- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my loyalty is to that higher moral code."
Tim DeChristopher
“This is what you shall do; love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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Mojo Nixon w/ Jello Biafra | Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster
Posted in Money & Power, Music
Tagged Capitalism, chained, chicken, crime, doors, fire, Greed, Hamlet, sociopath
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The war on drugs is a crime against humanity.
Conor Friedersdorf writes in The Atlantic: I want to state, as forcefully as possible, that the War on Drugs is deeply, irredeemably immoral; that it corrodes the minds and souls of those who prosecute it, and creates incentives for bad behavior that those living under its contours have always and will always find too powerful to resist. Drug warriors may disagree, but they should not pretend that they are the only ones making moral claims, and that their opponents are … Continue reading
Posted in Cannabis
Tagged cannabis, crimes against humanity, DEA, prohibition, sociopath, War on Drugs
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I don’t always agree with Thom Hartmann, but when I do he’s usually talking about outlawing billionaires.
100% tax on all wealth over one billion dollars? I can live with that. Take ten minutes and hear what the man says.
Posted in Money & Power
Tagged billionaires, income taxes, Oligarchy, sociopath, wealth
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