We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, September 14, 2012

7 Groups the FBI and Corporations Have Classified as “Terrorists”

Click here to access article by Will Potter from Green Is the New Red

There are currently some groups in the US who are directly being subject to police state methods under the "war on terror". I don't think that these draconian methods against targeted domestic groups are being forgotten as he does. They, like the endless US military campaigns abroad, are also being regarded by the "good Germans" of the US as merely the "new normal". 
Today you’ll hear the annual chorus of “we will never forget.” But we have forgotten. We have forgotten the uproar against the Patriot Act, which was passed in the middle of the night. We have forgotten that Guantanamo Bay was once treated as an aberration, which Obama promised to close. And we have forgotten what freedoms have been sacrificed in the name of an ever-growing threat.