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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 04:56 PM
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Arming the Left: Is the time now? --by Charles Southwell
Edited on Wed Aug-13-08 05:03 PM by IanDB1
I hope you didn't open this page to read what we already know: that this is the most rightwing government we have ever had in the US, even far right of Bush I, that our rights are being eroded daily, and that our democratic process is all but gone, if it isn't already gone.

I hope you came here to read about tactics for action that will finally have some consequence. I hope you agree that our protests, petitions, letters, and on and on, have been utterly ignored. The fascistas that run our country laugh at us. They believe they can do anything and that we haven't got the guts to revolt, but only to wage a war of words. I have seen the Bush cavalcades, as they drive away, his aids sneering and jeering and laughing and mocking our protests. They think we are a JOKE. Tens of millions of Americans protested the war, but because we posed no REAL THREAT to their power, we were UTTERLY IGNORED.

As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what is shaping up into a dictatorship, we will continue to be ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic, totalitarian government that we are up against.

It will take time, but it's time to get more left-leaning liberals and outright leftists to at least POSE a threat, by getting organized and getting ARMED. It's time to get well past this liberal phobia and taboo about weapons and force. After all, our liberalism was won with a REVOLUTIONARY WAR! they used real guns in that war. The French Revolution was also a WAR and they used real weapons there too.

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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 05:00 PM
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1. I'm armed (heavily) mentally, physically, and I have a few guns too
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 05:01 PM
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2. I would fully expect a call from the DHS after posting a suggestion to get armed.
although I completely agree.
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