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Cowardice Is Destroying America
America was founded on courage.
For example, I've read a number of biographies of George Washington, who was actually a horrible general. Washington's early campaigns were disastrous, and the entire Revolutionary War was almost lost due to Washington's early miscalculations (for example, his first major battle was fought from a low, exposed position, so that the British forced a surrender by seizing the high ground).
But Washington was brave. He always rode with his soldiers into battle at the front of the line, even when there were waves of incoming cannon balls being hurled in his direction. (Because Washington was unusually tall for his day, that made him an easy target). Washington's courage - and his willingness to consistently fight on the front lines with his men - was one of the main factors in the success of the American Revolution.
The courage of the men at Valley Forge was also a turning point in the war. Slogging on through the dead of winter without shoes inspired a nation.
On the other hand, cowardice makes people stupid and docile.
Fear of Hurting the Big Banks Has Destroyed the Economy
The New York Times wrote in 2008:
“The rescue is being sold as a must-have emergency measure by an administration with a controversial record when it comes to asking Congress for special authority in time of duress.”***
Mr. Paulson has argued that the powers he seeks are necessary to chase away the wolf howling at the door: a potentially swift shredding of the American financial system. That would be catastrophic for everyone, he argues, not only banks, but also ordinary Americans who depend on their finances to buy homes and cars, and to pay for college.
Some are suspicious of Mr. Paulson’s characterizations, finding in his warnings and demands for extraordinary powers a parallel with the way the Bush administration gained authority for the war in Iraq. Then, the White House suggested that mushroom clouds could accompany Congress’s failure to act. This time, it is financial Armageddon supposedly on the doorstep.
“This is scare tactics to try to do something that’s in the private but not the public interest,” said Allan Meltzer, a former economic adviser to President Reagan, and an expert on monetary policy at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. “It’s terrible.”
Indeed, Congressmen Brad Sherman, Congressman Paul Kanjorski and Senator James Inhofe all say that the government used scare tactics by warning of martial law if Tarp wasn't passed:
In addition, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and others in government made it official policy not to prosecute (and see this) - or even to disclose Wall Street Fraud.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind quotes Geithner as saying:
The confidence in the system is so fragile still… a disclosure of a fraud… could result in a run, just like Lehman.
Former IMF economist Simon Johnson notes:
The main motivation behind the administration’s indulgence of serious criminality evidently is fear of the consequences of taking tough action on individual bankers.
The Obama administration is prosecuting fewer financial crimes than under Reagan or either Bush, and the government’s entire strategy now – as during the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are.
Wall Street fraud caused the Great Depression and the current financial crisis. Top economists and financial experts agree that the economy will never recover unless Wall Street fraud is prosecuted.
Because of the cowardice of the government and the people to get tough and throw Wall Street fraud-mongers in jail (or even to shut off the spigot of never-ending bailouts), our economy has been destroyed.
Fear of Terror Has Destroyed Our Liberties
Sociologists say that fear of terrorism makes people blindly accept false justifications for war.
That is why false flag terrorism - which governments around the world admit that they carry out - has been so effective for 2,000 plus years in allowing government leaders to convince the people that we should go to war.
Government officials say that 9/11 was a state-sponsored attack. Some say that it was Iran, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Israel or other countries which backed the attack.
9/11 was - at the least - criminal incompetence and then obstruction of justice, and blowback for U.S. support of Al Qaeda over many decades. At worst, it was false flag terror by the U.S.
Whatever it was, our failure to be brave enough to look without blinking has ruined our country.
Specifically, top economists say that endless war bankrupts a nation.
For example, Nobel prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz says that the $3-5 trillion spent on the Iraq war alone has been very bad for the American economy. See this, this and this.
The endless wars have also been a main component of America’s soaring debt:

And huge debts exert a very real drag on the economy.
We wouldn’t have launched the war against Iraq – or the endless panoply of wars throughout the Middle East and North America – if 9/11 had actually been in investigated.
The police state also started in 2001. Specifically, on 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney initiated Continuity of Government Plans that ended America’s constitutional form of government (at least for some undetermined period of time.) On that same day, a national state of emergency was declared … and that state of emergency has continuously been in effect up until today.
It is beyond dispute that 9/11 was entirely foreseeable, but – due to the extreme negligence and incompetence or lack of caring of the Bush administration (remember, I’m not getting into any other theories in this post) it wasn’t stopped. Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission said that the attack was preventable.
