Bend Over - and Vote Republican (or Centrist Democrat)
NEVER!
Never before in the history of this country and others have so many corporate executives been in the position to raid company pension plans, sell off company assets and drive companies to ruin - all the while voting themselves and those who support them huge obscene salaries, stock options and severance packages - enough to enrich themselves and their families for decades and decades to come. They have become a force almost too powerful and too entrenched to bring down. They own our government - bought and paid for with stolen money and money that drips with the blood and tears of people around the globe. They own our military and the horrendous weapons and technology required to enslave the world's people. They own the puppet governments of too many other nations and they are absolutely drunk with power.
In this country, these craven vultures exist only with the approval of a large segment of foolish working class Americans and elected representatives who are inexplicably aiding and abetting the destruction of the American way of life. For some unexplainable reason, average Americans are standing by dazed and limp as their futures and those of their children are sold and pocketed by a greedy bunch of pirates that are driving this nation to ruin.
Too many people of this nation are being mesmerized by morally corrupt politicians who live and prosper along with the corrupt corporate profiteers who are raiding and looting just as the armies and regimes of imperialist madmen did in ages past. Our nation has been hi-jacked by these crazed pirates and too many of my friends and neighbors are going along out of fear and abject ignorance.
A large segment of Americans are grinning and dancing to the puppetmasters who have learned how to pull people's strings in such a way that those who march and dance at the puppetmaters whim are no longer aware they are being controlled. Blind religion and patriotism are the fuels that they use to feed these fires of fear, hatred and divisiveness that put us at odds not only with each other but with other nations and their peoples.
WHEN ?
When will the average person in this country wake from this hypnotic stupor and realize they are being scammed and robbed by corrupt profiteers - criminals obsessed with acquiring money and power at any cost who have grabbed the reins of power and are bankrupting this nation and setting the world on fire? It's bi-partisan. Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of crimes against our nation and other nations around the globe.
It's not enough to quote the warnings of our forefathers and past presidents and patriots. Those warnings and the protestations of scholars, scientists and elder statesmen have no effect. The words of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and John Kennedy are ignored or dismissed as no longer relative in this world we now live in. Neither those in power nor those who continue to vote for them are listening. We are too far down the slope to expect this runaway decadence and corruption to respond to the wisdom and warnings of the great leaders of our past.
Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights and even our laws are considered the same - no longer applicable in this new world order.The corrupt leaders are too caught up in their insatiable quest for money and power and the citizens who vote to continue this cycle of madness are too caught up in a blind patriotic and religious frenzy to see where this madness is leading.
I long and pray with all my might for this blindness and fog of reason to be lifted - that people here and around the globe wake up and rise up against the evil that is tearing this nation and the world apart and destroying the earth's environment in the process.
TERRORISM!
Terrorism is not a great threat to America as those in power would have you believe.
Throughout history most nations have fought off attempts by imperialistic powers to subdue and annihilate them. Many of the people of the oil-rich nations of the mid-east feel threatened in this manner at this time. Most of the people of these nations have been oppressed and denied the right to share in their nation's and the world's wealth. They have suffered greatly under the force of a corrupt ruling class that strips the nation of it's wealth and does not share it with the people. Most see the United States, Great Brittan, Europe and Israel as the evil powers that support the corrupt rulers of their nations and the reason for their oppression. The people of these nations are ready to die rather than allow a continuance of suffering and oppression continue. Only a sharing of the wealth and freedom from tyranny will bring peace to the mid-east and an end to Muslim terrorism. .
The world and this nation has faced real threats in the past. We and other nations have fought off those who assembled powerful armies and would conquer the world if not confronted and defeated. We have faced nuclear annihilation from an opposing super power with thousands of rocket-deliverable nuclear weapons and we have prevailed. The terrorists we now face are in no position of power to obliterate us or take over our country - or to rule the world. There is no army on earth powerful enough to invade and conquer America at this time. They can kill a few of us like they did on 9/11. They might even detonate a nuclear device that would kill and injure many thousands in one of our large cities - but they cannot conquer us.
However there is a powerful force - a malevolent group of people - who can conquer us if we allow them to. The terrorist threat by a few groups of angry Muslim zealots or those who are crying out for freedom and reform is not the greatest threat this nation or any other nation faces.
It's not terrorism - terrorism is just somthing to strike fear and hold your attention as your pocket is being picked.
It is corruption and capitalistic greed gone mad that is the greatest threat to this nation and to world peace.
It is this same threat that has created global warming which is a by-product of this cancerous insanity that we have allowed to grow and thrive.
Keeping us divided and at war with one another only plays into the hands of those who profit from it. People at our level must not allow those in power to use religion and fear to keep us divided and powerless. We must join hands and come together to defeat this cabal of evil profitmongers - who are the real terrorists in disguise - before it's too late.
Gary
"I think we're at a moment in American history that is unique. I think we are in danger of losing our democracy because of the domination, the monopoly of power being exercised by huge economic interest, both directly and indirectly." ~ Bill Moyers
For more reading on this issue:
Executives' Pensions Are the Deal of a Lifetime
By Kathy M. Kristof
Major corporations throughout the country are abandoning their pensions, saying the benefits are too costly and less important, with the widespread adoption of individual retirement accounts such as 401(k) plans. But many of these same companies are retaining special pension plans for top executives, saying they would lose the top brass to rivals without them.
Corporate Wealth Share Rises for Top-Income Americans
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003.
President Jonah (MUST READ)
Gore Vidal, Truthdig
Novelist Gore Vidal argues that America under Bush is evincing characteristics of the post-fall-of-Rome Dark Ages.
Terrorism: not who but why?
The roots of bombings in Madrid and London, Istanbul and Baghdad lie in a complex mixture of political, cultural and religious influences. Turi Munthe clears the path to a better understanding.
Books:
Dark Ages America - The Final Phase Of Empire
By Morris Berman, Catholic University of America
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