The economic sacking of America
By Ben Tanosborn Online Journal Contributing Writer
In our historical readings of eastern and western civilizations, we have been exposed to the many sacks by invading armies against both lives and possessions of those living in great cities and enclaves that may have offered resistance, but most often did not, to the invading hordes. Rome was sacked several times; Jerusalem was besieged, then sacked by the Crusaders; and, yes, so was Baghdad by the Mongols seven and a half centuries before Americans would do the same, this time marching under the banner of democracy and the laughable pretense of trying to liberate a ìdangerous,î faraway land.
But of all the sacks perpetrated throughout history, the economic sacking of America is perhaps the greatest of them all. And the most incredible part is our lack of outrage!
I need not be corrected, I am well aware of it! The heading for this piece is boldly inaccurate, for it is not America thatís being pillaged, but 80 to 90 percent of Americans who are, with the remaining 10 to 20 percent of our brethren-citizens being the looters, and thatís precisely what the problem is. Unlike old times when city-nations were razed by foreign invaders, the robbers and abusers in this case are already in our midst, sufficiently large in number . . . and in possession or control of every tool of power, from government, to the press, to the instruments of wealth, to the spiritual brainwashing of the poor, ignorant and oppressed. Granted, not all Americans are being sacked, but I had to turn the bright lights on, draw attention to the plight of most, not all, Americans.
America is not being sacked by enemy hordes crossing our borders. Our looting is taking place internally. In fact it has been going on, solidly and nonstop, for a quarter of a century although the more blatant pillaging has taken place since our constitutional watchdog, the Supreme Court, made Bush ‘The Younger’ distributor-in-chief as well as head tax collector of this nationís wealth. Since then, it has been continuous thievery and flagellation of the middle class and poor via tax breaks in the trillions for those who already have the bulk of the wealth, all under the pretense of economic stimulati [more]