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I wish i knew the word for what it means to sell your soul. I hear lots of words about sell your body, but somehow none of those have that certain..."Je ne sait quoi" richness for what i'm feeling. I see the face of America tonight, not from the inside, a place in which increasingly, men of goodwill are experiencing a tingly crawling feeling about where their love of nation once resided. Tonight i see from the outside, a large shadow menace, voracious for energy, accustomed to deference, looming over the spread plate of the world.I heard a young president speak of extending a hand to any who would take it. The face of this thing appeared at times smiling, at times terse, but throughout our meeting, a couple of things remained. I experienced words designed to soothe and invite. If i stood with eyes closed i could not help but agree. Life, however has taught me to listen with an open mind, an open heart. When i looked at the totality of the offer, i saw also, arms extended in power, in one hand, fists full of money, and the other held weapons and death. Our corporations delivered the message:
"Join us or pay the penalty."
In this nightmare, the World of my waking state was replaced, by a cauldron seething with financial and material control of the world, and an elite, determined to remain without care, floating on the cushion of comfort that only slavery can provide. I watched horrified as we glamorized drug and sex excess in the popular media. Entranced, our nation watches the soul death of it's children. My God, i said, we have begun to eat our young. I watch an entire people riveted to a fantasy, that some could enjoy everything, even as the rest die.
Whore? Whore? No. The word for that is when you sell your body. We need a curse just for this. America! Wake up! Where are the great chieftains of this once great nation? Did not the Lord God ASK ye? Did he not TASK ye! Where is your brother?
'What does America lately do in the world except eat and kill, and kill and eat. The enemy we see is not Muslim, pork is forbidden to them. it is hunger. A great awaking has taken place! No longer are hordes content to live in the serfdom created by our worship of false gods. This abomination visited upon the world by greed can only be defeated by love. Not the sit at home in my chair kind of love. Not that lofty golden stupor, which has me hearing of my greatness in my own voice kind of love. This love must be love in action.
For too long, the face of America has been a gun, behind a taking hand. For too long we have countenanced greed and avarice so long as it served those we have allowed to represent us. Pick a day, any will do. I pray, let us begin to stand upright. Let us turn away from the apocalypse of scarcity and greed. Let us start, now to make it the policy of the United States, that the face of America will be the face of the good, peaceful and hardworking people of the United States. Let us claim, and proclaim, that we will not send any to lecture, undermine, or create fear or force or kill others so as to remake them into our idea of who, and how they should be, but rather we will commit ourselves to become an inspiring example of what we know them to be.
Let the world hear the great joyous roar of the PEOPLE of the United States working together that none shall hunger, none need bow before another, except in respect. Let us speak loudly and clearly, and commit to action, the doctrine of the new age.
Let us make fast sail, and a true course towards peace. We must withdraw from warlike activities everywhere, except we are attacked. Even then we must accept a measure of responsibility in conflict, and earnestly seek to end it. Our excessive consumption must end, and we need prepare for the repair and care of our planet, as our numbers threaten our very survival. And we must do this at an absolute minimum of animal, and human suffering. The disruption of the systems upon we depend, must end, and the restoration of destroyed and altered ecosystems, must become paramount to our future.
WE MUST elect people on a new American platform. This is the true revolution. Our votes should be cast for those candidates who swear to represent our views. If we want peace, we must sue for it. If we would have a nation of law, where all are accountable for their actions, we must press for it. If the fruits of a persons labor belong to them, then the people must wholly own the money of the treasury, with no intermediate authority. Our labors must yield the keys to the answers of the problems we create and encounter. We have no spare for death and destruction. As a nation built on a creed of equality, can we say so surely, that our actions have not created, or at least abetted the subjugation of peoples around the world? Has our endless hunger for worthless goods so blinded us, that we can send troops to foot the neck of any who dare demand a share of comfort? Any who dare stand as owner of the value of God's good earth under their feet?
This IS an abomination no doubt. And so are the responses to it. People barely able to read and write, guns thrust into their hands, told that America is the cause of their pain. Surely no one asks them to think of who else had to agree with us to make their misery. So do we fall or stand together or not? This, NOW is the time to choose.
