Where’s the Outrage
This is an email blog from Joe Radoszewski (minor editing by Jessie Read):
After all of the initial optimism the first few days of talks in Copenhagen 2 weeks ago, what has happened is basically a total meltdown in arriving at any useful solutions while the clock is desperately ticking. The Corporation of the United States has proved once again thru Hillary Clinton’s double talk that it is a hypocrite of the greatest magnitude, offering false promises and untenable conditions and solutions. Massive arrests of peaceful protesters, the barring of legitimate delegates to the Bella Convention Center and on and on. The people of civil society have proven themselves once again to be no match for the all-powerful corporations. If you have shown no interest in this and are not outraged by what has just occurred, than you are traveling the same dark road that all who before you have traveled when they ignored the famous words of Niemöller, who is perhaps best remembered for his oral admission of personal guilt and condemnation of the bystander. The exact words are in dispute; their sentiment is not:
First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Finally, they came for me and there was no one left to speak out.
I know for a fact that many reading this blog are mostly oblivious to what has just happened in Copenhagen. What is worse, that same group doesn’t even know enough to give a damn. It is but yet another example of what the future holds for us all because of the mindless apathy that has become all pervasive. I can only encourage everyone, who has yet to do so, to watch the last 2 episodes of Democracy Now to see what is in store for the world in the next few decades, especially those in the lowest lying areas of the world who are most concerned such as The Maldives, Bangladesh, Tuvalu, The Solomon Islands and on: http://www.democracynow.org/
In a nutshell, what has occurred just this week in Copenhagen is a view into the near future. It is global warming on a massive scale with no turning back; armed repression of civil rights in protest and free speech; the continual dumbing down of society especially our own; further repression of the truth and real news sans facts; further robbing of the middle classes resulting in ever greater chasms between the haves and the have-nots. Whether or not one believes the story of Noah’s Ark is fact or fable, I would suggest at a minimum, that everyone learn how to tread water.
Now … do you want to know how I really feel? I am outraged with the School of Assassins; I am outraged that Cheney and Bush were not impeached and laughed all the way to the bank; I am outraged that global warming is real, that our planet is in danger while the pathetic masses do nothing but talk … while there is still time for action; I am outraged that we have been so conditioned to live in a country that condones torture, massive imprisonments, continual wars and genocide while everybody continues to shop, watch TV and look the other way; I am outraged that while we now have an articulate president, he constantly offers promises and hope … but delivers meaningless table scraps and double-speak; I am outraged that we have a Congress so feeble and pathetic it can’t pass even the simplest legislation without rendering it almost useless; I am outraged that we have clandestine covert activities carried on not only by our government but also by government condoned paramilitary groups like Blackwater, no different than those of Savak, the Gestapo, Stasi or the KGB with the only thing keeping them from us … is a simple order of the president when the time is ripe. Where are the cries of outrage? Where is the protest. Who’s even paying attention? Naomi Klein was simply hoarse from all the talking and shouting in Copenhagen. Evo Morales was disgusted and disappointed. Environmental movements such as 350, TCK TCK, GreenPeace, numerous others … rejected and dejected. Where’s the outrage? Where are the Churches? In Nazi Germany, these men stood up as did Franz Jaggerstatter; where are our leaders? Martin Niemöller Reinhold Niebuhr Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For anybody who thinks Al Gore is off the track, global warming is a joke or irrelevant or phoney science, as do the makers of this fake-science broadcast on GB tv Ch #4, and I hesitate to give this link lest it be used as reason to do nothing, [see: http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.co.uk/ ] which aired in England in about 2007, to throw a wrench in the works of global solutions, had better take an hour and read thru this next well documented treatise by Bill Butler: “The Great Global Warming Swindle” is itself a Fraud and a Swindle” at http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html
There, now I’ve said it. Wake up America, it’s no longer 1950.
Tags: civil rights, climate change, complacency, Copenhagen
