Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Tell the System: You're Not Getting the Guns. Period.

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

Friday, December 21, 2012

Tell the System: You're Not Getting the Guns. Period.

Click here to access article by Tony Cartalucci from Land Destroyer Report.

The author presents a solid case for another view of the gun control issue that is sweeping the media and public during this time of tragedy and mourning. However, this view is entirely missing in mainstream media in which they present only two views: 1) the NRA's view which is mostly that of the rich who want guns to protect themselves from the "rabble" who want to take away their wealth, and 2) many who simplify the issue as that of guns killing people and want guns severely restricted, if not taken away from citizens altogether.

Walking away from the "left/right" paradigm is...important - "right" leaning individuals need to realize that big-business corporate fascism demands public disarmament to give it the space to grow domestically as its right-wing backed military machine mass murders overseas. The left must realize that the very big-business interests they point their fingers at are the architects behind most, if not all of their talking points - not only on gun control, but on everything from "climate change" to "human rights" overseas as a new casus belli for perpetual global war.