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Tuesday, February 7, 2006 |
What we are experiencing at present is the revolution of the greedy, a return to past centuries of mass poverty and oppression for the benefit of the wealthy few.
Bush is increasing his 'defence' (read 'war') budget while at the same time cutting down social security. All natural resources, services and products (consumer products and intellectual property) are viewed as a road to profit. Money is the guiding principle and justification for everything, money is the cause and the creed, which finally means - to quote Bush himself 'tyranny and death as a cause and a creed'.
The tools to reach this state of corporate fascism is privatization and deregulation. Privatization is the theft of natural resources and public services, which belong to the population as a whole and for which the people have paid their taxes.
Deregulation is the tool to reduce the influence of the state and the population on the quality and the control of this increased domain of private property. The state is seen only as the authority that should ensure the power of the corporations, privatized monopolies; in short, the state is meant only to protect the corporations from public demands and protests. Bush has reduced corporate liability.
Behind the faceless mask of the corporations there is a small elite of callous, wealthy neocons, who think they are above the law, 'jenseits von Gut und Böse', beyond good and evil. Good and evil exist outside their own world, the neocon has no business with both of these. Or at least that is what they think. As you sow so shall ye reap. The absence of human considerations is evil.
The return to war as the ultimate tool to gain power and wealth is a return to barbarism. And it is futile. It can only result in catastrophe.
The concomitant inflation of patriotism is needed to give weight to a hollow ideology. Patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel, Samuel Johnson said.
There is no bravery in the American soldier. Violence breeds more violence and hatred.
And if we only look at the economic cost of the war in Iraq, it is huge, and rising.
Yahoo: "The International Relations Center and the Institute for Policy Studies, estimate that the war's cost per citizen has reached $727 - or close to $3,000 for a family of four. By the end of this year, those figures should reach about $1,300 per citizen, or more than $5,000 for that family of four."
The neocons are needing all the money they can steal from your social security to continue their wars. The rich already profit from the numerous tax cuts and the war and oil industry. 'You can drop dead' is the neocon motto. Death suffuses the neocon world. They are planning new and more weapons of mass destruction and new wars.
"Our leaders were never trustworthy, yet many people were only too willing to believe them - and they may do so again."
"But note how a central part of the propaganda campaign works: several months ago, the usual estimate for the time Iran would need to develop nuclear weapons was about ten years. Then it got reduced to five years. Now, people speak as if Iran will have nuclear weapons in the next few months. The unavoidable implication of this tactic is the obvious one, the one that Bush used so disastrously with Iraq: we need to act now. We have to do something now. There is only one word to describe this approach: it is not reasoned discourse - it is hysteria, pure and simple."
Well, the hysteria among the population is the aim the Bush administration is trying to achieve, to get the people to support his new war. The real reason for the haste is in all probability the fact that Iran wants to replace the petrodollar with the euro for oil transactions.
The worst evil is the evil perpetrated in the name of freedom, it is the perversion of morality and justice. Lies and brutal force are the hallmark of the criminal.
12:07:32 PM 
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