If there had been a real 9/11 investigation, the government's criminal incompetence (or worse) and idiotic policies of backing Al Qaeda would have come to light. And Americans would have learned that terrorism can largely be prevented if the military and intelligence officers are simply allowed to do their job.
Americans would have learned through any real 9/11 investigation that Cheney’s negligence and mucking around in what should have been the generals’ jobs was partly responsible for allowing 9/11 to happen (Cheney was in charge of all of America’s counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State announcement and this CNN article. He messed up.).
In other words, a real 9/11 investigation would have shown Americans that 9/11 should of, could of, and would have been stopped – and that America can protect itself against future terrorist attacks – simply by playing goalie well in our country.
And Americans – instead of being scared into immobility – would have been mad at our government for dropping the ball. And we would have demanded accountability and effective service from our elected officials. (Indeed, experts have repeatedly demonstrated that fear of terror makes people stupid … and makes them willing to accept a loss of liberty and other abuses they would never otherwise accept.)
Instead - as the 9/11 Commission itself states - there was criminal obstruction of justice and a whitewash of the investigation. See this, this, this, this, and this.
The Road Not Taken
Americans were led to believe that Al Qaeda was going to get us unless we took the fight to the Middle East and North Africa. The administration pretended that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11 – one of the main justifications for that war.
Had a real 9/11 investigation been conducted before we launched the Iraq war, it would have taken away one of the two main rationales for that war. (The FBI was also instructed to blame the anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda, and high-level government officials pointed towards Iraq as the source of the anthrax, even though there was absolutely no basis for those claims. But that’s another story.)
Dan Rather was right when he wrote:
We have been so afraid; so hell bent on destroying enemies … both foreign and domestic … we have hurt ourselves and our democracy.
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser also told the Senate in 2007 that the war on terror is so overblown that it is “a mythical historical narrative”.
And as I noted in 2008:
Former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats, a 23-year senior CIA analyst, who “drafted or was involved in many of the government’s most senior assessments of the threats facing our country [and who] devoted years to understanding and combating the jihadist threat”, writes today in the Washington Post that the neocons have whipped us into an irrational fear of the terrorism. In reality, “Osama bin Laden and his disciples are small men and secondary threats whose shadows are made large by our fears” and our leaders.
This is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. The BBC produced a documentary called The Power of Nightmares in 2005 that showed that politicians were greatly exaggerating the terrorist threat for political ends.
And unfortunately, many in government have intentionally whipped up fear in the American public for their own political purposes. For example, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials “were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power”.
And former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection. Fear sells.
And because 9/11 was never really investigated, the government – instead of doing the things which could actually make us safer – are doing things which increase the risk of terrorism.
As such, the threats from terrorism form even more of a “justification” for a suspension of our Constitutional rights.
The failure to investigate 9/11 has bankrupted America financially and morally, and has allowed us to stand idly by while our liberty has been destroyed.
What Do Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Spiritual Leaders Say About Fear?
Fear is not a Christian value. Indeed, real men (and women) - and all real Christians - stand up to tyrants.
Courage is being scared ... but facing things anyway.
Let's take 9/11 as an example. Numerous mental health experts - including the following list - say that fear of questioning the government's cartoonish "we couldn't have foreseen this or done anything to protect the homeland" version of 9/11 is an unhealthy, fear-based delusion which has led to an authoritarian regime in the U.S.:
- Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Lester Grinspoon, MD
- Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, as well as Radiology, at Duke University Medical Center D. Lawrence Burk, Jr., MD
- Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers University Barry R. Komisaruk
- Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Global Health in the College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Michael D. Knox
- Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Laura Schafer
- Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University Alan Gilchrist
- Professor Emeritus, Psychology and Neuroscience, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Gabriel
- Former Chief Mental Health Coordinator and Director of Manpower Development and Training, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and Lecturer in Psychology, Boston University Herbert Hoffman
- Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago and Northwestern University Jack Sawyer
- Professor of Psychology at University of New Hampshire William Woodward
- Professor of Psychology at University of Essex Philip Cozzolino
- Professor of Psychology at Goddard College Catherine Lowther
- Professor Emeritus of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies Ralph Metzner
- Professor of Psychology at Rhodes University Mike Earl-Taylor
- Professor of Psychology at Oxford University Graham Harris
- Professor Emeritus, Psychology, University of Marburg Gert Sommer
- Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Ralph Hood
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College. Former Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps, Vietnam Veteran 7 years service, Jon Bjornson, MD
- Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist Richard Welser
- Trauma specialist Danielle Duperret, Ph.D.
