A Warm & Fuzzy Mothers Day
By Theresa Hulme
The U.S. Supreme Court presently hinges threadlike
in a delicate balance of right, middle and barely left. Of the 9 justices on the
bench today, 4 are over 70 years old. 2 are over 80. When one or more of these
justices retires within the next four years, the already conservative majority
that sometimes swings, will most definitely swing to the ultra- conservative
right with a Bush appointee.
The present justices are responsible for
selecting George W. Bush for President after the election scandals of 2000.
Supreme Court justices dictate many laws that affect our daily lives and are
appointed for life. Theirs or ours.
Of the current 9, 3 support women's rights, 3 oppose
and 3 vacillate in ambiguity. Strangely, only two justices are women.
Though many in California live under the myth that
the Golden State will be protected from the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, we need
look no further that the Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Having
displayed and admitted more respect for Hitler than for women and their bodies,
the Gropenator, in his short time in office, has already openly attacked female
majority professions such as nurses and teachers.
Mom, I feel sick. Though the writing is on the wall,
many women are passively accepting the demise of their basic civil rights.
Hidden under the cloak of Christianity, Bush’s ultra fake wing
Administration is using empty religious rhetoric to vehemently defend a child
before birth.
However, after the child is born, she’ll be
born into increasing poverty with no health care, no living wage and attend the
worst public education system in the industrialized world. She’ll breathe
toxic air, drink dirty water, and have nursed from mothers milk laced with
rocket fuel, thanks to the nuclear weapons manufacturers and military bases that
are her close neighbors, anywhere in America.
As a mere economic
unit, she’ll soon be pumped with corporate recommended pharmaceutical
drugs. Eventually, at the mall or at school, a military recruiter will spice up
a deal to serve a ‘patriotic’ duty and fight a fake war, in a poor,
far away, dark-skinned Third World country. This is the Bush abortion policy.
The scheme is simple yet frightening and deadly:
slowly chip away at civil rights (Patriot Acts I & II). Build-up the prison
industrial complex and fill it with minorities, mostly blacks, Latinos &
immigrants. Strip them permanently of the right to vote or participate in a
democratic society. Dismantle the middle-class, shifting power and money to the
corporate elite, less than 1% of the population. Create desperation among the
working class by cutting social programs. Make education out of reach to those
that can’t afford it, offering the military as bait for college funding.
Exploit women and children through cheap, slave-like labor. Control media
outlets, feed lies, and dumb down. Send in the corporate suits to push fancy
drugs, numbing a majority of the population. In true capitalist fashion, fatten
everyone up with fast food junk that sickens and isolates.
The nucleus of this scheme? Women comprise about 51%
of the total population. If this segment can be controlled, restrained,
manipulated and power over her body seized, the patriarchy reigns and only small
fringe groups remain to fight a colossal evil. With women dependent, disgraced
and demoted to second class citizens, the empire is easily able to continue its
violent imperialist agenda.
Some sources report the actual death toll in Iraq
exceeds 100,000, mostly women and children. If Iraq is a microcosm of U.S.
social/foreign policy, it can serve as a reflection of what’s in store for
American women under the new Regime: Corporate controlled patriarchal
capitalism.
Once known as Mesopotamia, Iraq is the birthplace of
civilization. If Mesopotamia is a metaphor for the womb, we eerily witnessed as
Bush carelessly dropped bombs on Baghdad. As part of a military strategy,
military commanders have regarded the rape of women (but not men) as a
significant wartime bonding experience. The mere presence of war is a cause of
rape. Though severely underreported, many of these rapes occur within the U.S.
military, upon enlisted females. As Army Generals were cleared in the Iraq
prison abuse scandals, so they are in cases of rape.
With no respect for Mother Earth, depleted uranium
now permeates Iraqi soil and water. A generation of Iraqi babies drink poisoned
mothers milk. In Texas, mothers milk is found laced with rocket fuel, from U.S.
weapons corporations recklessly ejaculating poison into the earth.
Though the bombs on America’s women may not
explode instantly with depleted uranium, the parallels are clear. Our demise is
slower, sneakier and sugared with the empty rhetoric of ‘freedom and
democracy.’ However, the end result is painfully obvious: the rape &
destruction of our Mother Earth. Mom, now I REALLY feel sick. Anyway, to her and
all Earth Mothers, Happy Mothers Day!
Posted: Sun - May 1, 2005 at 04:59 AM