Chapter 5 Reasons For Revolution Part
3
What is more
important money in the bank or peace of mind? I don’t own an expensive car. My
car has a big gash on the side and is far from a luxury model. Thus when I
leave it outside or drive into a high crime neighborhood I don’t worry about it
getting stolen. If I drove a high price car I might have a more comfortable
ride but I’d lose my peace of mind. You see in life we have choices and those
choices affect what kind of life we have. For example I had a choice of
studying to further my engineering career or studying to further my ministerial
career. I chose the latter because helping people to me was more important to
me than making money.
The United
States is a capitalistic nation to a point. More accurately we have a financial
oligarchy that borders on fascism. Whatever the case most Americans love money.
If you have enough money in America you can purchase anything whether it is
illegal or illegal. I object to the massive accumulation of wealth in the hand
of a few individuals. When the top three richest persons have an equal wealth
of the bottom ten percent of the Earth’s population there is a problem. I
wouldn’t mind people having luxuries; it is when they are attained at the impoverishment
of the masses that I have a serious problem.
How can
anybody justify this disparity in wealth? Clearly those three people didn’t out
produce over nearly a billion people. Of course that argument can be made that
those three people were more clever or brilliant. The word that one needs in
such a description is very clear, that word is ‘evil’. If you possess so much
wealth and have no compassion on your fellow human being than you are indeed a
miserable miser.
Of course wealth
is a relative thing when it comes to material possessions. The poor of America
would be considered rich in some third world nations. In fact people who manage
to eat three meals a day would be considered well off in a lot of places. There
is poverty in this world where babies starve to death. Think of that reality
when the government tells you that it needs more money for sophisticated jet
fighters or updating nuclear weapons. Innocent babies are starving as you
direct your attentions towards dealing death and destruction towards innocents.
The present economic
situation in the United States is one of fear rather than security. In this
society one needs to have some way of producing income. Nothing is owned by the
people rather the government owns everything. You cannot own houses or property
without paying rent to the government, because they chose to use the word
taxes, does not change the reality of the situation. Furthermore to survive you
cannot live off of the land which forces one to work a job that produces
income. God forbid that you suffer from an illness or you need special care.
People have been left to die from severe medical conditions as medical insurance
companies would rather save money than save a life.
One must
understand that the imbalance of wealth in this world is through fraudulent and
corrupt practices. France once dominated North Africa with its military and to
this day demands tribute for those poor nations that were France’s former
colonies. So France lives in luxury while Africa is robbed of its wealth. It is
like the bully demanding the lunch money from the scrawny kids.
The United States
exists on one hundred percent stolen land. Furthermore it was built upon stolen
labor. Now some in the United States justify their heinous crimes by saying
that was a long time ago. Well allow me to say this. If you had a distant
relative who had money in the bank and you were the heir would you want your
money back? Not only would you demand to have your money but you would insist
on having every penny of interest paid as well. Well in like manner the slaves
from those stolen from Africa have invested in the system with blood, sweat and
tears. The fact that they were appeased with starvation wages and sporadic free
educations in the oppressor’s schools does not change the matter. Even the
forfeited forty acres and a mule never paid would have been just. If one was to
pay back perhaps a payment would be the territories of Mississippi, Alabama,
Louisiana, Florida and Georgia. But the whole argument is pointless as truly
the Native Americans have never ceded these lands. Any agreements that exist
were either signed by falsehood or by duress.
This economic
disparity fosters crime of all sorts. It also prompts fools to covet money so
they can purchase the latest style or electronic innovation which gives there miserable
life some mockery of meaning. When society focuses on the material the
spiritual is lost. The United States is a giant goliath who has lost its soul
in a mad frenzy for material gain. It systematically crushes other nations and
tortures its citizens all so that at the end of the day the tally sheets of the
financers increase all in pointless vanity to satisfy insatiable egos of
wickedness. The situation is where a
giant pulls others down to elevate itself over the others when it should be
uplifting all.
It is a sad
thing but revolution is not only around the corner but happening in every
corner of the world.
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