Monday, May 5, 2008
America Arms Israel
This is just a little bit of the impacts created on the Palestinians. Both Hilary and Barack support Israeli occupation. Many Americans, myself included, do not know or understand the history of the two groups. However, our ignorance doesn't make the atrocities less true or unreal. The negligence of our government extends far beyond our borders and causes hardships for millions of people around the world. Most of us already know this, but most of us never hear about it. So, this is me sharing a not so pretty story.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
My May Day Speech
I wrote this and wanted to share:
Is it true that America is at war? Yes. Although it’s buried under political rhetoric and ignored by the now corporately owned media. America has declared war on just about anyone. And this is only the begging. Non American news outlets report nearly 1M Iraqi deaths and over 4,000 American deaths. Not only are Americans and the Iraqi people dying, one major fact is constantly overlooked. This is a rich man’s war fought by poor people of all skin color: white, black, brown everyone is a target. This occupation of Iraq isn’t about democracy, it is about the control of the world’s depleting resources and corporate exploitation for profiteering. George Bush’s version of democracy isn’t fair elections or sustainable energy, no, for the neo-cons in the Whitehouse’s their version of democracy is a Walmart and McDonalds on every street corner of the world. This war profiteering is brought to you by your own political, media, oil and military industry representatives. All of them –in bed together, raping us of our human right and our civil liberties. We can thanks people like media mogul Rupert Murdoch whom owns MySpace, the chairman and CEO of boeing Philip M. Condit whom builds smart bombs that are sold to the government to kill Iraqis for a profit, Attorney General John Ashcroft for his hard work of building the police state, the chair and CEO of Exxon mobile Lee Raymond who just this morning cleared 11 Billion dollars in oil profits from Jan to March of this year alone, the director of Haliburton and Citigroup and former CEO of Cheveron Ken Derr whom is invested in the prisons built along the southern border of the United States and is standing by to get his company’s hands on the second largest oil reserves in Iraq, the chairman of Project for a New American Century William Kristol whom is the brain behind all this corporate warmongering and America’s head towards a New Word Order, James A. Baker III whom is the senior counselor of the Carlyle Group –the world’s top elistist responsible for the control of oil, arms and the appointed heads of state and who ensures the world will end with a bang and with a few bucks in his pocket too. We can thank our own California state senator Dianne Feinstien and her husband for the $600 M tax payer money that was paid to Perini, the URS EG&G division and partner International Consultants Inc. –all military corporations. We can thank the 8 years of term served by our beloved President of the United States for fraudulently stealing his election, and lastly our own California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his ties to George Bush, the 386M dollar cut to the CSU and the $7B investments in the prison system of California.
The list goes on. And so does the war in Iraq, and soon Iran, and then Syria, North Korea, and Venezula. In the meantime, our economoy is flailing because of the outsourcing of jobs to third world nations, the dollar is crashing and our country is now officially in a recession. And we are now paying $4 a gallon and over 100% more for our education than we were in 2001.
All of these revelations are not new. The war between the elitist and the rest of us, has been going on since construction of time. Only this time, the stakes are higher. And we the people are more divided than ever. Economically and racially: issues like Mexican Illegal immigration, Muslim Terrorism, Black Ghetto crime, the controversy over Indian casinos, and the indoctrination of “white is right,” are all factors purposely kept in place to keep people like you and me from understanding eachother, to blame eachother, to fight eachother, so that the real criminals and terrorists, whom sit in air conditioned buildings in Washington D.C., can continue their exploitations of all of us.
The corporate media is beating the drums of war, selling us erection and diet pills, SUVs, racism and violence as entertainment and bombarding us with military ads that glorify war. But war isn’t a football game. People don’t get to come home and toast touchdown and kiss cheerleaders. Our loved ones come home in body bags drapped in flags, they come home missing limbs, with post stress disorders. My adopted father Robert Werbiskis contracted cancer from the transportation of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. My dad help murder Vietnamese, and in turn he died because of it. Because of the dominant culture’s idea that people are dispensable, We had to fight to Navy just so that would pay for his medical expenses. This man “served” his country, and then his country abandoned him.
During the first anti-War movement in the late 60’s and into the 70’s, America’s youth understood what many of us don’t understand right now. And what is even scarier is the people protesting today, for the most part, are those same resilient souls from the Vietnam era. What about us? Where are the college students of America today? I’ll tell you. They are you. You are the heroes. You are the only ones that will be able to challenge or change anything. I cannot fight for your rights, you must be willing to do that yourself.
We, as Americans, were taught that Freedom and Liberty were bled for. People died, so that we would have the Right to ask questions and hold our government responsible. America was founded off the very principal that men were equal meant to be Free. This is what the Revolutionary War was fought over. Independence. Equality. Human and Civil Rights. These aren't imaginary ideas, these are the definitions of what Life means to all of us in the United States.
I know many people feel the same disappointment, I felt, of being born to the wrong generation. And while we are so busy looking at the door of the 60's and 70's that slammed shut many lifetimes ago, we fail to realize these are the days. These are our days. The days of a global community, with global stakes. I will leave you with the question, how will history remember us? Were we mindless and stupid and not willing to take a stance for what we believe in, or are we brave and persistent and will do what is right?
