Civil Disobedience
Jul 4th, 2007 at 11:00 am by Susie
I thought I’d point out here the reasons I rarely write long, analytical pieces about the Bush regime and exactly what it’s doing to our country. I do enjoy reading other bloggers’ work. It’s intellectually stimulating.
But it’s my experience that getting bogged down in the intellect tends to dampen action. It gets people into depressed, endless thought loops. You tend to miss the larger picture.
And besides, just how much evidence do you need to know these are evil, lying bastards who will stop at nothing? Look, not to be unkind, but if you don’t know that by now, you’re a fucking moron. Go read some other blog - I don’t want you here.
I’m not here to talk you into it. I’m not here to break down legal arguments, or to find out whodunnit. We already know.
If there’s anything I hoped to effectively communicate in the past five years, it’s this: You don’t have to give them the benefit of the doubt - ever. It’s far past the point where we need details.
It’s the same damned story, over and over. Lies, greed, immorality, pure evil. Do you really need me to spell out the particulars?
I didn’t think so.
What you do need to do is decide what you’re willing to do about it. Then you need to do it. Don’t wait for permission from me or anyone else. Civil disobedience has a long, honorable tradition in this country.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If you can get six people in lawn chairs to block an intersection, and you call the local news station, you’re going to be on the TV, saying, “We just can’t take this war and this administration. We don’t know what else to do, and maybe blocking this intersection seems like a dumb idea, but we want everyone to know we are heartsick over what the president is doing. This is not the America we know.”
And maybe two of the 500,000 people who see you will say, “Maybe I should do that.” You never know.
And so on.
Don’t just sit there. Disobey.
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Susie, this makes me think that you’ve taken to the streets
yourself lately, right?
Nope. I have more options to express my outrage than most people, and I concentrate on using my writer’s voice. But if someone in Philly called me to sit in the middle of the street right now, I’d be there.