ARMCHAIR REVOLUTIONARIES

By Christopher J. Berry

The recent fiasco(s) involving Bill Clinton show us many things.  The obvious, scratching the surface, shows what we have known all along; that government is composed of greedy, self-righteous sociopaths.  Moreover, it shows that Office of the President is quite definitely above the law, therefore showing that our entire system has indeed broken down.  Not that we didn?t know that in the first place, it is now flaunted blatantly by members of the current regime.   Furthermore, it is only a shadow compared to the deepest troubles lie with the American people themselves, and the absence of ethics and moral conscience.

Every member of the Senate should be put on trial for treason.  They failed to do a simple job when asked to serve as jurors to Clinton's trial.  Aside from the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson, where the jurors were simply inept and easily manipulated, the Senate knew that crimes were committed, and failed to acknowledge that by denial.  Instead of serving society, they in turn served their system, intending to preserve it.  Both the trials of Clinton and of Simpson show that the system serves itself, comprised of the rich, powerful elite.  They are all above the law, and we are left to bear the crushing weight of the concrete poured to create the foundation of a system intended to serve the rich and elite.

Not that being rich necessarily gains one access to the system.  Ask Bill Gates.  I don't like the man, he serves himself really, but he failed to involve himself in the system.  By failing to back one party or another, he left himself with no allies, only vultures ready to swoop in for the meal.  On the other hand, the president of Microsoft's biggest rival, Sun Microsystems, has made many contributions to political candidates.  In all likelihood, Sun will prosper by this.  There are those who make money, and that is not a crime.  It is when you make so much, more than you need to live comfortably and not do something for your fellow deserving human, that is when it becomes a crime.  Note I said deserving, such help should be given to those who truly deserve it, not as a ";handout" like the current welfare system.

The utmost blame lies with a good majority of the American people themselves.  The ones that always answer, when polled, that their chief concern is a job and a good economy.  Good God, have we become a society of such workaholics that we only care about jobs where some corporation is exploiting talents and making a mint from it?  They work, come home and sit their fat, pimple-ridden asses in front of that stupid television and stare at it until bedtime.  And this is their life.  And they watch what is put in front of them, no matter what it is.  And worse yet, they believe it.  The government must have loved the invention and rise of the television, it has made its job so much easier.  Finally with any code of ethics thrown out with the baby and its bath water, they pretend to think that they know everything, and laid back is good.  Don't rock the boat, man, and lower your blood pressure, dude.  It's OK that the president is a liar, an adulterer, and above all a jerk, but just as long as he keeps the economy good so I can buy more useless, overpriced shit that I won?t use but once then throw in the corner.  Buy a piece of crap, life is good.   The world is their picture show, and they watch like children glued to the screen.

So how does it end?  Social revolution?  No, that supposedly happened with the election of Clinton.  The definition of an American Social Revolution is one that is run from armchairs and involves falsely induced feelings of euphoria.  Nothing is going to change until people are willing to get up and out into the streets.  I don't ever see it happening.

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