July 22, 2007 at 10:49:14

Rev. King Jr. Re: U.S. Extermination Programs and 1/2 Humanity living on $2 a Day

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One half of our planetary population lives on two dollars or less a day and one billion of those brothers and sisters of ours live on less than one dollar a day, while to some of us comes so much money that we have trouble deciding how to spend it all.

Of course Nature did not create this situation. Half of mankind is not naturally inferior in capability to the half that enjoys an average income of upwards of two dollars a day.

Centuries of European invasions, occupations, enslavement, plunder of natural resources, and political chicanery all over the world followed the early European and Yankee traders. Those invader nations of yesteryear, made wealthy largely from having gorged themselves on the natural resources of the hundreds of invaded nations continue the exploitation today in the name of ‘globalization’. World dominating ‘international’ fiduciary institutions like the World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation and others globalize the political, military and financial grip of powerful multinational conglomerates through their control and influence within these international institutions, which in their administration and operations circumvent and belie the fiduciary obligation of fairness and non-profit.

The politically infiltrated and economically swamped formerly physically occupied nations are literally defenseless. The leaders of the now industrialized nations speak condescendingly of aid, never of restitution, speak of good-hearted charity and generosity, never of admitting shame and apologizing for having used their military to
enslave the people to forced labor and for despoiling the land of its natural resources, all for capitalist greed.

Thus, Martin Luther King J. spoke, “With righteous indignation, I look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of
the countries” Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken: ... by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments… we are on the side of the wealthy and the secure, while
we create a hell for the poor"

We now are beginning to appreciate that today’s dominating system is in the long run ruinous to it's own preservation. Taking unfair profit from the billions of our fellow human beings already poor makes for fertile ground for those preaching the destruction of such
a system presently led unabashedly by the United States of Capitalism.

For just one example: Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, usually has a balance of payments deficit of a half-billion dollars to its giant northern neighbor, which has often militarily occupied it and fostered right wing dictatorship to perpetuate the
exploitation.

Massive demonstrations, even with violent encounters, outside meetings of the top 1000 corporations and political leaders of the few world dominating nations, the World Economic Forum, the WTO, and the Group of 8, have led these to choose reclusive venues to avoid mass confrontations; the protests of ordinary citizens of conscience from all around to world turned activists are ignored.

We still await the fruition of the words of Rev. King jr. of forty years ago, " A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. …"This is not just" It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and
say: "This is not just."

SUMMARY

A Century ago, intolerable human suffering under heartless, unreformable, unregenerate, unrepentant, unrelentingly unjust and undemocratic capitalism begat communism.

Now a days, the violent injustice and cruel loss of life under capitalism’s newest, supposedly benign, form, ‘corporate globalization of profits’, begets illegal backlash terrorism in answer to legal government terrorism employed to again seize control of the
sources of energy.

Violence begets violence, not peace. Wild policies of inaccurate extermination of “bad guys” begets desperate counter extermination attempts on the lives of the citizens supporting such overkill collateral extermination by the superpower in former colonies of the rich ‘free world’.

Suicide bombing recruits are willing to die for what they think is right, much the same as the U.S. and U.K soldiers are. Difference is the suiciders, forced to use their own bodies as bombs, know they will die, while the heavily armed soldiers know they might be lucky.
But extermination policies inevitably cut both ways.

King would not have believed that al Qaida is the primary threat, nor that the world’s single superpower must forever invade other countries, creating more and more al Qaidas, for he warned, “Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in
destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love." “The greatest purveyor of violence in the
world today is my own government!" "For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."- “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” "Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his
convictions, but we must all protest." MLK Jr.

How about us? Shall we remain silent, betray our conscience and take chances with our children’s lives? The ethical consciousness awakened in Michael Moore’s films and the impassioned speeches of Cindy Sheehan are forcing a corporate media attention not seen since Martin Luther King Jr.

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