John R. Hall
Then, of course, there was the Occupy Wall Street fiasco, and maybe it's just me but I haven't seen any apparent change as a result. The 99% of us remain the feudal serfs of the 1%, fighting their wars, paying their taxes to fund those wars (now fought in so many ingenious and creative new ways), guarding their national borders, overflowing prisons, banks, and gated communities, mowing their lawns, mopping their floors, swallowing their incessant media swill, and wiping their asses.
On Maui, where Monsanto Biotechnology Corporation routinely poisoned both The Valley Isle and its population with impunity, we carried out several tepid, police-directed demonstrations. "Stay on the sidewalk! Cross intersections only on green lights! Keep moving because if you stop, you're loitering and subject to arrest!" All with Monsanto goons watching and recording from their signature nondescript beige Chevy trucks. They were festive, fun, weekend events, complete with dogs and children, and guess how much good they did! At any given moment in the U.S. of A., we are all being exposed to untold millions of gallons of Monsanto's Roundup Weed and Sentient Being Killer. Glyphosate: The gift that keeps on giving. You can't walk into a Lowe's or Home Depot without stumbling over a few thousand plastic jugs of the malignant carcinogenic fluid labeled "Roundup".
Somehow, the C.I.A. must have been too involved with moving drugs and weapons in Southeast Asia, back in my youth, to pay attention to how well Wall Street's media circus was covering the protests on U.S. soil. Thanks to nonstop, uncut film footage, the anti-war movement grew from the overt actions of a small minority into something popular with a majority of citizens. The scale was tipped after Kent State, and the Vietnam War ended with a whimper. The 1% learned the lesson well, and subsequent civil disobedience in the streets has been marginalized or ignored, as per official government directives to all mainstream "news" sources. During the Vietnam days we'd chant "The whole world is watching." Today most U.S. citizens don't have a clue what their government does in their names, and their reality consists of so-called reality television shows.
Those of us who refuse to attend the circus have a thankless task ahead of us if we attempt to spoil the illusions for the vast majority. We Americans have been assured that we are God's (the Christian god's) chosen ones. We live in the land of the free and home of the brave. We are Obama's exceptional people, and superior to any and all of the lesser folks in inferior countries. Our government reserves the right of Wall Street to worldwide resources, regardless of where they might be located. Our warfare now includes mass-starvation and death through sanctions and embargos, bought and staged foreign government crushing demonstrations, assassinations, and whatever it takes to maintain power and control over our underlings and their valuables.
Protesting for causes is a completely worthless act, unless you just need to blow off some steam and shout in the streets without being locked up for insanity or for disturbing the peace. The only possible way to end racial profiling is to open the borders of all nations to every earthling. Ending S.B. 1070 would be the equivalent of pissing on a forest fire. Occupying Wall Street might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the only way to end hunger, homelessness, poverty, obscene wealth, and voracious greed would be to take control of government out of Wall Street's hands, placing it firmly into the embrace of all citizens. Even poor ones. Monsanto's crimes against humanity are only one tiny facet of the injustice perpetuated by thousands of predatory corporations which claim both personhood and immunity from responsibility for their crimes. And if you still believe that marching in the streets for social issues will do any good, perhaps you should be locked up for insanity. Your voice goes unheard, and makes no noise at all, falling upon absent ears like a tree in a remote, unoccupied forest.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death, claimed the Bard of Avon. People who agree with my assessments of the foolishness of mankind have been warning about nuclear holocaust and the end of the world for my entire life. Now it appears that the arms race with a reluctant but goaded Russia is kicking back into high gear, and that the end time may indeed be at hand. I don't usually like being wrong, but in this case I don't want to be right. And buying a portfolio of stock in corporations specializing in the manufacture of W.M.D.'s would be no silver lining in that dark cloud. I hear that rich folks bleed just like you and me. Let's do everything we can to avoid finding out. Hasta la victoria siempre!
NOTE: John Hall’s post examines the American imperial system’s resilience as it remains ensconced in (and shielded by) its cocoon of pseudo reality and induced passivity. For an excellent companion piece, be sure to read Ed Curtin’s Jeffrey Epstein and the Spectacle of Secrecy.
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