Below is a comment I placed upon a message board in a different quadrant of Webdom.
Replicated here to maximize my ongoing attempt to, perhaps, counter the immensely influential propaganda systems of the USA ruling elites.
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Please forgive my commenting and posting akin to the proverbial “broken record.”
You younguns’ with yer’ new-fangled electronic devices may be unfamiliar with “broken record.”
When the Supreme Court decided for corporations in the Citizens United v. FEC case, it elevated knowledge of the doctrine of “corporate personhood” to new heights. Hundreds of thousands of people now know what those words mean.
But as awful as Citizens United is, corporate personhood wasn’t created with that case. Corporate Personhood was concocted by corporate lawyers 127 years ago.
On May 10, 1886 in the Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad case, the Court is said to have given corporations their first foothold in the Constitution.
In the case, corporations argued they are protected under the 14th amendment — the amendment passed to ensure equal protection of African Americans after slavery was abolished. Since then, there has been case after case in which the Court expanded the Constitutional “rights” of corporations.
This year, on the 127th “birthday” of corporate persons, Move to Amend activists will be organizing actions and events all over the nation.
Remember, we have a bunch of resources to help you pull off a great event. Click here!
“American Dream”: Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained by Police
I fear that the linked-to story may disappear so I am reproducing it here to assist in spreading a story I believe is of immense importance to We, the People.
Quoted story follows:
Residents filled the parking lot with bags and baskets hoping to get some of the baby food, canned goods, noodles and other non-perishables. But a local church never came to pick up the food, as the storeowner prior to the eviction said they had arranged. By the time the people showed up for the food, what was left inside the premises—as with any eviction—came into the ownership of the property holder, SunTrust Bank.
The bank ordered the food to be loaded into dumpsters and hauled to a landfill instead of distributed. The people that gathered had to be restrained by police as they saw perfectly good food destroyed. Local Sheriff Richard Roundtree told the news “a potential for a riot was extremely high.”
“People got children out here that are hungry, thirsty,” local resident Robertstine Lambert told Fox54 in Augusta. “Why throw it away when you could be issuing it out?”
SunTrust bank is trying to confuse the issue and not take direct responsibility for their actions. Their media relations officer Mike McCoy, stated, “We are working with store suppliers as well as law enforcement to dispose of the remaining contents of the store and secure the building.” Yet he also said that the food never belonged to SunTrust Bank.
There is no need to sugar coat what happened. Teresa Russell, chief deputy of the Marshal’s Office in Richmond County, said the owner of the building ordered that the food be taken to the landfill. Some people even followed the truck to the landfill and were still turned away.
In Richmond County, there are about 20 evictions per day, and the area surrounding the supermarket is one of the poorest in the state. According to the last available data, the poverty rate is 41 percent. Many people in that parking lot probably knew all too well how evictions work, and were in desperate need of the food assistance.
This story is not some bizarre exception. It reeks of the truth of capitalism and is strikingly similar to the H&M scandal that broke in 2010 when clothes were being shredded before being thrown away, so as to make sure the value of the merchandise was unaffected.
In a capitalist society, the motive behind the production of food is not to feed people, housing is not made to give them shelter, clothing is not made to keep them warm, and health care is not offered primarily to keep people healthy. All of these things, which are and should be viewed as basic rights, are nothing other than commodities—to be bought and sold—from which to make a profit. If a profit cannot be made, usually due to overproduction in relation to the market, the commodity is considered useless by the capitalist and destroyed.
In this case, it appears the bank simply did not care. For the banks that have made their profits through evictions and foreclosures, it is little surprise that they showed no remorse in leaving people staring in disbelief, with empty bags, as they watched the food that could be feeding their families dumped into a landfill instead.
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Follow the link at the top of the page for the entire story and pictures.
I raise my voice and fist in anger at so many events within the USA that I believe is in the throes of class warfare.
I try to be fair, though, and make allowances for some behaviors or try to explain some acts that appear to be evil but may be acts forced upon folks due to the system we live within.
Lawyers and the legal system have had immense effects upon USA society, government, economic system and many other aspects of life within the USA.
The fear of being sued may have been at least partially to fully responsible for the thrown-away items being dumped.
The threat of lawsuit and the actions taken to avoid that threat has had profound effects upon all of us.
