ÿþ<html> <head> <title>United Federation of Indentured Servants {from Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment}</title> <META name="author" content="G.E. Nordell"> <META name="copyright" content="Gary Edward Nordell 2010-2011, all rights reserved"> <meta name="description" content="The Revolution is never over, the Class War is perpetual. The workers and Middle Class take some ground now and then, usually after some screw-up caused by the incompetent Master Class. Screw-ups such as the G.O.P. Economic Meltdown move the economy backward, reducing the Quality of Life for America, and for the World. The net gain seems never to near the goal line. There are masses of uncoordinated ecologicals, progressives, off-the-grid people, constitutionalists and other issue advocates floundering around trying to pry any and all benefits from the clawed mitts of The Pirates In Charge. 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(Lt. Curry ordered me never to speak the term again.) <p>But times have changed &ndash; or maybe not. Forty-odd years later, here we are in a <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/barbarians.htm" target="_blank">fascist</a> country (since the <i>Citizens United</i><br>decision in January 2010), struggling with the failed worldwide economy (Bushonomics), and paying for the wars in Iraq &<br>Afghanistan/Pakistan (which now get less airtime than either doofus Sarah Palin or subteen idol Miley Cyrus).<p>Thus it became time for the <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay93.htm" target="_blank">WM essay #93 "On The Barricades"</a>, which is reproduced here. <p><img src="images/supportedbychildlabor-cartoon.gif" alt="political acrtoon, circa 1900 'Supported by child labor'"> <h1><big>"On The Barricades"</big></h1> <div align=left> <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;I was very surprised that I got ultra-depressed after the 2010 U.S. national elections. The <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/barbarians.htm" target="_blank">fascists</a> grabbed further control of the structure of government. In the year 2010, they basically took My Country away from We The People. A very real bummer. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>The Revolution is never over, the Class War is perpetual.</b> The workers and Middle Class take some ground now and then, usually after some screw-up caused by the incompetent Master Class. Screw-ups such as the <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/GOPmeltdown.htm" target="_blank">G.O.P. Economic Meltdown</a> move the economy backward, reducing the Quality of Life for America, and for the World. The net gain seems never to near the goal line. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/barbarians.htm" target="_blank">fascists</a> and tea-baggers and fundamentalists of the Republican Party sold out to the Oligarchy long ago, and act in their behalf against The People. The weenie liberals of the Democratic Party are cowardly and ineffective. The metaphorical ball moves a little this way, then a lot that way  lately, the <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay78.htm" target="_blank">robber barons</a> of the Oligarchy are winning. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Neither party has the courage or integrity to take on the Oligarchy. The Republicans are on the side of the Master Class, and the Dems ran a defense strategy in 2010 that lost 6 seats in the Senate and 64 seats in the House. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Short of a real <a href="http://www.the3rdparty.info/" target="_blank">Third Party</a> alliance against the Oligarchy, there are only masses of uncoordinated ecologicals, progressives, off-the-grid people, constitutionalists and other issue advocates  those FOR well-being, FOR education, FOR peace, FOR justice  floundering around trying to pry any and all benefits from the clawed mitts of The Pirates In Charge. The workers work, the Oligarchs steal, the politicians make it legal. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;While the vile <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay42.htm" target="_blank">Oligarchy</a> has us being worried about an imaginary conspiracy of outside enemies who are going to take away our freedoms, we fail to notice that our day-to-day freedoms are eroded by each victory of the Oligarchy. The Oligarchy wants a return to feudalism and slavery. They rail against progress and safety and well-being and education, and Congress caves in and hands them what they demand, with the fiscal and lifestyle cost always being borne by The People. We worry about the latest diversionary witch-hunt  Commies, Mooslums, immigrants, liberals  while the real enemy buys up pieces of our national commons, by privatizing our national and local governments. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp; Privatized means that the Oligarchy owns it. They can then charge exorbitant amounts for services and goods that we were getting (just fine, thank you) from unionized government workers. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;No Unions? No problem. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;After privatization, we pay more for less, and the results are either contaminated, or of lesser quality, or both. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;And Congress hands those pieces to them, in return for campaign-financing dollars, which are then deftly paid over to the Oligarchs who own the media. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;And 58 percent of registered voters failed their country in November, and of the 42 percent who did vote, a majority voted to reverse the emergency repairs needed to fix the G.O.P. Economic Meltdown that President Obama inherited from Dubya. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;What we need is a union. We could call it the <b>United Federation of Indentured Servants</b>. (Your grandchildren will be paying off the Republican National Debt, so they get to join, too.) Everyone who is a citizen or a taxpayer or resident of the United States is eligible. <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/barbarians.htm" target="_blank">Fascists</a> will not want to join; all Republicans and a sizeable portion of Democrats and Independents are likewise opponents of The People. The Oligarchs don t and won t care about these concerns  until there is a significant voice interfering with their propaganda and their fiscal raping and pillaging. <p><center>* *&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;* *&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;* *&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;* *</center> <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/business.htm#markZ" target="_blank">Mark Zuckerberg</a> was just named <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html" target="_blank">Time Magazine s  Man of The Year </a>  at age 24. The articles in Time and the fictional tale in the movie  The Social Network describe the future that MarkZ is living into. He set up <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Federation-of-Indentured-Servants/142256719161120" target="_blank">Facebook</a> as a virtual community that will be and is building itself. The current game is to reach a billion members, which is predicted to happen some time in late 2012. Facebook is already nearly twice the size of the U.S. population. And (hee, hee) the Mafia can t get in, the Oligarchy can only rent ads, the <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/barbarians.htm" target="_blank">fascists</a> have no way to make a computer system afraid, and MarkZ is already merrily inventing the next stages of society, to be located in cyberspace. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Facebook is the New Society, just as the American Revolution established the existence of a constitutional democratic republic. There may be skinheads and tea-baggers and anarchists and perverts and numbskulls scattered among Facebook s membership, but that will sort itself out  small nodes of idiocy, wasting some teeny fraction of cyber resources (like cold germs: always there). <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;America is a free country, a free society; so is Facebook, albeit a functional benevolent monarchy. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;As happened on Planet Earth eons ago (or six thousand years according to Biblical retards), the ectoplasm of the internet will form into clumps, then into cells, then into micro-organisms made up of human individuals. The New Society already exists, and it is forming into cyber-entities that eventually will take on a <a href="http://www.meaningandpurpose.info/index.htm" target="_blank">Meaning & Purpose</a> because that is what is needed to win the Class War. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<font color=red>Where there is oppression, Liberty must light the dark.</font> <p><center>* *&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;* *&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;* *&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;* *</center> <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;During the Revolutionary Era, only about 25 percent of the population of the Colonies stood behind the Declaration of Independence. About 25 percent fought all change whatsoever  they supported the aristocracy and were known as Tories. The 50 percent in the middle were <a href="http://www.working-minds.com/WMessay77.htm" target="_blank">the sheeple</a>, who tried to stay out of politics  they had farms & crops to tend and stores & businesses to run. (Many sheeple did eventually get involved, once the British started shooting American civilians.) <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;That s pretty much how the Body Politic lines up today  even around the World. The 25 percent on the Progressive end versus the 25 percent on the Regressive end, with the ignorant sheeple in the middle. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;But everyone  left, right; upper, lower; insider, outsider  in the United States has been stuck by the Oligarchy with paying off the Republican National Debt. Every single resident of the United States of America is liable for that debt. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ReasonBasedTaxation.info/index.htm" target="_blank">Reason-Based Taxation</a> solves that problem, but the big roadblock is the political will to solve such a problem, or any of modern civilization s many current crises. The Oligarchy does not want their raping and pillaging regulated, nor do they admit to any liability for the 25 TRILLION dollars of the Republican National Debt. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The Oligarchy will quickly realize that <a href="http://www.ReasonBasedTaxation.info/index.htm" target="_blank">Reason-Based Taxation</a> ends their joyride on the backs of honest workers. We must generate, somehow, the political will to institute Reason-Based Taxation, just as <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/FDRoosevelt32.htm" target="_blank">Roosevelt</a> s New Deal was an uphill battle. We also need to stand on the barricades and prevent destruction of plans for energy independence, mitigation of climate changes, peace initiatives, and environmental sanity. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;We need a <a href="http://www.the3rdparty.info/" target="_blank">Third Party</a> whose revolutionary purpose is to regulate the pirates of the Oligarchy and to restore the Constitution of the People and to  promote the general Welfare . </div> <p><i>[copyright 2010-2011 by Gary Edward Nordell, all rights reserved]</i> <p><hr width=500 color=green> <p><table border=0><tr><td align=center><big><font color=crimson>"The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours. But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. 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