Playing The Government’s Game: When It Comes To Violence, We All Lose
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
- John Lennon
Yes, the government is corrupt.
Yes, the system is broken. By broken, I mean it’s “dysfunctional, gridlocked, and, in general, incapable of doing what needs to be done.”
Yes, the government is out of control and overreaching on almost every front.
Yes, the government’s excesses—pork barrel spending, endless wars, etc.—are pushing the nation to a breaking point.
Yes, many Americans are afraid. Who wouldn’t be afraid of an increasingly violent and oppressive federal government?
Yes, the citizenry has little protection against standing armies (domestic and military), invasive surveillance, marauding SWAT teams, an overwhelming government arsenal of assault vehicles and firepower, and a barrage of laws that criminalize everything from vegetable gardens to lemonade stands.
Yes, in the eyes of the American surveillance state, “we the people” are little more than suspects and criminals to be monitored, policed, prosecuted and imprisoned. As former law professor John Baker, who has studied the growing problem of overcriminalization, noted, “There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime.”
Yes, the United States of America is not the democracy that is purports to be, but rather an oligarchy ruled by a wealthy corporate elite.
Yes, politics is a sham. Average Americans have largely lost all of the conventional markers of influencing government, whether through elections, petition, or protest, have no way to impact their government, no way to be heard, and no assurance that their concerns are truly being represented.
Yes, the Obama administration’s efforts to identify, target and punish “domestic extremists” through the use of surveillance, corporate spies, global police and the Strong Cities network sends a troubling message to all Americans that any opposition to the government—no matter how benign—will be viewed with suspicion and will likely be treated with hostility.
Yes, we have reached a tipping point. The freedoms we once enjoyed are increasingly being eroded: speech, assembly, association, privacy, etc.
Yes, something needs to be done about the government’s long train of abuses, power grabs, erosion of private property, and overt acts of tyranny.
Yes, many Americans, increasingly dissatisfied with the government and its heavy-handed tactics, are tired of being used and abused and are ready to say “enough is enough.”
No, violence is not the answer.
A handful of armed protesters are not going to fix what’s broken in the government by forcing a showdown with government agents. In fact, this kind of scenario plays right into the government’s hands by provoking a violent confrontation that allows government officials to sanctimoniously justify their use of surveillance, military weaponry and tactics, and laws criminalizing guns and hate speech in order to target anyone who even vaguely resembles an “anti-government extremist.”
Take the latest spectacle in Oregon, for example.
Armed activists led by brothers Ryan and Ammon Bundy have occupied a federal wildlife refuge. The Bundys (infamous for their 2014 standoff with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing rights on federal land in Nevada) are protesting the government’s prosecution of two ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, who have been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly setting back fires on government-owned land in Oregon. (Mind you, the government owns more than half the land in Oregon.)
Few conflicts are ever black and white, and this situation involving the Bundys, the Hammonds and the BLM is no exception. Yet the issue is not whether the Hammonds are arsonists as the government claims, or whether the Bundys are anti-government extremists as the government claims, or even whether ranchers should have their access to government-owned lands regulated as the BLM claims.
No, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the larger question at play here is who owns—or controls—the government: is it “we the people” or private corporations?
Are American citizens shareholders of the government’s vast repositories, or are we merely serfs and tenant farmers in bondage to corporate overlords? Do we have a say in how the government is run, or are we merely on the receiving end of the government’s dictates? What recourse do we have if we don’t approve of the government’s actions?
Almost every struggle between the citizenry and the government is, at its core, about whether we are masters or slaves in this constantly evolving relationship with the government.
- Do parents have a right to allow their children to play outside alone, or must they abide by the government’s dictates about how to raise their families?
- Do homeowners have a right to manage their private property as they see fit, whether it’s with solar panels, vegetable gardens or rain barrels, or must they first seek the permission of the government?
- Do activists have a right to freely associate with one another, assemble in public, and voice their opinions publicly or privately, or must they be constrained by what the government and its corporate partners deem to be appropriate?
