This Revolution Is Personal
Barbara H. Peterson
Barbara H. Peterson
“… the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the
obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes
helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy
its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the
ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure–these
remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate
power.” — Howard Zinn in The Progressive magazine, January 2000, p20
When the government tells you that you cannot grow your own food, and
slips pesticide-ridden GMOs into the nation’s food supply unlabeled,
it’s time to discard the system.
When government agencies tell you what you can and cannot eat, then
enforce that compliance with armed goons, it’s time to discard the
system.
When you are forced into government bondage in order to merely survive, then get
taxed to death so that survival is at a bare minimum, it’s time to
discard the system.
When “too big to fail” corporations stomp on “consumers” like they
are just so much rabble to use up and throw away, it’s time to discard
the system.
When you go to a hospital to get well, and that hospital kills you
through incompetence and outright malice, it’s time to discard the
system.
When Big Pharma poisons are legal and natural plants are not, it’s time to discard the system.
When the media routinely lies and hides the truth, it’s time to discard the system.
When people are routinely maimed and killed by government approved
drugs that are made mandatory by that very same government, it’s time to
discard the system.
We the people want something real, not televised hype and brand
marketers telling us what we should do, think, and feel, while counting
the profits raked in through stealth and false advertising.
We the people are sick to death of being told what is good for us and what is not.
When I was born, I did not sign up to be property of the state. I
have one mother and don’t need another in the form of Big Brother.
If you the power brokers want a fight, you’ve got it. This will not
be a fight calling for bloodshed and ruin, but for life. For
independence from tyranny. For self-sufficiency and hope. For a breaking
away from the ties that bind us to a corrupt and dying system that was
designed from the onset to fail. This will be a revolution welling up
from the tortured soul of every man, woman and child who has woken up to
the oppression we are living under, which is so tyrannical in its
nature that we the people are being suffocated. This revolution will be
one of empowerment of the individual over corporate interests and the
war machine.
This revolution is personal.
Nobody is waiting in the wings to save us. The cavalry isn’t
coming. The cavalry is here. If you’re still looking for your hero,
check the mirror.
(Nick Brannigan)
©2012 Barbara H. Peterson
No comments:
Post a Comment