- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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?
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- If the dead of all those wars we entered into - to "Make
the World Safe for Democracy"
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!"
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- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2003/art9.htm
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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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- kirwan
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- Jim Mortellaro
- 6-17-5
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- Kirwan -
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- You ask too much of our people. They no longer have a
will. No longer have strength of spirit. No longer. And I'm not so sure
that you are correct. That Americans fear for their jobs, etc. Maybe not
as much as you credit them.
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- Maybe it's just a loss of interest and of strength of
will. Maybe Americans are so dumbed down by their own media, by the "Free
Press," dumbed down by the lies of their elected officials and those
who seek public office, by their elected 'leaders,' that they are of the
mistaken opinion that they will make it all better. After all, is not that
the reason "The People" elected them?
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- Of course, this is all a cop out. Americans are merely
lemmings, following the piper piping the same old worn out tunes, same
promises which are rarely or never kept. Maybe.
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- One thing is certain, Kirwan, to ask that The People
break their silence now, is foolish beyond measure. For they will not.
The time for a silent revolution, a revolution aimed at changing the corrupt
politicians in our government, ruled by money, not by their constituencies,
has passed us by. Only a real revolution will change us. And we've not
the guts for that.
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- Those of us who want just that are too damned old. Those
of us who do are too damned frightened. The rest of us just don't give
a damned.
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- So much for speaking out.
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