A personal look at our government
Some equations to help us better understand this nation. “Republicrats” or “Demolicans” = “Republicans” + “Democrats.” (In reality, there are two heads and one body.)
“Corporament,” corporate = government.
Military (defense/offense) + industrial + academic (schooling) + “corporament” entertainment (Hollywood, media, advertising/ consumerism/ commercialization, propaganda/ psychological warfare) + prison + financial (banks, accounting firms) + mainstream religion + chemical/pharmaceutical (drugs, antibiotics, antibacterials, herbicides, pesticides – toxins to kill or put you at “dis-ease” and drugs to “treat” you) + imperial capitalist system/ society/ economy/ Western thinking = Military-industrial-academic-“corporament” entertainment-prison-financial-mainstream religion-chemical/ pharmaceutical complex.
Also known as the United States of America or the “#1 Rogue State” or the U.S. Empire. Thank you to anyone who has helped me further complete the above picture of the society that we have created.
This culture has been created by the human inhabitants here not being true citizens or by being a “citizen” by only contributing financially to those who we have left the responsibility of “governing” this country, only voting every now and then, not being involved in any political action and acts of self-governance, not taking personal responsibility for our own actions/thoughts, and/or not making our “leaders” accountable to all of us.
If we do not know what our “leaders” do in our name (in the name of the people of the US), then how can we hold them accountable for their actions or other deeds? Why do we allow cover-ups to exist, due to “national security”? What is “national security”? Whose interests are protected? Why?
How many more people have to die or be silenced in some other way before we wake up and choose to stop the Machine and start a new society/world no longer based on greed and other material motives?
Though there has always been hope because there are people that are true citizens, and they pass that experience on to their descendants and so forth. “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” (Quote by Margaret Meade.)
What actions has our “corporament” committed against those who decided to take political responsibility for the future of this society and the world/universe?
“In recalling the events of the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) documented five specific methods employed by the ‘old guards who would rather die than surrender’ to halt the progress of the movement: 1. They tried to negotiate us into a compromise. When that didn’t work… 2. They tried to divide the leadership. They tried to conquer by dividing, and they spread false rumors throughout the community about the leaders. Then they attempted to establish petty jealousy among the leaders. After that didn’t work… 3. They moved to a ‘get tough’ policy. 4. Then came actual physical violence. 5. Then came the method of mass indictment.” (Excerpt from Martin Luther King, Jr. On Leadership: Inspiration & Wisdom for Challenging Times by Donald T. Phillips.)
Read the history of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and COINTELPRO. And especially look at the various activities (legal and illegal) of the police, military, FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA and other agencies. Check out “The CIA: A Study Of Assassination” (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ciaguat2.html). Find out how the US “corporament” has used propaganda; disinformation; and psychological, chemical, biological, nuclear/radiological, economic, intellectual, environmental, political, information/disinformation, emotional, electronic, and so on warfare/torture against the people in this nation and/or worldwide.
Do research and ask questions. Don’t limit your world view to what I or others present.
There are a couple of additions to the column of 27 March 2002. In Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, Northrop Frye wrote: “Cultivated people go to a melodrama to hiss the villain with an air of condescension: they are making a point of the fact that they can not take his villainy seriously. We have here a type of irony which exactly corresponds to that of two other major arts of the ironic age, advertising and propaganda. These arts pretend to address themselves seriously to a subliminal audience of cretins, an audience that may not even exist, but which is assumed to be simple-minded enough to accept at their face value the statements made about the purity of a soap or a government’s motives. The rest of us, realizing that irony never says precisely what it means, take these arts ironically, or, at least, regard them as a kind of ironic game.”
Irucka Ajani Embry can be reached at [email protected] and would like information on how to stop the Machine.
