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It's put up or shut up time,
for Homo sapiens
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
March 13, 2007
For the people who have taken control of the U.S.
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from the shadows
where they lurk, there is evidently no outrage too outrageous, no
deception too transparent, no cruelty beyond the pale. While I have
the greatest admiration for those brave souls, such as Barbara Lee
and Bernie Sanders, who cling to their principles and their
conscience, it is also obvious that, were they to consider moves that
threatened any effective opposition to the secret cabal that enslaves
the U.S. and terrorizes the world, they would have to also consider the
fate of Paul Wellstone.
It is not necessary to have objective proof
that Wellstone was assassinated, along with his family, for people to have a
reasonable belief that this is what happened. Certainly no objective
proof that it was an accident has been presented. Thus, the credible
threat of political assassination effectively destroys
any hope that the political establishment will come to our rescue.
I am afraid that, just as in the anti-colonial war we fought against
the British, we will have to liberate ourselves without the aid of
our current leadership. As we do the work of replacing this Tyranny
with a just order, we can expect every
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tool of oppression to be
brought to bear. If it has happened elsewhere in the Imperium, it
will happen here.
People elsewhere have survived death squads,
carpet bombing, chemical and biological warfare in their efforts to
free themselves, and so will we. As the depredations of this Empire
increase, resistance will form, mistakes will be made, but, with a
certainty, this Tyranny will be dislodged, if only because of its
relentlessly self destructive nature. But we can not trust that what
replaces it will be any better unless we take a deliberate and
thoughtful stand against it.
Nor can we trust in the methods of resistance that have proven
successful in the past. Tyranny learns. I am afraid that efforts at
organizing opposition in the traditional ways will just make it
easier for this tyranny to identify, neutralize or turn any leaders
that may surface. This revolution will need to be leaderless.
Nor can we trust that our efforts to keep plans secret will do us
any good. This is the uber-
police state. There are no secure
secrets. All that conspiring in secret will accomplish will be to
offer the Tyranny golden opportunities to infiltrate, provoke and co-opt. This revolution will need to be transparent.
Nor can we wait for popular resentment to build to the point where
spontaneous actions
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can be expected to topple this Tyranny.
Technological innovations beyond imagination have been prepared for
response to any anticipated uprisings. Concentration camps are waiting, and more are being built. Weapons of terror for domestic use have been prepared with
great confidence that their application will bring an enraged
population to a sudden, terrified and docile peace. People have been
taught -- erroneously -- that they have no power, that the grand,
centralized effort makes the efforts of individuals and small groups
meaningless.
In fact the combined effort of multitudinous small
groups is vastly more powerful than that of any centralized power.
The power that needs to be asserted against this Tyranny is one of
erosion -- the persistent drip that carves rock, the relentless
pressure that raises mountains. This revolution will need to be very
conscious, deliberate and stepwise in its execution.
Nor can we trust that traditional methods of association will be
successful against this evolving police state. Any membership
organization can be dealt with summarily, or simply taken over
secretly and used for the purposes of the Tyranny. Association must
be achieved where it already exists, usually in the neighborhood, but
possibly in the workplace (doubtful) or in the churches (more
doubtful). Tyranny fears most the solidarity of friends. Groups that
have achieved the solidarity that is the bedrock of community will
serve as focus points for the spread of this consciousness.
The first
"actions" will be those of example, of how to form Community.
Coordination will be achieved by transient, flexible and robust forms
of inter-group communication, normally by delegation of the authority
of the group rather than by appointing designated representatives, or
establishing fixed offices. This revolution will be made by people
who already know each other and who are willing to relate intimately
and trustingly to strengthen a bond that already exists in embryonic
form.
