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Someone please explain to me WHY we're in Afghanistan again? To stop "the database" (al Qaeda) of all bin Laden's associates??? To stop terror by blowing up poor people and pouring white phosphorus on their children????
Give me a fucking break. We are there to secure the ME and South Asia markets in petroleum and heroin and to establish an imperial beach head for global market dominance. THAT IS WHY OUR MILITARY IS THERE -- it has nothing to do with terrorism. nothing! WE -- the US military industrial complex, driven by the insatiable need of the American citizens for an "affordable" wasteful, polluting and consumerist society -- ARE THE GLOBAL TERRORISTS.
Explain this to me: Why is it better to LIE about our global intentions? Why is it better to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at an out of control military industrial complex RATHER THAN paying a fair market price for the oil rights and the pipeline rights to the nations that sit atop them? Why don't we END the global black-market opium trade that is closely aligned with international organized crime and international armaments trade, the funding of covert operations (terrorism) and is leveraged through money laundering in Wall Street and international banking consortiums?? Do we really BELIEVE that it would cost us MORE than the way its being done now??
I'm sick of this. Truly sick. This world we've created is making ME sick and it is making ALL of us sick. It wrecks our bodies, it deranges our minds and kills our humanity. It is driving us insane. The whole thing has to CHANGE -- real, deep, meaningful change. And that isn't going to come so long as we keep pretending there is ANY legitimacy to the old, narcissistic, US imperialism that has shackled ALL OF US to TRILLIONS of dollars in debt, created insatiable demand for polluting and non-renewable hydrocarbons and is FUNDING international crime syndicates.
What is destroying our world is US. You, me, all of us who are living in a make-believe world based on lies, lies, and damn lies. DELUSIONS that we can build a global civilization fed by non-renewable energy and RUN by CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES that have infected our Republic to its very core. Take off your blinders! Take off your exceptionalist and elitist rose colored glasses. Get REAL people! This isn't going to stop until WE stop it, until we DEMAND that those who represent us put an end to it -- all of it. You want single payer health care? GIVE ME A BREAK! You can't have that UNTIL you break the strangle hold that corporations have over the other MIC, the medical industrial complex. You want an end to war? You can't have that until you recognize what ROLE you play in demanding MORE CHEAP OIL. You want an end to international terrorism? Then you have to stop USING the US military to insure the market value of global resources. You have to put an end to the global black market trade in opiates -- by legalizing them and controlling those markets. You have to be willing to acknowledge the REAL COSTS of the life style you're living, snap out of the media driven hallucination that our "pleasant valley" suburbia has become.
We ARE in a war. And that war, indeed, IS a war against terrorism. But to fight that war, we have to see who the real terrorists are and what drives their insatiable need to DISTROY everything that gets in the way of their delusional belief that they have a divine right to destroy every beautiful, living, breathing thing on this planet FOR THEIR OWN INSATIABLE GREED. And we have to realize it isn't "THEM" -- they can only do what we LET them do, what we in our ignorance and apathy ALLOW them to do in our name, for our momentary satisfaction.
It is ALL ONE THING -- one big stinking, rotten, blind, violent, ignorant, all-consuming monster. And we keep feeding it day in and day out because we DO NOT want to take ANY responsibility for everything that is going on. We don't even believe we CAN take control of it, reign it in, bring it down and put in its place a world of peace, a world of fair trade, a world that would VALUE human life and the life of this planet.
IF WE DO NOT DO THIS our civilization is going to become increasingly repressive, increasingly destructive, increasingly insane and disease ridden until it finally destroys itself. THAT is where we're headed. THAT is NOW the evolutionary imperative that lies before us. EITHER we -- all of humanity but especially those in the consumerist west and especially those of us in the US -- break out of this delusion or we will be the un-doing of all that is good, beautiful, loving, kind, generous and peaceful on this Earth. And in our death throws we'll probably CRY OUT and LASH OUT at all the wrong "enemies" having not grasped our own ignorance, our own greed, our own apathy, depravity, debauchery, criminality and insanity.
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