A Solution of Sorts to Offer Up
by R. Martin Oxman

I’d like to contribute to improving the quality of your life on all counts.

QUESTION: How much harm does the American Medical Association, Barrick Gold, the FDA, Big Pharma, the FTC, Lawrence Livermore Labs, the American Cancer Society, Silicon Valley corporations (which are major contributors to both the McCain and Obama campaigns), Peabody Energy, the Pentagon, Exxon and the like* do to citizens of the United States?

*This category does not have to include ALL segments of the banking industry, Wall Street… and the like. Nay, there is enough murder and immiseration which can be laid at the feet of the White Collar crowd for the purposes of this article without including ALL of our sociopaths.

PARTIAL ANSWER: If, overnight, ALL prisoners in the United States (well over 2 million, as I write) were released unconditionally, including the dreaded Supermax populations, they would not — over their remaining lifetimes — come close to causing the death and destruction that our esteemed White Collar criminals are responsible for daily. They could not. They could not cause a tiny fraction of the “trouble” that our leaders of industry and the like are responsible for daily. Even if their numbers were multiplied by a factor of 100.

Okay, if you insist upon arguing… let’s limit my statement to Prisoners of Color.

I have the definitive documentation for this claim, but no one’s interested in that, it seems.

Hardly a soul realizes who is causing the lion’s share of our collective agony… which has something to do with the fact that our typical citizen wants to acquire the trappings of so-called wealth, fame… and the like.

And among the few who do, there are a too-precious few who believe they can do anything about our status quo.

In spite of the fact that I have a solution of sorts to offer up.

R. Martin Oxman can be reached at headburg@yahoo.com for details.
Note: The antiquated language which the author employs here is no more “antediluvian” than the ideas concerning imminent and ongoing dangers to which the general American public clings. How sad to see souls on all sides shriveling up.