Why are So Many Supporting Their Own Oppression?

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Subject:Why are So Many Supporting Their Own Oppression?

 

 

Why are So Many Supporting Their Own Oppression?

 

 

 

The essence of all policies of the government of the United States of

America is to help large American corporations increase their profits,

often irrespective of public well-being. As it concerns manpower,

government facilitates business by initiating policies which will have

either a direct or an indirect bearing on the cost of labor.

 

Therefore, the U.S. government's economic and social policies

consistently keep millions of Americans on the borderline between

subsistence and starvation, desperately looking for work, any work.

When and if they do find some employment, it is usually at wages that

are much lower than needed to support their families, provide adequate

housing, nutrition, education and health care.

 

What welfare reform is about is cheap labor. It's about flooding

American labor market with dirt-cheap workers when the goal of big

business is to reduce the cost of labor as much as possible. The

elimination of welfare assistance for the poor is calculated to

create a mass of people who will be desperate to work, no matter how

bad the wages and conditions are. It will create a large pool of

destitute unemployed people willing to work for very low pay and will

consequently drive down the wages of those who still do have jobs. As

employers find they can hire workers for much lower pay, the effect

will be to drive down wages overall.

 

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/WorkfareSlavery

 

The only candidate who has consistently opposed welfare/workfare

slavery is unelectable. He is Ralph Nader.

 

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/WorkfareSlavery?

 

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During the Gulf war, the United States proved that it could destroy

the highways of Iraq, but it could have used its resources to rebuild

its own system of highways. Bush showed that the U.S. military could

destroy the cities of Iraq, but meanwhile cities in the United States

are decaying and deteriorating. The U.S. bombing created conditions

for health epidemics in Iraq, but during the same period it was

painfully clear that the country could not offer adequate health care

to its own people. The U.S. government attacked Iraqi treatment of

Kurds, Shiites, and other minorities, but offered nothing to improve

race relations in the U.S.

Indeed, the " smart bombs " used in the Gulf war will not help end

illiteracy in the U.S. or educate the youth. The high-tech bombing

programs will not help develop software for environmental protection

or urban planning. The medical experiments to develop antidotes to

chemical and biological weapons will not help the fight against AIDS

and cancer.

The temporary jobs created to produce military equipment and supplies

for the Gulf did not translate into permanent jobs. Allowing women to

serve in the Gulf did not help with child care, the feminization of

poverty, and women's rights in the workplace. Controlling alcohol and

drug use in Saudi Arabia did not solve the problems of drugs and

alcohol abuse in the United States. Providing homes for half-a-million

soldiers in the desert did not help produce homes for the homeless in

the United States.

 

Exit Strategy: Since Iraqis don't want us there anyway - except for

those who have been empowered by the U.S. who are not representative

of anyone except the U.S. and since Saddam has been competent at

maintaining his regime in the past, the U.S. has an exit stragegy: It

should immediately release Saddam Hussein from jail, since neither the

U.S. nor it's proxy government have any real legality for holding

Saddam, anymore than a U.S. imposed government has the legal right to

govern Iraq and the U.S. should sign a peace treaty with Saddam

Hussein to reconstitute his army and police force and keep the country

from disintegrating including a provision not to acquire the weapons

of mass destruction - it didn't have,

and another proviso that Saddam Hussein agree not to sue the United

States (that is, George Bush, both father and son) for killing over

100,000 Iraqis in the first Gulf War and almost 40,000 Iraqis in the

second Gulf War, including Saddam Hussein's sons nor would he sue the

U.S. and coalition governments for environmental destruction and long

term diseases, including cancer from the use of depleted and not so

depleted uranium weapons of mass destruction against him and his country.

 

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/WarPropaganda

 

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African-Americans comprised the most militant and politically active

group of soldier-resisters during the Vietnam era. Their resistance

was a direct reaction to the pervasiveness of racial discrimination

within the military. Although racism has always existed in the

American military, as it has in the larger civilian society, in some

respects the military has been more progressive. The armed forces

instituted desegregation ahead of many civilian agencies, and military

service has always provided potential advancement opportunities for

African-Americans. In other respects, however, the military does not

have a good record. The arbitrary nature of command authority can make

life miserable for those who serve under prejudiced commanders, and

soldiers victimized by military injustice often returned to civilian

life embittered by experiences in the military.

 

Although it is not widely known or understood, the GI resistance

movement had a major part in the Vietnam experience. Never before in

modern history had the American armed forces faced such widespread

internal resistance and revolt. Often at great personal risk, hundreds

of thousands of soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors dissented and

disobeyed military commanders, in order to speak out for justice and

peace. Their struggle hastened American withdrawal from Indochina and

played a major role in finally bringing that tragic war to an end.

 

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/SoldiersRevolt

 

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Suppose that some of the electors -- the people who under our

constitutional system conduct the real presidential election some

weeks after voters go to the polls -- aren't actually selected by the

voters.

 

Impossible? Not if you give a close reading to the Supreme Court's

decision in the case of Bush v. Gore, which finally settled the

presidential election of 2000, if not to everyone's satisfaction.

Under that decision, there is no guarantee that the electors who are

decisive in choosing the next president of the United States will

themselves be selected by the people of the United States. That's

because the justices ruled in that case that state legislatures have

unlimited authority to determine whether citizens in their respective

states shall be allowed to vote for president at all.

 

http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/UsurpingElection

 

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In an effort to avert war Saddam Hussein, by presidential decree,

demonstrated his good intentions with a prisoner release. He offered

to talk. He said he didn't have any WMD. His top scientists said they

didn't have any. Bush is an idiot. Bush wanted his war.

