[3rdmilsocialism] Why are So Many Supporting Their Own Oppression?
- From: "(CHARLIE)" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:00:57 -0600 (CST)
Why are So Many Supporting Their Own Oppression?
The essence of all policies of the government of the United States of
America is to help large American corporations increase their profits,
often irrespective of public well-being. As it concerns manpower,
government facilitates business by initiating policies which will have
either a direct or an indirect bearing on the cost of labor. Therefore,
the U.S. government's economic and social policies consistently keep
millions of Americans on the borderline between subsistence and
starvation, desperately looking for work, any work. When and if they do
find some employment, it is usually at wages that are much lower than
needed to support their families, provide adequate housing, nutrition,
education and health care.
What welfare reform is about is cheap labor. It's about flooding American
labor market with dirt-cheap workers when the goal of big business is to
reduce the cost of labor as much as possible. The elimination of welfare
assistance for the poor is calculated to create a mass of people who will
be desperate to work, no matter how bad the wages and conditions are. It
will create a large pool of destitute unemployed people willing to work
for very low pay and will consequently drive down the wages of those who
still do have jobs. As employers find they can hire workers for much lower
pay, the effect will be to drive down wages overall.
http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/WorkfareSlavery
The only candidate who has consistently opposed welfare/workfare slavery
is unelectable. He is Ralph Nader.
http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/WorkfareSlavery?
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During the Gulf war, the United States proved that it could destroy the
highways of Iraq, but it could have used its resources to rebuild its own
system of highways. Bush showed that the U.S. military could destroy the
cities of Iraq, but meanwhile cities in the United States are decaying and
deteriorating. The U.S. bombing created conditions for health epidemics in
Iraq, but during the same period it was painfully clear that the country
could not offer adequate health care to its own people. The U.S.
government attacked Iraqi treatment of Kurds, Shiites, and other
minorities, but offered nothing to improve race relations in the U.S.
Indeed, the "smart bombs" used in the Gulf war will not help end
illiteracy in the U.S. or educate the youth. The high-tech bombing
programs will not help develop software for environmental protection or
urban planning. The medical experiments to develop antidotes to chemical
and biological weapons will not help the fight against AIDS and cancer.
The temporary jobs created to produce military equipment and supplies for
the Gulf did not translate into permanent jobs. Allowing women to serve in
the Gulf did not help with child care, the feminization of poverty, and
women's rights in the workplace. Controlling alcohol and drug use in Saudi
Arabia did not solve the problems of drugs and alcohol abuse in the United
States. Providing homes for half-a-million soldiers in the desert did not
help produce homes for the homeless in the United States.
Exit Strategy: Since Iraqis don't want us there anyway - except for those
who have been empowered by the U.S. who are not representative of anyone
except the U.S. and since Saddam has been competent at maintaining his
regime in the past, the U.S. has an exit stragegy: It should immediately
release Saddam Hussein from jail, since neither the U.S. nor it's proxy
government have any real legality for holding Saddam, anymore than a U.S.
imposed government has the legal right to govern Iraq and the U.S. should
sign a peace treaty with Saddam Hussein to reconstitute his army and
police force and keep the country from disintegrating including a
provision not to acquire the weapons of mass destruction - it didn't have,
and another proviso that Saddam Hussein agree not to sue the United States
(that is, George Bush, both father and son) for killing over 100,000
Iraqis in the first Gulf War and almost 40,000 Iraqis in the second Gulf
War, including Saddam Hussein's sons nor would he sue the U.S. and
coalition governments for environmental destruction and long term
diseases, including cancer from the use of depleted and not so depleted
uranium weapons of mass destruction against him and his country.
http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/WarPropaganda
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African-Americans comprised the most militant and politically active group
of soldier-resisters during the Vietnam era. Their resistance was a direct
reaction to the pervasiveness of racial discrimination within the
military. Although racism has always existed in the American military, as
it has in the larger civilian society, in some respects the military has
been more progressive. The armed forces instituted desegregation ahead of
many civilian agencies, and military service has always provided potential
advancement opportunities for African-Americans. In other respects,
however, the military does not have a good record. The arbitrary nature of
command authority can make life miserable for those who serve under
prejudiced commanders, and soldiers victimized by military injustice often
returned to civilian life embittered by experiences in the military.
