THE RADICAL
1/5/07
I recently read an old biography on William Lloyd Garrison,which made me realize I am a Radical. Those who aren’t familiar with Garrison’s activism and his weekly newspaper “The Liberator” might think well of him as the Archangel of Abolition. Garrison was a radical, who in the 1830s up until the end of the Civil War was completely focused on the abolishment of slavery in America. Garrison was a man so obsessed with the injustice of slavery that he organized the first movement towards the abolishing of slavery. He spoke the harshest words of criticism of his time against the lies and hypocrisy of his society; that accepted, promoted and profited by trafficking the misery and slavery of human beings.
Slavery is obscene from today’s stand point nearly 200 years later. American Society has outgrown its overt economic institutions of slave owning,yet Americans insist on ignoring their own servitude, to a system owned and operated by a few elite masters. These masters are now disguised as captains of industry and political leaders with ideas veiled as progressive, conservative and independent, but all are elitist.
Perhaps the most frightening concept still held by the vast majority of half sleeping Americans is that they think they live in a democracy. They have never lived in a democracy. America was never designed as a democracy. It was designed as a republic. Modeled after Plato’s Republic, and government of the elite , by the elite and for the elite. Everyone else was not considered in the American Constitution. Only white, rich, men were created equal,not women,not men of color,not even white men without property. Slavery was an institution in America, that allowed the colonies to flourish economically. Ninety percent of our early economy was agricultural. Slavery made the masters rich, and kept the slaves poor. Poverty was not a social consideration in the early colonies many were poor, but it was better than being a slave.
Slavery still exists in American society. But this slavery is brought on ironically, by American greed. Greed fuels the U.S economy. Greed incites the American psyche to obsess over acquisition. How much more money can they get? How much more money can they spend? How much more land can we take, how many more countries must we invade for our oil and natural resources? If we don’t have enough money to buy what we want, the banks and government will insure that we do. The Federal Reserve Banks will lend the money to the U.S Government and the government will give the money away in corporate and social entitlements. International banks will commit unpunished crimes of usury at 20 and 30 percent interest rates on credit cards and adjustable rate loans on mortgages. This keeps Americans enslaved. Enslaved to a system that creates money without worth. Currency floated by the industry of the people; who strive only for more of the worthless money.
The word Radical according to Webster’s dictionary means,” Of or relating to the root. Also, one that is radical advocates a decided and often extreme change from existing, usual, or traditional views, habits, conditions, or methods.” I realize now, that I am worthy of the title of Radical. I am an advocate of extreme change from traditional views and accepted methods of the American society; that sells itself into slavery for the sake of a new car or more money, a bigger house, name brand running shoes. We are simply sharecroppers farming the land of the landowners. The masters. Favor from the masters is the granting of a greater section of their land for us to till, granting greater responsibility to the sharecropper to make the land owner more money so the sharecropper can buy his newer used car. This is American slavery, American elitism, American servitude. Even our sharecropping positions are now being given to illegal immigrants and workers in other countries because they cost the land owner less. They will be slaves for a fraction of what the American slave costs to maintain. The master doesn’t have to worry about health care or minimum wage increases. It is time the American worker be reminded who he or she really is, and does not have to be a slave to the masters.
A radical as I see it is simply someone who sees things as they are and tries to tell the truth. A radical is someone who is focused on social change for the betterment of mankind. A radical is someone who refuses to sit back and say nothing, while his society and country are falling apart. A radical is someone who is compelled to say something and let it be known with proof, that mankind is going the wrong way. William Lloyd Garrison was a radical, Mahatma Gandhi was a radical, any man or woman desiring fundamental changes in their life and society are radicals. Jesus was a radical. Muhammad was a radical. Moses was a radical. Buddha was a radical. I see nothing wrong with being a radical.
I have been called a radical for my views. I just never considered myself as one. My weekly radio show and television program have been focused on political and social issues and injustices. I have called all those in power hypocrites and liars, crooks and thieves more than once on my programs. I have not been taken off the air because everything I have stated on my programs have been correct. Every industry and every person and leader, I have attacked with accurate statements and facts. I have criticized only those people and issues that should be condemned. Genocide, Corruption, deceptions, Greed, war, ignorance, arrogance and insanity , of the Bush administration , Zionism, racism, any all injustices have been the topics and comments on my programs. I have presented facts that have not been contested. Evidences that have come to light have all proven my statements to be accurate. If that makes me a radical then I guess I am. I am also proud to be one.
L.A. STEEL
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