A Call To Arms: Figurativly Speaking

This is a call to arms for all Americans. Figuratively speaking of course. How so you ask? Remember the old saying "the pen is mightier than the sword". It was a simple line in a play that opened in England in 1839, and though the play is long forgotten, this single line lives on forever. Need a more cogent example, one that holds true for Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green Party, Libertarian, Communist, Socialist whatever political ideology you might hold? How are you doing right now in meeting your basic needs? That's right, have you lost your house to the sub prime mortgage crisis. Have you been unable to meet the increasing rise in food prices much less gasoline prices? Sure if you are a corporate CEO no problem. The pay inequity in the ten years between 1995 to 2005 saw CEO pay increase 298% compared to 4.3% for the average worker. While as early as February 2007 in an in depth look at the economy TruthBTold shows us how the middle class has truly dwindled.

Now we face an astronomical increase in the price of gasoline. With that price increase comes a huge increase in the cost of everything else, especially food. Oh, did I forget the housing crisis in which daily hundreds to thousands of American families lose their home to foreclosure. Why? Read today's headlines about two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers arrested for their role in the the sub prime mortgage crisis and the FBI's massive nationwide arrests of fraudulent mortgage lenders. At the same time oil companies cry out for tax relief, then report the largest corporate profits in history. Should we seek a little recompense or repayal, what do we get? Threats and distortions of history in advertisements sponsored by the American Petroleum Industry. We all know the law of supply and demand, as well as if the cost of your product goes up your prices may go up but profits remain the same or shrink. Is something magical happening here? Nah, not if you examine the might of the pen. A black hole maybe, in that a few gain wealth and resources while the majority must pay at the expense of their lifestyles, dignity, welfare and ability to survive. Oh and did I tell you the name of that black hole? It's called the Enron loophole. This was the "top secret" energy policy meeting that Cheney at the behest of Ken Lay, former Enron CEO, who by the way it was later found out through criminal trials and investigations did to California while joking about the grandmothers making them rich! In other words for those of you not caring to read this post's links, Enron pulled this same game earlier. The end result? Enron went broke, just like we are going broke.

As the title tells you this is a call to arms. Everyone should be united here as the situation now is not so different from those that spurred the Boston Tea Party in the 1700's and helped spur the birth of this great nation. We hear daily we need to open up everything for the oil companies to exploit to ensure our "energy independence" yet they already have so many acres to explore they can't keep up! Today, as if we hadn't known all along why we were in Iraq, today we got final confirmation. Before typing this sentence I went to my Iraq death toll counter to find 4101 brave Americans had died so ExxonMobil could regain their oil rights. We all see it yet fail due to partisan politics to unify to right this massive eight year wrong. 80% of this nations populace think we are going the wrong way, yet we allow a few corrupt Congressional members to obstruct clear change that might help us extricate ourselves from this growing sink hole. I include Democrats along with the Republicans here. Especially those so afraid that their own complacency in allowing the unlawful spying on Americans will be revealed in court trials they seek to push through a bill that gives criminals immunity from prosecution, so they can CYA.

Ok, so you are tired and have a headache from all this information and wonder if I will ever make my point. Here it is. It wasn't a sword that caused the death of our brave men and women in uniform. It wasn't a sword that managed to make an exclusive few so rich at our expense. It wasn't even a sword that shredded that marvelous document called the Constitution, it was a pen. We often say we have no power to shape our fate. Both Dem and Republican usually agree that certain check writing special interest groups control what our leaders that WE elect do. I recommend we write our "leaders" and "representatives" and remind them that "yeah, Shell Oil and Rupert Murdoch can write you checks, but they do so only if you can return the favor. So far, I haven't received anything from this idea of government you say will benefit us all. I demand you stop selling me and my country out to these synchopaths. I pay your salary and I can fire you, and will should you fail me and my interests. And I will. You must come before me and my pen for a vote that will keep you in your elevated status. My pen/sword is now unsheathed because I am fighting for a better life then the results you've given me. So time to change your loyalties, or be written off as all deductions are. Let them hear you, let them realize their politics of divisiveness is no longer your mantra, for you have answered a call to arms for your country's future and a brighter future for your children.