“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That’s our problem.” – Howard Zinn, from ‘Failure to Quit,’ 2002.
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WORD CHOICE
If the president of the United States sends American soldiers around the world to secure oil fields for ExxonMobil, that’s called energy independence. If Pfizer bilks Medicare out of billions, that’s called a contract dispute. If ExxonMobil, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Halliburton-KBR, Northrop, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Honey-well, Westinghouse, General Electric and IBM overcharge the government on federal contracts, they’re called misunderstandings.
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The political world and capitalistic governments ares filled with so much corruption that there is no where to turn to but organizations like this one. Traditional politics does not support the common person but for the power brokers and the rich. It also ignores the poor and needy. The destruction of the average person is an on going and blatant event. There is so much work to be done. I feel that this corruption that I'm referring to is not only in the US but in most of the world. So the question to me is where to begin in a group like this. Organization and a common theme is very important.
I have a friend that has taken over my blog,
The Internet Post, for me so I can concentrate my efforts here in what ever manner I can. It is progressive and will include a link to Dignity.
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When things are investigated, knowledge is extended.
When knowledge is extended, the will becomes sincere.
When the will is sincere, the mind is correct.
When the mind is correct, the self is cultivated