Two Points of Order -- Obama(no)care & Clive Bundy
05-11-14
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Two points regarding Webster Tarpley's usually
reflective, erudite, and well researched monologues which
have been annoying this website editor for quite awhile
and must be addressed.
One: Is his totally unfathomable
support of Obama(no)care. Admittedly Tarpley is a
statist, but he has also repeatedly objected to
fascism. How he can support a government mandated
program, one that contains severe penalties to force
citizens to pay corporate entities, whose sole purpose is
to charge the most amount of money
while providing the least amount of care, is beyond this
website editor's understanding.
Such a pervasive, mandatory, discriminatory (none of the
high government officials are required to participate)
punitive corporate program meets the very definition of
Mussolini's description of fascism, the merger of the
corporate sector with that of the state for the benefit of
the wealthy elite. To say his stance is utterly
contradictory would be an understatement.
Two: Tarpley is constantly describing
Cliven Bundy's brave stance, and that of his supporters
against the Federal government's land grab on behalf of
wealthy, well connected, political elites as an example of
fascism. Again a nonsensical totally contradictory
point of view.
Yes, Bundy is a "millionaire". Yes, he owns, and his
related family have managed since the 1880s, a
160-acre farm southwest of Bunkerville, and he had
at last count 908 head of cattle scattered across roughly
1,200 square miles of remote mountains and desert managed
by the Bureau of Land Management. That's according
to the BLM itself.
Wow! -- Ohhhhh he's so rich! -- Waking up every day at
dawn and working yourself to the bone running cattle
across thousands of acres of desert and mountainous
terrain makes you "a millionaire" only because the Federal
Reserve has printed the dollar to extinction! In
fact this is such a "lucrative opportunity" that of the 26
ranches in Clark county, Clive Bundy's is the only one
left.
Again, as with Obama(no)care, this confrontation was
caused by highly connected corporate interests, in
this case involving fracking rights, a solar power deal,
and a land development deal. Along with the
corruption of various government officials and their
family members that would make the fictional story as
portrayed in the movie "China Town" pale by
comparison.
This again is the very definition of fascism. Of powerful
corporate / state interests merged together to oppress the
little guy, in this case, through the overwhelming,
thuggish, use of force including the use of paid
mercenaries.
It should also be noted that Clive Bundy's and his
supporters' brave stand against the reign of state terror
initiated by the parasites' arranged causus belli called
9/11, has so far been THE ONLY successful armed
stand against the Federal Government so far!! As
such it should be loudly commended and lauded, not
criticized.
Tarpley is seriously inconsistent in his treatment
of both these issues regarding his stated opposition to
fascism. One can only hope he reconsiders his
position.
Otherwise....one can only conclude, that his
statist leanings are so strong, they even override his
"stated" opposition to fascism, and that he would actually
be willing to support any action by the state, on
behalf of the tiny Bankster / Corporate parasitical class,
even if it was against the interests of the "people", even
if it severely harmed the "people" themselves, if the
"people's" opposition threatened in any way the control
exercised by the corporate/fascist state. - mpg
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