Reply #13: I know it's the proper parliamentary word and all, and meaning no disrespect to Bernie...

[warren pease]

... but personally, I'm getting a little fucking tired of "petitioning" these useless, bribed-to-their-earlobes, reactionary assholes hiding behind that little "d" after their names for what's already my birthright in the first damn place.

Sorry for the boldface, but it's about goddamn time the 65 to 70 percent of Americans -- those who state in poll after poll after poll that they want "single-payer, universal-access health care" and not this "expanded coverage" horseshit -- start screaming at the top of their lungs and don't stop until they get their demands met.

Maybe they can even drown out the combined influence of whispered lobbyists' threats and the crinkle of fresh $100 bills the bribocracy dispenses to their employees throughout all three branches of government, and the regulatory and oversight agency heads as they whisk themselves through those revolving doors.

And all this happens with apparent legal immunity, it seems. I suppose it's ridiculous to expect these rat bastards to rat themselves out, so to speak.

However, the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are the most fundamental guarantees in the Declaration of Independence and are non-negotiable.

They're the organizing principles of the entire document -- and therefore the entire country -- and they're hard-wired into the heart and soul of the American creation myth.

Unfortunately, while the Constitution doesn't specify those same guarantees word for word, the Bill of Rights and several later amendments go a long way toward writing them into the law of the land.

Unfortunately too, once the Bushie bastards got through shredding "that goddamn piece of paper," the hollow words of the creation myth have largely replaced even the most feeble efforts to actually live up to the promise.

So government's barest minimal commitment to the plebes and proles and peasants -- pathetic at best -- is still grossly insufficient and is, of course, reviled at high volume by the 50,000 watt wingnut motor mouths who actually run the country.

Not so for all demographics, however. There's always a huge buzz around ending the grossly unfair "Death Tax."

And just think about it... Why on earth should the children of the rich suffer just because their families have managed to squirrel away vast fortunes in off-shore, tax-free accounts?

Why should the little dears be penalized just because most of these historic fortunes are based on decades, often centuries, of screwing their workers, customers, partners, cities, states and countries while hustling their way to the top on pathways paved and sealed with the blood and bones of millions of the dismembered "shocked and awed" -- the former populations of the world's conquered, pacified nations with the lousy luck to have American oil buried under their sand.

Or maybe travel back a little ways farther to Cortez, DeLeon, Hudson, Pizarro, DeSoto, Drake, Cabot and so on? Maybe even Cristobal Columbo, who began turning the new world to complete shit the day he ran into Hispaniola, took a hard turn to starboard and headed north.

By all means, let's make certain that the suckers who work for a living have to make up the budget funds the trust-fund fuckers don't have to pony up any more. But think about it...

And yeah, I believe in fighting the class war. Who the hell could possibly get up in the morning, take a look at even the fucked up US mass media, and not get a clue that the winners always seem to keep on winning while the rest always manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Of course, if you invent the game and make up the rules, you'd be a complete idiot if you made it even remotely possible for your side to lose.

So fuck a bunch of begging for our RIGHTS. Fuck a bunch of asking the rich swine to restore the few remaining benefits that come with US citizenship. Because if that questionable honor no longer includes certain inalienable guarantees that make life here kinda endurable, there's damn little reason to stick around for the next great public screwing.

Maybe debtors prisons will make a big comeback; maybe stocks in the public square and baskets of rotten tomatoes for exceeding credit card limits.

Or maybe a couple of reactionary blue dogs, drawn and quartered and left for the crows, might "send a signal," as they like to say. Signals being a decent substitute for actually having to do anything of consequence.


Guten nacht,

sf


the former "Warren Pease" trying to reclaim his lost identity so he can win great prizes in the local essay contest.