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General News    H3'ed 7/11/12

Saboteur: An interview with a domestic insurgent

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You can't blame people for wanting to have a pleasant life, but in times like these that turns them into accomplices with the system. The only way life can stay pleasant now is if you play along. The punishments for opposition are getting increasing unpleasant.


But rebelling is invigorating. It's an authentic life, not the superficial pleasantries of a lackey life.


Even the lackeys are going to lose their precious comfort level before long. Things are getting worse and worse here because that's the nature of the system. It devours everything.


The country is run by corporate robots. They're squeezing the people at home and strangling them overseas. And the military is their enforcer. It's become a monster rampaging out of control, fighting enemies that it itself created, like Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban. This beast knows only to kill, and it does that reflexively, mechanically, massively. The leaders elected to stop it end up serving it. Amerika is running amok in a mania of unconscious killing. Amerika is a berserker battling the universe, a gut-shot hyena devouring its own entrails.


We have to stop doing this ... and we can. We don't need to live this way, by bombing and killing.


I want people to know there's a movement here to resist militarism. It's rolling. They can be part of it ... in many ways.


Hathaway : Would you recommend that people burn trucks?


Trucker: I would not. It's very dangerous.


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William T. Hathaway is an award-winning novelist and an emeritus Fulbright professor of creative writing. His peace novel, Summer Snow, is the story of an American warrior falling in love with a Sufi Muslim and learning from her that higher (more...)
 

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