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Originally posted by CaticusMaximus
Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by CaticusMaximus
We have 100,000 soldiers, 40,000 seamen, 40,000 airmen and 6,000 Royal Marines to protect us from tyranny.
Awesome job theyre doing so far, huh? Based on what Ive read, Britain is basically a police state; at minimum a surveilence nightmare. When are you expecting your military to jump in and save you? How well have they done against domestic, internal enemies before? Or are they essentially under the control of those internal, domestic enemies that are leading your nation into slavery?
Ive asked the same thing about our own military here in the US. Im not so sure any military can be relied upon to protect its people from tyranny. Classically its the military who HELP subjugate the people under the rule of a dictator, NOT liberate the people from those powers.edit on 1/11/2013 by CaticusMaximus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by seaside sky
The banks profit from all the misery, in every way ...first they take your house, your job, then they'll come back for your body and make you a slave.
A driving force behind the push for ever-tougher sentences is the for-profit prison industry, in which Wells Fargo is a major investor. Flush with billions in bailout money and an economic system designed to siphon wealth from the working class to the idle rich, Wells Fargo has been busy expanding its stake in the GEO Group, the second largest private jailer in America.
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Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by CaticusMaximus
We write a strongly worded letter to the queen asking her if she'd be so incredibly accommodating and dissolve that nasty parliament, and if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could she also oust them from power by means of reasonable force, if necessary.
No but seriously now, I can't see a situation in which the people of the UK are being oppressed and the queen doesn't step in. It's her duty, it's her only job.
For the sake of argument, if she happens to be kept in the dark by her advisers etc, we would form a militia and overwhelm the oppressors with numbers. ~200,000 soldiers with guns != 50,000,000 people. See: Zulu staring Michael Cain.
Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by pavmas
Unfortunate, but not indicative of the UK as a whole.
Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by pavmas
But a violent revolution tends to work out in favour of the people, not the establishment.
If the food prices in the UK rise enough to trigger a revolution, it will destabilise the country no matter what the outcome, and the outcome will probably be in favour of the people.
If they are doing this on purpose, they know the outcome, which means they want the government to topple.
I don't know why. I doubt anything will come of it anyway, MUH QUEENIE will save us. Corporations and governments may be in collusion to oppress the people, Her Maj is not.
Originally posted by CaticusMaximus
reply to post by Dispo
Perhaps.
But lets say something goes awry, and the monarch of your nation does not step in... what do you do then? How do YOU (as in the public) defend YOURSELF from tyranny?edit on 1/11/2013 by CaticusMaximus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by pavmas
Maybe the reason Liverpool is the second safest city in the country is that people stick up for each other. I've never seen anyone attacked without someone at least trying to pull them apart.
Just the other year I was out in town and got in to a bit of a kerfuffle with someone for some reason or another, we were stood there, both of us very big lads, going for each other in the middle of the street... Then this little 5'2" girl comes along and stands in the middle of us and tells us to calm down. It worked too.
A while ago, we had the student riots in Liverpool - a mob were trying to tip a matrix van, a schoolgirl climbed on top of the van and told everyone to stop. They did.
Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by pavmas
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People have a tipping point.
Originally posted by Dispo
reply to post by CaticusMaximus
We have 100,000 soldiers, 40,000 seamen, 40,000 airmen and 6,000 Royal Marines to protect us from tyranny.