Dear Amerikkka,
You Made This Bed, Now Lie Down in It
If anyone
would like to know why I am actually in favor of so called "illegal immigration" (or "undocumented" worker migration), it’s
because I can’t stand the people who are against it. Yes, you read that correctly. The
enemy of my enemy is my friend. I have very simple life philosophies, such as
pacifism, symbiosis, existentialism, etc. However, simple does not mean weak or
dumb, it just means not complex in any way. It has lead me to knowledge of self
and the opening of my spiritual eyes to divine human existence. It allows
me to find amusement in veiled racism and bigotry such as that exemplified by the legislation being
proposed (and passed) by elitist, anti-immigrant, closeted Klan members.
“Ah, gee
whiz", you say, "they are taking jobs from Americans”. That’s funny; I don’t know anyone
who would do the type of work an immigrant can get. “well...they are driving up the
cost of healthcare.” Oh Really? Then why are pharmaceutical companies thriving
in the midst of recession? Their presence makes an even stronger argument for Universal
Healthcare. These people are making YOUR food, cutting YOUR lawns, doing YOUR
laundry and you have the temerity to deny them basic human rights? Just where
would that authority come from? If Canadians or Europeans were coming in
“illegally” not one of you racist hypocrites would say a damn thing.
Fortunately, Canadians have better sense and Europeans would not want to take a
step down intellectually or culturally to come and live here. Chip-on-your-shoulder
or not, that is how the world views the US. And they are exactly right.
But all that is irrelevant, because the reason for illegal immigration is also very simple. The corporations that control the US government (yes, you read that correctly also) through policies such as NAFTA and though covert military operations in South and Central America have forced abject poverty upon a society that was already crippled by two decades of ethnic cleansing via Reaganomics. NAFTA forced Mexican farmers into bankruptcy and starvation with no other choice than to cross the border in search of salve-wage labor jobs. Military invasions (in the form of a coup) of Central American countries as well as Venezuela (which failed miserably) have created a system of refugees pouring into the US because they remain loyal to the fascist US-sponsored puppet regimes. Let us also not forget 20 years of CIA drug trafficking, Iran-Contra and neocon/neolib trade legislation that send all of the untrained and poorly-educated American’s jobs to China.
But all that is irrelevant, because the reason for illegal immigration is also very simple. The corporations that control the US government (yes, you read that correctly also) through policies such as NAFTA and though covert military operations in South and Central America have forced abject poverty upon a society that was already crippled by two decades of ethnic cleansing via Reaganomics. NAFTA forced Mexican farmers into bankruptcy and starvation with no other choice than to cross the border in search of salve-wage labor jobs. Military invasions (in the form of a coup) of Central American countries as well as Venezuela (which failed miserably) have created a system of refugees pouring into the US because they remain loyal to the fascist US-sponsored puppet regimes. Let us also not forget 20 years of CIA drug trafficking, Iran-Contra and neocon/neolib trade legislation that send all of the untrained and poorly-educated American’s jobs to China.
United States Americans always want the problem solved without ever trying to come up with a solution. That should not come as a shock to anyone. It’s been this way from the beginning. The import of nearly 100 million slaves, the holocaust of the Native Americans, The Mexican war (because the US/UK wanted California and also Texas for some reason), the Spanish-American war, Wood-peck Wilson secretly sending troops to Russia in 1918 to spark the "cold war" (which was neither cold nor a war) and so on and so forth leading up to the invasion of Afghanistan to reclaim the poppy-fields for the heroin trade, build a natural gas pipeline from the Caspian sea and the disastrous invasion of Iraq for oil and strategic military positioning.
When do we
pick up the check for all the blood that has been spilled? When does the rest
of the world stop paying the tab? You're are living in a fantasy world. Americans
believe they are masters of the universe when in fact they are nothing more than
domesticated pets of the London exchange. Your leash is the monetary system and your master is a combination of fundamentalist religion and tv news. You sit-up, lie-down, roll-over and bark on command, with absolutely
no desire to change anything.
I hope this essay was offensive. That was the intent. Especially if you have taken part in making this bed. It’s time that you lie down in it.
I hope this essay was offensive. That was the intent. Especially if you have taken part in making this bed. It’s time that you lie down in it.
Skip Jones
