Military Industrial Complex or M.A.D.?

I find as a peacemaker I don’t dislike anyone. I have interviewed soldiers and those who believe in the military as a solution. Overtime it has been an unquestioned approach to ensuring peace and security. Some would say under extraordinary conditions it can maintain peace. However, what we have seen around the world is the profitable industry of militarisation and its use as a tool of economic regeneration or deflection from domestic issues. Increasingly it has been used to represent special interests rather than protecting the society. To this end many soldiers have lost their lives in wars that are deeply opposed at home.

We are all learning that real resolution to conflict is the future. The reason we can no longer go down this track is the weapons are just too powerful and we can destroy the planet. We are at a point in time, indeed a tipping point where we must begin to look at truly resolving conflict. We have to look at power and democracy. Democracy is not used in this message as a western idea, its essence is to enable the voice of the people to be heard and acted on. For in my experience as an analyst the average voice of the people highlights common sense. If decisions are kept in the control of the few they can be distorted by special interests. I regard those who have orchestrated much destruction as teachers. We live in a world where we must choose between self interest or best interest. If the latter is the choice then referendums must be conducted or internet polling where all the population vote on issues. I think this will be the future, thus participatory democracy of the majority. That gets my vote.

MILITARY INDUSTRY IS COMPLEX

The military industrial complex,
Has a complex,
A new nuclear danger,
The killing fields,
Agent orange,
Is now on red alert,
For the Soviet Union has collapsed,
From compliance to deterrence,
Rains ash,
Mount Pinatubo is a minor eruption,
Mutually Assured Destruction,
Is the assumption,
That becomes fact,
For the climate has changed.

The fuel cycle,
Hot rods,
Can not be cooled by the tower,
The China Syndrome,
Is not a one mile island,
For acid rain knows no boundaries,
As the radioactive water table,
Becomes a carbon sink.

Nations are going nuclear,
Uranium sales to China,
South Asia is online,
North Korea under covers,
Seeking a bargaining chip at the Security Council,
Played in favour of power not votes,
The energy companies have a head of steam,
For money is power and utility,
As the Cole inquiry plays off justice against business as usual,
For the two are mutually exclusive,
Bribes become fees that buy access,
For human rights are decoupled from trade,
A Clinton tirade,
In a world educated to value profit over people.

US Inc.
Another corporate takeover,
For influence is access to the inner sanctum,
A Masonic lodge of sorts houses the yes men,
For money talks,
Whilst democracy listens in quiet retreat,
The power to the people
Is consumer choice,
Citizenship is sedition,
And politics is circus skills,
Performing for a well trained media.

Do you recognise the precipice?
For that is where you stand,
On hair trigger alert,
It will not be long before we understand,
The decision to fall or fly,
The hour glass has tipped,
One minute to midnight,
Civilization or civil war?
The new years resolution,
A United Nations resolution
for a new world re-order just-in-time?

Political will can be indifferent,
Social conscience is apathetic,
For the focus is on money,
Yet money cannot bring happiness,
Money cannot buy security,
$1 million per minute on arms,
Can never replace a million silent alms.

The Bush fires are not being extinguished,
Oil burns when it is not capped,
The Project for a New American Century is not a paper tiger,
Imperialism is a fierce law of tooth and claw,
Dictatorship is a wolf in sheep’s clothing,
For industrial relations enslave,
Sedition is silence,
Apathy is dumbing down,
Non action is passive agreement,
The silence of the lambs,
The social contract is binding in name,
Unfair dismissal regards flexibility as supply and demand,
Yet any demands cut off supply,
The food chain dictates compliance as deterrence,
For this is the white Australia policy platform.

For the true power lies within,
It resides in a home not the House,
In substance not structure,
In human relations,
Not international relations,
For this is a human story,
Why not make it a World story?
Where the hero emerges from obscurity,
Testifying to the true security,
Of non violence,
Non cooperation with evil,
Where truth and love are no longer ideals,
But real effective action,
For only the truth will set us free,
When we declare our values as universal,
The Universal Declaration,
Is the jewel of the Nile
that is not in denial,
Indeed a peace treaty,
Where these truths are held to be self evident
Inalienable,
And above all sustainable,
for true peace on earth.