I remain unconvinced that the violent protests committed on the 11th of September, 2001, were in any contrived or a clandestine “inside job” perpetrated explicitly by the United States government.
There simply isn’t enough evidence to go down such a path. Many of the claims made by so-called “truthers” can be explained by alternate circumstances, could have occurred by means besides what these individuals purport, and ultimately do not seem very plausible to a rational audience.
Personally, I have little doubt that the United States government was well aware of the protests before they happened, and were in fact complicit in allowing the events to unfold...however; my reasoning in reaching such a conclusion is entirely anecdotal. Suffice it to say that precisely 24 hours PRIOR to these violent protests, on September 10, 2001, I was as a soldier placed on an unusual and irregular state of high alert in South Korea, the details of which I’ll share at another time...ultimately they’re not relevant to this particular post.
The horrifying and apocalyptic events that occurred on 11 September, 2001, invoked an unfamiliar and anxious degree of heart-striking fear into not just the American public, but the entire Western world. Citizens of the United States had not had such terror so uninvitingly introduced into their lives since December 7th, 1941...and this cataclysmic event, the attack on Pearl Harbor, to most of us existed only in the minds of our grandparents and were insufficiently recounted in history textbooks and sporadically re-created, recollected and exploited by dramatizations derived by Hollywood.
The fear experienced, particularly by citizens of the United States, were and remain well warranted. The idea that individuals...for WHATEVER reason, or WHOMEVER may be behind it...are bent on ending the lives of thousands of human beings in a matter of minutes is justifiably frightening. If people have the capacity, willingness and finance to commit THIS atrocity, then others are sure to follow.
We were RIGHTLY and JUSTLY a scared people. But while justified, no moment in United States history has so completely crystalized Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural declaration stating that “there is nothing to fear but fear itself” than the responses opted by the George W. Bush administration.
As it turns out, the most explicit thing for all of us to fear was our own easily manipulated fears and apprehensions.
MOST NOTABLE in those responsible for the next decade of United States history is ourselves. As a whole, US citizens abandoned completely our propensity for free-thought, critical perspective and analytical ability. While many held to these American values, MOST IN FACT DID NOT, and irresponsibly abandoned such rationality in favor of blind nationalism, misdirected and entirely dangerous adoptions of nationalistic fervor, not to mention a breed of aimed hatred and fascist phobias not seen since Franco, Mussolini and Hitler.
Collectively, the American public was given an historic opportunity to take an introspective assessment of her government’s policies and history, and she utterly failed. Utterly and tragically...FAIL.
So, before any of us revel in indignant shock and 20/20 hindsight moral platitudes regarding Bush’s actions following these violent protests, we should be careful to review our collective fever and hysterical bloodthirst that polluted the cultural waters in the days, weeks, months and even years in the wake of 9-11.
Next on the list of those that should be ashamed of the United States responses to September 11th is our media.
Highly gate-kept and for some time entirely submissive to their (monetary) sponsor’s wishes and interests, what should have been a guardian to truth and an active exposition of facts and real circumstances capitulated to hysteria and irrationality.
Genuine journalistic integrity, which had by 11 September, 2001 been already largely dismantled and popularly ridiculed and dismissed by an apathetic, spoiled and fattened public, failed entirely to do their job and instead cowed themselves to an abhorrent industry that holds the daily activities of Brittany Spears with a higher priority than ongoing wars, disturbing circumstances and questionable actions by her government.
While some clung to the pretense of honest journalism (and no question, it was indeed a pretense...neither honest nor genuine), others embraced the fervor and cashed in on American stupidity, most notably FOX “News”, conservative talk radio and right-leaning editorial banter.
I view the general response of the Western media as fitting in every imaginable way to the definition of “treasonous”, for this widespread and highly influential industry did more than any other empirical voice of the People (other than the People themselves) to rape the contract between citizens and news than has ever been exacted in the history of modern culture.
William Randolph Hearst has NOTHING on the egregious irresponsibility of modern US media in the wake of 9-11. NOTHING. Hearst is fucking Ida Tarbell compared to FOX “News”, CNN, MSNBC and the countless instances of local “news” outlets that cheerlead the reprehensible actions of the US government in the wake of 9-11.
Finally, I hold the United States government, and in particular her Commander in Chief, as disgustingly responsible for what our nation has done to the world in the last decade.
While our fear of terrorism was justifiable and real, what we should NOT have feared was our own government.
Regardless, the George W. Bush administration descended upon our fears like hungry vultures.
These assholes double-fisted everything they could suck politically out of the tragedy.
While this was actually OBVIOUS AND GROSSLY APPARENT AT THE TIME, in retrospect it is even easier now to understand and perceive (quite accurately) that the government reaction to 9-11 was a complete abortion of elected civic responsibility.
This is not surprising, since this kind of circumstance had already been firmly established as a status quo long before 9-11.
Rather than choose a path of responsible leadership, George W. Bush and those dictating his policies instead chose to pile fear on top of fear. The relinquishment of Civil Liberties via the “Patriot” Act, the embracement of torture and extraordinary rendition, the willingness to defile centuries old concepts of Habeas Corpus, Geneva Conventions, United Nations charters and the United States Constitution in effect endorsed additional anxiety throughout the ranks of US citizenry.
George W. Bush’s ultimate failure was being far more interested in the political capital available to his ideology than he was in appropriately and responsibly leading our nation through an extraordinarily difficult era. It is this failure that consequently fuels conspiracy theories regarding 9-11...if this individual and his policies lend themselves so much to the inherent violation of our Civil Rights and Liberties, what ELSE could he and his cohorts been capable of?
The answer: Anything.
Again, while I do not subscribe to most “truther” theories, were it to ever come out that Bush and DICK explicitly and intentionally planned and exacted the violent protests of 11 September, 2001, I would not find myself even remotely surprised.
The task of George W. Bush was to lead us away from fear. His task was to take on the enormous and difficult path in helping us critically understand why anyone would commit such atrocities upon us. His job was to discern truthful and hard-core historical advents that had and may in the future compel those predisposed to violent protest to kill nearly 3,000 human beings in little more than an instant.
Instead, he and his administration decided to embark upon paths fueled by nothing more than the cowardice, spineless and profiteering interests of power, greed and legacies of imperial conquest.
SO...
That is where we are at today. These are the consequences of OUR failure to be real patriots, or appropriately concerned and intellectually courageous citizens. It has lent entirely to the romper room that our media has manifested itself into, AND to the potently dangerous motives and actions of our government.
Can we, or WILL we, be more Civic, responsible and intellectually curious in the future? Honestly, it certainly does not appear so.
Barack Obama was elected with a call for “change” that reached a hopeful pitch in regard to this. Yet, the media remains doormats for their gatekeepers, unjust and dubiously justified wars rage on, and millions of US Citizen continue to anguish in the mires of poverty, sickness, stripped Civil Liberties, and are entirely devoid of the welfare guaranteed them by the United States Constitution.
If this is not a recipe for “9-11: 2.0”, I’m not sure what is. The lessons of Vietnam were clearly unlearned, and it is sadly apparent that the lessons of the last decade have been equally, if not more readily, eschewed by the American public.
Let’s see what happens.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Celebrating Death
***
In 2001 when protesters targeted US military and corporate targets in New York and Washington, D.C., US citizens were aghast and indignant to see footage of citizens of other nations in the streets, rallying and celebrating these vicious and criminal acts.
Indeed, the deaths of nearly 3,000 people are nothing for any person to celebrate.
Nor is the death of 1 person.
