Reply #11: This is important [View All]

It's just because most of us don't remember the all-too-real horrors of the 20th century, when it looked like the Enlightenment would truly be reversed by the fascists in Europe. Then, in the 60s, the Establishment only narrowly clung to their power, and social reforms made society seem more open and equal than it really was, when it came down to it.

And now it seems impossible to think that we might actually have to become La Resistance.

I remember on September 11th, I was making hamburgers in my parents' store, and I was kind of numb (as everyone), and confused, and I remember thinking, Well, this is it. This is our Pearl Harbor. We thought it was the Challenger, but, no, this is what we will remember.

Little did I know, poor, naive, pre-Zinn me, how similar to Pearl Harbor it really was.

On that day I had strength and solidarity. And we have that now, too. But we must organize. We need contingency plans, committees, things to be set into action the moment the free exchange of information is shut down by the current fascists. Where will we be without DU? Without our news sources?

We need a comprehensive list of the actual addresses and phone numbers of members, I guess. That could be dangerous. At the very least, we need regional rallying points, preferably not openly advertised in this forum.

We talk and talk. But we may have to become the Resistance.