Comments on: Obama-style activism in Britain http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/articleon-the-inauguration-of-obama/ Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://heatherbrooke.org/2009/articleon-the-inauguration-of-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-1777 Andrew Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:09:50 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/?p=637#comment-1777 "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot".. I see that a lot of people have been, or are scared of voicing their political views, but apathy is out, activism is in. The amount of squeezing of the people that the gov't is engaging is having an adverse effect, the more they squeeze, the more we try to set ourselves free, right? - like animals when backed into a corner, they bite hard. Only this time round we're frogs that have been dropped into a pan of warm water, and the heat's been turned up ever so incrementally, and only now are we starting to feel the heat burn our skin. The people seem to be waking up to how badly they're being screwed, debt-based lifestyles, absurd taxes, confidentiality & privacy, lies about terrorism and extended military occupations, the economy... etc.. what ISN'T being taken away from us is the question I would like to see answered. I think a key piece in viewing the whole big ugly jigsaw is exposing 9/11 and 7/7 for what they really were - staged theatrical events for our consumption, and for their agenda. If we expose the frauds that were the catalyst for the situation we find ourselves in today then you expose the corrupt and self-serving banking and political systems, the military industrial complex with their pockets crammed full of politicians and policy makers, the illusion of the political left / right paradigm (labour / tory / democarat / republican = rigged horse races).. the mainstream media's willing or unwitting complicity in pumping out ten shades of lies and propaganda at every opportunity to push their agendas (like ex-CIA chief Bill Colby said, "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media"), and the real nature of our banking systems and what it's designed to do - consolidation into the hands of the few. None of it is what it seems and I truly believe the people are ready to have the wool pulled back from over their eyes and see the ugliest truths they've ever had to admit exist. Even Fox news have started admitting how screwed up everything has become, and that's saying something. When history repeats itself, do we notice? “In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”..

I see that a lot of people have been, or are scared of voicing their political views, but apathy is out, activism is in. The amount of squeezing of the people that the gov’t is engaging is having an adverse effect, the more they squeeze, the more we try to set ourselves free, right? – like animals when backed into a corner, they bite hard. Only this time round we’re frogs that have been dropped into a pan of warm water, and the heat’s been turned up ever so incrementally, and only now are we starting to feel the heat burn our skin.

The people seem to be waking up to how badly they’re being screwed, debt-based lifestyles, absurd taxes, confidentiality & privacy, lies about terrorism and extended military occupations, the economy… etc.. what ISN’T being taken away from us is the question I would like to see answered.

I think a key piece in viewing the whole big ugly jigsaw is exposing 9/11 and 7/7 for what they really were – staged theatrical events for our consumption, and for their agenda. If we expose the frauds that were the catalyst for the situation we find ourselves in today then you expose the corrupt and self-serving banking and political systems, the military industrial complex with their pockets crammed full of politicians and policy makers, the illusion of the political left / right paradigm (labour / tory / democarat / republican = rigged horse races).. the mainstream media’s willing or unwitting complicity in pumping out ten shades of lies and propaganda at every opportunity to push their agendas (like ex-CIA chief Bill Colby said, “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media”), and the real nature of our banking systems and what it’s designed to do – consolidation into the hands of the few.

None of it is what it seems and I truly believe the people are ready to have the wool pulled back from over their eyes and see the ugliest truths they’ve ever had to admit exist. Even Fox news have started admitting how screwed up everything has become, and that’s saying something.

When history repeats itself, do we notice?

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