Letters to the Editor
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The Scriptures of the Free Market Religion
Dear Mr. Leonard:
I do not understand why you are giving this fascist garbage any respect at all. This Robber Baron apologia must be slam-dunked at every turn and exposed for the morally-bankrupt and rampant criminality it serves to rationalize.
This is just a mean corollary of the radical Corporatist theology of the so-called "Chicago School" of FreeMarket religious orthodoxy. We must remember that when these "academics" and "scholars" - or King Dubya and The Shooter - use the word "Freedom" they do not mean the same thing the rest of us do, or what the "Founders" had in mind. What they mean is the freedom of Big Capital to do whatever it pleases, whenever it pleases, wherever it pleases, to whomever it pleases; a core foundational belief of today's so-called movement conservatives, neocons and Reflublicans. These fanatics could not care less about any notions of personal liberty or individual civil rights - quaint anachronisms to these thugs. These people worship only money and power; the only virtue they recognize is greed.
What could be more revealing than this sort of propaganda coming on the heels of the broad-based sub-prime lending scam. In the wake of the "Ray Gun Reolution" the US government has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate America; our elected officals have been transformed into errand boys for transnational capital. They have only contempt for government and the governed; they recognize no notion of sovereignty beyond their corporate boardroom. They have been at war with the American working- and middle-class for 25 years with the ultimate goal of defrauding all Americans of their assets, destroying their communities, their churches, their schools, and transforming all Americans (except the corporate elite) into illiterate and destitute wage-slaves shuttled about the landscape wherever they are needed in service of the god of greed.
Their goal, of course, is an America none of us would recognize; an America where everyone and everything is subserviant to the Corporatist religion. Bow down and worship the new monarchy - a return to the 13th century. That is our future; as long as writers from so-called progressive and liberal sources like Salon continue to permit these crooks to hide behind their phony baloney FreeMarket theology, cooked-up by bogus "think tanks", as if this bilge actually had an iota of intellectual validity or academic credibilty, then there is absolutely no hope for us to reverse the course we are on. You must stop pretending, Mr. Leonard, that these people have any intellectual honesty whatsoever.
Our character is our fate and our business, political and religious power elites have no character at all. I don't know if we can throw the bums out or not, but I will refuse to my last breath to lay down for these gangsters.