 

In 1998 when the conflict between the U.S. and Saddam was reaching the

breaking point, Saddam ordered the release of all Arab prisoners held

in Iraq. Has America ever done that in it's entire 200 year plus

history? Of course not.

 

Not only did Saddam release all the prisoners in 1998, he did it again

in 2002, with a prisoner amnesty for the 150,000 prisoners held in

Iraqi jails.

 

The U.S. has over 2,000,000 prisoners, including political prisoners

from Cuba and prisoners without rights at Guantanamo, Cuba..

 

 

There is no doubt -- even now to some moderate Republicans that we are

occupiers, not liberators - but the lie that the U.S. is in Iraq to

free Iraqis persists. There never has been a war that was not

predicated on national economic interests. And George W. Bush is not

the first to fight one for humanitarian reasons. Yet there are many

who believe it is so because there will always be a disconnect between

reality and the propaganda. That is why we need independent media --

to tell the truth and to speak truth to power.

 

http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/LiberatorsOrJailers

 

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Attempts to expand the military without a draft would require

attracting recruits -- particularly those capable of learning needed

specialties --

through higher pay scales and easier enlistment terms, increasing the

cost of expansion. In any scenario, rebuilding for nation building

capability will be expensive. Private contracting will be no solution;

its use in Iraq was predicated on a quick victory and a short

aftermath. Will the wealthier portion of the American public that has

benefited from lower tax rates be willing to surrender its advantages

in order to fund military rebuilding? Will powerful interest groups

and broad sectors of the public seeking to expand medical benefits be

willing to see Medicare downsized?

Will major financial interests sit by while deficits mount? What about

competing budgetary demands for " homeland security " and squeezed

social services?

 

 

Something has got to give to make the military more viable: social

security, other social programs or a draft or just stop the wars..

 

http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/AmericasStrategicDilemma

 

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Big government has been around for about 500 years. It came about in

the 16th century to centralize the tax system and raise enough money

to subsidize the NEW world-wide (a new world order) trading

organizations, which were the Dutch East India Company and the British

East India Company. They were granted monopoly rights to trade goods

and human beings (slaves) and bring the wealth back to their country

of origin.

 

National states which were formed in the 1600s for the acquisition of

greater wealth also needed to raise large armies and navies, just as

the military continues to grow and expand today, to protect trade.

Then a big part of that wealth accrued from the slave trade. Today, it

is slave labor of a different kind; underpaid (underemployed) and no

benefits. Big governments take what they want. George Bush eliminated

the Taliban and installed a government in Afghanistan for the oil

pipeline. The war against Iraq will also be for oil. Governments

invent reasons which sound just but are hardly that, like Manifest

Destiny, to acquire and settle land, like the U.S. did when it took

all of the land from the Indians and much of the south west from

Mexico. " Big Government " is beneficial to the wealthy and right wing

support essential to it's preservation.

 

http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/SupportingYourOppression

 

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Bush Lies from the Third Debate

 

http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/BushLies

 

Tons of Explosives Stolen - Enough explosives to fill almost 40 trucks

are missing from a former Iraqi military facility, the UN nuclear

agency confirmed...According to the New York Times, Al Qaqaa was

supposed to be under American control, but had been picked over by

looters as recently as Sunday... " How did they fail to secure ... tons

of known, deadly explosives despite clear warnings from the

International Atomic Energy Agency to do so? " senior Kerry adviser Joe

Lockhart said in a statement. Another Bush blunder

 

http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/

 

 

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Making Them Pay - It would be a mistake to believe that the primary

purpose of the US initiated war on Iraq was the expulsion of Saddam

Hussein from Kuwait. The expulsion was in fact no more than a means to

various ends: it is plain enough that the United States has no principled

(as opposed to tactical) objection to aggressions by sovereign states

against others, and so the reasons for the onslaught on Iraq must be

sought elsewhere. The US did not work to activate the United Nations

in military opposition to the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and other

Arab lands; to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor; or to the

various South African invasions of Namibia, Angola and Mozambique.

Indeed, there is evidence that it conspired, to varying degrees, in

such invasions; and, of course, the US itself has invaded many

sovereign states (notably Grenada and Panama in recent years).

Moreover, in order to protect the war on Iraq, the US sanctioned fresh

contemporary or subsequent aggressions: further Israeli incursions

into Lebanon, the Syrian onslaught on East Beirut, and the (post-Gulf

War) Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Iraq.

* Iraq in the New World Order

 

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/MakingThemPay

 

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Stealing the Election: - With the electoral system it doesn't really

matter if there is voter fraud because the electors are not obligated

to listen to the voters anyway. With most state legislatures populated

mostly by Republicans doubt has been raised by some that the biggest

voter fraud will not be in the voting booth, it will be in the state

legislatures and the electoral college and if Kerry receives more of

the popular vote, as Gore did, the popular vote will be ignored and

George W. Bush will be chosen, this time by electors in the Electoral

College and their justification will be that it was good for the country.

* Election Fraud

 

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/VoterFraud

 

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NOTE:

 

There isn't a lot of time left. And I am not just referring to the

election, whatever the outcome of that. Whoever wins this election the

battles will be the same.

 

We are embroiled in a cultural war, a populist anti-modernism, a civil

war which is about values more than a person's economic self-interest:

abortion {and a woman's right to choice}, capital punishment, gay

marriage, gun control, evolution vs creationism, prayers and religious

symbols in schools, and on and on and on, etc, at times crossing party

lines. There is a rapidly growing hysteria and fear, not unlike those

emotions which also fueled fascism in the 30s. We are at the cross-roads

and if we don't stop this right wing march now, we will see the world

change in the very worst way imaginable.

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