Even those I have little respect for, outright dislike, have deep world-view differences with, from personal to social relationships...not one of them would have their families, friends, supporters, citizens or press see me engaging in a macabre celebratory dance over their deaths.
As appalled as we all were at the burning of US flags and celebrations over the successful violent protest aimed at US interests and policies in 2001, there are as of today millions of citizens of the world equally appalled at footage of US citizens elated over the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
Revenge is not justice. Justice would have been to capture OBL alive and bring him before either a domestic or international court of law, where evidence of his crimes could be presented to a jury, his guilt or innocence be established beyond a reasonable doubt, and sentenced to punishment beyond that.
I certainly have no lament for Osama Bin Laden's death. I possess zero support or love for the guy whatsoever. He was a religious zealot that employed the use of violence in his struggle to realize his world view. I condemn all acts of violence and terror, whether committed by religious fanatics of the Middle East, religious fanatics in the Midwestern United States, or by deadly bombs guided by immoral masters of war in the Pentagon or any other military source, foreign or domestic.
I am emotionally neutral in the event of Osama Bin Laden's death...to me it seems that, rather than justice being served, a vicious killer has merely been killed by another vicious killer...
To me, witnessing US citizens en masse going to the streets and engaging in the act of celebrating death is not only just one more embarrasing moment for the US, but further sets my view that huge factions of citizens in the United States aren't anything but a reflection in the mirror to those that were elated by the violent protests of 11 September, 2001, and exhibit just about the same degree of class.
-R51
In 2001 when protesters targeted US military and corporate targets in New York and Washington, D.C., US citizens were aghast and indignant to see footage of citizens of other nations in the streets, rallying and celebrating these vicious and criminal acts.
Indeed, the deaths of nearly 3,000 people are nothing for any person to celebrate.
Nor is the death of 1 person.
Even those I have little respect for, outright dislike, have deep world-view differences with, from personal to social relationships...not one of them would have their families, friends, supporters, citizens or press see me engaging in a macabre celebratory dance over their deaths.
As appalled as we all were at the burning of US flags and celebrations over the successful violent protest aimed at US interests and policies in 2001, there are as of today millions of citizens of the world equally appalled at footage of US citizens elated over the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.
Revenge is not justice. Justice would have been to capture OBL alive and bring him before either a domestic or international court of law, where evidence of his crimes could be presented to a jury, his guilt or innocence be established beyond a reasonable doubt, and sentenced to punishment beyond that.
I certainly have no lament for Osama Bin Laden's death. I possess zero support or love for the guy whatsoever. He was a religious zealot that employed the use of violence in his struggle to realize his world view. I condemn all acts of violence and terror, whether committed by religious fanatics of the Middle East, religious fanatics in the Midwestern United States, or by deadly bombs guided by immoral masters of war in the Pentagon or any other military source, foreign or domestic.
I am emotionally neutral in the event of Osama Bin Laden's death...to me it seems that, rather than justice being served, a vicious killer has merely been killed by another vicious killer...
To me, witnessing US citizens en masse going to the streets and engaging in the act of celebrating death is not only just one more embarrasing moment for the US, but further sets my view that huge factions of citizens in the United States aren't anything but a reflection in the mirror to those that were elated by the violent protests of 11 September, 2001, and exhibit just about the same degree of class.
-R51
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Build the Green Army!
We must draw a clear line between ourselves and the enemy.
-Mao
We are not believers in armed or violent struggle. Throughout this conflict, a conflict that has ebbed and flowed for many hundreds of years between the powerful and the meek, a conflict that began its dramatic escalation during a period of industry and profit, we have seen many factions, rebellions, militias and radicals that have taken up arms and violent forms of protest against the pigs that oppress and murder in order to line their own pockets. While we cheer on the ideology and are sympathetic toward the plight of our comrades in Palestine, Europe, the Africas and Latin Americas, we do not believe that armed or violent resistance is either productive or effective.
The pigs have the media and the subdued conscience of the masses at their disposal. Violent acts committed by the people are easily manipulated by those that pull the strings and as history has proven, what may be rooted in heroic and noble motivations, what may stem from a deep sorrow of the suffering of the world's proletariat...this is in the end only seen by the masses in the terms in which the pig presents them. The struggles of the people are so easily compartmentalized and rationalized into descriptions of "terrorism", "radicalism", "communism", "socialism", etc. when the vehicle to present their grievances is one of violence.
We reject violent acts, but do not consider ourselves neutered or insignificant. We believe that by taking up no arms and proceeding with the struggle with organized, structured and vocal civil disobedience and peaceful protest that much more may be accomplished. We believe it is possible to facilitate extraordinary social change without the MP-5 or the AK-47 or the bomb.
To those that question or may scoff at the idea of an un-armed struggle, to those that consider relinquishing the fire arm or the Molotov Cocktail for the pen and the march to be acts of cowardice or compromise, we ask that the peaceful means in which institutionalized oppression have been taken on throughout history to be considered. We ask that the futility and counter-productive nature of violent acts and how that has played out througout history to be considered. We ask those that doubt to consider how effective and resiliant and what good has emerged from prison cells and caves in the wake of acts of terrible violence. We say to you that more times than not, what has been accomplished through violence has better served the pig than the oppressed, in that the pig convinces the masses that we are a source to be mightily feared and rejected lest a wicked society emerge in our wake. Violence is the tool of the pig, not the oppressed, and should be understood accordingly.
The crisis isn’t the result of the stagnation of development, but of development itself. Since the aim is to increase profit, development encourages parasitism and waste, harming whole social sectors, multiplying needs that it cannot satisfy, and accelerating the disintegration of social life. A monstrous apparatus is necessary to control, by means of manipulation and open repression, the tensions and revolts which it itself often provokes.
-Il Manifesto: The Necessity of Communism, extract from Thesis 33
We subscribe to many of the fundamental ideas of Marx and Mao, King and Gandhi, Meinhof and Arafat, Blanqui and Fawkes. We see the struggle of the oppressed. We see their displacement, their death, their enslavement and their suffering. We understand the nature and the reasons for their struggle, and we know who is to blame. We intend to hold the pig accountable and to dismantle their rotten, corrupt system and promote tangible equality, the re-distribution of wealth and human rights for all. We consider imperialism, apartheid, racism and misogyny to be our enemies. We consider those that rape and exploit the people of the world and their resources to be our enemies. We consider it to be our obligation and our duty to face such enemies and expose them to the face of the world and to be held in judgment of their crimes. Our aim is Justice. Our aim is global Liberty.
Consider how the pig has so effectively and thoroughly convinced the masses to blame the victim. The apartheid occurring in Palestine, for instance, and those that have fought the oppression bestowed upon them by the agents of a Western financed, hostile and religious government are almost universally considered by the Western public to be little more than brutal, animalistic and bloodthirsty figures whose goal is some kind of dark Islamic world domination. While some of these descriptions may be justifiably attributed to some that have fought such an oppression, it does not serve their cause in any case to inflict death and terror to voice their grievances or meet their goals.
We consider death and terror to be the weapons of the pig, employed by his bombs and invasions and his footsoldiers. We see a time in which the masses accurately perceive the true enemy and the true threat to their welfare and Liberty as the brutality of the State and their corporate masters, not the misguided or desperate act of the starving father. We see a time in which the masses accurately perceive the bombing of a neighborhood or the invasion of a city with deadly airstrikes and tanks and M-16's as acts of death and terror, not the perpetual cry of the impoverished or the tears of a motherless child. We see a time in which the nature of the State is exposed as the truly barbaric one, the real animal and the inevitable creators and source of bloodthirsty figures whose goal is indeed a dark world domination...not the exploited and manipulated masses or those that stand for their Liberation.
