Global Community

October 29, 2008 | Foreign Policy, History, President

I tend to forget that we have visitors, and members from places as far off as Russia, the UK, and other parts of Europe. Therefore my writing usually focuses on the trials of the American people, and their particular problems.

Even when I write about the origins of our law, I often skim past, or fail to acknowledge the fact that much of American law has its roots in the growth of English Common Law, which developed from the Magna Carta.

While we have spread our tentacles throughout the world it is not familiar for us to recognize the fact that our meddling is not always for the greater good. We have, after all, been sold the unhealthy concept that we are a super power whose job it is to police the world. But global governance is more the aspiration of tyrants rather than that of a peace loving people who wish to spread prosperity.

I grew up in a neighborhood predominantly populated by immigrants from Italy. I went to a Catholic grammar school with the first and second-generation children of those people. I did have exposure to others, mostly of European origin, but I was not so isolated as not to have interacted with others including a black man who taught me the fine art of playing handball when I was a boy.

My ex-wife, and the mother of my children was of Hispanic descent. A wonderful woman that entered my life sometime ago was from the Ukraine. Another whom I have met more recently is a native of Sicily. I have interacted with various peoples over the last decade that have opened my eyes to the beauty of diversity.

Without getting into the details of my romances, or friendships, I can tell you that I have learned a great deal through the course of those encounters. Different cultures stimulate interests, and in so doing promote the necessity of knowledge, the process of which should never end.

I couldn’t begin to tell you why the stability of being with people of like traditions is comforting, while the intrigue of meeting new cultures is so invigorating without realizing that the expansion of the mind is what drives our motives.

On the more enlightening side of my encounters with our friends across the sea I find that they are more likely to be informed than we here in America. Some time ago I was on the trading floor of an investment bank speaking to a friend about the coming financial crisis and the role that the FED plays in all of this. He, a trader, was not aware that the FED is not part of the government. However, the Russian immigrant who sat to his left was well aware, and understood the benefits to him of having this bank inflate the dollar.

But, when all is said and done I am, after all, an American, and the world revolves around us, or so many would have you think. In reality this is how the world turns to a certain extent. The world reserve currency has been the dollar for many years, although that position wanes. We have consumed more goods than the combination of countries with far larger populations. We were, at one time, capable of producing more goods than a major portion of the world through industrial giants such as General Motors, and General Electric. Our ability to feed the world was, in and of itself, a testament to the greatness of the nation.

By and large, Americans had much to celebrate, and much for which they could be thankful. A great nation, with great laws, and the willingness to succeed. Something changed, and not for the better.

Over the years our education system has morphed into a playground for leftist ideas by which the average student would simply become a useful tool of the next program. Instead of learning institutions, we now have indoctrination centers administered by teachers whose knowledge of the subject matter is at best rudimentary.

Our infrastructure decays as city planners bloat the budget with non-necessities such as freezing units for skating rinks. Bridges, and overpasses crumble across the nation, but we must build multi-million dollar sporting arenas where the populace can forget that the nation is in decline.

We are a people that focuses on the inane as the world crumbles, and people throughout the globe ask; what is America doing?

I, myself, sometimes wonder if it is possible to have come to this point without the collective consciousness awakening. Then I read the latest headlines about the tribulations of Britney Spears, and all I can do is shake my head in disbelief that such nonsense still sells.

The dollar has controlled the world for years. This came about admittedly by the fact that the awesome power of our production and consumption of goods far outstripped the rest of the world. It was an easy task for our globetrotting politicians; men like Henry Kissinger, to first promote the dollar, and then exploit the subsequent worldwide economic dependence.

As the largest foreign holder of crude oil reserves, Saudi Arabia was approached with the idea of accepting only the dollar. This accomplished a few things, one of which was to allow the American empire to impose a tax structure upon any nation that would be dependent on the importation of oil, and to control the lifestyle of other nations.

As inflation rose through the expansion of our own money supply it had the underlying effect of raising inflation for all of the global population. The currency in reality was not dollars, but oil that allowed for this manipulation. Since, in essence, the dollar was now tied to crude, the fortunes of the world rested on the nation that held the key to the printing presses.

As the public segment of our economy expanded, the taxing structure became a transparent inflationary aspect of the pricing structure. Fueled in part by the private sectors success, the promotion of a debt based society, and the need for higher salaries, the ripple effect began to take hold. It didn’t simply rest here in America, but moved throughout the world to create poverty or prosperity depending on how the dollar affected the particular country.

People in India, and China, which is a good part of the world, would not benefit from the expanding wages in America, but would almost certainly suffer by the fact that we imposed our taxing structure through our paper.

Now the people across the globe watch as we are poised to elect a true fascist, Barak Obama. There may be some left in Europe, and Russia who lived through Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. They might recognize Obama for what he is, and what he portends for not only America, but for the rest of the world.

It is not in his socialist leaning that it is particularly upsetting, but his notions of enforcement calls for the same nationalist type agenda that once swallowed Germany, and led to a world war.

The similarities between what occurred in Nazi Germany, and what is taking place is at least disturbing. Obama presents himself as a blackman, which is visually apparent, but is it something that we want to hear from the potential leader of this nation? It is divisive, and not the quality of a leader, but that of a madman with the potential to tear us apart at our very core.

His race is certainly what is bringing many behind him, including anyone who considers themselves to be a minority. The larger aspect of race becomes even more critical when you add his call for a million-man youth core to operate as some quasi-enforcement agency. This is the essential part of true fascism.

It is one thing to have warrants issued, and homes searched under the proper authority of a grand jury. It is completely out of hand when brown shirt thugs come to your home searching for whatever it is they consider to be contrary to their way of thinking. Who comes to your aid at that point? We should realize that it is difficult enough to obtain relief when the government does it, but what redress will there be for those whose lives may be destroyed by marauding bands of young punks looking for retribution?

Perhaps we should be spending our time learning from those elders across the sea who saw a fascist state rise, and cause destruction the likes of which the world had not see before.

We claim to be a global community, but when it comes to learning we are segregated by the idea that we are America, and it can’t happen here. It happened to our ancestors across the sea. The only difference between them and us is that their open communications were far less than ours today. They had been in the midst of a world war, and were smiting from the economic result of that conflict. They were hoping for a change for the better when Hitler and Mussolini took control.

We have the basic tools, and certainly the good graces of a great nation, to avoid such a catastrophic end. We simply will not learn from the mistakes of our ancestors, or listen to the cries of our friends across the globe.

‘Nick’