[Peace-discuss] ] Obama, the Tea Party & Why We Need a Labor Party (from /SocialistOrganizer/)

[John W.]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:13 AM, E.Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:

 "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins"
> "Ye have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin."
>
>
> *"*I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are
> bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their
> job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers
> keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and
> there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to
> it.
>
> We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we
> sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had
> fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's
> supposed to be!
>
> We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
>
> It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any
> more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting
> smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living
> rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I
> won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
>
> Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
>
> I want you to get mad!
>
> I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to
> write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to
> write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and
> the Russians and the crime in the street.
>
> All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
>
> You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
>
> So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your
> chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and
> stick your head out and yell,
>
>   "I'm as mad as hell,
>
> and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
>
>
Indeed.  Written in 1976....
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