| Americans: A Conquered People: The New SerfsBy Paul Craig Roberts May 23, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - As readers know, I have seen some optimism in voters support for Trump and Sanders as neither are members of the corrupt Republican and Democratic political establishments. Members of both political establishments enrich themselves by betraying the American people and serving only the interest of the One Percent. The American people are being driven into the ground purely for the sake of more mega-billions for a handful of super-rich people. Neither political party is capable of doing anything whatsoever about it, and neither will.
The
optimism that I see is that the public’s support of outsiders is an
indication that the insouciant public is waking up. But Americans will
have to do more than wake up, as they cannot rescue themselves via the
voting booth. In my opinion, the American people will remain serfs until
they wake up to Revolution.
Today
Americans exist as a conquered people. They have lost the Bill of
Rights, the amendments to the Constitution that protect their liberty.
Anyone, other than the One Percent and their political and legal
servants, can be picked up without charges and detained indefinitely as
during the Dark Ages, when government was unaccountable and no one had
any rights. Only those with power were safe. In America today anyone not
politically protected can be declared “associated with terrorism” and
taken out by a Hellfire missile from a drone on the basis of a list of
human targets drawn up by the president’s advisers. Due process,
guaranteed by the US Constitution, no longer exists in the United States
of America. Neither does the constitutional prohibition against the
government spying on citizens without just cause and a court warrant.
The First Amendment itself, whose importance was emphasized by our
Founding Fathers by making it theFirst Amendment, is no longer
protected by the corrupt Supreme Court. The Nine who comprise the
Supreme Court, like the rest of the bought-and-paid-for-government,
serve only the One Percent. Truth-tellers have become “an enemy of the
state.” Whisteblowers are imprisoned despite their legal protection in
US law.
The
United States government has unaccountable power. Its power is not
accountable to US statutory law, to international law, to the Congress,
to the judiciary, to the American people, or to moral conscience. In the
21st century the war criminal US government has murdered, maimed, and
dislocated millions of people based on lies and propaganda. Washington
has destroyed seven countries in whole or part in order to enrich the
American elite and comply with the neoconservative drive for US world
hegemony.
Americans
live in a propaganda-fabricated world in which a brutal police state is
cloaked in nice words like “freedom and democracy.” “Freedom and
democracy” is what Washington’s war machine brings with sanctions,
bombs, no-fly zones, troops, and drones to countries that dare to cling
to their independence from Washington’s hegemony.
Only
two countries armed with strong military capability and nuclear
weapons—Russia and China—stand between Washington and Washington’s goal
of hegemony over the entire world.If Russia or China falter, the evil ensconced in Washington will rule the world. America will be the Anti-Christ. The predictions of the Christian Evangelicals preaching “end times” will take on new meaning.
Russia
is vulnerable to becoming a vassal state of Washington. Despite a
legion of betrayals by Washington, the Russian government has just
proposed a joint US/Russia cooperation against terrorists.
One
wonders if the Russian government will ever learn from experience. Has
Washington cooperated with the agreement concerning Ukraine? Of course
not. Has Washington cooperated in the investigation of MH-17? Of course
not. Has Washington ceased its propaganda about a Russian invasion of
Crimera and Ukraine? Of course not. Has Washington kept any agreement
previous US governments made with Russia? Of course not.So why does the Russian government think Washington would keep any agreement about a joint effort against terrorism? The Russian government and the Russian people are so unaware of the danger that they face from Washington that they let foreigners control 20 percent of their media! Is Russia unaware that Washington has Russia slated for vassalage or destruction?
China is even more absurd. According to the Chinese government itself, China has 7,000
What does the Chinese government think these NGOs are doing other than destabilizing China?foreign-financed NGOs operating in China! Foreign financed NGOs are what Washington used to destabilize Ukraine and overthrow the elected government. Both Russia and China are infected with Western worship that creates a vulnerability that Washington can exploit. Delusions can result in inadequate response to threat.
