We live in exciting times. All over the world, the common people are rising up; people are rising up in peaceful revolution. People are rising up singing. People are rising up singing, saying, this, this is democracy. We are the people, and we are talking now. Things must change.
We live in exciting times. People are standing up with their neighbors and friends, people are standing for each other, and for the common welfare. They are marching, they are walking, some are even dying, singing Freedom's sweet refrain; Mothers, Fathers, Daughters and Sons, all good people marching, shouting, peaceful! Keep it peaceful now! We shall be free! People are standing up in peace and stepping forward for basic human rights; rights to shelter, warmth, food, a peaceful place to call home.
I learned about democracy in school: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
We live in exciting times. People are rising up singing, people are living out what our forefathers only dreamed of, before they, too, wrote out this charter. 'We the People'...
The charter of our democracy states: "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Every day, around the world, the news feeds echo with politicians decreeing austerity measure for anyone else but themselves. Variations of 'There's been a market, er, correction, and the imaginary money we were playing with dissolved in some imaginary fashion, and you all owe us for your (non imaginary) existence...' Governments world-wide are cutting back on essential social services, food and aid to the poor; poor because there are no jobs, because of some core-pirate extended crap game on the stock market.
May I submit that the taxes that the poor of the nation pay every day, from their milk and margerine to the rented roof over their head; that if this tax is not, in return, spent for the welfare of said people, then that tax, by any standard of human decency, should be abolished. The welfare of the nation includes all of the people of the nation, rich, poor, or merely indigineous.
We don't need any more bombs, we don't need any more wars of security. The days of the mafia don government are over. We are not paying protection money any more. We are not secure, and your war is not helping. We need our hard earned tax dollar spent upon the social welfare, the common good; if my neighbor is hungry, there is no true security. Bombs and guns do not help this. Food and shelter do. This is the human contract, and this is the charter of a true democracy.
We don't need bigger weapons. If the alien invader bogey men come from the fifth dimension, your merely corporal weapons are of no use anyway, except to do the job for them. We don't need to spend our money on things that kill us. We need peace. Peace in the neighborhood, peace in which to grow our food, love our families, peace, that lets clean water rain down out of the sky, to water the crops that feed the families. This wide and grand biosphere that we all share, this floating spaceship in the sky,is the only functional biosphere for all humanity. We are certainly going through a period of unstable weather. Our common mother is, to put it politely, billions of years old. She's allowed to get a little cranky. But, in spite of any magical thinking you may have upon the subject, times of war will not get you through times of no food better than food will get you through times of no war.
To hyperfocus upon objects of desire is called 'obsession'. I put forth that the sign of a delinquent government is a hallmark of obsessive focus upon security; effectively taxing the poor to create weapons which are then employed to guard the many opulent halls of the weapon makers from their former clients. I put forth that a government that does not care for the needs of the people is a delinquent government. Democracy, that great Light to humanity, gives the common man the ability to redress grievances. Democracy IS the will of the people, and while this planet may not have seen true democracy yet, I'd hazard a bet that we are pretty close.
There is a tide that comes in the affairs of man, when the tide of Light is just right, and fortune and fate coincide. The people of the world are rising up; singing, in peaceful revolution. Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, US, Australia, Japan, China. Africa, England, Germany, all over. Don't let them tell you it's not happening. Don't let them tell you it's all over there somewhere. It's as down home as you and me.
The people of peace stand united in our concern for the common welfare. We haven't confused the map for the territory. We care for our friends, we care for our neighbors. We support the common welfare, you bet. If your mother was poor, would you cut out her winter fuel? You cannot call yourselves a legitimate government, by any human standard, if your people are poor and hungry. Everyone is someones' mother or father or brother or sister. We, the people, don't need any more of your so called security. We need the real thing. Keep your arms and your weapons and your terminator seeds. The people of peace need what we have always needed upon this earth, we need clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, clean food,and a place to live and work in Peace, with our family and our loved ones. This is our choice. Now you are hearing our voice, all over the world.
We live in exciting times. I'm with Joni Mitchell on this one: 'I dreamed I saw the bombers, riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above this nation.' And we're getting ourselves back to the Garden. Plot by plot, seed by seed.
When I was much younger than I am now, I listened to Judy Collins singing about Che Guevara: "continue with your work" she said, "continue with your talk. we have it in our hands, to own our lives, to own our lands."
Looks like Love's revolution to me. In quantum peace.
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