out of whack

A guy whacks his plane into an IRS building. Another guy whacks his home to ground with a bulldozer.

and I’m thinking…   the American Dream’s thinning veneer is starting to show its cracks.

^{cross posted at Daily Kos … firefly-dreaming … and firedoglake}

Our societal center of gravity, the rule of law, has collapsed. It doesn’t work. Not when those who whacked (and are continuing to rape) a global economy get billions in bail outs as ordinary people lose their homes, health insurance, or their jobs.

It’s this simple…

Ordinary people will begin to take action off-the-grid and right into the face of the power players. Yeah, that lawless and unregulated bunch whose off-the-grid greed has corrupted the ability of our country to function. Our very relationships as neighbors and citizens become destabilized when the law is not upheld. Innocent people get hurt or die as ordinary people take their actions off the grid, feeling squeezed and without any other recourse… lawlessness spreads… rules become ineffective as boundaries.

This is what happens when the lawless few are not held to account.

Whether bringing us into war to protect or steal resources in another country or rigging an entire financial system, the powerful few are not only not in front of grand juries but, instead, are still involved in decision-making by our government.

War profiteers, arms makers cum black market arms dealers, drug dealers, Wall Streeters, bankers, corporate conglomerate heads… all the lying and destruction and nobody is held accountable. Except the ordinary Americans being whacked. Or Iraqis. Those in Afghanistan. And it sounds like we’d love to whack Iran.

The government, on behalf of its true silent constituency, takes our tax dollars and gives them to people who have created an economy based on death and destruction.

And not on giving you health care. Are we clear yet?

Not on sound and secular education for your children. Are we clear YET?

And instead of investing our own tax money into creating jobs, it was given away to those who, rather than stimulate the economy via loans, told us to fuck ourselves as they rewarded their greed, fraud, and theft with more and bigger bonuses.

We need to do something. And rather than crash small planes into buildings, let’s hit the real bad guys. In their pocket books.

Forget e-mailing your congressman. e-mail your friends and relatives. Let’s organize a one-week complete and utter non-payment of all insurance premiums, mortgages, credit cards. Everyone sit out of work. All at the same time. And while we’re at it, throw out the local politicians and county aldermen and councilmen. Work grass roots and net roots.

It’s time to play this game off-the-grid. It’s time to move it onto another board, run by other rules. It’s time to change this game.

Once we have their attention, let’s get the rule of law rein-stated. And then work on the rest of that damned long list.