CAPITALIST IMPERIALISM
(Written on or about 3-11-02;
Updated on 4-16-04)
By S. Wolf Britain
“…. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it … watching the beginning of the American industrial system: ‘Things are in the saddle and ride mankind(!)’ The protection of corporate property is deemed more important than the protection of human life(!) Indeed, the (U.S.) Supreme Court decided in the late nineteenth century that a corporation was ‘a person’ and so protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, more protected, in fact, than black people, for whom that amendment was originally written ….”! [Note by me: This is the insanity we live under, but much worse today, in the U.S.A.; and what is most insane of all is that most of “us” think it (capitalism, materialism, selfishness, self-centeredness, greed, love of money, and/or love of “things” more than fellow human beings) is wonderful, “normal”, and to be greatly sought after and prized! That is the ultimate in absolute insanity, no matter how normal it is thought to be by the insane majority!](Copyright © 1999 by Howard Zinn {1922- }, author, historian, activist, and emeritus professor at Boston University.)
When the British monarchy carried out a stranglehold of imperialistic power and control on both its own people and many of the people(s) of the world, including the American colonies, as the U.S. government is committing against its own people and many people(s) of the world today, The People of the colonies justly revolted, revolutionized the colonies, and brought about the existence of the United States of America. So today The People must revolt against the extremely oppressive imperialism of George W. Bush and his cohorts, take their government back, and restore True Freedom!
It is no wonder that England and the majority of its corrupt government, including the “royal” family, are presently in support of “President” Bush and the U.S. government’s ‘reign of terror against terror’, retaliation(s) and revenge for terror against the United States and its Allies which their own governments have instigated with their own terror for over half a century; as the British government has been “for” such imperialism for hundreds and hundreds of years. British historians are probably laughing, or ought to be, at the irony of the U.S. government’s actions at the present time, an effort to subjugate the “American” people and the so-called “backward” countries of the world to “American” imperialism and domination, just as the British government sought to do with their form of imperialism and world domination!
Such an “effort” has largely been successful, because the majority of “The People” are now blindly in support of it and allowing it to happen, and have been allowing it to happen for over a hundred years! Read the true history, by such great author / historian / political scientist / professors as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, of what big-business interests and the United States government have been guilty of perpetrating by way of their foreign policies and actions just in the twentieth century alone, and you will be amazed at how little of the real Truth you were taught in history classes all through your schooling, at least short of college, if you were so blessed as to have attended a college that had professors like Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, etcetera, and/or others who tell it like it is, and to have understood them, about True History! The slaughtering victors have long been wrongly glorified as heroes, while the very large numbers of innocent victims have always been de-emphasized to the point of being nearly, if not completely, very conveniently and very sadly, forgotten and/or put out of mind; but we must totally stop glorifying the trained professional murderers, and never forget any of the many innocent victims that we know of!
The True victims, and True compassion for them and all people, give us conscience; but, if we put the victims out of our minds, we deaden our consciences; and if we make a habit of doing so, as most people do, we will deaden our consciences completely, until we have little if any conscience left at all! This is a great tragedy, and travesty; and you must not allow it to happen to you; or, if it has already happened to you, and you can recognize it and face it, you must attempt to revive and/or reanimate your conscience and face the truth of all of the evil elitist / capitalist / imperialist globalization (rich / corporate / political, global exploitation / conquest / domination), and autocratic / authoritarian / police-State injustice, in the United States and the world, and take a total stand against it! Otherwise, those who passively acquiesce to it indirectly support its many pervasive wrongs, and are ultimately just as responsible and/or accountable for its exceedingly grave harm to all mankind, just as we all will be held accountable and responsible for all wrongs that we go along with and don’t take a stand against; for each and every one of us has the Duty to stand up against as much oppression and tyranny as we are able to do within our largest possible sphere of influence!
