So long, it's been nice

The US Senate voted to allow unlimited detention of American citizens on US soil in the name of the war of terror. Think about that. They will soon be able to classify anyone they like, from a peace and justice agitator to a union organizer to a migrant worker to an elementary school teacher with a passion for social justice, as a terrorist and they can hold them forever. They're going to turn our whole country into a Gitmo.

As if the unlimited detention thing wasn't bad enough, they also desperately want to censor the internet. They claim it's to stop piracy and to keep us from downloading their shitty movies and TV shows that keep us locked into the vicious cycle of consuming and wage slavery, but most of us know what the real reason is. They are shocked how fast the 99 percent movement grew, they are frightened we'll use the internet to keep connecting and to keep organizing and that one day it will be the lynchpin of the machine we use to overthrow them and sink their rotten to the core economic and political system. So they're acting to stop us.

These two acts by the people who have stolen and lied their way into power should prove to everyone that they will stop at nothing to keep us down and to keep themselves on top. They are hell bent on ruining our nation and enslaving us.

We had a good run. We got a minimum wage, 40 hour work weeks, a modicum of workplace health and safety laws, we ended child labor, we got integration and civil rights pushed through, but then when it suited them they broke our unions and set us against each other. The vast majority of the current generation of kids growing up will not do as well as their parents, unless they're in the wealthy elite class that is.

If we continue on the road we're on, the USA is doomed. The dictatorship of the corporation is ruthless and it will not brook any dissent.

So long America, it was fun while it lasted.

Takin' it to the streets

I'll be attending an anti corporate personhood rally here in my lovely town later today. I'll be carrying this sign:

I'll have more pictures and a full report on the Rally For the Humans tomorrow. In the mean time, keep calm and protest on.

We'll have to do it ourselves

It's become abundantly clear that all the political parties in power in Washington DC are actively working against the best interests of this country and the long term interests of we the people. Republicans and teabaggers want to return us to the '50's, the 1750's. And the Democrats in power have moved further to the right of Bill Clinton who had already moved far to the right of Jimmy Carter who was more centrist than most.

It's obvious that the laws of this country are written to aid and abet the rich. And the tool they use to enforce those laws, the police, works for the upper classes and corporate America.

If you're looking to Washington DC or to the police to help you, then you're barking up the wrong tree. We're going to have to get ourselves out of this mess they put us in by using a mixture of civil disobedience, infiltration of both political parties, bringing back the labor union movement, heavy duty organizing, and getting working class and poor people registered to vote.

I'm tired of the way things are and I bet you are too. We pinned our hopes on Obama and he pissed all over us, just like Hillary would have done had she been elected. But we can change things, we most certainly can. The current president of Brazil was a urban guerrilla who did street by street organizing and a bit of street fighting, she was imprisoned, tortured, and she made her way out and got to the top. If she can do it, so can we.

Let's do it.