The lawsuit threat is complicated and all-encompassing and beyond inclusion in my blog.
A Web search will reveal a huge horde of pages discussing the topic.
If only good, usable products were not thrown away… especially if their are poor folks around who can use those items!!!!
Could laws be passed to protect folks who give free things to poor folks to prevent their being sued? Use common sense when passing out free things. When in doubt, throw it out!!! Only give away items that a reasonable person would assume to be safe, not out-dated food that might cause sickness, etc.
I now take a moment to shout a huge:
to all the firms who do not throw away leftover food and unsold items. They give the stuff to local charities that assist hungry folks and those facing rough times who are helped so much getting some free stuff such as toiletries, clothing, toys for kids, etc.
Have a wonderful week, folks.
Please remember that there IS a LOT of misery within the USA… a country with immense wealth concentrated into a few hands that has been skimmed from the efforts of others… even those eking out a very meager existence.
I received the following e-mail from a most-excellent organization striving to free you and me and all our friends, kinfolk, etc. from the increasing power and enormous wealth of corporations that have already enslaved many politicians and who own the mass media that brainwashed a HUGE portion to the masses of common folks.
We can not allow those greedy anti-humanity corporations and their minions, cohorts and lackey politicians enslave us further!!!
(note: left their links intact. Use browser “back button” to return here or open link in a new window. thanks!!!)
Begin message from Move to Amend:
HELP US WIN: It is among our top priorities this year to gather an additional 250,000 signatures on our Motion to Amend petition. We have written a direct appeal (below) for you to send to your contacts, asking them to sign the petition. Please click on forward, sign your name at the end, delete the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this message and delete this paragraph before sending. We encourage you to tailor this message to meet your needs. In forwarding this message, you will have the eternal thanks of the MTA national leadership team!
WILL CORPORATIONS GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE?
The headline reads, “Montana Considers Giving Corporations The Right To Vote” — laughable if it weren’t true.
Legislator Steve Lavin, a member of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), introduced the bill, which to the legislature’s credit was quickly tabled in committee. Even the most uninformed citizen understands that voting is for people, not corporations.
Wait a minute, following this attempt to endow more rights to corporations by giving them the vote, the Supreme Court heard arguments to weaken key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). After a number of states passed ALEC-sponsored Voter ID laws last summer, and this latest exploit to undermine the VRA, it is clear there’s an effort to minimize the power of ‘we the people’ by limiting our access to the ballot box, while simultaneously maximizing the power of corporations and businesses by giving them the vote.
Please sign the Motion to Amend petition: http://tinyurl.com/mta-motion-to-amend
It may sound completely wacky, but this is an obvious next step for corporations because they are legally recognized as people. It’s a good thing that the Move to Amend Coalition is educating and organizing in communities across the nation. Only a grassroots movement determined to restore the power of ‘we the people’ can overcome the money and power behind ALEC.
In order to be effective, we must keep growing our community, which is why we have set a goal of 500,000 signatures on our Motion to Amend petition by year’s end, nearly doubling our supporters. It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you sit on. Ours is a non-partisan—and winning issue–in red and blue districts alike. It’s in every person’s best interest!
Please sign the petition!
We want people voting, including those protected by the VRA, and we certainly don’t want corporations endowed with the right to vote. Help us build a movement with power enough to reestablish ‘we the people’ as the sovereign rulers of this great nation. Sign the petition today.
Thanks for taking action,
Ashley Sanders, Ben Manski, Daniel Lee, David Cobb, Egberto Willies, George Friday, Jerome Scott, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Laura Bonham, Nancy Price
Move to Amend National Leadership Team
MOVE TO AMEND
PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 | http://www.MoveToAmend.org
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
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Please help in any way you can.
Talk to other folks about this ongoing encroachment upon your liberties!!! Greedy, vile vermin want to own you!!!! Control you. Economically enslave you and with the corporate control of so many aspects of all levels of government and with too many politicians obeying their corporate masters I fear the future freedom of the masses of common folks are in dire danger.
We also need to fight back to remove those greedy claws the corporate entities have already sunk into the “flesh” of our society, country, culture, government and the many systems that combined equal the whole that is the USA and everything within.
The enemy is not at the gates; it is inside and wrapped around every part of you and me and everything around us.
