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Anais Nin sez: "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
I think of her words when I consider this question: How much more are we willing to tolerate before we take direct action? For those of you scoring at home, here is just a small taste of what we're already enduring without any serious fuss:
Epidemics of preventable diseases: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc.
Poisoning of our air, water, and food (including breast milk)
Global warming, climate change, disappearing honeybees, destruction of the rain forest, topsoil depletion, ocean acidification, overfishing, etc.
One-third of Americans are uninsured or underinsured in terms of health care
More than half of the world's top 100 economies are not nations; they're corporations
Presidential lies, electoral fraud, limited debates, etc.
The largest prison population on the planet
Corporate control of public land, public airwaves, and public pensions
Overt infringement of our civil liberties
Bloated defense budget, unilateral military interventions, war crimes committed in our name, legalization of torture, blah, blah, blah...
Before you know it, the US government will start spying on American citizens and detaining prisoners without charges while allowing corporations to ravage the earth in pursuit of profit, wiping out entire eco-systems in the process--oops, sorry"they're already doing all that with limited resistance.
Frederick Douglass sez: "Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Every 24 hours, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals are released across the globe; 200,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed; more than 100 plant or animal species go extinct; and 45,000 human beings (mostly children) die of starvation.
So, let's repeat my earlier question. One more time, with feeling: How much more are we willing to tolerate before we take direct action?
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