by Phillip Faruggio / December 9th, 2012
My dear activist friend Edward Dunphy likes to use the expression
‘The Christian Right is NEITHER” whenever he debates those folks.
Amazing, how we are living in a time when, as with the
Inquisition, God is placed on a pedestal of violence and terror…. all in the name of
Peace! Let
me also say that this type of mindset transcends politics. After all,
we know about the one party that carries Jesus around in its pocket like
some good luck charm. The Republicans who subscribe to Christianity
actually think that the man called the
Prince of Peace would
condone all that they stand for. Duh, like the worship of greed at the
expense of 99.5% of us. Yet, when it comes to other foreign policy
issues, both of those political parties think they own the cross and the
memory of the Christ. Mr. Obama and his party of hypocrites keep on
funding the
Military Industrial Complex to the tune of over 50% of our federal tax dollars. Walking lockstep with the Republicans, they continue to maintain over
800 bases worldwide, with over hundreds of thousands of our young military personnel occupying two countries that we have no right
being
in. Now, when Mr. Obama and his other Christian cohorts leave church
each Sunday, do they really think that Jesus would agree with the savage
drone attacks? I guess that is what the media likes to call
bipartisanship.
Why do you think our country even invaded Iraq in the first place? Do you really think if Iraq had
coconut oil under
the ground that we would even be there? At all? No, like all empires,
our American one is on its last legs. Remember the final scene from
The Wild Bunch,
when William Holden and Ernest Borgnine and a handful of their crew
were surrounded by hundreds of Mexican outlaws? They dug in and slugged
it out to the very end. So it is with my dear country, which has been
sold and bastardized to the highest bidders of wealth and power. When
the CEO of CVS Pharmacies earns in
excess of $40 million per
,
and my neighbors have trouble paying for medicine from that store… why?
Why do we, the good people, continue to honor and put on pedestals the
few who are laughing at us from the comfort of gated communities
patrolled by armed men? When they drive around, they are chauffeured by
armed men. Check out the Denzel Washington movie
Man on Fire? That
is how America is becoming, as unemployment and depression (both
financial and emotional) are driving many to do terrible acts.
Did you know it costs
you, the American taxpayer, over one
million dollars per year to keep ONE soldier in Afghanistan? Did you
know that one of our far too many mega bombs costs you approximately one
million dollars
? Here we are, not being able to afford Medicare for all Americans because the
Military Industrial Complex OWNS
the Congress and the Presidency. It always has for as long as this
writer can remember. Yet, when you raise these points with most elected
officials, even on a local level, they refuse to do or say anything in
public! City Councils across America are being asked to adopt
resolutions to send to Washington, to not only Mr. Obama, but their
congressional reps as well. These resolutions demand that overall
military spending be cut by 25%, sending the savings back to our states
and cities to forgo the budget cuts. Yet, most of those we place through
the ballot box into positions of leadership do and say absolutely
nothing about the
real cause of our financial and moral dilemmas. Silence gives license to tyranny!
Follow da money!!
Philip A Farruggio is son and grandson of
Brooklyn, NYC longshoremen. He is a free lance columnist (found on
Information Clearing house, Dandelion Salad, Activist Post, Dissident
Voice and Smirking Chimp sites), an environmental products sales rep and
an activist. Since 2010, Philip is a spokesperson for the 25% Solution
Movement to Save Our Cities by cutting military spending 25%. Phillip
can be reached at:
paf1222@bellsouth.net.
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This article was posted on Sunday, December 9th, 2012 at 8:00am and is filed under
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