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In opposition to Tyranny, they who survive win
What is the first step?
Only when all the torturers and terrorist, including all state functionaries who ever ordered or authorized such acts, are safely locked up can we begin an honest dialog about the future.
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In the US asserting one's civil and human rights currently is a crime potentially punishable by indefinite imprisonment. Just ask Josh Wolf and uncounted others.
Herb Ruhs, MD
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Josh's plight is infuriating. And it could be us, if we were better journalists.
Helen & Harry
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Au contraire mon ami. Perhaps smarter. At the very least, atomized
sources (many individually insignificant sources such as Indy Media
attempts and Unknown News is a part of), highly redundant publishing
(much mirroring) and
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As paradoxical as it seems, I am convinced that those we oppose are actually very weak people, psychologically speaking.
A big part of the reason that they are so dangerous is that they must do everything possible to cover up and deny the inner torments, insecurities and infirmities that define their beings.
The lesson here is that if we not only merely survive but also create in the minds of our opponents that somehow, even at some distant time, we might overcome them, then we will win.
They will self-destruct as a result of their paranoia.
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avoidance of celebrity status are the directions
practical journalism must take under tyranny. But in the final analysis, when
the readership/viewership demands independent sources they will
flower. The dissident press in the former USSR seems a likely model
to copy.
I suspect the lesson taught by Josh's ordeal is to either publish
video in full immediately or just destroy whatever you don't use so
there is nothing to subpoena. Great care is needed in these times
to avoid the claws of the dragon. We need hobbits more than we need
powerful champions.
I often wonder how much observing the Vietnamese beat the crap out of
the Empire has affected my thinking. I hope it has had a lot of
influence. Just think about it again for a moment. Poorly equipped
insurgents in sandals made from recycled tires. How did they do
that?
Part of it was staying small and insignificant enough to evade
the attention of the enemy while being relentlessly persistent in
striking small blows at every opportunity. In opposition to Tyranny,
they who survive win.
Herb Ruhs, MD
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Hell of a pep talk sir, and it's left me fully pepped indeed. :)
My idea of victory comes when Josh Wolf and others who've done the right thing or done no harm walk out of their prison cells, and the tyrants walk in. When the prison doors are locked shut with Dick Cheney and his ilk inside where they belong, and the rest of us have the freedom we deserve, to go about our business and live our lives as we choose -- that's victory.
Victory in this battle will come when the huge problems are solved, and the makers of huge problems are either exiled, imprisoned, or simply dethroned, replaced by new leaders or no leaders, in a system that values peace and freedom over war and profits. That's victory.
That's the long-term goal, but of course, that victory won't be ours, not in our lifetimes, so we'll have to be content with a more short-term goal. For a long time now, my own goal has been to die of old age or natural causes, and to continue speaking out until my last breath.
I hadn't really thought of that as victory, more of a stalemate, but you're right, of course. Survival is the only victory we've got a chance at, and our survival is something the tyrants want to deny us, so every day we can wake up and scream at them, poke at them, and elude their claws is another victory -- and you and I are on a very long winning streak.
"In opposition to Tyranny, they who survive win." And I smile, and you're right, and today we'll win again.
Helen & Harry
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Glad to be of help.
During my young life I was without the usual measures of protection provided by an intact family so I was forced to deal with physical combat. Never liked it, but since I was a loner without the luxury of having anyone to cover my back, I had to be very good at it. Very early on -- at least by the age of eight -- I began to understand that all victories were psychological, and the best victories were achieved by avoiding actual physical combat.
As paradoxical as it seems, I am convinced that those we oppose are actually very weak people, psychologically speaking. A big part of the reason that they are so dangerous is that they must do everything possible to cover up and deny the inner torments, insecurities and infirmities that define their beings. The lesson here is that if we not only merely survive but also create in the minds of our opponents that somehow, even at some distant time, we might overcome them, then we will win. They will self-destruct as a result of their paranoia.
The opposite is also true. If we loose the psychological battle we will have lost regardless of what physical force is brought against us. Those of us in opposition would be well-served to buff up our personal boundaries. If we end up identifying with the image of the oppressor (which is a false front, after all) and believe at some deep level that might really does make right, then we are lost going in.
If opposition to oppression means anything it means holding fast to a self-perceived identity where justice is our highest value, where right makes might bow down to concepts of justice and love. It is the high ground. It is the place from which the meek proceed to inherit the earth.
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My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.Sir Galahad, st. 1 (1842) | |
Herb Ruhs, MD
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