If you bought a bomb or bullet, then you're responsible.

[Tyler Durden]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again:

MONEY is the engine that drives the atrocities, so if you paid ONE PENNY of taxes, OF ANY SORT, YOU are buying the bombs and bullets.

This isn't a matter of opinion; this is a FACT.

Our "Way of Life" is a parasite on the rest of the world, and we back it up with bombs and bullets.

I watched a couple of co-workers sorting cup holders for testing and defects this morning. Let me repeat: CUP HOLDERS. Molded plastic CUP HOLDERS that get put in a brand new JEEP Cherokee. I brought up the fact that while they were doing that, likely at least one person was getting wasted in Lebanon by bullets paid for at least in part by US (we do supply Israel with more foreign aid and military bargains than any other nation, so this is also not an opinion, but a FACT).

They replied Yeah this wasn't the sort of make the world better stuff I went to college for Yeah this is pretty meaningless isn't it Yeah we sure as hell ain't changing the world this morning, are we?

ALL of us are responsible. This is not to say that I am going to stop paying my income/sales/property/etcetera taxes and march off to jail with a song of protest in my heart. I'm responsible TOO after all.

I no longer believe it will be fixed; that doesn't mean I've stopped supporting and fighting where I can. Far from it: I'll likely step up the efforts. I will ALSO start stocking food again, I will put up my wind generator over the house, AND I will start buying cheap .45/9mm/8mm/.30 carbine/.22 ammo again, because deep down inside, I hear the echoes of the Marsialles, the Internationale, and every other anthem of revolution presaging the conflict.

I hope I'm wrong, but if history doesn't repeat itself, it sure as hell ECHOES, and someone is getting ready to scream "FASCIST REPRESSION" in the canyon once again, while others ready themselves to reply with "REBELLION."

[wordpix2]

1. investors, take note & start investing in socially responsible stocks

I do.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Sorry

I do pay taxes. But I like having decent roads, good schools, etc. And I have a fairly good job. Heck, I even get a raise Wednesday. I don't regret having this job either. Is it vital to world peace? Nah, I don't think so, but I am certainly not quitting. Good luck to you.

[Tyler Durden]

3. I'm sorry too.

AND I'm writing this at my meaningless cog in the machine job.

AND I will keep working to support my family.

It's not just the fact that it's meaningless; it's the FACT that if you bought gas, you bought a bullet. Am I going to stop buying gas? Of course not. The game is rigged so that I don't have that choice.

But it also has nothing to do with the FACT that your taxes and mine buy bombs and bullets that we as a nation use to KILL, and that we send money and munitions to other nations that THEY use to KILL.

This isn't opinion, it's a fact.

[Selatius]

4. "You are RESPONSIBLE if you PAY TAXES to THAT GOVERNMENT"

"It is not limited to merely giving legitimacy to the government by voting but also by voluntarily paying taxes to that government. You can still choose not to pay taxes; you'll suffer consequences, but nobody can take away your free will, just make you feel regret for exercising that free will in a particular manner.

After all, what does it matter if you voted Democrat or Republican to the dead one year-old Iraqi child who was killed by the 500 lb. bomb that was built on a US assembly-line that was built with American hands that was made possible by your tax dollars that fell on her mother, father, and herself? Your money helped build the machines of war whether you wanted it to or not."

I had said this last night:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1651446&mesg_id=1651619

[Tyler Durden]

5. I agree 100%.

If the Hindus are right, this entire country's Karma has it destined for re-incarnation as cockroaches in the sewers of Mumbai.

[Solo_in_MD]

6. Actually Israel makes most of its own muntions

in country for fear of being cut off. Bullets, artillery shells, that kind of thing. They buy some of their air launched ordinance, make the rest as well

[Tyler Durden]

7. With a multi billion aid check from...GUESS WHO??

Us.