Words To Live By-Yeah, Get This-Peace
Abroad, Peace At Home
Frank Jackman comment:
You know those of us in the anti-war
trenches over the past few years, the lonely trenches by the way since any
serious street anti-war spirit had evaporated long ago to be replaced by
indifference or worse by benighted resignation that the military-industrial
complex is too hard a nut to break, have always pretty much concentrated on the
endless wars abroad part of the slogan in the headline. And that has been
rightfully done. But over the past few years, five or six anyway, a new factor,
new to a wider audience at least, has emerged that should give us pause. Or I
should say factors.
One such factor is that there is great
income inequality, greater than for a fairly long time although everybody over
the age of twelve, over the age of twelve at least in the poor neighborhoods
and housing projects strewn across the country knows, that there had been a
class gap for a long time before that. The big news if you want to call it news
is that now the ruling class, yes, let us call things by their right names is
rubbing our noses in it in public. Is daring us to fight back and is ready to
take on that dare if it ever comes to that with a very sophisticated and lethal
combination of heavily armed troops and militarized police when we get uppity.
The other factor dovetails into the
first-the hard fact is that racial animosities are rampart, that sorry to say
that black lives don’t matter to that same ruling class that is keeping the
rest of us under its police thumbs as well. Is ready right now to turn cops and
soldiers loose on the black community without compunction. So sure we need to
fight for peace abroad but a new political fact of life has “gone public” we
have to fight for peace at home as well. Let’s get to the tasks at hand.
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