Honoring

Is it not about time

We find a way to

Start honoring people

Who are not celebrated

For killing other people

In the alleged name of freedom

Am quite sure the dead

Are no longer feeling free

But were in the close proximity

To resources in the vicinity*






Maybe if society honored teachers

Who teach to read, learn, and think

Were given special parking spaces

Brass statues of iconic wise masters

Month-long bogus shopping discounts

Library, school, and college dedications

Instead of highways, parks, and sports stadiums

A blanket blank check for all to cash

Even though some are not as effective as others

Made it fashionable to wear graduation caps

We might have more adults who are

More inclined to read, learn, and think

Than are prepared to shoot mame and kill




Plus it would be a self-fulfilling prophesy

To have more intelligent people teaching

More people to educate more and more people

Figuring clever ways for more affordable housing

Get more food to people who are hungering

Instead of more people killing more people




Or perhaps we could rename the day back to

Armistice day to honor the collective people

Who agreed that peace is more life-affirming

At least for a time, or maybe it was to pause so

All sides could restock and build worse weapons




“My solipsistic worldview

Does not allow me to see

What may be real reality.”

– Angelo Devlin



*
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.

I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American Sugar Interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.

Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

Smedley D. Butler, 

“War is a Racket”:

The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier



“Not too bright folks, not too… bright. But if you talk to one of them about this, if you isolate one of ’em, you sit them down rationally, and talk to them about the low IQs and the dumb behaviour and the bad decisions – right away they start talking about education.

That’s the big answer to everything. Education! They say,’We need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools. We need more testing for the kids!’ You say to ’em, ‘Well, you know, we’ve tried all of that, and the kids still can’t pass the tests!”, “Ah, don’t you worry about that, we’re gonna lower the passing grades!”

And that’s what they do in a lot of these schools now, they lower the passing grades so more kids can pass. More kids pass, the school looks good, everybody’s happy, the IQ of the country slips another two or three points, and pretty soon, all you’ll need to get into college is a… pencil! “Got a pencil? Get… in there, it’s physics!”

Then everyone wonders why 17 other countries graduate more scientists than we do.


“EDUCATION”. Politicians know that word – they USE it on you.

Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the flag, the Bible, and children!

‘No child left behind'”

No child left behind. “.. Oh really? Well, it wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start!

Head start… left behind?

Someone’s losing… ground here!”

– George Carlin


Maybe there would be more money for education if the primary purpose of everyone’s tax dollars did not feed the near Trillion dollar Military Industrial Complex budget. United States Education budget gets 1/10th that. Proving it is nine times more important to kill people than it is to educate them.



“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever,  EVER be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,  lobbying, to get what they want.  Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: 

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests.

Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!  You, and I, are not in the big club.

By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.

They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL.  And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.

It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

– George Carlin