The Falcon to the Snowman: This is not America

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 11:15

The great thing about European TV is the occasional brilliant documentary on "American Life" by that I mean life within the United States, sometimes these are about the unseen and unrepresented poor like those stuck out back in the Bush country of Texas or the latest on Prison Life which is fast becoming another for profit industry. The sort of documentaries that PBS might broadcast say after 11pm and no one watches the Public Broadcasting Service much these days anyways! After seeing two separate dramatic documentaries on U.S. American Prison Culture and the statistics of that - and who doesn't know these days someone stuck working or living in a prison - maybe it really is time that We The People admit to ourselves that the ideas our governance was founded on, namely Equality and Liberty and Justice and the like, were just Kentucky Blue Grass (the illegal kind in case you are not a Libertarian) pipe dreams. Let's face it today's fixation with "freedom", whatever is meant by that, probably only relates to certain corporations that dictate life to the U.S. citizen consumers. Freedom perhaps of Economic exploitation. The fact of the matter is if you do try to live your life thinking in terms of Equality, Liberty and Justice among other great notions - you will find yourself caught in the inescapable quagmire of the U.S. Inc. Prison Systems. Perhaps it's time to stop telling everyone in the states they have specific Constitutional guarantees because the citizenry has been duped by the Bushies and Arnold who ignore those very guarantees and no one cares. It is precisely that the voters elect these idiots and there is no public outcry that makes me not want to return there even to visit my dad or say see the Midwest in autumn.

It is for this reason that I say it's time the USA renamed itself to say FUCSONA the Forcibly United Corporate States Of North America and wrote a constitution that details what is really going on. To do this would at least be more honest so that the former citizens now so called consumers can know what is expected of them (their life and soul). This way those innocents might learn how to survive without falling into the traps of personal economic incompetence that leads to a life behind razor wire never far from the paralyzing lethal injection "cocktail". It really is now as Benjamin Franklin wrote of as the inevitable conclusion of Democracy, a paralyzing corruption of that very notion into something sinister and dictatorial.

Lets face it the America as we were taught in school has now been proven to be what is was an experiment and the Bushies and Arnold are the fellows in the Lab coats pulling down the very apparatus of that great experiment (and cashing in on its dismantling). It was that great experiment in Democracy that led to the automotive, oil and military industrial corporations who then found Democracy to big a threat and they silently ended that experiment and its been a corporate-ocracy every since. The carrot before the donkey was a VISA or AMEX card and the senseless idea that anyone without a credit history could buy anything - it was precisely that carrot that led the donkey out of democracy and into the confines of socio-economic control on a scale better than any one dictator from history could dream up.

If you disagree with me then when you sit down again to do your finances to pay your rent or mortgage payment, car payment, car insurance payment, health insurance payment, credit card debt consolidation payment, child care payment, school tuition payment for you or your children, AOL Time Warner Cable TV payment, to pay your utility payments, your gasoline payments, and so on and so on month after month, year after year until the day you die - tell me that isn't some unattainable carrot dangling before you to lead you somewhere that you are oblivious to. That is not a life of Equality or Liberty or Justice or "Freedom" it is a life of complete economic control of which you are but one single horse of power in an team of quite a few million harnessed and reigned in tight. Now with the Bush administration on the carriage they are ready to drive this powerful team around the world trampling on anyone unwilling to be harnessed in with the team. It's the very Four Horsemen of the apocalypse (Bush Sr., Jr., Cheney, and now add that Austrian, Zeig Heil!) that we the American voters set up on this powerful team who with whips in hand with the U.S. Prison System for your glue factory just outside the razor wired pastures of your retirement, that is if you make it that far before the diet of fry pit factory food doesn't kill you first.

This is not America.... No?