We consider the path to such a reality to be best accomplished through the revolution of the public conscience, rather than the violent, cumbersome armed revolution of the flesh, which has again, been proven to be vulnerable and susceptable to the lies of the pig. We consider the truth to be our weapon, rather than force or aggression. We see that in this era, the passages of information and truth can be realized with ease and stubborn persistance. We realize that we have the tools to speak, and speak loudly to the people of the world to both those that are oppressed and those that would choose to grind a boot-heel onto the throats of the oppressed. We realize that we should not take action that will lead us to be feared by our comrades or potential comrades...but rather take action that will lead us to exposing the pig...whose only real source of fear is the notion that the trough he sucks from to fatten himself may not be as full tomorrow as it is today. We indeed intend to create circumstances that will deplete their overflowing troughs.
We intend to spread truth, but we will not do so carelessly or with half-measures. We must be persistent, and we must be consistent. We ask our comrades and those that would participate in our struggle to understand that lies, deception, terror, greed and temptation are the tools and the weapons wielded by the pig. In return, we shall employ the use of truth, intellectual courage, altruism, selflessness and goodwill to sear through their weapons, disarm them and expose them for the paper tigers they are.
We ask our comrades, particularly those in the West and enjoying the fruits of an industrialized State, to consider the terrors they toil under daily. We ask them to consider to what extent they have become numb to their oppression and have had their perceptions subdued and co-opted. The pig quietly and deviously presents a low-grade threat to the Liberties of all, shackling the docile citizens of the West into perpetual servitude. From the glowing screens of monitors emitting from the cubicles...our prisons...we are told to participate, to serve the pig. To feed the pig. To be an agent and accomplice to the greed of the pig...or else. Or else you will lose your health care. Or else we will take your home. Or else you will end up in prison. Or else you will be impoverished. Or else you will sacrifice the welfare of your family and children. Or else you will be outcast. Or else you will not be beautiful. Or else you will not get fucked. Or else you will not be happy. Or else you will be ugly. Or else, or else, or else.
Justice is the justice of the ruling class. Faced with a justice system that speaks in the name of the ruling class—and speaks dishonestly—we can’t be bothered defending ourselves."
All power to freedom! Faced with a justice system that defends property and possessions better than it does human beings, we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
Faced with a justice system that makes laws against the people rather than for them, we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
...faced with a justice system that doesn’t see crime as a social phenomenon and which passes sentences that serve no social function...we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
...faced with such a justice system, I can’t be bothered defending myself, and we can’t be bothered defending ourselves. Imprison the state prosecutors. Where is the state prosecutor who will indict the state?
Workers of the world unite!
Venceremos!
-Thorwald Proll
We have spent long enough accepting a status quo that terrifies the masses into submission through such means. We reject being beaten any longer at the end of a corporate leash that promotes the consumption of their worthless products as the only path to normalcy. We reject the universities and the intellectual communities of the West that have turned their institutions into slave mills for the banking cartels. We reject the exploitation of home owners living in fear of their homes being repossessed, and the deceptive, serpentine manner in which the pig has manipulated such fears into the subjecation of the people. We reject an unsustainable system of debt that currently dominates our culture and grips millions by the throat like an iron vice. We reject the circumstance of our health and welfare being wielded over us like weapons, the idea that only the burgeoise are deserving of adequate medicine, clothing and shelter.
Further, we reject the violent exploitation of the third world and its people by the military industrial complex of the West. In most cases, the people of the third world do not have the luxury of the distraction and hypnosis enjoyed by the people of the West. Their enslavement is not veiled or placed upon them through manipulation or deceptive maneuvers. The people of the third world feel the physical lash of pig's whips and the cold steel of the pig's chains. The face of the pig is unmasked and the true brutality of his nature is revealed on the backs of millions...perhaps billions that would otherwise dwell peacefully on the soils of their homelands. We reject the terrorism of Western military installations and warthings that poc the landscape of the planet. We call for the collective voice of our comrades to cry out against this terrorism, this exploitation, this enslavement...this ongoing travesty.
Never believe us! (lol) ...or any information we share, as truth without checking the information independently! We ask to be proven wrong, as we subject ourselves to the light and scrutiny of truth and truth alone.
-GAF, December 2010
-Mao
We are not believers in armed or violent struggle. Throughout this conflict, a conflict that has ebbed and flowed for many hundreds of years between the powerful and the meek, a conflict that began its dramatic escalation during a period of industry and profit, we have seen many factions, rebellions, militias and radicals that have taken up arms and violent forms of protest against the pigs that oppress and murder in order to line their own pockets. While we cheer on the ideology and are sympathetic toward the plight of our comrades in Palestine, Europe, the Africas and Latin Americas, we do not believe that armed or violent resistance is either productive or effective.
The pigs have the media and the subdued conscience of the masses at their disposal. Violent acts committed by the people are easily manipulated by those that pull the strings and as history has proven, what may be rooted in heroic and noble motivations, what may stem from a deep sorrow of the suffering of the world's proletariat...this is in the end only seen by the masses in the terms in which the pig presents them. The struggles of the people are so easily compartmentalized and rationalized into descriptions of "terrorism", "radicalism", "communism", "socialism", etc. when the vehicle to present their grievances is one of violence.
We reject violent acts, but do not consider ourselves neutered or insignificant. We believe that by taking up no arms and proceeding with the struggle with organized, structured and vocal civil disobedience and peaceful protest that much more may be accomplished. We believe it is possible to facilitate extraordinary social change without the MP-5 or the AK-47 or the bomb.
To those that question or may scoff at the idea of an un-armed struggle, to those that consider relinquishing the fire arm or the Molotov Cocktail for the pen and the march to be acts of cowardice or compromise, we ask that the peaceful means in which institutionalized oppression have been taken on throughout history to be considered. We ask that the futility and counter-productive nature of violent acts and how that has played out througout history to be considered. We ask those that doubt to consider how effective and resiliant and what good has emerged from prison cells and caves in the wake of acts of terrible violence. We say to you that more times than not, what has been accomplished through violence has better served the pig than the oppressed, in that the pig convinces the masses that we are a source to be mightily feared and rejected lest a wicked society emerge in our wake. Violence is the tool of the pig, not the oppressed, and should be understood accordingly.
The crisis isn’t the result of the stagnation of development, but of development itself. Since the aim is to increase profit, development encourages parasitism and waste, harming whole social sectors, multiplying needs that it cannot satisfy, and accelerating the disintegration of social life. A monstrous apparatus is necessary to control, by means of manipulation and open repression, the tensions and revolts which it itself often provokes.
-Il Manifesto: The Necessity of Communism, extract from Thesis 33
We subscribe to many of the fundamental ideas of Marx and Mao, King and Gandhi, Meinhof and Arafat, Blanqui and Fawkes. We see the struggle of the oppressed. We see their displacement, their death, their enslavement and their suffering. We understand the nature and the reasons for their struggle, and we know who is to blame. We intend to hold the pig accountable and to dismantle their rotten, corrupt system and promote tangible equality, the re-distribution of wealth and human rights for all. We consider imperialism, apartheid, racism and misogyny to be our enemies. We consider those that rape and exploit the people of the world and their resources to be our enemies. We consider it to be our obligation and our duty to face such enemies and expose them to the face of the world and to be held in judgment of their crimes. Our aim is Justice. Our aim is global Liberty.
