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The Last Rites of Big Brother
by
John R. Hall
December 5, 2006

In The United States of America, "1984" arrived in the autumn of 2001...."Practices which had been long abandoned--imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, and the deportation of whole populations--not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive." ------ G. Orwell

In The United States of America Big Brother is big business. Multi-national corporations include more than half of the world's biggest economies, and Washington D.C. is the ventriloquist dummy of Wall Street. We Americans see and hear only what a few media conglomerates choose for us. We gladly send our children to die in wars so that Exxon-Mobil can control oil, Lockheed-Martin can sell weapons, and McDonald's can build arches across the globe. We applaud as our government overthrows the democratically elected leaders of countries who are uncooperative with U.S. business interests. We applaud because we are told it is the patriotic thing to do.

In a world mostly controlled by The United States of America, dollars flow freely across national borders, but whole populations are imprisoned by those same borders. Workers are just a faceless commodity. A resource to be measured by productivity per dollar and cast aside when worn out. In the globalized world of the Washington neo-cons, there has been a disturbing and dramatic shift in the distribution of wealth from the working class to the corporate elite.

In The United States of America the Department of Defense has little to do with defense. We are told by the corporate media that our children will become better adults if they become part of the terrorizing, mass-murdering, resource-stealing war machine. The offensive military is now just the strong arm of corporate globalization and privatization. Those who proudly wear the uniform do not deserve our praise. They DO deserve a sincere apology from those who exploit them and ruin their young lives. They are not protecting our freedom and they are not our heroes. They are poor pawns in a dirty game.

In The United States of America, the 2006 election was not an endorsement of the Democratic Party. It was a rejection and condemnation of the Republicans who brought us the immoral, bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A strong condemnation of unilateral, pre-emptive wars based on lies, of secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, torture, illegal wiretaps, of self-regulating industry and its by-product: global warming. A call for the return of habeas corpus, and respect for international organizations and treaties.

In The United States of America, the 2006 election was a call for Democrats AND Republicans to dig the Constitution and the Bill of Rights out of the closet, and start using them again. A mandate to end world poverty and hunger with the resources we now waste on militarization and the manufacture of WMDs. It is time to knock corporate America off its pedestal and break its knees. No person on my earth should be hungry without food, sick without doctors or medicine, cold without shelter, or illiterate without access to education. These are not luxuries. They are the unalienable rights of all people living on our planet of abundance.

In The United States of America, Independents now number almost one third of the voting population and growing. If the Democrats and Republicans can't fix our broken world in the next two years, they simply must be replaced. They will be replaced. The people are growing stronger and more assertive. Big Brother is looking pale, and will soon be given his last rites. May he rest in peace. Soon.

Note: La Voz de Aztlan welcomes this "Submittal for Publication" from Mr. John R. Hall of Cochiti Lake, New Mexico. The first anniversary of "Big Brother's" raid on our headquarters is comimg up. On December 24, 2005, four agents of the US federal government raided our office to copy the hard disk of our computer.

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