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Election Or Revolution? An Open Letter To The People
Of The United States
Sep 25, 2016
War. And its victims.
Robert J. Burrowes
As citizens of the USA with a presidential election
approaching you have a wonderful opportunity to ponder whether to participate
in this election or to participate in the ongoing American Revolution.
Your first revolution might have overthrown the
authority of the British monarchy and aristocracy but the one in progress must
remove the US elite which has executed a political coup against your
government. And you cannot remove elite coupmakers in a fraudulently conducted
election in which the ‘choice’ is essentially between two violently insane
individuals, each of whom represents the violently insane US elite. See ‘The Global
Elite is Insane’ and‘Why Violence?’
The real value of this second revolution, which moves
along steadily with routine outbreaks over a multitude of peace, environmental
and social justice issues and occasional ‘uprisings’, such as the Occupy Movement
in 2011 which spawned a range of new and visionary initiatives, is that it
could give citizens of your country the chance to finally reclaim the Republic
for those people who genuinely care about ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness’. And, just as importantly, have sufficient vision to regard these
aspirations as something to be shared with the entire US population, starting
with Native Americans, and even those of us in the rest of the world including
those countries that are currently victims of US elite violence, whether it be
wars, drone strikes, coups, economic exploitation or ecological destruction.
Such a revolution might rewrite your constitution and
replace the second amendment ‘right of the people to keep and bear arms’ with
the right to live free of the fear of gun violence. It might result in a form
of social organization that distributes wealth equitably (perhaps by actually
taxing the wealthy and outlawing the use of offshore tax havens) while
reallocating the annual military (killing) budget to life-enhancing projects
such as poverty alleviation, affordable housing, free education, free
healthcare, clean water, renewable energy technologies, and a substantial
budget for compensation to those countries that the US elite has systematically
exploited or simply destroyed during the past 200 years. This would allow the
50 million US citizens who live in poverty, and another billion people around
the world who also live in poverty, the chance to live a decent life.
Now, you might ask, ‘How are we, the ordinary citizens
of the United States, even with our handguns, rifles and assault weapons, going
to take on the US military and police to remove elite control of our
government?’ Well, the answer is that you do not need even one weapon for this ongoing
revolution and, in fact, you are vastly better off without them. Weapons have
only one use – to kill people – and any revolution worth the name has a more
profoundly ambitious aim than this.
What you need is intelligence, commitment, courage and
a sound nonviolent strategy. The US elite controls your government and has
crippled your republic because, over successive generations, you have let them.
Every time you cooperate with the elite, because you are scared, by paying your
taxes (more than 50% of which finances US wars and other military violence),
putting your money into their corporate banks, shopping at their corporate
shopping malls, buying and consuming the ‘news’ presented by their corporate
media, rationalizing their policies as reasonable, participating in their
unjust and violent legal system, fighting (as an enlisted person or as a
mercenary) in their military forces, working in their prison system, accepting
exploited employment of any kind, eating their poisoned and genetically mutilated
foods (GMOs), going along with their endless attempts to divide you along
racial, class, religious and other lines, you simply consent to their control.
Why?
