In the government you call civilized, the happiness of the people is constantly sacrificed to the splendor of empire. Hence the origin of your codes of criminal and civil laws; hence your dungeons and prisons. We have no prisons; we have no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws; and yet judges as highly revered among us as they are among you, and their decisions are as much regarded. We have among us no exalted villains above the control of our laws. Daring wickedness here is never allowed to triumph over helpless innocence. The estates of widows and orphans are never devoured by enterprising swindlers. We have no robbery under the pretext of law. ~Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) - Mohawk
a simple society in which all know their neighbors has little opportunity for crime. but homo sapiens are 7 billion now, and if the sapiens part is not good enough we will commit species suicide.
As difficult as it is at times, Can't tell you what a pleasure and relief it is to hear TRUTH SPOKEN. The BS propagated that people need to be sheltered from the truth is to maintain their power.
Yes I went to trial they first refused to give me a jury then after she testified & my lawyer went up & had her read her old emails to her lawyer uncle(voted number one lawyer of Rhode Island) where he told her to what to do/say to set me up the judge threw out her testimony but still said I had to take the smallest charge or he would have just made me guilty no matter what to protect the cops(the police chief of whom my ex had made a deal with to sell them our home for 100k less than we had just paid)& d.a. who her family knows well. They live in my home & this is still legitimate in corrupt USA. If anyone ever wants to do a story on it or if they can find a way to make justice happen let me know would you.
You kinda breached the security culture by asking how Hedges spoke to the prisoners in isolation, where he had to publicly reveal the contraband cell phone use. You should have cut that part out of the interview in editing. Please be more mindful of these type of things in the future.
Goran Tesic That stung my ears right away, too. At first I was chiding Hedges for slipping like that, but then thought of how no one even listened to that and knew enough to cut it. I pray this doesn't impact too strongly on the work he's trying to do, but more importantly, I think of how cruel these institutions (especially with privatization) can be toward anyone breaching security.
John Hill You can go to their website and watch it from there, it's private. I mean they are an sponsor-free news network, so you better show them some love by checking out their website
Patrick AuCoin In a way Chris Hedges is a worry because he seems to be goading for revolution but in the usual way. He doesn't put forth solutions. Why not? I don't trust him completely. We have to be wary of people who are put forth to try to suck us in. If we do revolution like it's always been, we'll be smashed immediately. No we have to be different this time, outsmart them. We have to be nimble and have fun with it all. Chris Hedges has four children - FOUR CHILDREN!!! Unless they are quadruplets then he has no place to be talking about sustainability. What the hell was he and his wife thinking? A real thinker just wouldn't have four children. Not when the world is so populated.
Denise Ward Becasue its all lies. They don't want common folk like you and me to reporduce so they feed us all this shit about sustainability, global warming, yada yada yada. And we believe them. Men and Women in white coats have replaced the men in black robes. Just as there are two colour squares on the chessboard we are being played.
***** I know we've been told a pack of lies about everything but the government does not want us to think global warming is real. It's only recently when they couldn't deny it any longer because scientists are coming out and making them look illegitimate. You have to be discerning still because some things are true. Global warming is happening and it's because we burn fossil fuels. The oil is supposed to stay in the ground not burned into our atmosphere that we have to breathe from! True that scientists are the new dogmaticians. We are being played but two can play that game and we can play them back. But most people are too chicken to. We pay them back by not paying them anything!
this is where hedges fails, in my view: he is well-aware of the injustice in usa society, and speaks with knowledge and passion about it, but he accepts it, he talks of rebellion but has no plan to offer, that will change america. and yet, effective rebellion is easy. it just needs a large minority of the electorate to send the same email to the dnc, and local dem candidates, every monday morning: "i will not again vote for the democratic party until party policy is to amend the constitution to create an effective and accessible power of citizen initiative, making the electorate the sovereign power of the nation." this is non-violent revolution, a transfer of power from an elite group, politicians in office, to the citizens of the nation. it might not work. if it doesn't, abandon hope, or arm yourselves and advance on dc. my own view is that americans are not citizen quality people, and are incapable of concerted action. that's why chomsky speaks without passion- he knows from long experience, that americans wear mental chains. hedges hasn't learned this yet. chomsky has no hope, hedges hasn't lived long enough.
In the government you call civilized, the happiness of the people is constantly sacrificed to the splendor of empire. Hence the origin of your codes of criminal and civil laws; hence your dungeons and prisons. We have no prisons; we have no pompous parade of courts; we have no written laws; and yet judges as highly revered among us as they are among you, and their decisions are as much regarded.
We have among us no exalted villains above the control of our laws. Daring wickedness here is never allowed to triumph over helpless innocence. The estates of widows and orphans are never devoured by enterprising swindlers.
We have no robbery under the pretext of law.
~Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) - Mohawk
Richard Llewellyn I like native observations and rebuttals, probably because I usually agree with them.
Mulla Nasrudin Lovely quote...thank you.....
a simple society in which all know their neighbors has little opportunity for crime. but homo sapiens are 7 billion now, and if the sapiens part is not good enough we will commit species suicide.
As difficult as it is at times, Can't tell you what a pleasure and relief it is to hear TRUTH SPOKEN. The BS propagated that people need to be sheltered from the truth is to maintain
their power.
hey Paul it is counter productive to hold back complete segments of interviews for later viewing........................................
Powerful interview.
What happened to PART 1??? I only watched 1/3 of it!
Yes I went to trial they first refused to give me a jury then after she testified & my lawyer went up & had her read her old emails to her lawyer uncle(voted number one lawyer of Rhode Island) where he told her to what to do/say to set me up the judge threw out her testimony but still said I had to take the smallest charge or he would have just made me guilty no matter what to protect the cops(the police chief of whom my ex had made a deal with to sell them our home for 100k less than we had just paid)& d.a. who her family knows well. They live in my home & this is still legitimate in corrupt USA. If anyone ever wants to do a story on it or if they can find a way to make justice happen let me know would you.
Thank you.
You kinda breached the security culture by asking how Hedges spoke to the prisoners in isolation, where he had to publicly reveal the contraband cell phone use. You should have cut that part out of the interview in editing. Please be more mindful of these type of things in the future.
Goran Tesic That stung my ears right away, too. At first I was chiding Hedges for slipping like that, but then thought of how no one even listened to that and knew enough to cut it. I pray this doesn't impact too strongly on the work he's trying to do, but more importantly, I think of how cruel these institutions (especially with privatization) can be toward anyone breaching security.
It’s 6 years later.
Big Brother is watching. Big Brother controls our lives.
But we do not-yet-completely accept Big Brother.
Maybe if we gave all those jobs to people not in the prison system we might actually see a real rise in employment.
wheres part 3?
Wheres part 1
John Hill It was posted yesterday but has been removed for whatever reason.
John Hill You can go to their website and watch it from there, it's private. I mean they are an sponsor-free news network, so you better show them some love by checking out their website
It's back up
K thanks
Great interview. A lot of great insight. Especially the part of studying the psychology of a revolutionary.
but then, maybe not,,, Chris Hedges; cuts to the heart...
Patrick AuCoin In a way Chris Hedges is a worry because he seems to be goading for revolution but in the usual way. He doesn't put forth solutions. Why not? I don't trust him completely. We have to be wary of people who are put forth to try to suck us in. If we do revolution like it's always been, we'll be smashed immediately. No we have to be different this time, outsmart them. We have to be nimble and have fun with it all. Chris Hedges has four children - FOUR CHILDREN!!! Unless they are quadruplets then he has no place to be talking about sustainability. What the hell was he and his wife thinking? A real thinker just wouldn't have four children. Not when the world is so populated.
Denise Ward Becasue its all lies. They don't want common folk like you and me to reporduce so they feed us all this shit about sustainability, global warming, yada yada yada. And we believe them. Men and Women in white coats have replaced the men in black robes. Just as there are two colour squares on the chessboard we are being played.
Patrick AuCoin hes a great guy, as for his children why is it your concern, how many does mitt romney have or the average mormon have
***** I know we've been told a pack of lies about everything but the government does not want us to think global warming is real. It's only recently when they couldn't deny it any longer because scientists are coming out and making them look illegitimate. You have to be discerning still because some things are true. Global warming is happening and it's because we burn fossil fuels. The oil is supposed to stay in the ground not burned into our atmosphere that we have to breathe from! True that scientists are the new dogmaticians. We are being played but two can play that game and we can play them back. But most people are too chicken to. We pay them back by not paying them anything!
The US has 25 percent of the world's prison population...🤔
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this is where hedges fails, in my view: he is well-aware of the injustice in usa society, and speaks with knowledge and passion about it, but he accepts it, he talks of rebellion but has no plan to offer, that will change america. and yet, effective rebellion is easy. it just needs a large minority of the electorate to send the same email to the dnc, and local dem candidates, every monday morning:
"i will not again vote for the democratic party until party policy is to amend the constitution to create an effective and accessible power of citizen initiative, making the electorate the sovereign power of the nation."
this is non-violent revolution, a transfer of power from an elite group, politicians in office, to the citizens of the nation. it might not work. if it doesn't, abandon hope, or arm yourselves and advance on dc.
my own view is that americans are not citizen quality people, and are incapable of concerted action. that's why chomsky speaks without passion- he knows from long experience, that americans wear mental chains. hedges hasn't learned this yet. chomsky has no hope, hedges hasn't lived long enough.