- Psychiatrist Carol S. Wolman, MD
- Psychiatrist E. Martin Schotz
- Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska and licensed Psychologist Ronald Feintech
- PhD in clinical psychology from Texas Tech Michael Green
- PhD in educational psychology Brent Igo
- PhD psychologist Paul Johansson
- PhD psychologist Gail Maudal
- PhD psychologist Robert Hopper
- Ph.D Psychologist Dorothy Lorig
- Psychologist Robert Griffin
In other words, ministers, priests, psychiatrists, psychologists, trauma experts, sociologists and other mental health experts say that failure to stand up and face our deepest fears is destroying us as individuals ... and as a nation.
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I think he was referring to the song "YMCA" by the Village People. I'm totally fine with gay marriage and agree with RP that the gov shouldn't be in the marriage business at all, one way or another. But I have to admit, when I was in the military, if a bunch of comrades who were gay broke out into "YMCA", well...ah, what the hell. Calisthenics are good for you.
Calisthenics bhaha the ass-less chaps would have gotten you exited NewWorldOrange? Gay Relations or the so called "gay Marriage" is a fucking tax scam.
Well, better "exited" than entered. Heh. Sorry, not being a grammar nazi or anything, just couldn't resist (I realize you meant excited.) BTW, just thought I'd clarify, since you seem really interested in the whole "gay" thing kind of like that ex-marine neighbor of Kevin Spacey in "American Beauty": When "YMCA" is played in clubs (yeah, even straight clubs! Imagine that?), everyone does this "calisthenic" routine where they form the letters Y-M-C-A with their arms, as the letters are sung out by the band. See what you're missing out on? Heh.
p.s. Almost anyone who reads this, and saw "American Beauty", will probably get a good chuckle. Why, you ask? Because that ex-marine guy was a virulent gay hater. It was all he talked about. Ring a bell? At the end he became what he hated (people usually hate on others for what they hate in themselves.) He tried to get nasty with Kevin Spacey. So let me just warn ya'. That gay-bashing guy with a secret longing for the shaft? It's become a well-known stereotype. An archetype in fact. Which means, almost everyone who hears your gay-bashing automatically assumes you're gay and that hate yourself for it. It's okay man. Just go with it. It doesn't make you a bad fella.
Americans want to be "led", " I want a leader who bla, bla, blaaa" and eventually they get led to the slaughter. Sure, once the sheep get in the slaughter house a few start acting up and panicking the rest but you know what they do with them? BAM!!! put em down quick to restore an orderly slaughter.
When was the last time you heard a politician refer to Americans as "Citizens" as opposed to "Consumers". They might as well just call us mouth breathers.
I went to a required meeting for work on Friday. I must say, everybody around me was acting like an idiot. There was no thought, no reflection, no indication that any spark at all was going in the gray matter up there. In the "water cooler" conversations, nothing at all that indicated people were aware about what was happening in the world.
And these are, for the most part, nice people. But being nice simply isn't enough. In fact, if you are too "nice" then you are easily exploited and manipulated.
I suppose that it may just be too much, and if it becomes overwhelming we just shut it all out.
I am personally convinced, 100%, that this country is headed for major disaster at every level. When I'm done with this assignment at the end of the year is when I will really begin to withdraw and prepare.
Google: originally a "nice" person was someone who was ignorant or unaware.
If people have no courage today it is because they have no convictions. Though there are plenty of opinions everywhere, our culture's conscience has been coopted by the very first temptation in the garden; to want what we should not have. So people make decisions that are beneath their potential (maybe) and are compromised.
That's when they've gotcha. Good work, Geo Wash., once again.
... the very first temptation in the garden; to want what we should not have.
If Eve was created, then she was created with the ability to want what she shouldn't have. She didn't create that ability in herself.
I would argue that the problem was not / is not in the wanting - which we very often can't control. The problem was / is in the paying attention to the thing that she (Eve) shouldn't have. We can (more often than not) control what we pay attention to. If Eve had not gone to gaze on the thing she should not have, she would not have been in a position to reach out and touch the forbidden fruit. So it is with us.
The "sin" actually begins when we decide to pay attention to the forbidden fruit, because the paying of attention is generally something we can control. Therefore, temptation is usually temptation to pay attention to what we shouldn't have. The wanting will follow from this. Again, we usually can't control the wanting. But we usually can control whether we pay attention to the thing that creates the wanting.
