The speech given by Arundhati Roya in San Francisco, California on August 16th, 2004 describes what is going on in our country and by our current government in the name of democracy. She describes the current state of India, and that there are two major sections the public and the sarkar(government). She discusses how the elite people take over as soon as a revolution happens after a freedom fight and do the same things that the British did over five decades ago to India. She discusses the similarities between the governments of India to the current American government. Just like in India the rich get richer and the poorer get poorer. As currently seen in America for example, the gas prices. At $2:50 a gallon the rich oil companies are making remarkable profit while the common middle class people struggle to survive and the government has done nothing. America has spent billions of dollars to fight the war in Iraq however are laying off teachers and peace officers in the country. Schools are on the verge of closing because of the government cutbacks. She discusses that it is always the poor who have the hardest struggle. How the governments create a fear in the minds of the society, causing hysteria and than use that to justify their laws. India has done it. So has the US in the name of democracy when they invaded Iraq under allegations that Saddam had mass destruction weapons which were never found. Just like the Vietnam that one of our ships was attacked which there is not proof of.
             She talks about the elections that just took place and that there was no real choice. As Keary admitted that he would have gone ahead with 98% of President Bush's decisions. The talks about how International trade and finance oversee multilateral laws and agreements in countries. The system allows the unrestricted entry and exit of massive amount of capital into and out of third world countries. For example the Outsourcing of C...