Three Simple Questions for America
Here are three simple questions for America. And one very long-overdue answer.
1. Fact: In just the 2005 third quarter (barely 90 days), the major oil companies posted excess profits [again, excess profits] of $32 billion; that is over $350,444,900 (or over 350 vaults of a million dollars per vault) each and every day, seven days a week. Even during (and especially during) deadly Hurricane Katrina. Naturally, that same level of obscene profit was going strong for years before, and continues every single day. Plus, hundreds of millions more of our tax dollars each day go to insider military contractors who profit immensely from the war in Iraq... totalling (when combined with the oil companies) roughly a billion dollars in excess profits, every single day. Not just gross revenues, but excess profits, after paying all expenses. Q. Do handfuls of multi-millionaires & billionaires need or deserve a BILLION DOLLARS EACH DAY - that is, a thousand millions each day - more than your family, friends, children, neighbors, loved ones, and co-workers deserve to afford food, medicine, health-care, gasoline, warm clothes and home-heating fuel this winter?
2. FACT: Well over 2,100 brave American military heroes have died horrid deaths, and tens of thousands more have been seriously or gravely wounded for life... while hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilian men, women and children (who we were supposed to be providing a better life) have been killed or seriously injured. Q. Are Americans or Iraqis (or the Middle East, or even the entire world in general) now more peaceful, more unified, more at ease, more cooperative, more safe or more secure from terrorists? The 9/11 Commission, staffed not by Liberals but mostly by Conservative Republicans, recently said we are not. That being so, we must ask too if the huge Iraqi oil profits have gone to the Iraqi people and to the cost of fighting the war, so US taxpayers won't foot the bill (as we were promised), or has most of that money gone instead to multi-national corporations, oil companies, military contractors, bankers, lawyers, lobbyists, Washington insiders and White House deal-makers?
3. FACT: If foreign terrorists looted our bank accounts, stole our family's food, harmed our children, ran off with our hard-earned savings, weakened our families, stole the warmth from our homes, or bankrupted our household - even just one time - our nation would execute them, on sight, and rightly so. Q. Why, then, are greedy home-grown and multi-national traitors & thieves - who steal from the mouths of American children - who loot many BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH WEEK from the pockets of American families - walking the streets as free men, instead of receiving the God-ordained human justice of punishment that fits their crimes?
"So, what else is new?" you may ask in frustration; "It has always been that way." But there IS something new: finally, a way that these American and international and multi-nation econo-terrorists can finally be punished under US law. "Which law?" you ask? Easy. Under the USA Patriot Act, plain and simple, because it is designed and empowered to root out and punish evil. Greed is evil. Capitalism is great, not evil. Greed is evil. America is great and blessed, not evil. Greed is evil. Our consumer culture, with all of its quirks and faults, is still great - because it allows a broad spectrum of freedom, creativity, initiative, personal enterprise, dreams of success and honestly-earned riches. But greed is utter, abject, deader-than-dead evil. And greed - at its ugliest, most venal, most vile - is what most often has come to rule the rulers in the most powerful & successful Democratic nation that has ever been blessed to exist on planet Earth.
America and its citizens are being drained of their life-blood by a few dozen small gangs of extremely wealthy people... whose mad, pathological, unbridled, irrational, inhuman greed forever drives them into endless compulsion to take more and more and more of everything from their less-blessed and less-wealthy human kin. The USA Patriot Act - beyond any shadow of a doubt - is as applicable to the demonic curse of greed as it is to murder, treason, terrorism, and any other evil. Best of all, the Patriot Act fully overrides, nullifies and supercedes any & all laws that have previously been used to shield greedy domestic & foreign evil-doers, and to shield all their domestic & foreign conspirators, talk-show propagandists, PACs, cronies and defenders.
Please note: This is not a political rant, not some latter-day juvenile declaration of anger or hatred between the Haves and the Have-nots. It is simply a new Declaration of Independence, a stating of the three unspoken but all-too-obvious truths that have never dared to be stated out loud before.
