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I think the Ayes have it, the Ayes have it..

A dissection:

" The Bush regime is based on an economic understanding of human values, to speak to it we must use the language it 'understands'. It is tempting to boycott those companies that support the Regime and support those that provide The (unfortunately with a capital 'T') alternative. However many corporations support both Parties and some that which is in power who ever it is. Needless to say that boycotting Party donors AND telling them why is not intrinsically bad - it just won't change their pose in time to make a difference.

Underlined the mysterious English there, but I get the point. If we apply the rules from below we should not do what it says above. However, the germ of the correct idea is there; some kind of catastrophic boycott has to take place: Saddam Hussein, in switching from the dollar to the Euro as Iraq’s currency for oil made precisely the correct move to inflict permanent damage on the USA. This is the real reason he was taken out.

Bush's only political gambit is the 'security of the nation' based on the notion that that which is 'Other' to US value system is Dangerous. This seduction of the US populous into the Regime's understanding of world politics has been alarmingly effective (as shown by the opinion polls regarding Iraq's 'involvement' with the incidents of 11/09/01). The message has to be taken closer to home.

Yes it IS shocking how they have bought in to it, 50% of them believe that Saddam was responsible for 911, as incredible as that may seem. What this REALLY means is that you can expect no help from the American population when it comes to dealing with this rogue regime. On CSPAN this weekend, I actually heard a caller to a programme say about the looting of the museum “I would rather have my gas stay at 79c than save some chair of nebuketnezer or something”.

Unsurprisingly we have seen that the most 'Dangerous' Other People are those which have the most potential to resucitate the stagnating US economy by feeding and stabilising the US dollar, after all what is the security of one's nation if one's livelihood (based on the potential to work and spend) is insecure? So how to increase voter security whilst undermining the position of the regime?

I’m not sure about the English of the underlined sentence; undermining the position of which regime? That sentence aside, these people who have the most potential to resuscitate the stagnating US economy (ie all “third worlders”) are the very people who hold in their hands the button that can fatally cripple the USA. All they have to do is press it.

The money 'saved' by boycotting goods you can do without or through the use of Open Source resources, etc., etc. could be chanelled into helping community action projects that have a real effect on the well being of marginalised US citizens, by assisting programmes which further the health and education of such people they can be reminded that their situation Matters. Community action also shows that Doing something achieves results, and through this empowerment casting a vote can be seen to be Doing something too. Community action also avoids the association with ineffective sloganeering (c.f. Adbusters) and 'professional activism' both of which are unlikely to have an effect on groups that have been hard done by by both Parties the notion of 'it's only politics'.

To cut a long story short, “Think Globally, Act Locally”; which whilst being a slogan, puts it all in place for even the dumbest. As for voting, there are actually two kinds of vote, the one you do every 4 or 5 years, and the THOUSANDS of votes that you SPEND. The latter are more important than the former. Everyone should buy only goods made in your own country or in countries that you agree with. Use only clean money, like the Euro. All this business about community action is bunk. Communities coagulate spontaneously when the economic ecosystem is there to sustain its creation. The strong market for organic food is there because the money and desire to buy it are behind it. The penetration of this food into every supermarket was not the result of an organized push, but rather by an organically(!) spreading realization that non organic food is bad. The market accommodated for this since demand there is money to be made on it. Everyone is happy; organic farmers cant keep up with demand, everyone now knows that factory farming is an abomination, and we could finally see a change for the better in what we eat and how its produced. All of this, from very small beginnings of “crackpots”, and individuals choosing to buy organic, and talking about it. Incredible. Repeatable. Reliable.

The amount of resources required to empower enough people through community action is trivial compared to the levels that would be required to turn around Republican Party donors (who appear to work on the same principles of ubiquity and iniquity anyway). Coordinating charities could be found or set up in the US with the purpose of collecting funds worldwide and redistributing them to community groups - firstly in the most politically marginal areas and spreading downwards to those that really need help.

Anything that needs centralized coordination is going to fail. We need strategies that are cloud like, spontaneously forming and free of control. All resistance systems that have centralized control are subject to “decapitation attacks”; this is why the cellular system of organization is the preferred method; look at the thorniest and most dangerous opposition groups from 1970’s Europe. In this cellular structure, there is no head of the serpent to cut off. Its not even a hydra. It is a self organizing blob / cloud / swarm, determining its own goals dynamically, responds to threats quickly and it cannot be stopped.

Bush now has appoximately a year and a half left of his term as the president of the United States, his propaganda machine will be operating continuously to propound the idea that Bush is increasing security by thwarting the 'Other'. Potentially by acting now it can be shown in the day to day lives of millions of citizens the Other is the Bush Regime."

Yes indeed, but what the TRUE “other” is, is the democratic system itself, where term after term, a different set of Skull & Bones prefects take over the reigns to drive the horses faster and faster to the precipice. If the billions of free individuals cannot spontaneously and dynamically react to every threat that these people present, short circuiting their power as and when needed, then there is…a problem.

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