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Tens of millions of phone calls,
indeed all the phone calls made by US citizens, have been monitored by the
government since 2001. This is the largest data bank ever compiled in
history and it involves trillions upon trillions of conversations that have
been illegally monitored by this government, in service to the
Corporatocracy that runs our lives. The phone companies must answer for
this invasion of privacy and explain their willingness to violate the
Constitutional protections of the Fourth Amendment, along with the
provisions of 1978 law governing spying of US citizens. Government says in
one breath that they are being selective, in the next breath they say that
all conversations of every American have been monitored. This constitutes
WAR upon all the citizens of the USA. This was meant to be a secret war,
until USA Today broke the story - now the government and all the
corporations that colluded in this vicious attack upon us all, must be
called to account in public for this crime!
The US is facing a cloak and
dagger attack on all fronts by major corporations that have held their
hidden agendas for over a hundred years. Corporate interests have been at
stake in every war we've had since the First World War and the
Corporatocracy has been funding both sides of all the major conflicts since
about 1914. With this latest revelation it is clear that the USA was the
original target all along. This is a war without principles or human
values. It's being waged to establish unilateral control over everyone and
everything and that needs to change!
It should be noted that on March
17, 2003 Bush hired "the former head of the KGB (the secret police of
the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov," as a consultant
to the US Department of Homeland Security.
Primakov joined another Russian,
Oleg Kalugin, KGB (Ret) with the Department of State Security, also as a
part of Homeland Security. On January 1, 2005 Kalugin was replaced with the
infamous and sinister Silver Fox himself (his former CIA code name), Gen.
Markus Wolf. "Wolf was the head of the international intelligence
gathering arm (HVA) of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi."
This went a long way toward perfecting the spying and wiretapping of the
entire USA, and insured that Americans would become the next victims of
State Terrorism ala the USSR and Communist East Germany. (1)
Corporate conspiracies were
thwarted back when they were the Robber-Barons: Back when there were no
rights for women, for slaves, for children, or for workers. There were
rights but only for major players that held nearly total power over all
that worked for them. There were Wildcat strikes, and a rebellion that was
only deflected when government intervened to create protections and perks
for those who had to work to live. Over the last four decades those
protections and guarantees have been systematically destroyed, so that
Americans are again virtually defenseless against the NEW Robber-Barons
behind their corporate shields.
The USA; began with a
Mega-Holocaust against the native population that lasted over 400 years and
killed in excess of 50 million people. There was also Mexico and the
Philippines. All that blood and death became the real foundation for this
nation. These actions were each supported by America's claim to
"special considerations," under either "Manifest
Destiny" or The Monroe Doctrine: each of which claimed special rights
for America. The rights to life or liberty for those we slaughtered had no
standing because American Colonial aspirations were at stake: Very
reminiscent of what is happening in Palestine now. Fast forward to the
latest unilaterally declared wars and we can see that the whole project has
moved from past wars on others in this Hemisphere - to finally become what
it always was - a War upon the World!
With the illegal and unilateral
war on Iraq, the excesses of war itself have risen a thousand fold and have
increased the elite's ability to shatter laws at will to complete their
power grab unchallenged. The communications corporations that did the
spying did so eagerly, because it was part of how they fit into the overall
plan. In the last three to four decades, the US unleashed a new series of
wars throughout this Hemisphere, to strengthen American diplomacy, by
invasion and regime-change, by the casual use of death squads, and by an
ever-increasing perversion of national economies that used the IMF and the
World Bank - to destroy sovereignty throughout the region. Under cover of "The Cold
War" and the exaggeration of a Communist threat this was only
practice - for what was yet to come.
Many, if not all the American
officials involved in the brutal Hemispheric wars of the late 1970's and
80's - Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, the guns for drugs
and the weapons for Hostages fiasco's - resurfaced in this Bush
administration, to direct this War upon America. Those of us who fought in
the Reagan years first thought that those who were convicted were dead and
buried politically. Then under Bush II, the dead were resurrected to be
major players in the barbarity of the New World Order in Iraq, in Palestine
and in Afghanistan, and in all that is slated to follow. This can be
stopped if these retreads from the 1980's are barred from government jobs
and publicly investigated for what they've been doing for Bush and the
Corporatocracy.
This administration and its
sponsors apparently need Special-Ops people like Elliott Abrams to oversee
Middle Eastern affairs, despite his pleading guilty to a federal crime
during the Reagan years. There also was Otto Reich, accused of running an
unlawful domestic propaganda operation for Reagan; he was tapped as a
special envoy. Bush also recruited Adm. John Poindexter, convicted of
various federal crimes stemming from his service as national security
adviser to Reagan. Poindexter was chosen by Bush to head the controversial
Total Information Awareness data-mining project, an operation viewed as so
dangerous to privacy and civil liberties that it was formally stopped by
Congress. Most of the convictions obtained were overturned by presidential
pardons.
There was also John Negroponte,
accused of shielding human-rights violations. unlawfully supporting the
Nicaraguan contras, and overseeing death squads. After Negroponte's stint
as ambassador to the United Nations, Bush made him the director of national
intelligence. Likewise, then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales was
accused of writing the infamous "torture memo" that not only
approved of forms of torture but also suggested that the president could
violate federal law. Gonzales was later made attorney general. And former
CIA Director George Tenet was accused of the most serious intelligence
blunders of the century. It was Tenet who gave Bush the excuse to invade
Iraq by stating that the presence of weapons of mass destruction was a
"slam dunk." Bush gave Tenet the prestigious Presidential Medal
of Freedom. And of course there are many more including Oliver North and
Richard Armitage, a former undersecretary of Defense, and former assistant
to Colin Powell, along with John Bolten, Richard Pearle and a whole host of
others. Reagan's polices in Latin America were approaching major criminal
charges and crimes against humanity when Poppy Bush stepped in to pardoned
the convicted and seal the records.
