 chance and dismantle the corporate state.
This means removing from power those who have stolen our liberty and lied to us. It means in naively trust in their cosmetic reforms.
Reforms will never come from those who are complicit in these crimes. Reform will only come, through the building of mass movements and alternative centers of power that can overthrow this corporate state.
The world’s only hope comes through rebellion, by building mass movements that threaten the totalitarian centers of power. Any rebellion will require not just physical courage, but ultimately moral courage. Physical courage is not the same as moral courage. Very few of even the bravest warriors have moral courage.
Because moral courage means to defy the crowd. To stand up as a solitary individual, to shun the intoxicating embrace of comradeship and to be disobedient to authority even to the risk of your life, all for a higher principle.
With moral courage comes persecution. The American army pilot Hugh Thompson had moral courage. He landed his helicopter between a platoon of US soldiers and ten terrified Vietnamese civilians during the Mai Li massacre. He ordered his gunner to fire on the advancing US soldiers if they began to shoot the villagers.
For this act of moral courage, Thompson, like Edward Snowden, was hounded and reviled. Moral courage always looks like this. It is always defined by the State as treason. The army attempted to cover up the massacre and court martial Thompson.
Moral courage is the courage to act and speak the truth. Thompson had it. Daniel Ellsberg had it. Malcolm X had it; Martin Luther King had it. Snowden has it. If we fail to sever these chains now, we will become like so many in past civilizations who failed to rise up in time to save their civil societies from becoming human chattel.
This means we to must defy this new excuse for the law—which is in direct contradiction to our US Constitution—and engage in civil obedience to those laws which attempt to eliminate the power which our Constitution specifically gives us.
While this will be labeled “disobedience” by our illegitimate government, it is not truly disobedience. A government who can justify illegally killing its own citizens has definitely stepped over the line into totalitarianism.
Don’t be fooled by those in power and their claims of working on our behalf. They will not save us. We can only save ourselves with God’s power on our side. We are the people that our country has been waiting to hear from.
We must find, like Snowden, the moral and physical courage to tear down the structures that enslave us. Appealing to these governmental structures is a waste of time.
And all those who insist that we be patient, that we trust the system, to reform itself are merely singing in the rain before the deluge of the flood comes to sweep us all away. So get serious because there is very little time left before our country becomes “the late great” United States of America.