We may think we are living in a democracy because our kids say the pledge of allegiance, we have elections, and a government exists that seems to have elected officials working there, but we live in a Corporate Fascist State. B. Mussolini defined fascism as the marriage of state or government with corporations.
All states contract to corporations to organize voter registration lists, operate and program hardware, and canvass the elections. These corporations are republican owned. Corporations are consistently cited as responsible for faulty equipment, faulty software, bad voter registration lists and canvasses that are based on these election irregularities, but they have legally binding contracts that keep them from liability or culpability.
Today the legalistic corporate law model that keeps the Bush regime out of war crimes court and not being impeached for crimes against the Constitution are the law of the land, and these laws do NOT have the best interests of the people in mind.
When the corporate owned media present the "election" as proceeding normally and focus on who said what, with pundits arguing their point's of view, we don't see the guy behind the curtain pulling the levers. Oz is U.S. and we have been passively accepting the privatization of our election system for decades while corporations run the show. Combined with legal contracts with states these corporations have gained more power and have less and less liability to make elections work, transparent, and accountable or recount able.
So, if you can't vote, as 26,000 thousand African Americans in Florida experienced in 2000, another 100,000 in Ohio in 2004, and millions more from manipulation of the voter registration lists by "government" officials paying corporations to organize and justify election irregularities, don't be surprised.
Our votes are placebos. We don't live in a real democracy. We have corporate appointments guised in the corporate owned media's election theater as elections. Software can change the election totals of a state in less than a minute and make the numbers match media arguments for how close the race is and claim exit polls are wrong, or republicans don't give accurate information to pollsters. It's a media circus, and we are watching the fireworks while they pull the levers behind the media curtin.
We have to de-privatize, or make publically owned all election systems and protocols. This is a long over due federal standard that the country needs. Corporate America does not want people in control because they run America just fine and we would get in their way. They will build up their lobbies and heighten their media propaganda attacks against any effort to make elections the people's business. Propaganda like elections are too important for people to run, or too complicated...
Both the Demz and Repugs are bought off with the "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" corporate owned government we have today, so they argue and do their little dance pretending to do something, while nothing gets changed. Corporate America remains in control of legislation that favors them, while the best interests of the people are ignored. War and tax breaks for the rich benefit the same people and those are the top 1% of the country that own 85% of the wealth.
That is not a democracy, that is a oligarchy and plutocracy. We need to get special interests, the rich and powerful, and corporations out of our government, elections, and media or we will not be able to return to a real democracy.
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I am a 3d generation immigrant married to a 1st generation immigrant with one son, named Emiliano after a great leader and revolutionary for the people and human rights in Mexico, Emiliano Zapata. I have degrees in Psychology and Anthropology. I do analytic chemistry of dyes in antique textiles, ceramic conservation, and jewelry fabrication, as well as activist work, poll worker during elections, and publish articles based on the forensic analysis of Navajo textiles.
That said, I think the U.S. is being controlled, as Eisenhower warned, by the Military Industrial Complex and to get back our democracy, we have to remove Corporate America from the media(one station/publication only), elections, lobbies, and not let elected officials or their direct family members have dealings with Corporate America for 10 years before or after holding office.
The people are not the same as corporations because corporations have much more power than individuals. People have to be protected from corporate power and we need a separation of corporate and state, just as there is a separation of church and state. Corporations do not have the rights of individuals, rather they are subject to the people and laws to regulate them. Mussolinni defined fascism as the marriage of the corporate and the state.
Well, ok, here's your cookie, I'm all out of hyphenated-american, taxpayer-funded educated preferential points.
I recommend that you forward your grievance to the National Council of Sedition And Hyphenated-Amercian Divisiveness Institute-ism, in the interest of forwarding the general agenda. America is, after all, the Great Satan, and must be destroyed something something something....this is getting old, you guys need new material. Would you be willing to join the US Border Patrol, so they can finally get that border fence built?
I think the guy with the virtual fence money ran off to Shanghai or something, to live in sin with his concubines.
I mean you no disrespect, but unless you're actually a direct descendant of quexlquickxlquaxlpaxil, you're kind of urinating into the oncoming breeze, posing a direct threat to your next contract with GQ as a fashion model. Even if you are a direct descendant, your grievance is primarily with Spain, which was the Original Great Satan, we're more like Great Satan II(beta), the kinder, gentler, make-it-all-better, help-you-write-your-sob story evil empire thingy. Sort of. On Tuesdays. Some people had some money, for a while, but it's not looking so good for the Con Me, and the military-industrial complex got outsourced to Saudi Arabia and Taiwan, I think. Your new landlord will be named 'al', and you WILL attend mosque. And LIKE it. ;) That is, IF you can afford to pay your mosque fees(yes, ya gotta pay for the brainwashing, NOTHING's free anymore, not even religious propaganda. Printing costs, you know). So, be sure to be on time there at Al-Wal-Mart, Someone's gotta keep the grill hot at McCatBurger, keep those sushi-fries fresh!
Tune in next week, when Bob Vila morses out instructions on how to insulate your home with dollar bills... ...---... .-.- Now that's what I call 'wireless'! Go 'retro', baby...
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truthtruffle (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 94 comments)
on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 1:48:00 AM
Can't Take The Critical Thought or R U a True Believer?
Frequently the polarization that red flag thinkers engage in is to ignore the content and spout party "you guyz" and "get new material" when the point made in the content can not be discussed.
You want the "people's business," you know the noun mentioned in the Constitution when governed and government are discussed, to be the private business of a private corporation and not yours, as one of the people.
Discussing the fact that there has been an infection of the process of transfering the power over the government, that belongs to the peope, to corporations is not "the Great Satan, and must be destroyed" and I bet you would claim you are not religious. The point is you are using digression with respect to trying to criticize the argument in the article. Try talking about corporate corruption of our lives, government, the media, you know the content of the article.
The choice is to discuss the issue or demostrate the capacity to argue by attacking the messenger or using group thought/republican catch phrases, as a true believer in the party should and these comments reflect.
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Casey Reed (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 12 comments)
on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 3:03:24 PM
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