At the same time, if Cheney and GWB try to ensure their continuous governance by manufacturing a national emergency before the next president can take office, we must be prepared to lay down our lives. We must shut down every city in the U.S. with prone bodies filling the streets. We must be prepared to die under the wheels of a Rumsfeldian Humvee because only by sacrificing ourselves can we save our children and grandchildren from a home-grown Stalinism made far worse by the power of contemporary electronic media. Orwell’s “1984” is a picnic compared to what the Neo-Con cabal would like to give us. Not even Orwell imagined the kind of surveillance techniques that are available now.
Instead of fantasizing about assassination plots, we must begin to seriously plan for non-violent self-sacrifice. That is what takes real courage. That is what makes lasting change.
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