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Horror
by Pat Foster
What is true horror? Is it the monsters that the media often
portrays to us in the movies, or is it something else that is far closer
to our everyday existence?
One day you get up and find that everything you felt was right with the
world and your place within it just fell apart. Your world appeared to
be
going crazy, and nothing you did seemed to matter any more. You
found major criminal behavior at the reins of government that you had
trusted, and nobody in government did anything about changing it. Yet,
the little people who stood up and tried to show the rest of us how this
behavior was killing our world were arrested, tried, convicted, and put
into jail for just trying to make a difference by letting us know
exactly what was happening. When your normal world begins to fall apart
before your eyes, that is true horror.
I remember quite clearly in the last presidential election in 2004 that
priests and ministers, the supposed guides to our moral lives told us
that we would all be going to hell if we did not vote for George Bush
and Dick Cheney. Now, close to four years later with the blood of possibly
over a million dead Iraqi's on our hands, and the abandonment of the
care of thousands of our own injured troops, we ask ourselves how our
religious institutions could be so immoral. Did they just make the wrong
choice? If so, how many other things are they wrong about?
Howard Zinn's Peoples History of the United States shows that our
government has had a long history of imperialism through starting wars.
Mexico was the first foreign power we invaded to increase the amount of
property we could control to develop and exploit the resources. We
gained a good part of the western states from that war. Next came the
Spanish American War, where we sent the battleship Maine into
Havana harbor and it mysteriously exploded with a 167 sailors on board.
Of course it was blamed on Spain, and we got Cuba and a good part of our
Pacific holdings including the Philippines from that war.
Howard Zinn says: "Even before the Spanish flag was down in Cuba, U.S. business interests
set out to make their influence felt. Merchants, real estate agents,
stock speculators, reckless adventurers, and promoters of all kinds of
get-rich schemes flocked to Cuba by the thousands. Seven syndicates
battled each other for control of the franchises for the Havana Street
Railway, which were finally won by Percival Farquhar, representing the Wall
Street interests of New York. Thus, simultaneously with the military
occupation began...commercial occupation."
The war with Japan was started over the economic blockade of Japan by
the U.S. restricting their ability to get scrap iron to develop their
island nation. After Japan attacked China and other countries in Asia,
they presented a threat to American imperialism in the area, and needed
to be stopped. It was no accident that Pearl Harbor was setup as a
target with battleships at anchor that had been antiquated by air power,
just as the battleship Maine was antiquated by the new Indiana style
battleships.
During my lifetime, I watched President John F. Kennedy assassinated in
public view, and his supposed killer shot in front of the cameras. The
Warren Commission gave the country a report that very few Americans
really believed the official story about the whole incident. Finally, in this century, we
get the towers coming down in New York and the Pentagon attacked by an
airplane that had no wings, because it did not even break the windows on
either side of the hole it made. The documentary,
Loose Change
has certainly shed new light on the possibility of our own government
carrying out this operation in order to have a reason to take over Iraq
for its' oil resources. Wars had always followed these catastrophic
events and our corporations stood up and prifited from it.
The real horror of all these events can be summed up in our inability to
do something about them. Do we lay back and let the monsters devour us,
or do we stand up and say that we have had enough. NO MORE! The battle
should start in your voting precincts by demanding that your vote be
counted manually when the polls close. You should be there to observe
that count. When we give credibility back to the vote, the voice of the
people will be heard not just in Lansing and Washington, but all over
the world. |
Letter to the Bureau of Elections
PF
Senate testimony
God
Bless the USA
Loose Change |