Loveisall21
16th November 2011, 01:40
Hello All,
I attempted to post Richard Sauder's latest post from his blog Event Horizon Chronicle but the embedded videos did'nt show up so I decided to post the parts of it that really stood out for me and that made me want to share it. You can read the entirety of it here http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.com/
The post touches on the economic crisis, the occupy wall street movement, and his own nuclear protesting among other things. A good post, but I just want to make it known that I didn't really like that he mentions months in which he thinks certain things will heat up. He doesn't get real specific but I'm a little fed up with dates as I'm sure many of you are as well. He also seems to think things will not really improve for still 20 years or so. I don't want to believe that. So those are the parts I'm not crazy about. I'm not saying I know he's wrong it's just what I personally choose to discard.
The parts I've excerpted are to me the the high points that I wanted to bring more attention to. First is a brilliant letter by Cindy Sheehan to the IRS. I'm astounded by this woman's heart, courage and intelligence.
And also this beautiful little film called Murmuration. This little film lends a poignancy to Richards post in which he states that this is an illustration of what he protests for, this magical bit of stunning life.
Here is the excerpt from Cindy Sheehan's ( the anti-war Mom) letter
For almost five decades of our lives, we sisters were taxpaying, law-abiding citizens. Sure, we got the occasional traffic or parking tickets, but we dutifully paid them or went to traffic school. IRS Agent, can you imagine in your Revenuer’s heart the agony we felt when we realized that we had funded the murder of our own dear Casey? As our awareness grew, so did our disgust with our complicity in this system as the body count for totally innocent civilians rose. We now feel that for at least 30 years of taxpaying perfidy, we funded the murders and torture of millions! The only way we could live with ourselves was to stop being accessories to our government’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To whoever is reading this: You’re a working stiff aren’t you? You work for one of the most evil agencies in a deeply corrupt and criminal organization, but you are still a working person! Does it bother you that the banks and Wall Street have received billions of bailout dollars from the U.S. government while you are taking money from people in our own class to do so? Does it bother you that the rich are getting wealthier and you have to try and collect your pound of flesh, or blood money, from a mother and an auntie who have already had their own flesh and blood violently ripped from their lives?
To honor Casey's needless sacrifice and to protect others, we will not pay these bills. You do what you have to do, but our membership in the human race demands that we withhold money from such a homicidal, nay, genocidal cabal as the US government. Scores of people in this nation have taken the principled stand that we take and we feel that our moral compasses trump your “laws.” We could have taken the strategy of only paying a portion of our taxes like some do, but we feel we have no control over where our money is spent.
If Citizens United (Citizens United v. The Federal Elections Commission) can claim that money is Free Speech and it can spend freely on its political causes, then we feel we have the same right to withhold our money in an act of moral courage and loyalty to not only our brothers, sisters and children being murdered, displaced or tortured, but to our own First Amendment Rights. We have sacrificed much and invested not only our own money, but also our very lives in our campaigns for peace and justice. We will never again co-operate with the USA in its crimes against peace.
http://vimeo.com/31158841
I attempted to post Richard Sauder's latest post from his blog Event Horizon Chronicle but the embedded videos did'nt show up so I decided to post the parts of it that really stood out for me and that made me want to share it. You can read the entirety of it here http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.com/
The post touches on the economic crisis, the occupy wall street movement, and his own nuclear protesting among other things. A good post, but I just want to make it known that I didn't really like that he mentions months in which he thinks certain things will heat up. He doesn't get real specific but I'm a little fed up with dates as I'm sure many of you are as well. He also seems to think things will not really improve for still 20 years or so. I don't want to believe that. So those are the parts I'm not crazy about. I'm not saying I know he's wrong it's just what I personally choose to discard.
The parts I've excerpted are to me the the high points that I wanted to bring more attention to. First is a brilliant letter by Cindy Sheehan to the IRS. I'm astounded by this woman's heart, courage and intelligence.
And also this beautiful little film called Murmuration. This little film lends a poignancy to Richards post in which he states that this is an illustration of what he protests for, this magical bit of stunning life.
Here is the excerpt from Cindy Sheehan's ( the anti-war Mom) letter
For almost five decades of our lives, we sisters were taxpaying, law-abiding citizens. Sure, we got the occasional traffic or parking tickets, but we dutifully paid them or went to traffic school. IRS Agent, can you imagine in your Revenuer’s heart the agony we felt when we realized that we had funded the murder of our own dear Casey? As our awareness grew, so did our disgust with our complicity in this system as the body count for totally innocent civilians rose. We now feel that for at least 30 years of taxpaying perfidy, we funded the murders and torture of millions! The only way we could live with ourselves was to stop being accessories to our government’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To whoever is reading this: You’re a working stiff aren’t you? You work for one of the most evil agencies in a deeply corrupt and criminal organization, but you are still a working person! Does it bother you that the banks and Wall Street have received billions of bailout dollars from the U.S. government while you are taking money from people in our own class to do so? Does it bother you that the rich are getting wealthier and you have to try and collect your pound of flesh, or blood money, from a mother and an auntie who have already had their own flesh and blood violently ripped from their lives?
To honor Casey's needless sacrifice and to protect others, we will not pay these bills. You do what you have to do, but our membership in the human race demands that we withhold money from such a homicidal, nay, genocidal cabal as the US government. Scores of people in this nation have taken the principled stand that we take and we feel that our moral compasses trump your “laws.” We could have taken the strategy of only paying a portion of our taxes like some do, but we feel we have no control over where our money is spent.
If Citizens United (Citizens United v. The Federal Elections Commission) can claim that money is Free Speech and it can spend freely on its political causes, then we feel we have the same right to withhold our money in an act of moral courage and loyalty to not only our brothers, sisters and children being murdered, displaced or tortured, but to our own First Amendment Rights. We have sacrificed much and invested not only our own money, but also our very lives in our campaigns for peace and justice. We will never again co-operate with the USA in its crimes against peace.
http://vimeo.com/31158841