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some day--maybe not too far in the future--the kinds of refugees we see in the western hemisphere is going to change character, and the economic refugees from U.S.-blasted Latin American economies is going to cease, and the political refugees from a torturing, slaughtering, detention-without-charge U.S. is going to soar. And the irony is that this particular political diaspora will not be moving north, where the Canadian people (despite having transparent vote counting) seem to have as little control of their government as the people of the UK, but instead will be moving south, where awesomely courageous, poor, brown populations have managed to create real democracies, where the governments are accountable to the people, and where the values that we share, of social justice, peacefulness and creative, life-enhancing enterprise are being realized.
We will be fleeing to Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, and possibly also to Brazil, Nicaragua, Uruguay and Chile--and, if the democracy revolution in South America spreads to Central America, we will be seeking refuge in what are currently the most U.S.-devastated countries on earth (aside from Iraq and Afghanistan)--Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, right over the border. For now, the U.S. fascists have created a buffer zone between us and the Bolivarian Revolution, through the blunt instruments of "free trade" (global corporate predation), the phony and never-ending "war on drugs" (billions of our tax dollars into the "weapons of mass repression"), and stolen elections (i.e., Mexico). But this will likely change, as the huge economic and political advantages of the Bolivarian Revolution become so obvious that the populations of these countries will demand their benefits: control of a country's resources by the people who live there, free health care, free education through university, grants, loans and preference to small businesses and worker coops, fair taxation, profits and resources for infrastructure development (rather than ripoffs by the rich), land reform (and consequent local organic food production), strong labor protections, widespread citizen participation in politics and government, and the adoption of the indigenous attitude toward the earth--that it is sacred--in all government policy.
Mexico almost went Bolivarian in the last election, with a real leftist coming within a hairbreadth--0.05%--of winning the presidency, and that revolution is still boiling beneath the surface. Extraordinary measures had to be taken to bribe the Mexican upper classes and to 'disappear' the votes of the lower classes, to keep Mexico in line, and to prevent a Bolivarian revolution right on our border. And even more devastated Guatemala--still recovering from the slaughter of 200,000 Mayan villagers under Reagan, and torn by "war on drugs" weapons and drug trafficking--last week rejected the militaristic solution (pushed by the Bushites) of a fascist "crackdown" on violence--violence that would not be occurring but FOR the "war on drugs"--and elected the first progressive government in its history. Don't know if President-elect Colom is a Bolivarian--if he is, he's had to keep it under wraps--but the trend is clear. The solution for a country like Guatemala is to get rid of "free trade," the "war on drugs" and U.S. domination, declare independence, and join the other leftist (majorityist) countries of Latin America in creating an alternative--an economy of social justice and FAIR trade, and a democracy-based Latin American "Common Market."
My heart goes out to Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, and their young families, and their supporters, on this terrible day, of Canada's toadyism to the Bush Junta. I hope there are plans to hide them from the bloody talons of the Bush vultures, if that's what they want. I'm sure the vast majority of Canadians don't agree with this decision, and hate the Canadian government's collusion in this corporate resource war. Whatever Jeremy and Brandon and their families decide to do, they are American heroes, and they are the vanguard of the revolution that must take place HERE. Just say "NO!" to the Bush Cartel. Just say "NO!" to Exxon-Mobile. Just say "NO!" to the global corporate predators who have seized our government. Just say "NO!" to the collusive "Blue Dog" Democratic traitors who are funding this war in the teeth of 70% opposition of the American people. Just say "NO!" to slaughtering a million people to get their oil. Just say "NO!" to torturing prisoners. Just say "NO!" to war profiteers. Just say "NO!" to mercenaries. Just say "NO!" to the hijacking of the U.S. military for corporate resource wars. Just say "NO!" to the use of our young people as cannon fodder. Just say "NO!" to the shredding of our Constitution and the end of our democracy.
And just remember this. If we ever re-gain control over our election results, we have the sovereign power, under the Constitution, to elect anyone we want to Congress, and any native-born American we want as President of the United States, even someone wrongfully convicted of desertion or other trumped up "crimes" and living a military jail cell. That's a fact. And wouldn't it just frost the asses of these corrupt SOBs in Washington DC to have Lt. Ehren Watada elected president from the brig, and Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey elected to Congress. One of the lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution--in addition to transparent vote counting, and grass roots organization--is: Think big!
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