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, January 19, 2012

The Real 2012 Doomsday: U.S. Falls To Tyranny

Click here to access article by Sam Rolley from Personal Liberty Digest. 

This warning about a growing police state in the US is coming from the right, probably the libertarian right. I suspect their supporters are drawn from the ranks of the old middle class of shop keepers, small entrepreneurs, small farmers, and other members of the threatened modern middle class of managers, professionals, students from this class, etc--people drawn to the Tea Party.
The past year has been a bad one for democracy, and the Republic that once was the United States seems to live in name only. Because of the extreme abuses of power the Federal government has exercised just in the past year, the people of the Nation have been broken, discouraged and must now only be controlled.
In contrast to Occupier activists, they appear to be quite demoralized.
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