North America Has an Addiction to War, Guns, Violence.... that MUST STOP

Any time another country raises a finger to even question a political, economic or a military move by Our government {The United States of America} we are ready to beg our leaders to move in with massive amounts of weaponry and make the ``BASTARDS'' shut up and fall into line with North American policy.  At least that WAS the idea in many Americans' heads, especially White male conservatives. But they were soundly defeated at the polls on November 6th, 2012. This old formation of gunboat diplomacy has had its' day and is old hat and out of date.  More people on the international scene and more people in our own country of North America are beginning to say--we are just another country and need to adhere to international standards, international law and universally held dictum's that regulate the policy's of Nations such as U.N. standards and policies held through the Geneva convention.  Maybe we don't need to be the policemen of the world, but actually BE policed by the world for some of the high crimes and misdemeanors we have committed in the name of National Security, territorial Rights to water ways and airspace..... We have used military aggression in many, many different formations including: overt military insurgencies and operations; overt military attacks; political assassination; stealth bombings; and overt bombing raids; kidnappings; torture; covert actions and covert operations; espionage; para-military attacks; underhanded economic manipulation; the undue and covert manipulation of foreign currencies in foreign countries; spying of  North Americans abroad and domestically; assassination of North Americans and foreigners in foreign lands; illegal and undue economic embargo of our geographic neighbors such as Cuba; domestic and foreign wiretapping; support of terrorist cells and terrorists operations in other countries and other illegal and un-called for actions that undermine our democracy and turn a blind eye to the true meaning of our Constitution as our Forefathers intended it to be.

But the reason I'm writing this article today is to express my concern for and my abhorrence at the concept of ``America, Love it or Leave it.'' My contention is that EVERY PERSON living on our globe has the right to not only be in North America, but to have their voice heard loudly concerning what they think and feel should be the guiding policies of Our Nation... They have a duty as people of the world to express a valued and clear opinion about what U.S. policy should be in my opinion.  I say this because the United States has been and continues to be in all corners of the world seeking out political and economic opportunities for the Oligarchy, the rich business owners and the wealthiest of North Americans and her allies. This economic exploitative process is done through the military formations and military tactics I listed above and several others. so-called foreigners are some of the most exploited people on the globe, especially in Africa, East India, China and South Korea and they are exploited largely by White North American business owners. These gentelmen have been job creators, but they have NOT been good job creators. They have created low-paying jobs with often dangerous working conditions and no or little benefits. These foreign workers have made the oligarchy richer and richer and these so-called ``patriotic'' business owners have destroyed the fabric of North American life by throwing literally millions of people out of work in favor of the cheaper labor of the foreign workers. This policy has destabilized state and local governments who have seen their tax bases shrink and educational systems, like the one in Philadelphia that depends on local school taxes to hire teachers, buy books, pay for running hundreds of buildings and so forth, have also seen their bottom lines fall apart as wages are cut at home and more and more people were thrown out of work over the last 30 years. This is why I say these super-exploited foreign workers should be comin' to America looking for their pound of flesh after they have been exploited and had their own country sucked dry as the barracudas of traditional Capitalism used every mechanism, including militarism, to exploit so-called foreigners.    Our foreign policy is deeply connected to and entrenched with the existence of the military industrial complex and the profitability of same. Our foreign policy continues to cost us billions and billions of dollars in military costs, support for the military and the continued operations of the Pentagon. the FBI, the CIA,  and the National Security Office among others... {Remember that each and every arm of the U.S. military has its' own so-called intelligence agency at a cost of billions to taxpayers each year also.} AND THEY WONDER WHY WE CAN'T PAY OUR BILLS FOR REBUILDING ROADS AND BRIDGES? None of this stuff is new and I will include here some books that will help the curious reader find out more on these subjects. 

      How we got to be the World's Policemen and how a good percentage of our people actually relish seeing us in that role, I will have to do the research to find out and understand mo better.  I DO know that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us just before he left office, that we had better watch out concerning the formation and support of the Military / Industrial Complex and its' expansion.  I DO know that all this is connected to the billions of dollars corporations like DOW Chemical, General Electric, Boeing, Lockheed and Westinghouse are making billions and billions of dollars by keeping Washington's War Machine fine tuned and running well, be it in the RED.

