Item 1: If one lives under economic conditions such that technology and urbanization have eliminated the possibility of (legal) self-subsistence, but instead require "employment" by some overlord, and that overlord prohibits one from collectively negotiating the conditions of one's employment, I would be hard-pressed to describe the result as anything OTHER than "slavery."#################################################################################
Item 2: Labor history in this country is almost completely ignored in schools and elsewhere. The record of murder, brutality, intimidation, and collusion between the owners and the State would be a disgrace anywhere, but especially in the country which holds itself aloft as a paragon of freedom, liberty, and all that good shit.
People by the thousands--workers, activists, organizers, men, women and children--were murdered, maaimed, and broken by the Owners' gunsels in the struggle to win collective bargaining rights for Labor. Martin Luther King was killed when he went to Memphis to LEAD a labor action for sanitation (public service) employees to gain collective bargaining rights.
Then were the "incidents" starting in 1851 with the killings of two railroad strikers by the Pinkertons; the Owners, fearful of organized labor, kept the fatal pressure on for another 90 years: at Chicago in 1877, '85- and '86 (Haymarketriots); Bayview (MN) in '86-87; Thibodeaux, LA, 1887; Cripple Creek, CO (1893), the Pullman strike in Chicago (again) in 1894; Leadville, CO, and Lattimer, PA, in 1897; Virden, IL in 1898, and many many more. In 1914, gun-thugs employed by the Mine Owners, barred the doors of a meeting hall in Ludlow, CO, then set fire to the building, killing 19 people, mostly women and children. And I'm just skimming the surface.
I think it only fair that a few of those who want to eliminate those rights should pay the same price, should perish the same way. Let's start with a Koch brother...
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Item 3: In his fiscal planning speech last week, Shitwhistle-in-Chief Obama cleverly planted his marker, staking out his position, directly in the CENTER of the debate. Dumb-fuck! That's where he should have emded AFTER negotiations. Now there's nowhere to go but to the fucking RIGHT.
Ever since the first day of his tenure in office, the skeevy fuck ALWAYS does this: Gives away his strongest card, abandons his strongest position, gives the fucking game AWAY, BEFORE the first card is ever fucking dealt. He gave away the public option before the debate even began; he gave away the possibility of real regulation of the banksters so Chris Dodd could have a nice, K-Street retirement; he gave away the Bushevik tax-cut repeal before the first words were spoken; he already gave away MORE "social spending cuts" (i.e., Social Security and Medicare) to the fucking POSSIBILITY of GOPhux hostage-taking on the debt ceiling...
I really wonder HOW he gained a rep as a community organizer when he give away his strengths before the argument even ever begins!
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Item #4: Our oligarchs do not fear us.
The biggest, most glaring flaw in our whole system is that our "overlords" don't possess, never learned, that genetic fear of the fury of the mob that animates oligarchs in other climes to moderation. They don't have nightmares about tumbrels outside their gated communities, peasants run amok, the flash of the guillotine, the crashing volley of the firing squad. It is the single greatest weakness of our system.
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Item 5 :Dr. Woody's declared from the very START that the Teahadists are the suburban branch of the KKKlan, bedecked in cotton-polyester, floral-print sheets from Wal-Mart and Target, rather then the traditional homespun.
It was OBVIOUS from the first attacks on the health-care issue: they were willing NOT to improve their conditions --to suffer some small discomfort--if by doing so, they could fuck the "niqqers".
It's TEXTBOOK "institutional racism" (which, actually, is the only REAL kind of racism there is: Individual acts of bigotry, bias, or discrimination are not inherenty "racist," but become such when situated in a system which judges citizens "superior" or "inferior" depending on morphological components; i.e., the good ol' USofA!)
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Extra Points:
Woody likes this as an illustration: The image is offensive, objectively. But, it's not really a "racist" act to circulate the image. That's an act of individual bigotry, certainly; but not "racism," per se.
Where "racism" come in is with the system in which the sender does NOT think it wrong to circulate the image then, having been called on it, endeavors to laugh it off afterwards as a "joke." It's NOT a "joke." The "racist" act is not in circulating the image, it is not apologizing for and owning to the act as disparaging and offensive.
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