The Accepted System of Dissent

War Veteran Speaks

by Mike Kress
March 24, 2006

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We are here today because we believe that if we say the right words and carry the right signs we will get our foot in the door of democratic debate.

In short, we are here because we believe in an illusion. That illusion is an accepted system of dissent that ensures our resistance doesn’t go beyond boundaries established by the government and the corporate media.

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Make no mistake: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Snow, the Clintons, the Kerrys, the Supreme Court, the CIA, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the fossil fuels industry, the military-industrial complex, and everyone controlling this system, are not incompetent or stupid. They are corporatists, and they know what they are doing. They are deliberately dismantling our freedoms and protections so that corporate capitalism - backed by military and police power - can become a global reality.

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Martin Luther King Jr. recognized this reality when he spoke at New York’s Riverside Church in 1967. He said:

…We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.…A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Global Research

A clear statement, a call to action.