“The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.”—Howard Zinn
Everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in the United States remain the perpetual targets of fake politicians, offering fake justice, perpetuating a fake corporate ‘democracy.’
Notwithstanding the endless subterfuge and rhetorical obfuscation by Barack Obama—the present day ultimate political pimp—and his corporate Democrat and Republican party cohorts, there is a “growing consciousness” among an increasing amount of ordinary everyday people in this nation and throughout the world.
The terrible U.S. wars being waged by the corporately-owned politicians of this nation, against everyday people of other nations, are not confined to the use of predator-drone missiles, bombers, and cluster bombs that blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. War is also being waged against the ordinary people of this nation, and by extension, against ‘democracy’ itself. It is a war not against terror—but of terror—a terror meant to stifle dissent and intimidate the people of the United States.
As the diversionary hype of the 2012 election farce is ratcheted up by a subservient U. S. corporate-stream media, as constitutional civil liberties have been legally obliterated inside this nation, and as U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north Africa etc. rage on; the people of this country have begun the slow process of what may prove to be the most important and urgent protracted U.S. political rebellion in the 21st century.
Now that COINTELPRO (the Counter Intelligence Program) is codified in the ‘Patriot’ Act and the Indefinte Detention law (otherwise known as the so-called NDAA—National Defense Authorization Act of 2012) have made the protections and guarantees of the U.S. Constitution utterly null and void; the corporate hegemony of political trickery, subterfuge, and double-speak are in de facto full sway. As the politicians of the corporate-owned U.S. government do the insatiable bidding of their corporate elite masters, the unthinkable has already occurred: legalized fascism has become a reality in the United States. Yes, legalized fascism without swatsikas and the like, but with endless corporate brands and the concomitant corporate control of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of U.S. government.
The ongoing attempts to co-opt and neutralize the ‘Occupy’ movements throughout the United States, in conjunction with the brutal U.S. corporate-governments’ police repression of said actions, are an indication of the contempt of the U.S. government for its people. This is also a clear indication of the enormous peril faced by the people of this nation, and ultimately the entire world.
The perpetual con job by the U.S. government against its own people coupled with the political and economic contradictions thereto are becoming increasingly obvious. Thus, was the need by the avaricious corporate elite for the bait-and-switch, double-talking Barack Obama—who talks peace while simultaneously waging war—war on the everyday people of this nation and on the ordinary people of the world—on behalf of the tiny multi-national, blood sucking corporate elite.
There will be no peace or security as long as the corporate politicians of the Democrat and Republican parties are viewed as having any credibility whatsoever. Likewise, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people must creatively find the ways and means to bridge our manufactured and perpetually maintained superficial differences. The U.S. corporate-government will of course continue to engage in every conceivable act of subterfuge and deceit to thwart unity between everyday people. Nevertheless, as people increasingly begin to realize the absolute need for total systemic change, and their consciousness—however small—continues to grow, the ways and means must and will be found to collectively bring about real systemic change.
Collective resistance, with a view towards systemic change, is the order of the day. This is a protracted struggle. Let us not be fooled by those who talk peace even as they wage war against ordinary people here and abroad.
Onward, then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!
Intrepid Report Associate Editor Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, the San Francisco BayView newspaper, the Black Commentator, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)
“systemic change”: Check out “Friends of Article V”, about the existing movement to create a new Constitutional Convention, as described in Article 5. 27 STATES of the 34 required have already called for it… Talk about our corporate controls needs to become an ACTION, to put our Congressional represent ation in the hands of “we the people”…