Thursday, August 03, 2006
Freedom?
Corporations use our tax money and military forces to impose conditions of great terror upon other nations in order to steal their wealth. We in the imperialist nations are protected from the military might of others because their military might is suppressed by oppressive governments in various nations. We, the underlings, benefit from the suffering, oppression and terror caused the people of other nations. Their suffering is caused by our tax dollars, our government and their corporate owners who use U.S. military might to steal the wealth of other nations and create suffering amongst the people of those nations in order to keep them sufficiently weak as not to be able to fight back.
This sets up the condition for what can be alleged as terrorism. People who have no military might, who can't get the foot of the oppressor off of their necks, a few will fight back with the only methods they know how. These methods vary from just survival to acts that are alleged to be terroristic. When people commit alleged acts of terror, these are used as an excuse to use excessive military force in order to gain control over a nation and its people and steal more of their wealth.
When one benefits from the actions of their corporate owned governments use of military might on weakened peoples in order to steal their wealth is NOT "freedom." That is PRIVILEGE.
The United States of America is NOT the land of the free. It is the land of the PRIVILEGED! We are privileged because we benefit from the oppression, suffering, genocide, excessive use of military force, etc., enacted upon other nations by our alleged government and their corporate owners to steal they wealth of other nations from which we benefit.
Within this system are varying degrees of privilege which are measured in various forms that are interwoven like the web of a spider. Race, sex, class are a few examples of the "rulers" used to measure privilege. Wealthy white males at the top, and those who support and identify with them, are the greatest beneficiaries of privilege. The homeless, those at the bottom, even benefit from this form of privilege. The homeless here more often than not get to eat, where as in other nations, they get to starve.
We benefit from the suffering of those in other nations. This is not the land of the "free," it is the land of the Privileged.
In my opinion, that is what people are really telling me when they ask if I like "living in the land of the free?" They mean don't question our Privilege, just call it "freedom," then look away from the suffering of others.
When others go without so I can have, that is Privilege, NOT "freedom."
This sets up the condition for what can be alleged as terrorism. People who have no military might, who can't get the foot of the oppressor off of their necks, a few will fight back with the only methods they know how. These methods vary from just survival to acts that are alleged to be terroristic. When people commit alleged acts of terror, these are used as an excuse to use excessive military force in order to gain control over a nation and its people and steal more of their wealth.
When one benefits from the actions of their corporate owned governments use of military might on weakened peoples in order to steal their wealth is NOT "freedom." That is PRIVILEGE.
The United States of America is NOT the land of the free. It is the land of the PRIVILEGED! We are privileged because we benefit from the oppression, suffering, genocide, excessive use of military force, etc., enacted upon other nations by our alleged government and their corporate owners to steal they wealth of other nations from which we benefit.
Within this system are varying degrees of privilege which are measured in various forms that are interwoven like the web of a spider. Race, sex, class are a few examples of the "rulers" used to measure privilege. Wealthy white males at the top, and those who support and identify with them, are the greatest beneficiaries of privilege. The homeless, those at the bottom, even benefit from this form of privilege. The homeless here more often than not get to eat, where as in other nations, they get to starve.
We benefit from the suffering of those in other nations. This is not the land of the "free," it is the land of the Privileged.
In my opinion, that is what people are really telling me when they ask if I like "living in the land of the free?" They mean don't question our Privilege, just call it "freedom," then look away from the suffering of others.
When others go without so I can have, that is Privilege, NOT "freedom."
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