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In the Absence of Utopia: Part 12

Added: Saturday, May 5th 2012 at 5:37pm by pharaoh
 
 
 

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    On the surface, America was a nation of wealthy people, the envy of the world, a modern day Rome. American households commanded the aggregate sum of $1.6 trillion, financial institution $5 trillion, commercial enterprises $1.3 trillion, S&Ls $580 billion, Life insurance companies $420 billion, tax-exempt foundations and universities $50 billion. 

    However, a closer look revealed that 54% of the total net financial assets were held by only 1% of the families. 86% if its wealth remained in the hands of the top 10%. 

   Thirty five percent of the families in America controlled a mere 14% leaving 55% of the nation with an accumulated net worth 0%. Yet, statistics don’t begin to tell the story

     The capitalist system itself was being called into question.  The most glaring criticisms were:

  1. Capitalism leads to underutilization of productive capacity. 
  2. Permanent sectors of unemployment
  3. Periodic crisis related to the market
  4. Waste associated with advertising
  5. Incredible poverty in the mist of wealth caused by a structural shift of America's economy from manufacturing to white collar and service industries. Tens of millions of Americans without the skills or education to compete are permanently locked outside the American mainstream.
  6. Racism and human exploitation practiced on a planetary scale and carried out by a neo-colonialist system, which is implemented by such “respectable” organizations as the World Bank, the IMF, and the Rockefeller Foundation among others. 

 

       As I said, for a few years everything looked as if things were returning to ‘normal’.  By the winter of 1995, inflation in the U.S. reached an unprecedented 29%.  As the temperature dropped, tens of thousand were left without heat or hot water. Massive Layoffs and widespread defaults on mortgages added to the mounting municipal woes.

      Rioting and looting erupted in some major cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angles, Houston and Detroit fueled by shrinking municipal funds and widespread bankruptcies. CNN and other all news networks televised the first outbreaks of mayhem.

      In New York, three hundred were killed including women and children in 10 days of rioting; all of which was captured on camera and televised all over the world revealing, tragically, a great nation becoming unraveled.

     The rioting was touched off when a police riot squad fired into a crowd looting a supermarket.  From there, the looting spread out in all direction. Chaos replace rule of law. Law enforcement agencies and the department of social services buckled under an avalanche of civil unrest.  The National Guard had to be called in to help reestablish law and order. New York became the first American City to be placed entirely under martial law. 

      The army took on the role of an occupying force. The scene of the army patrolling American city streets and bridges leading into the city compared with those of a third world nation. Check points were set up and public transportation suspended. Soldiers with loudspeakers ordered residents to remain inside until further notice. 

     At 8 AM, the morning of January 5, 1996, the course of American history changed forever.  The President enacted Executive order 11921 empowering the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assume governmental control of the mechanisms of production and distribution, all communication and tele-communication services including censorship of the media, sources of energy, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money into American financial institutions.

     Martial law was declared nation-wide and a classified National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) activated 21 immense prison camps and relocation centers. Thousands of citizens were rounded up and held as possible threats to national security.

    The justice system called its latest writ of law suspicion of conspiracy, profiling taken to the nth degree.  In order to preserve and defend national security, the Constitution, including congressional and judicial powers, was suspended indefinitely.  

    Over the years, citizens had relinquished certain civil liberties in exchanged for the promise of security. But, when one gives up their liberty in exchange for security, one loses both.  There is never is one without the other. The Constitution was in reality abolished and the reactionaries who would defend it found themselves encircled. All their efforts to rally around the flag fell upon deaf ears.

    A nightmarish uncertainty and apprehension hung over the land, large cities and small towns alike. The American people had surrendered what no nation on earth could take by force, their liberty. 

   They went on to say that the great nation was paying the price for failing to live up to its obligations to the weak and to the poor as embodied in the spirit of highest law.  Corporate interests, world banks, prestigious law firms and political institutions like the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Affairs had kidnapped the Constitution and held it for ransom.  PAC (Political Action community) and influential lobbyist were allowed to erode the system from within, until America no longer possessed the fiber to reverse the pervasive rot.

      Radical critics further asserted that America’s fate was sealed with the importation of African slaves and the slaughter of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. She was now reaping the harvest of her own immoral seeds. The debt that she owned for her improvidence, selfishness, paranoia and greed was being called in on the margin.  Voices on scorching winds of outraged further warned of impending disaster. 

      The warning signs were everywhere.   The Hiroshima bombing, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, the Cuban missile crisis and that should have been enough.   The massive and utter failure of American school systems to educate the nation’s youth should have warranted a national emergency. 

    The growing number of militias denouncing the federal government and advocating genocidal destruction for the enemies of the white race should have been called what it was, terrorism.  The wholesale spread of drugs, violence, and pornography should have polarized a Christian nation in defense of he mortal soul.

  The growing rage and out cries of America's frustrated youth should have been enough to force her to seriously consider a departure from the present course. Not even the reverse-industrialization of America, the corporate plundering and takeovers, or the declining purchasing power of the dollar could wake the nation from her coma.

      To a growing number of her people, America represented the democratic ideal but never the reality. They felt that it only served the powerful and sacrificed the dreams and ambitions of its children to feed its lustful and shameful appetite for control and domination. The blood of America’s youth spilled on the beaches, in the jungles and over the desserts of the world in the name of democracy, while the nation itself became less democratic.

    Democracy requires an educated and informed electorate for one.  The masses were never encouraged to think nor informed, Instead, they were fed a steady diet of misinformation and propaganda. 

          Politicians, economist and the press had regularly assured the pubic that this catastrophe could never come about, but it had.  And, now that it had, they assured the American people that the worst was over and that the present changes in American laws and government were necessary sacrifices for holding the nation together.  However, they were wrong again.  The worse was crouching in wait.  

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