Friday, October 29, 2010
The Politics of War and Tricknology
The Politics of War
and Tricknology
Isn'tit absolutely amazing we are in three wars: Iraq, Afghanistan andPakistan, yet the elected politicians, the media magicians, the left,are in total silence about the wars, blood and bones on both sides, thebillions missing from reconstruction funds in Iraq and Afghanistan.Surely such terror and looting should be the subject of politicaldiscussion. But the Americans are such deaf, dumb and blind dupes fortwiddle dum and twiddle dee, they will vote for persons, Democraticand/or Republican who have presented nothing in terms of a policyagenda to address the global wars, the unemployment problem,foreclosures, immigration, education, amnesty for prisoners.
Obamahas presented nothing useful on behalf of his party, nor have theRepublicans or their sycophants, the Tea Party goers. We wonder arethese politicians brain dead or simply full of chicanery to the degreethey know the ignorant will vote, no matter what, for they are easilyhoodwinked and bamboozled.
And so the wars continue going nowhereexcept for the wasted blood, bones and billions of dollars for thecause of the military/corporate/university complex. Like a drug addictwho has hit rock bottom yet continues his addiction in utter denial,America has no intention of leaving Iraq, or allowing a functionalgovernment in Iraq, after all it has been since March that electionswere held, yet there is no government--yes, in the great democraticsociety America has established in the Middle East. But seven billion ofnine billion dollars in reconstruction money has disappeared in Iraq,no one can explain where it went! In Afghanistan, eighteen billion infunds for contractors has evaporated into thin air according to USGovernment auditors.
Yet, the American public is not concernedthat they have been robbed in broad daylight and left half dead on theroadside. They shall celebrate Halloween this weekend, in costumes ofghosts and goblins, taking their children on trick or treat missions.But their very lives are a trick, for they live in a state oftricknitis, victims of tricknology by the devil. Have we not beentricked out of employment with Global outsourcing, tricked out of homesby the subprime loan scam, tricked with religiosity that has onebelieving pie in the sky after you die; tricked to send children topublic schools where they are dumbed down into nothingness and dread.Alas, 50% of them drop out or are pushed out of school each year, andthose who do make it to colleges and universities are edumaked into ahigher degree of white supremacy mythology that allows them to beattheir mates into submission if they rebel against chattel slavery orpersonal property slavery and domination wherein they actually believethey own each other's sexual organs, so they endure physical, verbal andemotional violence until their lives became a matter of the criminaljustice system. The mates are forced into anger management, the childreninto foster care, the women into battered women shelters. This is theother war politicians will not speak about, for they are participants inthis marital and/or martial drama.
The war on drugs is butanother sham and scam involving billions of dollars. There are at leastten thousand drug/gang related deaths in the US each year, and in thelast few years, ten thousand people have died below the border inMexico. And after imprisoning tens of thousands of young black andLatino men and women for drug offenses, California is about to passlegislation to legalize marijuana. Imagine, as we write, white boys andgirls are legally selling weed at their clubs, but blacks and Chicanosare arrested and jailed each day for selling the same marijuana on thestreet. War!
And so the global wars continue, as well as the warin the hood that has impacted almost every family: there are no familieswho have not lost sons, daughters, cousins, nephews, fathers, mothersand friends in this hell hole. War and rumors of war!
Parentsknow not what to tell their children as they depart the house each day.The mothers are in stress and trauma until their children, especiallytheir sons, return home safely. The parents do not tell them to put onthe amour of God or utilize spiritual consciousness, otherwise known ascommon sense. After two homicides at a barber shop in the hood, I mustfind another shop. This is common sense. Vote for me, I'll set you free!
--Marvin X (Plato Negro)
Academy of da Corner
14th and Broadway
Downtown Oakland
10/29/10
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
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