There are three types of gun barrel that the United States
uses for this purpose:
- Firearms
- Television
- Hypodermic syringes
Clearly firearms are the weapon of choice of the United
States. Whether it be suppressing dissent and protecting the one percent at
home, or threatening and overthrowing governments abroad, America comes to the
table with unlimited firepower. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, the United
States government is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today”.
And almost unbelievably, we have become even more violent since he spoke those
words in 1967.
A second powerful source of political power is television,
whose original technology was based on the electron gun of a cathode ray tube.
Whether it is creating historical fantasies for a befuddled public, spreading
lies for political or financial gain, or just keeping us entertained and
distracted, television has become an indispensable tool of the United States
government. Together with their co-conspirators in Hollywood, they manipulate
public opinion and manufacture consent to an extent that would probably
astonish even Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler.
The third powerful source of political power is narcotic
drugs, often delivered through the barrel of a hypodermic syringe (“happiness
is a warm gun” refers to drugs, not firearms). In spite of the media-led
assassination by suicide of Gary Webb following his revelation that the US
government was helping to market drugs in our cities, it should be clear to any
thinking adult that “our” entire political-financial apparatus is a gigantic
criminal enterprise that has no qualms whatsoever about selling drugs to its
own children. What better way to fill our prisons with people who become non-voters
than by making drugs as cheap and plentiful as candy? Maybe that explains why
we have troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan protecting the poppy crop and the
heroin industry, and why government agencies are supplying the drug cartels
with assault rifles. It’s the modern version of what America did to the
Indians: guns, drugs, and AIDS have replaced guns, whiskey, and smallpox
blankets as America’s way of dealing with people who get in her rapacious way.
It won’t be enough just to take away everyone’s firearms. If
we are ever to be truly free, we’ll also have to destroy everyone’s television and
computers AND wean them off narcotic drugs. Any one of those would be extremely
difficult; to do all three is going to be well-nigh impossible.
So when do we start?
Lets start now. In my head and my life and in your head and your life. One man, one vote, one life lived for freedom from violence by His Spirit.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, George. What a wonderful life we would all have if we lived the way He told us to.
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