How Will We React?

"Basically, for young people of Albanian decent in Kosovo, there wasn't much you could do in the 1990s. When the KLA emerged, you had two alternatives. Either you continued to be non-violent and achieved no results whatsoever, or you joined the ranks of the guerillas. So now I was kind of in the middle because I disagreed with non-violence at that point—because I saw it was bearing no fruit. But on the other hand, I was not ready to join a guerilla force, because I just thought utilizing violence was not something that was consistent with the way I was brought up. So I was kind of in the middle, but there was this great need that you make some contribution—you need to have an impact to change things.

So what my friends and I came up with was—because the Kosovo conflict started to gain a lot of international media attention, there would be a lot of American journalists coming, a lot of British journalists coming, so they would hire us. The BBC would hire one of my colleagues, ABC News would hire me, CNN would hire someone else, APTN would hire someone else. So we'd act as their field experts, in a way. You take an ABC news crew to the village that came under attack. Now, ABC News would provide you protection and would take you as a local journalist to that particular village because the Serbian police will never kill you, as an Albanian, if you are with ABC News. So you go with ABC News, you translate for them, you interview the survivors, and then you come back and write a story for yourself...." - Ylber Bajraktari

Unfortunately, I don't see this as necessarily being an option for us working against the forces that we are working against.  The press is going to be hostile against Occupy style protestors, and I doubt that our own leaders are going to be as benevolent towards us when it is they whom we are protesting.

Who are we, the "underdogs", going to turn to for help when we're the ones who provide most of the help in the world to other people fighting in these kinds of conflicts?

Is the military going to open fire on Occupy?

Are we going to end up in a guerilla style civil war against our own government and our own military?

Or are we just going to enact the changes that need to be enacted before this whole thing hits the fan, and we can't go back to fix it.

I wish that the latter could be more of the case.

However, human history has shown an incredible stupidity amongst the elite factions of the world when it comes to handling these kinds of issues and affairs, particularly Western leaders.  They think that they can just quash it down with force...like that does anything to change the situation or the problems that people are dealing with.  Or they think they can simply do nothing and pretend that the problems are going to sort themselves out, mainly, because they weren't interested in handling these kinds of issues when they opted for the job of "leader", even though these are the bread and butter concerns of being a leader.

Whatever it is, I doubt that they're going to do anything effective in this country or the world to improve the situation for anyone, including for their own selves relative to everyone and everything else.

They're not interested in the responsibility, the function or the carrying out of duties that need to be done, with the potential for the thankless, personal sacrifices that come with the job. 

And so we get the suboptimal leadership.  Which then proves its inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the world around them when these inevitable bumps pop up along the way.  The salespeople, who probably believe their own bullshit, is caught in the act and the rest of the world suffers because of it.

What are we going to do when the time comes?

And how will we react, when we're backed against the inevitable wall that's coming toward us?

Think about it.

Cause we're boned when you don't.

Think about it.