The Inalienable Eleven

Freedom #10: the Right to COMMUNITY
“The community in its fullest sense: a place and all its creatures –
is the smallest unit of true Health” ~ Wendell Berry
“A person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy
cannot look to the Light.” ~ Christine de Pizan,
Without a doubt, my Friends, days of darkness and fear are upon us. As
global citizens we are no longer afraid merely of random crime. No, today there
are far more insidious forces at work in our world …
Consider the following:
*Injustice has infected our judicial systems – with lawyers & judges
regularly convicting the innocent …
*Corruption has infested our political systems – with our government’s
“leaders” ignoring the needs of the many to reward the desires of the few …
*Brutality has contaminated our systems of law enforcement – with police
regularly abusing the powers that we have given them; “protecting” us by spying
on our private lives, and “serving” us by assaulting us in public …
*Immorality has overthrown our military systems – with governments
using tactics more evil than the ones that inspired them (see Obama’s villainous
drone war), and with soldiers being commanded to become as repulsive as the
very enemy they seek to conquer (see the cruel interrogations of Guantanamo) …
*Greed has poisoned our economic systems – with massive deficits,
inflated mortgages, investment scams, identity thefts and the resource-rape of the
only planet we have on which to live; with the financial security of the many
sacrificed for the luxurious comfort of the few …
*Hatred has polluted our social systems – with religious zealotry still
damning the “lost”, and intellectual zealotry still ridiculing the “ignorant”.
Yes, my Friends, these are indeed quite frightening times.
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