MR. AMERICA.... (yah, right.)
I came across the most amazing picture of Massey Energy's old CEO, Don Blankenship, showing his 'red white and blue' with the ardor of a 'true amurican'. (Blankenship stepped down in December 2010. Guess his PR was pretty much 'toast' after being identified with the Upper Branch Mine disaster, so they put their old attack dog out to pasture.)
Nothing is more chilling to me than people trotting out the stars and stripes so I find it particularly fitting that Blankenship is one of those self-proclaimed 'patriots'....(you know, loop-ribboned 'I Love the USA' magnets on their cars, flag poles in their yards and forever getting misty-eyed over the military, constantly talking about 'our boys'.... that kind of putz.) Me? I don't get misty-eyed, I get PISSED OFF with what we subject those young men and women to, year after year after year.
But anyway..... there's Don. The poster child of early 21st Century American patriotism, waving the banner of CAPITALISM and representing what we affectionately refer to as 'democracy'-- something we'd like to see spread all over the world, but it's faux democracy, steeped in capitalistic greed.
Just answer this: how in the hell can a country claim it enjoys a democratic society when its UNDERPINNING THRUST is captitalistic? What we have is 'for profit' idealism: a system that CREATES classes, creates haves and have-nots with the rich floating to the top and the poor becoming the sheep who never rise and never truly realize the so-called American dream because it's rigged in the rich's favor.
In other words: an easily manipulated pack of brain-washed blue collar workers who buy into all the rhetoric and who will NEVER...... never be truly free. To do that you have to vote in non- big business supported elected officials, you have to tax equally across the board, and finally... you have to give up the lust for 'more stuff' in favor of more social freedom for ALL people, not favoritism for the rich.
Yep. Old Don is perfect in that picture up there.
(And I wish to hell it wasn't so.) He once said in reference to the United Nations: "Why should we trust a report by the United Nations? The United Nations includes countries like Venezuela, North Korea and Iran." (See?? The man stirs up the jingoist in us. How perfect is that? The guy is a poster child alright.)
You want to read real free speech? Read Coal Tattoo Those people are solid gold. The current information on Massey Energy is just the tip of the iceberg. They're busy doing their job in throwing open windows... thank you, folks. Thank you.
Nothing is more chilling to me than people trotting out the stars and stripes so I find it particularly fitting that Blankenship is one of those self-proclaimed 'patriots'....(you know, loop-ribboned 'I Love the USA' magnets on their cars, flag poles in their yards and forever getting misty-eyed over the military, constantly talking about 'our boys'.... that kind of putz.) Me? I don't get misty-eyed, I get PISSED OFF with what we subject those young men and women to, year after year after year.
But anyway..... there's Don. The poster child of early 21st Century American patriotism, waving the banner of CAPITALISM and representing what we affectionately refer to as 'democracy'-- something we'd like to see spread all over the world, but it's faux democracy, steeped in capitalistic greed.
Just answer this: how in the hell can a country claim it enjoys a democratic society when its UNDERPINNING THRUST is captitalistic? What we have is 'for profit' idealism: a system that CREATES classes, creates haves and have-nots with the rich floating to the top and the poor becoming the sheep who never rise and never truly realize the so-called American dream because it's rigged in the rich's favor.
In other words: an easily manipulated pack of brain-washed blue collar workers who buy into all the rhetoric and who will NEVER...... never be truly free. To do that you have to vote in non- big business supported elected officials, you have to tax equally across the board, and finally... you have to give up the lust for 'more stuff' in favor of more social freedom for ALL people, not favoritism for the rich.
Yep. Old Don is perfect in that picture up there.
(And I wish to hell it wasn't so.) He once said in reference to the United Nations: "Why should we trust a report by the United Nations? The United Nations includes countries like Venezuela, North Korea and Iran." (See?? The man stirs up the jingoist in us. How perfect is that? The guy is a poster child alright.)
You want to read real free speech? Read Coal Tattoo Those people are solid gold. The current information on Massey Energy is just the tip of the iceberg. They're busy doing their job in throwing open windows... thank you, folks. Thank you.