But how ever would advertisers and merchants survive if we paid attention to that logic??
One could argue that it takes real courage to stop looking at the forbidden fruit - no matter what it may be - and get on with the business of living the real life that is presented to us, to have and to dominate.
Richard~
Isn't paying attention to something the same as wanting it? I wouldn't give it the time of day if I didn't want it.
The Devil made her do it, too.
Eve could have easily passed this test. She didn't want to; she must have let herself be deceived. She really, really wanted the knowledge (of what the fruit would give her).
By "conviction", I don't mean legalism. but a moral sense and this can even cover our purchases, that guides the individual in moral matters. And when a person does not answer his conscience, repeatedly, it becomes hardened making him sociopathic. To the born-again Xian, like Paul, who said a clean conscience is a precious thing. Eve's choice brought spiritual death, so every man needs a new spirit.
Isn't paying attention to something the same as wanting it?
We probably don't pay attention to that which we don't want. But it seems that, the more we pay attention to something, the more we want it. (It is that truth that drives much advertising.) If we walk away from the thing we shouldn't have, we can still want it, but we probably won't get into trouble. On the other hand, if we continue to pay attention to the thing we shouldn't have, we will most likely get into trouble.
The Devil made her do it, too.
In case that was a serious comment, God cursed the serpent to crawl on its belly. If that serpent was Satan - how, then did he appear before God (as told in the Book of Job), fresh from going to and fro throughout the earth. Kind of hard to do that on your belly. If you want to claim that Satan worked through the serpent, there is nothing in the Genesis story that supports that. However, at the time Moses wrote the stories of Genesis, the serpent was a symbol of evil in that part of the world.
A self-disciplined person will have shouldn'ts and forbiddens created by themself. In most of life, to get some things you must give up other things. That creates the need for self-created and self-imposed shouldn'ts and forbiddens. For some examples, talk to Olympic Gold-Medal winners. There are others who could provide examples also.
You assume your dimension is the only one. Why couldn't Satan take on different forms? He will take on the form of a great political leader to fool the world.
No, not the Bernank, he'll be a goyim.
So - whom did God curse to crawl on its belly: the being, or the form? And if it was the form, not the being, that was cursed to crawl on its belly - who has been inhabiting that form for thousands of years? It wouldn't be Satan, because only the serpent-form was cursed, not the being.
I get your shape-shifting point. But that leaves us, in the end, with the Bible promising that God will triumph over a form of Satan, but not the being himself? Not too many believers want to have to deal with that.
Besides, there is nothing in the Bible that states the Serpent was Satan. Revelations 20:2 says He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. (NIV) "That ancient serpent" is not defined here. Some speculate this mention referrs to the garden of eden. But it is not stated. It could just as easily refer to the fact that the serpent was the symbol of evil in early times.
Satan is mentioned only four times in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word used for Satan tends more to equate the name with an office - like Mayor is the name of an office. Which was a totally different presentation of the concept than it was when the Greeks got done with it.
Your logic with regard to Satan and the Serpent is impeccable. In a similar vein, how is it possible that straight men have any teeth left, because I've seen the tooth fairy and she is FUCKING HOT! Mom found my pliers too late. Now, where are my dentures?
Stay dumb, it is what god wanted you to be...
"Do unto others."
"Shouldn't" according to whom? "Forbidden" according to whom?
TPTB tell us from day one that we "shouldn't" question things, and that anything not rubber stamped by them is "forbidden."
Wow dude. You practically defined what a non-coward shouldn't do if he doesn't want to be forbidden any self-respect.
i don't believe it is cowardice but miseducation
and ongoing education campaigns are not evidence
of cowardice.
we have a conceptual problem in the usa and in a
nut shell it is the inability on the part of
the population to appreciate, as former generations
may have grasped, that the individual, the government
and the sovereign are one and the same thing,
free and responsible, able and willing and up to
the task of making the right decision in all
circumstances. call me a dreamer or a nut if you
must, but that is what is missing, obviously, imo.
perhaps it is because technology has advanced so
now no product is sold without an instruction
manual? i like products that do not require
instructions, that actually lend themselves to
the creative uses of the imagination of the user,
otherwise the product is the user and the user is
the tool. i think i digressed?
