"The mediums of profit or force to spur us to work harder are
non-existent. Our motto is solely to serve, and not to profit. One
hundred per cent of our working time, labor, energy and production is
solely and directly used and spent for our progress, construction,
sanitation, cure and prevention of diseases, pleasures, amusements, and
in all avenues to lengthen and make our lives more democratic in its
true, and full sense. We are more comfortable, healthier, safer, better
and happier. I dare say more than 90% of your working time, directly
and indirectly, is used for the creation of offensive, defensive,
destructive and killing instruments. Thank God that our teen age boys
do not have to army drill and train as they do on your high school
playgrounds and surrounding streets and we do not have to send them
into gory battles to either get killed or become paraplegics.
"We are of our own free will controlled to our way of life, and
have great potentiality of advancement, and attainment to an equal
realization of our aims.
"I hope I have proven to you that our way of what you call regimented
life is of our own choice and free will, and far superior and better
than yours. It gives us real liberty, freedom and happiness.
"Your gigantic bonded Federal public debts to the amount of
$252,292,247,513.[42]
"Burdened with payments on account of your many wars.
"Veterans administration reports that pensions and benefits are still
being paid yearly to veterans' heirs and dependents of war veterans,
as the aftermath of the Mexican War of 1846. The Civil War of 1865.
Wars with the Indian tribes, war with Spain of 1898. World War 1 and 2
amount to $1,788,883,344.[43]
"These do not include your states, counties, cities and private
indebtedness with your extra load of interest payments on all of them.
"Regimented and enslaved economically by octopus monopolies created by
your moneyism.
"With different kinds of national dictatorial and corruptive
governments, with their organized forces of secret police, with
their innumerable disgraceful prisons, insane asylums, and horrible
concentration and slave working camps.
"Your compulsory military drafts, trainings, services, savage gory
battles, and extermination. Life on your planet is so very hazardous,
you have no safety.
"In general your sanitary systems are disgraceful. You criminally
expose your people to typhoid, dysentery, infantile paralysis, and
gastroenteritis from your sewer polluted drinking and bathing waters;
and with your poisonous drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other unhealthful
foods and habits.
"You are not by any means a free lance, from your economic struggles,
and you will never have democracy, as it is truly defined, as long as
you tolerate moneyism, but you love these conditions, and call that
freedom?"
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