“We were standing at the window in the office we shared, looking out at the stagnant canal that would pass the PLN building. A young woman was bathing in its foul waters, attempting to retain some semblance of modesty by loosely draping a sarong around her otherwise naked body. “They’ll try to convince you that this economy is going to skyrocket,” he said…A movement up the canal caught my attention. An elderly man had descended the bank, dropped his pants, and squatted at the edge of the water to answer nature’s call. The young woman saw him but was undeterred; she continued bathing.”
This is the world that John Perkins saw in his book published in 2003. He justified it, he denied it, he even went as far as to write a book titled “The World as you Dream it” but as Perkins recalls while he drove down a dirt road in Ecuador with the Shuar tribe what they said, “ ‘The world as you dream it [?]’ … ‘Change that dream.’”
“This story MUST be told. We live in a time of terrible crisis and tremendous opportunity. The story of this particular economic hit man is the story of how we got to where we are and why we currently face crises that seem insurmountable. This story must be told because only by understanding our past mistakes will we be able to take advantage of our future opportunities… Most importantly, this story must be told because today, for the first time in history, one nation has the ability, the money, and the power to change all this. It is the nation where I was born and the one I served as an EHM: the United States of America.”
You gentlemen and ladies here at HBO must consider making this book into a TV movie that millions will watch just so that this story can be told.
With the help of an all-star cast such as politically inclined actor, George Clooney as John Perkins and Jennifer Connolly as Claudine, We plan to take the silver screen by storm. In our movie, Enrique Ingelicas explains to Perkins about the alternatives to war and silent imperialism as Omar Torrijos. Oded Fehr plays Farhad, teaching Perkins about the Middle East and even saving him from certain Annihilation as Iran falls. Rip Torn plays Howard Parker who proves to be Perkins wisest teacher showing him that capitalism may make things cozy in America but the world outside of our own back yards is one we may never want to see.
Real clips of the invasion of Panama and our presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush are shown through out the film. The signing of the treaty of the canal can only be broken down by the real pictures of carnage in Panama after the American invasion for that same treaty to be destroyed. The hostage situation in Iran with Black Hawk down can be shown to show the people what Hollywood has already shown them in the recent movie Black Hawk Down.
Perkins in this film adapted from the book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man goes from Ecuador to Indonesia, to Panama, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and back to Ecuador to drive the final nail into his proverbial coffin of guilt into doing the right thing.
His point at the end of the book is that many people will go through the same thing he does but because of the wall of lies and deception into doing “the right thing” they won’t know the truth from the lies.
At the end of the book he has a daughter with his new wife, years after he divorces his first wife Ann for mutual differences of opinion, named Paula. He tells us that he believes it is his duty to build a world for her, or at least help shape one where she doesn’t have to live with the mistakes and purposeful problems set in motion by those who came before her.
He says at the end of the book, “The EHMs had failed. The jackals had failed. So young men and women were sent to kill and die among the desert sands.” The paragraph goes on to explain what this would mean for the royal house of Saud but I think we all know this means much more to the American people and to see how all this came about is one of the things that Americans are now eating up as they come to grips with the fact that their government may not have their best interests in mind. We get distracted with all the things on TV and with what the media giants like CNN put on the air to tell us that it’s all ok and we’re beating back the oppressors but really all they’re doing is putting on another type of football game for us to say, “touch down in Iraq!” Perkins writes, “We who live in the most powerful nation history has ever known must stop worrying so much about the outcome of soap operas, football games, quarterly balance sheets, and the daily Dow Jones averages and must instead reevaluate who we are and where we want our children to end up. The alternative to stopping to ask ourselves the important questions is simply too dangerous.”
So ask yourselves these questions you patrons of justice. Will you let the truth go untold and let your children and their children remain unaware of those atrocities committed in the name of freedom, in the name of their country, the greatest and most powerful country on the earth, to fill the pockets of the corporotocracy or will you lend the only help you can in the fight for liberty and democracy around the world by letting the truth be known and telling this story of one man’s faults and eventual confessions to these deeds? Will you like Perkins, struggle with the truth or be as Paul Revere and ride bravely into that night to alert the people that their oppressors have arrived? You alone hold the key to making this movie but the truth is already out there in a book; the confessions of the Economic Hit Man have been leaked and no press in the world can stop the truth short of simply calling Perkins a fanatic. Words are the most powerful thing to deter future injustices and Perkins has shown us that with his novel. He has told us the story of his life that he lived and we cannot deny him the fact that he was there when these things happened. The fire is burning brightly for the masses and like the light of heaven; it is our destiny now to be drawn towards that light and right those wrongs. Either way, the truth is coming out and we all are busy telling it so join us and together we may find a light, a way, and a path towards what is right and what is just. Until then, I await the decision of a few good men willing to tell the tale.
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