Reply #230: Oh what the heck? Another KICK!

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This is good stuff, guys. You're all a bunch of Sam Addamses and Patrick Henrys and Tom Jeffersons!

And for those, here, who've become dejected enough by everything that's gone on and all the ongoing bad news, just keep this in mind: How will you feel if things go all the way to hell - and you'd done NOTHING AT ALL to stop it? Even if worse comes to worst, our consciences are clean. Small comfort, I know. But I'd rather face adversity knowing I did everything I could to stop it, rather than having to live with the silent soul killer of realization that my inaction had helped to enable that adversity. It's like with all those rallies and marches many of us joined during the run-up to the war. Yes, I know, they wound up not doing any good. Even all those millions around the world were not able to stop the juggernaut toward war. But I'm proud that I stood up against it ANYWAY - especially since we all turned out to be correct, and rather prescient, I might add. I can live with myself a lot more easily for having done what I could, instead of feeling remorse, now, that all I did was sit back and let my discouragement get the best of me.

Remember that photo during the Tiennamen Square (sp?) turbulence, with that ONE SINGLE GUY in the roadway, standing down a long line of big, ferocious-looking tanks? If it weren't for that ONE SINGLE GUY, where might those tanks have gone?

And note here, we have what looks like at least 200 of those ONE SINGLE GUY efforts here...