You know who you are.
You, George Bush, with your sick psyche and delusions of grandeur.
You, Powerful Neocons, with your dreams of empire and global domination.
You, Far Right Religious Wingnuts, who make a mockery of faith to gain control over others.
You, Greed Driven Rich, who lurk behind facades of self created “corporate entities”
You, The Elected Ones that we chose to serve us, the people, who have sold your souls to the highest bidders in the halls of all branches of Government.
To all of you who choose to shamelessly exploit the vulnerabilities of the people, the Rule of Law, the Constitution, the Bill Of Rights, and the resources of this country, for your own selfish ends, with no concern for the common good or the principles on which this country was founded, I tell you this:
You cannot take away our freedom.
You can take away our money, our jobs, our health care.
You can take away our homes, our privacy, our civil rights.
You can take away our protections and safety nets.
You can buy off and control our media.
You can feed us fear and terror as a daily diet, and use it to control us.
You can twist, turn, mold and mutilate truth and control all the information we receive.
But you cannot take away our freedom
Because we’ve known it.
We’ve had it. We’ve lived it. We know it’s taste, its shape, it’s substance.
We’ve taken it into our hearts and minds, internalized it as our own, and we are NOT giving it up.
You cannot take away our freedom, because you cannot wire tap our hearts and minds.
You cannot control the contents or resilience of the human will and human spirit.
You cannot avoid underestimating the power of ordinary people because you cannot recognize a power than comes from anything other than wealth, privilege and position.
We exercise and strengthen our power single every day we get up and choose to go on about our business , in spite of you and what you are trying to do. We gain strength by continuing to stand by and support each other, by continuing to love and care for our families, do our work, and whatever else we can do in our own circles of influence, to wake up those still not ab le to see clearly.
We’re gaining power by learning to resist the siren call of materialism as the only “proof of success” and we are embracing simpler, truer values that allow more freedom from corporate control. .
We gain power every moment we search for and seize opportunities to speak truth to power in influential places like the internet, that can reach millions, and by every conversation we initiate in coffee shops, grocery stores, Laundromat and bars.
You are powerless to stop any of this.
Because we ARE free and we damned well know it.
Because we have the power of freedom within us, and we are in process of mobilizing our own troop strength every day that goes by. You are aiding us greatly by the fact that you can no longer hide the wormy underside of what you are doing in the name of “democracy”, and it is becoming ever more visible to all of us.
So, good luck, because you are going to need it. You may succeed in surface ways, some beloved structures may fall, and there may be more chaos to come, but you can never ever reach the core of genuine freedom that lives in the ordinary citizens of this country. Never.
You are going down.