Here in Missouri the invasion of illegal aliens sneaking across the border to work, play, drink and drive, rape women and children, murder USA citizens, steal identities causing immense monetary harm to innocent USA citizens and MANY other negatives is not as severe as seen in other states such as those closer to the south-western USA border, North Carolina and Georgia and a few other states impacted especially hard by the invasion.
In the past 3 months I have heard of only two murders against USA citizens committed by illegal alien invaders.
And the numbers of illegals hereabouts are small enough to not cause the HUGE cost of renting increase experienced in other ares with hundreds-of-thousand to millions of invaders.
There IS the negative impact regarding employment in a state with a large percentage of working-poor, low wages, high unemployment and usually few to no job benefits.
Every job stolen by an illegal alien is yet another USA citizen kept out of a job… and the excess number of workers assists in keeping wages low.
Despite the relatively minor impact of illegal invaders upon Missouri and the media, typically downplaying the havoc created by those invaders, a local poll indicates that the masses of common folks, even in an area with minor problems compared to other areas, is unhappy about being invaded.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
To sign the petition click——-> HERE
From the Move to Amend main page:
We the People, Not We the Corporations
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.
Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
We Move to Amend.
“. . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.”
~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010
I wonder if the advent of the Web has led to what appears to be a growing number of USA residents unhappy with the status quo. The ability for the masses to bypass the elite-owned mass media and local media and spread/share ideas, thoughts, experiences and so many other parts of our lives has altered society.
Status quo: a Latin term meaning the current or existing state of affairs.
Maybe more folks are discovering that a small percentage of wealthy and powerful people have created many systems, institutions, bureaucracies and other entities that are used to skim the wealth created by the HUGE number of common folks (non-elites) and create barriers within the many systems within the USA to minimize the number of folks who can rise above their lowly position on the socio-economic hierarchy (“hierarchy” will be used later for the lengthy term “socio-economic hierarchy”).
John Kennedy stated in a speech: “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
Sorry Mr. President… this is the “new & improved” USA and a multitude can suffer in many ways as long as the deserving ones atop the socio-economic pile are taken care of. The care those special, deserving folks are entitled to… at least in the minds of many within the upper socio-economic levels and the sadly too many well-indoctrinated commoners at the lower levels of the hierarchy.
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”
We, the Serfs, indoctrinated from our youngest years to the day we die to:
Always obey our politician leaders. Of course they have the best interest of the entire USA and its 300-million-plus residents in their hearts and minds.
And those wonderful politicians have had so much training that allows them to arrive at the decisions they make that often have tremendous influence upon the USA and even the world.. or parts of it… depending upon what our beloved leaders decide to do.
Yes, I am being semi-sarcastic.
I observe the country I am immersed within. I read the thoughts of many folks and hear the opinions, ideas and beliefs of the common folks I live among.
I am repeatedly reminded that the indoctrination/propaganda/ brainwashing I mention so often is very effective.
I encourage folks to read “The Irony of Democracy” or one of the many other books covering the topic of the ins-and-outs of the creation of the USA federal government and what the Founders intentions were.
Basically, from the get-go, the USA federal government was intended to be controlled by an elite class.
I understand why the elites did that.
My decades of life experiences, observations and education has led to my viewing the average, typical run-of-the-mill USA resident as an idiotic imbecile lacking the needed interests and desire to be a capable citizen existing within a constitutional republic.
Of course, many folks are simply too busy leading their daily life to devote the needed interest and/or time to being an involved member of the electorate.
“Eventually police arrested the suspect: Her real name is Benita Cardona-Gonzalez, in the U.S. illegally, now charged with aggravated identity theft. It’s still unclear how she stole the information.”
When it suits their own purpose(s) the mass media, in its ever-present grasping for more wealth, will mention a very common occurrence within the USA: an illegal alien invader stealing a citizen’s identification and using it for personal gain.
Immense harm that is costly in time, your wealth, your credit rating and who knows what else may happen depending upon circumstances.
A few years ago while researching the MANY horrors forced upon USA citizens by illegal alien invaders welcomed by many of the USA elite ruling class, many corporations, lackey figurehead politicians and too many USA citizens who place ethnic loyalty far above any loyalty to the USA as a country or society I found a few reports about USA citizens having to prove they do not commit crimes performed by an illegal alien who used a stolen ID to shift the blame to another.