- Do residents of a community have to obey whatever a police officer says, lawful or not, or do Americans have a right to resist an unlawful order without getting shot or arrested?
It doesn’t matter what the issue is - whether it’s a rancher standing his ground over grazing rights, a minister jailed for holding a Bible study in his own home, or a community outraged over police shootings of unarmed citizens - these are the building blocks of a political powder keg.
Much like the heated protests that arose after the police shootings in Ferguson and Baltimore, there’s a subtext to the Oregon incident that must not be ignored, and it is simply this: America is a pressure cooker with no steam valve, and things are about to blow.
This is what happens when a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, fences them in, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brows while giving them little in return, and then provides them with little to no outlet for voicing their discontent.
As psychologist Erich Fromm recognized in his insightful book, On Civil Disobedience: “If a man can only obey and not disobey, he is a slave; if he can only disobey and not obey, he is a rebel (not a revolutionary). He acts out of anger, disappointment, resentment, yet not in the name of a conviction or a principle.”
Let me say it again: an armed occupation of a government property only plays right into the government’s hands and increases its power over the citizenry. Yet it speaks to a growing tension over how to bring about meaningful change when dealing with a government that refuses to listen to its citizens.
This is what happens when people get desperate, when citizens lose hope, and when lawful, nonviolent alternatives appear pointless.
Whether the parties involved are blameless or not, whether they’re using the wrong tactics or not, whether their agendas are selfless or not, this is the face of a nation undergoing a nervous breakdown on all fronts.
Now all that remains is a spark, and it need not be a very big one, to set the whole powder keg aflame.
The government has been anticipating and preparing for such an explosion for years. For example, in 2008, a U.S. Army War College report warned that the military must be prepared for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order”—all related to dissent and protests over America’s economic and political disarray. Consequently, predicted the report, the “widespread civil violence would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.”
In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.
Incredibly, both reports use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably.
That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” These reports indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—can be labeled an extremist. Under such a definition, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams—all of whom protested and passionately spoke out against government practices with which they disagreed—would be prime targets.
Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Obama has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if you’re seen as an extremist. Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the UN’s Strong Cities Network with its globalized police forces, the National Security Agency’s far-reaching surveillance networks, and fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies.
Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that will identify and track you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers being deployed in cities across the country, which will be attempting to “predict” crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs.
Hopefully you’re getting the picture, which is how easy it is for the government to identify, label and target individuals as “extremist.”
All that we have been subjected to in recent years—living under the shadow of NSA spying; motorists strip searched and anally probed on the side of the road; innocent Americans spied upon while going about their daily business in schools and stores; homeowners having their doors kicked in by militarized SWAT teams serving routine warrants—illustrates how the government deals with people it views as potential “extremists”: with heavy-handed tactics designed to intimidate the populace into submission and discourage anyone from stepping out of line or challenging the status quo.
What we’re grappling with is a double standard in what the government metes out to the citizenry, and how the citizenry is supposed to treat the government.
SWAT teams can crash through our doors without impunity, but if we dare to defend ourselves against unknown government assailants, we’ll be shot or jailed.
Government agents can confiscate our homes, impound our cars and seize our bank accounts on the slightest suspicion of wrongdoing, but we’ll face jail time and fines for refusing to pay taxes in support of government programs with which we might disagree.
Government spies can listen in on our phone calls, read our emails and text messages, track our movements, photograph our license plates, and even enter our biometric information into DNA databases, but those who dare to film potential police misconduct will likely get roughed up by the police, arrested, and charged with violating various and sundry crimes.
This phenomenon is what philosopher Abraham Kaplan referred to as the law of the instrument, which essentially says that to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In the scenario that has been playing out in recent years, we the citizenry have become the nails to be hammered by the government’s battalion of laws and law enforcers: its police officers, technicians, bureaucrats, spies, snitches, inspectors, accountants, etc.
This is exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution feared: that laws and law enforcers would be used as tools by a despotic government to wage war against the citizenry.
That is exactly what we are witnessing today: a war against the American citizenry.
