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Meaningful Civil Protest? Revolution? Or Total Domination and Obeisance?

Message Rafe Pilgrim
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop," Mario Savio, 1964.
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Now, a reminder of the First Law of Navigation: "Know your position."
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Our situation, yours and mine, is that the masters of treachery (endless war, venality, lust for power, and lying and exploitive government) and its servants are winning. Their compliant -- even flag waving -- victims are us. Make no mistake -- you as well as me, along with 98 percent of Americans.
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Even when winning, especially when winning, the treacherous never stop challenging the limits of their abuse and authority over their victims (remember us?)
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A victim's (yours, mine) response to this state of affairs may be one of seven options.
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Option #1: Delusional support of the treachery by the victim, mindless flag-waving, etc. (Note: The treachery worsens.)
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Option #2: Denial, failure to comprehend victimhood. (Note: The treachery worsens.)
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Option #3: Awareness and acknowledgement of the treachery, but a decision not to react due to personal inconvenience or fear. (Note: The treachery worsens.)
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Option #4: Feckless protest, snazzy sloganeering, sign bearing, weekend larks on the Mall for peace, tee shirts, pink hats, the arrayof peace celebs, etc, etc, etc. (Note: The treachery worsens.)
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Option #5: Meaningful massive civil protest (for the first time this century) of millions at the very seat of treachery and power, camped and persisting for however long (weeks? months?) under whatever distressful conditions, and subjected to the risks of hunger, illness, police and military confrontation, arrest and physical harm, and ceasing only when the "endless" warring is stopped and a path to actually decent governance for the people is established.
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Option #6: Bloody revolution.
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Option #7: No reaction but to let the treachery morph ever more treacherous to the utter obeisance, abuse,and despair of the citizenry and humanity.
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What's it to be? Given as certainty that the treachery will not simply fade away of itself and our masters to qualify for beatitude, but rather they will stoke the bloodlust of their dominance ever hotter -- logic tells us that this invalidates Options #1 through #4, they simply becoming totally inoperative or unpermitted.
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So ultimately we are left with but three possibilities: #5 Meaningful massive and enduring protest, #6 Bloody revolution, and #7 Total domination and obeisance.
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I would prefer to avoid the revolution, but nothing could be worse, more odious than total domination and obeisance. Therefor, I opt for #5.
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What do you opt for? Let us know!
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