Confront your local oppressors
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
March 21, 2007
While we are entranced by the problem of what to do about the cast of
the monster movie that we call our Federal Government, it is useful
to recognize that these monsters only exist as a result of an
extensive support from thousands of folks who
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live right under our
noses in every city, town and village.
They are pretty easy to locate. Generally they all live in the same
neighborhoods,
occupy the same sorts of mini-mansions, go to the same elite
charity balls and political fundraisers.
Granted, any perceived
interference with these folks is going to provoke violence from the
cops, but, with little effort and little risk, a list of these people
should be possible to publish, so that folks can at least identify
their local oppressors. It should be possible to do informational
pickets at their events and in front of their hideaways.
It is
possible to get in the faces of local
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people who support those in
Washington (who cannot be directly confronted). The bedrock of our political problems lives right
there with us and we can do something about them even if we can't
confront the police or the army. Shame on them. Let them feel
the shame. Bring sick and injured children to confront them. Have
church services in the streets in front of their homes. Hell, get
the Pentecostals to conduct candlelight marches to drive out the demons
that posses them.
Face it folks, we are now in the opening stages of a civil war based
largely on class. If you don't even know who in your community is
calling down the dogs on you, what chance do you have?
Also, a lot
of these people live in fantasy worlds, continually furnished and
expanded by their propaganda networks -- Fox (so called fair and
balanced) News, The Wall Street Journal, and countless other sources
of self-smug congratulation.
For some of these people, being confronted personally
is likely to crack this shell of unreality that envelops them. A non-violent approach here might even succeed in recruiting
some of these people, some of whom actually have useful talents
beyond conspicuous consumption, back to membership in the human race,
where we need all the help we can get.
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Face it folks, we are now in the opening stages of a civil war based largely on class.
If you don't even know who in your community is calling down the dogs on you, what chance do you have?
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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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