BOYCOTT
WAL-MART!!!
“What gives power its charge, positive or negative, is the
quality of relationships. Those who
relate through coercion, or from a total disregard for the other person, create
negative energy. Those who are open to
others and see others in their fullness create positive energy. Love in organizations and business
corporations, then, is the most potent source of power we have available to us
in society”, Margaret J. Wheatley
According to most faiths from Christianity to Judaism to
Islam, and many others, there is a common thread amongst them all, and that is
that “WORK IS HOLY”. All people should work that are capable to
work, but that work must not just be for wages, or profits for a corporation,
it must be viewed upon as a connection to all the world’s people, for the
common good of all, not just to pay a mortgage or for a shareholder to get
wealthy off the labors of others. From
the foundation of our country, the USA,
many of our ancestors from Europe, Africa,
Mexico and Asia
brought with them a sense of pride in work, with the exception of IMMORAL SLAVERY AND NOW DISRESPECTFUL AND
PATHETIC, IMMORAL LOW WAGES FOR MOST WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD. People within multi-mega corporations have
forgotten the golden rule; “Treat others as you would want to be
treated!!! From the Hispanic migrant
workers in Immokalee, Florida, California and Texas, to the horrid sweat-shops
in China that produce most of Americans clothing, to the non-livable wages
created by Wal-Mart, “WORK IS NO LONGER
HOLY” !!! Work has become evil; it is rapidly returning to the days of
serfdoms and economic slavery held over the masses of people’s heads for the
sheer delight of only 10% of the wealthiest people in the world. It has become idolatry and high treason
against God’s people.
Work is supposed to be a participation in God’s work of
creation. When work is reduced down to its
lowest denominator – profit for the sake of all humanity, we all lose in the
end. If people are suffering and barely
surviving in China,
Bangladesh and India,
which is the truth and you, know this as a fact, then how can you live with
your conscience? We are directly taking
away their quality of life, so you can have cheap clothes from Wal-Mart. If you believe in God or a Supreme Being, and
you violate God’s call for work to be holy, for all creation to be treated
equally and fairly with livable wages and human decency and respect for all
human beings, then you are violating His Commandments. You do not care about your fellow brothers
and sisters in God. It means you have so
little genuine love for all God’s creation, especially His children, which in
turn is hatred, if not love. True love
motivates one to help, honor, respect, and care about all God’s children
whether they are in China, Iraq, Africa, South America or right down the street
from you, and your co-workers, family and friends. You have become a worshipper to materialism
and consumerism, and really do not honor God, nor love Him. Once again, true love motivates believers in
God to love all their neighbors, not just the ones you decide to love. You really have missed the boat my fellow
Christian believers, because to love God is messy work, but holy work. When you say you love God, then you must
become involved in holy work to structurally and socially find justice for
all. We cannot rest until all God’s
children are taken care of, not just our biological children, all of God’s
children. You hypocrites, as Christ said
to the so-called holy Jews of His time, I say to you now, you can NOT wear the Christian label, unless
you truly attempt to love and care for all of God’s children throughout the
world!!!
Several years ago, Fortune magazine asked scores of
managers, supervisors and CEOs what were the main reasons they worked. The overwhelming response was to pay their
mortgage, but take a gander at the following answers. Most of them truly want to make the world a
better place, to help themselves and others to grow spiritually, and to perfect
their technical skills. What is
surprising to pinpoint is the crucial need for harmony and justice in human
work: to serve the common good and one’s own need to grow in spirit and skill. Fortune magazine must have failed at asking
the Walton Family heirs to the mega-monster retailer Wal-Mart, because Wal-Mart
does NOT practice or participate in
the common good of humanity, only the common good of themselves. Shame on you – Wal-Mart.
Robert K. Greenleaf, who worked for AT&T for thirty-five
years retiring as Director of Management Research had the following to say
about the business world. “Do those
served in and for the business grow as persons; do they become healthier,
wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to help the common
good? And, what is the effect on the
least privileged in society; will they benefit, or at least, not be further
disgraced and deprived? Greenleaf said
this was the maxim test for the entire business world. This is what was expected of corporations to
live up to in their mission and practice for work to remain holy. Do all the people working for the company or
the people that do business with that same company grow as persons; become
better people that would want to serve the common good of humanity? Most of all, in the process of doing business
do we remember the least privileged in our world first to make sure they will
benefit too, along with everyone else?
