Hmmm. Okay, John. Perhaps I, in my deep frustration with what's going on in the world, am just getting a bit carried away at times with my own rhetoric here. That tends to happen when a person gets angry, and I get very angry at what's going on in the halls of power all across this world.

I've been reading "The Shock Doctrine" and it's been making me really angry about what happened down in Latin America, starting on September 11, 1973 with the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Allende government in Chile by a group of Army officers...then being followed by other military takeovers in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay over the next decade. Those countries were prosperous and happy before the military takeovers, with a rapidly growing middle class and rapidly improving economies that benefited the entire public. They had democratically elected governments which were strongly supported by the vast majority of citizens.

After the coups, all of which were orchestrated by alumni of Milton Friedman's Chicago School of Economics and put into motion by well-trained CIA agents backed by thugs in the Latin American military forces of the respective countries, those countries faced mass arrests, torture of hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens, execution/disappearance of tens of thousands, and the establishment of military dictatorships which were mostly praised in the USA mass media at the time. This was supposedly done to establish FREEDOM!

Talk about employing the BIG LIE principle! And who did those takeovers benefit? They benefited a tiny rich elite, they impoverished the rest of the public, and they opened the door to privatization of public industries and institutions and takeover of those industries and national resources by a consortium of huge American corporations!

It's been the organized rape of the world for the sake of corporate profits. It's been going on since the end of WWII (it started off in Iran with a CIA-backed coup against a democratically elected secular government). No American president has stood up to stop it.

This enrages me. Rage drives people sometimes to bitter and harsh rhetoric.

If my harsh rhetoric has offended any of you, I regret it. My anger is not aimed at you, it's aimed at the overall system we live under.