Consider how the pig has so effectively and thoroughly convinced the masses to blame the victim. The apartheid occurring in Palestine, for instance, and those that have fought the oppression bestowed upon them by the agents of a Western financed, hostile and religious government are almost universally considered by the Western public to be little more than brutal, animalistic and bloodthirsty figures whose goal is some kind of dark Islamic world domination. While some of these descriptions may be justifiably attributed to some that have fought such an oppression, it does not serve their cause in any case to inflict death and terror to voice their grievances or meet their goals.
We consider death and terror to be the weapons of the pig, employed by his bombs and invasions and his footsoldiers. We see a time in which the masses accurately perceive the true enemy and the true threat to their welfare and Liberty as the brutality of the State and their corporate masters, not the misguided or desperate act of the starving father. We see a time in which the masses accurately perceive the bombing of a neighborhood or the invasion of a city with deadly airstrikes and tanks and M-16's as acts of death and terror, not the perpetual cry of the impoverished or the tears of a motherless child. We see a time in which the nature of the State is exposed as the truly barbaric one, the real animal and the inevitable creators and source of bloodthirsty figures whose goal is indeed a dark world domination...not the exploited and manipulated masses or those that stand for their Liberation.
We consider the path to such a reality to be best accomplished through the revolution of the public conscience, rather than the violent, cumbersome armed revolution of the flesh, which has again, been proven to be vulnerable and susceptable to the lies of the pig. We consider the truth to be our weapon, rather than force or aggression. We see that in this era, the passages of information and truth can be realized with ease and stubborn persistance. We realize that we have the tools to speak, and speak loudly to the people of the world to both those that are oppressed and those that would choose to grind a boot-heel onto the throats of the oppressed. We realize that we should not take action that will lead us to be feared by our comrades or potential comrades...but rather take action that will lead us to exposing the pig...whose only real source of fear is the notion that the trough he sucks from to fatten himself may not be as full tomorrow as it is today. We indeed intend to create circumstances that will deplete their overflowing troughs.
We intend to spread truth, but we will not do so carelessly or with half-measures. We must be persistent, and we must be consistent. We ask our comrades and those that would participate in our struggle to understand that lies, deception, terror, greed and temptation are the tools and the weapons wielded by the pig. In return, we shall employ the use of truth, intellectual courage, altruism, selflessness and goodwill to sear through their weapons, disarm them and expose them for the paper tigers they are.
We ask our comrades, particularly those in the West and enjoying the fruits of an industrialized State, to consider the terrors they toil under daily. We ask them to consider to what extent they have become numb to their oppression and have had their perceptions subdued and co-opted. The pig quietly and deviously presents a low-grade threat to the Liberties of all, shackling the docile citizens of the West into perpetual servitude. From the glowing screens of monitors emitting from the cubicles...our prisons...we are told to participate, to serve the pig. To feed the pig. To be an agent and accomplice to the greed of the pig...or else. Or else you will lose your health care. Or else we will take your home. Or else you will end up in prison. Or else you will be impoverished. Or else you will sacrifice the welfare of your family and children. Or else you will be outcast. Or else you will not be beautiful. Or else you will not get fucked. Or else you will not be happy. Or else you will be ugly. Or else, or else, or else.
Justice is the justice of the ruling class. Faced with a justice system that speaks in the name of the ruling class—and speaks dishonestly—we can’t be bothered defending ourselves."
All power to freedom! Faced with a justice system that defends property and possessions better than it does human beings, we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
Faced with a justice system that makes laws against the people rather than for them, we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
...faced with a justice system that doesn’t see crime as a social phenomenon and which passes sentences that serve no social function...we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
...faced with such a justice system, I can’t be bothered defending myself, and we can’t be bothered defending ourselves. Imprison the state prosecutors. Where is the state prosecutor who will indict the state?
Workers of the world unite!
Venceremos!
-Thorwald Proll
We have spent long enough accepting a status quo that terrifies the masses into submission through such means. We reject being beaten any longer at the end of a corporate leash that promotes the consumption of their worthless products as the only path to normalcy. We reject the universities and the intellectual communities of the West that have turned their institutions into slave mills for the banking cartels. We reject the exploitation of home owners living in fear of their homes being repossessed, and the deceptive, serpentine manner in which the pig has manipulated such fears into the subjecation of the people. We reject an unsustainable system of debt that currently dominates our culture and grips millions by the throat like an iron vice. We reject the circumstance of our health and welfare being wielded over us like weapons, the idea that only the burgeoise are deserving of adequate medicine, clothing and shelter.
Further, we reject the violent exploitation of the third world and its people by the military industrial complex of the West. In most cases, the people of the third world do not have the luxury of the distraction and hypnosis enjoyed by the people of the West. Their enslavement is not veiled or placed upon them through manipulation or deceptive maneuvers. The people of the third world feel the physical lash of pig's whips and the cold steel of the pig's chains. The face of the pig is unmasked and the true brutality of his nature is revealed on the backs of millions...perhaps billions that would otherwise dwell peacefully on the soils of their homelands. We reject the terrorism of Western military installations and warthings that poc the landscape of the planet. We call for the collective voice of our comrades to cry out against this terrorism, this exploitation, this enslavement...this ongoing travesty.
Never believe us! (lol) ...or any information we share, as truth without checking the information independently! We ask to be proven wrong, as we subject ourselves to the light and scrutiny of truth and truth alone.
-GAF, December 2010
The Great American Fraud; Part II
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In 1913 the congress of the United States passed what is known as the Federal Reserve Act. This act was signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, and its purpose was to grant authority to a central banking system to print and issue legal tender, regulate the economy (broadly speaking), and provide financial services to banks, the US government, and foreign institutions.
Prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the United States had no central banking system. Before 1913, monetary policy, while often flawed, still presented mechanisms for issuing loans and distributing wealth and money that were for the most part, anchored in tangible, real assets, such as gold. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was in fact not the first time the United States had tried using a centralized banking system. Attempts were made during the Washington administration, prior to the Constitutional convention of 1787, to centralize the banking and monetary policies for the United States, and then again a centralized banking system was implemented from 1791 to 1811, ending with president Madison's refusal to renew the charter. Then, between 1816 and 1836, yet another manifestation of a centralized banking system was employed, and then eradicated in similar fashion by president Andrew Jackson. In his veto statement, president Jackson eerily predicted the following:
"The entire control of the institution would necessarily fall into the hands of a few citizen stockholders, and the ease with which the object would be accomplished would be a temptation to designing men to secure that control in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a president and directors would then be able to elect themselves from year to year, and without responsibility or control manage the whole concerns of the bank during the existence of its charter. It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people...
...Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? The president of the bank has told us that most of the State banks exist by its forbearance. Should its influence become concentered, as it may under the operation of such an act as this, in the hands of a self-elected directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the independence of our country in war?" [emphasis is the author's]
[http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/04/06/andrew-jacksons-veto-of-the-central-bank-1832/]
...and this is precisely what has been happening since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed.
Not surprisingly, the architects of the Fed were in fact powerful commercial bankers with obscene lobbying and political influence.
Look up the astonishing and quite public historical record of one Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator from Rhode Island, leader of the Republican party during the early 20th century, architect of the federal income tax amendment and visionary of the Federal Reserve Act. Senator Aldrich indeed had very close ties to powerful commercial bankers such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
In (jaw-dropping) fact, Aldrich's daughter married the son of John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Aldrich and Rockefeller Sr.'s grandson, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (I mean...are you kidding me?!), was the Vice President of the United States of America under Republican President Gerald Ford.