We should all be listening to the falsehoods and injustices both inside and outside of our country. For now is the time to write our own history. This is our moment. That big empty canvass is still blank, and it is waiting for all of us.
Is it true that America is at war? Yes. Although it’s buried under political rhetoric and ignored by the now corporately owned media. America has declared war on just about anyone. And this is only the begging. Non American news outlets report nearly 1M Iraqi deaths and over 4,000 American deaths. Not only are Americans and the Iraqi people dying, one major fact is constantly overlooked. This is a rich man’s war fought by poor people of all skin color: white, black, brown everyone is a target. This occupation of Iraq isn’t about democracy, it is about the control of the world’s depleting resources and corporate exploitation for profiteering. George Bush’s version of democracy isn’t fair elections or sustainable energy, no, for the neo-cons in the Whitehouse’s their version of democracy is a Walmart and McDonalds on every street corner of the world. This war profiteering is brought to you by your own political, media, oil and military industry representatives. All of them –in bed together, raping us of our human right and our civil liberties. We can thanks people like media mogul Rupert Murdoch whom owns MySpace, the chairman and CEO of boeing Philip M. Condit whom builds smart bombs that are sold to the government to kill Iraqis for a profit, Attorney General John Ashcroft for his hard work of building the police state, the chair and CEO of Exxon mobile Lee Raymond who just this morning cleared 11 Billion dollars in oil profits from Jan to March of this year alone, the director of Haliburton and Citigroup and former CEO of Cheveron Ken Derr whom is invested in the prisons built along the southern border of the United States and is standing by to get his company’s hands on the second largest oil reserves in Iraq, the chairman of Project for a New American Century William Kristol whom is the brain behind all this corporate warmongering and America’s head towards a New Word Order, James A. Baker III whom is the senior counselor of the Carlyle Group –the world’s top elistist responsible for the control of oil, arms and the appointed heads of state and who ensures the world will end with a bang and with a few bucks in his pocket too. We can thank our own California state senator Dianne Feinstien and her husband for the $600 M tax payer money that was paid to Perini, the URS EG&G division and partner International Consultants Inc. –all military corporations. We can thank the 8 years of term served by our beloved President of the United States for fraudulently stealing his election, and lastly our own California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his ties to George Bush, the 386M dollar cut to the CSU and the $7B investments in the prison system of California.
The list goes on. And so does the war in Iraq, and soon Iran, and then Syria, North Korea, and Venezula. In the meantime, our economoy is flailing because of the outsourcing of jobs to third world nations, the dollar is crashing and our country is now officially in a recession. And we are now paying $4 a gallon and over 100% more for our education than we were in 2001.
All of these revelations are not new. The war between the elitist and the rest of us, has been going on since construction of time. Only this time, the stakes are higher. And we the people are more divided than ever. Economically and racially: issues like Mexican Illegal immigration, Muslim Terrorism, Black Ghetto crime, the controversy over Indian casinos, and the indoctrination of “white is right,” are all factors purposely kept in place to keep people like you and me from understanding eachother, to blame eachother, to fight eachother, so that the real criminals and terrorists, whom sit in air conditioned buildings in Washington D.C., can continue their exploitations of all of us.
The corporate media is beating the drums of war, selling us erection and diet pills, SUVs, racism and violence as entertainment and bombarding us with military ads that glorify war. But war isn’t a football game. People don’t get to come home and toast touchdown and kiss cheerleaders. Our loved ones come home in body bags drapped in flags, they come home missing limbs, with post stress disorders. My adopted father Robert Werbiskis contracted cancer from the transportation of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. My dad help murder Vietnamese, and in turn he died because of it. Because of the dominant culture’s idea that people are dispensable, We had to fight to Navy just so that would pay for his medical expenses. This man “served” his country, and then his country abandoned him.
During the first anti-War movement in the late 60’s and into the 70’s, America’s youth understood what many of us don’t understand right now. And what is even scarier is the people protesting today, for the most part, are those same resilient souls from the Vietnam era. What about us? Where are the college students of America today? I’ll tell you. They are you. You are the heroes. You are the only ones that will be able to challenge or change anything. I cannot fight for your rights, you must be willing to do that yourself.
We, as Americans, were taught that Freedom and Liberty were bled for. People died, so that we would have the Right to ask questions and hold our government responsible. America was founded off the very principal that men were equal meant to be Free. This is what the Revolutionary War was fought over. Independence. Equality. Human and Civil Rights. These aren't imaginary ideas, these are the definitions of what Life means to all of us in the United States.
I know many people feel the same disappointment, I felt, of being born to the wrong generation. And while we are so busy looking at the door of the 60's and 70's that slammed shut many lifetimes ago, we fail to realize these are the days. These are our days. The days of a global community, with global stakes. I will leave you with the question, how will history remember us? Were we mindless and stupid and not willing to take a stance for what we believe in, or are we brave and persistent and will do what is right?
We should all be listening to the falsehoods and injustices both inside and outside of our country. For now is the time to write our own history. This is our moment. That big empty canvass is still blank, and it is waiting for all of us.
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