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We Should Be Protesting, Too
Lawrence Lessig | Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and serves as director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University
BillMoyers.com
We Should Be Protesting, Too
Lawrence Lessig | Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and serves as director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University
4 comments:
We're not protesting because NED is not funding and facilitating our dissidents the way NED does in other countries.
The level of hypocrisy is incredible given the way that the suppression of Occupy was coordinated by DHS and conducted by a militarized police, with Bloomberg boasting he had his own army in the NYPD, complete with operations that extend beyond NYC. Occupy Wall Street got nowhere near shutting down Wall Street and the city government the way the HK protestors have. It's complete BS for the world to see.
And look at Ferguson, a small town in the middle of nowhere where a militarized police force is brandishing weapons and equipment that most armies in emerging countries don't have.
ON the other hand, right wing groups like the Bundy folks are permitted to conduct armed insurrection against government officials in defiance of laws and legal judgments.
All this neocon posturing on HK, the Ukraine, Russia, China, etc. is making the US look foolish in light of domestic policy to the contrary.
The Empire only allows for protests against it's enemies and suppression is only what the Empire enemies do and never what itself is.
I personally think the Chinese are being too nice to these anarchist tools of the Empire.
If I was Chinese and knew the history of British quasi-rebellions used to push Imperial policy I would have kicked out every and arrested American trained by these NGOs and slapped huge tariffs and capital controls on all American businesses.
I would say if America wants to meddle in Chinese affairs then the Chinese will meddle with the export for the Iphone6. See how your country does when the Apple Zombies won't be getting their next Apple fix and then we will see who's repressive.
Remind me, which country has a no wage growth for the last forty years? So we are suppose to believe that country whose workers never get a pay raise regardless productivity is the free and unrepressed one?
We are suppose believe that the countries never arrested elite bankers is the democracy versus the country that executes its corrupt business me?
The longer I live the more and more I've come to believe that United States was a flawed concept from the beginning and should have never existed.
Chinese Confucian Han culture is longest existing and most stable continuous culture in all of history and the first thing that America does to when this culture begins to raise itself up is try and destroy its unity.
Death, Destruction, Chaos seem to be America's only export following our campaigns for "freedom" and "democracy."
We sit on our high horse of rugged individuality proclaim ourselves the greatest civilization while the world burns and the only real continuous culture in history is based on notion that individuality should never be placed in front of necessary and proper role for the sake harmony with others and to surrender one own personal ambition to one's proper role is the virtue that creates civilization.
I doubt the United States will last another hundred years if it continues with it's cultural anarchy and worship of pure selfish ambition which it calls individualism.
Sept,
"Apple Zombies"
its the "Apple zombies" trading with the "USD zombies"...
Perhaps the real problem is that both of these cohorts are simply zombies ....
ie "they know not what they do..."
rsp,
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