And so we mourn the passing of an illusion.

[jotsy]

As the reality of an independent nation has now been declared officially no longer with us, by no less than the Supreme Court of the United States.

In three separate ways has this week alone shown us the opponents to the notion of ’we the people’. They have revealed themselves and in so doing, announced there's nothing they have left to fear from the likes of little old us.

What happened to the senate race in Massachusetts is an example of how a party displayed its willingness to throw in the towel before the people had actually spoken, suggesting to me that favors were traded behind closed doors and legitimately chosen governance was dealt away like a prime athlete for some other bauble or consideration.

And then of course, there's that big ass blood letting blow to the body of a public political process brought to you by the judicial branch of the federal government. The highest court in the land has forsaken the people by unleashing the rabid dogs of economic war to chew away what little power remains in the hands and voice of actual citizens.

Lastly, a radio network bearing the nation’s very name announces it has but hours to broadcast before falling silent when it signs off, permanently.

I have something to say to the affluent, and its posse of facilitators. You fill the emptiness within you by acquiring all you can reach like the rabid dogs of economic war you are., I won’t have a home in less than a week, my meals in the meantime may be few and far between, I’ll suffer and you’ll laugh merrily as you dance your hoity toity selves to the bank daily, but know this. You will never, ever be as rich as me for what I am free of, and that, is envy of you.

[undergroundpanther]

1. I don't pity or envy them

I just want their insatiable greedy tentacles off of me.And off of my country.If they won't let go by stubborn and clever resistance ,maybe we should make them go..away.

[jotsy]

4. I can not, will not see violence as my means to their end.

A bloodless coup is what I see as necessary to prove that life and the quality of it is to be valued more than any amount of money or desire for dominance that drives the insecure to need it so.

[undergroundpanther]

7. Pacifism does not work

Ghandi made alot of mistakes.Learn from them.
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/fascism/gandhimistake.html




Originally written for the radical therapy movement's "Issues in Radical Therapy" The book has two main focuses. First, it points out the failure of the North American "peace" movement's ability to create any sort of lasting or "revolutionary" change in American society and the global repressive apparatus of Capitalism. Second, it suggests that nonviolent activists undergo a sort of therapy to help them understand not only why oppressed people take up armed struggle, but also why it is impossible to create any sort of change in their circumstances without doing so.

Though the idea of some sort of "radical therapy" may at first seem simplistic and maybe a little silly, Churchill's idea of therapy as he spells out in several chapters would indeed take North American Pacifists out of their cozy, privileged environment and expose them to the very real threat of social, as well as state, repression. Basically, he speculates, the results would be one of three outcomes: the Pacifists would wind up with a stronger idea of how nonviolent tactics do not protect the Pacifists from violence and thus the Pacifists might understand that bodily, financial and social harm is inevitable in genuine struggle to better conditions for oppressed Peoples; the Pacifists might come to understand why oppressed Peoples often feel compelled to take up armed self-defense; or the Pacifists would retreat to the safety of the suburbs from which they came, and give up the charade of activism before someone - themselves, for instance - gets hurt.

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/1954

http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=pacifist-desmond-tutu-calls-for-use-of-force-against-mugabe-s-regime

"I loathe all armies and any kind of violence; yet I am firmly convinced that at present these hateful weapons offer the only effective protection."
—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
—Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"We will no longer attempt to prove how reasonable we can be.
We will go before them, face to face, to fight for our freedom.
We will not be held hostage to their administrative efficiency.
We will not keep to our place. We will never again be put away.
We are freedom fighters now. And this is war."
-- Mouth Magazine

'Give me your starving masses, your poor, your 'crazy', and your gays, and I'll give you the world's greatest revolutionary army.'

"Death came on little kitten's paws, that transformed to the claws of a tiger. MY claws"

[jotsy]

11. I don't recall saying I don't want to cause them discomfort.

Control through money is what is at issue here. It's as much our weapon as the lack of it is theirs.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. K&R

:hug:

[defendandprotect]

3. The myth of a democracy . . . and remember Scalia in 2000 reminding us we had no right to vote

for the president!!

Technically, he's right!

[Kablooie]

5. I don't know about you, but I'm gonna work hard to become a rich, industrialist Republican now.

Then the government will be working for instead of against you.

[RZM]

6. I'm certainly with you on the SCOTUS decision . . .

This is not good . . . and we all know it.

But I question how significant the first and third events you mentioned really are. I'm not trying to belittle what you think, but everybody seems to be reading a bit too much into the Mass. election. A lot of stuff went into what happened there, but the CW (even here) seems to be that Coakley did not run a good campaign. She (and the DNC) got lazy -- I don't think they 'threw in the towel,' or that 'favors were traded' -- rather, they took the seat for granted and only realized what they had done until it was too late. This kind of thing happens in electoral politics -- if you get too comfortable, there's always somebody working hard to try to bite you in the ass. It's also entirely possible that this seat will flip back in 2012. And it's only one seat out of 100. The illusion was that the Democrats actually possessed a 'real' 60-seat majority.

As for Air America, they've had financial problems from the beginning, including filing for bankruptcy in 2006. It could have easily ended then and there.

I don't disagree with a lot of what you write, I just don't think that these two events are especially significant. I also agree that freedom from the envy of others is a rare treasure that too few people, of any political or economic stripe, actually possess :)

[jotsy]

10. Certainly, the lesser two of the listed items.

A slight trip, a bad fall and a slip getting up. It's the combination of a collectively dismissive brushing off and away that calls my attention to the whole package which speaks to me a message in the pattern. Without resource, rights are an unrealistic expectation.

Haven't a choice but to agree with you about the financial state of Air America, but I do believe they would have been better supported by the kind of grassroots effort that brought the president into play in the first place if they had trusted the talent that put AAR on the map.

The results of the senate race however is a little harder for me to see as a genuine outcome, but you're correct again, the seat is up soon enough. I just hope that the parties and candidates will wait for the people to finish having their say before jumping to any conclusions based on what they anticipate.

You make excellent points and the fact that you do so without bullying is a rare treasure in itself.

[RZM]

13. Thanks alot

I hope things start looking up for you real soon :hi:

[EmeraldCityGrl]

12. Keep in mind Obama ran one of the best campaigns in history...

They've got it down to a science. Coakley's campaign was the worst in recent memory and we're suppose to
believe they didn't see it coming until election night?....I'm not buying it.

[kentuck]

8. If they cannot resolve this issue in a bi-partisan way...?

they cannot resolve anything in a bi-partisan way.

[salguine]

9. I think it's about time to start building guillotines. There are probably enough

out-of-work carpenters who'd be more than happy to pitch in.