IMMIGRATION AND CENTRAL AMERICA
The refugee crisis has been dominating our news lately. While the focus of the news has been on our inhumane treatment of those desperate people trying to escape the violence in their Central American countries, very little attention has been given to addressing the cause of why these people have been fleeing for their lives and what we can do about that. At the same time some friends of mine have been debating the virtues and.or shortcomings of capitalism. I think these immigration and government/economic issues are tied together. American corporations supported by our capitalistic government have devastated Central American countries. In our School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, we even trained their military leaders on how to suppress their civilian populations though torture, rape and assassinations. Tens of thousands, including labor leaders, priests, and nuns have been killed. I guess that’s one way to reduce poverty — just erase those people.
Capitalism has resulted from the everyone-for-themselves (E-F-T) paradigm that has been in place unquestioned for thousands of years. Capitalism treats the Earth as if its a resource to be liquidated for profit, and this has resulted in the deforestation, desertification, and climate crisis now facing our planet. Also, the individual entrepreneurialism involved with capitalism gave us plastic, and, as I pointed out in the last newsletter, we can now never undo the resulting massive environmental damage. Yet, as I pointed out in The Next Evolution, capitalism, socialism and communism are much more alike than they are different because they are all centralized power-based systems where the key decisions are made by those in power, rather than people at the local level as per the Community model we propose. Because all these systems use currency as medium of exchange, they all necessitate jobs that wouldn’t exist if cooperation for the Highest Good Of All became the medium of exchange. 85% of our jobs could be eliminated with cooperation for the Highest Good For All, and we could also cease the liquidation of the planet because most of our resources are wasted because of the E-F-T paradigm. With cooperative Communities in place, everyone could be living more abundant lives on ALL levels, and people would not be fleeing one county to get into another.
We’re told that the violence that people in those Central American are fleeing from is the result of the drug cartel wars. What we must take into account is that those cartels exist because they are marketing drugs to the USA. And why are people using drugs, including the cocaine, heroin and opioids? Usually they are trying to escape isolation, alienation, poverty, depression, anxiety, etc. — which all result from the separation involved in the E-F-T systems. In the Community model that Community Planet and One Community propose, it would be almost impossible for anyone to escape into drug addiction and use. That would put an end to cartel jobs, and the implementation of Community models in Central America would also mean that our brothers and sisters south of the border would be enjoying abundance and safety without having to leave their native lands.
As an aside what we are not being told by main stream media is that for decades the U.S. has been propping up corporation-backed dictatorships in Central America. Check out this informative, well-done, video link: https://www.brasscheck.com/video/us-funded-government-terrorism-in-latin-america/?omhide=true