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One Pissed Off Leftist at Daily Kos (via Newsbusters):
As our host Wanda mentioned, there is some march or other practically every weekend in DC and it has become old hat for the park police. Limiting access, choking off rebellion, smiting trouble-makers and controlling press coverage is now routine. Aided by a complicit corporate-owned media elite, ignoring and minimizing our protests has become a simple matter. While we once struck fear in their hearts, we barely raise an eyebrow now.
So is the answer to abandon street democracy? It might be ... if there were other realistic avenues. But there aren't many IMO. The electoral system is so corrupt that even those who still believe in it will admit that we have to win in overwhelming numbers to be assured our victory will be acknowledged. And even when we 'win' we don't get what we were promised. That was the entire rationale for the One Nation 'march'.
Republican-owned corporations electronically count our votes and our traitorous SCOTUS has opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money flowing into the system. So our electoral democracy is every bit as compromised as our street democracy.
So what then is the answer?
I still support One Nation Working Together because we need a peoples coalition, and this seems a promising beginning. I am hopeful but not blindly optimistic. It's a fine thing to form a mighty peoples coalition, but I think we are going to have to go well beyond that. I think we are going to have to act up to get anywhere. Acting up is what the civil rights marchers did. Acting up is what the Vietnam protesters did. I see no way around it - this is what we are going to have to do too.
Teresa Heinz Kerry once told me that if we really wanted to get the government's attention, we should mass on the five bridges leading into DC and shut the city down. I think this is the sort of thing we're going to have to do if we want to have any real impact. Of course they'll freak if we do it and people will be beaten and arrested no doubt. But if we can't face that threat, take that risk and make that sacrifice then we are going to continue to lose. The deck is too thoroughly stacked against us. The only meaningful options left to us, it seems to me, are direct action and wide scale civil disobedience. Without it I fear that we are toast.
OPOL is not contemplating Ghandhian non-violence, as he indicates that traditional rallies and street protests aren't doing the trick. So how will these lefties "assure victory"? Political violence, of course. Recall last night's post: "Leftist Violence and the Los Angeles Times Bombing." Expect more. It's building. The militant D.C. Direct Action News has this: "Reportback from One Nation Working Together." And OPOL's graphic at the post is perfectly telling. See, "A Brief History of the 'Clenched Fist' Image": Fist images, in some form, were used in numerous political graphic genres, including the French and Soviet revolutions, the United States Communist Party, and the Black Panther Party for Self-defense. However, these all followed an iconographic convention. The fist was always part of something - holding a tool or other symbol, part of an arm or human figure, or shown in action (smashing, etc.). But graphic artists from the New Left changed that in 1968, with an entirely new treatment. This "new" fist stood out with its stark simplicity, coupled with a popularly understood meaning of rebellion and militance.
I'm not going to be surprised when the "militant rebellion" becomes reality in the near future. Folks like OPOL are becoming increasingly disillusioned with traditional protests. Consequently, the methods of left-wing terrorist groups will emerge as the tactic of choice for the growing militant movement. I hope I'm wrong, but should the GOP retake the Congress in November, angry activists may feel they have no choice but to go underground, don the balaclavas, and hoist the Molotovs and Kalashnikovs.
8 comments:
I agree with your assessment. It's all too quiet these days. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.....Our only hope is that the FBI has been doing their job, but with their present boss, God only knows....stay well
While we once struck fear in their hearts, we barely raise an eyebrow now.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!...oh. He's serious? Struck fear? Reeaally....Ok, then.
we are toast.
Well, he got THAT right. If he thinks he's toast now, what the heck does he think that he'll get by "direct action" other than a broken head. Do these fools REALLY think that the only reason that their message doesn't resonate with the "masses" is because of "name the enemy" interference?
Next time "One Nation" has a rally, a counter rally should show up, not to demonstrate, but to point and laugh....
It has to start somewhere! Let them bring it on, once it begins we can remove this cancer off and rebuild it the way it was supposed to be! Let's WIN!
Please do it! The damage it would do to the Obama administration and the democrats would be just priceless. Just think of the possibilities.
Make my day!
I have to admit that this gives me a chuckle each time I read it. Seeing the Obama administration having to deal with this effectively while the nation watches is just too good to be true. Would the police act stupidly under his watch? Maybe Obama will be accused of attempting to use his new found powers to assassinate someone?
Better yet that this would happen in the Bluest of areas some of which are already starting to find reason to think another color might better represent them. Given the failure of "One Nation Trashing America" rally where people were forced to come one might think they would reevaluate their supposition that they are the majority.
Dennis: I can see some humor it it. I just wonder if there's some extreme leftist planning to take to the next level. I keep thinking of Baader-Meinhof, a film that was like real time to me.
Donald,
It is a given that there is a group that will try to emulate these thugs. We had Angela Davis, the Weather Underground, SDS et al and the only thing they got was nothing. It is why they seemingly moved away from violence. That the Left has to return to it should not be feared. If we fear these people then they win.
"Cargosquid," "David III" somewhat alludes to what the overwhelming response would be and what would be expected for a government response. The Obama administration and the government would be forced to do in their own because they dare not face the political consequences, especially at this time. They would be want to declare Marshall Law. I would bet that someone in this administration is letting the word filter out that this needs to stop.
Did Germany survive the Baader-Meinhof gang? What did they accomplish in the end?
Well sure, Dennis, we'll survive a new round of leftist terrorism. It will be destructive though. I do think we can expect something to happen. The campus protests I've chronicled have been at times violent, but seemingly random. I expect we might have more direct terrorist plotting, and it will be left-wing groups. Another interesting thing about it is how the media keeps downplaying the growing communist support in the U.S., while portraying the tea parties as violent. But almost to the one the violence we have seen this last year has been associated with the left.
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