Sunday, April 15, 2007
Pacifica Commentary For March 28, 2007
A Vote For Human Sacrifice
Our Democratic House of Representatives has voted to allow daily human sacrifice on the altar of the god of war until 2008.
This strange group of modern day politicians tell us that they don't support the war and therefore they will fund it. Do I hear the voice of Pontius Pilate saying, he found no guilt in the accused and then conceded to have him scourged and executed?
So our young people are marched to their death on a daily basis to embalm a lie and to serve their lobbyists, not their constituents. Would it not be better for these legislators to go on welfare, or as a Republican Senator suggested recently that they try selling shoes. Selling shoes is a legitimate livelihood, sacrificing our youth in a slow bleed policy to save the face of a criminal administration is not.
So the tsunami of funds will continue to flow to international torture centers, fragmentation bombs, death and destruction of the bodies and souls of our military to say nothing about funding the out-of-control mercenaries of Blackwater and other military corporations who have made windfall profits on murder and lies.
And what about the people who live in Iraq? Some of our war promoters are acting as if they were concerned about them. If they had any concern for the Iraqi people, they never would have imposed the death sentence on them by supporting the war in the first place.
Friends, what we are seeing here is a Congressional Declaration stating that the citizens of the United States are irrelevant.
Just as we saw profoundly ignorant and racist members of congress change their minds on the matter of segregation and later on the Vietnam War we must now follow the lead of the Occupation Project and Code Pink in occupying the offices of current incumbents to remind them of a few things:
They are to work for us, we do not work for them. We pay their salaries. It is true corporate lobbyists may contribute more than we can as individuals, but members of congress must understand that doing what lobbyists want is simply the lowest and most gross form of prostitution. Far better to sell shoes!
We demand that our troops come home now. No amount of advertising jargon is going to make the war honorable, acceptable or winnable. It began as a crime, it continues as a crime and it must end as a crime.
Be sure to listen to WORLD FOCUS on KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, 98.7 FM, Santa Barbara. The program is available 24/7 on www.kpfk.org where it can be heard internationally
Our Democratic House of Representatives has voted to allow daily human sacrifice on the altar of the god of war until 2008.
This strange group of modern day politicians tell us that they don't support the war and therefore they will fund it. Do I hear the voice of Pontius Pilate saying, he found no guilt in the accused and then conceded to have him scourged and executed?
So our young people are marched to their death on a daily basis to embalm a lie and to serve their lobbyists, not their constituents. Would it not be better for these legislators to go on welfare, or as a Republican Senator suggested recently that they try selling shoes. Selling shoes is a legitimate livelihood, sacrificing our youth in a slow bleed policy to save the face of a criminal administration is not.
So the tsunami of funds will continue to flow to international torture centers, fragmentation bombs, death and destruction of the bodies and souls of our military to say nothing about funding the out-of-control mercenaries of Blackwater and other military corporations who have made windfall profits on murder and lies.
And what about the people who live in Iraq? Some of our war promoters are acting as if they were concerned about them. If they had any concern for the Iraqi people, they never would have imposed the death sentence on them by supporting the war in the first place.
Friends, what we are seeing here is a Congressional Declaration stating that the citizens of the United States are irrelevant.
Just as we saw profoundly ignorant and racist members of congress change their minds on the matter of segregation and later on the Vietnam War we must now follow the lead of the Occupation Project and Code Pink in occupying the offices of current incumbents to remind them of a few things:
They are to work for us, we do not work for them. We pay their salaries. It is true corporate lobbyists may contribute more than we can as individuals, but members of congress must understand that doing what lobbyists want is simply the lowest and most gross form of prostitution. Far better to sell shoes!
We demand that our troops come home now. No amount of advertising jargon is going to make the war honorable, acceptable or winnable. It began as a crime, it continues as a crime and it must end as a crime.
Be sure to listen to WORLD FOCUS on KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, 98.7 FM, Santa Barbara. The program is available 24/7 on www.kpfk.org where it can be heard internationally
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I agree wholeheartedly with your view of the war. But is there anything being done on a large scale, concerning this demand (which I know is felt by the greater majority of the American populace) to end the war? I have participated in a couple of anti-war protests, but that doesn't seem to be enough. What else is there to do? Or is it simply sheer numbers that we are missing?
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