Now we step in front of the third delusional mirror "Manifest Destiny". Our current corporate presidency has been using illusionary tactics since the 2000 elections which is very questionable with the controversial final ballot counts in Florida. President Bush has set a plan for global domination with the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. They terrified us through the use of the corporate controlled media; the 9-11 backlash that Iraq must disarm of weapons of mass destruction the words became monstrous.
Secretary Collin Powell, in his UN presentation on Feb 2003, held up a small jar of powdered substance, talking a worst case scenario terrorist attack: if just this much of a chemical or biological weapon was discharged how much the potential for damage and casualties could be. We were shown numerous satellite photos of chemical factories that were producing this material. But now that we occupy that country no traces of chemical or biological agents have been found in the many samples inspections teams have taken. What has been found is hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. currency: how is it that a foreign nation that has 10 years of UN sanctions and military blockades accumulates that much US currency when the country's national currency is the Iraqi dinars?
The next question one asks is the oil connection: Congressman Henry Waxman has exposed that u.s. mega-corporation Halliburton received a secret no-bid contract to run the Iraqi oil fields for the coming period. Vice President Dick Cheney was the head of Haliburton before taking office. In Iraqi's oil ministry Philip J. Carroll a former CEO or Shell Oil will be the senior advisor of Iraq oil industry.
All the embers of the current presidential cabinet have corporate ties to companies like Enron, World Com, and other business subsidies. Enron got its start in Texas under then Governor Bush, the same governor that said "No child will be left behind", and who is absolutely confident all the hundreds of Death Row executions that no innocent victim died.
Now in 2003 a new report has revealed one devastating effect of the government assault on the welfare poor. Almost one million black children today live in extreme poverty, in families who have incomes that are less than half the official poverty level. According to a report issued in April by the Children's Defense Funds, the number of extremely poor black children has risen sharply in recent years and is now at its highest level since 1980.
Housholds in extreme poverty of less than $7,064 for a three person family (half the official poverty level of $14,128). The number of Black children in extreme poverty shot up 50% from 1999 to 2001. In the same period the number of Latino children in extreme poverty rose 14% to 733,000. White children in the same group increased 2 percent to 1.8 million. There are now as many as 8.5 million children in the U.$. without health care coverage and over 80% of these kids have parents who hold jobs.(3)
President Bush has also significantly altered the nation's environmental policies, most notably, abandonment of an international treaty on global warning and more than 50 major changes in policy. The conquest of Iraq was just one of America's plan for global domination, militarily and economically. It is a true quest of "Manifest destiny" the term originated in 1848 to justify the breaches of the permanent Indian frontier, the policy makers in Washington invented Manifest Destiny a term which lifted land hunger to a lofty plane. The Europeans and their descendants were ordained by destiny to rule all of America. They were the dominant race and therefore responsible for the Indians along with their lands, their forests, and their mineral wealth.(4)
These distorted mirrors have many illusionary reflections such as the corporate sponsored news media, the Patriot Acts I and II, the new agency of Homeland Security Dept. How is it that with all the precautions such as Operation Liberty Shield, threat color coded levels, military patrols of public spaces, police state measures, such as massive immigration roundups, registration detainment and deportation of anyone considered a threat. Ironically out of all this a week after the invasion of Iraq and heist of its national Archaeological museums in Baghdad an ancient artifact is discovered in Boston port. So much for homeland security. It is the reflection from these illusionary mirrors that makes me wonder is it just my perception of seeing the world' reflection distorted by deprivation, isolation, states of confusion viewing reality, hallucinations from being disorientated by chemical imbalances due to the confinement conditions, or is it just magician smoke and mirrors in the fun house.