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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News June 18, 2008
Bible jocks are familiar with the bible quote, "No servant can serve
two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or
else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon." (Luke 16:13)
Nothing could be more pertinent to our problems in this country
today. Webster defines 'mammon' as: 1) the false god of riches and
avarice. 2) riches regarded as an object of worship and greedy
pursuit; wealth as an evil, more or less personified. Doesn't that
just about sum up our predicament?
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Don't let the complex explanations and rationalizations confuse us.
No, the touted "inescapable laws of the market" did not force our
leaders to betray the country. The worship of money did that.
And
while we are at it, let's dispose of the idea that "it's the economy,
stupid." Those of us who chose to vote our consciences are not
stupid. The people who choose to let themselves be ruled
by pocketbook issues ARE being clearly stupid. They have brought ruin on
them-
selves and now cry like babies because the easy money that the
politicians promised them, the overvalued real estate they bought, the jobs they allowed to be shipped off shore in hopes of greater
prosperity, the value of the securities that they coveted as
retirement savings, the whole fantasy world of something for nothing,
has evaporated like smoke.
Yet these same people, besotted with the
love of money, are the same folks who now support invading other
countries and massacring their inhabitants in pursuit of "maintaining
the American lifestyle," as if the American lifestyle that we were
sold by the minions of mammon was not the root of our problem to
start with.
And this has been going on nearly since the founding of the nation.
Kill the Indians. Take their land. Enslave the blacks and the
poor. Take their dignity and their lives. Kill the Mexicans. Take
their land. The litany is endless for those familiar with US history.
As we rise in great dudgeon against the outrages of the mortgage
market, the villainy of, the rapacious, murderous greed of the oil
and pharmaceutical companies, the depraved indifference of a
Halliburton that robs the country blind while children go hungry and
veterans go unaided, it might be good to look back at where it all
started. My vote for the kick off of this process of de-
struction of
our liberty is Shay's Rebellion.
This is where the dreams of liberty first encountered the hard fact
of plutocracy. Many people had patriotically accepted revolutionary
currency and can't have been surprised that after the war it retained
very little value. Consequently, ordinary folks sold the currency to
speculators at pennies to the dollar, only to see these speculators
use legislative influence to go on to be able to sell this worthless
paper to the US govern-
ment at face value. The government, con-
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Cynics will say that self-interest will provide the handle to keep us enslaved.
I think the cynics are wrong, especially the ones in the pay of the plutocrats to spread defeatism and resignation amongst the people.
People CAN wake up from the self-
destructive trance that has been induced by the mass media and lying politicians.
When we do wake we are an irresistible force.
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trolled
by wealthy landowners and businessmen, then instituted a tax on every
person payable only in specie (gold and silver), causing widespread
poverty, land takeovers, and desperation. Those who rebelled against this were
suppressed by the Massachusetts government with force of arms.
Widespread outrage subsequently led to the convening of the
Constitutional Convention, which worked for a while to produce some
justice, until, once again, the money interests would betray
Revolution and again take control of the country.
Sound familiar? The criminals on Wall Street pull off a gigantic scam
in worthless bundled securities that they knew were not worth the
price, and when they get stuck holding some of this trash, the
Federal Reserve, WITH OUR MONEY, buys it to "avoid financial
meltdown." The only financial meltdown avoided was that of the
plutocrats. The rest of us are left to melt away like butter on a
hot sidewalk.
These arch criminals know what god they serve. It is mammon. They
spout pious phrases and prepare for a citizen revolt by building
concentration camps and hiring mercenaries. They facilitate and
stage terrorist events to justify, USING OUR MONEY, to prepare for
the day when the common people wake up to the fact that the country
has been stolen, the treasury robbed, our future cancelled.
They may
have prepared well for armed revolt of the populace, but they have
not reckoned with the power of righteous indignation and the
compelling taste of revenge. When the people have had enough the
remedy is the general strike. When the slaves refuse to work the
castles of the plutocrats will do them little good. We will surround
them in their guarded mansions and starve them out if we can, but
revenge will be ours by whatever means present themselves, because WE
WILL NO LONGER COOPERATE WITH THEIR PLANS FOR US.
Cynics will say that self-interest will provide the handle to keep us
enslaved. I think the cynics are wrong, especially the ones in the
pay of the plutocrats to spread defeatism and resignation amongst the
people. People CAN wake up from the self-destructive trance that has
been induced by the mass media and lying politicians. When we do
wake we are an irresistible force. Let's hope that, upon waking, the
people have the sense to never again be lulled by the false tales of
the worshipers of mammon and resolve to put the rule of greed behind
us forever.
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