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Post-Mortem America: Bush's Year of Triumph and the Hard Way Ahead | Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times
So whatever we can do, we must do it ourselves. If we have no power or influence, if we cannot take large actions, then we must take small ones. Every word or action raised against the overthrow of the Republic will find an echo somewhere, from one person to another to another to the next — each isolated, individual voice slowly finding its way into a swelling chorus of dissent.
It might be too late. It might not work. But failure — and much more horror — is guaranteed if we don't even try.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once wrote — in a context that is growing less dissimilar all the time: — it is impossible that evil should not come into the world; but take care that it does not enter through you.
"What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret."
–Thoreau.
"The time has passed for ordinary political opposition, "within the system." The system itself has been perverted and converted into something else; it is now impossible to "work within the system" in the old understanding of that term, because that old system is gone. To work within the current system is to collaborate with evil, to give it legitimacy.
Thoreau's answer should be taken up by every person in public life, beginning with the Senators and Representatives in Congress, and radiating outward to all other elected officials in the 50 states, and to civil servants and other government employees, law enforcement agencies, judges, universities, contractors, banks, and on and on, throughout the vast, intricate web that binds the lives of so many people directly to the federal government. There should be non-compliance, non-recognition of this illegitimate authority, disassociation from taking part in its workings.
But we must also recognize that the kind of civil disobedience that Thoreau preached — and practiced — is imm
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