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I could be wrong, but I think that revolution is coming — and it’s coming sooner than you think. The American people have been hoodwinked and intimidated for a long time, but we’re reaching a tipping point where public outrage will overpower fear. And that’s what revolution is — organized rage directed at the government. That’s why they want to keep us apart, and spy on us, and follow our every movement. They want absolute power. It’s their dream. It is the dream of evil men everywhere. But it will fail — because everything they’ve tried so far has failed. And because the culture of freedom is stronger than the cynical schemes of demagogues.
Mike Whitney | "We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They’re crazy"
Whitney, Jamail and Floyd. Three reasonable men trying the impossible. What a blinder. Great writers, they're part of the new breed succeeding the Fisks, Pilgers, Cockburns, Kleins and Chomskys to try ramping up the Fourth Estate to a position of respectability.
They're doomed. Whitney allows that he "could be wrong" and, in the context of his article, is. First, these guys see a bit further down the road than most ordinary folk. I've little time for ordinary folk. They're like the French civil servant with the cranium filled with bottled water. His brain is the size of a bacon rasher and, though he has an IQ of 70 (reports differ), he's not considered remedial or retarded.
With an IQ of 70 or 75 he may make an ideal civil servant but, in my book, he's as dumb as a pike.
I'm intolerant. Bigoted. And I don't give a damn. Too many dumb people have been given too much respect for far too long. Look where it's got us. Mike Whitney predicts revolution in the U.S.A. Ho ho ho. 300 million Twinky-guzzling slugs taking to the streets, manning the barricades, and torching the Capitol? You betcha. The average USian is quite content to let George Inc. feed his or her insatiable appetite for more of the same. Americans (like most of us) follow the piper, no matter his tune.
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In one of their leaflets, the members of the White Rose wrote, "We are your bad conscience." They were asking Germans to rise above the old, degenerate concept of patriotism that entailed blindly supporting one’s government in time of war. They were asking German soldiers to rise above the old, degenerate concept of blind obedience to orders. They were asking Germans to confront openly the rumors of what German officials were doing to the Jews in the concentration camps. They were asking German citizens, both civilian and military, to make an independent judgment on both the Hitler regime and the war, to judge both the government and the war as immoral and illegitimate, and to take the necessary steps to put a stop to both.
They were asking Germans to embrace a different and higher concept of patriotism — one that involves a devotion to a set of moral principles and values rather than blind allegiance to one’s government in time of war. It was a type of patriotism that involved opposition to one’s own government, especially in time of war, when government is engaged in conduct that violates moral principles and values.
Jacob G. Hornberger | Why Germans Supported Hitler
Most considered Hans and Sophie Scholl brainless. Hindsight tells us they weren't. While most Germans reasonably took Hitler at face value, members of the White Rose — at odds with their society, pointed out, "Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes ... reach the light of day?" Like our Whitneys and Floyds, they saw down the road a ways. And let's not give mentally challenged people too hard a time. As an astute reader of Wired's take on the French DeadHead pointed out, "Probably make a better president then the one we got."
Tom Feeley's collated these articles over at InformationClearingHouse. Their juxtaposition is remarkable.
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George Bush entered office with an approval rating around 50%. It rose a little at first, then slumped moderately as the Cook Report suggested. Everything changed dramatically September 11. Bush's rating skyrocketed instantly hitting a temporary high around 90% and remained above 80% through year end. That momentous day transformed a mediocre president overnight with some observers incredibly comparing him to Lincoln, FDR and Churchill combined.
It was laughable then and ludicrous now for a pathetic caricature of a president and man so hated he's barely able to hang on to avoid what growing vocal numbers in the country demand - his head and removal from office by impeachment along with Vice-President Cheney.
Stephen Lenderman | Saving a President
Now that the troops have been dispatched to fight another war for vested interests, fun, and profit, who can blame the average American for not turning against an administration that has abrogated to its executive absolute power? I don't. But that doesn't let anybody off the hook. Even our French civil servant, no matter how quietly lobotomised, is expected to behave as a normal, functioning human being. He did. And does.
Would he stand for this?
At his July 12 news conference, George Bush raised the specter of Al-Queda's threat to the US citing the above-mentioned intelligence report as supposed evidence. He then resurrected a timeworn long ago discredited golden oldie saying "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September 11. That's why what happens in Iraq matters to security here at home." Unmentioned anywhere in the mainstream, of course, is the long-standing relationship between "Enemy Number One" bin Laden, Al-Queda and US and allied intelligence and how they're used in the fraudulent "war on terrorism" to manipulate and scare the public enough to go along with anything.
These comments, published assessments from The National Intelligence Estimate, inflammatory remarks from officials like Michael Chertoff, and accompanying dominant media hyperventilating effectively stoke public fear and may point to a major terror attack ahead on US soil. It will trigger a Code Red Alert if it happens signaling the highest terrorist threat level followed by the likely suspension of the Constitution, imposition of martial law, and end of the republic. The rule of law will be suspended, dissent no longer will be tolerated (it's already illegal), the military and other security forces will be involved on US soil in strength if needed, and an unmasked full-blown fascist police state will, in fact, henceforth exist.
Stephen Lenderman | Saving a President
I doubt it. The worm will not turn and there will be no revolution. Things will get far worse before they get any better.
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The German people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals ... Each man wants to be exonerated of a guilt of this kind, each one continues on his way with the most placid, the calmest conscience. But he cannot be exonerated; he is guilty, guilty, guilty!
Hans and Sophie Scholl | The White Rose
