{"id":450,"date":"2012-05-04T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T14:50:48","slug":"the-terror-of-a-subverted-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/the-terror-of-a-subverted-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The terror of a subverted ‘democracy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on May 4, 2012<\/a>
\nBy Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cProtest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential<\/em> to it.\u201d\u2014Howard Zinn<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFind out just what any people will quietly submit to<\/em> and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.\u201d\u2014Frederick Douglass<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The United States corporate government today has become what Frantz Fanon, over five decades earlier, accurately described, as a \u201cmonster,\u201d permeated with \u201ctaints, sickness, and inhumanity.\u201d Its much touted \u2018democracy\u2019 is in reality the very height of hypocrisy<\/em> both inside this nation and abroad.<\/p>\n

The scandalous Barack Obama and his corporate owned Democrat and Republican conspirators are simply the latest 21st century phase of this deliberately maintained hypocrisy<\/em> of disinformation, critical omissions, and perpetual deceit sustained by an utterly corrupt system<\/em> that has subverted the very meaning and intent of so-called democracy; as it legalizes and intensifies political repression at home and bloody Empire abroad. Ordinary, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in the U.S. and around the world are the cannon fodder and daily victims of this horror that some call \u2018democracy,\u2019 which is built upon subterfuge, parasitic economic bloodsucking, endless war mongering, and shameless deceit.<\/p>\n

A more accurate name for this alleged democracy is systemic terrorism<\/em> by the few against the many. Indeed, this<\/em> is the \u201cterrorism\u201d embodied in the deceit and hypocrisy of the U.S. corporate government, and its propaganda arm, the corporate-stream \u2018news\u2019 media <\/em>which is incorrectly<\/em> referred to as the \u2018mainstream media.\u2019 In fact, the only thing that is \u2018mainstream\u2019 about the corporate-stream media is its ability to incessantly and widely disseminate misinformation, disinformation, distractions, and more often than not, no<\/em> crucially relevant<\/em> information to the vast majority of everyday people.<\/p>\n

This nation sorely needs systemic revolution<\/em> (not<\/em> to be confused with reform<\/em>). And the shape and parameters of this revolution must be determined by everyday people themselves\/ourselves, not<\/em> the system\u2019s gatekeepers. First however, we must understand, in the immortal words of Frederick Douglass, that, \u201cIf there is no struggle,<\/em> there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation<\/em> are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. <\/em>They want rain without thunder and lightning. <\/em>They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.\u201d<\/em> In other words, we must understand that systemic<\/em> change is brought about by \u201cagitation\u201d and euphemistically \u201cplowing up<\/em> the ground,\u201d not<\/em> by expecting this corrupt system to change itself. It will not.<\/p>\n

The corporate power brokers of the symbiotically-joined<\/em> Democrat and Republican parties have deep<\/em> vested political and economic interests in perpetuating <\/em>this rotten, unjust, hypocritical terroristic system in one wily form or another, not <\/em>eradicating it. Barack Obama, for example, is the most insidiously effective stealth weapon against everyday people of all colors<\/em> that this corrupt system has yet produced; but whether he is re-installed or not in the upcoming corporate controlled phony elections in this nation, the system<\/em> remains about perpetuating itself by keeping the people locked, in perpetuity,<\/em> on the mental and political plantation of subscribing to and believing in the fake<\/em> left\/right (i.e. Democrat and Republican party) paradigm. Thus, subverting<\/em> any genuine democracy in the United States. Until we the everyday people <\/em>recognize this systemic reality for what it is and address it<\/em>,<\/em> we will continue to be pimped by the elite who control, own, and operate this U.S. political system of hypocrisy, injustice, and insanity.<\/p>\n

The very real and deliberately maintained economic, political, judicial, and physical terrorism of the subverted \u2018democracy\u2019 in this nation is what keeps us divided and in fear of one another. Economic apartheid, racism, and sexism, etc.,<\/em> are, in fact, the mainstays of this system and will not<\/em> be eliminated until we eliminate and replace this system with a model that serves the needs and aspirations of the many, not<\/em> the insatiable and insane greed of the few.<\/p>\n

We are<\/em> the people, and it is time for us to act like it! It is time to creatively and collectively<\/em> challenge ourselves and one another.<\/em> That\u2019s an important part of what \u201cstruggle\u201d is all about. And in the words of Frederick Douglass, \u201cIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.\u201d This challenge is an ongoing one (long and protracted<\/em>) and it will not be easy to fulfill. But we can<\/em> do it. We must <\/em>do it. We must take back our humanity! For ourselves, each other, and the many peoples of Mother Earth, we must intensify in this struggle. The real <\/em>terrorists are the bloodsuckers who divide us and terrorize this planet<\/em> in our name. The terrorists are not<\/em> the ordinary everyday<\/em> Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this wondrous planet.<\/p>\n

Remember Tecumseh! Remember John Brown! Remember Harriet Tubman! Remember Rosa Luxemburg! Remember \u2018Mother\u2019 Jones! Remember Joe Hill! Remember Lucy Parsons! Remember Emiliano Zapata! Remember Malcolm X! Remember Martin Luther King, Jr.! Remember Bobby Sands! Remember Howard Zinn! Remember them and so very, very many others<\/em>.<\/em> We are not<\/em> alone for we walk in their immortal sunshine and we have each other! Let us remember\u2014and take back our own humanity<\/em> from the bloodsuckers of this nation and planet. It\u2019s time to fulfill our destinies in this long and protracted struggle.<\/p>\n

Each one teach one. Each one reach one. As Joe Hill said so many years ago, \u201cDon\u2019t Mourn. ORGANIZE!\u201d We\u2019ve much work to do. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n