Reply #62: So what half you guys seem to be saying...

[dxstone]

Is that you're going to take your country back from these fiendish monsters who have stolen it from you, and who are turning a completely deaf ear to anything you say, who are in fact right at this moment blowing up some poor innocent f**kers on the other side of the world, with YOUR money... you're going to do that, you're going to fight the good fight til' the very first window is broken... and then you're going to say, "OH my GOD! Broken glass! WHAT HAVE WE DONE?" and just give up?
I didn't mean to be so harsh with you earlier, Imajika; maybe the two words I was looking for should have been "Wake up!"
I'm not advocating this, necessarily... but it's perfectly understandable in these terrible times we live in, and to say that such people should be arrested and fined--I just really gotta question your priorities there...
Civil disobedience of this sort is an old and honorable tradition. Wasn't the Boston Tea Party a fine example of this "vandalism" you speak of? Should THOSE guys have been arrested and fined too?
People aren't always perfectly rational... but c'mon, some sins are minor league, especially as measured against the tactics of our neocon enemies, who will obviously stop at NOTHING to advance their agenda...
THEY have the money to buy up ALL the storefronts and sidewalks, not to mention EVERY large-circulation newspaper and radio and television station in the world... we 'lil people' have very few alternatives in terms of getting our voices heard...
And on top of all that, have you been paying ANY attention to the events of the last two weeks? It's a SHIT-STORM out there; we're losing ground daily...
I guess it comes down to just how many giant hero-sized crapola sandwiches YOU feel you can stand to be force-fed before you just can't take one more bite.
The reeps should just pass a "law" outlawing dissent of ANY kind... and then we could embrace W as we should've to begin with, and all get back to trying to 'work within the system to affect positive change'...
We sign petitions: "Please, could you PLEEASE just TRY to stop poisoning us so badly EVERY DAY, Mister Leadership Man? (who is SUPPOSED to work for me, but who I will NEVER ACTUALLY MEET or speak to for five minutes because I'm just too small a fish)... like, could you guys even just TALK about SLOWING DOWN on the poisoning of us all, just a LITTLE? PLEEEASE???"
...and guess what? They're not listening.
Isn't it obvious?
They don't care if you're baby's sick. They don't care if you have something bad happen to you that wipes you out; maybe it WAS through no fault of your own, but too bad. Tough luck. There's a new sheriff in town, and new rules. No falling down. If you fall down on the ratwheel even ONCE, you die. Tough luck. 9/11 Changed Everything! Run!
We go to protests. We have to APPLY FOR A LICENSE to try to get our voices heard. Bush is in NY? They put us in a basement somewhere in New Jersey. We're underground cuz they're BURYING US.
Look, I ain't advocatin' NOTHIN'... do what YOUR conscience tells you to do...
And watch out who you confide in... cuz it seems to me there are a whole lot of people on this site who would rather waste energy condemning some of the dissenters, and bringing THEM to 'justice', than to sit up and take notice that, sad as I am to say it, though we feel ourselves informed and properly horrified at it all, we are ONLY JUST getting into the thick of it... and for many, it is much, MUCH later than you think.
DXS