The Zeitgeist Movement Response to FBI Targeting Political Activists as Terrorists
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..."but I'm curious
if you see any difference where a just very very
ah kind of obviously peace activists,
like an environmental activists, animal rights activists,
people that attend a documentary or that use
sidewalk chalk on the street in order to
like write their slogans are now being targeted
as if we are seeing a new low of
what you call a quashing dissent."
As many students of history are familiar,
Galileo, famed mathematician
and astronomer, known today by many as the "father
of modern science”, was forced in the 17th
century by the Catholic Church under threat
to torture to recant his “heretical” view
that the earth revolved around the sun and not
vice-versa. This scientifically valid idea
voided long held religious dogma and hence
challenged the Church's integrity itself.
In a letter from 1634, René Descartes,
one of the world's most noted thinkers and philosophers,
stated: [Quote] “Doubtless you know that
Galileo was recenly censored by the Inquisitors of the Faith,
and that his views about the movement of the earth were condemned
as heretical. I must tell you that all
the things I explained in my treatise, which included
the doctrine of the movement of the earth, were so interdependent
that it is enough to discover that one of them is false
to know that all the arguments I was using are unsound.
Though I thought they were based on very certain and evident proofs,
I would not wish, for anything in the world,
to maintain them against the authority of the church...
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun
under the motto to: 'live well you must live
unseen'.” If we step back and think about
the challenges that faced this small progressive and
scientific community during 17th Century
in Europe and compare the fear and patterns of
suppression coming from the established orthodoxy of that time
to that of the modern-day, we find only
a mere variation. Descartes' revelation
and retreat from exposure, as expressed by the motto:
'to live well you must live unseen' is a
disheartening disposition that speaks volumes and
sadly carries on to this day across the world.
The use of fear, intimidation and other time tested
variations of oppression continue to persist
as the dominant institutions of our society work
to protect it's established order regardless
of social validity. Even more, the overall
cultural itself, which invariably tends
to support the accepted beliefs put forward by those
who define “power” of a period, also
tends to condemn those who pose a challenge
as it becomes a threat to the mass accepted
identity itself.
The result is that many simply are not willing to risk their lives,
occupations and reputations to challenge the orthodoxy
of the time. In late May 2011
news reports were generated that detailed how the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in the United States was actively
targeting “Political Activists” under the pretense of
“Terrorism”. Just as people like John Lennon
and Martin Luther King were watched and harassed by
the FBI for their activism decades ago, it appears
modern, so-called “Anti-Terrorism” resources are being
used to target environmentalists, peace,
animal and political activists.
Just like the accusations of “Communism”
against people like MLK Jr. in the mid
20th century, this newer, more generalized
device of the 21 century
called “Terrorism” is no less an “heretical”,
accusatory tool than what was employed by
the Inquisition century's ago to maintain the
politico-religious social system.
So, we can sympathize with Descartes' notion,
as to move against the Zeitgeist is to position
yourself against the odds, regardless of how
empirical, necessary or obvious the truth
you wish to convey and act upon is.
Unfortunately, Descartes' position
is unacceptable in the modern world. The risks
that now exist within our current order are beginning to far
outweigh the temporal personal risks generated by the act of
activist objection itself. It is
no longer issues of accurate data, “rights” and “freedoms”.
Today our very stability as a civilization
is in question and, if left unhindered,
it threatens us all, regardless of
one's position in the modern feudal hierarchy.
We can sit in confusion and watch
as global unemployment rises due to technological
unemployment and the resulting regional instability that
is sure to grow. We can stare blankly at the systematic
debt collapse of the world economy, country by country,
like dominos, as self-appointed global banking
institutions that derive money out of nothing impose
austerity measures against the poor and middle class of each
country to help support the wealthy, furthering
the income divide. We can twiddle our thumbs
as what we have called “democracy” turns
inexplicably into global plutocracy and the world
economy becomes measured by how much money the rich move
around amongst themselves. We can
distract ourselves with our little gadgets as the
rain-forests - considered by many the "lungs" of the planet -
are destroyed at faster and faster rates,
reducing our ability to absorb the growing
CO2 in the atmosphere. We can keep the TV
on as the clean water and food shortages that currently
affect over 1 billion people continue to grow
to 2 billions... 3 billion. We can scan
the tabloids at the grocery store news stands as
the very basis of industrial civilization,
the Hydrocarbon Economy, inches
towards crisis scarcity with virtually no
active initiative taken to change course.
We can continue to pretend that our
"leaders" are anything but “mis-leaders”, set in
motion by monetary commercial interests that follow the
rules of the free-market with all legislation
and offices going to the highest bidder, one way or another...
and we can stand amused as a new global
arms race gains speed as each country comes
to terms with the very real reality that wars for resources
are upon us in a way unlike any period in history.
This is what separates our world
from the one Descartes hid from. the fear
tactics of the Orthodoxy - in this context the
FBI or any such “Intelligence Agency” -
are no longer worthy of viable concern or even
acknowledgment. At no time in history has any true
social change come in a manner that was not opposed
with hostility by the dominant orders of the time.
If you choose fear, then fear exists
and those little lists and statistics
held by the Intelligence and Police Agencies
have merit. If you choose love,
pride and self-respect then no accusations,
lists, or threats can ever stop you.
The trick now is in numbers and if we can gain
critical mass to known vainly override
the “divided conquer” techniques used to keep
the orthodoxy in place, the game is over.
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Transcribed by Ana María Pérez