The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement did America a large favor. For generations, ordinary folks have suspected that greedy capitalists have monopolized wealth. Now that OWS and other courageous citizens from coast to coast have sacrificed themselves, it’s up to the moderates, liberals, socialists, union members and all other fair-minded Americans everywhere to stand shoulder to shoulder and expose the filthy rich who smother and repress honest working people from sharing in the good life. Above all, thanks to OWS, honest Americans now can expose capitalism for what it really is.  And nowhere is capitalism more discriminatory and gluttonous than in professional sport. In fact, professional sport reveals clearly the evils of capitalism and fans everywhere hunger for a change. Especially in the area of discrimination. Thousands —  millions — of players are excluded from playing professional sport because they are not big enough, strong enough, fast enough or lucky enough. Players born with exceptional talent have all the advantages. There is only one way to describe their salaries — obscene. The best players have more money than entire companies. And no one can justify the immense salary disparity among team members. To be fair, every player on every team should have the identical salary regardless of position. Every football player is important to a team. A quarterback is nothing without an offensive line. A pitcher is nowhere without a catcher. A Nascar driver is  nobody without the lowliest member of the pit crew. Share and share alike is the only moral system. In fact, college athletes who are drafted and granted big bonuses should share their windfall with college teammates who helped make it all possible. Tiger Woods is worth half a billion dollars. Thousands of other golfers make little or nothing; but without all of these other golfers, there would be no tournaments. By all rights, therefore, tournament winners should receive recognition and valuable trophies; but each golfer that competes should receive equal payment. It’s only fair. You can hear diehard capitalists now, whining that some athletes work harder, contribute more, have more ability, attract more fans, take more risk, blah, blah. That’s a tired old song, sung to hide the obvious truth — that the only way to even out the inequities of life is to share in the rewards of life. Since professional sport by far is the most visible example of the immorality of capitalism, we should begin there; then move on to a place like Hollywood. Leading actors, directors and writers make mega-millions while set builders, technicians, grips and other slugs struggle to make ends meet. Next in line are major corporations that must be held accountable — to distribute wealth to all employees equally, from top to bottom. Wealthy entrepreneurs who have the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time, must also share equally with the public sector. Thankfully, we have a President who is and will continue to be an eloquent spokesperson for this fair distribution of wealth. With his innate genius, unparalleled experience, understanding and moral courage, he eventually will persuade all caring Americans to realize that only Central Planning Agencies, under his direction, can bring about equal treatment and economic justice throughout the land. Whatever overrated progress America may have made in the past 236 years will pale by comparison to the future as he, in his own words, “transforms America.” No one will argue that he is well on his way. Capitalism may not die easily or gracefully; but little by little, with the continued consent of the governed, it’s only a matter of time.

The Mother of all Sin is Theft. That assertion certainly isn’t original with you but you question why theft occupies such a lowly rung on the Sacred Tablets. “Thou shalt not steal” is in fact the 8th Commandment. You must concede, as Author, God had every right to give Moses a set of rules and that He could prioritize them in any way that suited Him. They were His rules, after all. Predictably, therefore, He placed Himself front and center, even admitting to jealousy, a rather human affliction. Commandments 1-4 duly mandate that you render Him the love, respect and fidelity He deserves — exclusively — or else. No problem. He’s the Boss. Commandments 1-4 concern, therefore, your spiritual relationship to Him in the heavenly realm. Suddenly, then, The Commandments do a 180 and dictate your mortal relationship in the physical world. That abrupt change in direction doesn’t add up. In hindsight, He could have instructed Moses to publish two documents: One, “The Four Commandments,” subtitled “Man’s Relationship to God;” the second, “The Six Commandments,” subtitled “Man’s Relationship to Man.” For that matter, the original document could have been happenstance. For the sake of argument, you could allege that Jehovah threw down a couple of dozen or more laws in no particular order and it was Moses who prioritized, tabulated and edited them, guessing that Ten would be far easier to brand than, say, Nine, Fifteen or Twenty Six. Not particularly skilled in this sort of stenographic endeavor, he simply winged it. He’s on this cold, barren mountain for 80 days (and nights) in two separate sessions, for pete’s sake; he doesn’t have a Bic and posted notes handy. No pocket recorder. No IPad. You can only imagine how he managed to juggle this information until he had time to transcribe it. You have to give him credit for capturing what he did. He had his hands full. He had to take time out from this historic interview with God to massacre approximately 3000 of his own people for daring to worship a Golden Calf. Given the same assignment today, with the help of Power Point methodology, and assuming Ten was the magic number, the Commandments might have looked like this:

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
I. Man’s Union With God
A. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
a. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing.
b. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
B. Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.
II. Man’s Union With Man
A. Thou shalt not steal.
a.Thou shalt not kill.
b.Thou shalt not commit adultery.
c.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
d.Thou shalt not covet
B. Honour thy father and thy mother

Essentially, Two Commandments run the show. There’s only one God and you better worship Him. And you can’t steal, period. Everything else is a subset. In the clear light of day, almost every sin of man’s inhumanity to man is rooted in Theft. Every second of every day, men steal lives and property. On a grand scale, nations invade nations for one purpose — to steal. Tribes massacre tribes for one purpose — to loot and pillage. Joshua led the Jews to commit genocide at Jericho for only one purpose — to annihilate the people and steal their wealth (all of course with God’s blessing). Serial killers get off on stealing life itself. Crime syndicates kill to steal and steal to kill.  Government is a world-class thief and ultimate taker of life. Elected officials steal from people living today and people not yet born. They live in the lap of luxury, squander the public treasury and feather their nests. You will be hard pressed to think of a single iniquity not related to Theft — whether you lie, cheat, covet or kill. Evidently, God planted a Theft Gene deeply into the human DNA and then commanded humans to reject it on pain of Hell itself. If you weren’t so fearful of retaliation, you might suggest He pulled a dark joke of cosmic proportion. Because, genetically, humans are driven to steal. No walk of life, however lofty, or lowly, is immune. This must be true. The evidence was and is explicit — in war-torn lands, in prisons, in boardrooms, in courts of law, in bungalows and mansions, on farms, in factories, in public buildings and private places. If this were not true, human history simply would not repeat itself. Human history does in fact repeat itself precisely because humans precisely repeat their behavior — slaves to the Theft Gene. At the end of the day, you have to look in the mirror and ask: “Are you guilty of Theft? Of course not. Of course not. Well, maybe a slip here — or there — nothing that amounts to anything . . . . . . . . .

In case you haven’t heard, America has a black President. At least that’s what you’ve learned from exactly 100% of the experts who write and talk for a living. 100% is a sizable number. If you disagree with 100%, you might say you occupy a minority position. Well, so did Copernicus. The truth is you don’t disagree with the “President” part. It’s the “black” part that baffles your sense of common sense. The experts have agreed the President is the only issue of one Stanley Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, and one Barack Obama, Sr. of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Dunham was white. Obama was black. You see where this is going. Who decreed that the progeny of a white mother and black father is black? And who decreed that the progeny of a white father and black mother is black? You must conclude that, genetically, black is superior to white. Or God forbid, inferior. Depends entirely on your prejudice. Who decides? If Mr. Obama, ostensibly born in America, is black, does that mean a son born in Africa to a white father and black mother is white? This dilemma persuades you to advance an empirical postulate that surely will be adopted by every world-class  institution of higher learning: Human beings shall henceforth be classified by the color of their skin, not the content of their DNA (apologies to MLK). In America, this precept has special meaning. The President is Black, African and American, in that order. Apparently, having a white mother is irrelevant. Apparently, the nation of one’s birth is equally meaningless. In Germany, a newborn is German. Likewise, the earth is populated with Cambodians, Brazilians, Bulgarians, Egyptians, Kenyans, Peruvians, Russians — you get the point. In America, however, a newborn with at least one black parent is black, period. Not American, mind you. But African American. You might suspect that these observations have a racist undertone. No kidding, Gertrude. The American black community hangs on to Race like Charlie Rangel hangs on to his House seat. Conclusion: A white citizen is an American; a black citizen is an African American. Understandably, black citizens embrace a black first attitude. This proclivity is decidedly in their self interest. There’s no advantage in being just another run-of-the-mill American. Too easy to get lost in a crowd. Too easy to lose the underdog status and control. Playing the victim is win-win. If you win, you win against all odds. If you lose, you play the race card and win again. In America, if you procreate with a white, yellow, red or caramel person, your offspring will be black, guaranteed. In another 150 years or so, African Americans may decide, like dozens of other nationalities, that being plain American is a blessing. Maybe they will acknowledge that over 350,000 white people died to end slavery. Maybe they will recognize that white Americans elected Barack Obama in 2007. Maybe they will learn to be color blind. You think?