Time To TOPPLE Corporate DICTATORS

[Segami]

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"...Our Declaration of Independence (1776) listed grievances against King George III. A good number of them could have been made against "King" George W. Bush who not only brushed aside Congressional War-making authority under the Constitution but plunged the nation through lies into extended illegal wars which he conducted in violation of international law. Even conservative legal scholars such as Republicans Bruce Fein and former Judge Andrew Napolitano believe he and Dick Cheney still should be prosecuted for war and other related crimes. The conservative American Bar Association sent George W. Bush three "white papers" in 2005-2006 that documented his distinct violations of the Constitution he had sworn to uphold.



Here at home, the political system is a two-party dictatorship whose gerrymandering results in most electoral districts being one-party fiefdoms. The two Parties block the freedom of third parties and independent candidates to have equal access to the ballots and to the debates. Another barrier to competitive democratic elections is big money, largely commercial in source, which marinates most politicians in cowardliness and sinecurism.



Our legislative and executive branches, at the federal and state levels, can fairly be called corporate regimes. This is corporatism where government is controlled by private economic power. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called this grip "fascism" in a formal message to Congress in 1938. Corporatism shuts out the people and opens governmental largesse paid for by taxpayers to insatiable corporations.


Notice how each decade the bailouts, subsidies, hand-outs, giveaways, and tax escapes for big business grow larger. The word "trillions" is increasingly used, as in the magnitude of the rescue by Washington of the Wall Street crooks and speculators who looted the peoples' pensions and savings.It is not as if these giant companies demonstrate any gratitude to the people who save them again and again. Instead, U.S. companies are fast quitting the country in which they were chartered and prospered. These corporations, which were built on the backs of American workers, are shipping millions of jobs and whole industries to repressive foreign regimes abroad, such as China.


cont'


http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-to-Topple-Corporate-D-by-Ralph-Nader-110219-904.html



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[white_wolf]

1. Its long past time

these people need to be stopped, they can't be reasoned with or bargained with. They are greedy to the core and care for nothing but money and power. I heard as song on the radio a few days ago that has a line that says "its time the fat cats had a heart attack." I couldn't agree more. If anyone is interested in the song its Uprising by Muse, a British band.

[snappyturtle]

2. Past time nt

[Rex]

3. O noez I call 4rs lotion!

"Bad kitty!"

[upi402]

4. ok

"two-party dictatorship" they don't like people to talk about the take-over of this party here, however. We're supposed to play like it's ok fine to not investigate war crimes, continue them, give the crooks out treasury, and gut our meager rations, and deny us recompense...

Yeah, don't say that stuff.

[Segami]

5. Its no longer just tow the Party line, its now become ' see a crime, shut up ' or walk the plank

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

So if we are talking change through revolt, we're necessarily talking about deconditioning because the thing we fear already has a life deep in our own consciousness. Deconditioning from cultural ignorance is at the heart of any insurrectionary politics. Deconditioning also involves risk and suffering. But it is transformative, freeing the self from helplessness and fear. It unleashes the fifth freedom, the right to an autonomous consciousness. That makes deconditioning about as individual and personal act as is possible. Maybe the only genuine individual act.

Once unencumbered by self-induced and manufactured cultural ignorance, it becomes clear that politics worldwide is entirely about money, power and national mythology, with or without some degree of human rights. America still has all of the above to one degree or another. Yet for all practical purposes, such as advancing the freedom and the well being of its own people, the American republic has collapsed.

Of course, there is still money to be made by the already rich. So the million or so people who own the country and the government use their control to convince us that there is no collapse, just economic and political problems that need to be solved. Naturally, they are willing to do that for us. Consequently, the economy is discussed in political terms, because the government is the only body with the power to legislate, and therefore render the will of the owning class into law. But politics and money are never going to fill what is essentially a public vacuum that is moral, philosophical and spiritual. (The latter was instantly recognized by fundamentalist Christians, disfigured by cultural ignorance, as they may be.)

Not many ordinary Americans talk about this vacuum. The required spiritual and philosophical language has been successfully purged by newspeak, popular culture, a human regimentation process masquerading as a national educational system, and the ruthlessness of everyday competition, which leaves no time to contemplate anything. Still, the void, the meaninglessness of ordinary work and the emptiness of daily life scares thinking citizens shitless, with its many unspeakables, spy cams, security state pronouncements, citizens being economically disappeared, and general back-of-the-mind unease. Capitalism's faceless machinery has colonized our very souls. If the political was not personal to begin with, it's personal now.

Some Americans believe we can collectively triumph over the monolith we presently fear and worship. Others believe the best we can do is to find the personal strength to endure and go forward on lonely inner plains of the self. Doing either will take inner moral, spiritual and intellectual liberation. It all depends on where you choose to fight your battle. Or if you even choose to fight it. But one thing is certain. The only way out is in.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/12/america-y-ur-peeps-b-so-dum.html">~Joe Bageant, "America Y UR Peeps B So Dum?"

[snot]

7. +1!

But to add,

It's not the dictator per se; it's everything else that leaves us susceptible to hijacking by dictators.

[Segami]

9. Just when you think you have it all figured out, they'll start another pretty fire

and misdirect our nibble minds into submission.

[Segami]

8. True ' Change ' can only come about through a collective will to rise up. Those

who have invested generational seeds of time and wealth reshaping & creating this perfect ' enslaved ' society will NOT go quietly into the night. We, the unsuspecting masses are sedated from the real truth and yet, when the skin of their criminal actions are exposed, we deny its existence. They ridicule those who are brave enough to stand up and question their actions as conspiracy wackos, and as such, we retreat from our thinking. This denial of truth we espouse becomes our single greatest enemy. The ' Machine ' uses the full force of its conditioning infrastructure 24/7 to maintain order while creating a placid, wonderful world of satisfying distractions. We have become complacent and in awe surrounded by the sounds of their controled ' sizzle ' without ever realizing that the ' steak ' is nowhere to be found.

We have all become ' Comfortably Numb '.