George Carlin, stand-up comic and political analyst, has a lot to say about State Question 777, the Right to Harm Oklahoma's farms bill, that will be voted on November 8. State Question 777 is the brainchild of Seaboard and Suanghui (owned by China, but located in Virginia) farms, which routinely torture livestock - something our family farms and ranches would never do. George Carlin may not seem very knowledgeable (because of his use of foul language), but he had an IQ of 156, and was very astute as far as politics are concerned. I'll first re-print Carlin's political assessment of "The Big Club" which you and I aren't in, and then analyze it to determine how it hits SQ 777 on the head. Please be aware that he uses foul language, so don't read it if foul language offends you:
"There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They OWN you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly their getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 ******* years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now their coming for your social security money. They want your ******* retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this ******* place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. ...And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue **** that's being jammed up their ******** everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it." To get the full effects of Carlin's speech, listen to it on you tube.
I'll first identify the players in George's rant, which will identify the "owners" of SQ 777. "The owners of this country" are corporate entities which Mr. Carlin identifies later on as "corporation owners" and "big wealthy business interests". He leaves out another important owner, however, as non-profit entities which support big wealthy business interests. One example is the non-profit group American Federation of Children which supports corporate charter school chains, such as the international Fethullah Gulen Charter Schools out of Turkey. Approximately 230 of these schools are spread across the U.S. today. "Obedient workers" are identified as everyday Americans who are not wealthy executives and owners of corporations. I think that means just about everyone reading this blog. "The Big Club" exists now as an organization which calls itself "The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is an organization founded in 1973 which has members made up of corporations, big wealthy business owners (as opposed to local and small business owners), non-profit organizations (which answer to corporate interests), and State Legislators. The primary function of ALEC is to match corporations (more than 300 corporations around the world belong to ALEC) with state legislators (25% of all state legislators in the U.S. belong to ALEC), so that corporations can get state laws made which benefit their bottom line - profits. The corporations, such as corporate charter schools, just hand a state legislator a bill, telling him or her to "take it back to Oklahoma, and get it passed into law". Corporations know, however, which lawmakers to hand their bills to - it would naturally be the state legislators who can be bought and paid for, according to George Carlin. The Big Club, ALEC, is referred to as a fascist organization by the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC). Fascism is a political philosophy employed by the dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini, before and during World War II. He was hanged by Italians in 1942 as the Allies swept through Italy. On a side note, my uncle, Warren Beckham (U.S. Army) received the Silver Star for his work in Italy during WWII. But I digress. Fascism can best be described as a partnership between corporations and the government in running the country. Benito Mussolini even said Fascism should be called "corporatism" to better describe his political philosophy. Now, you may take a look at the way ALEC describes itself on its website to determine for yourself if its really about corporate and government control of our lives. ALEC is a highly secretive organization, but was exposed in 2011 as to who its members were. As a result, many corporations resigned their memberships because they did not want the unsuspecting public to know. You may find everything you need to know about ALEC in a report called "ALEC Exposed". As a result of ALEC Exposed, I determined State Question 777 was not written by farmers and ranchers in 2015, but by ALEC in 1996. ALEC has been pedaling it since then, but one of Oklahoma's lawmakers just picked it up this year, along with a hefty contribution check from Tyson, Seaboard, or Suanghui farms (oops, I'm naming names again). Of course, the middleman in these transactions could have been a non-profit that accepts $ millions from these corporate farms.
In summary, SQ 777 was not written by local farmers and ranchers, it was written in 1996 by corporations for corporations at an ALEC conference. Corporations are only concerned about their bottom line - profits for shareholders, nothing else. The proof is out there.
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