Are drones attacks in Pakistan helping you? No, of course not, they do the bidding of their masters. People like you and I, we don't count in a neoliberal" I almost said society, but since they don't believe in society, let's say existence.
Just imagine, a world without altruism, compassion or pity, a world where if I want it, I just take it and with enough money, whose gonna stop me? When Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, investigating police were told "the Vice President is sleeping now, come back tomorrow."
Our economy has been cored out by Neoliberalism, we now export raw materials and import third world, low wage finished goods. If corporations aren't allowed to pollute, they simply pull up stakes and move to where they can and pay no penalty. In Tijuana Mexico, the city needs a new waste water treatment system. Free trade has swelled the ranks of the poor, eager for jobs once done by American labor. But because the workers are so poor and because corporations do not pay their fair share of taxes the sewage system is overwhelmed and the untreated toxic waste is dumped into the Pacific Ocean, where it washes up on Southern California beaches.
It is nothing less than a new dark age, a gilded age for the rich and a land without future or pity for the rest.
Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aiding or involved by such an endeavor.
Neoliberalism is treason, not just to a country or to a people, but to all peoples. It is nefarious and sinister, because it denies our basic humanity, our love of our fellow man. It makes individuals out of us to deny the responsibility of being a human being, replacing our hearts with a debit card, replacing our conscience with greed.
"Society owes protection only to peaceable citizens; the only citizens in the Republic are the republicans. For it, the royalists, the conspirators are only strangers or, rather, enemies. This terrible war waged by liberty against tyranny- is it not indivisible? Are the enemies within not the allies of the enemies without? The assassins who tear our country apart, the intriguers who buy the consciences that hold the people's mandate; the traitors who sell them; the mercenary pamphleteers hired to dishonor the people's cause, to kill public virtue, to stir up the fire of civil discord, and to prepare political counterrevolution by moral counterrevolution-are all those men less guilty or less dangerous than the tyrants whom they serve?" -- Robespierre
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