Green Liberty harnesses indignation at state crimes to fuel egalitarian movement.
Preface: As I was posting this essay to Green Liberty Caucus site, Elizabeth Woodworth published at Lizzy’s Substack a book review of the latest James Douglas book on the key 1960’s assassinations and discusses the unspeakable: https://integrate.substack.com/p/martyrs-to-the-unspeakable-the-assassinations?publication_id=823398&post_id=177229736&isFreemail=true&r=qbltf&triedRedirect=true
Every individual, each and every one of us, whether aware of it or not, stands on the edge of the abyss of the unspeakable, a term coined by Thomas Merton that characterizes the pit of human evil. Some look in, and most look away. The unspeakable abyss shadows society and impels democratic action, whether we want to engage, or not.
Thomas Merton is featured in James Douglas’s JFK and the Unspeakable: Why His Death Matters. Merton, a Trappist monk who was a strong anti-war and nuclear bomb critic, provides a psycho-spiritual backdrop for JFK’s presidency. President Kennedy is murdered by the unspeakable forces. https://truthactionproject.org/jfk-and-the-unspeakable-why-he-died-and-why-it-matters/
JFK’s unresolved murder calls us, activists for truth and justice for the unspeakable, to act. Ironically, Merton posed that one’s willingness to grapple with unspeakable, evil events, that contradicted what we understand to be human nature, is a measure of one’s humanity. The willingness to peer into the pit of human evil and consider justice, redemption, even revenge, perhaps, shows ones’ humanity.
But this is treacherous ground, socially speaking, as families and friends break up over ‘conspiracy theories.’ Whistleblowers and journalists lose their lives for revealing dark events. Scary as it is to consider, we have a duty to face evil and resist it. Not many people want to look into the unspeakable abyss of state crimes against democracy. Yet, it is the right thing to do, even though it has its pitfalls: career alienation, family tension, friendship stress, and so on.
As a political truther, active in the Truth Action Project, and chief proponent for a Green Liberty sensibility, I am advancing the idea for a liberation coalition, the Green Liberty mission. The inspiration to be free from plutocracy is fed by indignation at state crimes and the vast class inequality plutocracy sustains, and the impunity with which they operate: enough is enough. We need to unite for change.
Green Liberty stands for moral/existential duty; after caring for self and family and being available to the community, we must orient toward our civic duty, which, given the emergency we are in, is to remove the rich from power so we can have real and not fake democracy and thereby achieve the means to subdue an evil force that has complete impunity to do its wicked deeds, best understood as state crimes; this malfeasance plays out as a war-driven economy and imperial ventures, aka ‘forever wars.’
Meanwhile, whether one accepts the idea of state crimes or not, the majority of people do recognize that the super-rich cabal is a rot on society and, reasonably, a majority agree the rich should be removed as institutional power like slavery was eliminated as an institutional force.
Plutocracy, secret rule by the rich, is no more inevitable or destined as a forever institution than was slavery, but we must face it and eliminate it if we are to have a democratic destiny; otherwise, society succumbs to techno-totalitarianism. (This is not hyperbole; Covid mandates and lockdown were a beta test for a dystopian future.)
Plutocracy is a real problem, and they have a long history of abuse of power, and frankly, their time has come. Let’s be honest about them. they have been so abusive over the generations that they should abdicate, step down, and let we the people rule through real democracy.
Plutocratic efforts to secretly dominate society show up in the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913; the imprisonment of Eugene Debs under the Espionage Act for calling for peace; the Smedley Butler contract to overthrow the president in 1936; the American oligarchic support of Hitler and the Nazi party; the 1947 National Security Act; the formation of the CIA; the assassination of Forrestal; and so on.
Green Liberty, as a revolutionary sensibility, finds that Eisenhower’s warning to check the military-industrial complex is foundational to the critique we need to make today. President Kennedy heeded this warning but it cost him his life.
Sadly, tragically for the nation, Congress abdicated its duty to do oversight, and accepted the Warren Commission Report even though it is a big lie.
Kennedy was killed because he resisted the power structure, as was his brother; and Martin, Malcolm, and Fred were dealt with as well, making the 1960s the bloodiest decade in terms of political lynchings by the power elite. This was a huge setback for the peace and freedom movement. The USA military industrial complex proceeded to devastate Vietnam, destabilize Cambodia, and litter Laos with ordnance.
