Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.

By nature, politicians are problematic. They are constantly in conflict with the self, not knowing except pretending to be something they are not - an actor on stage - a puppet to entertain others, you will hardly find a man of politics with living conscious and discarding pretension and cynicism, and more obliged to public good.

The people’s revolution in America, Europe and across the globe called “Occupy Movement” has articulated inspiration from the struggle of the Egyptian people against the authoritarian tyranny at Tahrir Square to emerge as a force of courage and imagination for New Thinking and Change uniting the humanity as ONE against the tyranny of the few bankers, corporate warlords, billionaires, politicians and blood sucking draculas of the so called democracy who have never known homelessness, nor experienced poverty, unemployment and being outcastes in an overwhelming man-made class system of the few.

(On the US politicians) “A gregarious type who has a big ego; who speaks with a hypocritical forked-tongue to different audiences; who can deceive other people while looking them in the eye; a narcissistic who yet is so insecure or greedy that they can be bought-off by lobbyists and dance as their puppet while appearing to show leadership…” James A. Marples (“Any wheat in this political field?”)

America is a land of opportunities but its politics is primitive, egoistic and an obstruction to the innovative and creative thinking of the American masses. So much so, the common folks appear to have lost interest in the dull and non-productive politics of the 21st century US governance. If the CNN and Wolf Blitzer are to be believed of today’s reporting, American masses give only 16% approval grading and 83% disapprove the role and working of the present politically divided Congress. This outcomes of the assessment makes the legitimacy of the US politics irrelevant and in dire NEED of change and adaptability to the futuristic demands of a new age - a new generation so reasonably antagonistic to the traditional establishments kept disconnected with the people and operated solely by the lobbyists and corporate interests.

Strangely enough, President Obama was elected on the distinct premise of change and the political slogan “Yes we can.” Once in the powerhouse, he turned out to be dysfunctional as far as logic and intellectual needs of the people of the United States are concerned. Form the Audacity of Hope to “Yes we Can”, he defied all the implications of REASON and responsibility and preferred complacency and continuation of the bogus War on Terrorism, political killings of innocent people across the globe and reversing publicly made legal commitments to close the infamous Guantanobay Terror Prison, and to normalize relations with the Muslim world. Take a cool breathe, don’t be shocked, we are not at the end of history, all politicians are outcome of self-centered interests, egomaniac ideals and individualistic absolutism. They simply use the symbols of democracy and publicly funded apparatus to get votes and then imagine their own game plan to count people as digits, numbers and databank to enhance their own political agendas. Indeed, democracy now can be described as off the people, buy the people, and far the people.

In his letter James A. Marples (“Any wheat in this political field?” The Topeks Capital Journal: CJonline.com, USA, 11/26/2011) shares few interesting perspectives on the American politicians: “A gregarious type who has a big ego; who speaks with a hypocritical forked-tongue to different audiences; who can deceive other people while looking them in the eye; a narcissistic who yet is so insecure or greedy that they can be bought-off by lobbyists and dance as their puppet while appearing to show leadership…..Many good people capable of running for elected office can’t or won’t put themselves into the political arena. The campaign season is too lengthy and the political gauntlet is plagued by reporters who are part paparazzi and part-cockroaches.”

The people’s revolution in America, Europe and across the globe called “Occupy Movement” has articulated inspiration from the struggle of the Egyptian people against the authoritarian tyranny at Tahrir Square to emerge as a force of courage and imagination for New Thinking and Change uniting the humanity as ONE against the tyranny of the few bankers, corporate warlords, billionaires, politicians and blood sucking draculas of the so called democracy who have never known homelessness, nor experienced poverty, unemployment and being outcastes in an overwhelming man-made class system of the few.

