Overcome by disbelief at the TYRANNY of our leaders - HAVE STRENGTH!!!!

[jackstraw45]

Watched F 9/11 again tonight. It's not about Bush being stupid. It's not about Bush not caring about Bin Laden.

Since 1999, when we Democrats fought to elect Al Gore and keep Bush out of the White House, I have seen this administration rape and pillage our nation environmentally, psychologically, and physically for POWER and WEALTH using the BLOOD of THOUSANDS of innocent men, women, and children - brothers, mothers, fathers, sisters, sons and daughters - to reap the spoils of war under the guise of homeland security.

John Kerry is not a perfect man. The Democratic party is not a perfect champion of our causes. But we are living in a Nation DIVIDED by EVIL men and women serving the mighty dollar over morals. This is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY in my opinion.

And as we TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY as Governor Dean implored us to do in 4 days by electing John Kerry our next President, I urge you all to remember these words of Alexander Hamilton written almost 217 years ago:

"The natural strength of the people in a large community, in proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than in a small, and of course more competent to a struggle with the attempts of the government to establish a tyranny.

[Indiana_Dem]

1. Hamilton sounds like Noam Chomsky or maybe it's vice versa?

"In any country, there's some group that has the real power. It's not a big secret where power is in the United States. It basically lies in the hands of the people who determine investment decisions -- what's produced, what's distributed. They staff the government, by and large, choose the planners, and set the general conditions for the doctrinal system.

One of the things they want is a passive, quiescent population. So one of the things that you can do to make life uncomfortable for them is not be passive and quiescent. There are lots of ways of doing that. Even just asking questions can have an important effect.

Demonstrations, writing letters and voting can all be meaningful -- it depends on the situation. But the main point is -- it's got to be sustained and organized.

If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organizations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.

Any system of power, even a fascist dictatorship, is responsive to public dissidence. It's certainly true in a country like this, where -- fortunately -- the state doesn't have a lot of force to coerce people. During the Vietnam War, direct resistance to the war was quite significant, and it was a cost that the government had to pay.

If elections are just something in which some portion of the population goes and pushes a button every couple of years, they don't matter. But if the citizens organize to press a position, and pressure their representatives about it, elections can matter."<snip>

read more....http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-4-2.html

(edited to make quote symbols)

[jackstraw45]

2. It HAS to be vice versa I think

:)

[Indiana_Dem]

3. Ha ha! Yeah I know I was just kiddin' ya! n/t