what does this socialist clap trap have to do with liberty???? Vic
Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Iron Fisted America > > By Charles Sullivan > > To further complicate matters, the vast majority of the media is under the > control of the same corporate oligarchy that direct the government. The > corporate media, as the name implies, serves the corporate interest. Little > that the corporate media tells us has any relevance to truth as most of us > know it. The corporate media are purveyors of lies and distortions that are > used to subdue and control the public mind, often for sinister purposes. Seek > alternative channels of information that flow from non corporate sources. > There you will find what you need to know to be free. > > Every branch of government and ninety nine percent of the media operates in > the corporate interest-not in the public interest, as we all too willingly > assume. America is not even close to resembling a democracy, as the national > myth proclaims-it is a corporate oligarchy. It is a deeply class divided > society in which the rich prey upon the poor. Here it is the poor who do the > bidding of the rich. It is the poor who fight the wars for the economic gains > realized by the power elite. It is the antithesis of Robin Hood. Here the > rich routinely steal from the poor. They rob them senseless and call it > democracy! > > America is a land of contradictions. Under the edicts of unrestrained > capitalism, the people serve primarily as drones and producers of capital for > the wealthy. The majority of the people are mindless consumers of goods. They > are automatons at the service of the unscrupulous gods of finance and > material power. Their needs do not matter to those in power. They exist to > cheer the captains of commerce on in their joyful work of consuming the > planet. > > The world knows only too well that America is a violent nation. They know, > many of them first hand, that America preys upon the poor and the > defenseless. The manner in which the corporate oligarchy that drives American > politics treats its own down trodden is a microcosm of how it treats the rest > of the world. The extermination of the indigenous people of North America by > pious Anglo invaders is an atrocity that makes the Nazi liquidation of the > Jews pale in comparison. America has yet to come to grips with its initial > episode of genocide and ethnic cleansing that may be at the root of its > pathological behavior. The annihilation of the American Indian was just the > beginning of what capitalism could do. > > Multinational corporations view the earth as a vast aggregation of > commodities and markets to be exploited for profit. They do not regard the > world's citizens as human beings. They are sources of cheap labor and > consumers, to be exploited by those in power. Ecosystems and the biological > systems that promote life are summarily ignored by corporatism. > > Global capitalism is a malignancy intent upon devouring the world. It seeks > to commodify everything and every one. It intends to privatize the entire > planet, effectively placing the world's resources into the smooth, grasping, > white hands of a few wealthy individuals. This explains the existence of the > Bilderbergers, an annual gathering of the world's wealthiest and most > powerful people who meet to determine the course of global capitalism. Along > with the World Bank and the IMF it sets the world's financial and political > agenda. It also represents the establishment of a world government-George > Herbert Walker Bush's 'New World Order.' > > From cradle to grave the collective American mind is under the all pervasive > assault of corporatism. This is all we have ever known; it is all most of us > will ever know. It explains our combined failure to see the world in terms > that can only be described as Disneyesque. Every day in America is an > adventure in the implausible Land of Oz As a people we have no conception of > reality. We have been carefully insulated from the pain and suffering we have > inflicted and continue to inflict upon the world. Quite literally, we not > know not what we do. But even more tellingly, we don't want to know. > > When we invade sovereign nations we are told that we are liberating its > oppressed people from the throes of tyranny. When we enslave and torture > Islamic people we are told that they are terrorists who mean us harm. In true > Machiavellian terms, the ends justify the means. This also explains why we > cannot come to grips through honest reckoning with the horrors of the > national tragedy we call history. We have unelected leaders who lie, maim and > murder and we call them Christian. Isn't that strange? > > We target nations with left wing leaders like Venezuela's popular president > Hugo Chavez and call them threats to democracy, when we ourselves have no > conception of what democracy looks like. The only threat that Hugo Chavez > poses to the United States is that he places the needs of the people above > the profits of multinational corporations; and that is as un-American as it > gets. Anti-capitalist equates to un-American in the diseased mind of > corporatism. This is why the U.S. has deposed not only Chavez but Aristeed in > Haiti, and a whole litany of South American pro people, pro environment, pro > democracy, and pro labor leaders. That is why CIA operatives have routinely > instigated coups against the hemisphere's most popular democratically elected > leaders. That is why so many of them have been assassinated by bullets paid > for by our tax dollars. Countless others have been beaten, tortured, and > disappeared, courtesy of U.S. tax dollars. > > The corporate oligarchy loathes democracy because democracy demands the > evenhanded distribution of wealth. It demands accountability. It requires > justice. It seeks to know truth. No matter what pretensions we may make to > the contrary, the U.S. has a long history of opposing democracy throughout > the world. The undeniable proof lies hidden in our national history; a > history that has been carefully thrust down the memory hole of an Orwellian > nightmare we have unwittingly helped to forge through unfettered complacency. > > From North Korea, Viet Nam, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela, > Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, the Philippines, Cambodia, the former Soviet > Union, Iran, Syria, Eastern Europe, Haiti, and Jamaica-I could go on > indefinitely-America's military might has always opposed and snuffed out > fledgling democracies. Every U.S. military intervention during the past fifty > years and longer acted to put down insurrections of popular movements of the > people. A thoughtful examination of the evidence makes it clear that the > obvious and only possible conclusion is that our military might is used not > to promote liberation, democracy, and freedom. It serves as the iron fist of > capitalism to smash the face of people's movements for social justice and > autonomy. U.S. militarism is the arm of corporatism that invades and plunders > sovereign nations to rob them of treasure and resources. Its purpose is to > open new markets to capitalism; to create pools of slave labor and a constant > stream of cheap goods for American consumption. It is Wal-Mart amplified a > hundred thousand times and projected across the globe. > > None of this is news. We are simply witnessing the unrestrained avarice of > the rich and powerful running rough shod over the principles of democracy and > social justice. It is the continuation of Manifest Destiny. It is the sound > of the rich and powerful preying upon the poor and the innocent. None of it > is what we have been told. We must open our eyes and our minds to see it for > what it really is. We must come to grips with our own sordid history and all > that it has wrought. Only then we can begin to do something about the present > and the future. > > Charles Sullivan is a furniture maker, photographer, and free lance writer > living in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. He welcomes your comments > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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