Why the American dream is one of the biggest lies

[LibertyorDeath]

So what are those lessons to be learned from a destroyed city with thousands dead, little or no relief for survivors, and lawlessness taking over from wind and water as the greatest threat to life? Not very nice lessons unfortunately. As the bodies of the poor, black, disenfranchised southerners bob to the surface of the rat-infested and sewage-infused waters, we’re reminded that America’s position as a big, safe, morally decent democracy with opportunity for all is one of the world’s biggest lies. The American dream that is being held up as the cause worth dying for in the Middle East is as rotten to the core as its demonic administration.

When Bush is temporarily propped up on two legs by his people, out of his natural position on all fours with knuckles resting gently on the White House carpet, to tell the world that his country’s values and people are worth fighting for, he omits to mention that he doesn’t mean poor people or black people. Not only is this huge slice of the American public kept largely invisible, in case it ruins the image of the culture which Bush’s administration demands countries in “the axis of terrorr” adopt, but even when such poverty is exposed to the world the US elite has little shame in publicly holding these stricken citizens in contempt.

Take the comments made to the press by Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. When quizzed on the probable death toll, which is now running into the thousands, Brown said: “Unfortunately that’s going to be attributable to a lot of people who did not heed the warnings. I don’t make judgements about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans.”

So when those with cars left the city, leaving behind those with no transport, did that mean that every available coach, truck and helicopter was made available to get them out? Apparently not. Some of those who didn’t “heed the warnings” because they had no means of exit, included charity care homes for the elderly, hospitals, whole housing schemes of poor black residents, a children’s care home, and countless thousands of dispersed penniless people living on state benefits who were trapped and killed, not because they were wilful irresponsible risk takers, but because they were poor, powerless and vulnerable.

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http://www.sundayherald.com/51627

Not to be rude but I have to go get some sleep.
This is a good article will check back latter
Kick it if you like it.

[Tinoire]

1. I read this earlier and thought it was an excellent article

I especially liked the message here:

In a breathtaking display of racism, some white British students who were trapped in the hell of the city’s Superdome stadium, being used for refugees, were removed to a safer place in a basketball arena by a white policeman who one student described as having “broken all the rules” to help them. The students were young, healthy and in no immediate distress except for experiencing mildly aggressive taunts about their colour, and yet the stadium was full of dangerously ill people, highly distressed old people, young children at great risk of dehydration, but for whom nobody “broke all the rules” on account of the fact that they were black. Meanwhile the gangs of black youths stalking the city on orgies of raping, violence and looting are not the bogeymen Islamic “enemies of freedom” but products of their own “democratic” country’s polices of exclusion and division.

[GoBlue]

2. But the American Nightmare is true!

I hope I wake up soon.

[jessicazi]

3. excellent.

kick. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. reat read and DU might want to check out the poll at the end.

Jr. ain't doing so good in that poll. :evilgrin:

[Burried News]

5. America as it was, was an imperfect place but it was not flawed

in concept. The concept and principles of the Republic remain valid and can serve to build an America. But that America is an America of the spirit not of bricks and mortar or roads and bridges. Those in power now, are not builders and they certainly are not defenders of America or its people.

Liars are the enemy of the spirit. The America of the spirit is still waiting to be built. That cannot start without a legitimate mourning of the dead and a removal from power of those who kill the spirit.

[Burried News]

6. The accounting includes -

Last two paragraphs of the link.
"John F Kennedy said: “I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”

Yes that would be nice John, wouldn’t it? I’m sure that as soon as the honourable, honest, decent people who run the country work out who it was who really shot you, they’ll get right on with the job of bringing your vision about. "

[libhill]

16. The people who run the country now -

are the beneficiaries of the assassination. 11/22/63, from which all subsequent atrocities flow.

[LibertyorDeath]

19. Great point how true it is.

Here

http://www.jfk-online.com/farewell00.html

[LibertyorDeath]

9. Very well said

[fujiyama]

7. Great article

nt

[pippin]

8. See This Thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4640471

[LibertyorDeath]

10. Thanks for the responses since it was a post & run

[bribri16]

11. The people who live it already know it. n/t

[Kansas Wyatt]

12. The American Dream has always been a tool for the Powers That Be

To ensure that the 'Haves' get more and the 'Have nots' get less.

The American Dream is nothing but a dirty lie to keep the peasants working for the 'Company Store' in this ownership society. Unless you have a whole lot of luck or the right 'connections' (corruption).

[Dez]

13. It's always been this way

always will be this way. That is what created this country.

[mattclearing]

14. The American Dream is only the biggest of lies

when it is not honored by the conduct of the American government.

[toymachines]

15. Labor Day & labor not happy

In the San Diego UT this their is an article describing how 53% of the US labor force does not think they make enough money compared with rising costs of living. And that they are not better off than their parents were at their age. Hunter Thompson was right, the american dream died long ago.

[hippywife]

17. The glittering facade has been ripped away

by the winds and waters of Katrina so the whole world can see that the American dream is a lie.

[TheModernTerrorist]

18. I was just thinking about this last night

n/t