Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. , not that I'm not full of rage and frustration at all the same things you mention. Just have to put in perspective how we can finally prevail. We've tried by voting, and that didn't work. Now it's time we organize for nonviolent resistance, which scares me, since I've seen all the movies and actual footage on what happens to people who nonviolently resist regimes like this one.
As far as being on "the List", no doubt they are making them fast and furious. Even the so-called great election reform ended up making individual citizens reveal our contributions to candidates above $200, along with our employer and address, etc. That's a list for a political dictator to take to the bank, so to speak.
They start with voting list purges, if unchecked they will start purging voters, especially with someone like Gonzales in charge. Right now everyone who has openly opposed * is endangered because the administration has proved that they have no regard for human life (shock and awe = killing innocent civilians), the Constitution, or the Rule of Law.
Where we can have hope is that half of the nation, if we are to believe the vote counts in this election, is one hell of a lot of people to try to purge and get away with it.
"As you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of general and panoramic view of the whole human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" — . . . . If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy."
Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a away that men, in some strange way, are responding — something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee — the cry is always the same — "We want to be free."
. . . .But I wouldn't stop there. I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation. And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
. . . .And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.
From: I've Been to the Mountaintop, speech by Martin Luther King, 4/3/68 (The night before he was killed).
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