The Importance of Dissent in Democracy

Every day, ordinary people teach us that democracy

is free speech and dissent.

For once we, the people,

stop speaking out and stop dissenting, once we are

distracted or pacified, once we turn away from each other,

we are no longer free. For true democracy is the sum,

is the sum of our resistance.

If you don't speak up,

if you give up what is uniquely yours as a human being, if you

surrender your consciousness, your independence, your sense of

what is right and what is wrong, in other words,

perhaps without knowing it, you become passive and

controlled, unable to defend yourselves and those you

love.

People often ask, "What can I do?"

The answer is not so difficult.

Learn how the world works. Challenge the statements

and intentions of those who seek to control us behind a

façade of democracy and monarchy.

Unite in common purpose and common principle to

design, build, document, finance, and

defend. Learn, challenge, act

now.