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Originally posted by frazzle
The last few posts illustrate exactly why there will be no revolution, only a civil war.
Lashing out at each other is so much more gratifying ~ and POSSIBLE than trying to upset the fruit basket of those who work day and night to divide us into nattering little factions.
Originally posted by Auricom
reply to post by JilianK
I believe in live and let live. And yes, there is a narrow line between the two. When something steps over that line and prevents me from living in peace, it's time to do something. And in my opinion, that line for many of us has been stepped over a very long time ago.
It's not a question regarding our desire to remain a "goody two shoe", it's a matter of "who's first" and "will we follow"? No one wants to be a martyr, not anyone with half a wit at least.
Originally posted by JilianK
Originally posted by frazzle
The last few posts illustrate exactly why there will be no revolution, only a civil war.
Lashing out at each other is so much more gratifying ~ and POSSIBLE than trying to upset the fruit basket of those who work day and night to divide us into nattering little factions.
for crying out loud, we a have a 48 story building having explosion PUFFS on the video and then imploding
if that is not enough evidence to cause REVOLUTION
look, I've been dealing with issue of 9/11 inside job for a long time
PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE DYING
I know it sounds like it can't be
but people overall really ARE that stupid and ARE that evil
just look at my threads on ATS, half the s# heads are to #ing scared to even post online anymore
In a way.........I am glad many will die in the future, I am talking millions
maybe the average F#er deserves to break a leg
maybe dying, is what will be needed, for living
The Federal Election Commission has released its “2008 presidential popular vote summary for all candidates listed on at least one state ballot.” The results:
•Barack Obama (Democrat) 69,498,516 [52.93%]
•John McCain (Republican) 59,948,323 [45.65%]
•Ralph Nader (Independent, Peace and Freedom) 739,034 [0.56%]
•Bob Barr (Libertarian) 523,715 [0.40%]
•Chuck Baldwin (Constitution/Reform/U.S. Taxpayers) 199,750 [0.15%]
•Cynthia McKinney (Green, Independent, Mountain) 161,797 [0.12%]
•Write-In (Miscellaneous) 112,597 [0.09%]
•Alan Keyes (America’s Independent) 47,746 [0.04%]
•Ron Paul (Constitution, Louisiana Taxpayers) 42,426 [0.03%]
•Gloria La Riva (Socialism and Liberation) 6,818 [0.01%]
•Brian Moore (Liberty Union, Socialist) 6,538
•None of These Candidates [Nevada only] 6,267
•Róger Calero (Socialist Workers) 5,151
•Richard Duncan (Independent) 3,905
•James Harris (Socialist Workers) 2,424
•Charles Jay (Boston Tea Party/Independent) 2,422
•John Joseph Polachek (New) 1,149
•Frank Edward McEnulty (Unaffiliated) 829
•Jeffrey J. Wamboldt (Independent) 764
•Thomas Robert Stevens (Objectivist) 755
•Gene C. Amondson (Prohibition) 653
•Jeffrey “Jeff” Boss (Vote Here) 639
•George Phillies (Libertarian) 531
•Ted Weill (Reform) 481
•Jonathan E. Allen (Heartquake ’08) 480
•Bradford Lyttle (U.S. Pacifist) 110The Hill reports on its website that among the “tens of thousands of votes cast for write-in candidates, ultra-fringe parties, and fictitious (or erroneous) contenders” were 43 write-in votes for Vermin Supreme, 19 for Bill Clinton, 11 for Mickey Mouse, nine for Santa Claus, seven for Donald Duck, and five each for “Jesus” and “Joe Plumber”.
Candidates receiving exactly one tallied write-in vote for president were Jose M. Aparicio, Theodis (Ted) Brown Sr., James R. Germalic, Ronald G. Hobbs, Charles Jay, Keith Russell Judd, Lou Kujawski, Curtis Montgomery, Reverend Mere Peace-MsMere, John Leroy Plemons, Michael Skok, David Jon Sponheim, and Shelley Renée Upchurch.
Originally posted by JilianK
PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE DYING
I know it sounds like it can't be
but people overall really ARE that stupid and ARE that evil
just look at my threads on ATS, half the s# heads are to #ing scared to even post online anymore
Originally posted by frazzle
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Sorry kiddo, what got us into this mess was the original intent of the invaders of this great land to destroy the people who were already here. Were those people given an opportunity to vote against their destruction? Not likely.
And voting won't prevent our destruction, either, because the kind of people who were so determined to kill off the natives to get their land are mirror images of the ones who count your vote. That's the fraud and it should be clear by now that treaty breakers don't die when they're caught cheating, they just go to work for the corporations they promised to regulate to get your vote.
They have nothing but contempt for people who buy into their scam.
I can tell you the biggest fault of this system........drum roll..........misinterpretated first amendment that allows unlimited campaign contributions to any party. Do away with unlimited campaign contributions and replace it with a vote tax.
Then what I mentioned earlier and what is included in the video as well. There are solutons but we need to unravel the gordion knot first by determing what is wrong with the system.
In many countries small parties can get up to 40% of the total vote combined, compared to america where at best 2%...BIG PROBLEM
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
John Sherman
The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in
its profits, or so dependent on its favours that there will be no
opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body
of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous
advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens
without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system
is inimical to their interests."
James Paul Warburg
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it.
The only question is whether World Government will be achieved
by conquest or consent.
Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild
I care not what puppet is placed on
the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...
The man that controls Britain's money
supply controls the British Empire.
And I control the money supply.
Sir Josiah Stamp
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.
Carroll Quigley
The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
David Rockefeller
This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
David Rockefeller
We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time
Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended
our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost
forty years."
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world
if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
and world bankers is surely preferable to the national
auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
reply to post by frazzle
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Honestly I have no idea how that can be purposefully mispresented to include financial contributions.
Money does not equate to speech in the literal sense. Speech means opening ones mouth to utter words OR typing words on a computer. Dropping a ballot is also free speech because you write or mark something. Money is considered bribery in my book.
I am not familiar with anything other than the bill of rights so I cannot debate you on equal ground.
The right wingers praise "a republic" and left wingers want "a democracy". I can see a case for a healthy republic in that an ignorant or hateful majority do not oppress a minority, but by the same token the 1% can take advantage in unforseen ways.
Either way the super rich always win. I am talking billionares and trillionares here!
www.rightsofthepeople.com...
"The extent of many of the states of the Union, is at this time almost too great for the superintendence of a republican form of government, and must one day or other revolve into more vigorous ones, or by separation be reduced into smaller and more useful, as well as moderate ones."
Originally posted by frazzle
I also think about a hateful or ignorant majority, which a republic doesn't forestall in any way, just look at us. Hateful and ignorant should be our middle name. But don't you think the majority would vote to eliminate, say the Patriot Act or any of the other increasingly intrusive and abusive laws on the books today if they lived in a democracy? Our reps don't agree, though, and their word is law.
Originally posted by frazzle
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Exactly, that's why we'll end up with a civil war and not a revolution. We are prevented from going our separate ways peacefully.