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jack3566You Say You Want a Revolution
“You say you want a Revolution?
We’d all love to change the world.”
-Lennon/McCartney
America must lead a revolution. The people of America, and the world, must once again have real money. Money that has value. In many countries around the world the currency is linked to the US Dollar with a value of X = US$1. When US$1 is not stable or is worthless the whole world suffers the consequences. Can the world opt out?
The competing trade system attempted by the Soviet Bloc is gone. America is at the top of a power grid, and that is good for us, except that we have built a Frankenstein Monster that we can no longer control, and that is bad. To the rest of the world, the US is the Monster. Just like in the original movie version of Mary Shelley’s tale, the monster bears our name, and the genius scientist that is America is cursed as a mindless killing machine composed of the rotting corpses of hanged murderers and thieves.
Inevitabily, the world will revolt at our control, and will attack the perceived master, not the monster. Like the peasants with torches and pitchforks climbing the hill to Castle Frankenstein, they will come for the monster and burn our castle in the bargain.
Unless we destroy the monster first. You say you want a revolution?
Start by calling the kettle black. Charley Reese got off to a good start in reversing the tide of Orwellian Newspeak when he declared that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were over. Lew Rockwell, too, has no trouble calling a spade a spade, judging from the title of this article: Triumph of the Red-State Fascists.
I never understood why the old Soviet Union was never called out as fascist. Was that too close to home? The leftist sympathizers in media wanted to keep that word out of the discussion, and the right-wing corporate overlords were happy to ignore the tar baby on the side of the road.
Back in February a writer for the on-line Asia Times wrote a hit piece on Barak Obama that fits into the type of attack (hates America) that is classic fascist agit-prop. Using the name of a famous Proto-Nazi, Oswald Spengler, the writer makes it impossible for us not to think of the conspiracy theorist’s Revelation of the Method.
And in the weeks before Bush’ re-election, here is Spengler praising our Shoot First, Think Last foreign policy as an endorsement of Bush ‘04:
“That is why George W Bush has my moral support in the upcoming US presidential election. He may not fathom what he is doing, and he may have made a dog’s breakfast of Iraq, but at least he is willing to go straight to war, no questions asked. That is precisely what the world needs.”
This reads like satire, but he is serious. The punchline to Spegler’s solution to the problem of nuclear technology being available to all governments: Blow someone (anyone) up quick, so they’ll all be too scared to act. But how long does the fear last? How long until the whole world gets tired of being bossed around? How long until someone finally takes us down? As the gunslingers of the old west learned, there will always be a faster gun. Best we fade into the sunset on our own accord, settle on a nice ranch and be peaceable, rather than hang around the rodeo showing off until some punk shoots us in the back.
According to Bruce Fein, founder of the Liberty Coalition, we have already lost our Republic. In further remarks, Mr. Fein finds unfortunate parallels between President George Walker Bush and England’s King George III: “According to a recently declassified document, the Justice Department opined in 2001 that in the perpetual war against international terrorism, the military is unconstrained by the Fourth Amendment in arresting, searching or spying on U.S. citizens — a tyranny practiced by King George III that provoked the American Revolution.”
There will be another revolution, and we, the people of the United States, need to be the leaders. To put our own financial house in order and maintain our position in the world economy, me must solve the dollar crisis. To solve the dollar crisis we must close our garrisons around the world. To secure our rights as free men and women, we must disassemble the security state. The Constitution of the United States of America has provided the tools for the peaceful, ongoing revolution that is our nation. It is the last, best hope for America and the world.
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I agree. Completely.
But before anyone on the left wing says “Yay you criticized Bush and compared him to King George!!”, you must remember Bush is only one of a long line of virtually identical presidents.
In my eyes, Clinton, Reagan, the Bushs, Carter–all the same. They are all believers in big government. It is different people with the same ideology just appealing to a different part of the country. People are stuck in a left/right paradigm, but that isn’t how the world really works–it’s only a facade. It’s about liberty vs. tyranny.
Bush’s entire domestic and foreign agenda is not very different from Clinton’s. Different people in government might change the way things are said or ‘politicked’, but nothing really changes.
“To the rest of the world, the US is the Monster”
You must not get out in the world much. Not so in nearly all of Africa, nor in the India, China, Japan, most of Southeast Asia and South America, on and one.
You are overly fixated with the war in Iraq and a lot of the world couldn’t care less. They see us as the whole super-power; some good, some bad. And nearly all would gladly trade this ‘tyranny’ of yours for theirs. In a heartbeat.
The problem is this, folks: your opinions can’t seem to carry anyone to the White House. Sorry that our republican form of democracy sucks for you.
As a red stater myself; I strongly resent the comparison to facists. However, since your lack of experience outside the pampered domains of the Western world, I give you some slack, considering you have no clue to what facism really is. You want to learn? Book a flight to Zimbabwe or North Korea.
You’ll carry a lot more weight if you don’t so ludicrously extrapolate; it’s why elections are lost.
Mike,
The beliefs that Terry expressed above are more or less in tune with the Founders of this country. It is sad that Thomas Jefferson or John Adams would lose elections to unprincipled people like John McCain or Barack Obama.
They were bloody quick to deal in ‘Shoot first, think last’ mentality themselves.
King George was never elected (with over 3.5 million votes more than his opponent) during the war. No tyranny involved in that. The Founding Fathers knew you got what kind of government you wanted, or are willing to tolerate.
The American people are responsible for this financial mess; they elect this government. We allow it to be bought, because we as a people have become lazy, uninformed, self-centered and short-sighted. But it is our government. The American state collapse will be our collective fault.
Mike, no they were not. It was more than 15 years before the Revolution managed to take place. Jefferson himself said only to overthrow government after a “long train of abuses”–you do it with caution. They were not quick to jump on board that “shoot first, think later” train. There was a revolution that was guilty of that–the French Revolution. It was socialistic and produced Napoleon. All the way to July 2nd, 1776, there was a possibility that we would not declare independence because many of our delegates were wary of it.
Here on American soil people were ENGLISHMEN fighting for their RIGHTS. Only a few, such as Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, saw that independency was needed.
As for the King–who cares if someone is elected or not? Tyranny of the majority is just as tyrannical as tyranny of one man–and history proves that monarchs have been less tyrannical in matters of business and war because they want to preserve the future of the country for their state.
America’s failure is, if anything, too much “democracy” and not enough “republic”.
The Founders wanted a government that basically wouldn’t do anything. The Articles of Confederation were superior to our current Constitution–the writers of the Declaration were more instrumental in the Articles’ writing and it was a superior form of government because it was a confederation.
PS Mike, the very fact that the American state collapse is our fault shows the failure of American democracy.
Just a slight issue the crediting of the quote; it was John Lennon. While Lennon & McCartney had a contractual partnership stipulating that anything they wrote for recording by the Beatles was represented as a collaboration, you can pretty much assume that they were solo works by the guy who sang the lead vocal if the song was written after about 1965, maybe earlier. Does anyone actually think Paulie had anything to do with “You Know My Name, Look Up the Number”?
Political behavior is an amusing diversion for many vertabrates with nothing better to do. Art separates humans from the rest of the beasts.