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- In March, 2003, the Bush-Cheney Gang, an agent of the
Plutocrats, decided to take the country into an unjust war with Iraq, thanks
also to the urgings of the repulsive Neocons. It has cost the American
people hundreds of billions of dollars and the loss of thousands of its
finest sons and daughters on its sand-swept and Depleted-Uranium-infected
battlefields. Prior to 1948, and the creation of Israel, the U.S. had no
enemies in the Muslim World. Recently, the Bush-Cheney Gang has arbitrarily
chosen to make Islam itself an enemy. This has outraged over a billion
of its believers. The Gang then launched the makings of police state here
in the U.S. with the emergence of the Department of Homeland Security,
led by the shadowy Michael Chertoff. He suspiciously resigned from a federal
judgeship to take that job. Why did he do that? Chertoff also has very
strong ties to the Zionist juggernaut.
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- Question: "What does our future hold for us?"
Try endless wars; rising national indebtedness; growing deindustrialization
with continuous outsourcing of middle class jobs; more police surveillance
and the loss of our ancient liberties; aging cities overrun with crime
and failing educational systems, where the homes of the urban working class
near valuable waterfront vistas are fast being taken over by Yuppies; rampant
pollution and destruction of our national resources; privatization of key
municipal and state assets; a bloated real estate market ripe for collapse,
where the value of the dollar is at serious risk; balkanization of the
country by pitting one ethnic group, one race and one area against another;
and more enemies looking to pay us back for the wrongdoings of this and
past regimes.
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- As for politics, our people are more alienated than
ever from party politics at every governmental level. The two major parties
are a national disgrace and are dominated by grasping special interests,
like the Credit Card Cartel. The ethically-challenged Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX)
is only the tip of the iceberg of a Congress lacking any real concerns
for the fate of the common people. On the paramount issue of the Iraqi
War, there weren't any real differences in the views of the Republicans
and the Democrats. They, and others, constitute - "The War Party."
Meanwhile, the voters have been made insignificant by the infusion of huge
amounts of money into that flawed, easily corrupted, electoral process.
When an individual writes their congressional representatives, like I have
many times in the past to U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (R-MD), on issues
of concern, they are more than likely to be insulted by getting back from
them, a computer-generated response with the signature of the Congressperson
- signed by a machine! I'm sure she wouldn't reply to political insider
and lobbyist Jack Abramoff that way. (2)
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- On the religious front, the Roman Catholic Church in
the U.S. is in deep decline. It has long since lost its way, with the disgusting
priest-pedophile scandal only one manifestation of its many abysmal failures.
Many of its Bishops openly embraced the warmongering Bush during the last
election. For most of my adulthood, when entering a RC Church, I have felt
like I was in a museum and not a "House of God." I know women
who have more spirituality in the little finger of their right hand, than
some of these pompous clerics, like that disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law,
has in his whole body. Also, good men with courage, genuine spirituality
and warriors, too, for peace and justice, like the late, great Phil Berrigan
were deliberately pushed out of the RC Church. At the same time, paper-pushing
bureaucrats, such as the loathsome Law, were allowed to rise to top positions
of authority.
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- As for the Union Movement today, it mostly deserves
the title, "The Labor Faker Movement." With some notable exceptions,
its leaders only care about themselves and not the needs and aspirations
of their own members. One union faker that I know cares more about his
pricey condo in Ocean City, MD, than he does about the fact that the union
membership nationally is in a perilous decline. Rarely, if ever, do selfish
creeps like that think in terms of what is good for the working class and
for the country together and how can they "give back" to a movement
which sourced their six-figure salaries. Only when this present national
leadership is replaced by visionary activists, like those who participated
in the Million Worker March, on Oct. 17, 2004, in Washington, DC, and who
strongly opposed the Iraqi War, demanded repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act,
and the building up of a Labor-based Third Party, will anything start to
change. (3) I don't think I will every forget the shameful fact that the
AFL-CIO's big shots failed to take that phony bully Ronald Reagan on when
he viciously destroyed the PATCO Union in 1981. (4)
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- As for the Media, it has been mostly corrupted by its
corporate ownership and the built-in conflict of interests. Only on the
Internet can the truth be found and this is especially true about the 9/11
tragedy - and the ongoing conspiracy to reduce the U.S. to a vassal state
to be looted by the globalist intriguers, who are also the pushers of the
Free Trade disease. (5) Naturally, these sinister Wire Pullers are looking
to take over the Internet. They will use every ruse, including the dubious
"Hate Crime" laws, to do so.
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- We desperately need a "New America" where
all the people can participate. Our spiritual and civic values are continuing
to be crushed by a vulgar culture that prefers to lionize windbags, like
Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, over esteemed writers, such
as Noam Chomsky. It also deliberately trivializes the massive lies of the
Bush-Cheney Gang. Evil does exist and it is an inherent aspect of life
in this society. If you don't believe me, just look at the conniving back
slappers in our Nation's Capital. We are headed for a national disaster
that can easily lead to another Dark Age for Mankind. The few who see it
coming wake up every morning feeling like an outcast in the city, state
and country, that gave them birth and that they once loved unconditionally,
cherished with all their heart and thought would last forever. Our prisons,
too, are filling up at an obscene rate as I write. Significant segments
of our population are without any hope at all.
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- Nevertheless, there is still a remote chance for real
change, but only a rebirth of the national and communal spirit, like in
the nature of a living faith, that gave us our heroes, union movement,
and cities, towns and rural life of old, can redeem us from this vast cesspool
of corruption, materialism and greed. The later are infecting us like parasitical
viruses. They must be stamped out before the new transformational life
force can spring forward.
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- Finally, In my opinion, "A New America" must
be forged before disaster strikes. It should be one that lives up to our
glorious past and embraces the civic virtues, founded on the classical
model, of the intrepid founders of our once-grand Republic. And, this "New
America" must also be true to who we really are today as spiritual
creatures and not as a dispensable commodity to be manipulated by the Plutocrats.
Remember always, you are an American and you owe it to your heritage, as
the heirs of the "Sons of Liberty," to restore our Republic.
Down with the Plutocrats! "A New America" is coming!
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- Notes:
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- 1. "The Sorrows of Empire," by Chalmers Johnson.
- 2. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=176
- 3. http://www.socialistalternative.org/literature/mwm/ch1.html
- 4. http://www.socialistworker.org/2001/374/374_10_PATCO.shtml
- 5. "Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee
of 300," by Dr. John Coleman.
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- © William Hughes 2005
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- William Hughes is the author of "Saying 'No' to
the War Party" (IUniverse, Inc.). He can be reached at liamhughes@comcast.net.
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