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Forum Post: As Whistleblowers Hunted Worldwide, Celebrating Another Rebel, From Apartheid Era

Posted 10 years ago on June 24, 2013, 3:24 p.m. EST by LeoYo (5909)
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As Whistleblowers Hunted Worldwide, Celebrating Another Rebel, From Apartheid Era

Monday, 24 June 2013 14:14 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17182-as-whistleblowers-are-hunted-worldwide-celebrating-an-anti-apartheid-era-rebel

What is it that makes a rebel? Why does one willingly step outside society to destroy a system of power, break the law and risk persecution and even death for an ideal? As the state calcifies into corporate totalitarianism, as prominent rebels such as Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are defamed by a bankrupt media and political class and hunted down as criminals, as change through the established mechanisms of reform becomes impossible, as systems of power invert morality to silence and imprison the just, we are going to have to ask hard questions about what we are willing to endure to make a better world. For if we do not rebel, if we do not actively defy corporate power, we will steadily be herded like captive animals into pens where we will be watched, controlled, abused, exploited and finally cast aside when our bodies and our minds are deemed superfluous by the corporate state. It is not enough to interpret the world. We must change it.

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