When people of the United States
gave up their citizenship to become "consumers"- the stage was
set for complete capitulation to whatever might follow. The Corporatocracy
is "successful" because they are not bound by any need for
self-responsibility, or the public good - their only obligation is to
profits, for the shareholders of course. Corporations are private
constructs with human privileges. People have to face consequences for
their actions, while corporations only need worry about market share. Their
solution to staying profitable is to control the monopolies they created to
eliminate choice; so that whatever happens - the public must turn to them
and continue to buy whatever they are selling - the oil and gas industry,
medicine, insurance, drugs, or the communications acts that have stolen the
airwaves that "the people" owned - until the Corporations turned
them into Big-Brother Incorporated - personified!
This new revelation of massive
spying on everyone in the country just confirms the truth beneath the lies
- read the financial particulars in the Patriot Acts, as they pertain to
what government can do with your bank accounts. If they find "anything
suspicious" in your life -- they can seize your bank accounts -- and
there is nothing you can do about it, because of National Security. This is
why they want to tap the phones of every American - so the government can
build a profile and then arrange for that to match whatever they want to
charge you with. The Corporatocracy has long-since become a law unto
itself. Now they've added their own private armies, inside the war zones;
without military or civilian oversight of their mercenary activities.
Private armies form the second
largest component of troops in Iraq. With this kind of corporate
involvement on the ground, under cover of "security"; when there is a split
between the military and private corporate purposes under Bush - it's the
corporate agenda that usually wins. Non-responsible mercenaries do whatever
they are told by those who pay them. They wear US uniforms, but do not
answer to military or civilian authorities. Corporations also decide who
they should ask for help, with whatever they're interested in at the
moment. Here's one example from inside Iraq - specifically Abu Ghraib. (2)
The Corporatocracy is raking in
those hundreds of billions that are being spent on the wars (6 billion a
month now), and the reconstruction that isn't, on the Gulf Coast here. They
designed US policies to ensure that their profits will never be
interrupted, by either wars or natural disasters. All that money in the
secret, no-bid, sole-source contracts, and virtually no responsibility for
anything that happens - no wonder they want the troops to stay. No
questions and no real investigations! They OWN the Congress, the Department
of Justice and the Courts, and they have a revolving-door arrangement with
the White House. The only way they lose is IF the public brings down these
sweetheart deals with those private corporations, and imposes corporate
responsibilities that could revoke corporate charters and force the
reorganization of their corporations! Guilty executives should be banned
from ever holding a management position in any business - IF and after -
they ever get out of Folsom or Attica!
Ordinary people need to re-claim
their citizenship and participate as citizenship requires. Americans should
downgrade "consumerism" from its position at the top of their lives to its
real place well below those considerations that are about freedom and life
and real possibilities in the world. (3)
It may sound insane to suggest
that people could leave themselves open to enslavement by something as
"American" as "consumerism:" That might be the case,
unless one looks at how employees of those corporations are treated each
and everyday. The evermore stringent control over employees, job-security,
wages, retirement, and health-care, the list is long and includes
monitoring not only of phone calls but of the private lives of employees as
well. But it's what those corporations do that is where the real threat
lies! Corporations have been spending furiously to patent seeds and plants,
and trees around the world. They've undertaken plans to buy out local
farmers or force them off their land - to virtually gain control of all the
land and whatever can be done upon that land, from farming to drilling to
clear-cutting or grazing - it will be their choice. They want to privatize
the fresh water supply for the planet, while they try to corner worldwide
markets for energy in all its forms. Timber, raw minerals of all kinds -
nothing has escaped the greed of these faceless entities that say they want
to kill four billion people, just to remake the world into something they
can manage. For those who doubt the role of corporations in controlling the
American public; have a look at this short piece of police footage from
Seattle - and think again about who is really preventing free-speech and
who indeed controls your rights! (4)
This began with those who claimed
a special status over all others in the world. Whether that's the Jews
today in Palestine or the Americans with the "Manifest Destiny"
they gave themselves so long ago. It is more than possible that these views
are only the by-product of a mind-set: A partial view that sees and
believes whatever it wants, in order to "create their own realities." When
challenged "special people" usually demand "the right to create that world
they have envisioned for themselves." What they won't tolerate are all
those laws and precepts that would create a world in which there is a
possibility; for love & life to co-exist with war & death.
Never-ending wars against a circumstance of terror can never be a purpose
for existence. We must find ways to learn to live together once again - or
most of us shall die alone - together.
Realizations of the oft-considered
kind could lead to real control over these wildly irresponsible
corporations: The corporate shells that we've allowed to rule our dreams,
our lives and even our most private thoughts must be destroyed by rules and
regulations! People must begin to re-examine the reasons, or lack thereof,
for all this death and open-ended war. People need to question how much of
their lives they really own - and how much of their lives they should give
to something as cold and brutal as the Corporatocracy; be that in purchases
from them, by way of products or services or in allegiances given - either
by force of need - or by willing cooperation. Every aspect of these
monstrous creations should be rethought. If that happens then people will
stand against the steel fist of corporate-dictatorship that is so thinly
veiled beneath the tattered shreds of what was once a velvet glove that
promised - a consumer's paradise - in exchange, of course, for all else
that might have ever mattered to you... (5)
Jim Kirwan
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