Editor,
Upon hearing the speech of former Mexican President Vicente Fox at Popejoy Hall, it became obvious why he was considered a great leader by many dignitaries of the United States. He gave a powerful presentation that enraptured the audience so much that several times people gave ovations. Vicente is another classic caricature of a puppet-head for the exploitative system of government strangling the citizens of this planet.
Let me break this down into some details:
The prominent message was that increased worker production would solve the economic crisis. Unemployment is reaching near-Depression numbers, and the government is giving billions of dollars to failed banks that are owned by the world’s most prosperous institutions, particularly the members of the Federal Reserve who enact the very policies that caused the housing market collapse. This is just like all the other “collapses” that helped usher in foreign colonization and domestic surveillance. How are working people going to increase production when they already dedicate more hours to work, and the fruits of their labor are going to the filthy rich while they close factories and companies to outsource jobs? Why is it our responsibility to bail out the mistakes of those in power so they stay in power?
The message given by Fox echoes distraction tactics given by Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Reagan, Bush I & II, Obama and all others ensuring complacency of the masses while select families remain in control of the world’s wealth. Another, almost humorous, distraction tactic Fox brought up was the epidemic of H1N1, the swine flu. This tactic has been used before, but the short attention span of those raised by television have forgotten. For evidence, research the swine flu epidemic of 1976 that was accompanied with very few deaths from disease and many complications from the immunization shots. There is even an old “60 Minutes” story on YouTube (look for “CBS documentary on 1976 Swine Flu”) that was quickly removed from television and set precedent for media censorship on the issue.
Among the other rabble-rousing methods used, Fox could not resist detesting the policies of indigenous leaders that have gained power through the people’s power and not corporations’ funding. There was no reason or critique given for the need to remove leaders such as Hugo Chavez, but none was needed for the Pavlovian crowd that applauded in fear of dissension. This is the same way they applauded leaders being developed through El Centro Fox — a presidential library-turned-think tank that
resembles a friendlier Wilhelm Institute, the Rockefeller-funded German training center for the leaders of the Third Reich. I assume El Centro Fox will produce bureaucratic and technocratic minions, such as non-Presidente Calderón who stole the election from Obrador using similar techniques used by Bush in Florida. The government of Mexico recognized Calderón’s false victory after heavy pressure from diplomats and corporations of the United States. Does anyone see a pattern here?
I agree with Fox on one topic and the best quote he has possibly ever said, “We all have holes.” He reminded us that the governments of the United States, Mexico, the state of New Mexico and the University itself all have holes. In all fairness, Fox was discussing the deficits of financial budgets, but anyone with the slightest idea of what is going on knows what kind of holes are responsible for these financial woes.
I thank Fox for a wonderful case study about a man who rose to power to protect the power of a few, while telling the people to their faces that it is up to them to work hard and get through these tough times brought upon them by those in power.
Please do some research and use critical thinking and logic about what is going on in the world today. It is bigger than hip-hop, celebrities, swine flu, recessions, etc. This is big business. We need to increase awareness so we can start taking care of ourselves and our communities instead of providing blood, sweat and tears to oil the cogs. I challenge myself and everyone who reads this to remember we are all one and in this together.
Jedrek Lamb
UNM Alumnus
