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Re: Project Censored...
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Wednesday, November 9 2005, 15:21:47 (CET)
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Maggie wrote:
>When you see all this in one e-mail, it makes you depressed. What has happened to this world?


...we're seduced by "the vote". It's as outdated as dictators should be. All the time, right in front of our eyes, is the vehicle of change...the method of empowerment...and we don't see it...so fixated are we on "the vote" bullshit...and the antiquated ballot box.

...Just look to the shining example of the Civil Rights Movement's greatest moment...the successful dismantling of Jim Crow segregation through the simple step of a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alalabama.

The ballot box and the vote were as useless for Blacks under Jim Crow as they are today for us, under Corporate America...it's still sort of okay for defeating measures...when it's a question of "yes" or "no"...but it's useless for electing better officials...because all we really get to do is say "yes" or "no"...but between candidates we have almost NO power in selecting to RUN.

All both parties have to do is select two "opponents" who will BOTH get the basic "job" done...and we're screwed. Vote for either...or don't vote at all, "in protest"...and the basic bastard gets into office anyway...then what?

While corporate America has made the vote useless, it has told us what works...only we don't get it. MONEY...SALES....PROFIT MARGINS...these hold the key to every CEO's toilet...we can make them crap their "principles" and goofy ideas just by witholding or giving...ONE DOLLAR at a time.

Jim Crow was as entrenched in the southern way of life as you'd think anything could be. Blacks had NO power and no means of changing it and if they dared grumble they'd get torched and lynched with no consequences to their murderers...how much MORE powerless can a human be?...Yet who would have guessed that it would have been THAT easy to dismantle the whole thing...who would have guessed.

Blacks got the Man on his ONE vulnerable spot...the spot we all KNOW is his real god...his PROFITS. They refused to ride the busses, the busses used to insult them and keep them in their "place" every day they boarded...they next refused to shop at the stores that agreed to take their money for purchases made but NOT for a sandwhich at the counter and the stores lost PROFIT....finally...FINALLY there was a device through which segregation and its results could be made to HURT white folk...hurt THEM for a change instead of be seen to their benefit...and in a year the Man was fighting to REPEAL it.

Corporate America is TELLING us what we need do in order to put them back where they belong: our SERVANTS and not our masters. let them go back to making candy and cars and furniture and telephones and NOT remain any longer determining which towns shut down...what our water and air will contain and how much of our money they get in ways OTHER than the products we buy from them.

Corporate America lives or dies at OUR whim...we have...each of us in our wallets EVERY day, what makes or breaks them...we have the dollar they bust their asses for...they don't have it, till WE give it to them...they are DEPENDENT on us...and we foolishly throw our real power away...while we instead line up every few years like lemmings to "vote"...shalll we get reamed by a two-by-four or a four-by-four???

The beauty of it is we don't have to absolutely drive them out of business...just take back or make uncertain that portion of their yearly take that makes up their PROFIT. The buses in Montgomery were all still there...no one had to take them away...just make it UNPROFITABLE to continue serving ALL the citizens...we don't have to drive G.E. into the ground...just snip away at that portion of their income that represents their profit...and since at the end of the year a corporation's profits amount to a very small percentage of their total revenues..it's a lot easier to do than you'd imagine.

Mexicans taught Gatorade that lesson when Howard Stern mocked their beloved Selena. While he got his rocks off over the air, Mexicans fretted and fumed because there was no way they could get at HIM directly...make him stop. Simply turning him off so they didn't have to hear him wasn't good enough...how would he know? And that wouldn't stop him anyway. So they went for corporate America instead...they called a boycott of Gatorade...one of the main sponsors of Stern's radio show...and within weeks Howard was apologizing and he never mentioned Selena again. They didn't have to drive Gatorade out of business...just let it know they were risking that portion of their sales that came from Mexicans and they SAW the demand among that market plummet. No "freedom of speech" or freedom to broadcast was worth a dip in profits.

It's there...at our fingertips every day...every fucking day and NOT when an 'election" is held...and each and every citizen carries that "vote" in his or her wallet, coin purse or pocket.

It would be very easy to test it too...another advantage corporations and capitalism have given us to use for our benefit and against their greed and lust for political power is the very competition they brag of...because if you choose to boycott one product...three other companies make the SAME thing, for all practical purposes...so you really don't have to go without...there was only one bus company in Alabama...but there are several manufacturers of soda pop...or sheets...or toothpaste....and if one company senses it will GAIN the customers boycotting the products of another...they'll ALL fall into line that much faster.

It's all there...right in front of us. But we go vote instead...and continue to get screwed...no, we don't "get" screwed...we screw ourselves!



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