Occupation

Everybody’s talking about the occupation.  It’s no secret, you know – the corporations have been screwing us for years.  Everyone knows who is really in charge of America…and the world.  I’m pleased to see that the fire of revolution still lives on – mostly because I think that I’m one of the few people who actually give a shit about what’s going down in this circus we call life.

The thing is – anyone who has done ANY kind of examination of this country’s history knows that our founding fathers set it up this way!  Sorry to burst your bubbles, hard core patriots – while you were busy singing the refrains of god bless America and home of the free – the agenda was right there, for your reading pleasure.

So here’s your Kathryn Albert history lesson for the day – I’m not claiming that everything that I say here is the way it really is – this is just my interpretation of how it is (which, naturally, is CORRECT, because I thought of it).

Once upon a time, these guys (and I do mean guys, because they didn’t invite any women, which is obvious, because the whole thing eventually turns out a mess at the end) got together, and decided that something had to be done about all of this rebellion popping up everywhere.  See, they’d come to this country to escape oppression, and when they got here, they were ALL about personal freedom.

But, as we know, people start to get big ideas when they get word that they’re free.  Back to the rebellion thing.  These “founding fathers” pretty much just had a pipe dream when they got here, and it was HIGH time (i’m abandoning this pun before it gets outta hand) that they make some damn rules.  So they decided to write what we now know as the Constitution.

So they get together, throw a big man party, and write their rules.  And, in typical (sorry guys, but you know it’s true) man fashion, they then have to write a bunch of other crap to justify why these rules make sense (and provide compelling arguments as to how to interpret all of their feather fluffing in the future).  So…they write the federalist papers, a series of 85 essays that promote the ratification of the Constitution.

They really had a bigger idea in mind, though – and this is where you and I come in.  Alexander Hamilton (who was at the time the “secret author”) puts out his opinion “that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force”.  Translation: I’m introducing the idea that men are really not capable of governing themselves from a place of common sense and reason.  Duh.

Let me tell you something about Alexander Hamilton, as an aside – the guy taxed whiskey, thought the country should have one giant bank, cheated on his wife (which ultimately hurt his politics), and LOST a duel to the death when he pissed off the wrong dude.  He was a self-professed admirer of British political systems (yeah, that’s exactly what we needed, since we just got the Hell away from those people).  He also was not opposed to screwing over America’s service men of the time for his own political gain (advancing his agenda of a strong central government at all costs).

This idiot also thought that there should be a president for life.  GOOD IDEA – that sounds kind of like a king…like the one in BRITAIN.  He also thought that Senators should serve for life, unless they were corrupt or ill-behaved (senators?  HA!).  He took all of these ideas with him to the table when he cozied up at the Constitutional Convention.

Despite his objections to the final draft of the Constitution, mostly because he’s sore that his president for life thing is NOT a hit with his homies, he signs it anyway, and then…he starts writing…he writes 51 out of 85 arguments in support of the Constitution.

Then, he becomes secretary of the TREASURY…and goes about setting up what this country will ultimately REALLY be about – MONEY.  And he decides that he’s gonna tax whiskey – and when the cottage producers object, he sends in an ASS LOAD of soldiers to intimidate them – and they decide to pay the stupid taxes.  Because that’s better than dying.

Setting a precedent.  And we fast forward to today.

We’re the whiskey makers.  And if what just happened in New Y ork is any indication – they’re trying to scare us.  I’ve given a brief overview of Hamilton – but check out Madison – another author of the federalist papers.  It’s like he has a crystal ball – he foresees the concentration of wealth, the power it will grant, and the oppression of the people.  He warns that corporate interests will ruin us, rob us of our freedom, and ultimately, totally FUCK the whole new world experiment.

Here we are.  Occupying…protesting…bitching about the way things are, mad that we’re getting screwed.  My daughter is not doing well in history, because she cannot understand why it is so important to study it.  Perhaps because, when we do, we see that what’s going on now is not only obvious – it was PLANNED.    We were duped.

Somewhere, in this argument about whether men can govern themselves…there is a greater fear: If they know how MANY THEY are, and how FEW WE are…we’re screwed.  So we’ll use our money to make us look big, unapproachable, and infallible – and we’ll pray to GOD they don’t get the memo.

A government for the people and by the people would not oppress us and call it our “best interests”.  They would not concentrate all the wealth in the pockets of a very FEW, powerful men.

And they would have invited some damn women to their party.  Never trust anything that’s not at least partly organized by a woman.

That’s all I’ve got for you.  By the way – the revolution WILL be televised.  Stay tuned.