It is only in this 'democracy" that the foundations of free
speech is viewed as a threat to security. what freedoms have we
scarificed at the altar of sercurity of a nation's mere assests?
that of speech. that of worship. that of fear. and now with prices
soaring, we are in danger of never gaining freedom from want. If
these 4 freedoms seem familiar, they were the roots of all
democracy, they were what the orginal American constitution were
formed on, they were written by citizens for citizens, they were as
just as justice could get in this shithole we live in.
The men on top uses fear to keep the population in control and
fear as a uniting force. fear to take away your civil rights.
"racial riots in the 1960s?" in comes the ISA, internet monitoring,
political censorship and ultimately, conscription. "9/11". and the
American constitution is ripped apart, the bill of rights burnt
down.
hang the drug dealers, beat the thieves and robbers but when you
arrest people for reasons as such mentioned above, you believe your
own lies. It's all downhill from here folks.
It is highly, highly paradoxical to assume a moral society can
be built out of fear, fear of punishment. We're going straight to
hell.
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!"
From the movie "NETWORK", one of the few films that addresses
what truely matters.