(1) America is being carved up, like quick-buck scrap parts, by billionaire gangs of money-hungry people who are truly and psychotically out of touch with reality, as evidenced by their endless obsession to take more and more from the poor, the hungry, ill, crippled, elderly, starving, infirm, injured, exploited and victimized. Therefore, these mentally ill thieves and global looters are unfit to hold the positions of power that they have been granted.
(2) For generations, we have been brainwashed into feelings of despair and futility, subtly reminded from all corners that "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer". We were tricked into believing that - even in the world's most free Democracy - we were powerless to control or to try to heal these sadly sick, greedy, obsessive and mentally ill people, but...
(3) the USA Patriot Act changes all of that. The USA Patriot Act clearly authorizes our government to vigorously pursue, prosecute, imprison for life, or execute any terrorist, anyone guilty of treason, of any nation, including economic terrorists, and including Americans.
The time has come to take a better look at who terrorists truly are. In the last five years, all Americans have had to sacrifice. City, state & federal budgets have been slashed, depriving hundreds of millions of American adults and children the necessities of libraries, school funding, lunch programs, sports activities, road repairs, medical services, emergency programs, essential public services, etc, etc., etc. Military personnel and their families have suffered and sacrificed most greatly, with thousands even giving their lives, and tens of thousands more are condemned to entire lives in wheelchairs and hospitals. Yet, amid all of this, small handfuls of extraordinarily wealthy and extraordinarily greedy people have firmly avoided making even the slightest sacrifice. To the contrary, they have forever helped themselves to hundreds of billions of our dollars, into their personal pockets. They show no signs of ceasing or even slowing their unending greed and their traitorous betrayal of America's people, families and children.
If We The People demand that our leaders use the Patriot Act to fight all terrorists, then by law - by Law - they must do so. If they do not, they can be promptly impeached. In a free Democracy, they must jump when we whistle; never the other way around. The time has come to remind them. The time has come to remind them. The time has come to remind them.
1. Fact: In just the 2005 third quarter (barely 90 days), the major oil companies posted excess profits [again, excess profits] of $32 billion; that is over $350,444,900 (or over 350 vaults of a million dollars per vault) each and every day, seven days a week. Even during (and especially during) deadly Hurricane Katrina. Naturally, that same level of obscene profit was going strong for years before, and continues every single day. Plus, hundreds of millions more of our tax dollars each day go to insider military contractors who profit immensely from the war in Iraq... totalling (when combined with the oil companies) roughly a billion dollars in excess profits, every single day. Not just gross revenues, but excess profits, after paying all expenses. Q. Do handfuls of multi-millionaires & billionaires need or deserve a BILLION DOLLARS EACH DAY - that is, a thousand millions each day - more than your family, friends, children, neighbors, loved ones, and co-workers deserve to afford food, medicine, health-care, gasoline, warm clothes and home-heating fuel this winter?
2. FACT: Well over 2,100 brave American military heroes have died horrid deaths, and tens of thousands more have been seriously or gravely wounded for life... while hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilian men, women and children (who we were supposed to be providing a better life) have been killed or seriously injured. Q. Are Americans or Iraqis (or the Middle East, or even the entire world in general) now more peaceful, more unified, more at ease, more cooperative, more safe or more secure from terrorists? The 9/11 Commission, staffed not by Liberals but mostly by Conservative Republicans, recently said we are not. That being so, we must ask too if the huge Iraqi oil profits have gone to the Iraqi people and to the cost of fighting the war, so US taxpayers won't foot the bill (as we were promised), or has most of that money gone instead to multi-national corporations, oil companies, military contractors, bankers, lawyers, lobbyists, Washington insiders and White House deal-makers?
