--Washington, D.C. should be closed down and its functions decentralized. All legislators should be required to stay in the districts that elected them and use modern communications to interface with others. This would remind the elected on a daily basis that their neighbors hired them. It would have the added benefit of making the lives of lobbyists significantly more difficult. Tell Michael Moore to investigate the possibility.
-- Blame the right people. Call a war criminal a war criminal and insist on prosecution or extradition for one and all. Pretend like the Nuremburg trials really mattered. Support Cindy Sheehan.
-- Recognize the class warfare happening in America right now and insist that the casualties be treated like those in any other war, with limitless subsidies for those in the trenches: the unemployed, the undereducated, the uninsured, the debt vassals, the single parents.
--Support open media. Contribute to the Real News Network and PBS as well as to web sites like this one.
--Join protests against the military and the excesses of the police state, like brutality and tasers, while we still can.
And most of all: Stop claiming responsibility for criminal acts over which we had no control and put the blame where it belongs. Stop giving the perps a free ride on our conscience. They should be driven out of town and into jail by our outrage, not coddled by our narcissism.
We should not be willing to shoulder blame for criminal activity committed, domestically and abroad, without our consent. The fact that we live in the U.S. is not evidence of guilt.
If everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.
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