White Devils Come Clean! War is Against the Iraqis!

Nice original journalism I culled from NYC newswire:

The death of the America
by angry american 10:08am Sun Apr 6 '03 (Modified on
president [at] whitehouse.gov

Let us dispel a few illusions and wake up a bit, perhaps a different lens will show a different world.

Let us clarify, shall we?

The 2003 US-Iraq war is an American war, not of a "coalition." But nobody really believes that.

It's a colonizing war, not one for "humanitarian liberation", or "disarmament", or for "regime change", or of "enforcing UN resolutions".

The US has for decades demonstrated no interest in upholding UN values in spirit, or its charter in practice or legality, it has always wanted to undermine them.

The US is no "model" of democracy, there is in practice no "opposition" political party recognized or tolerated, both parties are increasingly seen by everyone as representing the same interests and class of people, a minority of vast privilege. There are many, many countries with fairer elections, more political parties, and better political representation of the people.

Within the US freedom of speech, though protected by many laws, is in practice more restricted than in many, many countries on all continents. The same stands for freedom of the press, and of assembly.

Community, social, and civic values in the US are not currently held as a very high value. A clear example of this are the elections, still done with very primitive, error-prone, overpriced equipment, without any real participation of people, and widely seen my "the masses" as of little real relevance - and with reason.

American politics is full of corruption at all levels, thoroughly documented, in many cases even in agreement of laws written specifically to legalize this corruption, which is simply widely accepted as part of the system.

There is barely any truth spoken by American both politicians and candidates, and even less intelligence, experience, or common sense, oftentimes not even basic human dignity.

Human rights in the US are not respected or even valued. Vast sectors of the population have in practice no access to a good education, only emergency health care or none at all, no political or civic participation, terrible housing, often not enough food, and very commonly food of absolutely no actual nutritional value.

Poverty in the US is widespread, and indeed the middle class is also dwindling, in addition to the fact that a middle class citizen in many countries in practice has a much higher quality of life.

Happiness and mental health and strength are very low, as the widespread problems of drugs, alcohol, depression, domestic violence and suicide clearly show.

The US has exported most of its industrial base and farming, and is now dependent on imports for much of its products.

There is only one thing the US counts on: violence. Military, legal, and corporate. The US has vast armies of lawyers, military equipment, military trained people, and bureacrats capable of stealing anything from anyone anywhere in the world in a dozen ways.

In sum, American "values" are based on myths.

In practice, it is a country of people who have no security of what will happen to them tomorrow, are afraid of their government, secret service, and police, do not vote or have a candidate to vote for, are poorly educated and informed, have poor food, few human rights. We are an opressed nation, blackmailed into living on theft of poorer people.

It's a nation that lives of theft. Much like the Spanish or British empire. But it seems that it will fall much like the Roman empire, from within and with great tragedy.

Unless, perhaps, a great, great many people decide to stop being wage slaves forever, and become activists, take charge of their life, of their city, talk to their neighbor, the grocer, their friends, form strong, new political parties, and change everything.