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Shock Media April 1996 Issue - Click, You're Dead 

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                            Click, You're Dead 

               Welcome to the wonderful world of international trade. A
               place where so-called civilized countries peddle their
               wares. International trade is supposed to achieve a
               number of things. Improve the economy, create jobs
               etc.etc.etc. That in itself is fine. It is also evident that it 

               has wrought global economic, social and environmental havoc,
               ushering in an era highlighted by slums, sweatshops,
               oppression and war. 

               It may however, come as a surprise to some of us that
               international trade and the internationalization of our
               economies is at the root of another, much more insidious
               disaster that is about to befall us. 

               The great leaders of the human masses have charted a
               course towards their own demise by refusing to act
               responsibly when dealing internationally. To herd people
               into cubicles and factories to produce for the highrollers,
               and then clubbing them down when they get restless is
               already quite an achievement, but the buck doesn't stop
               there. Guns, ladies and gentlemen. Lots of weapons for
               whom you ask? Anyone who's willing to buy. Let's first
               talk about what kind of weapons and then proceed to the
               results. 

               Atomic weapons for starters. Of course it doesn't mean
               that governments peddle atomic weapons on the fly to any
               maniac who wants to detonate them because he likes the
               look of the mushroom cloud. It just means that people like
               that will have to buy their atomic weapons from a corrupt
               quasi-mafia type official who works for the government.
               How about the Ruskie, China, US, Middle-East,
               Fundamentalist, Terrorist, Religious, Fanatic, Anarchist,
               Communist, Cuba connection? There are obviously lots of
               opportunities for the odd substance to find its way into the
               wrong hands. Instructions for how to build nuclear devices
               are readily available on the Internet, for those of you who
               haven't printed them off yet. It will soon be big news when
               the first "unofficial"detonation occurs. 

               Smaller weapons like tanks, rocket launchers and
               gunships, uzi's, kalashnikovs, grenades, landmines and
               handguns are also abundantly available, when the price is
               right. Where have you heard that before, "the price is
               right"? You didn't know it at the time but you were
               witnessing the international trade scam that allows for
               global abuse in return for cold hard cash. The horrific
               consequences of the small arms trade range from urban
               crime to the deaths of the millions of people around the
               world that have been attacked and murdered directly as
               the result of international arms trafficking among states.
               Britain, France, Germany, USA, Canada, Russia, and
               China are all countries which we tend to label as relatively
               civilized. Yet all quietly condone the mass murder that
               results from the international arms trade. The French and
               quite possibly the British, the Americans and other
               so-called civilized states sold weapons to Saddam
               Hussein, only to overblast the existing stockpile of existing
               western arsenal Sad had purchased for Iraq with a heavy
               dosage from their new and improved blaster guns (from
               Mattel). Swindlers, (official and unofficial), and
               Kashoggiites operate and sell with the blessings of our
               governments who themselves are eager dealers in
               products that kill and maim people. It will assure the futility
               of any attempt to control the ever increasing killing that
               goes on among and within states. 

               If you ever wonder why men, women and children are
               starved by their dictators, killed by crooked armies and
               goons, maimed by landmines and small arms fire, mustard
               gassed from rocket launchers or piled into mass graves,
               think of international trade and the wonderfully sick and
               unbalanced amalgamation of our economies. Think of it as
               a global death camp, when the price is right. 


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Shock Media April 1996 Issue