— from Joseph Murphy —
When someone’s dogs are being pinched it is human nature to look around
for someone to blame. It is becoming more apparent by the day and hour
that the force which is most responsible for the ongoing damage to the
way of life preferred by Islanders is us. Trusting fools that we are we relied
upon the state, the county and the feds to make intelligent and democratic
decisions on our behalf. Hah!
One cause is most certainly the ongoing and intensifying environmental
catastrophe referred to by scientists in the know as, ‘anthropogenic climate
change,” The ‘anthro’ – that’s us, humans. We have caused the change
that chokes our skies and prompts warnings from health authorities.Prepare? Bottled oxygen anyone?
And, yes, the village scold reminds everyone that the US Military and their
far-flung archipelago of horrors use a whopping half of all fossil fuels in the world, as in (on the planet) to perpetuate this continuing carnage. But there are the humans above and the humans below in this military action against the people of the San Juans and beyond. The military and the monetary are above, as citizens struggle down below. Market forces at the point of a gun — or Growler — and everyday people who, by and large, just want to left alone to live life as they choose.
Unfortunately, the space in which we choose is being compressed, the
commons of democracy and democratic process foreclosed, in the interest
of suffocating any dissent and maximizing profit. We trust all of those technocrats out there to make proper decisions on our behalf until they can no longer be trusted.
Take the Port of Orcas, please. Here we find the disregard for due process
taken to absurd extremes; a battle royal between the technocrats and
pilots who salivate over FAA funds and the rest of us who would rather not
be controlled by either the FAA or Port ‘executive sessions’ that divide the
spoils and stick taxpayers with the bill.
And then there are the Federal agencies that hide behind the shields of
technocracy and scientific method while serving the interests of corporate
greed.
The FAA control of air space over the sacred lands of the Olympic
Peninsula, means that Boeing-built Growlers disrupt what was the quietest
place in the contiguous forty-eight. Busy beavers they as they prepare to
recertify the deadly 737 Max. Soon, expect to see surveillance drones
disguised as hummingbirds gather outside your window as you sip your
morning coffee.
While 2nd District Congressman Rick Larsen attempted to steer blame away
from the aircraft manufacturer in his district whose name will not cross his
lips, members of his Oversight Committee received over one hundred K from Boeing toward their re-elections. Don’t want to hurt Boeing’s little feelings or deflate their stock price. Instead, blame the dead pilots for inadequate training. Yeah, that’ll work.
Then you have the FCC greenlighting unproven 5G technology. As for the
EPA, well, don’t get me started.
Meanwhile, Julian Assange is, I am sure, laughing his Aussie head off if not
crying in his warm English beer over the hideous spectacle of American’s
buying up every dead and dismembered lamb in America so to celebrate the death of a political criminal and truthteller (that would be Jesus the
Christ) while passing draconian abortion bans and dusting off the WWI relic “espionage act” to prosecute contemporary truth tellers such as himself.
That boot on the back of the neck is starting to suffocate the last vestiges
of public process. The FAA is a rogue agency that has been co-opted like
the FCC and the remnant EPA into the services of Empire. I believe this is
how the term, “regulatory capture” came into being. Shouldn’t it be, “regulator captured”?
As Eric Garner gasped before he died: “I can’t breathe”
That about sums it up, but it would seem the majority of the populace is ok with that as long as their quad soy caramel mocha-ccinos are still flowing, and just a 20 minute drive away….
If you’d like to learn about another lack of our government agencies to protect our health while aiding commercial interests, please view for FREE a documentary entitled: Takebackyourpower.net. Just Google and it will be there! Worth watching and knowing.
How it can be considered to be an honor when we train pilots to drop bombs on civilians – how that is justifiable – is beyond me, and thinking of it makes me nauseous. But we have to be honest that it has been going on ever since our ancestors came over, not as immigrants, but as European invaders and colonizers; of which many of us are descendants.
Our country has been wiping out populations at home (starting with Indigenous populations) and abroad since the arrival of the death ships. It’s a shameful warmongering history of rape and take, and yet anyone who dares tell the truth about how it really is, is painted as a “traitor” or “unpatriotic.”
Eisenhower warned against the military industrial complex, and he was dead right.
Janice Weimeier, I watched the documentary – thank you. It’s time for us to take back our power. They are already installing smart meters and 5 g here. We must fight this.
“…the majority of the populace is ok with that as long as their quad soy caramel mocha-ccinos are still flowing, and just a 20 minute drive away….” Well put Luther. So sad but so true… it does seem like most are on the band-wagon, they are drinking the koolaid, they’re riding the gravy train. They are only looking out for themselves ($$$) with no overt thought of our shared future. The tragedy of the commons comes to mind as I ponder our dire predicament. As a species we are plummeting to the bottom whilst the powers that be (including SJC’s current leadership), continues to purvey a picture to the public that is 180 out of synch with reality. Now that the recent airport embarrassment debacle is history (other than the future development that we can all count on), and after the (next debacle), the short-term vacation issue is over we might possibly get SJC’s leadership to boldly apply themselves to the greatest crisis of our times… the climate change crisis. Thanks for the link Janice.
Is there “anything” about this country that “you” choose to live in that “you” are “content” with.
Good point, John E.
John, the flip side of that question:
if the tyranny,
the gross erosion of civil liberties,
the crimes against humanity,
or the millions of innocents (still being) killed in the demand for economic policy compliance wreaked by the US haven’t yet reached the point that you feel the pressing need to say THIS IS WRONG, what would it take?