Seeing Through The Insanity

 

    This is an image of Ground Zero, and today marks nine years since the attacks on September 11, 2001. Sadly, and unfortunately, this horrible event seems to have created only more mass American ignorance. In the last few weeks the United States has witnessed a handful of anti-Muslim hate crimes, one of the more infamous ones being the Gainesville, Florida church that wants to ritually burn the Koran on this 9 year anniversary. In a country where most of the media coming at us teaches us of a freedom loving, democracy spreading, benevolent, altruistic, American war machine that only sometimes makes some mistakes, (Hey, c'mon now, freedom isn't free!) it is extremely easy for an ignorant American to hate an entire religion and it followers for "wanting to destroy our free way of life and holy Christian values." There have been huge mass protests in Afghanistan sparked by this Koran burning church in Gainesville. 

    The level of stupidity is terrifying. It is so obvious to me that the conflicts in the Middle East have been a war of elites. Why do so few see this? It all comes down to business deals, power mongers deciding the fate of people, both from the Middle East as well as the U.S., depending on where the flow of profit takes them. It is a world of criminals shedding the blood of the masses for their own gain. From Bechtel to Halliburton, to the well funded Taliban leaders, it is just another war story where the rich make enormous profits off the blood of innocents. The whole thing is fucking sham, and the only way I could believe that it isn't is if there weren't these corporations over there making billions of dollars off the war. They don't even bother to hide it anymore.   

    However, these criminal syndicates (i.e. the corporate elites and the governments that serve them) are also extremely cunning, and know exactly what they are doing. For example, I just learned that the entire Tea Party movement is funded by the Koch brothers, two brothers who own Koch industries, the second largest private company in the U.S. They have made over 30 billion dollars running oil refineries in Alaska and elsewhere, and are currently funding the Tea Party movement to try to give Obama some hell for what little environmental legislation he is attempting to approve. Trust me, I am by no means pro-Obama, but I think it is tragically silly and shocking to find these racist movements being funded by corporate elites. I mean, c'mon, Obama is a socialist? He is just as much of a corporate puppet as Bush was. If he were a socialist, he would probably have a lot more balls. 

    There is so much human anger and rage out there that is being completely misdirected to keep the public in line and profit makers happier and happier. The U.S. has a beautiful history of social movements banding together to stand up to the wealthy elite. I pray that somehow more people will see through these corporate propaganda campaigns and start to see what is really going on. The church goers in Gainesville who want to burn the Koran have more in common with the Muslim masses than they do with the masterminds of 9/11, and the U.S. imperialists that provoked them (at the same time making business deals with them). They will never see this, because their minds are poisoned with the insanity that is this culture's teachings. Humanity is extremely damaged, and those of us who can see a bit clearer have a lot of work to do. We are the only ones who can possibly turn this thing around. We are the only voice standing between the murderous corporate empire in power, and a dying planet. It is up to us.

  

If you haven't seen it yet, this is the footage that the brave U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, along with the heroic activists at Wikileaks, released of U.S. forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad. Watch with caution, for the footage is quite brutal. Take care all.

 

     

Comments

[Talon]

Fuckin' Kick Ass man!

[Peiro]

Thanks Talon!

[Karen Krajewski]

Thanks Peiro, you have enlightened many including me. Karen