Gov. Don Siegelman is still in prison and the BFEE judge who put him there is still a crook.

[Jack Rabbit]

54. Thank you and thank you to Professor Buchheit

Sooner or later we will have to take on the establishment (banksters, war mongers, war criminals and traitors) as a whole without regard to partisan distinctions. In short, that means taking on the business establishment without paying any attention to the political establishment, which is becoming more and more irrelevant. The politicians don't listen to the voters, they listen to those who bribe them, i.e., those who contribute large sums of money to their campaigns. They think all they need to get re-elected is a lot of money.

This must of necessity be a non-violent campaign of civil disobedience. Since the only way to maintain this level of inequality is through a police state, that means be prepared to go to jail, to be beaten or tortured or even killed. However, our victory over the establishment is assured from the start. Why? Because no matter how they slice it, the system they are building to their benefit and only to their benefit is unsustainable. Capitalism cannot sustain itself without a middle class, they very same middle class that is being destroyed today in the name of what the advocates of the tyranny of the 1% call "liberty." If this is liberty, then it is the liberty of the wealthy to own slaves.

We have seen a preview of what "liberty" means to the establishment tyrants: Censored news, rigged elections, militarized police, government snooping on any Tom, Dick or Harry, denial of human rights like due process and fair trials or the right to organize for better pay and safer workplaces, all to be replaced by the unalienable right of corporations to make money. Free markets will be opened at the point of a gun, because otherwise no one would allow GMOs to be sold. Unfortunately, GMOs will be all that's available, because the law says farmers cannot save their seeds and when the wind blows one of Monsanto's weeds onto a farmer's field, then their is an implied contract between the farmer and Monsanto. I'll bet that's news to the farmer.

Against this, let us propose a campaign of civil disobedience. If they come back and tell us that general strikes are illegal, we'll just come back and remind them that once upon a time the Bill of Rights encouraged a free press, free and fair elections, the right to privacy from unreasonable government intrusion, the right to assemble and to associate. A right to a free public trial was guaranteed, and the right of a large corporation to make a profit was not; every businessman was expected to compete in the market place by selling a quality product at a reasonable price and the product was to be made in a production process that did not endanger the lives of the producers making the product or the neighbors of the factory. For the benefit of the misinformed, producers means those who actually work making a commodity, not those who pretend to work by counting money. If they tell us that it is against their law to refuse to fight in their imperialist wars, then we will just ask them what part of civil disobedience they do not understand.

Yes, our goal will be to overthrow the so-called "free trade" regime of corporate socialism that is replacing capitalism. By actively participating in the demise of an unsustainable system, we will assume the responsibility for replacing it with a sustainable system. For the immediate future, we have every right to sweep away the industrial/financial aristocracy that is only trying to hold on to its wealth in a port-industrial world, the oil and coal barons who are trying to keep the production of fossil fuel on life support; we have as much right sweep them aside as the French had to sweep away their Kings or the Russians had to sweep away there Emperors and the landed aristocracy that no more than a useless appendage of a post-feudal world. In the intermediate future, since we have already been through the struggle to end landed aristocracy and have seen the problem resulting from that struggle, let us this time proceed with caution and beware of the Robespierres or Stalins in our midst and not repeat those mistakes. Let us this time stand together with each other as brothers and sisters, not to some abstract ideas to which we sacrifice our own blood. We may not know the true shape the future will take, but it look better than our present.