- Assaulting humanity and the Earth with shocking impunity,
the White House's Machiavellian acolytes of Strauss shamelessly lead the
charge for soulless corporations, obscenely wealthy individuals, perverse
hypocrites of the Religious Right, a diminishing number of allies, authoritarian
regimes that bow to their will, and their state terrorist proxy in Tel
Aviv.
-
- Psychologically and economically enslaving billions of
human beings, facilitating the deaths of millions, and redefining the word
"exploitation", the relative few who monopolize most of the world's
material wealth and military power mercilessly inflict widespread suffering
to ensure the perpetuation of their morally repugnant existences fraught
with excess and hedonism.
-
- When satiated to the point of nausea by their gluttonous
over-indulgence, they occasionally spew torrents of putrid vomit upon the
rest of humanity as they purge to renew their blunted appetites. What a
blessing for the have-nots to receive such a feast!
-
- Remember that the United States of America was conceived
as a constitutional republic by people who had overthrown a tyrant. Unfortunately,
they lacked the foresight to envision the evolution of a predatory economic
system which would essentially enslave most of the populace to land-lords,
creditors, employers, corporations, a failing health care system, and deeply
inculcated materialism.
-
- For years the corporate media have fostered an environment
of perpetual hysteria fueled by the public's fear of contrived enemies
such as the "God-less Communists", and most recently, the "Islamo-Fascists"
and "terrorists". Serving the dual purpose of manipulating the
masses and significantly boosting the fortunes of the many-tentacled leviathan
known as the military industrial complex, fear-mongering has served the
purposes of the ruling elite to near perfection.
-
- The biggest threat to the majority of the population
in the United States (and the world, for that matter) is the enemy within.
In the malevolent socioeconomic paradigm spawned and perpetuated by the
United States, survival of the fittest is the reality. And might does indeed
make right. Despite ostensibly enjoying freedom and prosperity, many US
citizens pay a devastating spiritual price, much of their freedom is illusory,
and prosperity is becoming increasingly concentrated into the hands of
a few.
-
- People of conscience with a genuine concern for improving
the human condition have struggled since our nation's founding to make
"idealistic notions" like Abolition and Women's Suffrage a reality.
Yet in the "land of the free", a deeply entrenched White patriarchal
plutocracy has fought tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.
-
- One day the malevolent individuals comprising the ruling
elite may find themselves in Dante's Ninth Circle for their betrayal of
humanity. Or perhaps the Malebranche will keep watch over them for eternity
in Malebolge. But for now those "evolved capitalists" consistently
abuse their influence over humanity to maintain their material prosperity,
despite the horrific human cost.
-
- Moving from the abstract to the concrete, consider a
mere handful of specific examples of US "benevolence" and "democracy".
[Note that a tyrannical socioeconomic system that virtually guarantees
that power (in the form of wealth) remains in the hands of a relative few
made each event or circumstance possible]:
-
- 1. The indigenous people of Turtle Island were nearly
driven to extinction.
-
- 2. Chattel slavery endured until the Civil War and institutionalized
racism persisted into the 1960's.
-
- 3. Dickensonian Capitalism manifested itself through
miserably low wages, child labor, hazardous working conditions, employee
abuse, and a "Gilded Age" for the wealthy elite.
-
- 4. FDR schemed to draw the United States into World War
II by provoking Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor (and allowing the attack
to happen). On his watch, the United States also interned 110,000 Japanese
Americans and killed hundreds of thousands of European and Asian civilians.
In so doing, the United States did help take out two ruthless tyrants and
a brutal imperialist. However, toppling Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo enabled
two of history's most despicable regimes. Stalin and Mao slaughtered tens
of millions as they implemented Stalinism and Maoism. (Unfortunately for
reflexive Red-haters who utilize Mao and Stalin as examples of the "evils
of Communism", neither of these monsters were actual Communists).
-
- 5. Under Truman, the American Empire annihilated over
200,000 Japanese civilians in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Truman also paved
the way for the formation of Israel and the initiation of the genocide
of the Palestinians.
-
- 6. LBJ and Nixon oversaw the deaths of three million
Vietnamese and 59,000 US military personnel.
-
- 7. Monstrous men like Bush's Director of National Intelligence
John Negroponte, who was an instrumental figure in the Reagan administration's
facilitation of the deaths of at least 200,000 people in Central America,
continue to thrive and act with impunity.
-
- 8. 3,000 people died on 9/11 as a result of the Bush
administration's breath-taking incompetence (or unproven but highly plausible
complicity in the destruction of the WTC).
