Why Michael Moore hasn't been killed by Tyrant Money (TM) long ago is a surprise to my paranoia patterns, and frankly, maybe the world isn't quite as bad as it seems if he's still "allowed to" make such a pest of himself. I mean, shouldn't he have died "of natural causes" by now? With today's "pharmaceuticals that cannot be traced" why let such a popular gadfly go around riling the masses?
Maybe, TM sees that he's not THAT much of a pest, and he's allowed to roam about as a symbol of the largess and basic decency of our TM OVERLORDS -- as a crass marketing-balancing for the BILLIONS OF LIVES IN POVERTY that they're responsible for -- nay, that YOU AND I are responsible for whenever we buy jeans, gas, or McDonald's burgers at a price that only slave labor, whole nations under a boot, and the denuding of South America can make possible. We should be paying maybe several hundred bucks for a pair of jeans at $11.00 per hour labor costs -- but 16 girls with Simon Legree for a shift supervisor must work from dawn to dusk in a one-light-bulb dungeon for a single dollar to make one pair -- something like that. Goggle it "sweatshops" and in seconds you'll be writhing in shame. I've had things manufactured on the Pacific Rim, and I've been in the actual shops where wandering chickens and workers in rags and flip flops were seen in the same glance. Once, I had to directly hire a small work crew of independent inspectors I needed for quality control of a production line, and at $4.00 per hour, you could see how lucky they felt. But it was a low point for me no matter their relative happiness. I was a slave owner. It was only a matter of degree, not kind, in my eyes. I still am a slave owner. So is anyone who buys almost anything for almost nothing at Walmart. If I'm not buying baby seal fur products, so why do I feel "okay" (stunned numb?) when I buy shirts that were "death-clubbed out of Asia?" Psychological addiction for such products despite their "vibe" are the fuel for of this evil system -- but, if the common person on the street had to stand there and actually watch for merely a mere few minutes as their clothing was being made, who'd wear the clothes? We're all in cahoots by pretending that this is not the truth. Today's chains and shackles are financial and political, today's slaves are independent workers, today's slaves are as controlled as the Ronald's cattle being lined up at the arbiter -- only, you know, the cattle luck out and get a quick death. How about, starting now, we only buy used clothes, we reduce gas consumption to zero for most days, and we picket McDucks with placards showing the ACTUAL SATELLITE PHOTOS OF ONE THIRD OF BRAZIL where all the animals and all the plants have been SLASHED AND BURNED OFF THE EARTH so that a heart-attacks-on-a-bun can cost almost nothing while we munch a bunch at lunch. I'd say the Nazi's with their human skin lampshades would be quite at home with us. Have us over for schnapps, nicht wahr? If the world "goes sane," they'll come for us with nooses. They'll ask us what we were thinking to enslave and rape the world. We'll all be like the townspeople living in smell-range of Auschwitz say, "Ve didn't know vat vuz der schmoken fromen zie chimmenzies. Ve tot dey vuzzin happy TM blissenheimers ven dey maken der shirts." Now that I'm pretending here to be temporarily sane, FUCK! -- Michael Moore should be ashamed of himself for saying so little so quietly so ineffectively. He's got a mass audience, word skills, and a ton of money too -- that jolly scoundrel should be screaming in our faces about the blood on our hands, but instead, he's making parlor jokes so's to not be tossed from the elitists' soirée donchaknow. It's not just blood on our hands, not the girls being raped by their factory monsters. If only that was our sin. It's the death of whole species, death of hope, death of morality, death of civilization. If I saw a toddler walking a yellow line on the street without supervision, I'd stop my car in the middle of the road and run to that kid's aid. You would too, right? But 10,000 children DIE EACH DAY because I and other LORDS OF CAPITALISM want cheap shirts, cheap oil, cheap meat. Poverty could have completely erased here in America if we'd spent the Iraq War Fund on health, education and infrastructure. But, no, we had to send our armies to steal oil. If anyone reading these words thinks their part in all this is trivial, look out. There's a fist coming your nose's way. The earth cannot stand this degradation for much longer, mebets. A nice long winter for all of us via the Yellowstone super volcano might be our comeuppance -- surely nothing less would be deserved. If something big does happen, we'll all be in rags, huddled in cold dark rooms, with water being the new oil. How many years in such a hovel do I deserve for all the Walmarting I've done? Decades of meditation hasn't dented this system, hasn't dented my appetites for slave products, and hasn't dented my shield of denial. Decades of loving love, having a hippy heart, and I'm still involved in the same evil consumerism lifestyle. Frankly, the Nazi putting a bullet into a child was modeling a less hypocritical lifestyle than me. How hard is that concept, eh? If I'm to be a social climber, I have to work my way up to the exalted status of Nazi murderer. No clever words can assuage my role in all this. I can't see any white teeth from here. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "claudiouk" <claudiouk@> wrote: > > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070515/tpl-us-health-government-politics-10170b4.html > > > > More surprising UK ranking good, yet here we think we're in > > crisis. We think France, for instance, is better looked after.. > > In an interesting juxtaposition, Michael Moore's > new film "Sicko" is set to premiere at Cannes > soon, and since in it he takes on the damn-the- > patient-profit-at-any-cost policies of the US > health care industry and pharmaceutical industries, > he's come under fire from the Bush administration, > which is...uh...somewhat in these industries' > pocket. They're claiming he violated a trade > embargo with Cuba by going there during the > filming. Guess they're still pissed off about > "Fahrenheit 9/11," eh? > > http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/276253/1/.html > > Moore describes the new film as "a comedy about > 45 million people with no health care in the > richest country on Earth." > > While many may bristle at his tendency to mix > comedy and scathing satire with serious issues, > I applaud it. The thing that the robber barons > of the world hate most is to be laughed at, and > Moore helps people to laugh at them. May he > continue to make his films, and may the people > continue to laugh at those who make a profit > from either killing their fellow man (Bowling > for Columbine and F 9/11) or just allowing them > to die because they don't care whether they live > or die, only about profit (Sicko), because when > the laughter dies, what remains might be a sense > of outrage, and a desire to stop these travesties. > > As for Michael himself, this article implies that > he's well aware of the "shoot the messenger" > tactics that will be used against him, and has > hired one of the best PR firms in the business > to counter their attacks. I don't care whether > one likes Michael Moore and his sensibilities > or not; I still believe that the world desper- > ately needs more people like him. >
