Honor Be Damned?

[HARDCORE]

Truth, Honor, Integrity and The Golden Rule seem to have become victims of the times!

OK, so there is nothing new about some ?Corporate Illegality!? The Enrons and the Peregrines of the world, as was the old Teapot Dome Scandal, are not really as rare as some want to believe. And all too many preach that ?All Is Fair In Love, War, Business and Politics? - BUT IS IT REALLY?!

Let?s face a fact - it is nearly the same mind set in some business dealings that, on a bigger and more violent scale, leads to wars! Greed, lust, avarice, hate and insanity, can be found in most of mankind?s worldly enterprises, can it not?! Hell, it was recently disclosed on the news that even tourism is getting in on the act! CNN just reported that some of the scenery (especially the beaches) used in a Bermuda (Isle of) Travel Promotion, were not Bermuda at all? Some of the scenes used, were actually of Hawaii!?

As such, I invite you to look at a map of the world to see exactly where these two places rest - ?One is out in the Atlantic, far east of North Carolina, and the other, away out there in the Pacific Ocean, thousands upon thousands miles apart!" And when questioned about this obvious deception, Bermuda Tourism responded (in effect): ?So what, everybody does it!? (DO THEY INDEED?)

Speaking about lack of honor, many of those responsible for the rash of terrorist atrocities in the last few years have been constantly on the lamb! They perform and then brag of their deeds that murder thousands of innocent civilians, and then slip away into hiding until they feel that it is safe to butcher again! ?And when caught, these people are afforded the same justice and rights as the common man, probably more so in fact!??

One such terrorist mastermind was just trapped in Pakistan. Shaikh Kalid Mohammed, reportedly a chief player in 9/11 and the previous bombing of the WTC, was just nabbed! The facts presented point out that this #3 man in al-Qaeda had also been involve in numerous other atrocities, and was planning many more, including aircraft bombings! And yes, like many more of his ilk, this guy too, was U.S. Educated (North Carolina A & T to be exact)! In other words - ?Some of these terrorists seek to attack and destroy their own benefactors!?

But hell, all of the attacks against our homeland are not perpetrated by foreigners alone, or out of hatred for our way of life! Many of our sacred documents are under attack daily! ?The Constitution and even the Pledge of Allegiance being two prime examples!? And if it is not our prime mandates that are being screwed around with, it is often our very way of life. ?Energy users themselves (and that is all of us), have become bonified targets!?

Back during the last energy crisis, when fuels were genuinely at a premium, prices shot up dramatically! Well, not being stupid (greedy yes, stupid no), many ?Energy Producers and/or Importers? right here in the United States, learned that merely the threat of shortages was enough to rape the people of our nation, and in my opinion, ? Financial Rape It Is!? And until we begin (in ernest) to exert pressure of our own (politically and economically), these bums will continue to screw us over! They care not if you lose your jobs, can not get your kids to the hospital when ill, or to school for an education! They don?t care if your aged parents and grandparents freeze to death in some unheated ?Cold Water Flat!? Nor do some of them care if you and yours even survive! ?To them, it is the
bottom line, and that line centers upon greed!!?

If you doubt this analogy, then apparently you have not been following the news of late. There has been as much chatter in the media about ?Stock Market Profits? as a result of War, as there has about the pending wars with Iraq, Korea, or who ever! Don?t some of these people realize that the profits that they are raking-in may be tied directly to American deaths?

Granted, that ?Bastard Hussein? and a few other international terrorists must be stopped, but a small army of ?Daddy Warbucks? doesn?t have to be so damned happy about it, as all the money in the world can not, and will not, bring back one dead (young) American Soldier! So if war is inevitable, it should be (genuinely) fought to fight terrorism and the other enemies of mankind, and not just to afford the opportunity for additional wealth and power for the vested few, no matter where in the world they opt to build their mansions and palaces!

Let me say this again - ?If you doubt this analogy, then I invite you to look at what is happening to gas and heating fuel prices, and this particular war in the Middle East has not yet even swung into gear, nor is there the magnitude of fuel shortages that are now being reported or financially anticipated (opinion)! And if, by some miracle, this war is diverted (and I doubt it), will fuel costs and the mounting deficit automatically fall back to sane limits! ?That?s pipe dreams and pure bull-shit, and you know it!!?

Again, Hussein and his clones (present and future) must be stopped, but (and this is not an accusation), those who gleefully capitalize or help to create any catastrophe as a smoke screen to mask other problems, or to exchange blood for cash, ?MUST? be made to (legally) answer for their cold and callous dealings!

The President and members of both political parties have taken the first critical steps in identifying and indicting the corporate garbage that preys upon their fellow Americans, and in this, they must be supported and applauded!

?No man, not even a financial or political giant, should be above the laws that govern our very existence as a free and independent nation!?

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