Is it any wonder then that Americans are starting to resist?
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I can't believe they got thru a hot summer without as much a beep. Now they made it to winter. I just don't see anything happening here. The spark has gotten wet and soggy.
I just had a brain burp - if a movement were to get the election system changed so that every 4 yr presidential vote had a baked in tick-box for seccession, but seceeding states be committed to holding their own next 4 yr election in line with the Fed system so that they could vote back in if the people saw positive change. That way states could seceed for 4, 8 12 years or whatever until the Fed system became representative enough again. It would entail that Fed laws do not apply to those states who voted for suspension from the union until they come back in, and it means the Feds would quickly clean up their act and only pass fed legislation that would be perceived by all 50 states as beneficial. It also means a secession wouldnt be regarded as oh my god lets have a civil war, it would be a natural , expected occurrence
i know, put the crack pipe down, squid puppets a-go-go
If you ever managed to escape from them, why ever would you opt back in?
Lay down and let it happen goyim. That is how I read this article...
Yep. "Go vote Goy, and change things peacefully". That's what this pile of shit amounts to.
The writer of this article is pretty naieve. First of all, once govenment assumes power over anything, it does not give that power up without violence or the threat of violence. Second, in a nation of 350 million, how many SWAT teams does this guy think there are?
These govt goons still (for now) live in a community somewhere, in which they raise their kids and have a house and community with their wives and extended families. Violence doesn't even need to happen for us to get our point accross that we won't take this shit anymore, but the credible threat of it DOES. This is the whole purpose of the 2nd Amendment, to put the people on equal footing with the .gov "servants" and minimize abuses by said "servants".
It is a shame really, because I know many of the boots on the ground type guys, and they do tend to be good guys who believe that they're protecting us from whatever bad guys du jour have been cooked up by the politicians and beurocrats. The trick is to identify and target those calling the shots, as high up the chain of command as possible, not the footsoldiers who the self-styled elites consider expendable anyway.
Agreed with exception to your last paragraph. Sorry, but until those 'boots on the ground good guys' start to police their own, as opposed to simply look the other way or even aid and abet their 'brothers in blue' when it comes to covering up their tyrannical deeds.....then they too need to be identified and targeted. What choice do we the serfs have? In the end, they can all just say they were 'doing their jobs'.....whereas we have NO RECOURSE ON ANY LEVEL. So yes, by all means identify those at the highest levels.....but by NO MEANS allow their stormtruppen to escape unscathed simply because they weren't 'calling the shots'.
Besides, who do you think will be ACTIVELY AND PHYSICALLY OPPOSING YOU as you try and work your way to the top?
I'm not saying we submit or ignore them and hope they go away, just that they aren't the ones with the power to call off an operation or change the rules that govern them. They're fodder thrown in our faces to distract us.
History shows us that there are limitless supplies of henchmen to enforce the will of a tyrant, but the way to put a long term end to oppression is to strike and disrupt higher ups who don't have to get their own hands bloody.
Maybe the guys I know are the minority, but even if they quit or subvert (they say they would if it came down to it), then all it takes is a few job layoffs elsewhere for millions more to be willing to take their places.
Basically what I meant with that paragraph is when it comes to defending yourself and your own, all means are fair game. Once the immediate threat has passed though, it is prudent to seek out and tackle your closest approximation of the source of that threat. Of course, sometimes the bottom is the only place to start.
"...they aren't the ones with the power to call off an operation or change the rules that govern them."
They do have power over their own actions and do not have to carry out anything that is offensive to the U.S. Constitution or the Liberty or the Freedom of 'We The People'. ( .gov agents are NOT 'We The People')
You want a spark? Shut off the TV, Internet, ATMs, EBT access, and all mobile devices for 3-5 days and watch the sparks really start to fly. Until the masses can't be distracted by the sad circus that is our current and constant state of affairs, and people can't take refuge behind their narcissistic tendencies of status updates, retweeting Miley's twat, and unceasingly finger fucking their plastic gadgets, few people will even notice this is happening, and fewer still will have the desire and will to stand up and do anything until it is too late. We are all wired for self-preservation and TPTB know how to elicit that response all too well. The question is, will it be a suppressive, bloody response or something else?
