And you can go on and on............
This little rant was written about 14 months ago, before the 2004 elections. Much of it is valid today and I think I was pretty dead-on about certain candidates. Judge for yourself...........
You can go on and go to your big liberal universities and colleges and learn all the philosophy and mantras and tantras and have free love and free will and free money...
....and you can go on and on about how the very place that gave you the freedom to go on and on about how you're so oppressed by "The Man" and the big corportions and how they are choking the life out of the air and land and sea and out of you and out of me....How your very own country, that you support with your very own tax dollars(whether you like it or not), if you're not welching off the government- and if you are, then you're living off my hard earned tax dollars- how your very own country, the good ol' U.S. of A., is the greatest evil in the universe and how your very own country is responsible for every single little problem there is....
.....and you can go on and on about how "Farenheit 9/11" is the gospel truth, even though it is pretty much fabricated and a lie, unless you just close your eyes and your mind and don't think abut it, then you can circumvent the truth and shape it and mold it to fit into your little socio-communist fantasy world....
....and you can go on and on about how much you hate George W. Bush and the war on terror and you can ignore the good he has actually done for this country and you can put your faith in some Vietnam war hero who scammed his medals and hates war, but who always brings up what a big hero he was in Vietnam, even though only one of twenty-three men say he's telling the truth, and you can put all your faith in a man who is the richest candidate to ever run for President who doesn't give a good Goddamn about the average person and has not given a single detail as to his plans if elected....
.....and you can believe a big, fat communistic film maker telling you how rotten this country is but yet he still lives here and he still rolls in the millions of dollars he's made making you believe the absolute shit he spews onto film, because he lives in a country where he is free to say what he wants and if he lived in a true communist country, his money would be re-distributed among the poorer citizens and everyone would be "equal", except for the government, cause they would actually keep most all the money(gee, that is kinda like the Liberals' version of what the U.S. should be, isn't it?), kinda like it is here except Bush has actually cut taxes and allowed us to keep a little more of our hard- earned money instead of having to give it up and there really is no limit to how much you can earn, just ask John Kerry or Michael Moore.....
.....So you can go on and on about pretty much whatever you want, but the fact remains- this is virtually the only country in the world where you can go on and on about pretty much whatever you want and not get arrested- where you don't pay an extra "Luxury Tax" for a TV, more if it is a color TV, where you can choose your occupation and where you can choose to make as much or as little as you want, where you can keep your net income or you can give all or part of it to whoever or whatever you want, where there is crime, but nothing like most other places, where car bombs and groups of people being killed is not an every day occurance, where you can walk down the street in most places and not be a victim of one kind of a crime or another.
If you can find a better place to live, then I sincerely urge you to button your cake hole and go there and have a good time trying to criticise their way of life without getting arrested or killed, and stop complaining about how bad America is just to complain and to appear to be "hip" among others like you, 'cause those of us who love our country and the lives we have here are good and Goddamned sick and tired of listening to the rest of you bitch and moan and complain and threaten a lawsuit about every little thing that doesn't stroke you just right or isn't "Politically Correct" or, in your opinion, isn't fair......
.....'CAUSE IN AMERICA, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY MOSTLY ANY DAMN THING YOU WANT, BUT YOU NEED TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION OR BILL OF RIGHTS OF THIS GREAT LAND ARE YOU GIVEN THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD.
RED SAID THAT.
8/05/04
You can go on and go to your big liberal universities and colleges and learn all the philosophy and mantras and tantras and have free love and free will and free money...
....and you can go on and on about how the very place that gave you the freedom to go on and on about how you're so oppressed by "The Man" and the big corportions and how they are choking the life out of the air and land and sea and out of you and out of me....How your very own country, that you support with your very own tax dollars(whether you like it or not), if you're not welching off the government- and if you are, then you're living off my hard earned tax dollars- how your very own country, the good ol' U.S. of A., is the greatest evil in the universe and how your very own country is responsible for every single little problem there is....
.....and you can go on and on about how "Farenheit 9/11" is the gospel truth, even though it is pretty much fabricated and a lie, unless you just close your eyes and your mind and don't think abut it, then you can circumvent the truth and shape it and mold it to fit into your little socio-communist fantasy world....
....and you can go on and on about how much you hate George W. Bush and the war on terror and you can ignore the good he has actually done for this country and you can put your faith in some Vietnam war hero who scammed his medals and hates war, but who always brings up what a big hero he was in Vietnam, even though only one of twenty-three men say he's telling the truth, and you can put all your faith in a man who is the richest candidate to ever run for President who doesn't give a good Goddamn about the average person and has not given a single detail as to his plans if elected....
.....and you can believe a big, fat communistic film maker telling you how rotten this country is but yet he still lives here and he still rolls in the millions of dollars he's made making you believe the absolute shit he spews onto film, because he lives in a country where he is free to say what he wants and if he lived in a true communist country, his money would be re-distributed among the poorer citizens and everyone would be "equal", except for the government, cause they would actually keep most all the money(gee, that is kinda like the Liberals' version of what the U.S. should be, isn't it?), kinda like it is here except Bush has actually cut taxes and allowed us to keep a little more of our hard- earned money instead of having to give it up and there really is no limit to how much you can earn, just ask John Kerry or Michael Moore.....