Corporations are NOT people, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a hundred or so years ago, and no matter that newer federal case law precedent has not overturned it! Since elitist-corporate interests rule the entire world, it is not surprising that it has not been overturned; as the whole United States government caters to its interests ahead of those of true people! In fact, “our” entire government is run by “men” and “women” who are part and parcel of corporate interests; i.e., “President” G.W. Bush is an oil “magnate/baron” who bought his way into office with his billions! Those who are not part of “the global economy”, and/or fully in favor of it, would either not become President of the U.S. in the first place, or would be assassinated soon after entering office! Ninety-five percent (95%) of the real “American people”, the so-called “lower classes”, who are supposed to run their own government, do not run it AT ALL! All of it is run by “well-to-do” elitists and lawyers who could really care less about the majority of the population; and they live by the lies of their minority!
“It is written….” “Thus says the Lord (God)….” “(They) are of (their) father the devil, and the lusts of (their) father (they)… do(!) He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him(!) When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it(!)” “Wherefore put away LYING, speak every man TRUTH with his neighbor: for we are members one of another(!) Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil(!)” (Matthew 4:4; Malachi 1:4; John 8:44; and Ephesians 4:25-27.)
“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and LYING wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the TRUTH, that they might be saved(!) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a LIE: That they all might be damned who believed not the TRUTH, but had pleasure in unrighteousness(!)” (2 Thessalonians 2:8-12.)
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, AND ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death(!)” “And there shall in no way enter into (heaven) any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a LIE: but (ONLY) they which are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life(!)” “Blessed are they that (obey God’s) commandments, that they may have (a) right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates of the city (of heaven)(!) For (outside of heaven) are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, whoever loves and makes… LIES(!)” (Revelation 21:8; 21:27; and 22:14-15 [The Word(s) of God]; emphasis added by me.)
Many of the oppressive monarchs of the old British empire, and/or their spokesmen, spoke out of both sides of their faces, claiming they cared about “the people”, while all the while they kept the poor impoverished, and assassinated government officials and citizens who did not go along with their tyranny(ies)! This two-facedness and keeping the poor oppressed is just what the current “President” Bush is perpetrating, while instituting more and more of a police-State that is given greater and greater free-reign to arrest people without Miranda Rights, detain without charges, legal counsel and/or speedy-trial, and to hold same under such tyrannous and shameful conditions indefinitely; and we’re being led to believe that such treatment is limited to suspected Middle-Eastern terrorists operating in the U.S.; but very, very soon those same “free-reign” laws will be applied, if they haven’t already, to many citizens born in this country who are speaking out against these destructions of True-Democracy!
“We” also have government officials today, like Attorney General John Ashcroft, as well as G.W. Bush, and his family and proponents, who are bringing FALSE religion into the “American” government, and thereby undermining separation of church and State, leading to what I and many others have warned, in earlier writings, and continue to warn, will occur as a result, the setting up of a false, so-called “Christian” government in the United States that will not be Truly-Christian AT ALL; for Christianity is ONLY True if it is COMPLETELY Christian, and it is NOT Truly-Christian AT ALL if it carries out ANY hypocritical act(s) such as murder in the name of war, the death penalty, abortion, etcetera; and, if we look all through history, which is often repeated, every single religious government, without exception, was autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, authoritarian, oppressive, and tyrannous, abolished True Freedom(s) and was directly responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions of their people in many ignominious, disgraceful and disgusting ways that words are highly inadequate to do justice for!
If We The People of “America” allow the aforesaid subversion(s) of True Democracy and Freedom to continue to happen in the U.S., anymore than they already have, we deserve everything that will befall “us” as a result, which will be absolutely atrocious; and ONLY those who do not support same IN ANY WAY, will be spared the ultimate destruction for it! So each and every one of us has the Responsibility and Duty to stand up against ANYONE and ANYTHING that will help to bring it about, even if it includes standing up against the President of the United States, his entire cabinet, and/or the government as a whole; for this is being a True American; and if we don’t actively try to help to save our government, we are NOT True Americans AT ALL!