-
- 9. At least 1,800 human beings are dead in New Orleans
as a result of the Bush Regime's willful criminal negligence.
-
- 10. Over 2,600 US service personnel have been sacrificed
at the Altar of Mammon and hundreds of thousands have suffered deep physical
and psychological wounds. Many of these dead or broken people enlisted
in the military because the corporate media and revisionist historians
indoctrinated them into believing that they would be defending their country.
Instead, their sacrifices came to bolster the fortunes of those at the
top of the food chain. Over a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians have died.
But they are simply "collateral damage" in the Empire's "noble
cause" to introduce "democracy" into the Middle East.
-
- 11. Psychological torture methods have been in the CIA's
arsenal since they were developed through Project MKULTRA and have apparently
been used liberally in the "War on Terror". Unfortunately for
"The Decider", torture violates the Geneva Conventions. How can
Bush "lead the free world" if he is not free to torture?
-
- 12. The Bush Regime's Patriot Act, NSA eavesdropping,
assault on habeas corpus, and "free speech zones" have left the
Bill of Rights in tatters.
-
- 13. The 2000 Presidential election was decided by Katherine
Harris and the Supreme Court. In 2004, a powerful corporation with strong
ties to the Republican Party ensured Bush's continued reign.
-
- In November of 2003, Bush proclaimed:
-
- "It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies
took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself
a democracy."
-
- To what influential nation was he referring? I see little
evidence of extant meaningful democratic principles in the United States.
-
- And a recent personal experience crystallized this perception
for me.
-
- On 9/17/06, I attended a veteran's rally for Claire McCaskill,
the Democratic challenger to Missouri's incumbent Republican US Senator,
Jim Talent.
-
- As I sat there, the sparse turn-out reminded me of the
tragic demise of the influence of We the People. Two parties primarily
representing the interests of the affluent have duopolized the political
system. Impotence has engendered apathy.
-
- Providing further evidence that Herbert Spencer's dream
of Social Darwinism is becoming reality in the United States is the fact
that a man like Jim Talent has not been forcibly removed from office, tarred
and feathered. His voting record as a US Senator clearly demonstrates that
he has vigorously devoted himself to corporate interests, militarism, and
the demise of laws and public programs beneficial to We the People (the
majority of his constituency!).
-
- Democracy in the United States, you say? Where?
- 9-23-6
-
- Assaulting humanity and the Earth with shocking impunity,
the White House's Machiavellian acolytes of Strauss shamelessly lead the
charge for soulless corporations, obscenely wealthy individuals, perverse
hypocrites of the Religious Right, a diminishing number of allies, authoritarian
regimes that bow to their will, and their state terrorist proxy in Tel
Aviv.
-
- Psychologically and economically enslaving billions of
human beings, facilitating the deaths of millions, and redefining the word
"exploitation", the relative few who monopolize most of the world's
material wealth and military power mercilessly inflict widespread suffering
to ensure the perpetuation of their morally repugnant existences fraught
with excess and hedonism.
-
- When satiated to the point of nausea by their gluttonous
over-indulgence, they occasionally spew torrents of putrid vomit upon the
rest of humanity as they purge to renew their blunted appetites. What a
blessing for the have-nots to receive such a feast!
-
- Remember that the United States of America was conceived
as a constitutional republic by people who had overthrown a tyrant. Unfortunately,
they lacked the foresight to envision the evolution of a predatory economic
system which would essentially enslave most of the populace to land-lords,
creditors, employers, corporations, a failing health care system, and deeply
inculcated materialism.
-
- For years the corporate media have fostered an environment
of perpetual hysteria fueled by the public's fear of contrived enemies
such as the "God-less Communists", and most recently, the "Islamo-Fascists"
and "terrorists". Serving the dual purpose of manipulating the
masses and significantly boosting the fortunes of the many-tentacled leviathan
known as the military industrial complex, fear-mongering has served the
purposes of the ruling elite to near perfection.
-
- The biggest threat to the majority of the population
in the United States (and the world, for that matter) is the enemy within.
In the malevolent socioeconomic paradigm spawned and perpetuated by the
United States, survival of the fittest is the reality. And might does indeed
make right. Despite ostensibly enjoying freedom and prosperity, many US
citizens pay a devastating spiritual price, much of their freedom is illusory,
and prosperity is becoming increasingly concentrated into the hands of
a few.
-
- People of conscience with a genuine concern for improving
the human condition have struggled since our nation's founding to make
"idealistic notions" like Abolition and Women's Suffrage a reality.
Yet in the "land of the free", a deeply entrenched White patriarchal
plutocracy has fought tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.
