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Originally posted by Geeky_Bubbe
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
You are absolutely *correct* when you state my experiences color my perspective and my opinions. It's one of the *main* reasons I did not, nor have I withheld that detail... when it is germane to the conversation.
There are a lot of laws I find stupid. A few I find "chafing." And a smaller few I find *offensive*. But that doesn't give me the "right" to break them... no matter how much I might wish I could break them with impunity.
I enjoy an "orderly" society, if what we have nowadays could qualify for such. Since I enjoy an "orderly" society I must, if I am intellectually honest, accept that society's restraints as long as they do not infringe upon my Constitutional Rights. Thus far, they have not. Though, we are getting perilously close to that. Hence, my "Tea Party Nuttery" activities.
It's time to take the country back. Legally. Constitutionally. Peacefully.
If I have to go the route of Gandhi or Dr. King... I'm prepared to do that.
I am not prepared to thumb my nose as society though and still expect to benefit from that society. The concept just doesn't make sense to me.
Originally posted by PsykoOps
Did I misunderstand the video or did the guy say that he was travelling and not driving? How was he travelling? The car magically moves forward when he sits in it? You could come up with a new term and say I wasn't driving, I was sdfsdfsldf'ing. That still doesn't make the fact go away that you were driving. They have him on the police dashcam driving the car and that is way more valid than his word that he wasn't driving.
Originally posted by PsykoOps
Did I misunderstand the video or did the guy say that he was travelling and not driving? How was he travelling? The car magically moves forward when he sits in it? You could come up with a new term and say I wasn't driving, I was sdfsdfsldf'ing. That still doesn't make the fact go away that you were driving. They have him on the police dashcam driving the car and that is way more valid than his word that he wasn't driving.
Originally posted by hawkiye
If you don't hold the MCO to the vehicle you do not own it the County does and you signed it over to them. Those arguing against anything I have said in this thread are blissfully ignorant. Most people including the cops are hopelessly brainwashed to believe the BS you have been fed by the system. Nothing is as it seems.
Why do you think they can take your car if you do not obey thier rules?
Who is the injured party if you don't register your car?
Who are you harming if you don't have a license plate?
Where is the crime if there is no injured party?
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
It absolutely astounds me that people think America is "fascist" or "tyrannical". As someone who lived her early years (until about 14) under the Soviet Union, I can absolutely promise you that you have no clue what you are talking about. You are free to buy what you'd like, move where you'd like, you don't have to let other families, whom you don't even know, share your home, you can choose your physicians, your schools, and your employers, and you are free to vote for any person and any party you see fit, even if they aren't on the ballot.
To call what you have in America fascist or tyrannical only highlights how self-absorbed and ethnocentric the culture has become.
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
Originally posted by Geeky_Bubbe
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
You are absolutely *correct* when you state my experiences color my perspective and my opinions. It's one of the *main* reasons I did not, nor have I withheld that detail... when it is germane to the conversation.
There are a lot of laws I find stupid. A few I find "chafing." And a smaller few I find *offensive*. But that doesn't give me the "right" to break them... no matter how much I might wish I could break them with impunity.
I enjoy an "orderly" society, if what we have nowadays could qualify for such. Since I enjoy an "orderly" society I must, if I am intellectually honest, accept that society's restraints as long as they do not infringe upon my Constitutional Rights. Thus far, they have not. Though, we are getting perilously close to that. Hence, my "Tea Party Nuttery" activities.
It's time to take the country back. Legally. Constitutionally. Peacefully.
If I have to go the route of Gandhi or Dr. King... I'm prepared to do that.
I am not prepared to thumb my nose as society though and still expect to benefit from that society. The concept just doesn't make sense to me.
If you stand against tyranny, I am at your shoulder.
I agree. i am a peaceful man. My guns have the firing pins removed. I have no intention of using them for anything other than what they are meant for: "what if". Just like our founding fathers intended (or hunting/sport).
The only benefit i want from society is the benefit of being a free man, as my Creator had made us. I want to be confined to His law. It is put many ways, but i like the Wiccan Rede the best, just because it is more poetic: An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will.
I like order, too. Natural order. I think it should suffice. If we do not build on natural order, we are building on a fallacy. That fallacy is doomed to collapse...just like it always does. And we might get to live through a big one. One to make Rome look smallish and insignificant.
The Keynesian system that helped fund the fascist "order" we have now, that created the biggest web of fallacy in recorded history, is listing dangerously to the side.
Originally posted by warequalsmurder
And I can assure you that even if you're aware of a communist society having lived in one for a time, you have no idea of what a fascist society entails. Just ask your grandparents what it was like to have to try and fend off one back in the 40s. Fascism is a sick form of government and the evidence that America has slipped into one is all around us. You've just been too busy sucking up the proceeds of cooperation with it to see past your self-absorbed nose to realize what is happening here Doc.