Zeus, we need a big ass solar flare please.
"Shut off the TV, Internet, ATMs, EBT access, and all mobile devices for 3-5 days and watch the sparks really start"
Pfft. Any one person who wants to stop this can do so - for huge numbers of people - very easily, at any time.
No one wants it to stop, or it would all be broken. The majority of people are very happy with how things are. In fact, the majority of people are scared to death it will all end someday.
That is precisely my point.
Oregon and Other Patriot Groups Not Linked To Malheur Wildlife Refuge Siege / oregonunderattack#
http://thenewsdoctors.com/oregon-and-other-patriot-groups-not-linked-to-malheur-wildlife-refuge-siege/
a bit more relative.
no protected tortoise.
no solar farm.
lies & the lying liars that tell them.
here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkm6iSd--c
Got it... another feel-good, huff & puff, all bark no bite, big boy club.
"When things get serious, you distance yourself from true risk takers, and issue a Disclaimer Statement." Lest your lifestyle is put in jeopardy. How do you spell 'Controlled Opposition'?
Gosh, if only the Founding Fathers had the good sense to do the same. /sarc
Then we could've been like Australia, Canada or New Zealand. / not sarc
"The best way to control the Opposition, is to create it yourself." -Lenin (lawyer, 1/4 Jewish, financed by NY Jewish bankers).
Clearly the us.gov has plenty of Oathkeeper types of orgs under its thumb, cause we've yet to see a Million Man March, a General Strike, farmers blocking traffic in DC (like the 'cowardly' French do), a Right Wing Anti-Defamation League, etc, etc.
Is that directed at the Oregon patriot groups, Kirk? If it is, you're off base. The very same groups participated in the protecting of the Sugar Pine Mine owners. These people are not backing down or shying away. They have a difference of opinion with Ammon Bundy.
There are shades of gray here, Kirk.
Of course there are shades of grey, and I have a differentiated view.
The thrust/gist of my position is that in spite of all the right build-up moves to publish, organize, train, etc, there comes a time for Action. Some give the impression of constant deferment for action, because "the time is not now/right". Perhaps. But when is it ever ideal?
Thus, my impression and frustration is what Gandhi described so succinctly: "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." (heard the quote in the movie The A-Team)
In response to my 6998645* post, Dr. Spin urged me (6998824) to cool my jets, as the non-violent civic dissent actions that I advocate but don't see, will be forthcoming. In 2016, I hope.
* "...marches, strikes, MSM drives, K-Street lobbying, no Anti-Defamation League or AIPAC equivalent for Right Wingers or Christians. Just endless bleating of sheep, taking it up the A$$."
``Voting`` and ``protesting`` won't change shit. The only way to change all this crap ``peacefully` is a massive strike from most people until the entire government resigns and the scum is brought to justice. The other solution would be a good corps of army officers overthrowing the gov, arresting all the scum, giving them trials and hanging em then doing real elections with no democrat/republican parties.
But apart from that, which is VERY unlikely, history shows that violence will happen.
Come on. Who here wouldnt want to watch the krugster actualy working for a living. Digging ditches?
I'd like to see his shoe-swing. From a lamp post.
I'd like to see a few dozen Congresscritter scum swinging from lampposts...it gets me kind of hot.
Ted Cruz 2016 to life.
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At a certain point violence is the only answer.
Please be sure to acquire your permits to commit violence ahead of time, it's going to be a busy year.......
And for those that don't understand what NoDebt is saying, allow me to rephrase: we won't be voting our way out of this clusterfuck.
I doubt we'll be revolting our way out of it, either.
This is Waco/Ruby Ridge 2.0. David Koresh, Randy Weaver, and their followers and families did nothing wrong except make an attempt to live free. For this they were destroyed, and all free, white, armed Americans were demonized in the process. The Oklahoma City Bombing was 911 prequel. No-one remembers it today. Timothy McViegh was a patsy, just like Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Feds will have their revenge on the Bundys. How did they convince Amon Bundy to do something this stupid? How did they convince McViegh to make the fertilizer bomb? He made the bomb, but we all know that didn't destroy the Murrah Federal Building. Can you say "shaped charges"?
