Privatization

Testimony today from Eric Prince, the founder and CEO of Blackwater: chilling, disturbing, but hardly surprising. Bush's Privte army, his Janissary (go ahead and look it up!), is but a single instance of an extremely dangerous phenomenon that is a cornerstone of the Class War the economic elite have been perpetrating on the rest of us for nearly three decades. Privatization is a euphemism for instiitutionalized white collar crime. And it is hardly limited to our beloved country. Post-communist Russia and China have set all-time world records for theft of public assets. Multi-nationals have bought and privatized water companies and other public utilities around the world. Privatization of Iraq's oil wealth was one of, if not the only motivation for the War on Iraq in the first place, and only a complete fool could believe that Rumsfeld and his fellow Neo-cons were unaware (despite their public pronouncements about a new, streamlined, hi-tech army) that the lion's share of the war's expenses would have to be paid, with minimal accountability, to private corporations.

History will note that the current era makes the Teapot Dome scandals look like chump change; only the late Nineteenth Century privatization of the National Railroad system and the monopolization of the Industrial Revolution by a handful of rapacious "robber barons" (with the support of well-paid Government officials) provides a historical comparison to the present transfer of public wealth to a privileged few. And history will be almost as critical of the failure of those who knew and know better and have failed to make ANY effort to fight back. What opposition? Don't know about you, but I have not been "represented" by ANYONE in our so-called Representative Government for many years.

Time for real change! Not just more articles and books (Fantasy Baseball), because one cannot reason with those who are mentally ill behind money and power. Again, if Martin Luther king Jr were still here, he would be organizing massive civil disobedience, no matter the consequences. Enough is enough!