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Let It Burn?

By TheOncomingStorm

19 December, 2010
Countercurrents.org

We are at that crossroads yet again, where we must make a firm, courageous decision about whether to let it all burn - or put out the flames. We as a species have been here before, many times. However, as our species’ timeline has marched on, we have grown weak and frightened of change and acts of heroism. Now, we are reaping what we have sown in past decades, and we are reaping bushels and bushels of nothing. My heart is filled with sadness at this. Does no one remember Vietnam? Gandhiji? King? Does no one remember how to fight non-violently? Where are the Walter Cronkites who so bravely helped to end Vietnam by quietly and calmly reading the list of casualties at the end of each news report each evening? Gone, gone into the pockets of the Corporations, the Moneychangers in the Temple. It seems only those such as Chris Hedges, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, et al. have any balls left these days.

It is time to make a decision, people. Do we let it all burn and start afresh? The good people who protested on Dec. 16 at the White House have given us a beacon in the fog of war and greed, a beacon of hope that dissent, bravery, courage, determination, chutzpah IS NOT DEAD IN AMERICA. Now think about that. Think about them. Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, the Veterans Against the War, all of them…singing the old songs whilst chaining themselves to the White House gates - the gates of greed, hell and damnation…be there with them in jail. They have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of us to join them again on April 9. Will YOU be there?

It takes a lot of courage to face the cops in DC, because in them has been inculcated this idea that all dissent is terrorism. It takes a lot of courage anyway, to stand up for what you believe to be right and good. Do you have what it takes? Can you admit to being scared to death, but saddle up anyway? We are allowing our youth to die overseas for an unjust cause, we are allowing civilians to die overseas for an unjust cause, a cause brought about by the false flag of 9/11, brought about by sowing the seeds of hatred and mistrust of our neighbors, brought about by slowly slipping the foundations of our Republic away from under us, like pulling a magician’s tablecloth off the table without disrupting the glittering silver and crystal atop. Are we going to sit back and let it all burn?

In many ways, that may be what we have to do - around the globe - let it ALL fail, and build from out of the ruins. The smoke is getting thicker however, and soon we may all die of smoke inhalation as we watch our freedoms, our youth, our integrity, go up in the flames of iniquity and degradation. IS this the right course? Or, do we rush in where angels fear to tread, rush into the burning buildings, as so many before us have done, and dash out the flames trying so hard to burn down our civilization, save what we can, and go on? I don’t know what the right answer is - yet.

But I do know I will be there, April 9th, 2011, Goddess willing. I will not sit quietly by and watch the Heathens at the Hedgerow march into the private lives of my friends, my family, my neighbors and toss them aside into the abyss. It is not in my nature to sit idly by. So, whatever may happen, however many freedoms have been removed by 4/9/11, I will stand with the comrades and the ghosts of comrades long gone; and no, I won’t be afraid because of those who have gone before. That includes the ghost of my younger self too. I am too old to keep doing this, but I am too young to let all of those ghosts weep in the deepening murk. Allonzi!!!