American morality scam

- The immorality of hiding behind this same “pro-life” rationalization to inhibit medical research that could cure illness or injury, while having the blood of thousands of wounded soldiers, and tens of thousands of wounded civilians, on one’s hands;

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- The immorality of condemning affirmative action policies because they allegedly provide “preferential treatment” while benefiting from preferential treatment one’s entire life;

-The immorality of increasing animosity towards American soldiers by daring Iraqi insurgents to “bring it on,” after having used family wealth and influence (or in Dick Cheney’s case the deferment process) to avoid combat duty during the Vietnam era.

Living under such tyranny has corrupted the economic structure as well, leading to the following examples of immorality in that sphere:

- The immorality of the rating-driven televised media wasting primetime hours kissing the posterior of so-called celebrities, while banishing programs dedicated to relevant social issues, like locating missing children, to the wee hours of the morning;

- The immorality of retailers engaging in shameless self-promotion by refusing to carry books, videos or CDs that are allegedly not “family-oriented,” when these retailers don’t give a damn about the families of their employees—working them long hours, paying them sub-poverty wages and providing them with shoddy benefits, or no benefits at all;

- The immorality of massive profits being generated by illegal wars, or from products made in third-world sweatshops, oftentimes by prison or child labor;

- The immorality of promoting the “downsizing” or “outsourcing” of jobs held by others when one would not want his/her own job to be downsized or outsourced;

- The immorality of celebrities and commentators enhancing their careers by hawking patriotism and/or war through television programs, movies, interviews, books or songs when they have never served in the military themselves.

Naturally this list could continue indefinitely, but by now I’m sure readers get the idea. And if you do not agree with some (or all) of my definitions of immorality, then you’ve proven the point of this essay: Morality is a fluid and relative term.

But there is one constant, and ironically it is the constant that far too many members of the so-called “Religious Right” routinely ignore, even though they claim to revere the One who said it—“Treat others as you would wish to be treated.”

Hopefully, if there is truth in the belief that the universe always seeks a balance, then those in the Bush dictatorship, and those responsible for permitting, encouraging, promoting or profiting from its evils, will ultimately face a reckoning, and the tortures, abuses, injustices and exploitations they’ve visited upon others will eventually be visited upon them—for eternity and beyond.

David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru

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