Liberty
January 10, 2012
Last month, on Christmas day, press secretary of the Defense Department George E. Little announced that the United States had reached a deal to sell three and a half BILLION dollars worth of missiles and related technology to the United Arab Emirates.
The same government that makes me, an American citizen, take my shoes off at the airport and walk through a cancer-causing X-ray machine, the same government that treats me as though I were a terrorist at every Nazi-style checkpoint they can erect…THAT same United States government proudly announced that it had sold three and a half BILLION dollars worth of mass destruction weaponry to THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.
George E. Little will tell you that the UAE government is a friend of ours, but if you have ever been to the United Arab Emirates, as I have, you know that they don't give a flying fuck about the United States. Their interests in U.S. affairs extend as far as exchanging oil contracts for weapons contracts and no further.
You may remember a time, in the early 1980s, when Saddam Hussein was considered a friend of the United States. You may also remember the video of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam Hussein's hand, sealing a deal that sold the Iraqi dictator a considerable stockpile of chemical and biological weapons, weapons he would eventually use on the Iranians as well as the Kurds.
That's something America can be proud of, eh?
The United States government recently sold a BILLION dollars worth of Patriot missiles to Kuwait. Then on December 29th 2011, the Executive Branch announced the sale of THIRTY BILLION dollars worth of F-15SA fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
The looming invasion of Iran has little to do with Iran's nuclear technology advancements and everything to do with the Goldman Sachs/Lockheed Martin take-over of U.S. foreign policy. The production and distribution of weapons and weapons technology is the primary business of the United States government now, a fact that would have horrified the founders of this country.
Stepping back to take in a more comprehensive view of this obscenity you can see that the United States of America has become a plutocracy, allowing corporate objectives to reduce its status on the world stage to little more than the muscling arm of central banking cartels determined to consolidate money, resources and power into a single, global, governmental structure run by them.
But it is important that you do not let the truth of all this make you feel helpless. You are not helpless. You are more powerful than you probably have ever realized. Your strength lies in your own humanity. Connect with the people around you. All politics is local. Get involved in your community. The changes you make on your own block can affect the larger neighborhood and eventually your whole district. We can take back this country from these monsters with a very simple technique:
Noncompliance.
A government only has the power that the people allow it to have. If you read the Constitution carefully you can see that those wonderful gasbags in capri pants and knee socks who wrote it were trying to say that the individual has total dominion over his own life insofar as he doesn't infringe upon anyone else's rights, and each state in the union is entitled to tell a belligerent federal government that it can go fuck itself if it starts acting in a manner inconsistent with..
Liberty.
Also, understand that there is nothing un-American about rebelling against your government, for that is how this country was established. There is a clear distinction between your country and your government. You can love your country and the charter that defines its rules (The Constitution) and still reject the rogue government that has seized it.
The biggest challenge for Americans right now is how to reestablish a strong economy, and you can't do that unless you produce something. The United States has allowed its entire manufacturing base to be exported to third world countries, leaving only a service industry with 400 million rabid consumers who produce nothing. That is a recipe for self destruction.
The first step toward reestablishing a strong economy is to STOP SHOPPING AT WALMART.
It is imperative that Americans show they can band together to cripple the stock portfolios of the corporations that have deliberately crushed this country by exporting our economy. Regardless of how nationalistic it sounds, BUYING AMERICAN as a rule would have an enormous effect. Check everything you buy and if it wasn't made here, find a version that was. Avoiding foods that come from Monsanto is also important. My wife and I have found two farmer's markets near us that feature locally-produced, organic fruits, vegetables and breads every week. Madeinusaforever.com has all kinds of stuff made here, and if you simply google American-made versions of everything you buy, you will find you can get almost everything you need right here, in America, made by small, privately-owned businesses. Obviously, there are some things that are simply not made here, but the idea is to start a trend and get into the habit.
Also, it wouldn't hurt to put as many Libertarian-minded legislators into office as possible. Electing Ron Paul and other Constitutionalists would go a long way toward putting us back on the path to prosperity. Libertarians are strong proponents of allowing small, local businesses to emerge and expand by eliminating the bureaucratic bullshit that kills their will to live. Overturning hostile legislation written by corporate lawyers is JOB 1 for our congressional servants, and Libertarians are tailor-made for this task.
You don't want to look back 10 years from now and be ashamed of yourself, knowing you could have stopped these fuckers when you had the chance but didn't because you were too lazy, frightened or stupid to act.
The power to change the world waits within your heart.
Let it out.
Copyright 2012 John Bizarre
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