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The Hypocrisy of the US Forth of July

The Hypocrisy of A Forth of July Celebration As We Morph into Servitude

As AmeriKKKa mindlessly celebrates the Forth of July amidst food and festivities designed to boost nationalistic pride and delusions of liberty and freedom, the world groans under the awesome weight of AmeriKKKan military and economic oppression. But there is justice, AmeriKKKa for her blatant disregard for the Divine Laws of MA’AT (Divine Order, Harmony, Equilibrium, Truth, Justice, Righteousness and Reciprocity) and KARMA (Action-Consequence) is suffering and will experience exponential suffering due to the psychopathic hubris of its leadership and the wholesale ignorance, apathy and cowardice of its’ citizens. Frederick Douglas reminded nineteenth century AmeriKKKans who were steeped in the traditions of genocide and slavery that their shouts and celebrations of liberty rang hollow and hypocritical. “Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, ‘may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!’ To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave's point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America!” Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ 5 July 1852
Ironically in the year 2007 most sane and morally astute men and women in AmeriKKKa can honestly still echo the eloquent words of Frederick Douglas. Today AmeriKKKa is just as sinful and wicked as it was in the 1800's. Many can also see the consequences of AmeriKKKa’s evils are consuming her like an aggressive cancer devouring its host. But this time white AmeriKKKa and their progeny are the ones who will experience the negative consequences of Cosmic proportions: massive privation, debt peonage , wage slavery and loss of micro and macroeconomic vitality. AmeriKKKa’s current economic and political conditions: rising unemployment, plummeting standards of living, widespread home foreclosures, overwhelming consumer and governmental debt, fiscal insanity and a fascist police state will be their legacy. Economic and political oppression are the name of the game. The numbers and pictures are not pretty and unfortunately conditions will progressively worsen as the ruling elites pursue their globalist polices of perpetual imperialist resource wars, futile dollar hegemony and domestic fiscal ruin.
The cost per each man woman, child and family in AmeriKKKa are staggering now, but they will get much more egregious as these policies continue. “Bottom line: Taxpayers are now on the hook for a record $59.1 trillion in liabilities, a 2.3% increase from 2006. That amount is equal to $516,348 for every U.S. household. By comparison, U.S. households owe an average of $112,043 for mortgages, car loans, credit cards and all other debt combined. Unfunded promises made for Medicare, Social Security and federal retirement programs account for 85% of taxpayer liabilities. State and local government retirement plans account for much of the rest. This hidden debt is the amount taxpayers would have to pay immediately to cover government's financial obligations. Like a mortgage, it will cost more to repay the debt over time. Every U.S. household would have to pay about $31,000 a year to do so in 75 years. The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Board, which sets federal accounting standards, is considering requiring the government to adopt accounting rules similar to those for corporations. The change would move Social Security and Medicare onto the government's income statement and balance sheet, instead of keeping them separate.” http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28
Keep in mind this merely represents the liabilities for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. It does not take into consideration or account the cost of imperial wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Columbia just to name a few places the US is making mischief. Nor does it take into account AmeriKKKa’s massive trade deficit, the slumping dollar and the insurmountable federal debt (the three billion dollars the US government borrows daily from private banks and foreign governments just to continue operating.) AmeriKKKa finds itself in economic quicksand, simultaneously foundering in a moral quagmire facing the fatal abyss of all evil empires. “Today, the US economy is a ‘dead man walking”, a term used to describe those condemned to death but still alive. Like in the movies, the scene has now been set, events have transpired that will determine the outcome, and although the exact ending is not yet known, the end itself is unavoidable. The amount of debt owed by the US government and its citizens can never be repaid. In today’s modern banking system, debt-money is constantly fed into the system until debt levels reach such heights debts cannot be serviced or retired. At that point, the system will begin to collapse. This is where we are today. The coming collapse may be triggered by a run on the US dollar, once backed by gold but now an irredeemable piece of paper whose only value is determined by speculators, or it may be triggered by the failure of an over-leveraged hedge fund or the inability of a large money-center bank suddenly unable to meet its obligations. But irregardless of what triggers the coming collapse—the collapse will result from our worldwide modern banking system, a system whereby governments allow private bankers to issue debt as money in order to further the insatiable ambitions of those who govern.” D IS FOR DOMINANCE, DEBT & DEPRESSION Sell Dreams on credit, you'll make a fortune on the interest by Darryl Schoon http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/schoon/2007/0619.
Domestically, AmeriKKKa is fast moving to a police state similar to the one that existed during slavery only this time it will not just be Africans the state plans to move against, “WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The U.S. military command in charge of protecting the homeland asked the Pentagon earlier this year for a contingent of special operations officers to help with domestic anti-terrorism missions. Military sources told The Examiner that U.S. Northern Command, established at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado in 2002, requested its own special operations command similar to ones assigned to overseas war-fighting commands, such as U.S. Central Command. A spokeswoman for NorthCom this week issued a statement to The Examiner saying, ‘This capability resides in every other geographical combatant command and would allow the commander of U.S. Northern Command to deploy these unique capabilities for homeland defense and civil support operations.’ The request was approved six months ago by the then-commander of NorthCom, Adm. Timothy Keating, who has since moved to U.S. Pacific Command.” http://www.examiner.com/a-790871%7EMilitary The bogus justification of domestic terrorism aside, the US government is really moving to prepare for social upheavals by the AmeriKKKan people as conditions worsen and they realize the ruling elites and their puppets (like George W Bu$h and Dick Cheney) are the ones who sold them out. These policies are not being put into place to “protect” us from some phony terrorists. They are in preparation for another 9-11 type false flag operation designed to create fear and create a climate for the planned New World Order fascist police state.
“Roman imperial sorrows mounted up over hundreds of years. Ours are likely to arrive with the speed of FedEx. If present trends continue, four sorrows, it seems to me, are certain to be visited on the United States. Their cumulative impact guarantees that the United States will cease to bear any resemblance to the country once outlined in our Constitution. First, there will be a state of perpetual war, leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever they may be and a growing reliance on weapons of mass destruction among smaller nations as they try to ward off the imperial juggernaut. Second, there will be a loss of democracy and constitutional rights as the presidency fully eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from an ‘executive branch’ of government into something more like a Pentagonized presidency. Third, an already well-shredded principle of truthfulness will increasingly be replaced by a system of propaganda, disinformation, and glorification of war, power, and the military legions. Lastly, there will be bankruptcy, as we pour our economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchange the education, health, and safety of our fellow citizens.” Chalmers Johnson Sorrows of Empire Page 285
If you are foolish enough to celebrate the Forth of July as a holiday commemorating sovereignty, liberty and freedom, think again because sovereignty, liberty and freedom are increasingly slipping through your fingers (if you ever really enjoyed them) as AmeriKKKa devolves into a fascistic (corporatist) has-been global empire. Frederick Douglas denounced the barbaric underpinnings of AmeriKKKa in 1852 when he said, “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.” Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ 5 July 1852
Substitute Douglas’ words about slavery with AmeriKKKa’s current war crimes and its culture of global corporate corruption, criminality and neocolonialism and we glean a candid and sobering picture of the real AmeriKKKa, past and present. To his credit, Frederick Douglas was a prime catalyst in destroying the system of slavery in AmeriKKKa. Rather than mindlessly celebrating a “holiday” to honor hypocrisy, and crimes against humanity we, like Frederick Douglas before us, should be actively working to bring this evil system to its knees.

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posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 6:24 AM