Please add spaces between words: Tobedeclaredinnocentinacountrywheretheruleoflawmeansnothing,wherewehaveundergoneacorporatecoup,wherethepoorandworkingmenandwomenarereducedtojoblessnessandhunger,wherewar,financialspeculationandinternalsurveillancearetheonlyrealbusinessofthestate,whereevenhabeascorpusnolongerexists,whereyou,asacitizen,arenothingmorethanacommoditytocorporatesystemsofpower,onetobeusedanddiscarded,istobecomplicitinthisradicalevil.Tostandonthesidelinesandsay“Iaminnocent”istobearthemarkofCain;itistodonothingtoreachoutandhelptheweak,theoppressedandthesuffering,tosavetheplanet.Tobeinnocentintimesliketheseistobeacriminal.
To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say “I am innocent” is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal.