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Symptoms of the Occupation
Any voice that rises up to expose the occupation of our government needs to be applauded and encouraged. The discussion however is not Republican or Democrat – the discussion is: Who is supporting the occupation of the United States government – who regulates and inspects – who legislates – who guides the flow of the US treasury? Who and what are these occupiers loyal to? The occupation is the core issue – everything emanates from that. It is beyond a house divided against itself – it's a house unified against itself representing a people who are urged to react emotionally and negatively against any truth spoken.
Congressman Grayson called it what it is. He enunciated the sub text of inaction. Inaction is action when lives are on the line. What is telling about this moment is that someone spoke the truth that is heaving beneath the numbing rhetoric that assaults us daily. If you don't have health insurance you will die faster and your quick death is desired. Grayson called it an organized reality. This is what caused the uproar and indignation.
I've heard objections to his use of the word holocaust in his second speech but he must not back down even from that. Holocaust means destruction or loss of life on a massive scale. The word is charged. It was used accurately. As well as the horrific genocide of the European Jews it has been used to describe the results of a nuclear war as in a "nuclear holocaust." The cold blooded bureaucratic assault on the uninsured has what has to be deemed an intended consequence. One has to say that it can be nothing but intended. It can't be ignorant neglect. It's not your gene pool that is the "crime" – it is your economic status.
"Never Again" must apply to any group of people targeted for death by a power structure. Admittedly, the action is more subtle, the barbed wire invisible but the agenda exists. There is a group of people that have been evaluated and vetted to have no place in this society and the powers that be are saying in clear legislation and with permission to the marketplace, they must be systematically eliminated. They are evaluated as useless, non contributing, burdensome and parasites. Grayson said it. Everyone knows it's true, particularly the ones who are most indignant.
The reps that shrug and smile heroically claiming "we try and we'll keep trying – they just won't let us." are as culpable as the ones they bemoan. "My good friend on the other side of the aisle" is a loaded appellation. There is a camaraderie in the different fronts of the occupation. Opposition, argument, and provocation seem calculated and the net effect is distraction and inaction – and non-representation.
The Occupation needs civility and rapid response to disquieting truth. The junior congressman came close to calling the lack of health care a kind of genocide. Will he get away with it? He says now, it was tongue in cheek – the word holocaust may not be the right word. So one eruption of truth will now get watered down and the Occupation will resume – and the symptoms will continue and our reputed reps are unable to address the underlying condition that causes the symptoms because they are the underlying condition – and until that is exposed and remedied the symptoms will persist.
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9 Comments so far
Show AllAnyone who used the word "Holocaust" in any other context except to refer to the Nazi killing of Jews is an anti-semite. By the way, the word is always capitalized - like "God" or "Israel" is. "Genocide" must always be used similarly or you are anti semitic.
pjd412 - spare me.
Gee, PJ, when'd the law get passed and who do you reckon will police it?
If killing Jewish people seems inherently different to you than killing other people, what does that make you?
"our reputed reps are unable to address the underlying condition that causes the symptoms because they are the underlying condition – and until that is exposed and remedied the symptoms will persist."
EXCELLENT! Well said.
I am an anti-semite and I vote.
Wait! What am I saying? I don't vote.
After reading this I can see why he is a playwright. What hogwash. This is akin to saying if you oppose Obama's health care plans you are a racist.
This type of farcial reasoning plays right into the hands of the Republicans.
I am beginning to wonder if a lot of folks know the difference between being in charge and being in opposition. That when you are in charge, what you say is viewed differently.
The logic seems pretty clear to me Henry. If you have a sytem that excludes a certain group (people who cannot afford health care) - and the consequence of being excluded - is that you die in dispraportionate numbers - then the people who are in charge of that system (our politicians) should be called out for their 'occupation' of this system. It does not seem to me the same as saying anyone who opposes Obama is a racist - two very different arguments to me...
David.
It's about time we saw a Democrat with some balls. And Grayson's got some big ass balls. My favorite part was when he was told to apologize for saying that the Republican health care plan is "Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly."
His response? "I APOLOGIZE TO THE DEAD and their families that we haven't acted sooner to end this holocaust in America." It was a beautiful thing to behold.
Oh my God. Yes Bill Davis is a playwright and you can tell by how well he articulates his thoughts. I would have said that Grayson went over the line too, but after listening to a friend (a conservative, I'm not) speak his views such as, "the suffering is a result of Darwinism (essentially those who struggle get what they deserve)" "Nature does not repair, it replaces"
I worked with the Tennessee Healthcare Campaign and routinely met people with very serious disorders that WERE dying because of lack of coverage and care.
My father's family are Russian Jews who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s and saying that any group has the market cornered on a word such as "Holocaust" is ridiculous. The word "genocide", supposedly owned by this community is even more ridiculous. Does the Jewish community have a copywrite on the words? I doubt it. People of other countries have suffered "genocide" for ages. Just read "Left To Tell" if you want to hear one woman's story of how she survived the Rwandan genocide and watched as her Hutu neighbors slaughtered her family and many others. Essentially, my friend believes that those who suffer and struggle to make it should be taken out of the gene pool. He believes that communities, not the Federal govt., should be responsible for their poor, but history has proven that left up to states or individual communities, most will not rise to support its population in need. Some do, but many do not.