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CONGRATULATIONS America: It seems that
we have succeeded where no one else would ever want to go! This nation took a
settled Republic and dismembered its form of government turning this democracy
into something that looks a lot more like Dumbocracy - and then has had the
temerity to wonder why the world thinks we're crazy.
Many writers, including this one, have
been trying to figure out why Americans do not react to what this nation is
doing in the world today, both at home and abroad. Perhaps the answer is much
simpler than many of us imagined. Initially it appeared that Americans were
either just asleep or were willfully blind to all that is and was being done in
our name. It appears that the population is behaving like a herd of dumb
animals, slavishly following orders from a certifiable "leader" who
has no qualifications, no leadership skills, and no accompanying track record
that could ever have justified the failures of GWB in the office that he now
occupies. His "cabinet" has been filled with equally unqualified
people who collectively have no experience in military matters, or in the
administration of anything meaningful or real. So why does this nation credit
this spoiled offspring from a truly criminal family, this AWOL coward who ran
away on 911 instead of doing anything at all to interrupt the attacks of that
day? WHY has Bush not yet explained himself to the nation or the world?
In the mid nineteen-thirties Sinclair
Lewis wrote "It Can't Happen Here" and in that novel he concluded:
" where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a
dictatorship as ours!" Even today the US Senate cannot bring itself to
apologize to the victims of lynching - 4,743 people killed (illegally) between
1882 and 1968," and we call ourselves a civilized nation! We have taken a
dire situation and intensified the risks, destroyed the impediments that might
have slowed the rise of anarchy, and all the while we have remained deaf, dumb
and blind to what we are creating - WHY?
If the dead of all those wars we
entered into - to "Make the World Safe for Democracy" were to be heard on this subject the
chorus would be deafeningly opposed to our present course of action. Yet the
public in its bubble world of profits and power continues on the one sure path
that will bring death and ruination to all the Outlaws say they represent. These men and women who died in our
wars would not applaud what has been done with the sacrifice they did not really
choose to make. In WWII 50 million died, for this?
In the two wars we have going now,
there are officially over 1700 dead, and there have been over a hundred-thousand
exposed to Depleted Uranium and the malignancy of that disease that continues to
kill long after the guns have been silenced: this affects not only the GI's but
their families as well - yet the public is still not concerned enough to demand
real answers from those who got us into this situation.
How many more must die before we begin
to scream ENOUGH? What's the magic number here 2,000, 10,000 - 20,000 dead? Who
decides what that weighty number will be, who will stand against this injustice,
not just for our dead but also for all the people that have been maimed or
displaced or killed because of our belligerence? Why is it so hard for Americans
to understand that the people we kill for the OUTLAWS all have families, dreams
and would have had futures, had we not slaughtered them, too!
Why do we seemingly not want to know
who is responsible for pulling the strings on our homegrown Outlaws - the thugs
who sign the orders - then lie about the facts of what they have done and
continue to do hourly? One reason that seems to hold a lot of sway is that
Congress no longer makes our laws, they've sold that privilege to the highest
bidders.
The Government of the United States of
America is now of, by and for the Corporations. These are the same corporations,
the Corporatocracy, to whom the people of the USA have bequeathed a literal and
legal eternal life, while at the same time allowing their own corporate
"best interests" to over-ride the needs and interests of the very
citizens who made all that largess possible. All the terms of any agreements
that the workers for such companies signed on for - are now subject to
nullification at the whim of the corporations. The retirement funds, the
health-care, and the long-term interests of those who made the profits happen,
now represent nothing but "excessive costs" to the corporations that
are failing on all fronts, because they have destroyed any incentive for anyone
besides the upper-level managers to profit from their existence.
But it gets worse. Americans gave the
newly minted outlaw corporations the legal right to exist - now those
corporations have no further need for working Americans, because now they have
foreign markets to buy their outsourced products, so the public here is overripe
to become nothing more than a wage-enslaved herd of animals to be directed and
controlled by what suits the corporations - at each and every turn in their
corporate schedule for hegemony.
The answers to the above questions are
not pretty, but it goes something like this. War is GREAT for business and it's
especially good for stockholders, people with jobs at those corporations who
hold the SECRET no-bid contracts, and for insiders. Normally Wars are good for
the initiating country for the profits that are generated by that action. In
this case, since the jobs have been outsourced, down to and including the
manufacture of American Flags in China - this nation has actually lost millions
of jobs because of the war, and its demands upon our outsourced corporate
legions whose profits have never been greater. All this while the public was
told to "just go shopping!"
http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2003/art9.htm
Perhaps it is understandable if the
above is the real reason why so many refuse to "know" what's going on
- this could explain many things. For instance if the above is true, then it
would definitely be understandable that many would indeed fear for the loss of
their jobs, or the loss of the income generated in their 401K's, or their stock
portfolios - IF they were to publicly demand accountability from those who
created 911 and then started these wars to cover-up their crimes. No wonder all
the little lambs chose silence over protest: that is what the
"smart-money" always does!
Congratulations are in order - it took
real perseverance to turn this democracy on its head, and to learn to worship
Outlaws while we are killing everything that we have always professed to
"believe in." Welcome to the Dumbocracy of the New United States of
the Corporatocracy. We have created a prison of the mind that will destroy any
rational thoughts we ever had of being human. Maybe, we have become nothing more
than pod people without the capacity for critical thought. We have abdicated all
that we would each have brought to being viable beings, opting instead to live
as footnotes in the margins of the lives of faceless, soulless corporations. In
the final analysis we are destroying all that makes each of us valuable - to
ourselves or to others.
Think about it - do you really want to
be the excuse given for the USA to continue to live as the world's sole
Dumbocracy? Break the Silence - NOW!
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