"How do you get dynasties to talk about other dynasties? I think
it's a real difficulty." Kevin Phillips
"Don't let the bastards grind you under" Margaret
Atwood
I have been writing some poignant and short write-ups in this
journal. And all of these write-ups have had a common denominator:
justice and the hypocrisy of our plutocracy. I sound very monotonous
and biased towards valuing life more than money; and in fact, in the
past I have casually come across other writers of Ensign who have
been expressing strongly opinionated opinions as they may have
referred to my writing. But luckily enough I have some defenders,
and as my monotony is concerned I want to quote ecologist Dana
Meadows when in her famous column System Dynamics Meets the Press
she reminded all of us that
"challenging a paradigm is not
part-time work. It is not sufficient to make your point once and
then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested
interest in not getting it; the point has to be made patiently
and repeatedly, day after day after day."
In Saskatchewan, this patient and repetitive work has been
carried on, day after day after day, by a number of outstanding
citizens; and in this regard I must mention Lorie Terry,
spokesperson of The Coalition of No Fault Insurance, and Sheila
Steele, publisher of injusticebusters.com.
The common denominator of Lorie's and Sheila's work has been the
pursuing of social justice. After so many years and after so much
pain and suffering, Lorie, with the instrumental assistance of CBC
Canada, was able to publicize across Canada the potential criminal
faults of No Fault insurance in Saskatchewan.
No less significant has been the exhausting work of Sheila who,
again with the instrumental assistance of CBC Canada, was able to
bring to light the disgusting ordeal borne by the Klassen's family
in their sexual Scandal of the Century where Saskatchewan Justice
'criminally' prosecuted many members of this family.
It was only few days ago that I reported 'suspected' criminals
Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and head of the U.S.
independent commission to investigate the 9-11 attacks, and Silvio
Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy and the richest personal asset
of Italy. I discussed these people and people like them, because,
along with their friends and the friends of their friends, they are
the fundamental cause of today's violence and division in the world.
Kevin Phillips has described these people to compose the new
oligarchy of the Bush's (The First) New World Order: our corrupt
Plutocracy. So, I will continue to write about our corrupt
Plutocracy for my own benefit and for the benefit of us all.
Yesterday, I e-mailed the article Madison Ave. Plays Growing Role
in Drug Research to Lorie. This article shows the collusion between
the pompous assets of advertising corporations and their corporative
drug researchers, and Lorie commented "I am seeing more and more
articles like these and it makes my blood run cold." Some months
ago I received an e-mail from Sheila and she wrote: "In The
Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood has the main character come across
a secret message left by one of the now dead handmaids and it is
written in Latin... she gets help to translate it and it says,
'Don't let the bastards grind you under'"
There is no doubt that our predicament of violence and division
is concocted by our plutocracy: THE BASTARDS.
References
NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript: Kevin Phillips, 5.17.02 http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_phillips.html
Byrne, Paul, Teaching notes prepared for VATE members -Victorian
Association for the teaching of English, Atwood, Margaret, The
Handmaidd's Tale http://www.netspace.net.au/~vate/pub/atwood.htm
Meadows, Donella H., System Dynamics Meets The Press. A few good
concepts can make a big difference, http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC23/Meadows.htm
Steele,Sheila, injustice busters, is the publisher of http://injusticebusters.com/
Privacy and SGI... CBC Television's Geoff Leo investigates
allegations that Saskatchewan's insurance provider violated the
privacy of its clients by giving data to researchers http://www.sask.cbc.ca/archives/privacy/index.html
The Scandal of the Century, http://injusticebusters.com/index.htm/injusticebusters.htm
ETERSEN, MELODY P. Madison Ave. Plays Growing Role in Drug
Research, The three largest advertising companies -- Omnicom,
Interpublic and WPP -- have spent tens of millions of dollars to buy
or invest in companies like Scirex that perform clinical trials of
experimental drugs. One advertising executive calls it "getting
closer to the test tube." November 22, 2002 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/business/22DRUG.html |