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the mid educators would have us all believe some
authority, perhaps in a control room remotely
viewing the landscape, knows best and is just
not being timely with the instructions we were
to receive, somehow they never came along.
which reminds me of the old complaint that the most
important thing in the world, giving birth, comes
with no instruction manual and no training or degree
is required to participate beyond existential
reality itself which is, in fact, the highest
degree of distinction or qualification in
a certain context. there, digressed again?
@ gully ..
thanks for reminding me of this.
MODERN HUMANS ARE WALKING DEAD!~JOHN TRUDELL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJnApEtg1I&feature=related
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".. i would say to anyone protect your spirit,
protect your spirit, because you're in the place
where spirits get eaten." john trudell.
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best advice out there.
Courage requires conviction. People don't even know what convictions to hold anymore, don't know what to believe anymore, don't know who or what to trust anymore. Who wants to take on a fight when they don't even know what they're fighting for? Even when they have a conviction, or even just an opinion, most people are too cowardly to speak up anymore due to what has become a pathetic peer pressure emanating thru American culture.The MSM enforces this even amongst their so-called "journalists" whose primary job today is to create drama. They will ridicule or laugh at anyone stating a genuine conviction that isn't pollyannish. Watch Soledad O'Brien on CNN for about thirty minutes if you can hold back the vomit, for a few great examples. CNBC is the poster child for this cowardice.
Hell, most parents seem too scared of their own kids to speak up when it's needed, for fear of being called "abusive" or just because they're mainly concerned with their kids thinking their parents are cool. Your fellow diners at the table don't want to hear about QEternity or it's likely results -- they're glued to the cell phone waiting for the next text while trying to decide whether to have the duck or prime rib. It's always been available, and they can't even fathom the notion that it soon may not be, and sure as hell don't have the sack to discuss the possibility.
Either you act like an ignorant pollyanna who sees everything thru rose colored glasses, or you're just a Debbie Downer, or you "just need to get laid". I guess the folks who say that a lot have probably never had sex with the kid gloves off. Poor fools.
Don't think -- obey. Don't question -- believe. Forget reason -- just have faith. It's just history -- it can't happen again and certainly not here.
The schools, churches, media and most every other institution have taught that shit forever. But only in recent decades has its power been greatly multiplied by TV. May as well just plug the Brainwasher straight into people's brains like they're fucking Borg.
Today, Cowardice 101 starts before pre-school and never ends, and there's 800 channels of it on 24/7.
NEWWORLDORANGE
"Most parents seem too scared of their own kids to speak up when it;s neded".....It;s not their kids they are scared of; they are terrified of the defacto parents of those kids. They are allowed to feed, house, bathe etc, but their freedom to raise their children ends there.
You are one of the ever decreasing few perceptive enough to pierce the cultural veils and see ugly reality for what it is. Superb analysis.
What Happened???
PUSSYFICATION of our children in public schools,Liberals removing real American History from our Textbooks, and POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
Add Welfare Checks,and EBT Cards and you have the recipe, it did not happen overnight.
seems like there are enough of you "Pussification" flag-wavers to settle a colony and put together a Bill of Righteousness - fingers crossed for you lads!
Been there, done that. 10th great grandkids pissed it away.
which is why you shouldn't be consorting with pussy - it causes breeding, which is the downfall of courage, apparently.
America was founded on courage? What a load of shit!
It was founded on greed. It was founded by groups looking to steal local rescources and enslave indigenous peoples.
It was founded by misfits whos beliefs were so heinous they were run out of Europe.
The constitution was written by rich white men to protect rich white men.
Today the karmic wheel has turned, we are getting back what the generations preceeding us used to destroy everything they touched.
This is what we get for the Trail of tears, for smallpox infected blankets, for enslaving not only minorities but other whites like the irish and poor.
Maybe its time you idiot fucks took a long hard look in the mirror, because Carlin was right.
"“The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election”"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.'""
dup
what an intellectual mess
GF
You are one pittifully sick dude, twisted beyond belief, and a perfect example of what leftist government education has been attempting to turn out the last 3 decades. You really drank the kool aid.
Would you say that to the Survivers in the Reservations to:to mention a few Apache Souix Navaho Cheyenne Mohicans:Chochise,Geronimo,Red cloud Cracy Horse;Victorio,Sitting bull:
Not to mention Custer,wounded knee??
Broken treatys=Courage,i think not, Sir,dos not comply to reality,there is only one good indian,was it a dead one;for once i totaly disagree with you GW,and you Questan1913 thats based in historical facts,not conspiration!!
I am on to you
Dude, ever see anyone here mention Leonard Peltier?
