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Originally posted by StrangeBrew
What if instead we saw it go smack dab into the middle of a Bilderberg meeting; you know, the ones responsible for engineering your economic slavery. A fine group of humanity that is. Would any views be different?
Originally posted by seeashrink
Today I paid off my back taxes from 2008 and I did so with much resentment. I owed $1800 and they came after me like I'm Al Capone. Why? Because I'm the little guy. They knew that they could garnish my wages, which they threatened to do, or just raid my bank account, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. There are people in NC that owe a hundred times that much but they will not pay because they can afford the attorneys (or attornies) that can find the loopholes and tie the hands of the tax collectors. My wife and I live from paycheck to paycheck. My wife is a full time student (in her 40s) and we have no insurance for her because we can't afford it. Yet there are illegal aliens in my state that have no problem getting health care, unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc.
Do I understand the guy that flew his plane into the IRS office? Damn right I do. I wish it were the second shot heard around the world. I wish it had caused a chain reaction of similar acts of protest that spurned us all into action to take our country back. But, it didn't and it want. We remain asleep waiting for the next guy to do something. Hoping against hope that things will get better.
I'm sick of this government, I'm sick of myself, and I'm sick of all of us that just bump our gums together, tippitytap on our laptops and never do anything else. I wonder if it will ever change.
Seeashrink
Originally posted by Blaine91555
13 victims so far. Two in critical condition. They don't yet know if there are others still in the rubble. Latest I could find. It was straight from the FBI briefer at the news conference.
This was a cowardly act by a person clearly over the edge of sanity. No regard for anyone but himself. Even his reasons ring hollow. Left his family homeless to boot.
Anyone even remotely attempting to justify this scares me. Not even a word of regret in his note or a worry about those he tried to kill or his own family.
Of course this is starting to sound more and more like the Communist revolution. When Communism came about, people of the lower classes walked straight into the mansions of the aristocrats (guilty or not) and kicked them out of their homes.
Originally posted by DangerDeath
Originally posted by silentthought38
We need to make this man's manifesto viral to the degree that even the federal government can't stop its dissemination.
Regardless of his questionable method of delivery of his point, he still echoes a great number of the same woes that we Americans feel as well.
Don't worry about that. CNN is disseminating it already...
www.cnn.com...
And the link provided there:
www.cnn.com...
So, it is officially welcome. (My conclusion.)
[edit on 18-2-2010 by DangerDeath]
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
Only the small-minded think otherwise.
[edit on 2/18/2010 by SquirrelNutz]
Grandiosity is chiefly associated with narcissistic personality disorder, but also commonly features in manic or hypomanic episodes of bipolar disorder.[1]
It refers to an unrealistic sense of superiority, a sustained view of oneself as better than others that causes the narcissist to view other with disdain or as inferior. It also refers to a sense of uniqueness, the belief that few others have in common with oneself and that one can only be understood by a few or very special people.[2]
Originally posted by DangerDeath
reply to post by 2manyquestions
Of course this is starting to sound more and more like the Communist revolution. When Communism came about, people of the lower classes walked straight into the mansions of the aristocrats (guilty or not) and kicked them out of their homes.
And Bourgeoisie Revolution, how did it start?
[edit on 18-2-2010 by DangerDeath]
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by SquirrelNutz
Then please tell me you don't own any weapons, explosives or an airplane since you have no regard for innocent lives.
Those victims did him no harm. He and those like him are suffering from psychopathy and this is how it manifests itself.
Imagine what life will now be like for his child. He obviously did not care. A few days from now he will be forgotten and the victims will be left with their scars and his child with hidden emotional scars. To not have empathy for that is to not even have normal human emotions.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by SquirrelNutz
Then please tell me you don't own any weapons, explosives or an airplane since you have no regard for innocent lives.
Those victims did him no harm. He and those like him are suffering from psychopathy and this is how it manifests itself.
Imagine what life will now be like for his child. He obviously did not care. A few days from now he will be forgotten and the victims will be left with their scars and his child with hidden emotional scars. To not have empathy for that is to not even have normal human emotions.
Originally posted by l neXus l
not everyone who works for the government is bad, quite the opposite
[edit on 2/18/2010 by l neXus l]
Originally posted by Sibilance
I understand his frustration with the government. But peaceful means exist to enact change.
There is a peaceful way to enact change within the framework of our country.