Blood on Our Hands
By Craig Winters
04/17/06 "ICH" -- -- The insightful Mr. K Gajendra Singh
writes:
USA could slip into fascism, with its political
leadership, corrupt to the core, as new scandals prove
everyday, if not checked by its great US people. People
around the world have started doubting if it were ever
true.
This country, my country, has already become a fascist police
state. Our government lies to the people, spies on citizens,
kidnaps, imprisons without trial, engages in torture, and is
leading the country to ruin. Incredibly, all of this is done
with the support of its citizens. How is this possible? How can
a democratic government abandon the people it serves and
squander blood, treasure, and traditions in an irrational
pursuit of global domination?
First, realize that the government no longer serves the
people. It has been bought by the transnational corporate power
structure and serves them, and is now simply the military arm of
the corporations. Meanwhile, the corporate media fulfills the
propaganda role – they control what the people experience as
reality and therefore control how the people think. They have
the public so filled with fear that they will agree to anything.
The ruling class knows, of course, that the USA is headed for
ruin, but it does not care because it is transnational, by which
I mean the corporate structure transcends the nation-state
structure. The have no allegiance to any nation or people; their
only allegiance is to profit and power. Gary Alan Scott
notes,
"a steady transformation from manufacturing to capital
management," a significant observation because money is the most
transnational of assets. He goes on to write
The disappearance of union jobs, outsourcing and
downsizing has been the crowning achievement of American
business relations over the past 30 years or so. The
other factors contributing to what Bigioni calls "the
fascist trajectory" includes low taxes, various forms of
corporate welfare, the decimation of small businesses,
and the ability of corporations to discharge obligations
to employees, to the environment, and to the country as
a whole.
By the prosecution of war the corporations plunder the riches
of this nation while simultaneously intent on gaining control of
the entire Middle East region’s oil reserves so that they can
continue to dominate the world for decades to come.
On the other side of this equation is an American population
that resembles spoiled rich children. They are lazy, feel
entitled to whatever they want, and have no sense of
responsibility to the world community. They are not evil by
their own design, but are willfully blind to evil so long as it
does not interfere with their comfortable existence. They do not
seek out truth, but accept as truth the corporate propaganda
stream because it is easy and because it tells them what they
want to hear which is that they are the victims, the
righteous victims of a terrible outside evil. If they will just
surrender their individual rights, their money, their children,
their freedom, then the government will make them safe to go on
with their empty lives of mass consumption.
I think it will take outside intervention to counter the
force of the western corporate military machine, to contain and
reverse their belligerent ambitions, to destroy their war making
powers, and ultimately to hold them accountable for what they
have done. My hope is that one day Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld,
Wolfowitz, Pearle, Rice, Feith, Bolton, and the rest of the war
making administration will be tried at the international court
in the Hague, just as the Nazi war makers were tried in
Nuremberg, and I hope that a good number of them will be hanged
for what they have done. And we American people will see that we
all have blood on our hands and will be shamed by what we have
let happen. Our economy will sink and China will rise as the new
economic leader, and the world will get on about its business.
Craig Winters < craigwin@rmi.net >is a software professional and engineering
student in Las Cruces, NM who suffered a political awakening
while trying to make sense of our invasion of Iraq.
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