out of whack

A guy whacks his plane into an IRS building. Another guy whacks his home to ground with a bulldozer.

and I’m thinking…   the American Dream’s thinning veneer is starting to show its cracks.

cross posted at Daily Kosfirefly-dreaming … and firedoglake

Our societal center of gravity, the rule of law, has collapsed. It doesn’t work. Not when those who whacked (and are continuing to rape) a global economy get billions in bail outs as ordinary people lose their homes, health insurance, or their jobs.

It’s this simple…

PhotobucketOrdinary people will begin to take action off-the-grid and right into the face of the power players. Yeah, that lawless and unregulated bunch whose off-the-grid greed has corrupted the ability of our country to function. Our very relationships as neighbors and citizens become destabilized when the law is not upheld. Innocent people get hurt or die as ordinary people take their actions off the grid, feeling squeezed and without any other recourse… lawlessness spreads… rules become ineffective as boundaries.

This is what happens when the lawless few are not held to account.

Whether bringing us into war to protect or steal resources in another country or rigging an entire financial system, the powerful few are not only not in front of grand juries but, instead, are still involved in decision-making by our government.

War profiteers, arms makers cum black market arms dealers, drug dealers, Wall Streeters, bankers, corporate conglomerate heads… all the lying and destruction and nobody is held accountable. Except the ordinary Americans being whacked. Or Iraqis. Those in Afghanistan. And it sounds like we’d love to whack Iran.

The government, on behalf of its true silent constituency, takes our tax dollars and gives them to people who have created an economy based on death and destruction.

And not on giving you health care. Are we clear yet?

Not on sound and secular education for your children. Are we clear YET?

And instead of investing our own tax money into creating jobs, it was given away to those who, rather than stimulate the economy via loans, told us to fuck ourselves as they rewarded their greed, fraud, and theft with more and bigger bonuses.

We need to do something. And rather than crash small planes into buildings, let’s hit the real bad guys. In their pocket books.

Forget e-mailing your congressman. e-mail your friends and relatives. Let’s organize a one-week complete and utter non-payment of all insurance premiums, mortgages, credit cards. Everyone sit out of work. All at the same time. And while we’re at it, throw out the local politicians and county aldermen and councilmen. Work grass roots and net roots.

It’s time to play this game off-the-grid. It’s time to move it onto another board, run by other rules. It’s time to change this game.

Once we have their attention, let’s get the rule of law rein-stated. And then work on the rest of that damned long list.  

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    • pfiore8 on February 21, 2010 at 22:02
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    Chuck Schumer said, when the economy tanked in 2007, this is a moment.

    Yeah, Chuck, but not quite they way you meant it…

    The new poor: Millions face years without jobs

    • pfiore8 on February 21, 2010 at 22:05
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    In California, Exhibit A in Debate on Insurance

    … Anthem and WellPoint have explained what the industry calls a recessionary death spiral: as unemployment and declining wages prompt healthy people to drop their insurance, he remaining risk pool becomes sicker and more expensive to insure, which in turn forces up prices and pushes more people out of the market.

    people dropping insurance hurts the company… whaddya know. we have some power after all . . .

    not quite the lesson they thought some of us would take from it, but what can i say?

  1. expression “out of whack”. You get great visuals with it…. chaos…. the whole universe looking and feeling kinda Picasso

  2. I’d elaborate, but I don’t have the fucking patience to patiently explain why I don’t have any fucking patience left.  

  3. we are (apparently) most concerned with is who read off a teleprompter and who didn’t.  Or which famous pampered golf player made the right kind of apology (or didn’t).

    But when the Justice Department not only doesn’t do anything about but raises bullshit excuses that don’t pass a 5th grader’s smell test for someone who went on national TV and proudly proclaimed he was a war criminal, this is remarked upon as if it were in the same category of items as which pampered golf player made the right or wrong kind of apology.

    While the self same “Justice” department goes out of its way to make sure two guys cannot get married.

    • RiaD on February 22, 2010 at 03:17

    we MUST shake it up.

    quit buying the crap that’s promoted non-stop on the teevee, radio & now online!

    get back to basics… buying only what you really need & most of that can be used/second-hand (except, of course, food! )

    try growing a bit of your own food… lettuce, spinach a tomato… all will do excellently well in a flowerpot (or recycled gallon milk jugs/ 5 gal bucket)

    get back to engaging your neighbors, develop friends in your community…

    help out where you can when you can….

  4. is out of balance and there is no center or ground for anyone to cling too. The NYT article was just depressing as hell. How far can they take this until the people just snap. The USSR did this and they could not maintain the grasp of centralized power or the party. What a sham our government is and the same goes for the political process it has been reduced to enforcer, collector and ATM for the various divisions of the criminal gangsters that have dropped all pretense of ‘for the people’ or laws.        

       

  5. CAN be driven to distraction!  When all avenues (whether persecuted or whatever) “dry” up and there is no obvious “light at the end of the tunnel,” who knows what will happen next?  Every single human being on this earth has a “cracking” point, right wrong or indifferent.  FIRST OFF!

    Americans’ inability to buy/pay for various services may, in a turn-about (and, obviously, not thought out scenario) SMACK these ugly corporations in the face.  We simply can’t afford it or them! But the sad part is that people are dying as a result!  Spiritually, physically, emotionally, whatever, they are dying.  And that’s what THEY want!  The class-elite want it ALL for themselves, except for those they will hold onto for slave-like services.

    I read that NYT’s article first thing this a.m.  It wasn’t as though it caught me off-guard, it didn’t, but to see the languishing extent that the unemployment will have and has is so depressing — I can’t even begin to express.  THIS, then, for CRIMINALS, is what the hard-working American people will have as and for their future for a long time to come.

    BECAUSE WE CAN’T FUCKING INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THE REAL CRIMINALS IN THIS COUNTRY?  BUT WE CAN SEND SOMEONE TO JAIL FOR HOW LONG FOR HAVING MARIJUANA ON HIS PERSON?  TELL ME THIS ISN’T ONE SICK COUNTRY!

    ~~~~~

    BTW, how many have sent a letter via e-mail, or otherwise, in support of Prof. Boyle’s Complaint to the International Criminal Court, against our war criminals?  Here’s the addressing:  

    The Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo

    Office of the Prosecutor

    International Criminal Court

    Post Office Box 19519

    2500 CM, The Hague

    The Netherlands

    Fax No.: 31-70-515-8555

    Email:
    [email protected]

     

  6. workplaces (with our privately owned airplanes, while throwing the ultimate self-involved temper tantrum)–the more effective actions would be organized economic and political  boycotting, IMHO.  

    • banger on February 22, 2010 at 23:54

    Each community will have its own solution to its problems. The left needs to reconstitute itself as an opposition movement. The federal government in particular has become the enemy — it is the feds who keep corporations in power and allow criminals to run our major institutions. I suggest an alliance with the right/populists/libertarians and oppose the right/authoritarians and federal level politicians except for a handful who should be identified clearly as not part of the problem.

    In order to have boycotts, general strikes and other actions the left must join with the much larger populist tea-party people. They are, in fact, the only opposition movement around — they are doing what the left should be doing but isn’t.

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