Okay... There's really just no bottom to the pit of depravity. I wonder what the next thing will be.
im saying, gently gently
to know that leverage within means will be used
what does it mean then, to fight for a cause? to believe in something
perhaps this also means being careful enough, watching your own back and your own moves enough, moving slow enough, double checking enough, that you are not easily taken as a hostage
that to be an easy hostage, to be a fuck up and easily grabbed, is to injure your own side
re: oct 7 it is beyond unconscionable and truly nuts to be part of an occupation and have a music festival by the border of an open air prison
the lapse in judgement
the hubris
the cruelty
We can't live like that. We have to demand real justice.
from whom?
who can deal out real justice?
what court? by what authority?
or the people's justice?
mob justice?
a people's tribunal?
Everyone. Look at our court system... Its anything but justice. A simple maxim for justice being justice is : the punishment should fit the crime. But it doesn't. Every crime is magnified into several - you stole a pencil, you conspired to steal a pencil, you conspired to subvert the pencil gods, and you resisted arrest, too, which means you conspired to resist arrest, and then you were in contempt of the court because you said the charges are unfair, and if you say that's unfair then you're in contempt even more, and every single thing is a charge with years of prison time and crazy fines. And then judges can refuse to hear evidence, and they can pass judgement in secret. We have secret courts in this country now, like the USSR did.
People can't live like that, and they can't live by tip toeing around on eggshells. Its wrong. People have to say its wrong.
people have been saying it is wrong
and a pillar of any democracy, the fourth estate, was compromised from the jump*
*see: the spanish american war and the yellow press
*see: the war between Joseph Pulitzer who purchased the New York World in 1883 and told his editors to use sensationalism, crusades against corruption, and lavish use of illustrations to boost circulation and William Randolph Hearst who then purchased the rival New York Journal in 1895
and how is the fifth estate doing?
the emergent group of non-mainstream media sources, such as bloggers and online platforms, that influence public discourse
our best is how the fifth estate is doing
we are literally doing it, you and i
