And on 9/8/06, Scott Ward abused his inherited wealth and status to aid and abet George W. Bush, a man responsible for the annihilation of over a hundred thousand innocent civilians, in his frantic bid to continue killing with impunity.
Jim Talent, another Bush enabler, is the consummate crusader for the "rights" of corporations and the wealthy to engage in rapacious behaviors. His campaign contributors include Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay's ARMPAC, and three major tobacco companies. An examination of Talent's voting record in Congress clearly demonstrates that he is neither representing nor serving the interests of a majority of We the People.
Consider these facts:
1. the NEA gave him a 27% for his "support" of public education
2. the US Chamber of Commerce rated him a 100% supporter of business interests
3. the League of Conservation Voters scored him at 5% for his abysmal voting record on the environment
4. the American Public Health Association rated him at zero percent on health care issues
5. SANE (now part of Peace Action) also placed him at 0% for his unwavering support of the military industrial complex
6. the AFL-CIO awarded him a goose egg to highlight his deep hostility toward unions
7. and the Alliance for Retired Americans determined that he deserved a ranking of zero for failing to represent the interests of seniors
Like Bush, Talent has a very narrow constituency he truly supports. It is not difficult to imagine George, Jim, and Scott gently clinking Baccarat Vence Champagne Flutes filled with Clos du Mesni to toast the wealthy elite. In deference to Scott's candy empire located in Jim's state, their toast would of course include their version of a quote often falsely attributed to Marie Antoinette. In unison the three would jubilantly proclaim:
"Let them eat candy!"
As this merry trio and their elite cronies prepared to assemble at Scott's mansion, we proponents of social justice, peace, economic justice, human rights, and the preservation of the environment arrived at the intersection of 55th and Ward Parkway to call for an end to the Iraqi Occupation, the eradication of gross economic injustices in the United States, and Bush's impeachment.
Corralled into a grassy median by police tape and a contingency of about thirty Kansas City police officers, we who dared to dissent learned our place under the Bush Regime. Yet despite the government restricting us to an area where we were invisible to the ruling elite and were not even an inconvenience to them, we were fortunate to even get our "free speech zone".
Potent resistance to virtually any individual or group that threatens the power of the moneyed class or corporations has been an ugly reality throughout much of the United States' history. Those who agitate for changes that would decrease profits, level the playing field, impede capitalist expansion, or curb US militarism are vilified, marginalized, arrested, and sometimes killed. Those calling for economic justice are dismissed as Socialists or Communists (the favorite "villains" of rapacious Capitalism's mythology). Nuclear weapons protestors like Mike Palecek go to prison. "Suspected" terrorists are tortured and imprisoned indefinitely. Minority activists like MLK and Malcolm X who become too powerful "wind up on the wrong end of a gun".
Perpetrating one of the world's biggest hoaxes for an unprecedented period of time, the ruling class has beguiled the masses in the United States into believing they live in a bottom-up "participatory democracy". The stark reality is that about 1% of the population holds most of the wealth, power, and influence in the United States.
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