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"Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power.
The more power a
regime has, the more likely people will be killed.
This is the major
reason for promoting freedom." – Rudolph Rummel
There is, after all, only one reason to kill - to
retain power.
"No mistake or crime is more horrible than than those
commited by power."
-
Søren Kierkegaard
"Christianity
means a rejection of power and a
fight against it." - Jacques Ellul
In order to get
power and retain it, it is
necessary to love
power;
but
love of power is not connected with
goodness
but with qualities that are the
opposite of goodness,
such as pride, cunning, and cruelty. –
Leo Tolstoy
"It is dangerous to believe that those in
power necessarily
know what they are doing. As a
citizen I am invested in the health of
my country. Sadly, at this time my country is sick.
The sickness stems from an executive-managerial branch that concentrates
power unto itself and a
citizenry that has
forgotten its responsibility to participate in its
own governance. We should be afraid of any
precedent that's being set in which those in
power can ignore the people and
the law. The people in
power are no more intelligent or
capable than the rest of us." - Sam Roth*
"To do something for someone else because
that person or
institution holds power over you -
the power of threat to your survival - is a good definition of
slavery." - Charles
Eisenstein
Power is defined as:
Forcefulness;
effectiveness
Control of
resources
Possession of controlling influence.
Supplementing or replacing
manual effort.
The ability or capacity to perform or
act effectively.
A
military or naval force; an
army or navy; a great
host.
The ability or official capacity to
exercise control; authority.
One
possessing or exercising
power or
influence or authority.
A
state powerful enough to influence events
across the face of the Earth .
An
individual, group, or nation
having great influence or
control over
others.
Electrical or mechanical energy, especially as used
to assist or replace human energy.
A mathematical notation indicating the
number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself.
A measure of the
magnification of an optical instrument, such as a microscope or
telescope.
Possession of the
qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do
something or get something done.
The rate at which
work is done, expressed as the amount of
work per unit time and
measured in units such as the watt and
horsepower.
The exercise
of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any
category of
control; influence; dominion; sway;
command;
government.
Ability to
act, regarded as latent or
inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance;
capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might.
"I went down to the southern
coal fields of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. I went through
the various coal camps, eating in the homes of the miners, staying all night
with their families.
I found the conditions
under which they lived deplorable.
They were in practical
slavery to the
company, who
owned their houses, owned all the land, so that if a miner did own a house he
must vacate whenever it pleased the land owners.
They were paid in
scrip instead of money so that they could not go away if dissatisfied.
They must buy at
company stores
and at company
prices.
The coal they mined was weighed by an agent of the
company and the
miners could not have a check weighman to see that full credit was given them.
The schools, the churches, the roads belonged to the
company.
I
felt, after listening to their stories, after witnessing their long patience
that the time was ripe for revolt against such brutal conditions.
Much
of the fighting took place around Cripple Creek.
The miners were
evicted from their company owned
houses.
They went out on the bleak mountain sides, lived in tents
through a terrible winter with the temperature below zero, with eighteen inches
of snow on the ground. They tied their feet in gunny sacks and lived lean and
lank and hungry as timber wolves.
All civil law had broken down in the
Cripple Creek strike.
The militia under Colonel Verdeckberg said, "We
are under orders only from God and Governor Peabody."
Judge Advocate
McClelland when accused of violating the constitution said, "To hell with the
constitution!"
There was a complete breakdown of all civil law.
Habeas corpus proceedings were suspended.
Free speech and
assembly were forbidden.
People spoke in whispers as in the days of the
inquisition.
Soldiers committed outrages.
Strikers were
arrested for vagrancy and worked in chain gangs on the street under brutal
soldiers.
Men, women and tiny children were packed in the Bullpen at
Cripple Creek.
Miners were shot dead as they slept.
They were
ridden from the country, their families knowing not where they had gone, or
whether they lived.
When the strike started in Cripple Creek, the civil
law was operating, but the governor,
a banker, and in complete
sympathy with the Rockefeller interests,
sent the militia.
They threw the officers out of office.
Sheriff Robinson had a rope thrown at his feet and told that if he did
not resign, the rope would be about his neck.
Shop keepers were
forbidden to sell to miners.
Priests and ministers were intimidated,
fearing to give them consolation.
The miners opened their own stores to
feed the women and children.
The soldiers and hoodlums broke into the
stores, looted them, broke open the safes, destroyed the scales, ripped open
the sacks of flour and sugar, dumped them on the floor and poured kerosene oil
over everything.
The beef and meat was poisoned by the militia.
Goods were stolen.
The miners were without redress, for the
militia was immune.
Men beaten and left for dead in the road.
Organizers were thrown into jail and held without trial for months.
They were deported.
They were landed in the desert, thirty
miles from food or water.
Hundreds of others were deported, taken away
without being allowed to communicate with wives and children.
On the
19th of April, 1914, machine guns, used on the strikers in the Paint Creek
strike, were placed in position above the tent colony of Ludlow.
Major
Pat Hamrock and Lieutenant K. E. Linderfelt were in charge of the militia, the
majority of whom were,
company
gun-men sworn in as soldiers.
Early in the morning soldiers approached the colony with a demand from
headquarters that Louis Tikas, leader of the Greeks, surrender two Italians.
Tikas demanded a warrant for their arrest.
They had none.
Tikas refused to surrender them.
The soldiers returned to
quarters.
A signal bomb was fired. Then another.
Immediately
the machine guns began spraying the flimsy tent colony, the only home the
wretched families of the miners had, riddling it with bullets.
Like
iron rain, bullets' upon men, women and children.
The women and
children fled to the hills.