Across the globe, the people’s movements in some 82 or more countries called “Occupy the Wall Street” and the sitting-in protests of the left over 99% mankind - the voices of reason against the systematic economic, social and political cruelty of the 1% - a revulsion against the greedy norms of billionaires and economically generated nobles of the 21st century. The corporate sponsored media has carved up myths against the 99% living mankind, not knowing and understanding the pains and anguish of the deprived citizens of the same republic while asking for defined agendas and listing of demands as if it was a court drama of argumentation. Long time ago, Shakespeare must have sensed the play of human deceits and paradoxes to put into a proper context. While the rich indulged in conspiracy and corruption, “the destiny of people coincided with the destiny of their monarch and nobles.

The 99% people of the human kind occupying the civic centers across the globe, question the criterion of insane satisfaction implied in the so called zones of economic prosperity and maintaining higher standards of living – an economic fantasy of the human illumination. All man-made systematic notions of life, be it the former Communism or the current work in progress under the Capitalism aim at exclusion of the fullest human values: moral, social, economic, political, intellectual and spiritual, the planners see what they want to implement as suitable to the genius of the few controlling agents of influence- bankers, military-industrial complexes and owners of free market stuff. They cite religion as primitive and irrelevant to the modern age but throughout history man’s fullest skills, aspiration and success has flourished through the nature and scope of the system of belief- Divine Religions. Unlike economic forecasts and speculative reasoning, Divine revelations have helped the mankind to rediscover their sense of moral, social and spiritual originality and values and to frame a dynamic outlook of life harmonizing material and spiritual dimensions leading to peace, moral and intellectual freedom, new ideas and ideals for the future and a universal context to the besieged humanity. Thus facilitating the scattered mankind a focused forum to organize a universal character of unity – “WE THE PEOPLE” the beginning of the American Declaration of Independence, The UNO Charter, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and so many other global manifestos and statements - all have one way or other violated the very essence of the written covenants and victimized the large segment of mankind of which they were intended to be defending the cause. The 99% occupying protesters and victims of police brutalities - we the people could not gain what was promised to them by the solid covenants via the democratic system of governance - a clear travesty of moral, social and economic justice. Imagine what rational foundation is there for the democracy to be operational as a system of people’s governance.

By nature, politicians are problematic. They are constantly in conflict with the self, not knowing except pretending to be something they are not - an actor on stage - a puppet to entertain others, you will hardly find a man of politics with living conscious and discarding pretension and cynicism, and more obliged to public good.

James A. Marples (“Any wheat in this political field?” The Topeks Capital Journal: CJonline.com, USA, 11/26/2011) reminds the mankind:

“All of us are human. We are all sinners who have some portion of our past that would embarrass. Candidates should acknowledge shortcomings, not cover them up. Big money and established names dominate the field…..Out of a nation of more than 300 million souls why can’t we find some new, fresh faces? I’d rather see a motivated person of good character who might have little experience run for office than a dubious character with a long resume and fake Hollywood looks…….

I’d like to see lobbyists barred from personally wining and dining candidates or officials. And the ultimate term limit, one term for any state or federal office, should be imposed. Then, an elected official would be barred from government service of lobbying for three years, after which he or she could seek election or appointment of another state or federal position. Officials would be more apt to work for the peoples’ interests rather than their own. We need to separate the wheat from the chaff.”

Paul Craig Roberts (“Western Democracy: A Farce And A Sham”, 11/03/2011) points out that: “If you need more evidence of this mythical creature called “Western democracy,” consider that Western governments are no longer accountable to law…..In America the only thing that can ruin a politician is his interest in sex. A politician, for example, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, B. Obama, cannot be ruined by violating United States and international law or by treating the US Constitution as a “mere scrap of paper.” Bush and Cheney can take America to wars based entirely on lies and orchestrated deceptions. They can commit war crimes, murdering large numbers of civilians in the cause of “the war on terror,” itself a hoax. They can violate US and international laws against torture simply “because the president said so.” They can throw away habeas corpus, the constitutional requirement that a person cannot be imprisoned without evidence presented to a court. They can deny the right to an attorney. They can violate the law and spy on Americans without obtaining warrants. They can send due process to hell. In fact, they can do whatever they want just like Hitler’s Gestapo and Stalin’s secret police. But if they show undue interest in a woman or proposition a woman, they are dead meat.”

