Summary: America fades away before our eyes while we snooze. What can we do to reawaken our fellow citizens? Perhaps we can do no more than warn our fellow citizens, so that’s what we do. Today we have “Weaponizing the Body Politic” from TomDispatch, 4 March 2012, reposted with their generous permission, a grim follow-up to …
How to Fund an American Police State (aka Weaponizing the Body Politic) Read More »
Summary: Expansion of the Occupy movement onto colleges might greatly expand its size, improve its appeal, and change its goals and methods. This poses a challenge to the government, which so far has successfully contained and supressed its protests. The heavy-handed methods used so far might fail, or even fuel the movement’s expansion. All men …
Civil Disobedience by the “Occupy” Movement Is a Challenge to Our Rulers Read More »
Summary: The power of our ruling elites is usually lightly applied (that’s all that’s necessary for a domesticated people). But it can be seen when looked for, as it surrounds us. In the photos of your daily newspaper, which are often more important than the words. In the evolution of a political movement, as larger forces seek to mold it …
See the power of our ruling elites, displayed by the picture of a kitten Read More »
Summary: Change is slow and difficult. Reform efforts, no matter how deeply rooted, usually have many false starts. Success requires learning each failure. Doing better each time. Only a people who intensely love liberty have a chance at getting it. Here we discuss the causes of these grim truths, as we start on the road to …
How do protests like the TP and OWS differ from effective political action? Read More »
Summary: We learn little about the Occupy Wall Street protests from the news media, which cover it like an alien invasion (see Glenn Greenwald’s articles at Salonhere and here for examples). No matter, as it’s a commonplace and easily understood phenomenon. The masses (ie, peasants, peons, whatever) grow restive in oligarchic society. Protests are holidays in which they …
Occupy Wall Street, another futile peasants’ protest Read More »
