Scott Parkin, a peace protestor who flew to Sydney on a valid visa to protest in front of Halliburton's Sydney corporate offices, was forcefully deported back to the US after doing nothing wrong. Nothing. It isn't illegal to strap a fake pig snout onto your face and criticize a corporation for its greed. At least, it never used to be. I guess dissent is pretty much illegal these days, and no one seems to care, as long as they have enough "reality" crap on their television sets.
US corporatism is a virulent disease threatening to kill what is left of something called human reason. It has attacked all aspects of our precious lives, rendering them meaningless in so many ways. What joy is there in slaving away for some corporation, exhausting one's self so there is only enough energy to go home and sit on the couch for a few mindnumbing hours, force feeding imaginations with scripts that pretend to show what your life could be like if you were better-looking, uglier, thinner, fatter, poorer, richer, smarter, dumber...? Why is it that so many people's goals in their worthless little lives are to make enough $$ to buy things rather than striving to invent something amazing or to solve one of the world's infinite number of problems?
Life is a sweetness too dear to lock up in a prison of oppression, bound by chains of ignorance and silence. You can look at the changing degrees of light in a crisp September sky and ponder the quandaries of living your alloted time on this ever twirling Earth, screaming silently at the brevity of your meager existence and vowing to make the most of it, or you can continue your vapid stare through the window as a commercial break tries to buy your soul. Why waste it? Why not use your little voice to roar out against oppression, make your life worth something? We are still in control of our destinies- we don't have to watch liberty drift away to some desolate island of corporate greed.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of corporate slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
HT: In the Outer
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