This is the litmus test for all people working for any company, and most
of all of the leaders of this particular business organization, whether
for-profit or not. All of God’s creation
must be considered first and foremost, and NOT
the bottom line (profit). Working for Ft.
Madison, Iowa hospital, I too
see that the main goal is not creating healthier people working for the corporation;
it too is still about the bottom line, that’s why lowly Certified Nursing
Assistants make a paltry and pathetic wage and health insurance plan. FMCH doesn’t understand that work is holy
either, but they are miniscule in the big picture. The number one immoral and unholy culprit in the world today is WAL-MART!!!
God forgive you…. Greenleaf
concluded by saying the following about good business. Greenleaf’s research concluded that the
proper vocation of all business includes, but goes far beyond, financial
health. Corporation’s purpose involves
the fostering of spiritual well-being.
Therefore, the highest calling of any organization designed for-profit
or not is to see itself as a servant to society in developing people committed
to serving others for the common good and love of all God’s creations,
especially people. Without these types
of good business, we are doomed to perish as a growing and prosperous culture,
as in Rome and many other places in
the history of man’s quest for power, domination and greed. Wal-Mart is the Roman Empire
of today, and everything it stood for then and now. Well, at least we know that Wal-Mart is
heading down the same IMMORAL AND UNHOLY
path of the Roman Empire. But, that means we all collapse along with
the mighty ugly Goliath (Wal-Mart). God
save us from our foolish and greedy ways!
In yet another study of business, which was published by
Psychology Today magazine of research completed by The Center for Creative
Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina found out what top executives in
business really expect of themselves and of their counter-parts in the business
world on a scale of one to ten;
1. Sensitivity
towards others
2. Personal
warmth and availability for others
3. Integrity
4. Loyalty
5. Superior
overall business performance
6. Ability
to delegate
7. Ability
to build positive energy in staff relationships
8. Ability
to think strategically
9. Ability
to adapt
10. Independence
of spirit
“Only two of the attributes are what might be called
“executive job skills” with direct application to success in business, numbers
five and eight. There is nothing here
specifically about competence with budgets and balance sheets, nothing about
marketing skills or predicting business trends or overseeing and adjusting
profit margins. Some of the attributes
are more relational than others, but all represent spiritual, emotional, and
intellectual skills in using the power for participation- this is, in a
collaborative or looping mode as opposed to the use of power in a competitive
top-down or linear mode,” Leadership for
the Third Millennium, by Bennett J. Sims.
What much of the research suggests is that free-market
capitalism, rather than fair-market capitalism, as it has evolved into only
money-hungry, profit-driven competitive consumerism, actually functions to
separate leaders from the masses of people.
More than that, capitalism as consumerism separates all people from one
another and from their own personal growth and spirituality. Much research and spiritual reflection and
powerful prayer indicates to expose free-market consumerism and materialism as
the false god of today, as sinful and fallen away from God, as Christian’s new
idolatry. This is most likely why China,
a communist and atheist country is so willing to jump on this new capitalism
based on idolatry, rather than God’s natural laws of love of thy neighbor. As it turns out, it’s not Communism which is
evil, but free-market consumerism and materialism, which has replaced our one
true God. Especially here in the United
States, shopping has replaced God, and move over God, because Satan has spread
like a wildfire across the USA, but people are blinded by his friendly yellow
smiling face, and today’s new idol over God is now the wicked WAL-MART in your own community, which
continues destroying the delicate balance of business.
There does remain a small minority of people and businesses
trying to appeal to a higher level of ethics and morality. Clearly, business enterprises such as Ben
& Jerry’s Ice Cream in Vermont
and Tom’s of Maine are nothing
like Wal-Mart, and clearly have flourished.
These companies have designed and conducted their expressions of
capitalism in ways that are congruent with the values that most human beings
hold dear. In both case they became
resounding business successes as they turned their corporate energies in the
direction of serving individuals and the public good. Clearly these corporations as well as many
others have turned away from consumer capitalism toward a more compassionate
relationship with both people and the environment. And, clearly Wal-Mart is a self-serving
monster devouring everything good to mankind and most of all God. Wal-Mart is a materialistic, consumer driven
capitalistic and unbridled and out-of-control deviant moving people away from God. The monolithic Wal-Mart Corporation clearly
wants to destroy everyone and everything in its destructive path, like a
Tsunami or hurricane that pummeled New Orleans
to its knees.