Monday October 22, 2012 and the Disgruntled One is Web wandering peeking at news stories and comments placed below the stories.
I try to ascertain the “moods” and beliefs via the opinions, comments and various written utterances of the populace from those comments.
While performing this task I have the Today TV show that I mostly ignore unless something yanks my attention from my nifty Acer-brand monitor I bough on sale at Wal-Mart and, sadly, was made in China. I wonder if that Mitt critter assisted in sending anything computer-related out of the USA? If not him another greedy vermin of that upper-crust socio-economic class that spits upon We, the People surely did so.
Anyway…
The class war continues.
My best job as an adult came when I was in my early 40s.
14 months later the outsourcing began.
I was among the first 1,000 laid-off as the obs were sent overseas.
Within 3 years all the jobs were gone from a firm that had, at one time, allowed over 7,000 average working-class folks to attain that ill-defined middle-class lifestyle.
Real health insurance at an affordable price.
Several pension plans… take your pick.
Low-price stock purchasing plan.
Folks bought houses, sent kids to college, bought goods and services and pumped money into the local economy.
That era is mostly gone.
The adage declares “America needs ditch diggers, too.”
How you interpret that emotion-based meaningless statement depends on too many factors to cover here.
My interpretation is biased and based upon my own experience and education.
Stated quickly… work you commoner scum. Do the tasks needed to allow an industrialized country/society to function.
Do that work for minimal pay and thus at the lowest possible cost to the deserving folks atop the socio-economic hierarchy.
Never complain!!! Just be grateful you have a job.
So, your pay is very minimal and you are worried that if that “ObamaCare” thing smacks you in the face and since you are one of many without access to health insurance… heck, you can barely afford even the barest essentials of life, since you do not have health insurance you will be forced to give up WHAT to pay for that insurance? Give up a meal or two or three or more weekly? Pay that fine for not doing what the ruling master’s lackey and other parts of the elite’s federal government has ORDERED you to buy?
Screw you commoners. Your only duty is to OBEY and serve your betters you commoner filth scum.
And there is a HUGE army of lackeys and jack-booted thugs ready to force you to obey.
Remember, it is your own fault if you are not at the top of the socio-economic hierarchy yourself.
Following is the news story that compelled me to rush over to my Land of Disgruntledness and write this entry.
Hoping to bolster his own foreign policy credentials, the Republican presidential challenger said he would identify and organize those in the Syrian opposition who share American values, then work with American allies to “ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks, helicopters and fighter jets.”
Romney stresses support of Syrian rebels
Romney… I have read and seen pictures of you supporting the Vietnam Conflict but you never even entered the military.
People of your socio-economic class seem to be quick to send people in the lower classes off to fight, bleed and die in foreign lands.
Do people of your ilk feel that you are big and tough and a hombre not to be messed with since you have the power to send others to do the dirty work?
Maybe it would be best if you did become the main figurehead lackey infesting the White House.
If you behave and act as I expect you to as president I believe support for the military coup that destroys what your socio-economic class, corporate USA and many minions and cohorts have created and starts anew.
A day of reckoning is overdue and your actions, if elected, may be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
I, the Disgruntled Old Coot, for various reasons of no importance, am stooping to the level of disgusting politicians to emulate those fiends infesting the USA and countries everywhere.
If there are any decent, respectful, moral politicians out there I apologize for lumping you in with the horde of politician scum I despise so greatly.
This blog entry is about all foul, putrid politicians but it was thoughts of the Mitt Romney boy that led to my deciding to create this entry.
I am resorting to tactics in this post somewhat similar to those used by the want-to-be-lackeys of the ruling masters when engaged in campaigning… basically begging for votes from the people they assist in economically enslaving and constantly flooding with propaganda to hopefully brainwash as many of the commoners as possible.
I am different, however, in that I do not attempt to brainwash those reading my words:
My desire is to assist others attempting to make the brainwashed majority look within and outside themselves and realize that a few have enslaved the many for the good of the few.
My next thought about vile, disgusting enemy-of-the-common-folks politicians brought the Obama thing to mind.
BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am an equal-opportunity despiser regarding any politician figurehead lackey infesting the president position along with any viable candidate vote-beggar for the position as having passed muster and acceptable to corporate USA and the ruling masters.