     The vast array of government facilities and personnel involved in maintaining the military / industrial Complex has far reaching powers to spy, upend regimes that we envision as hostile, and assassinate persons we see as trouble makers from every vantage point in the world.  So when a single person or a group of people takes on the role of exposing these facts to the North American public they become a threat themselves.  But it is work that must be done.

The crux of this short article is three fold: 1} To examine a need for a much greater, and more public process for gaining access to the formation of the creation of North American Public Policy and look at why more North Americans need this access to public policy creation on a more regular basis. {I feel the sharing of such information will move our democratic process ahead towards becoming more people-oriented, people-friendly, open, rooted in justice and truly free. [This is why I call Bradly Manning a ``hero'' not an information terrorist, as some conservative policy wonks would have us believe.]

2} {The plebiscite can provide much greater use of our process of open voting in a more powerful Way by using the vote not just for the election of candidates,and office-holders, but also by voting up or down on actual public policy measures that, if agreed upon by a majority of the public, MUST be enacted into law and carried out by the government at ALL levels. [I must point out here, however, that the plebiscite process must come with a much greater access to the public media by grass-roots political concerns and organizations who can and Will be able to reach over and gain access to discourse in the public media and have their views and opinions heard consistently, loudly and clearly.  The same old three talking heads on the same old major Sunday morning tv Programs is NOT and has never worked for giving true access to our leadership and full public discourse to the general public and the grass roots so that different points of view and a deeper examination of U.S. policy can take place in a consistant fashion...} Fund Raising...       

3} The other point of this article is that there needs to be a dismantling of much of the military / industrial complex as it relates to the sustainability of war and other outmoded and or technologically advanced aggressive actions {some of which were addressed above}; and there needs to be a discourse and a challenge to the way our government policies use violence to get its way at home and abroad.

3}Violence on the streets at home {and in our prison system} and the violence we support around the world through the military as a Nation is related and should tell us ALL that we need to work towards PEACE AND FREEDOM AT HOME AND ABROAD and when things like the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that occurred a few days ago happen, we should begin to understand how important human life is. But I'm not just talkin bout the human life of people who are like us, but ALL human life--the Human life of Homeless People, the Human Life of the Native Americans, the Human Life of the Black Americans, the human lives of the poor, the Human Life of the disenfranchised, the Human Life of the mentally and physically deficient {Or what writer / Spiritualist / Self Help Guru Iyanla Vanzant calls ``the differently abled''} and ALL the other races and cultures on the planet including the White and European races and the Latin People as well. 

{If you just went into a Right Wing tirade about Abortion RIghts and being Pro-Life when I talked about ``Human Life'' please read more about my views on a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion on another point on the blog.}

     There has been yet another rampage of gun violence in Colorado {And now Connecticut}. This time in a crowded movie theater at a ``Batman'' Premier. {This time actually at an elementary school} Does this all sound too familiar??? I won't go into the details. Suffice it to say, if we as Black people gave just $5.00 a year to either the www.BradyCampaign.Org
or started our own anti-gun advocacy group {There may be one, I haven't done the research as yet}..... We could make the National Rifle Association {NRA} a thing of a past or at least an organization that is basically a Toothless Tiger because we would, as a people, be armed with the truth about what the facts are on this issue. {Progressives Whites and people of all colours who are Progressive need to support reasonable gun control and reasonable gun laws as Well}... The endless violence that occurs in our country is shameful and it wouldn't have to happen if we stood up and did something about it besides read the horrible news in the papers and went back to work the next day. I will give my $2.00 to the Brady Campaign in January {2013}, when my budget will allow it. What are you going to do? If 200,000 Black people just gave $2.00 once in their lives, that would be $400,000.00. Believe me the Brady Campaign People could do a great deal of work with that kind of money. They could: advocate for better fairer gun laws; actually get positive and progressive legislation passed; and pay for a positive ad campaign to bring up the level of public awareness. I am too lazy to do the research to find out if there is a Black group that works on researching Gun Laws for Black people, so let me know if you hear of any. I can be reached at: BLockBoi75@Yahoo.Com or call me at: 1.215.471.64.94... and let me know.