The economic and legislative influence of Senator Aldrich is but one clear example of an increasing culture of political/corporate incest in the United States power structures throughout this era. It is viewed by an increasing number of us as an example illustrating the establishment of a loosely governed, corporate-central oligarchy.
Others may view these historical circumstances as what for all intents and purposes were the beginnings of an aggressive "economic coup d'état". We are hard-pressed to find any distinguishable difference, either way.
Regardless, what is more than apparent is that the Fox is undoubtedly guarding the hen-house.
Andrew Jackson's warnings have been so hauntingly and so fully realized, that one may actually guess as to whether or not his veto statement unintentionally became a sort of an ironic, historical blueprint for the imminent and eventual takeover.
Since the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913, the dollar has lost over 96% of its value, or buying power. This is because the Federal Reserve and its function is an inherently inflationary mechanism.
We view such central banking cartels as systems clearly implemented to ensure the scarcity the world's resources. When resources are scarce, they are valuable, and precisely as Jackson warned, the wealth of the world is today managed and passed between the hands of a very few. It is bewildering to listen to capitalist apologists describe the Fed's function. They frequently use the analogy of the Fed as some kind of economic "water faucet", increasing and decreasing a sort of financial valve. It's amazing how appropriate and accurate that analogy actually is. It's a tremendous insight, really.
Here is an excellent summary of how the Federal Reserve and huge banking corporations swindle us and keep all of us within their grip. We urge every part of our audience to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ&feature=related
What's so bewildering about it is that despite the fact they seem to understand that the banking behemoths are very much opening and closing the valves of economic resources at their whim (and with less and less incentive to widen that valve), they for unfathomable reasons support this system, by and large. And systems such as the Fed and its function of controlled scarcity regulates global demand, and demand, as a result of a capitalist free enterprise system, creates debt...and debt, is what turns the gears of the whole fucking thing.
Another word for debt is "slavery", and this is an appropriate comparison of terms because it is debt that creates mammoth, consolidated industries that otherwise would have no need to exist, employs millions, and keeps millions chained to their cubicles, steadfastly performing the labor demanded by their masters.
The ongoing marriage between this corporate empire and the functions of the US government are apparent in both circumstance and in personnel. The CEO's of the nation's largest businesses, particularly in banking and finance, move through a revolving door of government positions and appointments and back into the private sector, with each instance strengthening and ensuring the oligarchy that the people endure, seemingly without batting an eyelash.
We advocate, first and foremost, for the people to truly begin accessing the information that is readily available in which the details of these unfortunate circumstances are plotted.
We have found that when the economic history of the United States is thoroughly researched, what you discover, particularly throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, is that our government has become less and less a government "for the People by the People", and has increasingly become a government "for the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans, FOR the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, Merrill Lynches, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans."
In what essentially amounts to the representatives of little more than 1% of the population, we have seen quite clearly that their opinion of us is one of contempt. To them we are little more than figures of labor and the driving investors behind the 85% slice of the "wealth pie", in which they arrogantly and unabashedly will never, ever share with any of us...
Expropriate their wealth! If you have a bank account with Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America or Morgan/Chase CLOSE THE ACCOUNT and open an account elsewhere (if you must have a bank account). If your home is financed by any of these conglomerates, re-finance. Boycott to the best of your ability funds or wealth that goes to these entities.
Additionally, if you consume network news of any kind, from MSNBC to Fox, STOP! You have in front of you at this very moment a portal to nearly every shred of information in the world. Disconnect from the gate-kept, corporate propaganda distributed by these very forces and independently discover and verify this information on your own. Take ownership and responsibility of the information you consume. This is impossible if you are a disciple of Fox News, CNN or MSNBC, for each of these "news" outlets are mere henchmen to the forces that hold all of us, and to a large extent the world, in their well designed, intentional and greedily established slavery...
And finally, at all costs, protect the freedom of information that can be attained via the Internet. Powerful forces such as in every way described above are as you read this contemplating how to limit your access to the Internet and the wealth of information it provides. Protect this free flow of information and access to the globe's full story above all. It is essential that we keep unlimited access to the Internet and the information that it can provide.
-Green Army Faction, 2010
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In 1913 the congress of the United States passed what is known as the Federal Reserve Act. This act was signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, and its purpose was to grant authority to a central banking system to print and issue legal tender, regulate the economy (broadly speaking), and provide financial services to banks, the US government, and foreign institutions.
Prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the United States had no central banking system. Before 1913, monetary policy, while often flawed, still presented mechanisms for issuing loans and distributing wealth and money that were for the most part, anchored in tangible, real assets, such as gold. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was in fact not the first time the United States had tried using a centralized banking system. Attempts were made during the Washington administration, prior to the Constitutional convention of 1787, to centralize the banking and monetary policies for the United States, and then again a centralized banking system was implemented from 1791 to 1811, ending with president Madison's refusal to renew the charter. Then, between 1816 and 1836, yet another manifestation of a centralized banking system was employed, and then eradicated in similar fashion by president Andrew Jackson. In his veto statement, president Jackson eerily predicted the following:
"The entire control of the institution would necessarily fall into the hands of a few citizen stockholders, and the ease with which the object would be accomplished would be a temptation to designing men to secure that control in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a president and directors would then be able to elect themselves from year to year, and without responsibility or control manage the whole concerns of the bank during the existence of its charter. It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people...
...Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? The president of the bank has told us that most of the State banks exist by its forbearance. Should its influence become concentered, as it may under the operation of such an act as this, in the hands of a self-elected directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the independence of our country in war?" [emphasis is the author's]
[http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/04/06/andrew-jacksons-veto-of-the-central-bank-1832/]
...and this is precisely what has been happening since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed.
Not surprisingly, the architects of the Fed were in fact powerful commercial bankers with obscene lobbying and political influence.
Look up the astonishing and quite public historical record of one Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator from Rhode Island, leader of the Republican party during the early 20th century, architect of the federal income tax amendment and visionary of the Federal Reserve Act. Senator Aldrich indeed had very close ties to powerful commercial bankers such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
In (jaw-dropping) fact, Aldrich's daughter married the son of John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Aldrich and Rockefeller Sr.'s grandson, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (I mean...are you kidding me?!), was the Vice President of the United States of America under Republican President Gerald Ford.
The economic and legislative influence of Senator Aldrich is but one clear example of an increasing culture of political/corporate incest in the United States power structures throughout this era. It is viewed by an increasing number of us as an example illustrating the establishment of a loosely governed, corporate-central oligarchy.
Others may view these historical circumstances as what for all intents and purposes were the beginnings of an aggressive "economic coup d'état". We are hard-pressed to find any distinguishable difference, either way.
Regardless, what is more than apparent is that the Fox is undoubtedly guarding the hen-house.
Andrew Jackson's warnings have been so hauntingly and so fully realized, that one may actually guess as to whether or not his veto statement unintentionally became a sort of an ironic, historical blueprint for the imminent and eventual takeover.
Since the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913, the dollar has lost over 96% of its value, or buying power. This is because the Federal Reserve and its function is an inherently inflationary mechanism.
We view such central banking cartels as systems clearly implemented to ensure the scarcity the world's resources. When resources are scarce, they are valuable, and precisely as Jackson warned, the wealth of the world is today managed and passed between the hands of a very few. It is bewildering to listen to capitalist apologists describe the Fed's function. They frequently use the analogy of the Fed as some kind of economic "water faucet", increasing and decreasing a sort of financial valve. It's amazing how appropriate and accurate that analogy actually is. It's a tremendous insight, really.