The Feds have some dark people who know how to do some dark shit. Amon and Ryan don;t know it, but someone put them up to this. they are good guys, just working guys, cowboys from where rural Utah blends into rural Nevada. Even someone very sophisticated would have a hard time resisting a very subtle and dark psychological manipulation designed to make you do some super stupid shit, just so the dark Feds can have a excuse to blow your ass away and then demonize everyone else who is white, rural, and armed.
For fuck's sake, the Feds suckered the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor. Please, people, understand, this is a set-up. Someone has been whispering in Amon's ear, whispering dark shit and he bought it precisely BECAUSE he's a good man who has morals and belives in America. Please everyone understand this. These dark Feds are so dark, they will use the very best parts of you against yourself, just so they can destroy you.
The Bundy standoff wasn't planned. The power of that determined resistance took the Feds by surprise. But do you think they backed down and haven;t been planning in dark and specific ways to get their revenge? I fear Amon and the others in the Refuge building are dead men. This will be just like Ruby Ridge. Just like randy Weaver was set up by evil dark Feds to buy a sawed-off shotgun he never even wanted, and then he and his family were killed- all of it was a set-up.
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay", says the LORD God. he gives you a promise: "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength, and in returning and in rest shall you be saved." Do not stand up un-neccessarily. If the Feds come after you, then defend yourself, and stand in the Promise of the LORD God. That is how the Bundys were successful. But this refuge business is THE set-up, and it will be ugly.
"How did they convince Amon Bundy to do something this stupid? How did they convince McViegh to make the fertilizer bomb? He made the bomb, but we all know that didn't destroy the Murrah Federal Building. Can you say "shaped charges"?"
I know you have a vivid imagination.
We may, however, collapse our way out of it. I'd like to know whose harebrained idea it was to occupty that wild life center. The author is right, of course. They're playing right into the government's hands. This is going to be Ruby Ridge all over again and didn't that work out well. Nobody can do violence like the government, and this sort of thing is counter productive. What are they going to do? Hurt the government's feelings? Hold their breath until the government surrenders? If they're going to throw their lives away they ought to do it in such a way that it damages something the government cares about more than it's reputation. Asymmetric warfare is the only way to go when your adversary is so much more powerful. There once was avery small Islamic sect. They weren't of the sect most practiced in that area and Sulieman the Magnificent vowed to wipe them from the face of the Earth. They were holed up in the mountains and things looked pretty grim, but their leader was an astute and clever man who was so successful in protecting his people that the sect grew and prospered. They were called the Assassins, and gave their name to a political action, so you know exactly how he protected his people. Suleiman eventually wanted a meeting. The leader of the sect agreed, as long as Suleiman only kept his two most trusted body guards with him. When he entered Suleiman's tent he told him to send his guards away, Suleiman told him that they were his most trusted men and anything could be said in front of them and they would never betray him. The leader of the Assassins asked the guards which of them would kill Suleiman if he asked it of them and they both drew their swords. Sulieman made peace. Google them.
" I'd like to know whose harebrained idea it was to occupty that wild life center."
Wildlife Center is occupied? How will the BLM ever get the quail counts this spring?
What, "we won't be voting our way out of this clusterfuck"?
Sounds positively Revolting.
;-)
You are correct in a generic sense, but there is something else to consider in this case. I suggest listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkm6iSd--c before making up one's mind. I wondered why it resembled the situation that included Cliven Bundy. Perhaps in this instance neither side is exactly clean. Decide for yourselves, but first be informed.
That is the weakest argument yet. Why the hell do you care what this guy does with his land?
Because you think there's gold on it, that makes it OK for the goons to bully him out of his private property?
"his land?"
His land? I thought he was running cattle on a lease?
