The Battle for Pittsburgh and the World

I am posting a link to this article, primarily because this important perspective has been essentially lacking from the corporate media. How many Americans know of the militarization of one of our own cities? How many people know that weapons, machines, and tactics prepared for terrorists were used, instead, on protesters?

As one person has commented, breaking the windows of an innocent shop-keeper hardly advances the cause of economic justice. So I cannot condone that kind of violence.

But we must understand it if we are to make sense of our world today. If people feel no hope, if they see their prospects for advancement dimming, if the savior who was promised to bring "change we can believe in" seems to be faltering, if all options for a redress of grievances seem to have been exhausted, it should not be surprising that a few reckless individuals will begin to take matters into their own hands.

In order to provide for a just and safe world, we must safeguard the permanence of the Declaration of Indepedence and the great vision of the rights of man contained within its glorious text. These rights include economic rights, now so seriously under attack. This blog is devoted to maintaining and even extending this vision, justly famous in modern times. That the so-called G-20 fail to inspire anyone is unremarkable except for the hoopla drummed up to support this unofficial body. And the fact that a virtual army must be assembled to protect its meeting, is a sign of the unpopularity of this group.



http://www.truthout.org/092809R?n