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Whatever course we choose to take it should be evident that there is no easy way out. Either we accept whatever injustice the current regime and its corporate thugs dictate to us, or we refuse to co-operate with them. India's Gandhi and our own Dr. King lead successful non-violent populist revolutions. Gandhi transformed a nation but Dr. King was assassinated at the pinnacle of the civil rights movement in 1968. Both movements suffered unspeakable brutality and cruelty at the hands of capitalists. Capital will certainly spill our blood. Are we strong enough and courageous enough to do what must be done?

The time will come when enough people will become sufficiently uncomfortable and disenfranchised that a massive upheaval will inevitably occur, as the chasm between rich and poor widens. As conditions deteriorate, a group of courageous and socially conscious agitators will appear to awaken and arouse the slumbering masses to action. Many of them will be imprisoned and killed for their political beliefs, as has been the historical pattern. But the time will come when either we fight or perish.

It would be better to act sooner rather than waiting to be motivated by sheer desperation, when are at our weakest and most vulnerable. Let us join a worldwide revolution of the working class that is already under way. We have only to look to Latin America for working models. With iron clad global solidarity the people cannot lose. Divided and fragmented we are doomed.

We must understand that capital government is right wing government in its purest, most violent and repressive form. It is radically anti-people, anti-earth and anti-democracy. The time has come to uproot the tree that bears the poison fruit.

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Charles Sullivan is a photographer, social activist and free lance writer residing in the hinterland of West Virgina.

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Self-evident truth by rabblerowzer on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 12:07:00 PM
Focus by Daniel Geery on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 12:41:53 PM
Kucinich by treehugger on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 4:19:27 PM
The poison tree by gramps on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 6:46:26 PM
Corporations ... not Capital by James Brett on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 9:19:10 AM
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