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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:18 PM
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What are the odds?
There are many levels of personal organization, all of which have one thing in common. From the family to the Political Party individuals join together for their common good and for the most part that "common good" isn't much more than just sticking together to shield one-another from predation. It is the only legitimate function of Government, it is the most important function of the family. There is no lie in the line "No man is an island".

Our families have deteriorated and our Government does little to nothing to protect us from predators. Little to nothing. Unions work to protect us, and they have traditionally been successful, that is why they have been the target of an unrelenting campaign aimed directly their elimination.

Make no mistake about it at all - our Government has utterly failed at its one real purpose, to protect its citizens from predators. In fact our Government, the big one that houses itself in Washington, DC, has been so deeply corrupted that it has become the mechanism by which the worst of the predators kick you down. It is the police, not the Tea Party, that is kicking in heads and spraying protestors across the country. It is the DHS that is using its multi-billion-dollar technologies against you and it is you who is paying for it, and it is your grandchildren who will pay for it. We have created the monster that is eating us.

If you do not think there is a civil war going on inside of this country right this minute you are either blind or just too god damned stupid to see it. They have all the guns and we have all the blood to bleed out in the streets. And it is we who have armed them, and it is we who continue to support them, the tools of the very predators who see you as nothing but an easy mark. And if you raise up one finger to try to protect yourself they will cut off your hand. If you say one word to point out the simple fact that we work hard to enrich the very same people who manipulate our most basic needs toward our own destruction you will disappear from the face of relevancy so fast you dog won't be able to figure out what happened to you. There is no fixing of this situation, it has gone far to far. There is nothing that can be done now but to tear it down, to build anew. When an armed force attacks your brother in the street you had better recognize it for what it is - war on the common man - or you had better be ready to admit defeat, sit down, shut up, and thank your fucking masters for whatever crumbs they throw to you.

Compromise, bipartisan solutions. Do you know what those words mean? They mean you have lost the war, that is what they mean. You can not deal with Lion or a vulture. You have to kill the predator, you have to starve the carrion-eater to death. If you can't do that you're dead meat.

Rant over. But by god there will be more of them. I will not take it anymore - not one god damned second of it.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:20 PM
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1. You have come roaring back...
Well said, and truly said.

Thank you!

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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:24 PM
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2. They are the sprinters, we are the ones in for the long haul.
Their impatience will do them in. We will continue to resist no matter the abuse.
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Hutzpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:25 PM
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3. wow Thom
that hospital visit sure have mad you more madder than before.


:hide:



:yourock:
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:36 PM
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4. Good rant!
Excellent as a matter of fact. We have to change things. There is no help in Washington, they are fighting us as hard as they can and up till now they have been winning big. I hope we can stop this. I have hope in the continued efforts of OWS but fear they will end up co-opted. I also fear that the non violence won't continue with so many people being involved. The government is supposed to be us. The government begs to differ, now we have to disabuse them of that notion.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:44 PM
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6. You could not have said it better. If I could recommend a reply you'd get it!
If I could recommend a reply you'd get it because you clearly get it.

"The government is supposed to be us. The government begs to differ, now we have to disabuse them of that notion."

It could not have beens said better.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 05:48 PM
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9. Wow, thanks.
I consider that high praise :)

Nothing you did not say in your excellent rant, just my restating what should be obvious to all of us by now.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:44 PM
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5. they don't have ALL the guns
....and if they try a gun grab, the militia men and half of America will go beserk.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 04:46 PM
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7. so now we see the reason there is so much support for the NRA types
Its to keep them tame, the give them the idea that they can protrect their own freedoms with a pistol or a shotgun when the thing they need to be armed with is education and intelligence, the very weapons they are being denied.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 05:49 PM
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10. Oh yes! Exactly! n/t
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 05:00 PM
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8. Thom, did you have an epiphany in the hospital?
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-11 07:51 AM
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14. No not an epiphany, but something I do not understand at all changed in how I think.
I started to write, in fact wrote a a good bit of, a letter to an old friend of mine who's advice I cherish about what happened. The fellow is named Joe, he used to be my boss years ago, but now is just another old fart like me who happens to live by the river over in Kentucky now days rather than up here in the hills. He posts here from time to time. It tried to explain the change and ask he what he thought of it. I ended up tossing the draft because I could not put the change into words. Let me tell you about it and maybe you or someone else can enlighten us about it.

Something changed in my thinking process. Its not so much that what I think changed but its how I've been thinking has changed. I am seeing almost everything along two lines at the same time now. There is color involved too - and I could no more explain that to you or myself than I could flap my arms and fly over the next mountain. Green and blue are much involved. About all I can tell you is that almost every thought I have has two paths now, one that addresses the subject and the other that addresses the framework of the question is about as close to explaining it as I can come.

Who knows, maybe they left the oxygen turned off a little too long.
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Tashca Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 06:27 PM
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11. Damn!!
That is an excellent rant!

You touched on my very beliefs. You just did it much better than I. I do not post much anymore, but wanted to kick and recommend something I feel strongly about. Thank you!

I look forward to more........
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-11 08:24 PM
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12. Kicking it for important exposure!
:kick:
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Fuddnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-11 07:17 AM
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13. Kick and Rec!
Well said Brother!
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Bryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-11 09:30 AM
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15. Well Said!
Excellent!

Kick & Rec for Truth
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