3. FACT: If foreign terrorists looted our bank accounts, stole our family's food, harmed our children, ran off with our hard-earned savings, weakened our families, stole the warmth from our homes, or bankrupted our household - even just one time - our nation would execute them, on sight, and rightly so. Q. Why, then, are greedy home-grown and multi-national traitors & thieves - who steal from the mouths of American children - who loot many BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH WEEK from the pockets of American families - walking the streets as free men, instead of receiving the God-ordained human justice of punishment that fits their crimes?
"So, what else is new?" you may ask in frustration; "It has always been that way." But there IS something new: finally, a way that these American and international and multi-nation econo-terrorists can finally be punished under US law. "Which law?" you ask? Easy. Under the USA Patriot Act, plain and simple, because it is designed and empowered to root out and punish evil. Greed is evil. Capitalism is great, not evil. Greed is evil. America is great and blessed, not evil. Greed is evil. Our consumer culture, with all of its quirks and faults, is still great - because it allows a broad spectrum of freedom, creativity, initiative, personal enterprise, dreams of success and honestly-earned riches. But greed is utter, abject, deader-than-dead evil. And greed - at its ugliest, most venal, most vile - is what most often has come to rule the rulers in the most powerful & successful Democratic nation that has ever been blessed to exist on planet Earth.
America and its citizens are being drained of their life-blood by a few dozen small gangs of extremely wealthy people... whose mad, pathological, unbridled, irrational, inhuman greed forever drives them into endless compulsion to take more and more and more of everything from their less-blessed and less-wealthy human kin. The USA Patriot Act - beyond any shadow of a doubt - is as applicable to the demonic curse of greed as it is to murder, treason, terrorism, and any other evil. Best of all, the Patriot Act fully overrides, nullifies and supercedes any & all laws that have previously been used to shield greedy domestic & foreign evil-doers, and to shield all their domestic & foreign conspirators, talk-show propagandists, PACs, cronies and defenders.
Please note: This is not a political rant, not some latter-day juvenile declaration of anger or hatred between the Haves and the Have-nots. It is simply a new Declaration of Independence, a stating of the three unspoken but all-too-obvious truths that have never dared to be stated out loud before.
(1) America is being carved up, like quick-buck scrap parts, by billionaire gangs of money-hungry people who are truly and psychotically out of touch with reality, as evidenced by their endless obsession to take more and more from the poor, the hungry, ill, crippled, elderly, starving, infirm, injured, exploited and victimized. Therefore, these mentally ill thieves and global looters are unfit to hold the positions of power that they have been granted.
(2) For generations, we have been brainwashed into feelings of despair and futility, subtly reminded from all corners that "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer". We were tricked into believing that - even in the world's most free Democracy - we were powerless to control or to try to heal these sadly sick, greedy, obsessive and mentally ill people, but...
(3) the USA Patriot Act changes all of that. The USA Patriot Act clearly authorizes our government to vigorously pursue, prosecute, imprison for life, or execute any terrorist, anyone guilty of treason, of any nation, including economic terrorists, and including Americans.
The time has come to take a better look at who terrorists truly are. In the last five years, all Americans have had to sacrifice. City, state & federal budgets have been slashed, depriving hundreds of millions of American adults and children the necessities of libraries, school funding, lunch programs, sports activities, road repairs, medical services, emergency programs, essential public services, etc, etc., etc. Military personnel and their families have suffered and sacrificed most greatly, with thousands even giving their lives, and tens of thousands more are condemned to entire lives in wheelchairs and hospitals. Yet, amid all of this, small handfuls of extraordinarily wealthy and extraordinarily greedy people have firmly avoided making even the slightest sacrifice. To the contrary, they have forever helped themselves to hundreds of billions of our dollars, into their personal pockets. They show no signs of ceasing or even slowing their unending greed and their traitorous betrayal of America's people, families and children.
If We The People demand that our leaders use the Patriot Act to fight all terrorists, then by law - by Law - they must do so. If they do not, they can be promptly impeached. In a free Democracy, they must jump when we whistle; never the other way around. The time has come to remind them. The time has come to remind them. The time has come to remind them.
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