God of the Marketplace
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it
--Oscar Wilde
~Sacrificed on the Altar
of the God of the Marketplace~
rangeragainstwar©
posted by Lisa at 3:53 PM
Monday, October 08, 2007
~Sacrificed on the Altar
of the God of the Marketplace~
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It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but 3 million, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation upon earth. Shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to 70 million, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, it will never be the judgment of this people. Therefore, we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say bimetallism is good but we cannot have it till some nation helps us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, we shall restore bimetallism, and then let England have bimetallism because the United States have.
If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
william jennings bryan
full text and audio here
true then, true now.
MB,
Thank you for a very apt text to go along with our visual. Bryan's Cross of Gold speech is as valid today, only it's black gold, peddled by the most unctuous dickwads imaginable.
The only thing these "unctuous dickwads" understand is the profit margin. Dick Gregory once said, "if you want to stop the war in Viet Nam, boycot Christmas." I think if you want to stop the war in Iraq, boycot Exxon Mobile. We keep dealing with these war profiteers dispite the fact that they gouge us at the pumps and pay obscene bonus' to their CEO. We don't even think about their role in getting us into Iraq and how they are over there right now trying to get lucrative PSA agreements for the Iraqi oil.
Ah but that's just a pipe dream. You couldn't get Americans to effectively boycot anything. Maybe I should rephrase it as sanctions against Exxon Mobile!
Then there's Chevron's pipeline in Burma which supplies major funding for the Generals there. Ah yes, the evils of Capitalism!
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