Monday, January 05, 2009

I've been thinking very radically lately.

I don't know what it is.... Maybe its this thing in Gaza, where Israel (who has done this before) suddenly makes a huge power play, overthrowing a democratically elected government (Hamas) by claiming self defense. They proceed to kill at least 4-- something civilians and put hundreds (thousands?) in the hospital. They send in ground troops after bombing the cities for days... while claiming Hamas' rockets are justification.... though they haven't killed anyone. 4 Israelis have been killed since this latest outbreak. Israel 4 < 4-- Palestine. The world does nothing. The US supports Israel in these strikes. How do we claim that Iran sending a missle against Israel right now is wrong when Israel has been striking Gaza for a week?
How do we claim its justified to do this?
reporters, politicians and analysts claimed it was something like Havana hitting Miami, or Tijuana hitting San Diego, or Toronto hitting New York.... (That would be a fanfuckingtastic argument if we had any of those cities surrounded, under high level security, had cut off water, food, health services or any other kind of aid for the past few years, if we had drained the entire economy of these cities (countries) to pay for the walls that surround them and the guns that shoot them... forcing them to work at less than minimum wages to maintain our dominance.

(Oh yeah we do that)

Well I guess it is the same thing. Which is why I am against everything right now.
This country is such bullshit. The rich rule and mock us with these laws that strip away our support and protection, while giving us "tax breaks" and "tax rebates" that come out of our pockets at high interest... so that we will never fucking be able to pay it back!
So that we will work our entire lives in this corrupt system, never organizing to shake off the chains, nor demanding justice, or an end to inequality... its too important to pay back our credit card debt. We can't have health care, security, retirement, a house, children or anything... because we cant afford it.
but isn't it a right?
food, water, a safe place to sleep, a roof and walls that protect us from the elements, and education that will help us get by, medicine when we are sick, a blanket to wrap us in when we are born, a box to throw us in when we die...
is that so much to ask for in the "richest country in the history of the world?"

I hate the idea of violence, but if I organized a debt or tax boycott I'd be thrown in prison and worse no one would care.

There ought to be sit-ins in the streets and politician's offices, human barricades of the banks, armies of neighbors turning away the sheriff at every eviction...

and if not... then they ought to lose their protections. Not the middle class, but the great masters of us all who parade around in their fancy jets and foreign automobiles, their suits that cost another person's year of food, their schools that keep us out should be reduced to rubble, their tests ripped up, their credit ratings burned, their weapons taken, their prison's filled with them and their families.


or we could just keep doing this same thing till the water runs out and the wars come.

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