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> Corporate Assassin
> By David Podvin
>
> 04/02/05 "Make Them Accountable" - - George W. Bush is a murderer,
> and a prolific one at that. He has deployed surrogates to kill more
> than one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians in a ruthless slaughter that
> is ongoing. The fact that he murders via remote control from the Oval
> Office does not confer legitimacy to his crimes. If anything, it makes
> them all the more despicable.
>
> Bush is slaying people in the name of democracy, yet his commitment to
> democracy has already been debunked in Haiti and Venezuela, not to
> mention Florida and Ohio. Recently released State Department papers
> reveal that the former Texas governor is murdering Iraqis for the
> purpose of stealing their oil, which was always obvious and is now
> documented. There may be worse motives for killing people than
> thievery, but none leaps immediately to mind.
>
> The level of cruelty involved in this theft is awe-inspiring. At
> Bush's behest, the United States military has "neutralized" unarmed
> Iraqis by dropping cluster bombs on them, showering them with napalm,
> shooting them from helicopters, executing them in mosques, and
> torturing them in dungeons. The BBC broadcast an interview with a
> grieving woman whose pregnant daughter had been machine-gunned by U.S.
> troops, which is the one method of abortion that conservatives are
> willing to tolerate. As the corporate media turns a blind eye, Bush is
> massacring human beings who pose no danger to America.
>
> The corpses of husbands and wives and their children decorate the
> Iraqi countryside courtesy of the family values president, an evil man
> whose malevolence provokes nary a discouraging word from the American
> political/journalistic establishment that avoids the truth as though it
> had leprosy. Viewed from the perspective of our nation's high profile
> opinion makers, the Bush performance has been exemplary. He is being
> lauded for courageously pressing the cause of Middle East democracy
> while those who were less stalwart dithered. He is being congratulated
> for disregarding the vicissitudes of earthly opinion in order to do
> God's work. Most surrealistically, he is being praised for his wisdom,
> which consists of making horrendous decisions and refusing to amend
> them.
>
> No matter how assiduously his courtiers attempt to swaddle him in
> virtue, our commander-in-chief is a Hun. Bush is not stealing Iraqi oil
> to enhance American national security. He is plundering a conquered
> land to enhance petroleum industry profitability. The carnage in Iraq
> isn't some horribly misguided attempt at patriotism. It is homicidal
> mercantilism, the use of the American military to help Exxon Mobil
> exceed quarterly earnings projections. While killing people for profit
> constitutes a competent job performance on the part of a mafia hit man,
> it reflects less favorably on a President of the United States.
>
> This remains true even when journalists laud the murder of Iraqis as
> being heroic. It is important to remember that whether they are openly
> conservative or pretending to be liberal, every one of America's
> prominent media personalities feeds from the corporate trough.
> Consequently, their views represent the consensus of big business, and
> facts that interfere with the goals of conglomerates are finessed or
> ignored. It is a gentlemen's agreement, absent the gentlemen. Since
> Bush is an acolyte of Corporate America, and mainstream journalists are
> acolytes of Corporate America, any intramural squabbling among them is
> subordinated to the common cause of redistributing the world's wealth
> upwards.
>
>
> In the United States, the greater good involves enriching the
> corporate ruling elite that consists of multinational conglomerates
> whose sole allegiance is to money. Despite the elaborate charade of
> representative government, corporations currently determine policy for
> America just as the Communist Party did for the Soviet Union. The
> corporate politburo is more sophisticated than its Bolshevik
> counterpart in that dissent is tolerated, but only as long as the
> dissent is ineffectual and in no way imperils the status quo.
>
> Corporations exercise de facto control over the American economic
> system through functionaries like Alan Greenspan, whose every move
> during his long reign as Chairman of the Federal Reserve has been
> designed to transfer money from workers to their employers. Due to
> monetary policies favoring capital over labor, multinational
> conglomerates now own a majority of American assets, and aggressively
> wield the clout that accompanies phenomenal affluence.
>
> Big business dominates the political system by financially
> underwriting both major parties and supervising them with an army of
> lobbyists. It also regulates the minds of the American people through a
> media monopoly that guides the voting public to appropriate
> conclusions. On those rare occasions when the public fails to conform,
> the desired leader can be installed by the corporate-controlled
> judiciary. The result is a nation replete with inspiring verbiage about
> egalitarianism, but one that operates based strictly on commercial
> interests.