Although it is not widely known or understood, the GI resistance movement
had a major part in the Vietnam experience. Never before in modern history
had the American armed forces faced such widespread internal resistance
and revolt. Often at great personal risk, hundreds of thousands of
soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors dissented and disobeyed military
commanders, in order to speak out for justice and peace. Their struggle
hastened American withdrawal from Indochina and played a major role in
finally bringing that tragic war to an end.
http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/SoldiersRevolt
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Suppose that some of the electors -- the people who under our
constitutional system conduct the real presidential election some weeks
after voters go to the polls -- aren't actually selected by the voters.
Impossible? Not if you give a close reading to the Supreme Court's
decision in the case of Bush v. Gore, which finally settled the
presidential election of 2000, if not to everyone's satisfaction. Under
that decision, there is no guarantee that the electors who are decisive in
choosing the next president of the United States will themselves be
selected by the people of the United States. That's because the justices
ruled in that case that state legislatures have unlimited authority to
determine whether citizens in their respective states shall be allowed to
vote for president at all.
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/UsurpingElection
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Attempts to expand the military without a draft would require attracting
recruits -- particularly those capable of learning needed specialties --
through higher pay scales and easier enlistment terms, increasing the cost
of expansion. In any scenario, rebuilding for nation building capability
will be expensive. Private contracting will be no solution; its use in
Iraq was predicated on a quick victory and a short aftermath. Will the
wealthier portion of the American public that has benefited from lower tax
rates be willing to surrender its advantages in order to fund military
rebuilding? Will powerful interest groups and broad sectors of the public
seeking to expand medical benefits be willing to see Medicare downsized?
Will major financial interests sit by while deficits mount? What about
competing budgetary demands for "homeland security" and squeezed social
services?
Something has got to give to make the military more viable: social
security, other social programs or a draft or just stop the wars..
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/AmericasStrategicDilemma
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In an effort to avert war Saddam Hussein, by presidential decree,
demonstrated his good intentions with a prisoner release. He offered to
talk. He said he didn't have any WMD. His top scientists said they didn't
have any. Bush is an idiot. Bush wanted his war.
In 1998 when the conflict between the U.S. and Saddam was reaching the
breaking point, Saddam ordered the release of all Arab prisoners held in
Iraq. Has America ever done that in it's entire 200 year plus history? Of
course not.
Not only did Saddam release all the prisoners in 1998, he did it again in
2002, with a prisoner amnesty for the 150,000 prisoners held in Iraqi
jails.
The U.S. has over 2,000,000 prisoners, including political prisoners
from Cuba and prisoners without rights at Guantanamo, Cuba..
There is no doubt -- even now to some moderate Republicans that we are
occupiers, not liberators - but the lie that the U.S. is in Iraq to free
Iraqis persists. There never has been a war that was not predicated on
national economic interests. And George W. Bush is not the first to fight
one for humanitarian reasons. Yet there are many who believe it is so
because there will always be a disconnect between reality and the
propaganda. That is why we need independent media -- to tell the truth and
to speak truth to power.
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/LiberatorsOrJailers
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Attempts to expand the military without a draft would require attracting
recruits -- particularly those capable of learning needed specialties --
through higher pay scales and easier enlistment terms, increasing the cost
of expansion. In any scenario, rebuilding for nation building capability
will be expensive. Private contracting will be no solution; its use in
Iraq was predicated on a quick victory and a short aftermath. Will the
wealthier portion of the American public that has benefited from lower tax
rates be willing to surrender its advantages in order to fund military
rebuilding? Will powerful interest groups and broad sectors of the public
seeking to expand medical benefits be willing to see Medicare downsized?