Gordon Duff Staff Writer and Senior Editor of Veterans Today (“DIPLOMAT, DRUG MULE OR TERRORIST?” 02/18/2011) spotlights the episode of Raymond Davis who killed two Pakistani national in cold blood murder at Lahore. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called him a “diplomat”, in reality he was a CIA operative contractor involved in subversive and illegal activities across that land of the poor and deprived, managed by the US aid dollars including the Pakistani government – the PPP –Zardari’s thug operative governance and the army Generals on regular US payroll. We now call it diplomacy explains Gordon Duff and the thugs are “diplomats.”

“We can only imagine what they do. We have seen their parties, gay sex orgies in Kabul. We have seen the photos from Abu Ghraib. We have seen the bodies, children, women, the aged, anyone unable to duck gunfire from the window of a Humvee or black Chevy Tahoe…. What is Raymond Davis? ….. Raymond Davis has supplied the answer. His training? Davis is “black ops.”…..“Black ops” is the friendly term for terrorism, usually reserved for our enemies. ….. What Davis is accused of isn’t new. Americans have been arrested for driving around Afghanistan, shooting people at random, throwing hand grenades into crowds. Americans haven’t been arrested for breaking into homes, dozens of them, murdering entire families “by mistake.” Americans haven’t been arrested for drone attacks that seem to leave rows of corpses, always so many children among them, burned and dismembered, just like the photos of the “precision attacks” on Gaza….Is America telling Pakistan that Davis and his friends were on “official business?” Have they explained exactly what that business is? I can’t wait to hear this one.

Hey, what does it matter. Pakistan is notoriously corrupt. Wait a couple of weeks, slip a few hundred thousand bucks into the right pockets and it will all be forgotten.” American policy makers view Pakistanis as beggars, bootlickers who will perform all kind of superficial acts to please the Master - the one who calls them an ally when needed but will stab them when they become a liability. Emotionally charged protesters compete in shouting matches on streets when recently the US led NATO forces killed 24 Pakistani troops but never take time to THINK to hold the domestic traitors accountable and PLAN - how to change their enslavement to the foreign Master.

Paul Craig Roberts (“Western Democracy: A Farce and A Sham”, 11/03/2011): sums up the global politics, the specialized generic discipline of the few who at best are the contemporary warlords – the gatekeepers of the global democratic governance – an institutionalized duplicity funded by the people, chosen by the people and works against the people in all its intents and purposes and only for the good of the FEW - the 1% in question by the 99% masses of the planet - that symbolizes the election psyche “democracy at work.”

“In Amerika today, or in the UK and the EU, anyone who tells the truth is a “threat.” Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who made public information leaked to him by US government sources horrified by the criminal actions of the United States government….. Western “civilization” is totally corrupted by American money. There is no integrity anywhere. For a decade Washington has been murdering women, children, village elders, and journalists in the name of the hoax “war on terror…..

The only terrorists Americans will ever experience are those funded by their own tax dollars within their “own” government. A people incapable of perceiving its real peril has no chance of surviving. America might be a military superpower, but it no longer exists as a free country with accountable government and a rule of law.”

The US and West European nations appear bankrupt, not just financially or intellectually but also morally, socially, politically and spiritually too. All can be traced back to their warmongering and passion to dehumanize and kill the mankind looking different in color and taste and ethnicity. Nationalism made them fight against the rest of the humanity. But mankind is alive and progressive, whereas the European nobles, warlords and hegemonic leaders have died in disgrace and humiliating manners. Nobody would remember them as we do Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Should the intelligent ones not learn a lesson from the living history?

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(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja, an academic with special interests in global peace and security and conflict resolution, and comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of numerous publications in global affairs. His latest book includes: Arabia at Crossroads: Arab People Strive for Freedom, Peace and New Leadership. VDM Publishers, Germany, September 2011. Comments are welcome: kmahboob@yahoo.com)