REVOLUTION NOW!

I haven't really been speaking up too much lately. Shusli and I are in the midst of another transition. I already told you Obama is gonna win the election, but not for all those wonderful ideals folks like to tout about town. He'll win because there is legislation that the wealthy need to get passed that just won't fly as smoothly with a Republican in office. With a democrat, there will be less of a call for Revolt than their would be with a Republican. Then, of course, it will be blamed on the Democrats and there will be more excuse for us at the bottom to fight amongst each other instead of organize and take our country back, abolish the U.S. government, and create something that does crazy things like HONOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS, instead of do things like CREATE CAPITAL FOR THE WEALTHY FEW AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.

Yesterday during one of my breaks at work, the new cook asked what I was reading. I showed him my book: ""They Take Our Jobs:" and 20 Other Myths About Immigration." And this is how he started his response. "Now I'm not racist..." Most people who state this usually are, and he was. He starts telling everyone how we are all immigrants, even Indians. (No one asks the Indians if they are immigrants. We are told. If you read about the alleged science called archaeology in "Red Earth, White Lies," by Vine Deloria, Jr., you will learn that this alleged science is really a bunch of bullshit, just like the immigration issue). Then he stated he has nothing against immigration, he is against "illegal immigration." Now if your read that book by Aviva Chomsky, you will realize that indeed, the whole immigration policy IS RACIST and based on the idea of the law makers that this is a nation of white folks.

My repeated response to this fella well versed in idiocy; "OK." I didn't feel like arguing and you really can't change the mind of someone who is "beligerently anti-intellectual." You just can't. They are that way because they already have all knowledge and there is no room in their minds for any more. This man was also saying this shit in front of two women who immigrated to this nation.

On the flip side, many people that I work with that I thought would have a similar mindset are actually pretty open minded about such issues. This from all the diverse races that work at the care facility where I am employed.

The book taught me that Mexicans were white until 1930. Indians were nothing until 1940. Blacks are considered a deeply inferior race according to SUPREME COURT DECISIONS to the white race. Most folks in the other category (not black or white) were not considered citizens until 1956? Guantanamo was a concentration camp for Cubans and Haitians that tried to immigrate to the U.S. via the ocean. That the U.S. is DEEPLY ROOTED IN RACISM far beyond the imaginings I had (and my imaginings are pretty strong).

But like I said, there has only been this one fella at my work who responded like an all knowing idiot to my book, where as everyone else has responded with some rather amazing and insightful views on the issue. Compassionate and humane. Human! And they have responded so to many of the issues I brought up at work. Not always, but most of the time, folks whom I figured had little or no thought on issues that effect their fellow human beings are rather thoughtful about them.

What does this mean? Maybe we are closer to a Revolution than I thought.

With a $700,000,000,000 GIVEAWAY to the wealthy that, according to the stock markets, has done nothing thus far to help the economy (and yes, the stock market will eventually be felt by us at the bottom). We're in a war in Iraq that has cost more than $3,000,000,000,000 (all of this in credit, not actual money, in financial terms). Not to mention the cost of the war in Afghanistan, and the costs thus far of the impending wars with Iran and Russia (it costs money for the build up to war as well).

Many folks, even the anti-intellectual types, are understanding that the U.S. government is "of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy."

Yesterday, Shusli found this little tidbit in the "rants and raves" section of "Portland Craig's List." This fella touts for a REVOLUTION NOW! just like I have been. Many of you out there reading this want a world where people take care of each other and honor each other instead of kill each other and steal each others wealth to give to the wealthy. Good chance an economic collapse will help that happen in a less violent manner, but more than likely, we will have to fight for it as the U.S. government has brought home a brigade to protect the wealthy from us at the bottom who have a reason to take everything back. The U.S. government is willing to slaughter U.S. citizens in order to protect the wealthy. Why don't you take a listen to "The Guns of Brixton" by the Clash as well. Here's the lyrics so you can have an idea:

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton

The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell

You see, he feels like Ivan
BORN under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come

You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
And even shoot us
But oh- the guns of Brixton

Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game was survivin'
As in heaven as in hell

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton