The devastation of our earth for profit is all legal. The research, development, construction, deployment, and use of weapons of mass destruction is all legal. The massacre in Iraq, and the continuing massacre in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die because of our sanctions, was and is all legal. I've been reflecting that the more lawless our government becomes, the more it stresses and prosecutes law breaking on the part of its citizens, and the more it builds jails and prisons, and the more it imprisons and for longer and longer periods of time. Too many of my contemporaries for too many years in too many circumstances have ignored the criminality of government.
Nations go about their business as usual, through foreign wars and domestic injustice.
They are not only destructive in the world and of the world, they are self-destructive. I submit that at some deep level, we know it. We no longer count on the seasons to come in their course or life forms to remain part of our landscape because of the way we have chosen to live. We light up the night and darken the day. We trap the rivers and re-direct their course.