The 1960s held huge promise for society; we were post-World War, in a cold war with the Soviet Union, and Kennedy offered a way forward for all nations, but his vision wasn’t what the plutocrats wanted. History as a possibility is stolen when leaders are killed. And now today we suffer. We reap the legacy of inaction against the unspeakable forces that liquidated civic and political talent, leading the country into forever wars.
Most promising, (parallel to the civil rights struggle against Jim Crow) students in 1962 advanced the Huron Statement, a noble call for a better society; Rachel Carson warned the nation about toxins. All this promise was snatched away when leaders were killed.
War is the single most wicked evil thing the powerful plutocracy has foisted onto society (after slavery); they have done this for centuries. But foreign war has morphed into “omni war” conducted by the globalist power structure against “we the people.”
Kennedy’s assassination opened the door to a full-scale invasion of Vietnam just as the September 11 event ushered in the Patriot Act, spurred by an anthrax attack, and forever wars in the Middle East followed, with Ukraine and the Gaza genocide being the latest iterations.
The peace dividend we hoped for upon the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was denied, and Western belligerence expanded NATO up to the Russian doorstep, and the Ukraine War ensued.
To resist and proactively call for something better, I suggest we today should stand against the billionaire class like the abolitionists stood against slavery.
If Patrick Wood is correct at Technocracy Inc., “they,” the super powerful that drive national and international policy decisions, seek to enslave us as the Southern slaver enslaved African Americans, except with digital means and so subtle we don’t notice.
It is true that a stance against the rich does not remove the rich from power, but a stance as an intention sets the course.
Today we need to have the spine the abolitionist had when they spoke up against slavery in the 1850s, and we need to speak up today against the plutocracy that conducts state crimes and treats ordinary working-class people like dirt, with the same categorical, total demand.
John Spritzler, radical egalitarian, when asking random people about the proposition to remove the rich from power, notes that each individual who accepts the idea does so without an explicit reason; however, without further polling of the populace, we can’t say exactly why a majority accept the proposition. In fact, the reason is irrelevant; what is important is that we build solidarity on the proposition so people know there is a community that agrees with them about removing the rich from power and creating a real democracy.
In the end, the majority stand ready to fight plutocracy because they accept that we, the people, should not be treated like dirt. For a movement to grow, the majority of people need to know they aren’t alone; when they see a big group is on board, then many more will follow.
In my opinion, the reason to accept the proposition is based on a wide range of concerns, especially a concern about the vast abuse of power by plutocracy.
We in an egalitarian movement need to understand that we cannot be free unless we collectively stand on the principle that the ruling plutocracy has got to go, that there is, in the end, no way for society to become better unless the ruling power elite is removed from the power structure, and we, the people, through a true democracy, control our collective destiny.
We need to be as certain about this as the civil rights proponents were about ending Jim Crow in the South in the 1950s.
The Green Party values grassroots democracy as a pillar for a better society. A true grassroots democracy is necessarily a direct democracy, where people in the local areas, in the cities and towns and villages, and broader county seats, engage and develop policy and law. This is a possibility embedded in the egalitarian demand for a better society
We need our young people to understand this, and so this idea should be taught in our schools as egalitarian civics.
Green Liberty invites inspired political activists to set up Green Liberty chapters in your local area and stand for an egalitarian society and explain to others that this is necessary in order for humankind to evolve and be free.
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https://greenlibertycaucus.org/wp-content/uploads/End-Impunity-start-the-meme.pdf
Elizabeth Woodworth writes:
One might ask, why should we take time away from our busy and engaging lives to dive into this grim reality?
Because we pay an enormous price for not doing so: The public’s elected choices for candidates who best represent their values for a world of peace and equality will never come to fruition unless internal treasonous forces are exposed and conquered.
This is a monumental work. It is the clearest depiction of the source and root of a betrayed U.S. democracy that I have ever seen, or could even have imagined. It should make us sadder but wiser human beings. The only thing it requires in response to its painstaking work is our courage and vigilance as citizens to face the “unspeakable” and triumph over it with a true democracy that serves common human goodness.
This review will look at the four lamentable assassinations through the lens of saving democracy in Ame