Infomodities 92 - Consolidated

Ninety-two

Careening down a reckless path of blind hope and arguable vision

Disseminating infomodities to a marginalized public

Appropriating airwaves and disc players through dubious channels

Injecting drop of fluoride into a sea of mind candy

To cauterize the abscess of a virtual reality society

How is the mind manufactured?

Through censorship, propaganda, manipulation, and erasure of all history,

politics, and social development

We demand freedom of information

Yet the Freedom of Information Act has been rendered an oxymoron

Under Reagan executive order, all documents of potential controversy are to be

classified, and are therefore out of reach of the Freedom of Information Act

How can we hold federal agencies like the FBI, FDA, and Department of Defense

accountable when they are totally untouchable?

Our mind’s under the spell of voodoo economics

For twenty years Capitol Hill has passed laws to favor the rich and powerful

While the middle class crumbles under the weight of taxation

And the working class and poor are being starved by privatization of health,

education and housing services

Insufficient prenatal care for poor women gives way to astronomical infant

mortality rates in the city

As the rich secede from a third-world US

Yet the middle- and lower-class taxpayers will still have to pay for the crimes

at the top

$ 700 billion, including 250 billion for the subsequent coverup of the S&L

crisis, the largest financial scandal in US history

We were blind to Reagan’s Justice Department, swindling Inslaw Corporation out

of its intelligence and tracking software, and turning it over to Earl Brian,

a businessman and arms dealer, as a payback for his arranging of Reagan’s

arms-for-hostages October Surprise

Then there’s George Bush, whose public persona is absolutely one of virtual

reality, considering his central role in the CIA’s covert operations around the

world for more than three decades

In addition to his son Neil’s known S&L ties, his brother Prescott,

a financial consultant was paid $ 200,000 by Japanese companies with alleged

links to organized crime

His son, Jeb, a Miami real estate developer, is a close friend and business

associate of Leonel Martinez, an active supporter of the Contras,

who has been investigated for four murders and for smuggling cocaine and

marijuana into the US.

Martinez is currently serving 23 years in prison for

drug trafficking

You tell me

Are we blind, or is it virtual reality?

'War is the health of the state' has been US policy for over two centuries

However, when uncensored media coverage of Vietnam racially altered public

opinion on the war effort

It became necessary to conduct all subsequent military campaigns within the

realm of virtual reality

The Gulf War set new standards for wartime secrecy

How do we make up our minds when we aren’t told about the thousands of Iraqi

soldiers buried alive by US tanks?

Or the marines' use of napalm?

Or the denial and ongoing coverup of Iraqi civilian casualties?

Or that reporters are routinely harassed by government officers?

Both CBS and NBC refuse to broadcast uncensored footage taken inside Iraq by

independent producers

Do we believe Bush’s claims of massive Iraqi buildup on the Arabian border,

when Soviet satellite photos clearly contradicted this?

What we … to war with accompanying cheerleading polls on TV

Do we realize that every two days in the Iraq War we spend $ 1 billion?

That’s as much money as a whole year’s allocation for AIDS treatment and

research

And that 70% of that money is wasted on cruel and pointless animal

experimentation?

In 30 days, the Gulf War costs more than the whole federal annual allowance for

affordable housing, environmental protection, job training, Head Start,

alternative energy programs, low-income legal aid, adult literacy programs,

and handicapped education combined?

Through all of this, the government, corporations, and media continue to wage

their assault on the women’s and environmental movement

Lawsuits, surveillance, and harassment of activists, coupled with misleading

advertising campaigns attempt to derail advancements made by these movements

Dan Quayle, blaming the decay of inner cities on single mothers

And talk radio personalities, who reflect corporate conservatism,

ridicule and distort gains made in gender and environmental protection

This is just information to assimilate

You take what you want from it

In many ways we will continue to be blind

Can we escape virtual reality?

You make up your own mind

Consolidated

I’m out