“In all my years as a Catholic Christian, I’ve never heard a
sermon on the TENTH COMMANDMENT of GOD.
We can’t possibly preach on Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Goods,
because Western society is based on that.
It’s called CAPITALISM. Mass
advertising tells us we need things none of us really need. It sows confusion about what’s important for
life. The level of need has moved to
such a level of illusion and sophistication that what were once ultimate
luxuries have become necessities. In our
culture, people cannot feel good about themselves unless next year’s vacation is
more luxurious than last year’s. and watch out for Christmas, Jesus’ birth has
turned into the most consumerist and materialistic holiday in the USA
– while the majority of God’s children on this earth are literally starving to
death. The Christian Testament for all
Christians says that true happiness is found in the simple things of life. That is about as traditional, old-fashioned,
and conservative a gospel as there is, and it will never change. We Christians must begin following the Tenth
Commandment,” Excerpt from “Preparing
for Christmas,” by Rev. Richard Rohr. We
have made Wal-Mart so big and so strong over the years by being great sinners,
and ignoring the TENTH COMMANDMENT!!!
Can God forgive us, if we begin to BOYCOTT WAL-MART today and everyday? Can we be forgiven if we follow Christ’s
simple command to take care of the least of us today and everyday, starting
today? Silly Christians, giving a FREE
Thanksgiving meal or giving cheap generic foods to the Food Pantry at Christmas
won’t save your dying soul. Giving your
crumbs from your bountiful table, which your family and friends feast upon will
not save you either. Follow God’s Tenth
Commandment and be saved!
“Throughout your daily business dealings, recall the face of
the poorest and the weakest person whom you have seen, and ask yourself if the
next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person. Will that person gain anything by it? Will it restore that person to a control over
his or her own life and destiny? In other
words, will it lead to freedom for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then, you will find your doubts and your self
melting away,” Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu
Saint.
Guess who is the world’s largest corporation, who produces
nothing and imports everything?
WAL-MART!!!
“During the last 20 years, Wal-Mart has moved into
communities and destroyed them, wiping out stores, slashing the tax base, and
turning downtown areas into ghost-towns.
This is accomplished through Wal-Mart’s policy of paying workers below
subsistence wages, and importing goods that have been produced under
slave-labor conditions overseas. Often,
our communities will even give Wal-Mart tax incentives, for the right to be
destroyed, and in turn the taxpayers of that community are paying higher taxes
to have a Wal-Mart, and soon only a Wal-Mart,”
by Richard Freeman of the Executive Intelligence Review.
I honestly believe Wal-Mart to be the USA’s
number one major foreign enemy, not Iran
or North Korea,
but really Wal-Mart. The bizarre reality
is that it is based right here on our soil, just like the immoral School
of America’s. Both are killing and destroying our people
with the lowest of possible wages, helping communist country’s like China
to get fat and sassy, and destroying all signs of true democracy, freedom and
spirituality. Where Wal-Mart struts,
whole communities collapse! It is the
honest to God truth! Wal-Mart does bring
many communities the gifts of higher unemployment and very cheap labor;
retirees and students fill the isles with bright shining smiles. But, they do not have families to feed. Wal-Mart pays its American workers sweat-shop
wages, and enforces a worldwide system of concentration camp production plants,
where many workers are literally kept as indentured servants.
“They fear us,” states Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart in a
documentary about the real face of Wal-Mart behind that yellow smiling
face. Mr. Scott, similar to another
immoral leader, President George W. Bush said we’ll stay the course, because
they fear us, whether that’s on the Iraqi battlefield or in the world of
business and economics, it remains “voodoo capitalism”, as Former President
George H. Bush said about President Ronald Reagan’s economics and war against
the poor masses of people throughout the world.
Yes, Americans, the world fears us because we have leaders like Lee
Scott and George Bush pushing all of us masses of people further and further
into poverty, like the days of the railroad barons, coal barons and of course
the still mighty oil barons of today.
