"Overthrow the Speculators"

I refer my readers to the following article published today, December 30, 2013 on http://www.commondreams.org, titled "Overthrow the Speculators," by Chris Hedges.  It is an idea whose time has come and it makes more sense than anything I have read in a very long time.  If we are to take back Democracy for the people of this country, we have to engage in a serious challenge to the banks, corporate capitalists, and the massive empire of corruption that is strangling the very life-blood out of this country.  Moreover, it is aided and abetted by a corporately-owned news media that serves as the mouthpiece for big business and a government monolith, both of which own our "two-party" political system and all their minions who have reduced the common people to a status akin to that of indentured servitude.

We can no longer afford to simply wring our hands, go around in endless circles and lament that "the sky is falling; the sky is falling!"  It is time to stop our penchant for the numbing of our minds by seeking to be endlessly entertained, and to join the legions of those who have come to realize that only by being actively involved will we free ourselves from the bondage of the ever-burgeoning two-class society we live in today.  "Wishing will not make it so!"  

It has been said that "truth is mightier than the sword."  Is it not time to place "truth" above all the deception and manipulation we receive on a daily basis from every conceivable kind of "entertainment," "news" and "advertising" that only serves to increase the power of those who seek to destroy this country and all of the good and decent people who want, very much, to see it become the beacon of hope we believed it to be?

"Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see."

Cowboy Bob
December 30, 2013