-
- One day the malevolent individuals comprising the ruling
elite may find themselves in Dante's Ninth Circle for their betrayal of
humanity. Or perhaps the Malebranche will keep watch over them for eternity
in Malebolge. But for now those "evolved capitalists" consistently
abuse their influence over humanity to maintain their material prosperity,
despite the horrific human cost.
-
- Moving from the abstract to the concrete, consider a
mere handful of specific examples of US "benevolence" and "democracy".
[Note that a tyrannical socioeconomic system that virtually guarantees
that power (in the form of wealth) remains in the hands of a relative few
made each event or circumstance possible]:
-
- 1. The indigenous people of Turtle Island were nearly
driven to extinction.
-
- 2. Chattel slavery endured until the Civil War and institutionalized
racism persisted into the 1960's.
-
- 3. Dickensonian Capitalism manifested itself through
miserably low wages, child labor, hazardous working conditions, employee
abuse, and a "Gilded Age" for the wealthy elite.
-
- 4. FDR schemed to draw the United States into World War
II by provoking Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor (and allowing the attack
to happen). On his watch, the United States also interned 110,000 Japanese
Americans and killed hundreds of thousands of European and Asian civilians.
In so doing, the United States did help take out two ruthless tyrants and
a brutal imperialist. However, toppling Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo enabled
two of history's most despicable regimes. Stalin and Mao slaughtered tens
of millions as they implemented Stalinism and Maoism. (Unfortunately for
reflexive Red-haters who utilize Mao and Stalin as examples of the "evils
of Communism", neither of these monsters were actual Communists).
-
- 5. Under Truman, the American Empire annihilated over
200,000 Japanese civilians in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Truman also paved
the way for the formation of Israel and the initiation of the genocide
of the Palestinians.
-
- 6. LBJ and Nixon oversaw the deaths of three million
Vietnamese and 59,000 US military personnel.
-
- 7. Monstrous men like Bush's Director of National Intelligence
John Negroponte, who was an instrumental figure in the Reagan administration's
facilitation of the deaths of at least 200,000 people in Central America,
continue to thrive and act with impunity.
-
- 8. 3,000 people died on 9/11 as a result of the Bush
administration's breath-taking incompetence (or unproven but highly plausible
complicity in the destruction of the WTC).
-
- 9. At least 1,800 human beings are dead in New Orleans
as a result of the Bush Regime's willful criminal negligence.
-
- 10. Over 2,600 US service personnel have been sacrificed
at the Altar of Mammon and hundreds of thousands have suffered deep physical
and psychological wounds. Many of these dead or broken people enlisted
in the military because the corporate media and revisionist historians
indoctrinated them into believing that they would be defending their country.
Instead, their sacrifices came to bolster the fortunes of those at the
top of the food chain. Over a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians have died.
But they are simply "collateral damage" in the Empire's "noble
cause" to introduce "democracy" into the Middle East.
-
- 11. Psychological torture methods have been in the CIA's
arsenal since they were developed through Project MKULTRA and have apparently
been used liberally in the "War on Terror". Unfortunately for
"The Decider", torture violates the Geneva Conventions. How can
Bush "lead the free world" if he is not free to torture?
-
- 12. The Bush Regime's Patriot Act, NSA eavesdropping,
assault on habeas corpus, and "free speech zones" have left the
Bill of Rights in tatters.
-
- 13. The 2000 Presidential election was decided by Katherine
Harris and the Supreme Court. In 2004, a powerful corporation with strong
ties to the Republican Party ensured Bush's continued reign.
-
- In November of 2003, Bush proclaimed:
-
- "It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies
took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself
a democracy."
-
- To what influential nation was he referring? I see little
evidence of extant meaningful democratic principles in the United States.
-
- And a recent personal experience crystallized this perception
for me.
-
- On 9/17/06, I attended a veteran's rally for Claire McCaskill,
the Democratic challenger to Missouri's incumbent Republican US Senator,
Jim Talent.
-
- As I sat there, the sparse turn-out reminded me of the
tragic demise of the influence of We the People. Two parties primarily
representing the interests of the affluent have duopolized the political
system. Impotence has engendered apathy.
-
- Providing further evidence that Herbert Spencer's dream
of Social Darwinism is becoming reality in the United States is the fact
that a man like Jim Talent has not been forcibly removed from office, tarred
and feathered. His voting record as a US Senator clearly demonstrates that
he has vigorously devoted himself to corporate interests, militarism, and
the demise of laws and public programs beneficial to We the People (the
majority of his constituency!).
-
- Democracy in the United States, you say? Where?
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