If you want something, don't ask for it. Go out and fucking take it.

[Taverner]

Don't expect our elected officials to do anything for us. We don't butter their bread, pay for their homes, give them loan of our gulfstream jet to visit the Bahamas. Why should they do us any favors?

Don't expect any of our officials, whether Democrats or Independents, to fight for us. Even though they can con us into fighting for them, it's not a two-way street. They owe us nothing, so its about time we started reciprocating.

The problem with most modern movements is that, at least in the eyes of the elected,. it's a bunch of us, pleading for something out their windows. At the end of their day, they go home to their expensive homes, see their family, who will never want or need anything, and go to bed in a quiet neighborhood. Nothing will befall them, because they have taken care of security, the "right" neighborhood and will most likely never see you anywhere, or anyone else that they don't want to see.

So if you want something, don't ask them. And don't give them a dime or any time.

Go out and fucking take it.

[Tallulah]

1. ?

:wtf:

[Taverner]

2. It is what it is

[Kurmudgeon]

9. It's theft, is what it is.

Go ahead and take it, whatever it is. Just be ready to accept the consequences.
Odds are the person you take it from will just be common folks like many of us here.
Also, be aware of where you take it from, some are armed and expect the authorities to take a dim view of your actions as well.

[LaydeeBug]

12. Not to be CAPTAIN OBVIOUS HERE or anything

but the OP clearly refers to taking our rights, and not giving our time and effort. It is not about stealing.

Cheese and rice on a cracker.

[Taverner]

15. Yes - and sometimes the act of taking your own rights can be confrontational

It's built that way

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. History has shown that the government only pays attention

when they become afraid of some form of mass civil disturbance or revolution.

[Taverner]

6. Yes, I would say that's correct

[Kurmudgeon]

10. The problem with chaos is the majority of the victims are the weak and poor.

[grasswire]

4. Keith said it last night.

He said don't expect politicians or the press to fight for the people. It's not going to happen. He challenged us to take to the streets. Show ourselves in strikes. Stand up.

[Taverner]

5. I agree nt

[Mnemosyne]

11. October 6, 2011 - Let's make Mario Savio proud; it is time...

http://october2011.org/statement

Forty-seven years ago, Mario Savio, an activist student at Berkeley, said, "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

[William769]

7. K&R.

[Tallulah]

8. Go out and fucking take it.

Like in steal ? Whatever I want ? Or to fight for what I want ?

I'm a bit drunk right now. I don't quite get it is what it is.

I see a fountain I'd like. Should I take it ?

[autorank]

13. yep! k*r

[indurancevile]

14. that's the way the ruling class does it. that's how they got rich.

"evil triumphs over good because good is dumb"