Here is an excellent summary of how the Federal Reserve and huge banking corporations swindle us and keep all of us within their grip. We urge every part of our audience to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ&feature=related
What's so bewildering about it is that despite the fact they seem to understand that the banking behemoths are very much opening and closing the valves of economic resources at their whim (and with less and less incentive to widen that valve), they for unfathomable reasons support this system, by and large. And systems such as the Fed and its function of controlled scarcity regulates global demand, and demand, as a result of a capitalist free enterprise system, creates debt...and debt, is what turns the gears of the whole fucking thing.
Another word for debt is "slavery", and this is an appropriate comparison of terms because it is debt that creates mammoth, consolidated industries that otherwise would have no need to exist, employs millions, and keeps millions chained to their cubicles, steadfastly performing the labor demanded by their masters.
The ongoing marriage between this corporate empire and the functions of the US government are apparent in both circumstance and in personnel. The CEO's of the nation's largest businesses, particularly in banking and finance, move through a revolving door of government positions and appointments and back into the private sector, with each instance strengthening and ensuring the oligarchy that the people endure, seemingly without batting an eyelash.
We advocate, first and foremost, for the people to truly begin accessing the information that is readily available in which the details of these unfortunate circumstances are plotted.
We have found that when the economic history of the United States is thoroughly researched, what you discover, particularly throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, is that our government has become less and less a government "for the People by the People", and has increasingly become a government "for the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans, FOR the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, Merrill Lynches, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans."
In what essentially amounts to the representatives of little more than 1% of the population, we have seen quite clearly that their opinion of us is one of contempt. To them we are little more than figures of labor and the driving investors behind the 85% slice of the "wealth pie", in which they arrogantly and unabashedly will never, ever share with any of us...
Expropriate their wealth! If you have a bank account with Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America or Morgan/Chase CLOSE THE ACCOUNT and open an account elsewhere (if you must have a bank account). If your home is financed by any of these conglomerates, re-finance. Boycott to the best of your ability funds or wealth that goes to these entities.
Additionally, if you consume network news of any kind, from MSNBC to Fox, STOP! You have in front of you at this very moment a portal to nearly every shred of information in the world. Disconnect from the gate-kept, corporate propaganda distributed by these very forces and independently discover and verify this information on your own. Take ownership and responsibility of the information you consume. This is impossible if you are a disciple of Fox News, CNN or MSNBC, for each of these "news" outlets are mere henchmen to the forces that hold all of us, and to a large extent the world, in their well designed, intentional and greedily established slavery...
And finally, at all costs, protect the freedom of information that can be attained via the Internet. Powerful forces such as in every way described above are as you read this contemplating how to limit your access to the Internet and the wealth of information it provides. Protect this free flow of information and access to the globe's full story above all. It is essential that we keep unlimited access to the Internet and the information that it can provide.
-Green Army Faction, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Great American Fraud; Part I
Fraud:
1. deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
-http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fraud
For 30 years or so, the citizenry of the United States of America has endured a major deceit, a breach of confidence that has been perpetrated for profit and to gain an array of economic unfair and dishonest advantages.
As a result, and this is ongoing, the citizens of the United States, as well as millions of people world-wide, have suffered an extraordinary collapse of the globe's financial stability and has witnessed an unprecedented economic down-trend. Millions have lost jobs. Millions have been impoverished. The global gap between the wealthy and the poor has been exponentially widened.
There are forces that are entirely responsible for having in fact committed the greatest and most globally harmful human tragedies since the mid 20th century. And those responsible, what they did and how they did it, is all astonishingly, a matter of historical, undisputed, and verifiable record.
While the "middle classes" of the people of the world, from an international perspective, have been noticeably and empirically dissolved over the last three to six decades, either by banking, clandestine or military forces...by 2008, the unabashed and arrogant parasitism behind all of it had finally extended into the wallets and into the pocketbooks of ordinary American citizens.
By 2008, the last year of the Bush II presidency, the wealth and resources of the world had been egregiously concentrated from an already unsustainable pocket of the few to an even less sustainable percentage of the world's population. This fact has exasperated and fueled the fire of global popular outrage. Millions, perhaps billions, across the planet began to stand with determined resentment and cast blame upon those that have exacted this crime.
While movements that seem to have found their way into the popular conscience such as what is known by some as the "Tea Party" movement are entirely warranted...the outrage expressed by such regimes has proven to be entirely, factually, and often comically misguided.
Unfortunately and perhaps tragically, the very institutions that have warranted such outrage by the USA citizenry have without question co-opted and commercialized their anger. They have succeeded in convincing masses of citizens that the entity responsible for their suffering and misfortune, the culprit behind their stagnant wages, their steadily more hazerdous and hostile work environments, the lay-offs, and the shrinking power of their dollar is all because of the New Scary Black President who was Born in Kenya and sent from an Alien Terrorist Regime from the Communist Red Planet of Socialism.
These characterizations are of course, entirely preposterous. But they serve a purpose. It's an embarrassing indictment to the integrity of the human ability to think critically, but it nonetheless is the burning coal that churns the inferno of deceit and fraud.
Barack Obama is a fantastic marionette, and has really not done much since inaugurated but to in every substantial way support the status quo.
When viewing the Obama presidency through a prism of intellectual courage and honesty, it's difficult to cite any tangible policy or ideological shifting or change that has taken place at the presidential hands of Obama vs. Bush, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, or Truman. With the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, each of these "Leaders of the Free World", have been instruments and tools, to one degree or another, used by the ever growing and consolidated grip of a corporate empire.
What? What are the differences? Have the policies of Obama's presidency eradicated the two wars of aggression in Afghanistan or Iraq? Has the 'Patriot' Act been over turned? Have we stopped extraordinary rendition and torture? Is GITMO still open for 'business'? Have entities such as AIG, Goldman-Sachs, Citi-Travellers and the Federal Reserve, these entities that have criminally robbed the entire fucking planet, have they been held accountable for the crimes they have committed or the global suffering they have cultivated ? No, they haven't... in fact they were 'Bailed Out'.
In fact, an entire generation of US citizens has by now been subjected to a contrived lifestyle that inherently demands they mortgage their entire lives...and in turn indenture themselves...by way of a long-spun and corrupt spider's web of banking credit schemes. All three branches of the US government have been and remain purchased and culpable, along with much of the US system of higher education, mega-corporations, mega-churches...and perhaps worst of all...a corporate driven, consumer culture in which a bizarre social imperative is placed on one's ability to match commercial peacock feathers with the likes of fictional, neatly packaged hour-long advertisements such as Tony Soprano and Carrie Bradshaw.
...and there is no "American" reason that you shouldn't be able to match that coveted identity.
Tracks of McMansions were built...quickly, shittily and profitably. The value of the homes in huge swaths were, however, less than worthy, and as a disturbing percentage of the people in the United States became unemployed, and were faced with an 'adjustable mortgage rate', student loan payments, credit card charges, cell phone bills and HBO...those that have been playing "Wall Street Casino" with what has ultimately turned out to be OUR tax dollars decided to cash in their chips.
A number of 'toxic loans' were possible and were the direct circumstance of financial de-regulation. The disaster was in fact a direct and verifiable result of allowing various lenders to invest in risky and low-percentage yield prospects. It allowed for an honest loan to be sold many times over and ending up in the back pockets of predatory individuals. These individuals, ultimately, viewed betting against US citizens of all stripes as (potentially, but they can bet on that, too...) more profitable than counting on a mortgage, loan or a credit card payment.
