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United States Senate Elect Committee for Ethics

 

Attn.: Chair Barbara Boxer

 

Mdm. Chair and To Whom It May Concern:

 

 

 

We hereby present a complaint against the unethical use of rhetoric, with false information that confuses the public mind and creates bias in favor of vested interests, at the expense of the public good. We will cite here just one example that is definitive of a pattern replicated repeatedly; it seems without any critical response. Here is a typical quotation:  "…Two of the Republican bills sent to the suspense file today (SB 1073 and SB 1074) authored by Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield), would provide incentives for businesses to create green jobs or expand the use of alternative energy in California and reduce the state's unprecedented levels of unemployment."

 

The first falsification and corruption of logic in this statement is the very idea that there can be 100% employment in a technological society. The second is that “green energy” will somehow solve the issues related to overpopulation, which are the root causes of our ecological problems. The third is an empty promise that the federal government, now on the verge of bankruptcy, will be able to finance these developments, based on what? This type of unethical repetitive chanting of rhetorical flourishes, with its hypnotic effect on a society of addicts living in the cosmetic realities created for them by the media monopolies, is perhaps suitable for theatrical pedagogy, but putting a spin on the central issues that affect the lives of the entire nation is completely unacceptable by any ethical measure.

 

We have here a pathological problem, this type of chronic spin craft and not enough accurate appraisals of the vital concerns.

 

The point is 100% employment, in a technological society, is an oxymoron, overpopulation makes it even less likely and the bottom line is that all of the Kyoto Accords and green energy solutions will not alleviate the ecological Armageddon that overpopulation is causing. We have previously submitted to the Obama administration, the proposed restoration of the solution that has been provided to us by nature, that of the universal distribution of information about the ancestral use of herbal birth control, like emmenagogues, especially to the poorest citizens. This however is not the primary focus of this particular critique, in terms of ethics, it is simply a suggestion that there be more radical “out-of-the-box” thinking, rather than the persistent chanting of these empty rhetorical versions.

 

The primary unethical practice we are addressing here is the continual propagation, of the utopian  mythic kitsch concept, that somehow an omnipotent Uncle Sam will “provide jobs” and solutions from thin air and without actually changing any of the existing realities, that are at the root of the problems, is undeniably unacceptable and basically dishonest.

 

We are living in an addictive society, addictions, like the addiction to power, or compulsive spending and debting, that are manufactured by media monopolies, controlled by disease establishment interests and the result of which, is that the nation is now on the verge of bankruptcy.

 

We would argue that it would be more appropriate to debate the possibilities to dismantle this plutocracy by the simple taxation of the technology; the elitist “vampire culture” has been using to extract the life essence and vital resources of its host, the nation, for its own cannibalistic self aggrandizement. That the money forthcoming from this type of taxation of the machines of exploitation, such as the “one armed bandits” in Las Vegas, could then be used to compensate those who have been displaced by this technology, that should instead be “labor saving “ with a Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI) and that this circulation alone would reenergize the economy.

 

Furthermore when a society of addicts is in debt, as a direct result of propaganda by the debtors, that it is arguably ethical to demand a moratorium on such debt as opposed to fabricating myths about how "business will create jobs" with capital that now only exists in the hands of the plutocracy. It is questionable and interesting to see  how capital, from this very same plutocracy, the sole source now, will be ethically used for the development of “green energy” if it is basically derived in large part from petrochemical gains by corporations in spite of being found guilty of flagrant violation of anti trust laws, now a century old.  This petrochemical technology is only one of many that has been persistently in violation and protected by continued “double talk” pedagogy. The Media Monopoly has apparently never been found guilty of these violations.

 

 The technology needs to be governed by the people for the people. It has been argued that to qualify as anti trust violation the activity has “…To be harmful, a trust had to somehow damage the economic environment of its competitors.” We would argue that the wholesale destruction of a nation’s economy and its environmental resources would “…somehow damage the economic environment of its competitors.”

 

It is the responsibility of the government to protect the people that it serves and of the senate to prompt the government to do so when it fails to do so.  Rhetorical mumbojumboisms are unethical in this respect. In light of the current pending bankruptcy of the U.S. it should be suggested that the presidency must immediately invoke, not another “war measures act”, but a total ban against plutocracy, by direct taxation of the technologies used for exploitation. i.e.: The public must have “free public access to public media” in order for there to be democratic dialogue. Monies that have been rifled from the public by media monopolies for internet access need to be returned in the form of  GLI will restore public spending and create jobs in self actualized fields  such as culture workers disseminating info about herbal birth control, do it yourself energy farming co-ops and so on. 

 

The first step in recovery from addiction is rigorous honesty.

 

 

g~k~/ George Kasey founder and president

The Virtual Free University / ThinkTank

 

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