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After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
As Jim Morrison sang in The Doors' "Five to One,"
"They've got the guns,
but we've got the numbers;
Gonna win, yeah, we're taking over."
We still have the semblance of democratic systems of government in Europe, Canada, and the United States. They have not yet been able to undo that simple fact, although the detention rules in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 tells me that they are working hard to overcome that impediment. It is time to remind the oligarchs and their governmental lackeys to whom all power truly belongs: We the People.
Those three words at the beginning of the U.S. Constitution are in part what made Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw state in 1930, "The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom." Those three words make the Constitution a revolutionary document, not an acceptance of the status quo. The conservatives and reactionaries have been trying to make the American people forget that fact for two-and-a-quarter centuries. Fortunately for us, men like Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr., have risen to remind us of both our revolutionary heritage, and duty to our nation and its Constitution.
It is time for us to remind the world again of where the world's first modern revolution came from. On May 1, 2012, I would like to see everyone in the United States (and around the world) take the day off for a picnic. No organized rallies, or anything that we must get permits for: just millions of people packing up a picnic lunch, going to their local national, state, or municipal park, wearing something orange to delineate us from the rest of the people there, enjoying like minded people's company. Fifteen million plus Americans taking the day off would make the oligarchs crap their pants. Even if all we did was stay home, and sit this one out.
