The Illusion Of Democracy USA
By David Truskoff
03 February, 2007
Countercurrents.orgIn the 1960s, (and it is hard for me to believe that it was that long ago) many of us were arrested, tear gassed, beaten and jailed for trying to tell Americans that we must live up to our own constitution.
We were saying that America could not pretend to be selling Democracy when it does not have it to sell.
The people of Southeast Asia were not fighting a religious war or even a political one. Basically they were fighting against the white oppressors. First the French and then the Americans. Yes, they saw Black soldiers but to many they appeared as trained slaves whose relatives could not even vote in America. That is the enemy that they saw.
We quoted over and over the X111 and XV amendments to the constitution.
Amendment Dec. 18, 1865 X111
Neither slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall, have been duly convicted shall exist in the United States
March 30 1870 XV the right of citizens of the United states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any previous state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
Today Blacks in every state can vote, but the political situation continues to deteriorate and flaunt the constitution.
On February 2/007 we hear that Exxon Mobil has surpassed their own record and reached $39 billion in Profits. Why is that relevant? Because on the same day we learn that the next presidential race in the US may result in candidates or their supporters spending upwards of a billion dollars to get elected. It speaks loudly to the fact that money interprets the Constitution any way it suits those who own it.
"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln,There can be no Government of by and for the people until we take the money out of politics.
Those so called fanatics, those wild eyed terrorists, that we are supposed to be fighting are not unlike the Vietnamese fighting the white oppressor who does not have the product of democracy to sell.
Standing in front of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem a young student from New York pointed to the Sephardim Jews demonstrating in front of the Knesset and said, "those are our Niger’s and we don’t know what to do with our Niger’s any more than you do. I realized then that Israel does not have a product to sell either.
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