I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they… [10]
And this mass submission must be out of consent rather than simply out of fear:
Shall we call subjection to such a leader cowardice? … If a hundred, if a thousand endure the caprice of a single man, should we not rather say that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise against him, and that such an attitude indicates indifference rather than cowardice? When not a hundred, not a thousand men, but a hundred provinces, a thousand cities, a million men, refuse to assail a single man from whom the kindest treatment received is the infliction of serfdom and slavery, what shall we call that? Is it cowardice? … When a thousand, a million men, a thousand cities, fail to protect themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth. . . . What monstrous vice, then, is this which does not even deserve to be called cowardice, a vice for which no term can be found vile enough . . . ? [11]
[The future of the human race has been pre-determined for us by a cabal of international gangsters. They have chosen a life of slavery for every human being. Whether we accept it or not; it is up to each of us. If we refuse to resist; we are giving our consent to our own servitude and that of our families.
DON’T GIVE YOUR CONSENT TO SLAVERY! It’s as simple as that.
If we want to end the war then We the People must deprive the warlords of the physical means to wage that war, no enlistments, no tax money, no shopping (for non-essentials), no work. Millions of us have to stop cooperating with society in producing, servicing, maintaining the infrastructure that supports the towering edifice of the military industrial complex.
Our task is to find ways to make the people want to resist. We have to change the minds that now have no desire to resist at all, even those minds that see salvation in the war machine itself.
The people must be made to see the invisible tyrant above us before they will begin to think of resistance. This why resistance is primarily an educational action. Opening people’s eyes is a revolutionary act. Can you still recall the moment that your eyes began to open to the dark forces around us? We have to recreate that moment of awakening within other people’s minds, here, in this environment of the shock doctrine.
The fact that we are trying to reason with people who have been shocked until they are nearly catatonic, tells me that we must shock these people ourselves, in order to awaken them. This is the reasoning behind my choosing to concentrate on the unheard story of the CIA creating terrorist armies (insurgencies) to create the war that kills our troops. What could be more shocking than knowing that the CIA is creating the war of terror?
What can we say that will instill in people the desire to disobey authority, to become the human sand that will jam the gears of the war machine? How can we shatter the politics of obedience?]
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