Corporatocracy |
The True "Big Brother" |
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man |
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Try to wrap your brain around what corporate tyranny is: don’t assume it is nothing to worry about. Corporations are owned by the super rich of the US. The goal of every corporation is to make a profit for these super rich people. By law a corporation is forbidden to not turn a profit. Therefore a corporation must continually out-perform the previous quarter’s results. This means that every resource available for profit must be squeezed till it can give no more. Resources include: people, the government and the environment. Now consider that corporations are lawfully considered an individual human being within our society except that they can’t vote. Don’t you wish you were a “being” that had 5,000 people or more that would vote the way you tell them to vote? Don’t you wish you were a “being” that could send lobbyists to congress to influence their decisions in matters that concern you most, namely making money? “We the people” of the United States no longer refers to you and me (if it ever did). We the “people” are now corporate citizens and I don’t mean the people who work for the corporation I mean the corporation itself. A corporation is considered a citizen by law thanks to the Supreme Court and their interpretation of the 14th Amendment. So when you hear politicians, I mean the President and Congress talking about how they make decisions that help the people of the US, they aren’t lying, but neither are they referring to you and me. They are referring to corporations.
Obviously corporations did not gain their power through any overt act like a coup (which by-the-way they attempted a coup in 1934) rather they worked at it through bribes and with their lawyers. However, they could not have taken power without the consent of Congress and the Supreme Court. Thus it is from this bonding, this quid pro quo, of government and corporations that the word “Corporatocracy” is derived. Thanks to privatization, corporations now control every aspect of our lives: the food we eat; the water we drink; the air we breathe; they control congress, and no politician gets elected without the help of corporations so the president is under their control as well; they own every significant media outlet which means the media is just their marketing division; they control our healthcare system; and since they employ us they control all aspects of our employment and livelihood too: in short corporations are the new tyranny.
Privatization means, instead of the government being responsible for the maintenance, delivery, and cost of, for example electricity, the job is given to a corporation to run. Corporations have taught us all to believe that government work is crap so we don’t bat an eye when some basic service is privatized. Well, what this means is that if the price of electricity goes higher than we like, or a firm like Enron initiates deliberate rolling-blackouts, we are powerless to do anything about it. If the service was in the public sector, run by government, we would have a voice, but in the private sector we have no voice. Considering that this is a democracy it seems very stupid to deliberately give away our voice by moving things from the public sector where we have a voice to the private sector where no corporation has to give a damn what we say or think. If you buy into their rhetoric you must be thinking, “but we do have a voice: we can boycott their product or service.” Oh really? Ok, stop buying gas, how much damage will you do to Big Oil? Imagine if oil was owned and run by the government: at least you could vote-out your representative if you think he/she is gauging you at the pump.
We are trained to believe that we have more rights in the private sector due to our “buying power”. We are trained this way because corporations run every aspect of our lives, so of course we are going to hear the corporate mantra many times, every day in our lives till we accept it as fact that it is better to boycott than to have direct representation in all matters concerning our lives.
But now you say, “But the private sector doesn’t use taxpayer money”. True, but it costs you in so many other ways chiefly your health, is your health so easily sacrificed? Is not your health and democracy worth paying a price to maintain? If your healthcare was supplied by the government at least you would never have to worry where to get healthcare if you lose your job. As it is now your healthcare is tied to your company, if you are laid off in a “down-size” you not only lose your job you lose your healthcare. You’re doubly screwed.
We used to be told to fear “Big Brother” and we all assumed Big Bother was the government. Corporations preyed on that fear and we willing gave up our rights to the real big brother: the corporation. Now they keep us afraid of change and afraid of socialism, but socialism isn’t needed to combat corporations, democracy is needed. But democracy needs a public that is aware and paying attention. Corporations keep us all insanely busy so that we have no free time to practice democracy. Instead we just hope that corporations will do what is best for us even though they are legally bound do just the opposite. Wake up people: fight corporate tyranny! We can take it all back from them. Corporations were established by law thus they can be dismantled by laws. Congress makes the laws: get them to change the laws to restructure corporations. Does this sound like just a lot of “hot wind”? Start paying attention and observe all the things that corporations control in your life and the freedoms that they take from you. You probably don’t even have time to read this article because your corporate cell phone is ringing! “Yes master?”
14th Amendment Section One: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Although written for freed slaves after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment is more often used to give corporations the same rights as a human being and the same protections as a human being. Do you really think the US is not a government of the rich by the rich and for the rich?
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