THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
As the world media reacts to China’s horrific actions taken against the
Monks. I have to wonder why the media has not taken such a stance
against the Military Junta of Burma. Clearly the people of Burma have
been under siege for about 50 years as Than Shwe and his merry band of
thugs killed their way into the hearts of millions.
The Karen are being murdered as well as other ethnic tribal people as
we speak but not a sound from the media eh. The bogus Constitutional
Referendum is up for yet another “fixed” election and will soon be the
law of the land. Yet the media at large just sits there. If it were not
for the free thinking people at Irrawaddy and other obscure
publications true news from Burma would be non existent.
Fortunately for me I have many friends who’ve survived to tell their
stories and assist me in my research. Granted they are still very
fearful for their lives so I do not mention their names since it is
known the Burmese Junta has agents and hit squads within the borders of
the United States and other nations. From ex political prisoners to
Karen refugees arriving in the United States the stories keep on
coming. The picture they paint is that of total horror, rape and
gruesome torture.
Now China is trying to promote their “Blood Olympic Games”. What a sham
that will be since there is no question they will win the “Wholesale
Murder For Fun and Profit” event only followed closely by the USA for
their treatment of the Indigenous people within their borders. The
African continent will be a top contender since they have many
contestants as well. Dare I mention South Africa and their blood filled
diamond mines? South America Countries are also in the running with
their corporate sponsored elections as well as their wholesale murder
of tribal people and destruction of rain forests, all for fun and
profit. So now I have to reconsider if China will win hands down after
all. One sure bet will be on the corporations behind the nations who
chose to perpetrate these crimes against humanity. Will it be Chevron
Oil, will it be Alcoa Aluminum? Maybe it will be Daewoo or Total Oil.
Course it could possibly be Halliburton or Boeing. Another possibility
would be within the insurance industry. Only time will tell as the true
rulers of the planet finally make themselves known. And you better
believe it will be a conglomerate corporation who has become the
absolute ruler of the New World Order, not any nation. Nations of the
world are only store fronts or masks that hide the beast within.
So I have to wonder why all the fuss about tribal people? What did
these innocent people do to be targeted for death world wide? Is it
because they had no use for modern ways and chose to live truly free?
Just think about it, are we free anyway? I venture to state that us
people living in this so called free world are not free at all. We have
to pay and pay and pay. One Karen refugee told me if she knew what it
really was like in this so called “Land of the Free” she would have
waited to be executed by Junta Killing Squads rather than die a slow
death in America. Her complaint was that she could not sit under a tree
without having to pay someone for doing so. Everything had a price tag
on it and you could not exist without money.
Hmm, I did not think about it before but she was absolutely right.
There is no freedom anymore since ultimately we have to pay just to sit
anywhere. We have to pay someone for something at any given time of
day. Do the math and calculate how much you must pay just to sit on
your lawn chair or even pick your nose. Do you pay $5 a day, $10 a day
or even $100 a day just to be here? Ultimately the money goes to
corporations since they are the bottom line in all that we do, eat or
live in. The buck stops at the corporate stocks and bonds. It’s all
about the money eh.
Small wonder the Indigenous people of the America’s were decimated,
divided and conquered. The very notion people could live and eat free
was a poisonous ideology indeed. With all that free meat running around
and not having the need to buy and have “stuff” could have dashed the
dreams of early industrialists for sure. How could one be rich in
comparison to others if nobody cared? How could they be a class above
if nobody gave a hoot about all their junk anyway? The word progress,
what does it mean? Natives would have spread this axiom to the
Europeans who came to this country there is no doubt. And a 1000 years
of conditioning would have been lost in a matter of months to the
chagrin of Ole’ Mad King George and other rulers who’ve profited over
the millennia.
In a very real sense we live in a fanciful form of indentured
servitude. Think about it, we are slaves and must work to have the
privilege to sit under a tree or simply walk down the road. Everything
has a price and the slave master uses the all mighty dollar as the new
whip. If we don’t conform we are punished or imprisoned for violating
corporate law. Add up your monthly household bills and divide it by the
days of the month and you will discover how much you have to pay, just
to sit there. If you like, divide your daily price for existence by 24
hours and you will have your hourly rate of existence. Go one more step
and divide the hour and you will have the rate for the minutes you must
pay. It will sicken you whence you make the realization of exactly how
much you must pay to exist. And it all ultimately goes into the coffers
of corporations; it’s as simple as that eh. It costs me $2.50 an hour
24 hours a day to exist here in America. How much do you pay for
freedom eh?
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
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Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
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