Nor can we indulge in the fantasy that we can force a change from a
materialist to a moral society without having to endure suffering
beyond our imaginations. This Tyranny has engineered the productive
economy so that it is very brittle. We can be
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assured that any effective effort to undermine it will bring immediate material suffering for ordinary people. Every effort has been taken to ensure
that we are totally dependent on a technological and economic
machinery that can be completely controlled by the Tyranny. The
food, the water, the electricity are all in the hands of people who
can turn them off and on at will as a means of quelling localized
resistance. Freedom from this Tyranny will come to those
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who are
willing to trust in mutual aid. This revolution will be primarily one
of small groups asserting their desire for economic self sufficiency
and independence.
Nor can we wait for regional efforts to succeed in order to show the
rest of us the way. Decisive regional efforts will only allow the
Tyranny to focus their efforts and bring overwhelming force to bear
and make negative examples of any regional success. Resistance will need
to be in carefully measured steps and in a united fashion where no
group is left too far behind, no group is too far ahead.
When we have
prepared ourselves with a total change of consciousness away from the
artificial viewpoints that have been instilled in us by the
Tyranny, the General Strike will become, not a possibility, but rather an
inevitability, as a means to overcome the power of
Tyranny. This revolution will be ubiquitous and broadly
coordinated.
Nor can we indulge in the conceit that our own minds our on our side.
It is important to not believe everything one thinks. In the now
ancient past, before high-tech methods of mass media propaganda, it
made sense for individuals to try to make sense of what was heard and
seen, then proceed to apply analysis and reason in efforts to educate
others. No more Thomas Paines. Now we must learn to mistrust our
own minds. We must come to accept that a lot of what we "know" is
the result of carefully planned and scientifically engineered efforts
at controlling how we think and, most importantly, controlling the
words and phrases we use to think. The only mind that counts now is
the mind of the small group dedicated to looking fearlessly at the
reality that confronts it in its daily life, the mind that learns to
reflexively reject received wisdom in favor of direct experience.
We
have been conditioned through many millennia to accept the
proposition that obedience to Authority represents our only hope for
survival. Of course the exact opposite is actually true, and if we
are to avoid following Authority into the universal oblivion of
extinction, we will need to reject hierarchical Authority as the
disease that it is. This revolution will have no heroes, it will have
no Authorities.
Nor can we continue to consider economic survival our primary goal.
Nice guys finish first or everybody perishes simultaneously in a
world threatened by climatic catastrophe. Stimulating fears for
survival, manufacturing artificial scarcity, cultivating a terror of
being left out of the loop, exploiting an innate need for inclusion
and fear of exclusion are some of the many ways Tyranny uses to
reduce humans to a form of domesticated animal. But living in fear is
worse than being dead. This revolution will be made by those who
choose love over fear, choose inclusion over exclusion and practice a
spiritual commitment to universal brotherhood, not as idealistic
goals, but as practical, and necessary steps toward survival.
Nor can we continue cultivating the illusion of superiority. No
person is superior to any other. No species is superior to any
other. The world must be lived with harmoniously, not ruthlessly,
not with a depraved indifference for the ecological consequences of
our behavior. If we continue to indulge in feelings of superiority
and dominance, our species will perish, but life will go on without
us. Evolution is indifferent to the fate of species. This revolution
will result in a rejoining of the human species in the great project
of life on the planet that is now billions of years old.
Finally, we can not continue to treat each other badly, nor can we
allow, as much as it is within our power, others to be treated badly.
We have no choice. The reality is that, if we are to survive as a
species, we must recognize that we are our brothers' keeper. The
mentally well among us have the innate, evolved ability to feel the
pain of others, to feel when justice is done. Those who do not have
this ability are ill and need our care while in confinement to
prevent their doing harm. We do not have to learn how to practice
kindness. Rather we have to learn to recognize all the sick
rationalizations for injustice, many of them codified in so called
"laws," that facilitate our mistreatment of other individuals and
animals. This revolution will have only one rule, the Golden One,
and it will be seen to apply to all creatures including the Earth
itself.
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As we do the work of replacing this Tyranny with a just order, we can expect every tool of oppression to be brought to bear.
If it has happened elsewhere in the Imperium, it will happen here.
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