{"id":581,"date":"2012-11-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2012-11-03T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T18:03:23","slug":"the-perfect-storm-is-upon-us-what-shall-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/the-perfect-storm-is-upon-us-what-shall-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Perfect Storm\u2019 is upon us, what shall we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0November 2, 2012<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAsk not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.\u201d
\n\u2014John Donne<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.\u201d
\n\u2014Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here we are in the latter part of the year 2012, and the fruit of this nation\u2014its people<\/strong>\u2014are in a state of manipulated confusion and systemically contrived despair. This precious planet of Mother Earth, and its many people, are teetering on the brink of annihilation. Humankind\u2019s many, have been horribly betrayed, by its avaricious few.<\/p>\n

Some in this nation, who seemingly once spoke with integrity, wisdom, and clarity have today lost their minds as they support war mongers, torturers, and corporate maggots\u2014in the very name of defending nonexistent \u2018freedoms\u2019 in a de facto, nonexistent, \u2018democracy.\u2019 The United States and the people of the world are in terrible peril.<\/p>\n

This nation\u2019s corporate-owned politicians (Democrats and Republicans alike) flaunt their hypocrisy, arrogance, and spiritual impoverishment in front of the very eyes of the people of \u2018America\u2019 and the world. We, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people, have been injected by a pathetic U.S. corporate-stream media with a deliberately induced and perpetuated\u00a0poverty in our minds<\/strong>\u2014and in our very souls.<\/strong>\u00a0We are used, abused, and discarded as so much canon fodder. So many of us run back and forth, like caged rats, trapped and contained, by the incessant lies, distractions, subterfuge, and machinations of the corporate-owned two party dictatorship of the Democrats and Republicans. Thus, we find ourselves mired deeply in the jaws of an already legalized (NDAA) police-state, corporate domination and so-called \u2018corporate personhood,\u2019 increasing economic austerity, with its inevitable social upheaval at home, and of course, unending wars abroad. Nonetheless, many still remain\u00a0systemically brainwashed<\/strong>\u2014as if they are in a drunken stupor\u2014while standing precariously at the edge of a very high cliff.<\/p>\n

When one considers all of the foregoing, it becomes clear that politically\u2014the \u2018perfect storm\u2019\u2014is<\/strong>\u00a0upon us.<\/p>\n

If we choose to ignore this perfect storm that is upon us we are sure to be blown off of the aforementioned euphemistic cliff into the political and economic oblivion below. If, on the other hand, we take collective\u00a0systemic<\/strong>\u00a0action to\u00a0<\/strong>displace and replace those who have brought this horrible storm upon us, we have the opportunity to create a much-needed different model of human interaction\u2014one based upon human needs and not corporate greed.<\/p>\n

The environmental consequences of the greed and planetary destruction by the U.S. and global corporate elite have been, and are, absolutely devastating for this nation and for Mother Earth as a whole. We, everyday people, can ill afford to ignore this. The filthy rich are\u00a0blinded<\/strong>\u00a0by their arrogance and insatiable greed<\/strong> to the destructive consequences of their actions. Notwithstanding their lying corporate-stream media, they are in fact, systemic economic, and environmental terrorists. And we everyday people\u00a0know<\/em>\u00a0that if Mother Earth dies\u2014so do we.<\/strong> This is yet another reason as to why these vampiric bloodsuckers of the corporate elite must be stopped, and\u00a0real systemic change<\/strong>\u00a0must be brought about. Their pillage and plunder of this planet is literally killing us. And, by the way, voting for the Democrats or Republicans will not stop this corporate plunder and plunder and perpetual wars\u2014it only enhances it with the fallacious cover of legitimacy. But it does not have to be this way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time is running out. Our window of opportunity gets smaller and more perilous as time passes. We must do our utmost to ensure that this perfect political storm be directed, by we conscious everyday people, against the corporate-owned, symbiotically-joined Democrat and Republican parties along with their insidious systemic minions. It is time for real\u00a0systemic change<\/strong>\u00a0which will only be brought about by everyday ordinary people. Let us join together with our brothers and sisters in the rest of humanity throughout Mother Earth in this quest. Let us collectively relegate these political vampires, once and for all, to the dustbin of history which is where they belong\u2014while there is yet time! This is not and will\u00a0not<\/em> be easy, but in the name of our posterity, of our humanity, and of Mother Earth herself\u2014it\u00a0must<\/strong>\u00a0be done! \u201cAsk not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.\u201d There\u2019s much work to be done! So, in the words of Joe Hill; \u201cDon\u2019t mourn. ORGANIZE!\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember: Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!<\/p>\n

Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0November 2, 2012<\/a>
By\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAsk not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.\u201d
\u2014John Donne<\/p>\n

\u201cOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.\u201d
\u2014Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

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