He doesn't truly 'own' the land does he? Isn't this a case of the same people leasing land year after year till they now confuse past lease action with present ownership?
violence is certainly NOT the answer!!!
BUT it may be the prerequisite to one.
To be Free or not to be Free, that is the question......
Existentialism suggests an individual can never be totally "free" as long as there is an other. No one is an island entire onto itself. Freedom is for "gods"...not humans.
Freedom is just easier to say than self determination and self sufficency.
funny how obscured true nature really is
The FBI processed a record number of firearms-related background checks last year, indicating that more guns were sold in 2015 than in any previous year in American history.
More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.
The all-time record for yearly sales comes after May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December 2015 each set sales records for their respective months. In December the FBI conducted 3,314,594 checks, an increase of more than half a million checks over the previous single-month record set in December 2012.
The number of FBI background checks is widely considered to be the most reliable gauge of how many firearms were sold in a given month because background checks are required on all sales made through federally licensed firearms dealers. However, the checks do not provide an exhaustive representation of gun sales. Checks are not required on sales between private parties in most states, and a single background check may cover the purchase of multiple firearms by the same person at once.
Additionally, some states perform the checks on those who apply for gun-carry permits.
The record gun sales came as Democrats moved to implement new gun control measures at the federal, state, and local levels. Hillary Clinton, the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that the Supreme Court’s decision in the District of Columbia v. Heller gun rights case was “wrong” and she and President Barack Obama praised Australian-style gun confiscation.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia (D.) issued an executive order imposing new gun control measures and the Democrat-controlled city council of Seattle imposed a new tax on guns and ammunition.
Gun rights activists say that Democrats’ new aggressive posture on gun control contributed to 2015’s record sales.
“A day has not gone by without a major media assault on gun rights or an Obama administration call for new additional restrictions on gun ownership,” said Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. “Americans have voted with their dollars and bought record levels of guns and ammunition.”
In the second half of the year, terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California drove gun and ammunition sales even higher. Some dealers reported seeing their business triple in the wake of the attacks, cautioning that the spike was drying up supply in some areas.
Gun rights activist believe that sales will continue to set records in the new year.
'... FALSE FLAG... terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California drove gun and ammunition sales even higher.'
FIFY !
I disagree with this whole notion that 'one spark' will set everything off. I doubt it. Americans, especially the youth, are like lambs to slaughter and unless a specific injustice applies to a specific person. They. Could. Not. Care. Less. It will have to be multiple bad events over an extended period where people are really up against the wall before most will do anything at all.
Most will simple not notice, not care, or just want to know if Facebook is still online...
Remember Kent State.
I remember it well. They did not have iToys or Gaming to plug into, for some passive-aggressive therapy sessions, or blog sites for harmless venting of frustrations or indignation.
Objecting meant showing up, not blogging anonymously. Protesting meant getting organized and assuming the risk of consequences.
Shut off the electricity to a city for 72 hours and see what happens...
"And it really doesn't interest anybody ouside a small circle of friends". Refrain from a Phil Ochs song circa 1970.
Most will simple not notice, not care,...
You might be right about that, but it only takes 10% to make an impact. That impact is coming.
They are not as ignorant as others might believe. They have labored through student loans amassing $50k in debt, can't find the $75K job that was promised them and realize the scam that was brought about them.
Apparently we have to buy the book in order to get the Authors solutions........? Or is the solution a cheery don't worry be happy......? That should work, never mind........
Yup, it's books, newsletter subscriptions, conferences & speaker fees, club memberships for every sort of limited hangout controlled opposition, that huffs and puffs, but does nothing of any real consequence.
No marches, strikes, MSM drives, K-Street lobbying, no Anti-Defamation League or AIPAC equivalent for Right Wingers or Christians. Just endless bleating of sheep, taking it up the A$$.
Cool your jets Kirk, all of that is coming. They're not nearly as strong as they would have us believe they are...and we will have lots of help from all of the people all over the world that hate them for their global injustices. No country will take them after the fall.
Bide your time. Justice will be meted out to the perps and the perps dogs.