The First Amendment has been twisted, contorted, tortured
and misrepresented so as to make it possible for corporations to buy our
political system, gun nuts to surround unarmed women in coffee shops and people
with a mouth full of vitriol and a mind full of hate to jump around like hyenas
on crack shouting at and threatening small children crossing our borders. Anyone who opposes this distortion of our
values, this self serving, childish and idiotic agenda is called anything from
Un-American to evil and many times offered violence by way of demonstrating
that equality is a thing of the past in this great Republic of ours.
It is understood that along with equality, sanity has been
lost in the great desire to homogenize, Christianize, propagandize and
sterilize the American landscape as with cruelty and stupidity we pickup our
social order and return to the beginning of the last century when men were
white, their women and children were property and everyone else was
disposable. The vanguard of evolutionary
regression sweeping this country and back peddling through over half a century
of civil rights legislation is a quintet of old men in long black robes
safely ensconced behind a 252-foot buffer zone in Washington D.C. A handful of elitists with more power than
they are able to use judiciously do not a recipe for liberty make, not for
workers, not for voters and certainly not for women.
Many egregious things have come out of the Scalia Court; the
asinine notion that Roberts is running it is to my way of thinking one of the
most insulting. The ventriloquist and
his dummy notwithstanding, the assertion that freedom of religion can be used in
a secular state to displace the rights of half the population is beyond
insulting and borders on a Jack-the-Ripper-Ted-Bundy kind of pathological misogyny. Still,
this is not just a woman’s issue. Any
man who is married to a woman in childbearing years and works for a “closely held,”
deeply religious employer trying to use God to shave a few pennies off their
group insurance plan best not count on his dick to guarantee that his wife can
access contraception through his policy.
The idea that any of this is about freedom of religion is a
hoot in the first place. It is about
freedom for one religion – Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, Alito and Kennedy’s religion. This is not about God or loving God or
following Christ. It is about
establishing a state sponsored morality and belief system ordained by a cabal
of puffed up mouthpieces who far and away resemble the priests of the
Inquisition more than ever they resemble the loving Christ they claim to follow
so bloody devoutly. They are in effect
through law, the old whore, reordering the nature of the human species. At the top of the food chain is the corporate
person followed by the rich person with the rest of us falling somewhere below –
women generally near the bottom.
The corporate person does not breathe air, it breathes
money. Living on the Free Market the way
other people live in their houses and communities, the corporate person is
chained to its bottom line the way we are anchored to our atmosphere. This is Corporate Person’s Achilles
Heel. This is where women need to
strike. Organized boycotts on a very
large scale with millions of women participating would be our best weapon of
choice. There can be no question that corporations
like Hobby Lobby rely upon the consumerism of women. Indeed around 80% of all consumer dollars are
spent by women. This is real power. To that end I am joining other women in the process of putting together a project that would facilitate the
use of our power. We have agreed upon
the name, “Mama Ain't Happy” for our organization.
Now I am anticipating the old canard that women are so often
exposed to when taking up a cause for their own benefit. This would be the big picture argument. You know the one. It goes something like this, “There, there
dear while I understand your concerns you must look at the big picture. Large scale boycotts – if a group of women
could even achieve such a thing, doubtful – could be very harmful to the
economy. Jobs, people need jobs. I understand that this wasn't fair, but hey.”
Most of you know that I lack tact for the most part,
particularly when I am annoyed. The big
picture argument annoys me at the best of times. I have been very clear in the past with my
answer to this particular line of bullshit.
As always I will be happy to suggest that anyone who cares to make such
an argument can take their big picture and insert it in whatever orifice it
will fit with a whole lot of KY Jelly and a big “good luck with all that,”
because Mama ain't happy and with any luck that will mean that somebody ain't gonna
make no money no how.
