What is needed today is a new abolitionist movement in the United States to end our addiction to, and obscene investment in, the instruments of organized violence.
The Military-Industrial-Complex is a business of dehumanization no less than the "peculiar institution" of African slavery.
Thomas Jefferson compared slavery to "holding a wolf by its ears"--you don't want to be doing it but, once you start, you're scared to death to let go; the U.S. violence industry is the wolf we have foolishly caught hold of. But we must let go. Violence is the worm at the core of the American apple. We are the world's largest manufacturer, consumer, and exporter of violence. The non-violent moral revolution must begin with us.
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