Authors say a silent revolution is brewing

By David Templeton

HOLD ON, HUMANS. A revolution is coming. When it strikes, you'll know it,
because this revolution will dramatically change the direction of our
country, the world, and probably the human race. Unfortunately, we may have
to wait for it. See, most of its leaders don't even know it's happening yet.

That's right, the revolutionaries themselves are not aware of their part in
the revolution. And according to anthropologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist
Sherry Ruth Anderson, it is that very lack of knowledge that is delaying the
inevitable explosion. If the bold revolutionaries only knew that there were
other revolutionaries out there--50 million of them--all separately dreaming
of a brave new world, well . . .there would be no stopping them.

But alas! They remain unaware: unaware of each other; unaware that they are,
already, a significant part of the movement that could end up being the most
important sociological evolution of the New Millennium; unaware, even, that
they already have a nifty nickname.

They are the Cultural Creatives.

Named and identified by Ray in a 1996 report titled "A Study of the
Emergence of Transformational Values in America," the Cultural Creatives are
apparently an emerging force of disparate but ethically similar
people--passionately altruistic, devoted to social justice, and deeply
concerned about the environment--that is growing exponentially across the
planet and is already having an irreversible impact on global society.

These conclusions are based on 13 years of survey research studies by Ray,
executive vice president of American LIVES Inc., an opinion-polling firm
researching the values and lifestyles of Americans. The findings are
meticulously and entertainingly revealed in The Cultural Creatives: How 50
Million People Are Changing the World (Harmony; $25), co-authored with
Anderson, co-author of the best-selling The Feminine Face of God.

The married duo, who live in San Rafael and speak Dec. 6 in Sonoma, are just
now wrapping up a months-long speaking tour to promote the book--and to
sound the wake-up call to latent CCs everywhere.

For the rest of this article, go to this link:

http://www.bohemian.com/cultcreatives-0048.html

To MainLineNews,

You have an excellent egroup with a steady flow of proactive input.  The
movements for economic and social justice appear to be growing and
mobilizing.  The marches are great and evidence of public support against
injustice is incouraging.  The passing of Proposition 215 and Proposition 36
in California are also encouraging examples of public support for change,
but that's not enough.

Our efforts didn't help McWilliams, the medical marijuana movement or the
Cannabis Club owners from California.  Most of them are in prisons, dead,
bankrupt, on probation, parole or facing criminal charges as we speak.  The
Corporate government of America violated our laws and attacked our leaders
with prison cells and an IRON FIST.  The public responded to the state
repression of our leaders the way they always have.  They hide and submit to
our fascist state.

I am writing this article because my work is different from what I am seeing
in this egroup.  I see the real battlefield in the courtrooms one-on-one
with
judges, prosecutors, defense attiorneys and the defendents.

Conclusion:   We are not going to put down this corrupt drug war or
successfully attack economic injustice with martyrs.  We need a plan that
(1) produces leaders that are winners instead of martyrs in the courts,
(2) provides strategic assistance to defendents and
(3) inflicts maximum cost, disruption, confusion, frustration and rage at
injustice from court personell. It is time we learned how to monkey
wrench their courts.
 (4) We must accomplish this with very limited resources and minimum
use of lawyers (vipers).  When we can successfully defend our leaders
from state sponsored repression in the courts the public will follow.
Until then, the public will lick to boots of the fascists.

THE PLAN: You cannot depend on the loyalty of the troops you have lied to.
When the public, the courts and law enforcement learn the truth about this
dirty little war they will turn their guns on their oppressors.  When that
day comes, we will have justice and it wont be pretty, but it will be
justice for our oppressors.    The plan, is to alter the mindsets of the
players in our courts.

The courts are the bottleneck.  A private defense attorney specializing in
Drug Cases +125 cases a year.  Assistant DA- 300 cases/year.  Public
defender- 400 cases/year.  Judge- +1200 cases/year.  These players feed the
prison industry and the Drug War Economy.  They are the ones you must pursue
with the truth.   When they finally understand the destruction they have
participated in, and the lies they were feed in the process,  they change.
They really change.

A NEW IDEA

Much of my activism is at the courthouses and in the courtrooms themselves.
My strategy is terrorism.

1. Target the Prosecution and the judges with my research.
2. Reduce the intimidation factor used by the DAs and public defenders that
force defendents into a plea bargain.
3) Street fighting techiques
    a) I also provide some practical information to the defendants in the
courts. I'm talking about practical stuff, like demanding a copy of the
police report and time to read it before any plea decisions are made.
     b) Make the DA accountable for the accuracy of the police report.
     c) Exposing false statements on a police report during pretrial exposes
a weak or fatally compromised case to the DA.   Charges often get dropped.
     d)  Making sure defendents have read the laws they presumably violated
and understand  what  evidence the state will have to provide to convict.
If they don't and it's a drug charge they will probably get busted again.

THE  BOTTOM LINE- I try to force the government to give the defendants a
fighting chance in these corrupt courts.  I try to inflict enough forbidden
knowledge into those courts to rattle their corrupt ethics system and
inject a little humanity and guilt.

On a person level.  Four years ago, I relocated to San Bernardino and began
speaking out against the Drug War.  This government has thrown 13 different
felonies and misdemeanor cases/complaints against me in San Bernardino in
those last four years.  I have spent $500 on attorneys fees in those four
years and the local fascists have lost 12 cases in a row.   They have one
misdemeanor left.  I bet the Kubby's, the rest of the Medical Marijuana
Movement in California or their yuppie lawyers can make that claim..

I watched most of MMJ players go down, one at a time, in a blaze of
victim-hood. Some of you spent 100s of thousands of dollars and went
bankrupt trusting yuppie lawyers in corrupt courts.   It would have made
alot of sense to examine the strategies of the activists that were winning
in the courts, than following in the footsteps of friends they feed to the
prison industry.  But when you're stupid, you suffer and 90% of all
suffering is based on stupidity.  While pot might not necessarily make you
stupid, one thing is for certian,  potheads rarely learn from their
mistakes.

Sincerely, Jay Lindberg

PS.  In 1997, I started a petition drive to place all law enforcement in San
Bernardino County on random drug testing.  I figured it was time they tried
to live by the same laws they were profiting from.   Local Law enforcement
responded badly to the idea.  They sent in an informant to plant drugs at
one of our SPUN meetings and I was charged with two felonies. (Spun stands
for Stop Police Using Narcotics)  I beat those felonies in their own courts
with a public defender and a real bad attitude.  Those felonies I beat in
July of 1997.

You sound like a Cultural Creative.  If you go to the website for the rest
of the article, there is a list of requirements to qualify.  Check it out.

RG Naylor

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I like your attitude.

The willingness to take losses to find the enemy weakness is the
esence of any guerilla movement.

Kubby is tying up a lot of resources in N. CA.

If he suceeds he will set a precident. This is helpful.

In the mean time fight on.

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