That’s why there are reports from the RNC of a police state sending in the “Gestapo” to prevent protests and also arrest those who might videotape police to protect protesters. OEN's own Rob Kall has an extremely comprehensive look at the police state in the Twin Cities.
This is all intimidation to make sure the sheep trot and bleat like the power structure wants the sheep to trot and bleat.
So, follow the leader into the stadium. Find your seat. And sit down. And fall for the glitz and glamour of an event that is truly the most shameful sight in American politics---that is truly diverting energy from ending war, emancipating humanity, reforming this democracy and its social systems which must be altered to properly address poverty.
Eugene Debs said, “My greatest regret is that, under our Constitution, the American people can have almost anything they want, but it just seems they don’t want much of anything at all.”
Unless we change our routine, this America will not change.
Step outside of the cage. I dare you.
Vote for a candidate not from the two major parties. Help candidates like McKinney and Nader and Barr get into the debates or get more media attention. Stop throwing your vote away on people who will do nothing for you or humanity.
Advance key ballot initiatives in your state. Find out what ballot initiatives are being advanced, if any, in your state.
March in the streets and when the police give orders from the mayor that tell you to go home or be tear gassed, point at the press, the cameras, and the innocent bystanders and remain standing strong steadfast in the face of agents of terror.
Dare them to break this up violently in front of the world. And then, when they must pack their gear up, drive their trucks off, and pile back into their SUVs they ride around hanging out of to intimidate us, make a pledge to be back in the street tomorrow and the next day until our leaders make real change.
Be a Ron Kovic. Be a Cindy Sheehan. Be a morally righteous, courageous, and passionate American in the same vein as Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela and stand up.
Just because a stadium doesn’t have barbed wire lining it doesn’t mean it isn’t a cage.
The stadium is a place for you to shut up and listen.
Don’t humiliate yourself by going into a cage.