When in one of the poorest countries in the world,
Bangladesh forces its people to live or die, there is only one choice, make toy
trucks that Wal-Mart buys for .18 cents, then charges Americans $4.97 for
it. Who made the most money here? Not the manufacturer in Bangladesh
and definitely not the Bangladeshi people who make pennies on the dollar every
week, but Wal-Mart who neatly and tightly controls all economics. There is no fair playing field, where once
competition ruled, because the competition laid waste in the ghost towns of
downtown businesses with For Sale or For Rent signs up on the windows. This is unbridled consumerist-driven
capitalism, or what the rich multi-millionaire Congress, White House, Media and
Wall Street investors call Democracy, Freedom, and Free Capitalism, rather than
Fair-Trade as designed by God’s plan for holy work. The Rev. James Lawson, friend to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., said this about Wal-Mart’s idea of business, “it’s just plain
and simple, PLANTATION CAPITALISM. It is re-designed and re-packaged from the
days of sheer, outright Christian hatred – SOUTHERN
SLAVERY. It started and is
headquartered in the Southern State of Arkansas, where from the five richest
people in the world, the Walton Family members are our masters, where we must
jump when they say jump. Dr. King would
be 100% against this new form of economic slavery imposed by so-called filthy,
rich White Christians again!!! What’s
new this time is that all the world’s minorities are slaves to Wal-Mart, it
involves Latinos, and Asians mainly, but still includes African Americans. What’s even more surprising is how easy it
was to get white women, white retirees, and white students to become slaves to
a “Plantation Corporation”. The rich
whites have even imprisoned their own race this time too – that is the funniest
part of this immoral saga!
Wal-Mart treats human beings as pawns or animals in a
complex game of winner takes all, and that would be the Walton Family, Wal-Mart
investors and the U.S. Government, who should all be held for HIGH TREASON against the American
people for whom this country belongs to, not George Bush, Bill Clinton, or
Scott Lee, and absolutely not shareholders or the Walton Family, but to you and
me. They are the enemies, which we must
love, but still defeat non-violently and peacefully with God. We must take to the streets and revolt, a
new, true revolution, where God is our idol, and not money! I challenge every good American to consume
less, to shop less, to desire less materialism and demand higher wages for all
the masses of people around the world.
Demand Fair Trade! BOYCOTT WAL-MART!!! People in Southeast Iowa
in the year 2006 will see me with my placard sign boycotting Wal-Mart all
year. This is the year to begin the REVOLUTION!!! Christians and all Faiths unite against the
immoral super-power, Boycott Wal-Mart…
WAL-MART:
- Pays
Non-livable Wages!
- Lowers
all Economic Standards!
- Creates
Sweatshops Worldwide!
- Busts
all hopes for a Union Wage!
- Destroys
small Communities!
- Raises
our Taxes!
- Pollutes
the Environment!
- Receives
Billions of $ in Government Subsidies!
- Promotes
Welfare and Medicaid to its poor employees!
- Raises
our Taxes!
- Discriminates
Against Females!
- Hires
Illegal Immigrants!
- Allows
Crime in its Parking Lots!
- Fires
Employees who tell the TRUTH!
- Is an
Illegal MONOPOLY!
- Making
the Communist Chinese Government Stronger!
- Walton
Family gives only 1% of wealth to Charity, while Bill Gates gives 58%!
- Pays
Chinese Workers only $3.00 a Month!
- Is not
Ethical, Moral, Christian – just pure evil!
- Raises
Your Taxes, RAISES YOUR TAXES,
Raises Your Taxes!!!
Just to set the record straight, I do not have a personal
vendetta. I neither have nor ever will
work for Wal-Mart. I have no family or
friends who work for Wal-Mart. I am just
a poor Christian guy, who wants to educate and relay a message of truth to the
American people and others around the world to the immoral actions of this
Mega-Sinner, Wal-Mart. Now, I want to
reflect back on the opening quote to this article by Margaret J. Wheatley. To receive a positive charge in life requires
us to produce healthy and happy relationships.
Everyday in our holy work, we relate with others, we develop negative or
positive relationships. Wal-Mart has
created unhealthy, unholy, criminal and highly negative relations with billions
of people around the world and here at home in the USA. In whatever our holy work is in life, we must
find and pursue positive energy relationships, because they will grow and not destroy
as Wal-Mart relationships do. Wal-Mart
relates through coercion and from a total disregard for other people – Wal-Mart
creates negative energy. Their
mega-stores are Godless and loveless, and most of us know if we look deep into
our hearts will admit that only love is the most potent source of power in the
universe. GOD BLESS THE WORLD!
BOYCOTT
WAL-MART!!!
*All inspiration and positive energy that flowed from
my fingers for this article is in thanks to the Spirit of God in my life *
Written by:
Scott P. Diehl, www.godblesstheworld.us