How dare you try and lecture us Americans on how good we have it. We have lived here all of our lives and we've seen it get to the lowly level that it has now sunk to.
Perhaps we don't have to share our apartments with Ivan and Masha but that was a poison reserved for the socialists who had nobody to blame but themselves for that weirdness and is neither here nor there in this argument to begin with.
Yeah, just keep raking in the bucks like a good cog. You can go to your grave like a good cog too. As for us who have known a much better America, it is our right to fight for what we had and should have back.
Don't like it? There's nothing stopping you from going back to Russia and bringing home a doctor's wage there now is there? You and I both know the answer to that economical reality. You can claim to be a Medical Rockstar there too for all we care. You can tell them how ethnocentric our culture has become too. But don't try and tell us that we have it so good when everyone here know's exactly why you worship the control establishment as shamelessly as we've watched you do on this site.
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
How about you get off your butt, go to the polling booths, and VOTE? Vote in local elections, vote in state elections, push for political change, get involved in grassroots campaigns, push for new legislation!
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by okbmd
Ok here's my thought, if you did all that, wouldn't you then be an illegal alien? If you aren't a citizen of the United States or even a citizen of the state that you live in, wouldn't you just be an illegal? Which means they could just deport you, and without a country to accept you, wouldn't you just go to GITMO?
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
Really? I voted socialist in the last presidential election, as did several of my colleagues, and our votes seemed to count in that we had our opinions heard. I've also donated a decent amount to socialist candidates (including the wonderful Bernie Sanders), and will continue to do so as a means of expressing my opinion.
Just because YOUR candidate didn't win, and just because YOU don't like the two major party candidates, doesn't mean that the system is "fixed". Get over yourself. Come to a nation with real fixed election. We'll show you how it's done.
As for your financial burdens, that sounds like your own economic ignorance. I've refused to take any credit cards, knowing I would spend irresponsibly, and I paid my interest on medical school loans while I was in school. All I have now is the principal ($200,000 at graduation), which I'm taking huge chunks out of now by living within my means. I'll have it paid off in a few years, and then I'll be debt free.
Why couldn't you do the same?
[edit on 6/26/2010 by VneZonyDostupa]
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler killed Jews. He also starved our people, ruined our economy for the next one hundred years or more, and left an indelible mark on Russian culture, all because he concentrated the powers of the state in himself. This is the definition of fascism. How can you even begin to comprehend something at the level you are claiming when you don't even understand what living in that system is like? It's almost as if you've never even read about what Soviet life was like for those of us unlucky enough not to be born into wealthy, Party families.
VneZonyDostupal
And what you're doing now (that is, bitching and whining about non-issues) won't make it any better. How about you get off your butt, go to the polling booths, and VOTE? Vote in local elections, vote in state elections, push for political change, get involved in grassroots campaigns, push for new legislation!
VneZonyDostupal
No, instead, you and your ilk prefer to sit on your collective rears and play arm-chair general on internet message boards. Way to go. I marched in the streets of Moscow at 14, cheering behind Yeltsin and the new government. What have you done to better your country? Fire off a "nasty letter" ro a politician's secretary?
VneZonyDostupal
Socialism had nothing to do with it. Even Lenin began turning back the tides of socialism in the last two years of his life. It's sad that the American educational system still teaches that the Soviet Union was a "socialist" system. You should pick up some Lenin or Marx sometime. THAT was socialism. An all-powerful central committee that concentrated powers and goods, which were then sold abroad rather than distributed, is not socialism.
VneZonyDostupal
There was a wonderful Daily Show skit about people like you who claim to know a "better" America. Let me guess...it was so much nicer, stress free, and simple when you were a child in America, right? You don't think it has anything to do with you being a child, rather than with America being drastically different? Were those also the days when it was still legal to beat women and blacks were oppressed?
VneZonyDostupal
So, let me see if I understand you here. I tell you that America is a good system as it is, and you, in turn, tell me that if I "don't like it" (when did I say this?!) that I can just "go home"? Gosh, what a LOVELY xenophobia you've developed! I bet your ancestors, who are most assuredly immigrants like my family, would have loved to hear the same sentiment!
VneZonyDostupal
You are a disgusting example of what is causing America to rot from the inside out. Your hate and vitriol have blinded you to the wonderful aspects of our society. You mire yourself in hate-speech and then seek out your little echo-chambers online, where you let your perverse ideas fester until they become a reality to you, allowing you to see enemies everywhere.