It's time.
POSTED BY: Jonus
UPDATED: Monday, March 27, 2006 00:25
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Fletch2,
Nuts.... now I'm craving fruitcake.
It had that effect on me too !
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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River,
Now this is what I call a motivated man! You have courage, but don't be too surprised when the guys in black suits and cars stamped "Secret service" show up in front of your house.
I have it on good authority that they drive white unmarked cars with HEAVILY tinted windows.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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SignyM
Oh yeah little man, try rising up against that. All of the big decisions are out of your hands. BUT, you get to choose from 40 different kinds of toilet paper! Now ain't that swell???
DAMN ! Now where is that emoticon that shows a happy face and clapping hands ??? !!! Well, you get the idea.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
And besides, "the government" isn't your biggest problem. It's those corporations. You think you'd have freedom in global-uber-corporatism? Try cleaning up the environment, or working at a meaningful job for reasonable pay, or getting Firefly back on TV. Oh yeah little man, try rising up against that. All of the big decisions are out of your hands. BUT, you get to choose from 40 different kinds of toilet paper! Now ain't that swell???
From the lofty heights of corporate boards, we are as ants, with one colony pitted against another for the benefit of a few. And unlike democracy, which at least has the theoretical input of its members (until it's corrupted money) you have no way of moving those giants. You can withold your taxes fro the gov, but you still gotta pay at the gas pump. It may be that political democracy is our best weapon against economic tyranny. So who'd want to get rid of that?
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Free as in freedom, not beer.
Amen! Eliminate corporate influence in government, and you've solved many of the world's problems. The trick is to figure out how to do that peacefully (no blowing up bilboards, Jonus!
) and perminantly...
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I'll follow God's laws but not some super conservative fuck who justifies his actions in the name of God.
Kind of off topic, but just so you know, according to the Bible(OT), God's law is that if you violate any one of the ten commandments, you are to be put to death (seriously, it really does say that; And I do recall a commandment about killin'). Or did you mean the New Testament, where you are supposed to be a pacifist who is, as I mentioned, a pacifist. Ya know, someone not inclined to, oh, I dont know, VIOLENT UPRISING!?!?
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This is really sad. I never knew that all of you were such whores. I thought Browncoats were actually brave enough to fight for something.
Just remember when the end of your life comes that you weren't brave enough to fight for anything. Not strong enough to fight for yourself, your friends or your children.
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Hmmm Jonus
If the meaning of life is to overthrow governments, then that means governments are needed in life to be overthrown.
Thereby removing them removes the meaning of life - so to give your life meaning you must have them there all the time or else your life becomes meaningingless....
....See where I'm going with this....
Other than that fair 'nuff.
Although everyone knows the meaning of life is 'blancmange'
...don't they?
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Have YOU been followed by the FBI?I have And all because of what I posted on-line. (I cautioned about bio-warfare two weeks before the anthrax letters were mailed and I'm technically trained. That was enough.) Consider that I have a chronically ill spouse and a brain-damaged child and I'm still posting and I'm still pushing.
But it shouldn't be necessary to grab your semi-automatic to change the government. You convince a bunch of people to think the way you do and you can have your own 'velvet revolution'.
And DAMN. Now I have "revolution" in my post! That's one more thing to go into the file. 
Oh, well. If I stop posting, you'll know I'm vacationing at Club Gitmo!
BTW- Rue is correct. They have heavily (illegally heavy) tinted windshields.
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I own no guns and have no intentions of getting any. I have no knowledge of explosives and have no interest in them. No knowledge of biological weapons or any type of weapon.
I'm done here but the internet's a big place.
Now, lets close the topic.
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Has anyone seen Team America? Joke of a movie, but there is one concept which is plausible beyond reason. You destroy government, there'd be anarchy. What you suggest is turning the first-world countries into third-world (Sorry for the discriminatory classification on poverty, just trying to make a point, I DON'T think myself better than any other) destroying government is a grand way to end society completely. You need to think of the whole, not just the one.
Taxes pay to service your roads, get your garbage to the tip, even the other mundane tasks of everyday life. We may not like paying them, but they're a necessity, even if the government is ripping us off.
Unfortunately democracy to date is dead. It's all rigged. I can prove this with only conjecture.
If any other Aussie posts on these boards I'd appreciate support. :) John Howard. This man is a joke of a PM, yet he's titled Australia's best Prime Minister...Doesn't say much for us, but anyway to my point. The last few elections I've asked everyone I know offline, online, and got them to ask all they know, an easily totalled tally of 5000+ people within a variety of districts. TWO and only TWO confessed to voting for Howard, everyone else confessed their hatred which I felt mutually with them. Now in the last elections(you must keep up with politics to confirm any of this) the news stated that "John Howard has thrashed on the polls" yet they slightly confused this by stating "The entire country is surprised." The entire country was surprised because NO ONE voted for John Howard, yet still he 'thrashed' the polls...Now it only made sense for the election to be rigged if Bush got re-elected too. (Our Prime Minister was voted in shortly before Bush was voted in.) So I told all my American friends, with a high guarantee, that Bush no matter their vote, would end up President. So what happened? He won the election. Now the conjecture started to piece together. Howard has always been in Bushes pocket, so without Bush the theory of an Australian election being rigged seemed ludacris. That Yank fella (sorry, forgot his name) that helps govern Australia as Howard's 'right hand man' is an affiliate with Bush's political cabinet. Now HE'S going up for election to run our country. I saw in some interview that if John Howard failed his ministral duties, that american fella would end up running Australia...Nice way for Bush to usurp Australia out from the Queen's thrall. Morale to story: Voting is useless.
Now back to the point. Violence begets more violence. Wordplay is far more effective than swordplay (metaphorically), so just remember there is always another way to fight a war. Although you have to wonder about what our governments *don't* tell us......Still, do you truly think things would be better if we killed off democracy? Heretical anarchy bro, it's not worth it. Just go back to your video games, movies and drugs, escaping reality as best you can like the rest of us, and hope one day things will finally change for the better. Anyway it's not just the American government that's screwed up...EVERY government on Earth have their conspiracies, and they need to keep conspiring just because all the others are conspiring. Life as we know it has become a paradox. Maybe we should just make big spaceships and fly to a new solar system where we can all start out fresh? I'm gonna shut up now before I rant out this entire topic. o.o
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