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[David Guyatt]

The "disengagement" part is what allowed the original Nazis to commit their atrocities. I fear that if there are still Nazis among us that this feeling of futility will only assist them.

Just because the rich and powerful have not yet been held accountable for their actions, doesn't mean that it won't happen in the future, unless we decide its hopeless.

Trying to change things from inside the pseudo-democratic matrix is no longer a viable option in my opinion. I tend to see it as a case of hugging hopelessness because you're never going to dislodge the rottenness and corruption. It's now far too ingrained.

Personally, I think the only possibility is to try to help educate people about the reality of the corrupt world we live in. This is what this forum tries to do.

In my experience a very large number of people resist wanting to actually know the truth. They resist every opportunity to face reality and the wealthy and powerful bolster this attitude at every turn. My guess is that deep down the ordinary person understands reality only too well, but are terrified of admitting it to themselves as then they would have a real choice to make. They refer to stay asleep. Thus education is an entirely uphill battle, but what the hell. People do have their eyes opened and their ears unplugged and when it happens they never want to go back to the sleeping state they were previously locked in.

For what it's worth, the legal system has always been the special reserve of the rich and powerful. It was introduced - certainly in the UK anyway - for kings to find ways of settling disputes with their barons without resorting to civil war (of which there was a great deal at one time). The Magna Carta was never designed for the benefit of the ordinary serf or freeman (this is what I meant in the above comment Maggie - the law is their special system of control and therefore they decide what is a crime and what isn't - it has nothing to do with justice at all). In the UK the legal aid system is the only resort the ordinary person can turn to, to seek any sort of access to the legal system as otherwise it's inhibitively expensive (and corporations know and abuse this all the time rottenly breaking the law because they can!). The sad fact is that legal aid is simply a tax-payer funded charitable handout to lawyers to keep them comfy and in gin. Justice does't really come in to it, except as a side product.