I was recently conducting some research on unrelated matters when I came across the following article authored by Chris Hedges [a former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and the New York Times]. They are disemboweling every last social service program funded by taxpayers, from education to social security, because they want that money themselves. Let the sick die. Let the poor go hungry. Let families be tossed in the street. Let the unemployed rot. Let the children in the inner city or rural wastelands learn nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students finish school with no jobs and no prospects of jobs. Let the prison system, the largest in the industrial world, expand to swallow up all potential dissenters. Let torture continue. Let teachers,police,firefighters, postal employees and social workers join the ranks of the unemployed. Let the roads, bridges, dams, levees, power grids, rail lines, subways, bus services, schools and libraries crumble or close. Let the rising temperatures of the planet, freak weather patterns, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the tornadoes, the melting poplar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the polluted air increase until the species dies. There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us. Which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt ordinal into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave. To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of laws means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say I am innocent is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. -Chris Hedges- Im sharing this article in an effort to make individuals think and give a little thought into whats going on around us in the world today. Things will never change unless we take the necessary steps together and do our individual part. Everyone has the power to make a difference. W/R Nick W.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 04:33:16 +0000
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