Israeli Jets bomb Gaza: 1,300 Dead

Duende,

 

Did you ever see my message to you? If not, please scroll back.

Today both side are acting in revenge.  There can be no endng if both sides are fighting in a revengful, eye for an eye mentality!!

Jamal, I have no doubt that on the local level, grass roots movements actually get results.

But look what happened recently with the famous 700 Billion Dollar bail out plan, known as TARP. When it was first tabled, Hank Paulson drafted a law which would have granted him and his cronies practically free hand, with NO oversight. American citizens were outraged and a concerted effort flooded, literally swamped representatives with individual messages overwhelmingly against the bankers' bail out.

It worked. The bill was rejected resoundingly in the lower house.

Then what happened? It got re-written, bloated from a simple few pages to a whopping 300 page bill which subsequently passed through the upper house, despite what the American tax payer said. The new, improved version makes it law that US banks no longer have to keep a reserve, so in the event that you want to withdraw your savings, they are under no obligation whatsoever to actually give you your money.

That, and many more small issues which add up to daylight robbery, committed under the gaze of the US citizen. So, what good did it do all those thousands of people who made the effort to contact their rep?

In such 'large' national issues, such as the TARP case, that of the money of individual citizens now held by unnacountable institutions, and the fundamentals of the US economy: politicians simply do what they 'believe' to be the right thing. This invariably turns out to be what is the right thing for bankers and the politicians who are in their pockets.

In this life-and death situation involving an individual foreign sovereign state (I mean, Israel is supposed to be a sovereign state, right? and not another US state...?) there are simply too many complex invested interests involving too many non-US national interests, (the complete geo-political tapestry which has been so cleverly woven by the Anglo-Zionist brotherhood) for the few thousand US citizens contacting their local rep to make any difference at all.

We have a long way to go: I personally am now certain that the age of professional politics is over. From what I can see, very few people would agree with me, and after all, what else can we do, but use the tools we have to hand? All I can suggest is a detailed study of a few small examples of viable alternatives, starting with Subcomandante Marcos and the Chiapa movement of Mexico.

We do not as yet have any satisfactory alternative in place. The hopeful, globally connected, internet-based 'movement' which many feel offers an alternative to the utter failure of politics as we know it, exists only in cyber space. Of the few thousand people who sign AVAAZ petitions, how many would actually turn up at a physical rally: risk arrest, imprisonment, summary judgement, police brutality, for what they believe ....? That is one reason why the PTB (Powers That Be) are not at all worried by the cyber movements and organisations. And they have carefully equipped their police with the means to quell just about any puny demo, in any case.

There are very few Rachel Corries in this world. I am not one. But I must urge everybody to start the difficult process of changing your thinking, because this is the first step towards freeing ourselves of the useless limits we have allowed to be put in place, by embracing the lie of 'democracy'. The democracy which allows for the TARP, which allowed for the first G. W Bush term, the democracy delivered to Sadaam's Iraq, the democracy practiced by the profoundly racist state of Israel currently notching up advantage points counted in the lives of murdered Palestinians ........

Gah! nevermind