Others tarried.
The men defended
their home with their guns.
All day long the firing continued.
Men fell dead, their faces to the ground.
Women dropped.
The little Snyder boy was shot through the head, trying to save his
kitten.
A child carrying water to his dying mother was killed.
By five o'clock in the afternoon, the miners had no more food, nor
water, nor ammunition.
They had to retreat with their wives and little
ones into the hills.
Louis Tikas was riddled with shots while he tried
to lead women and children to safety.
They perished with him.
Night came.
A raw wind blew down the canyons where men, women
and children shivered and wept.
Then a blaze lighted the sky.
The soldiers, drunk with blood and with the liquor they had looted from
the saloon, set fire to the tents of Ludlow with oil-soaked torches.
The tents, all the poor furnishings, the clothes and bedding of the
miners' families burned.
Coils of barbed wire were stuffed into the
well, the miners' only water supply.
After it was over, the wretched
people crept back to bury their dead.
In a dugout under a burned tent,
the charred bodies of eleven little children and two women were
found-unrecognizable.
Everything lay in ruins.
The wires of bed
springs writhed on the ground as if they, too, had tried to flee the horror.
Oil and fire and guns had robbed men and women and children of their
homes and slaughtered tiny babies and defenseless women.
Done by order
of Lieutenant Linderfelt, a savage, brutal executor of the will of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company.
Rockefeller got busy.
Writers were hired
to write pamphlets which were sent for broadcast to every editor in the
country, bulletins.
In these leaflets, it was shown how perfectly happy
was the life of the miner until the agitators came; how joyous he was with the
company's
saloon, the company's pig-stys
for homes, the company's
teachers and preachers
and coroners.
How the miners hated the state law of an eight-hour
working day, begging to be allowed to work ten, twelve.
How they hated
the state law that they should have their own check weigh-man to see that they
were not cheated at the tipple.
And all the while the mothers of the
children who died in Ludlow were mourning their dead.
And so I could go on and on." - Mary "Mother"
Jones
{Ivy Ledbetter Lee was retained by John D. Rockefeller Jr to
represent his family and Standard Oil, ("to burnish the family image"), after
the coal mining rebellion in Colorado known as the "Ludlow Massacre". Ivy
Ledbetter Lee was the first to use modern
public relations propaganda for corporate purposes. The term "public
relations" first appeared in the 1897 Yearbook of Railway
Literature.}
powerlessness"Our lives depend on whether safety standards
at a nuclear power plant are properly maintained; on how much
pesticide is allowed to get into
our food or how much pollution into our air;
on how skillful (or incompetent) our doctor is; whether we lose or get a job
may depend on decisions made by government
economists or corporation
executives. Most individuals are not in a position to secure themselves
against these threats to more than a very limited extent. The individual's
search for security is therefore frustrated, which leads to a sense of
powerlessness." - Theodore John Kaczynski
"One sign of incomplete integration into
the connected self is a
feeling of despair in the face of the enormous forces blocking good in this
world. The feeling of individual powerlessness buys into the
ideology of the separate self, who can
affect an objective universe of force and mass only through whatever puny force
it can muster. When you have truly entered into
the truth of the connected
self, you will know that your personal choices have cosmic significance."-
Charles
Eisenstein
"We have been taught - and are therefore teaching our
children - that, individually, we are all pretty much helpless when it comes to
saving the world. That is, unless we happen to have the power of a world
leader. Or unless we happen to control some vast multi-national corporation
like Shell Oil or Du Pont. Or unless we happen to control some big organization
like the Red Cross or Greenpeace or the World Wildlife Fund. We've been taught
(and are therefore teaching our children) that, as individuals, all we can do
is wait for OTHER people - POWERFUL people - to save the world. We're like
people standing around watching a neighbor's house burn down because we've been
taught that this is a problem for PROFESSIONALS to handle. We mustn't
interfere. Until trained fire-fighters arrive, we're just supposed to stand
there and watch - and if they NEVER arrive, then the house will just have to
burn down right to the ground." - Daniel Quinn
Are we powerless?
The problem isn't that we're powerless.
The problem is that we have allowed those with
social control agendas to CON-VINCE us that we're
powerless. They've confused us, belittled us,
distracted us and made us feel like
we barely have the power to get out of bed in the morning, let alone challenge
the criminal international elite which
controls the
corporations,
the governments and mass media through
the international central banking
system.
People can succeed when fighting social injustice against
overwhelming odds if they are honestly committed to spreading the information
which reveals the actions of the criminal
international elite. The human spirit is powerful, flexible, creative,
intelligent and resourceful.
When we discuss what is really happening -
economically,
social culturally and
technologically - we create a very powerful
dynamic and we set powerful forces in motion.
The truth is: a social
culture unifed toward a common positive goal is unstoppable.
"There is no act too small, no act too bold. The
history of social change is the
history of millions of actions, small and
large, coming together at points in history and creating a power that
governments cannot suppress." - Howard Zinn
"It is from numberless
diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man
stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends
forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different
centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down
the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -
Robert F . Kennedy
"The power
of an aroused public is unbeatable." - Dr. Helen Caldicott
"Let no man
imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may
be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who
thinks becomes a
light and a power." - Henry George
"But the
[people], if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no
need to conspire . . . They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a
horse shaking off flies . . ." - George
Orwell, 1984
"We must remember
that one determined person can make a
significant difference, and that a small
group of determined people can change the course of history." -Sonia
Johnson
See Eros
See religious
dogma
See Social Control
See
American aristocracy
See
The Corruption of the American Dream
See
The Subversion of American
Democracy
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