>
> At the founding of the United States, corporations did not exist, so
> James Madison couldn't include them in the system of checks and
> balances that he believed was necessary to maintain freedom. Less than
> a century after the Constitution was ratified, John D. Rockefeller
> began the destruction of American democracy by forming Standard Oil,
> which became the first multinational conglomerate. Rockefeller declared
> that the day of individuality was dead, and that business alliances
> would ultimately rule the land.
>
> Tragically, he was prescient. Although there were efforts to stem the
> tide towards corporate control of society, it was not long before
> President Calvin Coolidge had declared that the business of America is
> business. With each passing year, the political power of corporations
> has increased at the expense of individual Americans, to the point
> where democracy in the United States is now a concept rather than a
> precept.
>
> Modern America has become a subsidiary of the Fortune 500. The
> consequence is a social ethos of amorality that stems from existing
> solely to accumulate wealth. When making money is the only standard,
> what inevitably follows is decadence. It is obvious to those who are
> paying attention that barbarity, not democracy, is what we have
> exported to Iraq.
>
> Relatively few Americans are paying attention because we have been
> indoctrinated to accept unquestioningly the rectitude of our nation's
> actions abroad. We are therefore deeply offended when foreigners react
> negatively to our insistence that anything we do is justified because
> if it weren't justified we wouldn't do it. People around the world
> somehow fail to appreciate that America is infallible. They seem to
> think that our country should abide by formalized rules of conduct.
>
> Such apostasy is not an acceptable part of our domestic discourse; it
> is dismissed as being disloyal at best, and most likely seditious. The
> presidential candidate of the so-called opposition party did not
> condemn the incumbent for authorizing the torture of Iraqi children
> because that condemnation would have been regarded by the electorate as
> un-American. In a society controlled by corporations, decency is
> considered to be subversive.
>
> Americans now regard corporate control as being the natural order of
> things and support an acquisitive foreign policy as long as it is
> adorned with patriotic rhetoric. Internationally, business interests
> lack the stranglehold on public opinion that they have in the United
> States. Most citizens who live in countries where corporations are less
> influential have no problem perceiving that Bush has liberated the
> Iraqi oil fields instead of the Iraqi people. Moreover, foreigners are
> extremely dubious that future corporate plunder will be limited to
> Iraq.
>
> They should be skeptical because Corporate America is running scared.
> Unlike the vastly overrated Soviet Union, China poses a real threat to
> American superiority. Soon, the People's Republic will supplant the
> United States as the nation with the most powerful economy. With their
> tremendous natural resources, well-educated management class, and vast
> workforce of skilled cheap labor, the Chinese possess overwhelming
> advantages. Given the respective growth rates and debt burdens of the
> two countries, unless something unforeseen occurs China will eventually
> dwarf America economically. In order to compete, American-based
> corporations are going to need help.
>
> Towards that end, Bush has overthrown the dictatorship of oil rich
> Iraq and has attempted to overthrow the democratically elected
> government of oil rich Venezuela. The theocracy of oil rich Iran may or
> may not be next, but regardless there will be more aggression against
> nations that are unfortunate enough to have something the corporate
> brigands covet. Financial muggings will also be conducted on the sly -
> Bush is placing Paul Wolfowitz in charge of the World Bank so that
> conglomerates can better benefit from the economic extortion of those
> countries that own things worth stealing.
>
> With an Asian juggernaut looming on the horizon, the American
> establishment is desperately trying to forestall the inevitable. The
> asinine Bush Doctrine stipulates that the United States will forcibly
> prevent any nation from challenging our military supremacy. This hollow
> threat is aimed specifically at the Chinese, because if history is any
> guide their future economic primacy will be followed soon thereafter by
> military primacy, allowing China to supplant the U.S. as plunderer
> supreme.
>
> There is little chance that Bush will attack the People's Republic,
> which is underwriting much of America's staggering debt and could sink
> our economy merely by manipulating its own currency. Instead, he will
> continue to prey upon weak nations, hurriedly confiscating their wealth
> prior to Chinese ascendancy into dominance.
>
> In the process, George W. Bush is going to kill those hapless souls
> who get in the way. Bush is a corporate assassin, and murdering
> defenseless people on behalf of robber barons is the one task that he
> performs well. This is not what the Founders had in mind when creating
> the presidency, but they had no way of knowing that Madison's dream of
> a social democracy would be eclipsed by Rockefeller's dream of a
> business dictatorship.
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