All
of Europe, both western, eastern and southern, the British Pacific such
as Australia and New Zealand, Japan and other parts of Asia are vassal
states of Washington’s Empire. None of these allegedly “sovereign”
countries have an independent voice or an independent foreign or
economic policy. All of Latin America is subject to Washington’s
control. No reformist government in Latin America has ever survived
Washington’s disapproval of putting the interests of the domestic
populations ahead of American corporate and financial profits. Already
this year
Washington has overthrown the female presidents of Argentina and Brazil. Washington is currently in the process of overthrowing the government in Venezuela, with Ecuador and Bolivia waiting in the wings. In 2009 Killary Clinton and Obama overthrew the government of Honduras, an old Washington habit.
As
Washington pays the UN’s bills, the UN is compliant. No hand is ever
raised against Washington. So why does anyone on the face of the earth
think that an American election can change anything or mean anything?
We know that Killary is a liar, a crook, an agent for the One Percent, and a warmonger. Let’s now look at Trump.Are there grounds for optimism about Trump? In the West “news reporting” is propaganda, so it is difficult to know. Moreover, we do know that, at least initially, the response of the Republican Establishment to Trump is to demonize him, so we do not know the veracity of the news reports about Trump.
Without
belaboring the issue, two news reports struck me. One is the Washington
Post report that the Zionist multi-billionaire US casino owner Sheldon
Adelson has endorsed Donald Trump for President.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sheldon-adelson-i-endorse-donald-trump-for-president/2016/05/12/ea89d7f0-17a0-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html
Other reports say that Adelson has mentioned as much as $100 million as his political campaign contribution to Trump.
Anyone
who gives a political campaign $100 million dollars expect something in
exchange, and the recipient is obligated to provide whatever is
desired. So are we witnessing the purchase of Donald Trump? The initial
Republican response to Trump, encouraged by the crazed neoconservatives,
was to abandon the Republican candidate and to vote for Killary.
Is Adelson’s endorsement a signal that Trump can be bought and brought into the establishment?
Additional
evidence that Trump has sold out his naive supporters is his latest
statement that Wall Street should be deregulated: https://ourfuture.org/20160519/populist-trump-wants-to-deregulate-wall-street
It
is extraordinary that Trump’s advisers have not told him that Wall
Street was deregulated back in the 20th century during the Clinton
regime. The repeal of Glass-Steagall deregulated Wall Street. One source
of the 2008 financial crisis is the deregulated derivative maket. When
Brooksly Born attempted to fulfill the responsibiity of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission and regulate over-the-counter derivatives,
she was blocked by the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, the SEC, and
the US Congress.
Nothing
has been done to correct the massive mistake of financial deregulation.
The Dodd-Frank legislation did not correct the massive financial
concentration that produced banks too big to fail, and the legislation
did not stop Wall Street’s reckless casino gambling with the US economy.
Yet Trump says he will dismantle even the weak Dodd-Frank restrictions.
The
American print and TV media are so corrupt that these reports could be
false stories, the purpose of which is to demoralize Trump’s supporters.
On the other hand, should we be surprised if a billionaire aligns with
the One Percent?
Elections
are an unlikely means of restoring government that is accountable to
the people rather than to the One Percent. Even if Trump is legitimate,
he does not have the experience in foreign and economic affairs to know
who to appoint to his government in order to implement change. Moreover,
even if he knew, unless Trump candidates also replace the Senate, Trump
could not get his choices confirmed by a Senate accountable only to the
One Percent.
Americans
are a conquered people. We see this in the appeal from RootsAction to
the rest of the world to come to the aid of the American people. Unable
to stop the lawlessness of their own “democratic” government, Americans
plea for help from abroad: http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12247
The
plea from RootsAction indicates that committed activists now
acknowledge that change in America cannot be produced by elections or be
achieved internally through peaceful means.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week,
Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order. |
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Americans: A Conquered People: The New Serfs
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