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War Against Humans. For over 100 years, science fiction writers have
described inventions that have turned against humanity. These
inventions have killed and enslaved humans, and literally attempted to
modify the earth to fit their own interests, even if it meant creating
toxic, poisonous ecologies humans could not survive in. For example,
T1 and T2, the Terminator movie series, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
portrayed a robot that represented a whole world of computers and
robots that wanted to wipe out or enslave humanity and re-shape the
earth to the machine's needs. But this was fiction.
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reality is that the invention turned mad, turned anti-human killer,
enslaver,and earth destroyer is real. It exists. It has been killing,
enslaving, poisoning humans and destroying the earth for well over 100
years, and it is now, more than ever in man's short history, at a
point where it most seriously threatens humanity's future existence.
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its no robot. It's the megacorporation. It is time the remaining
humans on the planet who have not been seduced and blinded by these
enemies of humanity declare war on them, their proxy organizations and
the people who get rich and fat by parasitizing the rest of humanity.
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- We
progressives on the left should learn from the Bush White House and
the Iraq war. Soldiers are now carrying around a deck of 55 cards with
pictures of "most wanted" leaders of the Saddam regime who
are to be pursued, captured or killed. (U.S.
Issues Most Wanted Iraqi List). First things first. We need to
declare that there is indeed an "evil empire." it consists
of Bush, his cronies, the neocons, corrupt megacorporations, the
WTO, WB, IMF. These are the individuals and entities who have a
concrete international record of lawbreaking, terrorism, murder,
enslavement, contribution to riot, destabilization of nations,
disruption of healthy trade and business, exploitation of resources
and untold incidents of inhumane treatment of citizens and workers.
That's just for starters. We can also add some US congressmen,
senators, governors and other legislators and state employees to that
list. Capos, or helpers to these traitors to democracy who will
join the ranks of Stalin, Hitler and Saddam include centrist Democrats
like Zell Miller and John Breaux. And we should also identify the
voting districts that send the evil ones and their assistants, and we
should boycott their products and services.
We need to create a deck of
cards like our troops are carrying-- a list of the most evil, world
ruining people, companies and organizations. And they should be the
targets of the peace demonstrators. They should be the targets of protests
and boycotts. If you belong to an organization that holds annual meetings,
make sure it does not go to a state that has corrupt computerized voting
machines, or that sends traitors to democracy to the congress (DeLay,
Hagel, Lott, Katherine Harris.)
We have to recognize that
this was a war that corrupt corporations brought about (not all
corporations are bad.) Just watch them beat the drums of war at
Fox News, or listen to the right wing-nut radio hosts. Clear Channel
even funds pro-war rallies led by their right wing fanatic talk, no,
make that rant-hate show hosts.
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We need to let people who
work for these companies know they are working for the most evil
entities on the planet. We need to inform people shopping at stores that
support the "evil empire" that they are supporting child and
slave labor. We need to awaken Americans to the fact that the WTO and
it's cohorts are anti-democratic tools the megacorporations use to
circumvent and over-rule laws that we the people vote into effect
democratically. These organizations and their advocates are the enemy.
They should be the targets of our protests, our boycotts, and the war it
is time we the people declare.
Does the word
"war" bother you? It bothers me. Characterizing what the WTO
and megacorporations do as a "war" against humanity and
democracy seems just fine. I don't have a problem with that. But I don't
want to start a war or declare a war. But it's hard to deny that we are
already under attack, have been for a century, and that the weapons the
enemy has used have become so much more powerful, onerous and
threatening in the last decade that we are in mortal danger. So it's not
like we are "Declaring" a war, more like we are finally
recognizing the real enemy.
- Want
to understand the enemy better? Read Greg Palast's Best Democracy
Money Can Buy and Thom Hartmann's Unequal Protection.
Rob
Kall rob@opednews.com
is publisher of progressive news and opinion website www.opednews.com
and organizer of cutting edge meetings that bring together world
leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and the StoryCon
Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story This
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