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while ratcheting up Americans' cost of living
to get us to use our homes as ATMs.
The Ownership Society was a ploy to redistribute
most of our hard-earned money to the top and to them.
The financial genocide is finally coming to a boil,
and it's no less deadly for being slower-acting.
It's advantage is that it doesn't startle and stampede
the Empire's 300 million fatted cattle.
Docility in the kill chute is an asset.
Democracy's got an untidy tendency to dissent.
And like the slowly lethal, silent killer tobacco,
it took thirty years for it to build to this effect.
The Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush legacy continues
to transfer the people's money to the Rich
through massive tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation,
but the Establishment may find that payback is a bitch.
The engineered ignorance, obedience and "patriotism"
that binds the cash cows so very tightly to their masters
is unraveling as the victims catch the scent of their own blood,
giving this cattle drive a potential for disaster.
As the invisible hand that wears the velvet glove
exposes itself as an iron fist wielding butcher's knives,
the cattle will be forced from their consumer lethargy
to stampede in a revolution to save their lives.
"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it." - Dr. Josef Mengele
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich lest we get it." - Edward Dowling
"There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the illusion of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa
"Find out just what people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them; and these will continue until they are opposed by either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass
"Freedom is not won by passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Write, call, speak out, raise bloody hell, make noise and lots of it. The people who rule will never willingly give up control, they will always strive for more, for absolute control, it is their nature as a class. They will never willingly remove the economic and political shackles they have devoted so much effort to place on the 'lesser' classes, they will be satisfied with nothing but total slavery, the complete exploitation of the world's working people, it is the nature of their class. The people must seize power using many of the same methods employed in shedding the British yoke at the end of the eighteenth century. " "If a movement is not a threat, it cannot change a system that is based on centralized coercion and violence." - Peter Gelderloos, "How Nonviolence Protects the State"
"Fight the power." - Public Enemy
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
TAKE THE BLINDERS OFF, PEOPLE.