Of course, the reason it became more profitable for Wall Street to count on disclosers and bankruptcies and repossessions is because they were allowed, legally, as a direct result of the feverish dismanteling of any kind of regulation, to make exotic bets on the value of, well, everything...because they were insured by companies such as AIG, and AIG became insolvent.
What it was, in fact, was the largest global Ponzi Scheme in the history of the world. De-regulation allowed for the prestige allocation of credit ratings, AAA in many cases, to be plastered onto institutions that were criminally broke, had no assets to back their risky investments, and this was largely because the people they promised loans to were (from the start) unable to keep up with their payments...especially after the rate is hiked by 30-90%...
Wall Street found themselves, in early to late 2008, being in the hole on their bets to the tune of 700 billion+. In the past, this was something that could never happen because local banks and financial institutions weren't allowed, due to regulation, to take the capital of their clients and literally "bet" on derivative and exotic market trends that end up benefiting, either way it goes, to parasitic capitalists.
Tea-Party members are absolutely and in every way justified to cast outrage toward Barack Obama. We join them in their dissatisfaction regarding his policies, legislation, and perpetuation of the status quo. We stand in solidarity with them in their movement, passion and committment. However; the reason we salute their outrage is not because of any absurd and entirely dismissable idea that "the entity responsible for their suffering and misfortune is the New Scary Black President who was Born in Kenya and sent from an Alien Terrorist Regime from the Communist Red Planet of Socialism." Our outrage stems from Obama's apparent commitment to maintaining and funding an unacceptable status quo.
We believe a beginning is respecting the American's right NOT to vote. By participating in this detrimental excercise, you are supporting corruption, despite which side of the two-aisle swamp you think you support. We must recognize that in the United States, even from the most local and insignificant political positions, each level of governance is gate-kept by corporate sentinals, and the higher one ranks in this nation politically, the more vetted one is by a round-table of business-banker-financial industry-profit-usurpers.
Stop the vote. There are other ways. Stop participating in an inheretly corrupt system of governance. Stop believing the lie that one side of the aisle in any way has different interests than the other. We can move beyond that, we have what it takes to have a different way of living our lives. A choice exists, it is simply up to us to make it.
-Green Army Faction, 2010
1. deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
-http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fraud
For 30 years or so, the citizenry of the United States of America has endured a major deceit, a breach of confidence that has been perpetrated for profit and to gain an array of economic unfair and dishonest advantages.
As a result, and this is ongoing, the citizens of the United States, as well as millions of people world-wide, have suffered an extraordinary collapse of the globe's financial stability and has witnessed an unprecedented economic down-trend. Millions have lost jobs. Millions have been impoverished. The global gap between the wealthy and the poor has been exponentially widened.
There are forces that are entirely responsible for having in fact committed the greatest and most globally harmful human tragedies since the mid 20th century. And those responsible, what they did and how they did it, is all astonishingly, a matter of historical, undisputed, and verifiable record.
While the "middle classes" of the people of the world, from an international perspective, have been noticeably and empirically dissolved over the last three to six decades, either by banking, clandestine or military forces...by 2008, the unabashed and arrogant parasitism behind all of it had finally extended into the wallets and into the pocketbooks of ordinary American citizens.
By 2008, the last year of the Bush II presidency, the wealth and resources of the world had been egregiously concentrated from an already unsustainable pocket of the few to an even less sustainable percentage of the world's population. This fact has exasperated and fueled the fire of global popular outrage. Millions, perhaps billions, across the planet began to stand with determined resentment and cast blame upon those that have exacted this crime.
While movements that seem to have found their way into the popular conscience such as what is known by some as the "Tea Party" movement are entirely warranted...the outrage expressed by such regimes has proven to be entirely, factually, and often comically misguided.
Unfortunately and perhaps tragically, the very institutions that have warranted such outrage by the USA citizenry have without question co-opted and commercialized their anger. They have succeeded in convincing masses of citizens that the entity responsible for their suffering and misfortune, the culprit behind their stagnant wages, their steadily more hazerdous and hostile work environments, the lay-offs, and the shrinking power of their dollar is all because of the New Scary Black President who was Born in Kenya and sent from an Alien Terrorist Regime from the Communist Red Planet of Socialism.
These characterizations are of course, entirely preposterous. But they serve a purpose. It's an embarrassing indictment to the integrity of the human ability to think critically, but it nonetheless is the burning coal that churns the inferno of deceit and fraud.
Barack Obama is a fantastic marionette, and has really not done much since inaugurated but to in every substantial way support the status quo.
When viewing the Obama presidency through a prism of intellectual courage and honesty, it's difficult to cite any tangible policy or ideological shifting or change that has taken place at the presidential hands of Obama vs. Bush, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, or Truman. With the possible exception of Jimmy Carter, each of these "Leaders of the Free World", have been instruments and tools, to one degree or another, used by the ever growing and consolidated grip of a corporate empire.
What? What are the differences? Have the policies of Obama's presidency eradicated the two wars of aggression in Afghanistan or Iraq? Has the 'Patriot' Act been over turned? Have we stopped extraordinary rendition and torture? Is GITMO still open for 'business'? Have entities such as AIG, Goldman-Sachs, Citi-Travellers and the Federal Reserve, these entities that have criminally robbed the entire fucking planet, have they been held accountable for the crimes they have committed or the global suffering they have cultivated ? No, they haven't... in fact they were 'Bailed Out'.
In fact, an entire generation of US citizens has by now been subjected to a contrived lifestyle that inherently demands they mortgage their entire lives...and in turn indenture themselves...by way of a long-spun and corrupt spider's web of banking credit schemes. All three branches of the US government have been and remain purchased and culpable, along with much of the US system of higher education, mega-corporations, mega-churches...and perhaps worst of all...a corporate driven, consumer culture in which a bizarre social imperative is placed on one's ability to match commercial peacock feathers with the likes of fictional, neatly packaged hour-long advertisements such as Tony Soprano and Carrie Bradshaw.
...and there is no "American" reason that you shouldn't be able to match that coveted identity.
Tracks of McMansions were built...quickly, shittily and profitably. The value of the homes in huge swaths were, however, less than worthy, and as a disturbing percentage of the people in the United States became unemployed, and were faced with an 'adjustable mortgage rate', student loan payments, credit card charges, cell phone bills and HBO...those that have been playing "Wall Street Casino" with what has ultimately turned out to be OUR tax dollars decided to cash in their chips.
A number of 'toxic loans' were possible and were the direct circumstance of financial de-regulation. The disaster was in fact a direct and verifiable result of allowing various lenders to invest in risky and low-percentage yield prospects. It allowed for an honest loan to be sold many times over and ending up in the back pockets of predatory individuals. These individuals, ultimately, viewed betting against US citizens of all stripes as (potentially, but they can bet on that, too...) more profitable than counting on a mortgage, loan or a credit card payment.
Of course, the reason it became more profitable for Wall Street to count on disclosers and bankruptcies and repossessions is because they were allowed, legally, as a direct result of the feverish dismanteling of any kind of regulation, to make exotic bets on the value of, well, everything...because they were insured by companies such as AIG, and AIG became insolvent.
What it was, in fact, was the largest global Ponzi Scheme in the history of the world. De-regulation allowed for the prestige allocation of credit ratings, AAA in many cases, to be plastered onto institutions that were criminally broke, had no assets to back their risky investments, and this was largely because the people they promised loans to were (from the start) unable to keep up with their payments...especially after the rate is hiked by 30-90%...
