Words To Live By-Yeah, Get This-Peace Abroad, Peace At Home

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.