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Chuck Fall's avatar

Hi, I appreciate your report on the Epstein scandal and book review that documents the sick crimes of pedophilia and trafficking engaged in and advanced by powerful people who work secretly outside public purview.

I agree with you that liberating from plutocracy requires a mass movement of a shared desire to not be dominated by them. You phrase this aspiration pithily as ‘let’s remove the rich from power so we can have real and not fake democracy.”

As you know, Green Liberty Caucus, a collective voice of indignation against state crimes, and a call for a liberation coalition that aligns with the egalitarian aspiration, is dedicated to getting justice and accountability from the plutocracy for key crimes: JFK and other 60’s assassinations; September 11th / Anthrax attack and more recently the Covid crime, among other malfeasance. https://greenlibertycaucus.org/green-liberty-calls-on-green-party-to-make-calling-out-state-crimes-an-element-in-building-green-movement/

State crimes are not “secret” events; they are evident, but Plutocratic media obfuscates as you well know. There can be no diminishment of calling out plutocratic malfeasance; it qualifies as an end in itself, but I am with you, that we lever this terrible travesty into an egalitarian revolution. https://greenlibertycaucus.org/in-solidarity-with-egalitarian-revolution/

On the matter of Jeffery Epstein and MAGA disappointment at Trump and Bondi not delivering on the promise to get some accountability for Epstein, Trump’s covering up of the Epstein scandal is no surprise.

In fact, the covering up of the Epstein event, his role as manufacturer of the Mossad / CIA Kompromat ‘honey trap,’ his impunity to run a honey trap, and his apparent murder in jail, are not “secret” matters. They are only “secret” because legacy media does not report on the crimes.

That ordinary people are not “convinced” a criminal cover up is an issue, is not a reason to dismiss the fact of a high level criminal conspiracy to cover up a state crime as a relevant issue to tie into the aspiration to remove the rich from power.

True, many people in the ‘truth movement’ seem to like to talk ad nauseam about the lies, but this is irrelevant to that fact that high level conspiracies are a real expression of the power of the plutocracy, and should be explicitly called out. Indeed, truth activists should be leaders in a call to remove the evil force behind state crimes from power. Green Liberty takes inspiration from Cynthia McKinney. https://greenlibertycaucus.org/cynthia-mckinney-address-to-lawyers-committee-9-11-truth/

Liberating from plutocracy, sociologically and politically speaking, requires a collectively stated intention to not have a plutocracy, and replace the power elite with a real democracy, and this means people step up and claim democratic destiny; however this gets accomplished. We agree we need to declare an intention, so others know they are not alone in desiring to be free from ruling class domination.

You have dismissed the value of indicting the plutocracy for its role in conducting and enabling and living off of state crimes because it is “secret” and people are not convinced “state crimes” are true.

Alternatively, you point to a zillion ways the plutocracy treats people like dirt and argue a liberation movement should focus on those issues to rationalize an egalitarian revolution. Yet, you admit “the ruling class treats us like dirt so routinely that we tend to stop taking note of it.”

So, in the end, an egalitarian revolution needs to remind people that we are treated like dirt because we accept the bad treatment just as a co-depedent accepts living in an alcoholic relationship.

I think you are too binary in your thinking (“secret” versus obvious) about how to appeal to the people to advance an egalitarian revolution. State crimes and the cover ups, is not a “secret” issue versus obvious issue; the issue is that we stand in solidarity for the possibility of a real democracy and a fair and rational society.

How do we appeal to that? You suggest there is nothing to appeal to; that people already accept the proposition to remove the rich from power, they just need to know they are not alone in this aspiration.

That is easy to accomplish if we all just accepted the proposition, and state an intention, which you do in your front line activism inviting the conversation to remove the rich from power.

In the end, people come to accept the proposition to remove the rich from power for many different reasons.

You pose that the moral depravity inherent in the plutocracy as an unjust social and political fact needs no rationalization to oppose and remove from society; it’s obvious how they treat us like dirt, you suggest, so they should be removed from power.

However, I disagree with you on this. As you admit, we are inured to the corruption of plutocracy, to being treated like dirt because we have come to accept ‘them’ as a fact of life. Yet, you insist we build an egalitarian revolution by inviting people to accept the proposition as the first step.

However, in the end, people need a reason, in my opinion to ditch the rich. In the American Declaration of Independence, Jefferson penned a number of reasons to rationalize withdrawing consent to be governed by the king of England.

Don’t dismiss the power of indignation at state crimes. They are not as “secret” as you think. The wicked evil power of the elite, manifest in state crimes and the cover ups they require, may be the galvanizing reason people come to accept they need to liberate from plutocracy.

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Robert Cable's avatar

I willread Bryant's book because of you, John, but it is beyond disgusting to think that such "secret evil" is true.

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