The
terrorism of the U.S. military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq
breeds only the further terrorism of revenge. Barack Obama�s
military escalation in Afghanistan, ensures not deters, �terrorism;�
and notwithstanding his lofty rhetoric he knows this full
well.
It
does not take a scientific genius to grasp the fact that military
occupation of a sovereign nation by a foreign power breeds utter
contempt while simultaneously laying the foundation for revenge
[i.e. so-called �terrorism�]. Barack Obama, the corporate / military
industrial complex, and the pathetic corporate media are all
very much aware of this, though they cynically feign
the best of intentions and ignorance like the sly fox that just
raided the chicken coop.
In
the first year of his presidency, Obama has conclusively demonstrated
that he is a conscious and willing tool / puppet of the corporate
blood suckers, apartheid Zionists, and the military elite. With
his academic background in U.S. Constitutional law, Obama has continued
the methodical gutting and shredding of the constitution and the
U.S. Bill of Rights, and he knows precisely what he is doing. His
Jimmy Carter-like smile and his feel good rhetoric masks a cynically
diabolical and opportunist politician bent on serving his masters
at the expense of the every day people, just as he did in Chicago,
where he served the powerful and corrupt Daley political machine
of the so-called �Democratic� Party.
Unfortunately,
in the very name of progress, this nation has moved from
the very bad but inarticulate Bush / Cheney
regime, to the much more articulate and even worse
Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel regime. This nation has moved dangerously
backwards.
The
Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel regime knows full well that
external / foreign terrorism against the peoples of the U.S. is
an essential element in both scaring, manipulating, and controlling
the people of this nation while simultaneously continuing
to gut and shred constitutional rights and civil liberties in this
nation. Make no mistake about this. What better way to control people
than to scare the living daylights out of them!
Barack
Obama and his minions know quite well that his so-called �health
care reform� legislation is nothing more than a gigantic
gift to the avaricious, blood sucking insurance companies and their
corporate executives. Both the Democratic and Republican parties
[i.e. the Republicrats] know that most �Americans� are perilously
unaware of the fine print contained in the thousands
of pages of this fake health care reform legislation. This is no
compromise---this is a sell out of every day people.
The
bloody policies of military escalation in Afghanistan, continuing
occupation in Iraq, and the bloody military U.S. �drone� attacks
on the sovereign territory of Pakistan virtually assure continued
if not increased revenge---so-called �terrorist� attacks---
against the military and civilians from and in the West in general,
and the United States in particular. It must be reiterated that
the Obama / Biden / Rahm Emanuel clique is extremely aware
of this. So why are these policies being pursued?
The
policies of U.S. military adventurism, military escalation, continuing
rendition and torture, etc., are deliberate ones designed to ensure
endless wars, corporate glut, and the all around dumbing-down of
the U.S. population. Some mistakenly labor under the belief that
the U.S. is in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere to militarily
win. It is not. This is a well perpetuated myth constantly
perpetrated by the U.S. Government, the corporate / military industrial
complex, including the corporate self-described �news� media.�
Notwithstanding
the unnecessary deaths as de facto cannon fodder of U.S.
troops and of the peoples whose lands they are in; the mere
fact that the U.S. is able to continue waging endless wars is, in
itself, a huge profit victory of sorts for the elite
of the corporations that make the war machines, etc. Moreover, it
is also a victory of sorts for the politicos whose financial trough
is first and foremost, the corporations and concomitant political
action committees known as PACS. Thus, U.S. wars drag on and on,
and when one war is finally concluded [with horrible consequences
for both the U.S. military �grunts� and the people whose
lands they were in] another bloody conflict is soon spawned
by the corporate / military elite with the always willing ostensibly
patriotic assistance of the propaganda arm of the U.S. Government
[i.e. the corporate media].
U.S.
wars have nothing whatever to do with �democracy� or �justice.�
These wars are all about profit for the few and death for the many.
There is no such thing as a �just� war; only the �just� struggle
for political, economic, and social self determination
against said wars. Wars are waged upon humankind not
for the sake of justice but for the benefit of the greedy few of
which Barack Obama is the articulate, conscious, and willing puppet.
The
unmitigated cheek of Barack Obama to accept the Nobel �Peace�
Prize in Oslo, Norway, while escalating and continuing bloody
wars abroad, is an affront to all justice and peace loving people
in the United States and throughout the world. Moreover, Obama�s
reference to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his acceptance speech
of this blood drenched Nobel Peace Prize, was utterly
and wholly despicable. Obama is not merely standing on the �back
of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.;� he has placed the bloody
military boot of hypocrisy and corporate profit in
the faces of Dr. King and the peoples of the world! No doubt
Obama�s slimy friends in the corporate elite of Lockheed and Goldman
Sachs, etc. are extremely pleased; but the spirits of Martin Luther
King, Jr., Malcolm X, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, and every day
people across the globe are sickened and disgusted by his brazen
display of hypocrisy and disdain for the masses of people.
Just
as the Palestinian peoples struggle for the �right of return� to
their homes and/or land which remain under brutal Zionist-Israeli,
(U.S. backed) military occupation, so it is that the Black and poor
people struggle for the �right of return� to their homes and communities
in Katrina ravaged New Orleans, U.S.A. The Obama regime continues
the policy of neglect and economic apartheid against Black and poor
people in New Orleans.
We
must organize for real justice, against the increasing
political, economic, and social oppression at home and the ongoing
bloody wars abroad. We must say a resounding NO to
the hypocrisy, lies, and oppressive power of this corporate / military
/ prison industrial complex and apparatus. Be not blinded
by the subterfuge, obfuscation, and hypocrisy of this corporate
government.
We
must unrelentingly carry on in our efforts to educate, agitate,
and organize.
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. |