“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” —Henry David Thoreau http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau/

Civil disobedience was one of Henry David Thoreau’s ways to bring our government back to reality.  Thoreau felt that all people should be willing to go to jail for causes that are just, because no unjust law can stand if all the people will stand against it, because there is a need of people to run society and if they are all in jail, laws will be changed and I agree with Thoreau’s philosophy.

http://www.transcendentalists.com/1thorea.html

FAT FREDDY: He never did commit a crime. In case you’ve forgotten, we are allowed by law to say anything we want in this country. If that hurts some useless politicians fellings, that’s too damned bad.

How long will we continue taking the shit these politicians are feeding us?

It’s very depressing day with both the TV and Print Media:

First, Uruguay lost to the Netherlands, which really ruined my day.

Then, I read Tom Dispatch’s article: Stage-Managing the War on Terror, By Stephan Salisbury. It details the FBI’s funding, plotting, and staging, terrorist acts which result in life in prison for Black, Unemployed men. These plots evolve to the point of shooting an Iman in the back, killing him in the name of Homeland Defense.

Then I check out TD, and notice a couple of headlines. One refers to charges against the soldier who leaked damaging photos showing US troops involved in shooting civilians in Iraq. Another talks about charges against Journalists for taking photos of the environmental damage from the Gulf Oil Spill.

And now this, where a guy guilty of a misdemeanor at the most faces 3 years in prison if the [IN]Justice Department gets its way.

They say that it’s a great life, if you don’t weaken. I find that hard to believe when people are thrown in jail because of police plots, and/or for exercising the Rights guaranteed [?] by the Constitution.

We’ve just finished with the Patriotic Extravaganza called the 4th of July. Too bad all the Celebrations are merely lip-service to a piece of paper that is no more than TP for those in power. Democrats, Republicans, Obama, Bush, it makes no difference. Our true Masters are the Gods of War [Mars] and Money [Mammon]. We are no more then pawns to be manipulated as the Earth is raped and pillaged. I still wonder where they think their children and grandchildren will find safe haven when both the waters and temperatures make our blue planet untenable.

It is Sin against God what is going on in our name!

There is a “Crisis of Political Representation” that intentionally excludes the American Populace from political representation and participation in the making and enforcing of legislated law and order that is in the best interest of the American Populace.

There is a “Crisis of Confidence” that selective democracy of the United States can or will ever do anything other than represent life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with freedom and justice for all of the American Aristocracy and the Professional Middle Class, and intentionally exclude the same benefit for the American Populace, the 70% Majority Common Population of the United States.

We are the American Populace, the 70% Majority Common Population of the United States, and we have the Voting Strength as a United Class and Culture to take and hold power over the Government, the Congress, and the Judiciary of the United States.

You, the American Aristocracy and the Professional Middle Class, say that we, the American Populace, are mean, vile, and vulgar, because we are not enlightened; but, enlightened or not, we have the voting strength to seize control over all levels of government in the United States and it is necessary that we do so; otherwise, we will not be represented by legislated law and order in the government of the United States.

Those who consider themselves to be enlightened that do not want to be ruled by what they consider to be the mean, vile, and vulgar American Populace had best start doing all that they can to bring the enlightenment of the 17th and 18th Centuries, that they have built upon for 400 years at the present time at the start of the 21st Century, to maintain their own power, control, and benefit to the American Populace, or prepare to gradually cede power to the American Populace as a mean, vile, and vulgar unenlightened majority common population that is awakening and realizing that its communal wealth is being used for the benefit of the American Aristocracy and the Professional Middle Class while the American Populace is being excluded from benefit from its own communal wealth, and being intentionally excluded from participation in legislated law and order and governance that can remedy the problem.

A good place to start is the elimination of “Savant Education” in the Public School System of the United States and replacement of “Savant Education” with “Causal Education”, so that the American Populace do not continue to be programmed by all levels of U.S. Governance to be unenlightened mean, vile, and vulgar tools that are trained like monkeys from the Cradle to the Grave to be nothing more than tools of the American Aristocracy and Professional Middle Class, and distracted by entertainment in the same manner in order to perpetuate an unenlightened work force that does not share in the benefit of its own labor.

“Once you have been arrested and convicted once or twice, you can not put yourself in that position again unless you are willing to accept jail time. Unfortunately, the law is the law, even if you don’t agree with it. For a third offense, this guy was getting off easy with 30 days.”

