Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1992. július-december (46. évfolyam, 27-49. szám)
1992-12-10 / 47. szám
16. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, Dec. 10. 1992. WMWJVAWWiW/Z/iWAViiWVVWMW/AViWMVVAViVVVlVNWWVWWWW/AVi World # View MASTERS OF MONOPOLY Cover-Up Of Truth Keeps Public In Ignorance By BERNARD FORER At this point in history we seem to be watching a morality play in which the forces of evil are grappling with the workings of the good. No alternative seems to exist in between. In the name of our "democracy" we are to forge the homeless, the unemployed, the ill, the dispossessed, and the desperate in favor of a "higher goal": domination of the globe by American interests. Our government has spent trillions of dollars in its campaign to destroy the ideals of socialism. A direct result has been the creation of the military-industrial complex, by which certain corporations have enriched themselves from the public treasury, and from which future generations have been saddled with staggering debts. A concurrent phenomenon has been an evergrowing list of scandals involving government figures, bankers, stockbrokers, financiers and other members of the "secret army" of the financial elite who have gotten out of control. Swiss banks provide anonymity to depositors, without outcry from our government leaders. One network reporter was enterprising enough to ask one of the directors of a Swiss bank for his comments. This gentleman smiled, shrugged his shoulders, and simply stated, "You know, money has no conscience." These words tell us much about the present state of our universe. Hitler may be dead but some of his ideas live on. The fact remains that since World War II we no longer use our military might against Germany or Italy or any others of the "Aryan" nations, our new enemies have darker skins- in Lybia, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama and similar small countries. We may possess awesome nuclear weapons, but none of the others may. Our might, militarily and politically, is to insure that we are the only superpower as the Pentagon has stated in a recent pronouncement. We are allowed to use loans and money and bribes to influence the United Nations, not to mention threats. The breakup of the Soviet Union has merely accentuated this news development. We used all sorts of dirty tricks, infiltration, bribery, destabilization of governments, and even assassinations to achieve our ascendency. One of our weapons has been promises that were never carried out. We've never rebuilt Panama. The "democracy" that we restored in Grenada came in the form of dozens and dozens of banks that have sprung up there, to serve drug-lords and money- launderers. Our aid to the former Soviet Union came in the form of invasions by right-wing think-tanks, Peace Corps volunteers, traveling businessmen, and some token supplies of foodstuffs. Only when our favorite, Boris Yeltsin, seemed in trouble did our aid take concrete dollar forms. Now we possess what might be called a "political monopoly" - and we know that a monopoly produces suffering for the ordinary family. It confers power to an individual or group of individuals. Prices may be raised arbitrarily. Some businessmen may be prof er red all the commodities they desire while others may be deprived. What is emerging in the present period is a drive by our nation's leaders to achieve a political monopoly, not only at home but also abroad. Let us not be naive. The campaign to eliminate all vestiges of socialist ideology is not to preserve the right of the American citizen to vote. The basic urge is financial, on behalf of the wealthiest segment of our population. With all its mistakes, the former Soviet Union had a program that embodied social progress in the form of universal health care, free educational opportunity, government subsidization of basic foods, and full employment. No one starved to death and no one was homeless. Luxuries were limited, of course. Ringed by hostile powers and facing continual harrassment and infiltration, some leaders may have succumbed to paranoia, but the fundamental tenets of socialism were not destroyed. They still haunt the White House. Conservatives still dream and plan to eliminate the enclaves still remaining in Cuba, China and North Korea. The Pentagon is ready and willing, As far as the former Soviet Union is concerned, for years we had been sending our secret armies, made up of infiltrators, saboteurs, and bribers. Again we see the fruits. The "democratic" forces have seized communist property,,closed up their newspapers and otherwise used autocratic methods of stopping opposition. We witness a return to the "good old days" of Tsarism being voiced in some quarters with a strange approbation. The worst features of capitalism/fascism are becoming evident: unemployment, rising prices, malnutrition and a rising rate of criminality - not to mention selfishness and greed. One of the worst features of the "new" situation is the revival of all sorts of ethnic tensions and rivalries as the bonds of a common purpose and interests have been severed. The big-wigs in Washington are gloating: Opposition has been shattered. "Socialism is dead." Some of the worst excesses of monopoly capitalism have been kept in check while a competing ideology was operative on a world scale. Once the U.S. elite have achieved political monopoly, we may see the facade of democracy weakened or destroyed, as unions are eliminated and resistance to the oligarchy is destroyed. Should this state of affairs take place, we could see a return of semi-feudal conditions. Truth is a precious commodity that may be discovered in relatively small journals and sometimes over the air. However the facts are submerged under torrents of misinformation, lies and the relentless onslaught of sports, entertainment, and sensationalism featured on television and in other media. The most worrisome feature of the present period is that all of us recognize instinctively that we have our own clandestine army at home. The Klan, the neo-Nazis, and the Skinheads are champing at the bit, waiting for the time when they can enforce their own ideas of democracy in action, How Shall I Call You? How shall I call you, When in the dreaming afterlight I look in wonder on the evening star Of your fair eyes, As if discovering I looked Upon this star, And every ray A brook of love To flow into the ocean of my soul... How shall I call you? How shall I call you, The sweetest mother of delight, The fairy daughter of a fantasy That dared to storm the sky!— My wildest dreams ashamed before The blinding beauty of a truth !— The only treasure of my soul,' The dearest treasure of the world, So lovely,sweet andyoung... my wedded wife, How shall I call you? Sándor Pet&fi Translated by E.B. Pierce and JE. Delmár Erosion of civil liberties proceeds apace. For example, a physician who was in Dallas on the day President Kennedy was assassinated saw the body of the slain president. He stated with firmness that the fatal bullet had entered the skull of JFK from the front. After many years he came forward with his refutation of the Warren Commission report. When he was asked as to why he had been waiting so long, he gave the frank answer that he had been afraid to tell the truth. If we agree that money has no conscience, we must know that neither do our intelligence services. For years they have been subverting our democracy by dealing with drug lords, criminals, soldiers of fortune, dictators of all sorts, and military despots. We must also recognize that they work at the behest of "respectable" politicians who sit in their comfortable offices and keep their hands clean. The more power they attain,the more dangerous the situation becomes. This is the very reason the people must remain alert. We are living in dangerous times. (Mr. Forer, a retired watchful journalist who lives in Florida, is a contributing editor of The Human Quest.)