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GW Bush was just another in a long line of lackeys but he did have one good trait; he was easy to laugh AT between bouts of cringing as his actions supported the masters and slapped us mere commoners in the face repeatedly.
Oh Disgruntlement, let me count the ways…
So many. So very many causes for my Old Coot Disgruntlement.
One is being indoctrinated from my earliest years into believing that all is as it should be in the USA.
We Are Number One!!! USA USA USA!!!!
With time, experience and education my brainwashed eroded.
Disgruntlement ensued.
And increases.
“In 2011, the six heirs to the Walmart empire commanded wealth of almost $70 billion, which is equivalent to the wealth of the entire bottom 30 percent of US society.”
I have been working-poor my entire life, doing the jobs “Americans will not do” and performing the tasks required for the USA to function on a day-to-day basis.
Where would the ultra-rich of WalMart be without a multitude of workers doing the daily tasks and who are paid a low wage and few to no benefits?
The American Dream Has Become a Myth
That link lurking above is but one of many essays I have read over the years that enlightened my thinking about life in general.
“…we have become a divided society. America has created a marvelous economic machine, but most of the benefits have gone to the top.”
If only the many-millions of invaders competed with those at the top of the economic pile. Then us commoners would not be unfairly competing with those infiltrators for jobs, housing, social services, etc.
“Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policies.”
Well, it is the wealthy folks and their corporations, special-interest groups and others that well-reward their lackey politicians and bureaucrats so divinely when those lap-dog anti-We, the People leave office or position. And done so legally.
The USA is screwed and I believe a growing number of citizens are believing that.
But the screwing continues unabated and the vermin begging for money and votes, the scum wanting to be the next main figurehead lap-dog lackey of their wealthy masters, spew the drivel too many citizen-sheep bleat their delight with.
The brainwashed masses who believe their vote at the federal level actual means something… that their socio-economic superiors’ lackeys will consider them above and beyond the consideration of those who will ensure they depart office and hobnob with those elites and receive their financial rewards.
Yeah… go ahead… play the political game, suckers.
And wear your self-applied mental slave chains with pride.
Hello. Welcome to the Disgruntled Old Coot’s blog.
In several posts I have written about my belief that the USA federal government and many other institutions, etc. are beyond repair due to being controlled by a very small percentage of the USA populace.
Toss in my belief that the USA is in the midst of class warfare and that voting at the federal level is a farce and can not result in any meaningful change within the vast forces arrayed against the masses of citizenry and I fear that a full-scale military coup is the only method available to make the required changes within the USA.
Here is your opportunity to voice your opinion if you agree that a military coup is needed.
“The federal government is beyond repair, Voting at the federal level is meaningless. Corporate USA has become the new slave owners and the masses of USA citizens are economic slaves and our slave chains are self-applied mentally via life-long immersion within many propaganda systems.
Only a full-scale military coup can make any meaningful change within the USA.”
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The babbling spewer of statistics gurgles with apparent glee that in a 1 month period an estimated 135,000 jobs were created!!!
USA!!! We’re Number One!!!!!
Of course… never a mention about what type of jobs were created.
How many were low-paying with no benefits?
No health insurance or, if that insurance is available is it so expensive that after paying for it the wage has been devoured by the cost leaving nothing to live on?
It happens, folks.
Or maybe there will be a whopping 30 bucks per week to cover all or part of the transportation cost to get to work then return home.
Also not mentioned is how many of those jobs were part-time.
Oh BOY!!! Let’s celebrate. An $8 per hour job at 15 hours weekly took a person out of the unemployed category!!!
Happy days are here again and there’s a chicken in every pot and those financial worries are behind us!!!
Time to peek at what may be semi-accurate data about the current USA population:
Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs
“…charged with a felony and face jail terms of from two to ten years under what the Statesman calls “an obscure statute that prohibits using a device that is manufactured or adapted for the purpose of participating in a crime.”
The ruling masters of the USA use many institutions, bureaucracies and other embedded systems to maintain their lofty positions within society.
Disobey the master or their lackeys and your freedom, wealth and even your life may be forfeit.
I have no problem with law enforcement keeping an “eye” on “things” to assist in keeping We, the People safe BUT…
When law enforcement becomes jack-booted thugs ensuring the despised commoners obey their masters the proverbial line has been drawn.
