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“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” (Mario Savo, December 3 1964.)

Ah, the old days. Mario Savo was speaking to the Free Speech Movement at a sit-in in front of Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus in 1964. This was one of the flashpoints of the Student Movement that led to all kinds of fear and loathing back in the ‘60’s.

The kind we don’t have anymore.

Now all our fear and loathing is government sponsored, heavily edited, and doled out when politicians need a bump in the polls.

In the unmitigated disaster that is known as the Bush Administration, the one thing they got right was convincing waves of business majors and finance students that speaking out is bad for your resume.

Welcome to the world – you generation of wimps.

Go look at what your contemporaries are doing in England:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/13/activists.climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

The short version: they’re environmental extremists who hijacked a coal train in broad daylight and shut down the entire line.

Now that’s putting your “bodies upon the gears.”

Most of you wimps think being radical is having one more shot of Jäger.

I’m not talking about going all Eugene Debs here (go look it up) but, come on, get off your asses and do something. You sat by while the Idiot and Chief rode roughshod over your nation, your rights and, the way things look, your future.

What’s it going to take to get you people into the street…college credit?

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