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Ignorance

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

An ignorant people are a controlled people There are those (especially much of this nation’s so-called ‘intelligentsia’) who are consciously complicit with this corrupt political system and its de facto corporate-government (Patriot Act/NDAA) police-state. These collaborators masquerade under many different banners. Some call themselves ‘progressives,’ others ‘liberals’, and yet others so-called ‘leftists,’ etc. But the…

September 20, 2012 2 min read Free to read

An ignorant people are a controlled people

There are those (especially much of this nation’s so-called ‘intelligentsia’) who are consciously complicit with this corrupt political system and its de facto corporate-government (Patriot Act/NDAA) police-state. These collaborators masquerade under many different banners. Some call themselves ‘progressives,’ others ‘liberals’, and yet others so-called ‘leftists,’ etc. But the reality is that they are collaborators. They are, in actuality, supporters of the phony left/right paradigm embodied by the symbiotically-joined corporate Democratic and Republican parties, which is of course, a continuation of this systemic hypocrisy.

The everyday ordinary people of this nation must step outside this rotten, filthy, hypocritical system. The time for ignorance and its concomitant hypocrisy is over. The time for being bamboozled is also over.

A new model must be creatively and collectively created from the bottom up by everyday ordinary people of all colors in this nation. Abolish ignorance and end hypocrisy! Meanwhile, we must stop supporting our own oppression by this nation’s corporate government right here at home, and we must stop supporting the murderous and hypocritical actions of the U.S. government against people in all other lands throughout Mother Earth. No more predator-drone missile attacks! No more bombing of other nations! No more military interventions! All U.S. military support for repressive U.S. client-state regimes must be stopped! No more U.S. government lies and subterfuge! Close the U.S. gulag at Guantanamo, and all secret U.S. torture chambers! NOW is the time.

The everyday ordinary people of the United States are not the enemies of the world. It is the blood sucking, hypocritical, corporate-controlled U.S. government of Empire that has demonstrated, and is demonstrating, that it is the enemy of humankind.

Remember the words of Jose Marti, when he said, “Liberty is the right of every man [and woman] to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!

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