Dear Paul,
Here’s the New Year’s Revolution you requested for January 1st. I realize that it’s terribly tardy, but don’t be bitter. I made a voyage to the Great Mysterious, as Red Ted used to call the Eastern US, and the weather was harsh and difficult to negotiate. I plotted an itinerary that was complex and demanding of precision, in timing, in style and presentation. I returned only yesterday, and, frankly, am exhausted. Therefore, I will do everything possible to maintain brevity in my transmission. I believe we are both in a brief semi-repose. You, I presume as a precursor for upcoming and sustained effort. I, as you know, am in recovery and old.

I spoke to Harrison and owe him some credit for inspiration. He has been quite busy, spray painting on the exterior of every big bank he can, “Traitors INSIDE,” WAR profiteers Here!!!!!” and “Irresponsibility, INC..” Harrison is passionate. He would be happier to firebomb these usurers, but the orders haven’t come down from Treasury and Homeland Security yet, but when they do, be sure he’s prepared to do his part. Harrison is many things, a true patriot being one. He’ll not be idle as the theft continues, unabated.

One musn’t confuse D.E. Lawrence and D.H. As Grover predicted, the men decided to wait until after the banksters express their collective disdain for all that is Godly and Democratic and endow themselves with BILLIONS in blood money, drawn as by leeches from the veins of the people, to embark on their horrific and pitiless campaigns of reckoning. There’ll be no stopping them, no stifling of their righteous rage. The hollers will ring like the Liberty Bell with the wails of CEOs and CFOs and COOs and their aides.

The UV markers will work marvelously. Abraham has outdone himself.

The white columns of their summer homes will bear the sign. No one will notice in the light of day who is anointed and who is to be spared. Charity of the public variety will not save them, nor will the pleas of their bejeweled consorts. Always in such endeavors, irony reigns, and this time will be no different. The hypocrites who pointed their inky fingers at Eliot Spitzer will be begging forgiveness from their children’s mothers, while stuttering mea culpas in the language of the conference room. To no avail.

The cameras will not lie, and the code will reveal all…

[Transmission interrupted]

…As for your Top Ten list of notable social mutations in the commonwealth ecology of the United States over the past decade: although I normally consider such lists better suited to Cosmopolitan Magazine, to humor you, I’ll play.

1. The success of neo-Robber Barons in their campaign to diminish the representation of working people in government processes and in the workplace. The systemwide assaults on collective bargaining, union organizing, worker rights and the dignity of labor by management in order to facilitate the excessive disparity of wealth and power in this country has rolled back the cause of equity in the democracy by 100 years, and precipitated some of the worst outcomes politically and economically over the last ten years, including Depression 2.0.

2. The continued erasure of free press in America, and its displacement by unaccountable and intentionally ineffective corporate media. Without the complicity of corporate, monopolized media, the Iraq War, the Presidency of George Bush, the acceleration of dangerous risk behavior in the financial sector and the surveillance state would not have been possible.

3. The blatant apprehension of social consciousness and patriotism among citizens for the purposes of propping up despots, traitors, warmongers, fearmongers, war profiteers, usurers and cowards in the nation’s power elite, enriching them and ensuring they are not held accountable for the damage they’ve done to the nation and the world. Whether the issue is Right to Life, Women’s Rights, Illegal Immigrant Rights, Gay Rights, Free Enterprise or KEEP AMERICA SAFE, the welfare of the average citizen, the middle class and the voter has been replaced as a priority in the public discourse with either wedge issues or police state propaganda, primarily as distraction from the actual political and economic mechanics of governance.

4. The selling of the nation’s military secrets and intelligence operations, endangering all citizens of the United States.

5. The failure to prosecute malfeasance in the Federal Government and the financial sector, which caused Depression 2.0, and to immediately enact significant sanctions and regulations to correct the endemic problems in the economic structure of the nation.

6. The transformation of the World’s Greatest Democracy into a highly oppressive Police and Prison State with a pervasive propaganda apparatus, by politicians and their enablers, using the “War on Terror” and the “War on Drugs” as excuses for dismantling a host of Constitutional guarantees and protections.

7. The abandonment of all pretense of restraint or secrecy by collusive politicians and corporate power brokers, who have co-opted the democracy and the nation’s wealth and governance for their own ends. For instance: the case of Goldman Sachs and Treasury; the energy monopoly and Dick Cheney; the Tom Delay-led corruption of the legislative branch of US Government by lobbyists, the Corporate Health Care  monopoly’s crushing of reform, against the clear mandate of the American people; the continuing state of war; and so on.

8. The crushing privatization of education, military, prisons, arts and government, and the dismantling of the nation’s wealth-generating infrastructure and its wholesale transfer overseas to enemy states and individuals, to destabilize the United States and reduce its power by redistributing the country’s treasure to a new/old international aristocracy. Although this process has taken several decades, its greatest successes have occurred in the past ten years.

9. The gross neglect of a whole generation of American youth by the governmental and corporate power elite.

10. The most massive bottom-up redistribution of wealth in world history.

> I’ll provide commentary if you think that’s necessary, once I return from this next op.

Best,
Zeelio
01/10/10