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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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The new war of independence
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News April 15, 2008
Dear Fellow Citizens,
You may have already noticed that ours is no longer a free country. We are no longer governed under a system of laws anchored in a constitution. We have no civil or human rights that we can feel secure in asserting in conflict with the government or powerful corporate interests.
We are, in fact, an occupied country. Our government, and the military it commands, has been hijacked by an international
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cabal of criminals who count as their natural constituency "the haves and the have mores," to quote the titular head of this cabal, of the entire world. This cabal has participants in many, perhaps most, countries and is supranational in character, though the leadership comes mostly from the US.
Law enforcement, and the rest of the judicial system, has been subverted and suborned into violating their oath to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. The resulting police state apparatus is so pervasive, and surveillance so complete, that the ruling clique does not fear armed uprising on the part of the citizenry, and feels free to go about expropriating the resources and military manpower of the US to suppress opposition to their rule in the rest of the world.
In an attempt to wring out the last drops of blood and resources from our nation, they are in the process of instituting a campaign of severe austerity. Such normal amenities as public schooling,
Once we begin to recognize each other as coming from a common humanity, we can begin again to knit together the kind of local communities that were the true motive force in our country's original War of Independence.
We will not need to fight pitched battles in order to win this New War of Independence.
All that will be needed is to survive the coming tumult and watch the unsustainable structure of oppression self-destruct around us.
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adequate medical care, the right to organize and collectively bargain for wages and working conditions, the right to travel and associate freely, are steadily evaporating as we helplessly watch.
These invaders of our commonwealth are correct in believing that they are safe here. Under no imaginable circumstances will we be able to resist them in a popular revolt. Any attempt to recognize a leadership in order to organize a conventional resistance will merely result in these individuals being eliminated or co-opted.
However, resistance in matters of everyday life is possible. Key in this sort of resistance is the ability and willingness to form small, local associations of neighbors and friends committed to mutual support. Such small scale, discon-nected and unorganized cooperation seems to
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many to be an insignificant effort. But in actuality, it is the most important force of resistance because it is the only possible form.
All that is needed in order to begin the process of organization is for us to surmount the barriers of custom that have reduced us to a lonely crowd, divided us into countless exclusive identity groups and begin to reform the bonds of shared citizenship.
Once we begin to recognize each other as coming from a common humanity, we can begin again to knit together the kind of local communities that were the true motive force in our country's original War of Independence. We will not need to fight pitched battles in order to win this New War of Independence. All that will be needed is to survive the coming tumult and watch the unsustainable structure of oppression self-destruct around us.
As allies in this war we have the decent people of the entire globe. This time, liberation will come to the entire world population together, as it turns away from wars of conquest and from patterns
of social injustice toward a new and
shining life where the struggle will be to heal the earth from the destructive work carried out by the forces of oppression and exploitation that have dominated the earth for millennia and are beginning to falter as their ruinous string of crimes comes home to roost.
So in these dark times, have heart. It really is darkest just before dawn.
In solidarity and compassion,
Herb
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