Wall Street found themselves, in early to late 2008, being in the hole on their bets to the tune of 700 billion+. In the past, this was something that could never happen because local banks and financial institutions weren't allowed, due to regulation, to take the capital of their clients and literally "bet" on derivative and exotic market trends that end up benefiting, either way it goes, to parasitic capitalists.
Tea-Party members are absolutely and in every way justified to cast outrage toward Barack Obama. We join them in their dissatisfaction regarding his policies, legislation, and perpetuation of the status quo. We stand in solidarity with them in their movement, passion and committment. However; the reason we salute their outrage is not because of any absurd and entirely dismissable idea that "the entity responsible for their suffering and misfortune is the New Scary Black President who was Born in Kenya and sent from an Alien Terrorist Regime from the Communist Red Planet of Socialism." Our outrage stems from Obama's apparent commitment to maintaining and funding an unacceptable status quo.
We believe a beginning is respecting the American's right NOT to vote. By participating in this detrimental excercise, you are supporting corruption, despite which side of the two-aisle swamp you think you support. We must recognize that in the United States, even from the most local and insignificant political positions, each level of governance is gate-kept by corporate sentinals, and the higher one ranks in this nation politically, the more vetted one is by a round-table of business-banker-financial industry-profit-usurpers.
Stop the vote. There are other ways. Stop participating in an inheretly corrupt system of governance. Stop believing the lie that one side of the aisle in any way has different interests than the other. We can move beyond that, we have what it takes to have a different way of living our lives. A choice exists, it is simply up to us to make it.
-Green Army Faction, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
M V P
"I think it's important sometimes that we stand up for what we believe in. I don't want to alienate anybody. Those people that disagree with me is fine. I think that discourse is what democracy is made on.
***
"...my beliefs: our team stood up for that part of our community because I think that's the one targeted by the side of this bill that could open a door to racial profiling and racism, and I'm talking primarily about American citizens who are Latino, who could now...their quality of life and freedoms could change because of this bill."
***
"I'm proud of our owner for taking a stand...we want this to be all about loving our community and our people regardless whether or not they agree with us, or myself, or not...We have a love for everybody out there. We'd just like to get to a consensus that everyone can live with that isn't an enfringement on, or a POSSIBLE infringement on Human Rights..."
-Steve Nash
_____________________________________________________________________
Enough. Said.
THanks for joining me, fireside
-GA
***
"...my beliefs: our team stood up for that part of our community because I think that's the one targeted by the side of this bill that could open a door to racial profiling and racism, and I'm talking primarily about American citizens who are Latino, who could now...their quality of life and freedoms could change because of this bill."
***
"I'm proud of our owner for taking a stand...we want this to be all about loving our community and our people regardless whether or not they agree with us, or myself, or not...We have a love for everybody out there. We'd just like to get to a consensus that everyone can live with that isn't an enfringement on, or a POSSIBLE infringement on Human Rights..."
-Steve Nash
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Enough. Said.
THanks for joining me, fireside
-GA
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
BREAKING: ARIZONA PASSES ANOTHER CRAZY LAW
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers approved yet another sweeping bill Tuesday aimed toward beefing up law enforcement efforts. Critics again complain that this new legislation may lead to racial profiling and other abuses.
The state Senate voted almost completely along party lines to send the bill to the governors office. Gov. Brewer has not taken a position on the measure championed by opposing progressives. The House approved the bill April 24.
"This bill does a lot to continue to establish an environment of law and order to the state of Arizona," said Jesus Medoza, citizen of Guadalupe, who cited costly crimes committed by the wealthiest citizens of Arizona and the recent economic collapse as the reasoning behind the movement.
The new measure would mark the latest in a series of drastic measures taken by the Arizona legislature, which has an estimated 460,000 white collar criminals in its ranks of higher class individuals.
Along with recently passed immigration laws that have caused a swirl of controversy across the nation, Arizona also passed legislation in 2005 making human smuggling a state crime and in 2007 passed laws prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
The latest bill would make it a crime for upper class individuals to not have a white collar registration document. It also would require police to question people about their wealth status if there's reason to suspect they're purchasing designer or illegally obtained prescription drugs, cheating on their taxes or swindling investors on Wall Street.
When asked what measures or assurances law enforcement officials could take to prevent the racial profiling or the abuse of certain individuals due to this new legislation, citizen of Nogales and proponent of the bill Juan Escobar had a quick response, stating;
"It's got nothing to do with the color of their skin...we can target individuals for questioning and search based on typical white collar crime behavior," Escobar continued, "patterns such as driving expensive cars, dining at expensive restaurants and living in wealthy neighborhoods warrant taking an extra look at potential criminal behavior. If you're not cheating on your taxes, then you have no reason to fear law enforcement officials looking through your tax documention...if you're not using illegal prescription drugs, then you have nothing to hide in your medicine cabinet and have no reason to object to a professional search conducted by police...all we are asking for is that the law be upheld, why do you hate the law? Why do you hate America?"
Other provisions allow citizen lawsuits against government agencies that hinder enforcement of white collar laws, and make it illegal for people to hire illegal immigrants for day labor or knowingly transport them.
Hector Padilla, who also favors the bill, said it will take the constraints off the hands of police and put the handcuffs on white collar criminals. "Enough is enough," Padilla said.
U.S. Sen. John McCain said on Tuesday that the bill was a "tool that I think needs to be used."
[His office later said that wasn't an endorsement...]
Thanks for joining me, fireside.
The state Senate voted almost completely along party lines to send the bill to the governors office. Gov. Brewer has not taken a position on the measure championed by opposing progressives. The House approved the bill April 24.
"This bill does a lot to continue to establish an environment of law and order to the state of Arizona," said Jesus Medoza, citizen of Guadalupe, who cited costly crimes committed by the wealthiest citizens of Arizona and the recent economic collapse as the reasoning behind the movement.
The new measure would mark the latest in a series of drastic measures taken by the Arizona legislature, which has an estimated 460,000 white collar criminals in its ranks of higher class individuals.
Along with recently passed immigration laws that have caused a swirl of controversy across the nation, Arizona also passed legislation in 2005 making human smuggling a state crime and in 2007 passed laws prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
The latest bill would make it a crime for upper class individuals to not have a white collar registration document. It also would require police to question people about their wealth status if there's reason to suspect they're purchasing designer or illegally obtained prescription drugs, cheating on their taxes or swindling investors on Wall Street.
When asked what measures or assurances law enforcement officials could take to prevent the racial profiling or the abuse of certain individuals due to this new legislation, citizen of Nogales and proponent of the bill Juan Escobar had a quick response, stating;
"It's got nothing to do with the color of their skin...we can target individuals for questioning and search based on typical white collar crime behavior," Escobar continued, "patterns such as driving expensive cars, dining at expensive restaurants and living in wealthy neighborhoods warrant taking an extra look at potential criminal behavior. If you're not cheating on your taxes, then you have no reason to fear law enforcement officials looking through your tax documention...if you're not using illegal prescription drugs, then you have nothing to hide in your medicine cabinet and have no reason to object to a professional search conducted by police...all we are asking for is that the law be upheld, why do you hate the law? Why do you hate America?"
Other provisions allow citizen lawsuits against government agencies that hinder enforcement of white collar laws, and make it illegal for people to hire illegal immigrants for day labor or knowingly transport them.
Hector Padilla, who also favors the bill, said it will take the constraints off the hands of police and put the handcuffs on white collar criminals. "Enough is enough," Padilla said.
U.S. Sen. John McCain said on Tuesday that the bill was a "tool that I think needs to be used."
[His office later said that wasn't an endorsement...]
Thanks for joining me, fireside.
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