A Monkey in Manhattan
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Citizenfour
– “If they want to get you , they’ll get you in time..”
The astonishing aspect of Edward Snowden’s whistle-blowing is the absolute bravery and sacrifice of this young man for the common good. This is even more extraordinary if you think that he did all this despite knowing that his actions would inevitably lead him to be punished mercilessly whilst being branded a traitor. We must not allow it!
Governments, the law, the intelligence network and corporations are not serving us. All of our traditional institutional regulatory bodies are routinely bypassed and in fact complicit. Investigative journalism gives us hope and is doing what these agencies, often illegally, are failing to deliver. However, understandably and legitimately, that’s where the hack’s role has to stop and it’s now really up to all of us folks to take back control!
All wars are economic. One easy way to fight this frightening trend towards the attack on freedom and democracy is to immediately stop buying Apple phones, Exxon and Esso oil, to close your bank account with Lloyds Bank and JPMorgan Chase and don’t buy anything off Amazon, GlaxoSmithKline or that’s manufactured by General Electric. That should just about do it overnight. The second thing we could do is to vote, in numbers and intention, like we have never done before to give the clearest message ever given by an electorate. Don’t put your cross next to the blue or the red team but simply spoil your ballot paper – i.e. ‘None of the above’ – In other words, we want you to …’Think again and come back to us with a better set of ideas and values’
‘The way they control us is to frighten us all the time. They frighten you, they divide you; men and women, black and white, christian, muslim, jew. Then they demoralise you – you don’t understand and they make you cynical, everybody’s a crook.
If you want to win, you mustn’t be frightened, you mustn’t be divided, you mustn’t be demoralised and you mustn’t be cynical. And once people discover that, then it’s astonishing what can be achieved.’
Tony Benn
A Monkey in Manhattan 