July
5, 2012 - Issue 479
Corporate
Brand Obama – The 'Kill List' Assassin
Keeping
it Real By Larry Pinkney - BC Editorial Board
"The
madness of this course, we believe, is admitted now...but we fear the
lesson is wholly lost on our present ruler."
-Frederick
Douglass, from his speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
"The
challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money,
political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the
world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth."
-Howard
Zinn
The
truth is that at this moment of time in this, the 21st century, the
vast majority of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and
Yellow people in the United States are de facto slaves. That's right
- slaves.
We
are slaves to the psychological, economic, and physical dictates of
a self-legitimized organized corporate / military crime syndicate
known as the United States government. Our bondage is not only
economic, it is mental, and is supported by constantly tweaked
tyrannical and unjust laws and extremely brutal police forces
throughout this nation.
Our
slavery is further reinforced by a corporate owned and controlled
"news" media that is as pathetic as it is insidious.
Unfortunately, much of 'Black America' exists in a vacuum of delusion
and has yet to heed the burning significance of Harriet Tubman's
words, when she said, "I freed a thousand slaves - I could have
freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Now,
this nation has as its president [i.e. chief executive] a dangerously
alluring man, of somewhat darker pigmentation, who has, in the
fallacious name of 'hope and change,' ushered in a corporate
controlled police state, and has shamelessly taken on
unconstitutional powers to overtly and/or covertly militarily attack
peoples and sovereign nations in Africa and the so-called 'Middle
East,' etc. Yet, much of Black America has remained deafeningly
silent about these horrors.
This
man, Barack Obama, was four years ago, and remains today, a
deceivingly packaged corporate brand whose actions have repeatedly
belied his obfuscated rhetoric. His demonstrative message to Black
America is, in reality, "Shut up! You should consider yourself
lucky to have someone who looks like you in the White House! So just
shut up and support me! Ignore your conscience and your common sense,
while I do what I want!" Meanwhile, Barack Obama, relying upon
his obfuscated rhetoric, his well-honed hypocrisy, and his now
meaningless pigmentation is going about the business of making an
utter mockery of the hundreds of years struggle and enormous
sacrifices collectively made by Black America.
Notwithstanding
his hypocritical and strong support for the trillions of dollars
given to Wall Street's banksters and other corporate robber barons,
at the terrible expense of everyday people of all colors in this
nation, Obama has now blatantly taken it upon himself to be the
judge, jury, and executioner of people (including U.S. citizens)
around the world that he decides will be eliminated, i.e. murdered,
without the bother of a trial, a jury, or legal defense. He is the
corporate brand assassin with his very own secret 'kill list.' How
can so much of Black America, after years of lynchings and Jim Crow,
etc. be silent (and therefore complicit) in this? Another word for
'kill list' is government terrorism, and covertly murdering those
persons on a kill list does not diminish so-called terrorism - it
enhances it, which is the height of "madness" and
hypocrisy.
As
if the internal U.S. government outrages of COINTELPRO [counter
intelligence program], the Patriot Act, and the NDAA (the so-called
National Defense Authorization Act) are not already more than
egregious and draconian enough, Obama now has his own murderous hit
list [i.e. 'kill list']. What will it take for the slaves under the
yoke of this organized government terrorism against everyday people
to recognize and resist their / our slavery?!
Moreover,
make no mistake about it: What this corporate selflegitimized
organized crime syndicate U.S. government practices abroad, it most
assuredly will, or does already, practice covertly right here at
home. A hit list abroad means there is a hit list at home. Wake up
Black America! We must wake up and regain our collective conscience
and common sense.
Notwithstanding
the phony rhetoric and statistics emanating from the corporate-owned
U.S. government crime syndicate, the reality is that the rate of
joblessness for everyday people of all colors in this nation has
skyrocketed, and the actual rate of joblessness in Black America is
deep into the double digits. Yet, Barack Obama and his political
accomplices in the symbiotically-joined Democratic and Republican
parties are doing quite well even as the elite Wall Street banksters
and other corporate robber barons have annual criminal 'salaries'
that are in six and seven digits. This is not only insane - it is
criminal. Without economic 'democracy' in this nation for the masses
of everyday ordinary people, there is no 'democracy' at all!
Remember: Obama's 'kill list' has many forms, not the least of which
is economic, and most of us are targets. We must first recognize our
slavery, in order to eradicate it.
We
must trust that 'Black America' collectively will re-awaken and
regain its rightful place among our everyday sisters and brothers of
all colors in this nation and throughout Mother Earth. This will not
happen by osmosis. We must work to make it so!
Each
one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and
brothers. Onward!...
BlackCommentator.com
Editorial Board member and Columnist, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of
the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the
Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only
American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political
rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political
organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc.,
Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News
Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more
about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography
of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel
[Introduction by Howard Zinn].
