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Originally posted by hawkiye
You're probably right describing about 90% of the population. What you are missing is the PTB and their money system is in the midst of collapse. Fiat money has failed every time in history and failed miserably. It will and is failing now. This is where thier power lies and its failure is built in and unavoidable. This will cause the change you say will never come. Change has always come and freedom has been won at times through out history.
The establishment of America was one of the greatest leaps forward in known history. After thousands of years basic feudalism a country was established based on principles of freedom and for a time we had maximum freedom even though it was not perfect.
Jesus and his philosophy laid the foundation for that leap forward 2000 years before hand. So it takes a long time even generations for ideas and concepts to permeate the population enough to cause change. Now that we have had a couple hundred years with the traditions of freedom even though we have regressed the concept and Idea has permeated the whole world. And the world wide economic collapse may be another opportunity for a great leap forward.
I am not saying it is guaranteed and indeed it does look bleak when you see the amount of sheeple in the world. However as the Declaration of Independence says: "and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
This is why men seemingly do little or nothing until the pain gets bad enough. We are about to experience that pain globally this time. It is up to us to focus things in the right direction. Perhaps this is an opportunity to Establish a new America of freedom except this time globally? And of course as we know it does not come without a struggle.
History has also shown it has always been a small group of people who drove the bus of change or revolution and never the masses. The masses only get on the bus when they have finally had enough.
I will never accept what you say is our fate because history has proven otherwise or we would never have obtained the level of freedom we have even if we have regressed some. It's time to kick it up a notch and if it takes a few generations to accomplish we should never let the torch of freedom go out even if it grows dim at times!
[edit on 18-3-2010 by hawkiye]
Originally posted by chubbz
reply to post by EMPIRE
What the # does TPTB stand for?
Originally posted by ShiftTrio
“long-legged mack daddy"?
no racism there, huh.. You should look in the mirror yourself, then open the mirror, take your meds out and actually start taking them.
You made the ignore list because there is nothing you will ever say that could contribute to society.
Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
reply to post by donhuangenaro
brave words coming from the comfort of your house. spend 2 years in Guantanamo being tortured and then lets talk about how BRAVELY you will stand against oppression. i have not for the record been to Guantanamo nor have i been in any situation like it. i do however have a brain and can extrapolate what the out come of months of torture would do to a person. There are nothing but big talkers with puffed chests talking about how brave they are. when in reality they would be urinating in their pants in they saw their parents executed in front of them and knew they were next.
All they need to do to put you in you place is to make an example of you. brutally and swiftly, then watch the rest of the sheep fall in line. and for those of you that disagree with me i dare you to go start something, prove the rest of us wrong show us how its done. after all your the hero right??
Originally posted by 1xion325alpha
The OP is correct, alot of you spout about how your SO much more powerful than TPTB, but in reality what you say is just words, you are nothing more than words. I would seriously like to see half of the people on here that spout, "OMG I am standing up for my rights with my GUN" actually follow through with their argument, or will they become the next person on the news classed as a gun toting psycho.
The Op makes a valuable point, you as an individual can achieve nothing. This is all BIGGER than you. If you have a gun, their will be a thousand guns against your one. I love reading the posts with people toting, "over my dead body" yeah, exactly.
Hmmmm......So there's no real point in us discussing such things as the illuminati, NWO, 9/11...We should stop questioning what we are told is the truth or what is fed down our throats for that matter. There's no point in fighting because we'll only lose. In that case websites like this should be closed down because they're pointless as what difference can they make? what purpose can they serve and to whom?........
Well Empire, please don't take this personally but it's the sort of post i'd expect from 'THE POWERS THAT BE'.
I truly believe that 99% of the good members on this website are members for a reason. Because we all believe something is of a miss. Something is not right. Something is wrong. And the more we question it the more wrong that seems to become exposed.....At least here i feel that i'm not alone.
Although not all of us agree on everything but that's the point. To debate, to discuss, to question. If we can't express ourselves, if we can't question ourselves how can we question 'THE POWERS THAT BE'. Like so many others on this website, i can not give up, i can not accept the fate that you mention.
America's Dead, then the UK is and Australia too...Well as long as i am able to fight i am alive. The day i die, the day i am dead is the day i return to the sheeple population.
Empire, i believe you're an intelligent person and i totally respect your point of view, there was a lot of your post i agreed with, i even starred it. Maybe you are not part of 'THE POWERS THAT BE'. Maybe you were once like most of us who still want to fight.
So you've accepted your fate. So what finally made you accept this? What made you to stop fighting?
Empire, I see you have a pencience for long winded judgments on others. You have done this in other threads on different subjects.
All the while saying you have been long time member but only posting these long winded judgments on the rest of us.
FYI, you are not better than the rest of us! Did you wake up this morning and even look in the mirror?
You blindly call us slaves and call our children slaves, yet I freely walk this Earth anywhere I want, Eat what I want, say what I want, read what I want , TYPE as you can clearly see what I want...oh look...just like you did.
Hmmm... is that a slave?
If you are saying this because of the current political spectrum in the world today..then you should realize these people are nothing more than corrupt greedy crooks and not slave masters as you claim.
Someone is clearly 2 TACOS short of a full COMBO!
Originally posted by 1xion325alpha
I would seriously like to see half of the people on here that spout, "OMG I am standing up for my rights with my GUN" actually follow through with their argument