Diana’s Reviews > The Anti-American Manifesto > Status Update

Will the United States ever generate a mass movement? Will...people be willing to commit to militant action against the state? I don't know. I don't think it matters. If everyone waits to see who else is willing to take the chance to resist before resisting...herself, no one will resist....Figure out for yourself what's wrong. Then...don't just grab a beer and veg out....Act! Do something about it!

Collapse of the US government will be a multidimensional disaster. People...and institutions we count on will be destroyed....What will likely follow will be frightening...: post-Soviet-style gangster capitalism, perhaps, warlordism in rural areas, a hard turn to the racist right, even genocide. Doing nothing will seal our doom.

SO LET'S DO SOMETHING. Let's seize power now, before it's too late.

Corporations can't operate without the government. They are codependent, yet ... barely responsive to the nation. A nation goes on with or without its government [and] ... big businesses.... *We* are not the government that serves those companies. *They* are parasites, vampires, hideous monsters that underpay and overcharge us and get fat on the spread. Who are *we* then? We are their victims....But only by choice.

Never forget your 10 basic rights:

Shelter
Food
Basic clothes
Education in accordance with your talents and abilities (through college)
Medical care
Retirement benefits
Transportation
Communications (telephone, Internet, etc.)
If you're charged with a crime:
Competent legal counsel
In prison: job training and rehabilitation

The great triumph of Reaganism is that it has convinced Americans to stop demanding that their government do anything for them. This is absurd. Any government, regardless of its political orientation, ought to provide the necessities of life--the things everybody needs to live and thrive--for free. Well, not free--in return for paying taxes.

[The government and its allies in the media and business] are not even our representatives. *They* have murdered more than a million Iraqis. We will stay. *They* must go.

We who do nothing are complicit.

We who choose to act are not.

I do not use "we" to refer to the US government. The government has become so undemocratic and unresponsive that the only reasonable means of opposing it is to strive for its violent overthrow. The revolutionary transformation of an individual from quiescent citizen-poodle to enemy of the state requires a mental separation: the government and its allies in the media and business are not "we the people."