Only the law is not the law.  There is one set of laws for the rich and powerful, and another for the poor and powerless.  Compounding the hypocrisy we have a Chief Executive who refuses to enforce the law, refuses to do the job he was hired to do, prefers “looking forward” to prosecuting torture, illegal invasions, lying to the Congress and the American people, and this list is far from exhausted.  Instead, a man becomes a multiple offender for exercising his Constitutional right to free speech, for non-violent protest, for dissent?  So forgive me while I vomit as cheap talk about the sanctity of the law gets tossed about.  Everything that Hitler did was legal, too.

It appears the whole nation should be in jail in order to protest this tyranny.

Right-Wing/DLC Rules are to put protesters so far away that no one ever sees them to learn about what they are protesting, so that there is no one to observe what they are protesting about, because in that manner they can protest all they want without any danger to the status quo.  We must protest restrictions on protest before all protesters become terrorists.

One could compare this to the stoning of a women in Iran for alleged adultery, except in this case it is not a prompt for another war, nor is the protester a women, so this is not sexist, possibly political and making a point?
During the campaign the restrictions on protesters was just the tip of the iceberg. There is more to come. 

Next their will be an announcement or proclamation of a war on protesting or will it be a war on hanging banners?

If I recall, something about Woody Harllson hanging a banner on the Golden Gate Bridge, which caused traffic problems and pissed off authorities.

People should be taxed for hanging banners like bill board companies, maybe make them take out permits?  If someone wants to protest something they should be rules, or as the Republicans prefer just say no!

Didn’t our wonderful Sec of State just warn the world about countries doing this very thing? I’m sure that buried somewhere in her warning were the names of those countries we should be wary of and of course since she is all about fairness she had to have mentioned the US, Canada, and Israel. It would just be so self serving to mention Zimbabwe, Iran, Myanmar and not mention the other 3 now, wouldn’t it?

This is the problem in the United States, laws have been and are being made against the public, where the public are unwelcome in public buildings.  It is past time for the 70% populace to have representation so that populace members won’t have to be arrested for trying to represent the populace in public buildings, because currently there is NO REPRESENTATION of the 70% populace in government and law and order.

So its a crime to hang public banners in this wonderful land of free speech? Perhaps had the gentleman gilded his message with currency this would have been more acceptable to our exalted leaders! Oh, and what about all those “wonderful” made in China “American” flags and other patriotic junk clogging the scenery during the 4th? To me this really sends the wrong message when the supposed symbol of this once great(?) nation is plastered on everything from G-strings to condoms. Our flag or some manifestation thereof is so ubiquitous at all times that it has become nothing more than an overexposed piece of advertisement and has lost whatever sense of awe and grandeur it may have onetime had much less any communicative value to those searching for rhyme or reason for what today passes for governance! Sharron Angle has seen nothing yet if she thinks her and her ignorant ilks’ petty, intolerant, and self-centered complaints are grounds for “2nd amendment solutions”. When real Americans who define their patriotism in terms of service and loyalty to their fellow citizens rather than in terms of how much “stuff” one can acquire and hoard, the out-of-touch pseudo-aristocrats ruling as part of our corrupt Janus-faced system currently steering a course to national decay, will find themselves disabused of their delusions of superiority as well as their illgotten riches and,with good fortune and true justice, find themselves in the dock for much more than the display of “inconvenient truths”!

Prosecutors and judges hate repeat offenders, regardless of which law has been broken. Once you have been arrested and convicted once or twice, you can not put yourself in that position again unless you are willing to accept jail time. Unfortunately, the law is the law, even if you don’t agree with it. For a third offense, this guy was getting off easy with 30 days.

The security-state apparatus is getting out of hand with meteing out punishment.

Make it a trial jury and he will walk.

Punishing nonviolent protest is just one more way of government officials cutting themselves off from public criticism and making themselves unreachable.
The Constitution (in case any of them care) specifically provided for the right to complain to their government and be heard, not punished.

Cutting itself off from criticism—indeed, from any kind of real access and depending on a sycophantic press to distort protest, is cowardly policy to say the least. At worst, it cuts officials off from discovering where they are making mistakes in policies. When they don’t listen to what people say they doom themselves to failure—eventually if not immediately.