And If So How Do We Stop Them
I'm not as cynical as the author of the New York Times blurb regarding "The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben" - that's just the oil addiction talking. I think "evil" will never achieve a "certain status" that would prevent its defeat. Not when there are still decent, imaginative people to resist it and offer more attractive alternatives to it. But how to address these "fascist corporate-elite-son-of-a-bitches" head on, and defeat them before they destroys us?
Not with physical force. No bombs, no terrorism, no "pre-emptive strikes" will get us out of this problem ... those are the words and methods of madmen. However, if someone comes up to me with the needle and wants to jab me I'll ..."just say no." If they try an aggressive jab I'll do my best to see that they eat the needle. There is a limit to my passiveness. We must - non-violently and communicatively - organize and resist mandatory vaccination. But we must also not go to out deaths as sheep.
That's just a short-term survival strategy. We need to think long term too. We need a "final solution" for THEM. Here's a clue:
"A federal report by the Commons standing committee on health says natural health products are a $2-billion-a-year industry in Canada, and is expected to grow by 15 percent annually." (361)
The best way to resist their insane plans is to stop financing them. The above quote - from way back in 1998 - shows us that this process is already under way. We must all continue to learn more about using herbs instead of chemicals, hemp instead of trees, wind, wave, sun and seed-oil instead of fossil or synthetic fuels, and encourage others to do the same. Louder and with more style than ever before. No useless war trials. No armed insurrections. Just educate everyone as to why everyone should stop buying their stuff.
We all have to stop buying their stuff - and encourage others to stop also. Cannabis is safer and more effective that Ciba's Thalidomide or Ritalin or Roche's Valium as a mind-focus tool and relaxant, as long as you understand things like strain, dose and quality. Valerian is safer and much more effective than Valium as a relaxant. You can learn to grow these herbs yourself! It's lots of fun. Just learn how to use it properly, first ... consult your local herbalist.
Instead of using Monsanto's Aspartame, try a pinch of the sweet herb stevia. Instead of using Merck's (or more than likely, the CIA's) cocaine, pick from the hundreds of other stimulants like qat or damiana or ginger or guarana or vanilla or yarrow. Just do a little homework first.
You can use cannabis, yohimbe and damiana (among many aphrodisiacs) instead of Pfizer's Viagra - you'll get twice as hard for half the price and no blue tinge - I assure you. For pain relief, instead of Bayer's Heroin or Aspirin, grow your own poppies and hemp. If you must buy chocolate (and most of us are hopelessly addicted), let's all buy local and "fair-trade" - no sense financing some CFR member corporate fat-cat to feed us some low-quality waxy psudo-choco garbage.
An effective folk remedy for smallpox has been having salty saunas, a remedy for anthrax (aside from cannabis) has been garlic. When shopping for non-monopolistic anti-virus medication, I also recommend looking into grape-fruit-seed extract, colloidal silver, oxygen therapy, Vitamin C, hemp seed oil and all the other herbs and vitamins.
And it goes beyond just our medicine. We have to shop for fuel and transportation that way too. We have to use materials at work that are sustainable. And f you don't feel like trying to pull a "JFK" and nationalizing the banking system (the real reason, many believe, he was shot), the least you could do is to get your money out of the Bank of "RockeFarben" and find a credit union.
The one thing that will truly reduce the power of these destructive forces - perhaps for good - is winning the right to compete with and replace their chemical fuels and medicines with cannabis seed-oil and herbal medicines. This means that if you really want to be a good environmentalist or anti-corporate-rule activist, the best thing you can do is fight for the right to access natural buds, hemp, herbs and other natural alternatives, and to include as many people as possible away from this evil empire, and towards more environmentally-sustainable and universally-profitable economies.
With hemp medicine liberated, all the red tape surrounding industrial hemp will be removed. Money currently spent fighting for drug peace will be channeled into creating seed presses, textile plants and paper mills. With tens of thousands of acres hemp growing, the economics of biomass and bio-diesel fuel (362) will begin to make more sense. Perhaps hemp IS the way to get the human race off its fossil fuel addiction, and the monopolies and wars that inevitably accompany this addiction.
Get active! We are the generation to end this cycle of profiteering!
Another way to fight these beasts is by exposing them. Typing the names of these companies into internet search engines provides a quick and easy way to do research on them and get in touch with those organizing against them. There are already many groups organizing themselves to inform the public of the histories and dangers of these chemical giants. Join forces with them - or start your own group. The following is a list of some of the leaders in each category:
To fight mandatory vaccination in Canada, contact: www.canadianliberty.bc.ca To fight the anthrax vaccine profiteers, contact: www.anthraxvaccine.org/links.html. To organize against the AIDS vaccine, contact: www.protectmedicalfreedom.com/junkscience.html
To help nail those Monsanto slimeballs: www.monsantosucks.com. For a model of general corporate accountability activism, try:
- Anti-war activism/Pan-activism - Environmental activism www.greenpeaceusa.org Anti-codex activism: www.iahf.com/index2.html. Drug war activism: www.iahf.com/index2.html
Get people talking about 'THEIR' crimes and the natural alternatives to their products. Get people thinking about the benefits of a peace and freedom economy to all humankind - a fare deal for everyone - what everyone really wants in their hearts. If half the people who read this article act on this information, that in itself will cut into their profits. Who knows by how much?
Without their monopolistic profits, they will not be able create their profitable wars, and with any luck, humans will evolve out of this cycle of exploitation, oppression, injustice, suffering and death, before it's too late. The sooner the recreational and medical monopolies have been broken, the sooner the raw material and energy monopolies will fall. The race between education and catastrophe is at the finish line .... and the winner is ....the winner is .... as always, the winner is up to me and you.