Terrorism Decimates Distracted Nation While Terrorists Write the Laws

[Peter Lemkin]

Neoliberal Terrorism Decimates Distracted Nation While the Terrorists Write the Laws

Posted on May 25, 2013 by willyloman
by Scott Creighton
While we are distracted by little pressure-cooker bombs, shaking in our boots over internet radicalized extremists, the real terrorists are skimming off the entire wealth of the nation into their pockets, one city at a time. And while we worry about cointelpro ops breathlessly hypothesizing about "weather weapons" making tornadoes, the financial oligarchs are writing more legislation in order to enable them to do commit even more terrorism against us and our future generations.
It's reality of the absurd and there's just no other way of looking at it.
In Chicago, Barack Obama's personal friend and former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has pushed through the largest wave of public school closings in history in his effort to Race for the Bottom. The closings will adversely effect countless students in immeasurable ways and cause immense hardships to the communities they served. Teachers, administrators, workers will all be out of jobs as well as the numbers of small businesses who served the schools in one form or another.

"The board, appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), opted to close 49 elementary schools and one high school after the current school year ends. It decided to keep open four additional schools that had been recommended for closure by Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
The decision came amid vocal protests from the Chicago Teachers Union, parents and some Chicago aldermen, who said they were concerned that the closings will tear apart neighborhood fabric, disrupt families and force children to cross gang turfs to attend other schools." Washington Post

This draconian attack on public education is done in the wake of the derivatives bombs unleashed by big finance years ago. That terrorist act, a real conspiracy between government, lenders, rating agencies and Wall Street, decimated the public structures of America in order to allow them to remake them in their neoliberal privatized model.
The schools in Chicago have been axed in order to allocate the funds for the for-profit public/private school system Rahm and his cronies are working diligently to support. That model is openly supported by the likes of Oprah and Bill Gates to name just a few. The collateral damage of these children's lives are meaningless to our new oligarchs. Like Clinton's Secretary of State once said regarding the deaths of half a million kids in Iraq due to our sanctions, "We think it's worth it"
In Detroit they aren't done squeezing the very last nickel of public wealth from that devastated town either. Now they are after the people's art.
The banksters and financial terrorists who destroyed our economy and are currently destroying our republic are still looking to get paid for the worthless derivatives they manufactured, sold us and then bet against. The people have to pay and pay and pay and when you look at a city like Detroit, it's industry gone in the first wave of neoliberal outsourced globalization, you might think they have paid enough.
"No so" says the vile maxim of the masters of the universe. "Nothing for you. All for us"

"Officials say the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection could be sold to help satisfy creditors if the financially troubled city of Detroit seeks bankruptcy protection.
Bill Nowling, a spokesman for state-appointed emergency manager says Kevyn Orr, says Orr is considering whether the collection should be considered city assets that could be sold to cover Detroit's long-term debt. The debt is estimated at more than $14 billion." Fox Detroit

Detroit's appointed emergency neoliberal mergers and acquisitions Gordon Gekko says nothing is "off the table". They can put up the art collection, owned by the people of Detroit, at rock-bottom prices for a select handful of their oligarch friends to add to their multimillion dollar collections hidden away in their opulent mansions far out of reach of the pitiful hordes of humanity who paid for them.
This is the "vile maxim" in it's purist sense. It's what we did to the historic art collections of Iraq and Libya and everywhere else our oligarchs choose to take us in the name of democracy and humanitarian interventions. They take trophies like hunters take heads and they are proud of them showing them off to select groups of insiders like themselves. Buying things to people like this holds no real satisfaction. At this point, with so much wealth looted from the people, buying things is a petty show of power. The real thrill is looting things, historic things, things that a community would not part with unless absolutely forced to. It is the ultimate triumph of Shock and Awe neoliberalism.
While all of this is going on and so much more, a little story in the New York Times is garnering the expected yawns from the public.
The banksters and the financial oligarchs are writing legislation dealing with the new regulations which will supposedly keep the banksters and the oligarchs from doing this terrorism to us again.
To put it in perspective: bin Laden is leading an al Qaeda team to head up the official 9/11 Commission Report.
Yes, it's that ridiculous and it's happening right now.

"Bank lobbyists are not leaving it to lawmakers to draft legislation that softens financial regulations. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write it themselves.
One bill that sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month over the objections of the Treasury Department was essentially Citigroup's, according to e-mails reviewed by The New York Times. The bill would exempt broad swathes of trades from new regulation.
In a sign of Wall Street's resurgent influence in Washington, Citigroup's recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee's 85-line bill. Two crucial paragraphs, prepared by Citigroup in conjunction with other Wall Street banks, were copied nearly word for word. (Lawmakers changed two words to make them plural.)" New York Times

The myth here is that this is a resurgence. Wall Street never left D.C.
They were given everything they wanted in the bailouts which continue to this day to the tune of 80 billion a month. Every bill in some way or another benefits the stock market or big business. Tax loopholes haven't been shut down, they've been expanded. The Fed was supposed to be audited but has anyone heard a word about that anymore? Obamacare is nothing more than a bailout for the insurance monsters who have literally destroyed our healthcare system for their own profits and now we have a supreme court ruling saying the unconstitutional mandate is constitutional.
Even when forced in a pathetic settlement to right a few of the wrongs they did to homeowners, they simply ignored those mandates and actually continued right along breaking the same laws and hurting even more people. They never stopped being terrorists because it made them so much money and there was no incentive mandated by the legal system to make them stop. So of course, they just didn't. And they are getting away with it.
Wall Street and the big financial houses own both parties in D.C. They ran the artifice some called an "election" and are at the very heart of our entire foreign policy.
They never left. There is no need for a resurgence of their influence. Rather, they WON and their influence is like that of the Coalition Provisional Authority that we installed in Iraq just after bombing the country back into the stone ages.
There is no difference. We are being assimilated by the terrorist neoliberals at an astounding pace.
This is terrorism folks. They are doing it because they hate the system that was in place, a system designed to protect people like us from people like them. They are doing it in order to change our social and economic structure. It's the definition of terrorism and it is horrific in it's scope.
Jobs, careers lost, endless streams of wealth stolen from our retirement accounts and pension funds, children who will never realize their dreams, lost parents taking their own lives… and throughout it all a police state being established, whistle-blowers being punished, false flag attacks to divide and conquer the people pitting us one against the other.
This is terrorism folks. And it's right there for us all to see.

[Dawn Meredith]

We are watching the universe unravel. Helplessly.

Has this country ever seen a more perilous time?

Excellent analysis. Bloodsucking bastards.

This piece made my blood boil.

Dawn