The Bondage and Submission of America to the Elite Class

What are we as a species? Are we just a society that capitulates to an overbearing tyranny, like a wolf displaying submission? Do we just follow the pack? Rebellion is a common human trait.  Many of us rebel against what we see as wrong or against our constitution.  But where is the rebellion, why have we placated ourselves to unfair and unjust systems?  We have become apathetic to the truth and allow ourselves to be swayed by propaganda.  Why?

What is rebellion?  And what is freedom?  Can any of us say we honestly know.  Can we recite the true meaning of the words or just the dictionary definitions? Do we know the importance of those words? This is a question I have asked myself on multiple occasions when I view the news.  I see so many willing and eager to surrender their rights for safety I wonder if they understand the long-term repercussions of their actions.  

Over the past few years I have witnessed many acts of violence on American soil, each one a tragedy, each one an act of barbarity.  Could these acts have been prevented? Maybe. But how much privacy and freedom must we give up to prevent random acts of savagery.  Is the idea that these acts can be prevented a pipe dream?  I find that the more freedoms we surrender in the pursuit of security the less secure we are.  We are more in bondage as a nation now than we have ever been in our entire history, yet we experience more tragedy and fear than most generations before us. We live our lives in day to day terror waiting for the next horror to occur.  Is that life? Or have we just become sheep, slaves to the shepherd?  I ask, if this is the safety our government had promised would we call them liars?  Would we drag them from their podiums into the streets and proceed to tar and feather them for all the world to see?

Although that would be a very comical sight, I believe that violence only begets violence.  To tear them from their seats of power would only prove that we are them and they are us.  We are better than them.  We must prove it.  We must stand up for what is right and tear them to pieces with words and political actions.  If you truly want to destroy and shame them, then beat them at their own game.

We allow corporatism and greed to rule our society pardoning the worst offenders to the financial stability of our society and allowing them to hide their taxes from the people it is owed.  If any standard American were to commit this crime we would be thrown in jail, so why aren't they?  We have to slam our fist on the table and demand an end to the double standard and justice systems that separate  the wealthy from the poor.  Having more money than your fellow man does not earn you special treatment in the criminal justice system.  We as a people cannot afford this double standard that allows us to be railroaded through a corrupt and broken system while enduring the horrors of a debtors prison.

We must demand an end to the deceit, we must demand an end to the injustice that separates the classes in this country.  Are we not equal?  Accruing or having wealth does not make you a better person or a higher class of person.  We are all equal and should be held to the same standards.  Is this a pipe dream? I pray not.

My friends I urge you to stand, to abandon apathy, to abandon this separation of the classes and justice.  I beg you to open you eyes and look for the true motivations and agendas of those we allow to govern us, I am confident if we do this we will discover the last thing these people have is our best interests in mind.

I leave you with this.  Remove the blinders, Awaken and arise.  Demand better of those who govern us.  Hold them to the same standards they hold us.