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October 22, 2009 - Issue 347
 
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The Crisis Pimps versus the Obama Puppet
Keeping It Real
By Larry Pinkney
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The avariciously evil corporate Republicrat political machine of so-called “Democrats” and Republicans that created the Obama puppet has simultaneously also spawned the inevitable rightwing crisis pimps.

Who are the crisis pimps? They are the slimy, rightwing, lying opportunist purveyors of misinformation, disinformation, racism, and fear mongering, all in an effort to ensure that the Obama puppet moves even further to the right at the expense of the masses of people in this nation and throughout the world.

The Obama puppet is of course Barack Obama, the de facto puppet of the Wall Street robber barons, of the executives of the giant pharmaceutical and insurance companies, of the pro apartheid Zionists, and of the war mongering military elite that is enjoying an ongoing bloody field day in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. The Obama puppet is now the convenient face of hypocrisy and increasing repression at home, and U.S. Empire abroad. The “Obama Puppet” is quite accurately depicted by the gifted political cartoonist Mark Hurwitt in his cartoon of the same name.

Both the crisis pimps and the Obama puppet (along with his Republicrat colleagues) are an insidious and unacceptable scourge upon the every day people of all colors of this nation and planet who yearn for decent lives with social & economic justice and peace. The crisis pimp managers seek to manipulate the deepening crisis of capitalism in order to more quickly push the nation further toward a 21st century form of fascism - all in the very name of hypocritically supposedly opposing government authoritarianism. Meanwhile, the chameleon Obama puppet busily serves his greedy corporate and military masters by squeezing the economic life blood out of the people - all in the very fake name of “change,” secure in the knowledge that any who dare attack his reprehensible, hypocritical, and fallacious policies of militarism abroad and corporate bloodsucking at home will be labeled as “racists” and/or be marginalized by his ever-willing unprincipled partisan allies within the corporate media.

We need not be confused and/or bamboozled by the crisis pimps or by the Obama puppet. The fact is that neither the pimps nor the puppet have the interests of every day people at heart, and both must be vigorously organized against, exposed, and opposed.

Be clear about this: The ongoing and unjust U.S. wars abroad, the growing repression and erosion of constitutional rights, and the corporate and pro apartheid Zionist control of the U.S. Government here at home is continuing to steadily increase under the Obama puppet. Moreover, economic apartheid against all the masses of people (of all colors), and racism against Black and other people of color is reaching epidemic proportions. Yet, when complaints are raised about these things, people are, in essence, told to shut up and accept the economic apartheid, the U.S. wars abroad, and the increasing racism at home because, after all, Barack Obama - puppet extraordinaire - is President. This is absolutely unacceptable and must be consistently opposed by all justice-loving people.

Our responsibility is to out-organize the crisis pimps and marginalize them, while unrelentingly insisting upon accountability and real “change” on behalf of the people from the Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel administration and both houses of the U.S. Congress. It is time to reject the misleading double talk and meaningless feel-good rhetoric of the Obama puppet, remembering that the puppet serves the interests of his puppet masters and not the people.

Ironically, the objective of both the crisis pimps and the Obama puppet is to ultimately play us - the people - off against one another. However, if we educate one another - each one teach one - and unceasingly organize locally and nationally, the crisis pimps and the Obama puppet (and his puppet masters) will fail, and the people will ultimately be triumphant.

All of this means work, and lots of it. It won’t be easy, but it must be accomplished. It must be done.

Onward then brothers and sisters. Onward!

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book). Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

 
 
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