Outrage?

[OneGrassRoot]

I've watched DEFCON 1 level outrage here all week. Outrage at the government regarding surveillance, outrage at private industries regarding surveillance, outrage at the media about the same and so much more outrage about this one topic.

Am I outraged about this? ABSOLUTELY!!!!

I've been outraged about the surveillance state for years, before The Patriot Act, and certainly in recent years as evolving technology creates more complications, and implications.

The difference is that I'm equally, if not more, outraged by the number of citizens going hungry each day, going without proper shelter, going without proper healthcare...going without the bare basics.

Every. Single. Day.

And those numbers are growing.

More and more people are losing hope, feeling they have no value or worth in our society.

I'm outraged by the raping and pillaging of our society and environment all in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.

I'm outraged by the fact that our mainstream media is largely useless, but all too often they're dangerous with their misinformation and disinformation.

I'm outraged by the fact that Big Money and our government are, for all intents and purposes, now one and the same, and people seem to be resigned to all of the above as the new normal.

There are so many issues worthy of our collective outrage. I hope we can start multitasking and venting our outrage, in unison, in various directions soon.

[rurallib]

1. Well said

and I too am so outraged at the media that treats the current state as the "norm."

[graham4anything]

2. Are each of those Ms. Wright Edelman's words?

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I do like this following one=

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
(c)Marian Wright Edelman

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Only the graphic contains a quote by Ms. Edelman.

Ron Paul issues?

[freshwest]

5. Thanks for trying to get our focus back on the living. He mistook, I think...

[OneGrassRoot]

11. ...

no worries.

[freshwest]

4. According Brainy Quote, those are Edelman's words:

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marianwrig385325.html

Ron/Rand Paul is unconcerned about people starving because he thinks churches and the free market will take care of them and it's not a priority. Libertarians believe freedom is being able to pay for everything individually that we currently work collectively to have.

If you don't have money to buy everything, your family will magically take care of you like Mitt Romney's did him. If your family is not endowed with enough to take care of you, you can get down on your knees and beg the church or the rich for help. If you get sick and didn't pay for insurance, die.

But please don't divert this thread when OGR is actually trying to get DU to focus on the suffering around us instead of the latest civil libertarian bogeymen. Civil libertarians only focus on civil liberties, not civil rights or human rights that OGR is trying to bring us back to with this thread.

Just sayin'

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. K&R!

[Catherina]

7. Proud to recommend this n/t

[woo me with science]

8. It is deeply disingenuous to try to isolate these issues

or argue that people focusing on one are ignoring the other.

They are deeply, intimately connected.

Why do plutocrats put a sweeping, Constitution-assaulting, spying infrastructure into place? To increase their own power and control, to facilitate their corporate predatory agenda, and to prevent investigation of their abuses by a free press and dissent by the citizens they are systematically exploiting, stripping of their rights, and impoverishing.

Caring about poverty REQUIRES that we take a powerful stand against this government spying. This sort of government abuse enables every corporate outrage that is the CAUSE of the poverty you are talking about. Targeting our outrage here is not an either-or proposition.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Excuse me....

There is nothing disingenuous about it.

I do agree with you, however, about everything being connected. Absolutely.

What I was speaking to is the level of outrage EXPRESSED ON DU regarding various issues.

This isn't new. People have commented on this phenomenon at DU since the site's inception, and how certain issues gain everyone's attention and dominate GD with various cries of outrage, whereas other equally outrageous issues get very little traction as far as discussion here.

I'm certainly not encouraging anyone to have diminished outrage or discussion about surveillance; I'm encouraging more outrage -- at the same degree we're seeing here this week -- about other issues.

[RainDog]

10. k&r n/t