by banned » Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:29 am
...in a bookstore reading a condensation of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.<br><br>This was the quote that leapt out at me:<br><br>"Real ruthlessness, the coldness of objectivity, always includes onself in its cutting assessment of the real system."<br><br>Now is the time to analyze our situation by stripping away all the sentimentality and emotionalism and asking where we really are, who we really are, and whether we are really willing to take on these bastards and go balls out to win. If so, we need to begin NOW, we're already way behind the curve on strategy and tactics. If not, we need to realize that if you call someone out and then lose your nerve, they're going to hand your ass to you.<br><br>Years ago in law school I heard Bill Kunstler speak, he talked about ways to turn their legal system back on them, to 'steer into the contradictions.' I still think it's possible, though it takes an immense amount of knowledge, effort and energy. "We the people" have to wake up to the way that not only laws, but our respect FOR LAW, is used against us. Behind the idea of a 'good law' or a 'bad law' is the idea of good ways and bad ways to make laws. We are sometimes blinded by the fact that some 'good laws' do happen into believing that the way laws come about 99% of the time deserves our support. I had a friend who was an aide to a senator, from the time he was little and taken with the Kennedy mystique he wanted to be a politician. Six months into his job he had a massive breakdown, a lifetime of illusions and dreams collapsed after seeing what our "legislators" actually do on a day to day basis: go on phat junkets and then come back and write porkbarrel laws for special interest groups. He flipped from being a New Deal Democrat into an anarchist.<br><br>I'm not sure how the people can take control of the legislative process and rein in the corporations, but we have to try, and to do it we have to expose our 'lawmakers' as 'lawbreakers' and the corruption of the current system which cannot be changed just by putting new cogs in the wheel. <p></p><i></i>
