WATCH LIVE VIDEO – Uncloak The Kochs Rally Today – 11 am – 4 pm PST

Great job yesterday, Cher and great job on all these links!

Hi!

Choicelady was there, too – and I dispute the numbers! We KNOW there were 1500 people on the various buses, so add in the rest of us who drove and flew in, it had to be at least 2000, not 1000. Then add in local folks, and…

The panel was really solid, the rally was, well, spectacular. Why? We were so damned CIVILIZED, unlike the Kochs. There were flower gardens on either side of the driveway, manned (all male so this is appropriate terminology) by some local sheriffs and police. They smiled (they’d have laughed, but it’s not allowed) as we all cautioned one another, “Oh! Don’t step on the flower!” And we did not. Not property values, values for how pretty nature – even cultivated nature – was. Not one flower got squished.

Hats off to the several dozen utterly non-violent folks doing civil disobedience. They took good care of the police – they walked up, turned around, put their hands behind them, got busted with NO hardship for the cops. Yeah – the observers from the retreat laughed at us. Don’t they know that we are Americans and that we did this to liberate THEM as well as ourselves?

The price that is paid for total control lies in what is happening in Egypt. The cost to the oppressor is HUGE – it takes a powerful lot of money to keep yourself on top. It means paying for protection, and losing the support of all the people. In all of history, no autocracy has ever survived. Don’t these folks get it? We know if Marie Antoniette had been there (and who’s to say she wasn’t, in modern garb) she’d have dismissed the folks with the “let them eat cake” lingo. The cluelessness of the temporary occupants of the top. But we’re the people, and we say “NO!” to their lies and scrabbling to have it all. Not just 90% – ALL.

Back in the days of feudalism, a time that is not held in high esteem for it’s fairness, there were nonetheless checks on the degree to which lords could exploit their serfs. Why? If the serfs produced the food and bounty by which the Lord survived, there was only so much the Lord could extract, only so much oppression he could inflict, before he started cannibalizing his own sources of bounty. There is always a limit, no matter what the Kochs think.

The big question – and only one rather strange woman asked it – is how do the Kochs tie in with the Dominionists of “The Family”. The woman had a sign equating the two: Kochs = Dominionists. I wanted to ask her how she knew, but I never got the chance. And she was holding a rubber chicken which kinda put me off with its oddness. But yes – are they part of “The Family”? I would not be surprised if they were and are.Then they are pseudo-Christians, who actually don’t believe in anything, who use religion to justify their domination. How pathetic. And how scary.

What got accomplished? The end of secrecy. Never again will these new feudal Lords have their meetings without somone “outing” them and their paid-for political running dog lackeys. We KNOW there were federal people there – we saw the federal marshalls who provide protection for only federal folks.

But unlike the real feudal lords, the Kochs have not yet figured out that you cannot dominate the serfs forever. They will either stop producing or will revolt. I think yesterday was the beginning of the latter. The Kochs had better re-think their roles here. The whole world is looking at their respective oppressors and saying, loudly and clearly – NO MORE!

When the people talk, the whole world listens. WE started the push back yesterday. Let’s keep the momentum for truth alive!

NO – nothing quite that sybaritic! We were at a lovely but vastly more middle-of-the-road Mexican restaurant. We are but modest people, after all. Food was VERY good though, I must say. And by the time we left the rally, it was getting freaking COLD. No lounging by the still waters. Sorry!