What is “our President”, and what are ALL of our legal representatives, supposed to be anyway? They are supposed to be ONLY our REPRESENTATIVES! They are supposed to ONLY represent our highest ideals of freedom and democracy, which were designed and outlined for us by our Creator and our True Founding Fathers, not anything else; and, if they “represent” anything else, such as the sabotage and overthrow of True Democracy and Freedom IN ANY WAY(S), they are “our” representatives in name only, are our enemy(ies), and should and must be removed from office, not be followed or obeyed in any fashion, and must not be allowed to continue to subvert True Freedom and Democracy in any form whatsoever, within and without our borders!
As Lord Byron so aptly said, and as I’ve quoted elsewhere, Tyranny “is the worst of treasons(!)”; and we are now hearing irresponsibly-stated right and left these days that we are supposedly “giving aid and comfort to the enemy”, aiding the terrorists, are ourselves enemies of democracy, freedom and our country, the United States government, and supposedly committing treason, if we say anything against our current “leaders”, and speak against the oppression being exercised to such a colossally-gross extent at the present time by the current administration! In other words, if WE exercise our rights, duties and freedoms to be True Americans and speak the Truth against THEIR tyrannical treasons, WE are allegedly committing treason; and, if that were so, which it most definitely is NOT, our Founding Fathers were committing treason against the tyranny of England! It is Truly impossible to commit treason against tyranny, or treason against treason; and that false accusation, character assassination and slander is the ultimate antithesis of True Freedom and Democracy, and is a declaration of “war” against those of us who stand for NOTHING BUT True Freedom! We must not, we cannot, sit back and allow this great threat to escalate any further out of control, and bring about the soon-imprisonment of many True Americans; and it is our God-given duty to stand up against it in any and all NON-VIOLENT ways that we can! Violence only gives “our” evil leaders the supposed justification to do what they want, to wipe us out!
Remember the many millions of innocent North American Indians, African-Americans, Mexicans, Cubans, Hawaiians, Samoans, Taiwanese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Chileans, East Timorese, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Panamanians, Libyans, Iraqis, Sudanese, Serbians, Czechs, Slovakians, Albanians, Yugoslavians, Bosnians, Afghans, Kurds, Colombians, “Americans”, and other fellow human beings that were and are being slaughtered by the U.S. government and/or its allies (not necessarily in that order), many of the former of whom were patriotic freedom fighters seeking True Democracy and Independence for their own countries, like we Americans sought for and achieved by the American Revolution! They did not completely die in vain; because, if nothing else, they serve as a huge reminder of the dishonorable, primarily greed-oriented, tyrannical, treasonous, oppressive, excessive, out of control, and murderous nature of the United States government, that it has not gotten better, but is much worse than ever before, that it has already carried out and is capable of the most—and will carry out even worse if we don’t stop it from happening—heinous crimes against humanity, that it is much too great a waste of life to try to stand up violently against the U.S. government war machine, and that “we” too would just be heinously slaughtered for doing so!
At the very end of the Declaration of Independence it clearly states, “….(W)ith a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”. (Id., July 4, 1776.) It is therefore a matter of sacred Honor that we sacrifice all, including our money, and our lives if need be, to fulfill our duty(ies) to Divine Providence, better known as God, and to our True country, to seek the redress or correction of the grievous violations of our Independence from the tyrannical control being unjustly inflicted upon us at this time by the treasonous United States government, which has usurped or taken away government control from The True People, and must Declare ourselves Independent of same, and ONLY standing for True “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”; for there is no other recourse, and “….(n)either is there (True) salvation in any other (than the Lord Jesus the Christ): for there is no other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be (Truly) Saved”! (Acts 4:12.)
Wherefore, fully stand up ONLY for True Freedom, and don’t be fooled by the murderous intent and actions of the fraudulent U.S. government and its corporate-elitist war machine, seeking imperialist world domination ONLY for the sake of its god, money, with NO True Care for its fellow -men, -women and -children, but ONLY to slaughter anyone and everyone it believes to be standing in its way, all falsely in the names of God, almighty-“America” and almighty-“Americans”, liberty, freedom, democracy, justice, and corporate interests; and completely stand up against ALL of this blatant hypocrisy, insufferable “white-collar” criminality, and intolerable INjustice!
[Unless otherwise noted, copyright (c) 2002-2004 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by S. Wolf Britain. All rights are reserved.]
