Witnessing the Spreading Uprising of Ordinary People
Watching people risk their lives to rise up for greater personal freedoms and against totalitarian regimes, one has to wonder … could it happen here, in America?
There are an alarming number of similarities between uprisings against governments in Yemen, Egypt, Iran, Bahrain, Libya and what’s happening in Madison, Wisconsin, and other places where ordinary citizens feel disenfranchised, helpless and angry.
Public worker protests in Madison, Wisconsin.
It has been disclosed that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who is fiercely attempting to break the back of unions of public workers in his state, may be linked to ultra conservative billionaire David Koch.
Walker has threatened to unleash the National Guard on the protesting teachers, librarians, firemen and other state workers, people who are just speaking up in a manner they thought was their right as Americans.
A report – unconfirmed – has been circulating that the U.S. is training soldiers right now at a camp south of Los Angeles for the possibility of a widespread public uprising.
We have learned that the Egyptian President Mubarak’s government could easily switch off Internet pipelines in a manner similar to the system established during the Bush presidency and sanctioned by the Patriot Act. Sure, it might be harder to switch off the Internet in the U.S. but the switches apparently are in place.
The conservative thrust to kill PBS and National Public Radio isn’t about what happened to Juan Williams, a Fox News commentator. It’s about limiting the independence of free speech and hearing all voices, all sides on PBS and NPR programs.
If you want a real sense of personal helplessness, just walk the halls of Congress and attempt, as an ordinary person, to get anything accomplished. It’s no longer an option. All political parties are culpable. Senators and Representatives respond only to people who show up with money or ways to get more money and power.
America is broke because of the wars we are funding, not because of what teachers are paid. America is broke because everyone wants everything but not willing to pay for it through taxes.
Most troubling of all … we might be in an even more precarious a position than those Middle Eastern countries.
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