Any Way You Shake It. . .

They're Still Stealing, And It Seems That America Can't Stop Them.
by The Old Hippie, Because I See The Theft Still Being Allowed - Unstopped and unpunished.

It wasn't the Oil, even though it was a major part of it.  It wasn't the punishment, as Iraq had nothing to do with the crimes of our “911.”  It wasn't a son's opportunistic revenge for his father, even though it did play a small part in it.  It wasn't politics-as-usual, even though they successfully used the politicalization of every possible wedge issue to hide, and/or fog, the real reason behind their crime of a war of aggression against, and illegal occupation of, a sovereign nation, that had not attacked, nor was any threat to us.  The real reason was a simple theft.  The largest theft of a nation's wealth, by the robber barons of today.  It was all about the money, and it's power.  Still is.

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

All the way back to the Founders, our best leaders warned that “allowing” corporations too much power and control of our Constitutional Democracy would lead, (and has led,) to the possibility of a criminal administration, like we now face. In 1886, when corporations were given the legal fiction of personhood, it really got the ball rolling, and led directly to the original robber barons at the turn of the last century, the great depression, and since WWII, the ongoing build up of what President Eisenhower termed the “military-industrial” corporations' powers within our governmental structures, and to our current situation with this, openly profits-over-even-life, (now obvious to all of us,) corrupt administration.

Add in the corporatists' opportunistic use of, and their political manipulation of, the insane Rapturists, and the radical Dominionists, which has quite possibly brought about the destruction of America's cherished Separation of Church and State, and you have the reality of the classic definition of a fascist state, except in these modern times it has been enhanced into something that, maybe, has grown beyond the control of even the corrupt corporatist profiteers themselves.

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But what I fear most. . . is the fact that nothing “real” has been done, or is being done, so far, to stop this sneeringly open, and criminal, theft and insanity.  The human deaths continue to mount, the environmental destruction continues to worsen, the security of freedoms and liberties continue to deteriorate, not only here in America, also worldwide. . .  And yet - Nothing “real” has been, or is currently being done to stop the “allowing.”

There are a few bright spots of hope, where the peoples of some of the South and Central American nations, e.g. Brazil, Venezuela, et al, are actually forcing their nations to “just say no” to the corporatists, but since the corporatists are vehemently against them, therefore “America” is against them, their battle is not yet won, and may ultimately fail.