.....So you can go on and on about pretty much whatever you want, but the fact remains- this is virtually the only country in the world where you can go on and on about pretty much whatever you want and not get arrested- where you don't pay an extra "Luxury Tax" for a TV, more if it is a color TV, where you can choose your occupation and where you can choose to make as much or as little as you want, where you can keep your net income or you can give all or part of it to whoever or whatever you want, where there is crime, but nothing like most other places, where car bombs and groups of people being killed is not an every day occurance, where you can walk down the street in most places and not be a victim of one kind of a crime or another.
If you can find a better place to live, then I sincerely urge you to button your cake hole and go there and have a good time trying to criticise their way of life without getting arrested or killed, and stop complaining about how bad America is just to complain and to appear to be "hip" among others like you, 'cause those of us who love our country and the lives we have here are good and Goddamned sick and tired of listening to the rest of you bitch and moan and complain and threaten a lawsuit about every little thing that doesn't stroke you just right or isn't "Politically Correct" or, in your opinion, isn't fair......
.....'CAUSE IN AMERICA, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY MOSTLY ANY DAMN THING YOU WANT, BUT YOU NEED TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION OR BILL OF RIGHTS OF THIS GREAT LAND ARE YOU GIVEN THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD.
RED SAID THAT.
8/05/04
posted by Red at 6:30 PM
1 Comments:
The USA is a long way from being the utopia you paint it as. Sure, you can say what you want - as long as it is in line with the government ideology.
You think I'm pulling this out of my ass? Controls have been put on media through arms-length grassroots organizations. Take http://www.aim.org/ for example. As a result of these kinds of "accuracy" organizations, many journalists and professors have been jailed, taken to court, or labelled a pariah simply because they've said something against the dominant hegemony. Freedom of speech does not need to be qualified by the needs of security. Free speech is unqualified, it is accepting, it is true freedom. The freedom to say whatever the hell you want. When you imprison prominent citizens because they say something you don't agree with or you feel uncomfortable with, that is censorship, not free speech.
This is not the first era in which this has happened. What do you think the McCarthy era was? A suppression of free speech. You can justify it all you want. But it was still a suppression of free speech.
I want freedom for America. True freedom.
America's wealth is concentrated and is a result not of ingenuity (though it happens in isolated instances, and I praise the true capitalist system for spurring ingenuity) but as a result of globalized capitalism, what many global citizens call "imperialism." what gives them the right to call it "imperalism?" Well, in the service sector, initial capital investments lead to profits in poorer countries flowing one-way. The movement of goods to/from world tax-havens, also flows one-way only. Which way? To the U.S. No, not to you directly, but to the wealthy elite, where it is absorbed, not re-invested.
One way capital flow amounts to stealing the opportunity for poorer countries to invest in themselves. Why would you want to invest in another country? It's not good for the United States. Therein lies the problem with global capitalism. What is good for the United States is usually bad for the rest of the world.
In such an atmosphere, there conditions are ripe for decline, not progress, not true democracy, not true capitalism.
Your hard earned tax dollars were never yours to begin with. They were meant to be used for the public good - in a Keynesian system, that means filling in the gaps where a market doesn't or can't provide for the public good - education, healthcare, public infrastructure. The same things that have been contracted out and privatized by the American government.
Why is this a detriment? Because it further limits free speech. When private enterprise has more control over the public good than the public does, whom do you think has the most freedom to speak? In whose interests are they speaking? The public? That would be naive.
The public good includes security. But spending 10B a year on Iraq is not providing security. The situation continues to get worse. I feel for the people slaving away there.
Intentions are good, but the system has failed.
Where else does the U.S. use slavery to cater to he elite? How about your largest employer? The LARGEST EMPLOYER in the United States is a TEMPORARY work agency, the people bank!
That is not what capitalism intended, that does not entitle people to freedom. Why is this slavery? Well, suffice it to say that if you had to work two, three, four jobs in order to make ends meat, I'm sure you would feel like a slave.
And we know they exist. We see their slums in the centre of large cities. We see them working increasingly in rural America where farmers are having a much more difficult time making a living due to new "necessities" such as the GMO's of Monsanto's monopoly.
If I were you, I would be taking real action. I would be demanding that my rights be respected. I would be demanding the freedom to say what I want. I would be demanding the freedom to eat food free of polutantas and carcinogens. I would be demanding the freedom to access media free of government interests. I would be demanding the freedom of education, of business opportunity - yes, business opportunity - the oportunity to create and nurture private enterprise that reinvests within the country, that doesn't exploit poor nations, that doesn't rape the southern hemisphere for their raw materials, that doesn't drive a great number of the nation's population to work for a temporary work agency.
This ideology is not left. This is not communism.
It's true freedom. It's true democracy. It's true capitalism. It's what America was supposed to be.
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