WHY DON’T MOVIE STARS ADOPT AMERICAN BABIES?
NOVEMBER 2, 2010. Well, maybe they do, but we don’t hear about it in the press. Apparently, movie-star adoptions are part of the feel-good wave-front of globalism.
Certainly, there are places in the US where grinding poverty and orphaned babies go hand in hand.
Perhaps it just doesn’t sound heroic enough, finding a baby in America. Anyone can do that. Only a few people can fly thousands of miles and pull it off.
I suspect movie stars want to make a point about “all of us” being one planetary family.
Of course, flying a few thousand miles has other advantages. If you’re the Clintons, for example, you can escape the fallout from the elections and distance yourself from Obama. But I digress.
I don’t think we are all one planetary family. No. I’m quite sure we’re not. You have your family and I have mine.
Let’s take a mythical Third World country called X. For a thousand years, internal conflicts and wars have ripped the country apart. And then neighboring governments, eager to expand their holdings, have invaded and disrupted X as well. Then you had your colonizers, who came in from Europe and turned the people of X into subjects. Corporations, from America, Europe, and Asia made inroads, leasing swathes of land for mining and drilling and agri-business, dispossessing citizens and buying off local kings and presidents and tribal leaders, staging coups, and using death squads for the hard cases.
Business as usual.
If all these meddling corrupt outsiders had stayed out, maybe X would have worked out its own problems. Maybe not. But it would have been their mess. It would have been their country, their future, their choices.
Globalism, when you strip away the veneer, really does mean business as usual, you see, without the trade tariffs. And mega-corporations can roam the world, move money in and move it out of countries at the drop of a hat, and outsource whatever they want to, wherever they want to. All in all, it means cutting costs for these companies.
Then, on top of that, you have your layer of propaganda. We’re all one global village, hands across the water, love thy neighbor, give away (highly toxic) pharmaceutical drugs to starving people for whom the drugs are useless and destructive—and above all (shh), don’t clean up the water, don’t spend a few millions decontaminating water supplies to promote health.
To the degree that adopting a baby from a faraway land is a political statement that promotes the general notion of international friendship, it’s a ruse. It’s a misdirection. It’s a con.
Well, I can go a lot further than that. Almost all foreign policy of all governments is a con, because it’s either about war alliances, economic loans (which often turn out to be bait and switch propositions that drive the recipient nation into bankruptcy), or some other scheme that enriches a government opposed to freedom (those governments are very easy to find).
But…minding one’s own national business is a dead duck these days. To enlightened “progressives,” it’s a passé notion supported by Neanderthals.
No, we must meddle. We must deal. We must intercede. We must make ourselves part of the problem and then pretend to solve the problem.
That’s why, in his Farewell Address to the nation, George Washington warned against adopting foreign babies. He said, “Don’t give me that. I know what this is. It’s a feint. You’re doing a head fake. You’re starting a move to the right and then you’re going left. Hey, I was at Valley Forge. You think a hustle like this is going to take me off my spot?”
JON RAPPOPORT
Jon Rappoport has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. He is the author of a unique course for home schools and adults, LOGIC AND ANLYSIS. For inquiries: qjrconsulting@gmail.com