Will major financial interests sit by while deficits mount? What about
competing budgetary demands for "homeland security" and squeezed social
services?
Something has got to give to make the military more viable: social
security, other social programs or a draft or just stop the wars..
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/AmericasStrategicDilemma
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Big government has been around for about 500 years. It came about in the
16th century to centralize the tax system and raise enough money to
subsidize the NEW world-wide (a new world order) trading organizations,
which were the Dutch East India Company and the British East India
Company. They were granted monopoly rights to trade goods and human beings
(slaves) and bring the wealth back to their country of origin.
National states which were formed in the 1600s for the acquisition of
greater wealth also needed to raise large armies and navies, just as the
military continues to grow and expand today, to protect trade. Then a big
part of that wealth accrued from the slave trade. Today, it is slave labor
of a different kind; underpaid (underemployed) and no benefits. Big
governments take what they want. George Bush eliminated the Taliban and
installed a government in Afghanistan for the oil pipeline. The war
against Iraq will also be for oil. Governments invent reasons which sound
just but are hardly that, like Manifest Destiny, to acquire and settle
land, like the U.S. did when it took all of the land from the Indians and
much of the south west from Mexico. "Big Government" is beneficial to the
wealthy and right wing support essential to it's preservation.
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/SupportingYourOppression
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Bush Lies from the Third Debate
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/BushLies
Tons of Explosives Stolen - Enough explosives to fill almost 40 trucks are
missing from a former Iraqi military facility, the UN nuclear agency
confirmed...According to the New York Times, Al Qaqaa was supposed to be
under American control, but had been picked over by looters as recently as
Sunday..."How did they fail to secure ... tons of known, deadly explosives
despite clear warnings from the International Atomic Energy Agency to do
so?" senior Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart said in a statement. Another Bush
blunder
http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/
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Making Them Pay - It would be a mistake to believe that the primary
purpose of the US initiated war on Iraq was the expulsion of Saddam
Hussein from Kuwait. The expulsion was in fact no more than a means to
various ends: it is plain enough that the United States has no principled
(as opposed to tactical) objection to aggressions by sovereign states
against others, and so the reasons for the onslaught on Iraq must be
sought elsewhere. The US did not work to activate the United Nations in
military opposition to the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and other Arab
lands; to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor; or to the various South
African invasions of Namibia, Angola and Mozambique. Indeed, there is
evidence that it conspired, to varying degrees, in such invasions; and, of
course, the US itself has invaded many sovereign states (notably Grenada
and Panama in recent years). Moreover, in order to protect the war on
Iraq, the US sanctioned fresh contemporary or subsequent aggressions:
further Israeli incursions into Lebanon, the Syrian onslaught on East
Beirut, and the (post-Gulf War) Turkish invasion and occupation of
northern Iraq.
* Iraq in the New World Order
http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/MakingThemPay
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Stealing the Election: - With the electoral system it doesn't really
matter if there is voter fraud because the electors are not obligated to
listen to the voters anyway. With most state legislatures populated mostly
by Republicans doubt has been raised by some that the biggest voter fraud
will not be in the voting booth, it will be in the state legislatures and
the electoral college and if Kerry receives more of the popular vote, as
Gore did, the popular vote will be ignored and George W. Bush will be
chosen, this time by electors in the Electoral College and their
justification will be that it was good for the country.
* Election Fraud
http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/VoterFraud
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NOTE:
There isn't a lot of time left. And I am not just referring to the
election, whatever the outcome of that. Whoever wins this election the
battles will be the same.
We are embroiled in a cultural war, a populist anti-modernism, a civil
war which is about values more than a person's economic self-interest:
abortion {and a woman's right to choice}, capital punishment, gay
marriage, gun control, evolution vs creationism, prayers and religious
symbols in schools, and on and on and on, etc, at times crossing party
lines. There is a rapidly growing hysteria and fear, not unlike those
emotions which also fueled fascism in the 30s. We are at the cross-roads
and if we don't stop this right wing march now, we will see the world
change in the very worst way imaginable.
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