Ground Floor Theatre
A New Doctrine of Freedom?
RECEIVED Mon., March 27, 2006
Dear sirs,
I believe America has devolved into a corporate dictatorship. Our leaders are controlled by the oil and pharmaceutical corporations, but most especially the military-industrial complex. They put Bush and his cronies in power to control our nation. The net result of this is an illegal war, out-of-control pollution, falling wages, and a broken health care system.
While our country is in tremendous debt, they give tax breaks to the rich and major corporations. Our prison population is now greater than 2 million people. (America has the world's largest prison population mostly because of a failed drug war.) Freedom seems to only be for the elite or the rich, not the average citizen.
Our government is broken and only through major changes can we save it. We need to increase the number of political parties from two to at least four or more. And then we need a new doctrine of freedom for basic human rights of all people to be free of torture, rape, kidnapping, deadly pollution, and illegal war. The assurances of President Bush that we don't do or cause these things is a joke.
I believe America has devolved into a corporate dictatorship. Our leaders are controlled by the oil and pharmaceutical corporations, but most especially the military-industrial complex. They put Bush and his cronies in power to control our nation. The net result of this is an illegal war, out-of-control pollution, falling wages, and a broken health care system.
While our country is in tremendous debt, they give tax breaks to the rich and major corporations. Our prison population is now greater than 2 million people. (America has the world's largest prison population mostly because of a failed drug war.) Freedom seems to only be for the elite or the rich, not the average citizen.
Our government is broken and only through major changes can we save it. We need to increase the number of political parties from two to at least four or more. And then we need a new doctrine of freedom for basic human rights of all people to be free of torture, rape, kidnapping, deadly pollution, and illegal war. The assurances of President Bush that we don't do or cause these things is a joke.
Julian Ward
[Editor's response: I've always been curious about this, how do we create more parties? Does the government do it? Outside consultants? Frequently in multiparty governments, the small extremist parties have undue amounts of power because of the need for coalition building.]