A Course in Miracles
teaches, "You become what you defend against." And we have become a culture of
war. Claiming to have no money for
schools, pensions, healthcare, social safety nets while spending millions on
pitting militarized police against peaceful protestors and now with the passage
of the Patriot Act and with Homeland Security and the Department of Justice all
working together the police state has been put in place.
So this is our moment, perhaps our only chance. We must remain nonviolent. This is the key. I recently listened to a talk Marianne Williamson gave at Occupy Oakland and she had a very valid insight. "In the 60's we stopped the war but we did not create peace." We cannot solve our problems from the same level of consciousness that created them. The powers that be would like nothing better then for our peaceful protests to turn violent so they could instill marshal law and use all their high-powered weaponry on us. We cannot allow this to happen. We must remain ever diligent and win the hearts and minds of those who still do not understand.
Think of all the
brave souls who have risked their lives by putting their bodies in front of the
machine, from New York City to Seattle to Oakland to Egypt and beyond.
Scott Olsen -- Iraq war Vet seriously injured @ Occupy Oakland
Kayvan Sabeghi -- Iraq war Vet seriously injured @ Occupy Oakland
Elizabeth Nichols -- pepper-sprayed @ Occupy Portland
Dorli Rainey -- 84 year-old activist pepper-sprayed @ Occupy Seattle
UC Davis students -- pepper-sprayed @ University of California
Brendan Watts -- Beaten @ Occupy Wall Street
Ydanis Rodriguez -- NYC Council member arrested/detained @ Occupy Wall Street
Pancho Ramos Stierle -- meditator arrested/faces deportation @ Occupy Oakland
Robert Hass -- 70 year-old Poet Laureate beaten @ Berkeley
We deserve a better world and it is up to us to create it. But make no mistake Americans have been asleep since the gunshots rang out at Kent State and four college students were murdered in cold blood and now our sleeping giant, America's youth, have once again awakened and I have faith with truth and justice on their side, God willing, they just might save us from ourselves.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
----Isaac Asimov
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