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Petition
of Grievances
We, citizens
of this American land, haunted by the nihilism of separation, meaninglessness,
and powerlessness, subsumed by political elites who use corporate,
state, and military power to manipulate our lives, pawns of a global
system of dominance and deceit in which transnational megacompanies
and big government control us through money, markets, and media,
sapping our political will, civil liberties, collective memory,
traditional cultures, sustainability, and independence, and as victims
of affluenza, technomania, cybermania, globalism, and imperialism,
do issue and proclaim this:
_______________________
Civil Liberties
Criminal
Justice
Petition
of Grievances
We, citizens
of this American land, haunted by the nihilism of separation, meaninglessness,
and powerlessness, subsumed by political elites who use corporate,
state, and military power to manipulate our lives, pawns of a global
system of dominance and deceit in which transnational megacompanies
and big government control us through money, markets, and media,
sapping our political will, civil liberties, collective memory,
traditional cultures, sustainability, and independence, and as victims
of affluenza, technomania, cybermania, globalism, and imperialism,
do issue and proclaim this:
_______________________
Civil Liberties
- The highly
intrusive, inept, ever-growing, money-guzzling Department of Homeland
Security, together with other intelligence agencies, using the
Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Detainee Security
Provision of the National Defense Administration Act of 2011,
and other covers for citizen surveillance and suppression of civil
liberties. - The disgraceful
(and expensive and useless) Guantanamo Prison, prisoner abuse
and torture, and the illegal rendition of terrorist suspects. - A president
who can order the assassination of anyone, anywhere, anytime (including
U.S. citizens) whose name happens to appear on the White House
"kill list."
Criminal
Justice
- Six million
people under "correctional supervision" (more than were
in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin), including more black men
than were in slavery in 1860 and 50,000 men in solitary confinement
in "supermax" prisons.
- A failed
international war on drugs that costs billions, ruins more lives
than it saves, has spawned corruption and violence, an entrenched
bureaucracy, and which has had no impact on drug use in the United
States.