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Bread and Circuses
By Morton Skorodin
20/01/08 "ICH"
-- -- The Roman emperors provided bread and circuses for
their people. The American empire does the same, though lately
with less bread. They’re making up for it in the circuses
department. I’m talking about the election charade.
It’s so sad to see otherwise intelligent people falling prey to
this circus.
The election campaign began on the heels of the November 2006
election, a year earlier than prior custom. For about four days
the mainstream corporate media admitted election results
reflected the American people’s desire for a prompt end to the
Iraq war and occupation. Then the war was dropped like a hot
potato. The media under-report it and the election is a great
way to change the subject.
The owners and rulers of America are timid about who they feel
they can allow to be president. They are OK with war hawk H.
Clinton, though she’s not their first choice. They tried but
failed to manufacture Fred Thompson out of thin air.
TV debates are controlled to the last degree. Talking heads ask
the official questions all of which are carefully screened. A
striking example is the question to Clinton about the Yucca
Mountain nuclear waste site that was changed to asking her if
she likes to wear fur. You can’t make up this stuff.
The TV networks sidelined candidates who are too threatening. No
Kucinich, Paul or Gravel. Can’t have any anti-war candidates
they just represent 75 percent of the people on this most
important issue.
The circus goes on; something to dull the mind of us “great
unwashed.” No point in reminding us of the mass killings of the
innocents the brown-skinned victims of American planes, bombs
and taxes. The ruination of our boys and girls ” killed or
injured in body and spirit. For example, on Jan. 10, the
Associated Press reported: “U.S. bombers and jet fighters
unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives on the southern outskirts
of Baghdad within 10 minutes Thursday in one of the biggest air
strikes of the war.”
The election campaign is big business. It’s good for the
economy. So this will go on until fall.
In the meantime all the legal, military, intelligence and police
props are in place “ for martial law, with a president who said
the Constitution is a g-------d piece of paper. (Nice talk.)
What if there is a terrorist attack in October or November,
after all the profit is taken from the election business? If
there is an emergency, there just may not be an election.
This should be seen as a possibility by intelligent and
progressive commentators, if not corporate media prostitutes.
How disappointed I am Ralph Nader, who saved my wife’s life when
our car was totaled, by having forced seat belts and air bags on
the auto industry, is jumping into the fray. He should be
warning the people about further war and frank dictatorship.
It’s a lot like Germany in the 1930s.
In the meantime, avert your eyes from the TV. Close them and
listen. Listen with your heart. You will hear the screams of the
dead ones and the injured. Stop them! Stop them from killing us!
Morton Skorodin, M.D. e-mail mortonskorodin@sbcglobal. net
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