Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Surveillance state: 'We're not domestic extremists' [4:24m video]

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Surveillance state: 'We're not domestic extremists' [4:24m video]

Click here to access video by Rob Evans, Paul Lewis and Rachel Stevenson from the Guardian.

Here we see the reality of a police state that is emerging from behind the celebrated "democratic" facade. Increasingly we see protestors being treated as "terrorists" which allows the police state to deal with them accordingly. The capitalist Empire wages its war on "terrorism" against any opposition to its rule whether in Kabul, Baghdad, Seattle, or Brighton (England). Hence, what is called a "war on terror" is really a war waged by capitalist interests on working people everywhere in the world. Therefore, we must fight back everywhere by exposing their lies and their crimes against humanity and the ecosystem that sustains all life.