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By Christiane Brown
As American citizens finally rise up and place our bodies on the gears of power and the avenues of commerce, rightly protesting against the nation’s war mongers, corporate thieves, health insurance gluttons and mass polluters, the most important demand we make must be our call for accountability and justice.
This demand, above all others, is crucial in opening the floodgates of change and truly restoring America to a nation of laws and not men.
Until the stamp of felon is irrevocably emblazoned on the foreheads of our nation’s criminal elite, their perfect storm of unrestrained power and hubris will continue to rage in this country. Only through the process of indictment, prosecution and incarceration will we be able to set in motion the systematic collapse of this lawless regime and remove the cloak of legitimacy that empowers it.
With more than 700 peaceful protesters mass corralled on the Brooklyn Bridge and 1252 Keystone XL demonstrators arrested during their two week protest in front of the White House, it is clear that the trend of incarcerating those who stand up to power will continue.
Isn’t it time that we, the citizens, demand that the right people are put behind bars?
As our numbers swell across the country it up to us to finally demand redress for the glaring omission by the Congress, the Justice Department and the President of the United States to prosecute our nation’s “most wanted,” and force our legal system to shine an unwavering spotlight on the inside track of corruption that has dominated this country for over a decade.
A massive outcry for investigations and trials of the elite one per cent who crashed the world economy, illegally waged a pre-emptive war with impunity, drained our treasury, rounded up and tortured enemy combatants, spied on American citizens, exposed the identity of a CIA counter terrorism operative, and allowed an American city to drown, would be a good start.
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