Or all the shit that happened with AIM?
If it doesn't involve bitching about poor people and mimorities and Jew bankers, it isn't on their radar.
Gully, I think I'm beginning to understand. America was founded by 100% cowards acting cowardly 100% of the time for the purpose of killing the 100% angelic native Americans (who were 100% content fighting and killing only each other) until whitey came along.
That pretty much sum up the American Experience for ya? Heh.
Gully Foyle is apparently the first convert to the Anti-American Church of AnAnonymousitizenism, whose righteousness is eternal, and whose most holy sacrament is the ritual Blobbing-up of the body and blood of Mao.
LOL! I just knew that AnAnonymous would gain some converts here! He's like L. Ron Hubbard. Only a lot less creative, and thus more easily understood. What an attractive combination for simpletons.
i take exception to that remark.
John Trudell, Crazy Horse - The Original Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8ga-krBe4
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" ..Crazy Horse
We Hear what you say
One earth one mother
One does not sell the earth
The people walk upon
We are the land
How do we sell our mother
How do we sell the stars
How do we sell the air" ... j.t.
Bravo Blindman! Thanks for the John Trudell. It's been along time since i've heard his work.
Grafitti Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKwM328bR4E
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with jesse ed davis.
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Rich Man's War - John Trudell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDOZ00A1aos
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to be an "american" and be unfamiliar with this
is to sleep deeply regarding your culture and history.
imo obviously. just the way the occupiers like it.
Your post is history distortion and Hitler was not elected in democratic election, it's why you quote Carlin. LOL
And the media have their marching orders. New meme is the food prices were low last century because of tech advances, prices are expected to go up this century, right! No mention of central banking.
Here you go Gully Foyle. this is for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfS2Op9l3nk&feature=relmfu
whstlblwr
Are you saying the Hitler thing detracts from his statement about the quality of US citizens?
The only portion that was highlighted for emphasis.
I didn't get past the Hitler sentence. I'm around an active public working to change things. The status quo is entrenched, so it's not easy, they can manipulate the ballot. But if he all get off the computers and run for office and take over, it can change. Unless you're saying you're a lazy good for nothing public, then I'm sorry for you.
The proper words escape me to describe your ignorant broad stroking of why we have self serving douchebags in public office, and to say that your rant is devoid of any redeeming value is a huge understatement. You seriously stand on your statement that it's the "public" that sucks and is the cause? Aren't you a member of said public? Just askin' here.
I dont' even know why I waste my time with you GF, you're a complete idiot. Enjoy your affirmative action psychosis, I'm sure it's gotten you far in life.
What is that echo I hear?
"US Citizenism ... US Citizenism ... US Citizenism ..."
You are really quite a remarkable ass. Your only saving grace perhaps is that you do not vomit your anti-American bigotry and hatred quite as much as the Chinese troll inventor of the aforementioned (meaningless) phrase.
The hell of it is, a lot of the things Gully stated were mostly true, but they miss the point. He missed the essentials, threw away all context. Absurdist sophistry at its finest.
It took incredible courage for people to make a several month long journey across an ocean to a land of utter mystery to them. It took amazing courage for a group of wealthy, privileged men to take a course of action that almost ensured they'd all be hanged ("separately, or together.") Only remarkable luck saved them from the gallows. It took a lot of courage for our ancestors to even speak out against King George at all. People were hanged for that.
Cowardice is the norm among people. Most people are meek sheeple and will do and say nothing in the face of utter evil, unless they're part of a mob and just going along. But to decry all those who built America as essentially cowards, and all their actions as essentially cowardly, is not just absurdly collectivist (like racism or sexism etc), it is itself a form of cowardice. It stems from fearing that which you don't understand and allowing the resulting anger to cause you to lash out at those at a safe distance in order to vent feelings (fears) that you can't handle. Courage is grace under pressure. So it would be no less cowardly for you to spew that simple-minded sophistry in public to people's faces.
Did a lot of innocent people get hurt in Western civilization's settlement of the Americas? Hell yes. If you want to make an omellette, you gotta' break some eggs. Until you decide, Gully Foyle, that aborting chicken fetuses for food is not cowardly, you may want to rethink some things...or just be consistent and eat a bullet to alieve yourself of guilt and avoid your ongoing participation in a world where survival of the fittest is a fact of life.
How about the Confucian doctrine concerning those who talk too much to in an attempt to assert an authority they no longer command?
Are you out in the streets leading the revolution from the front? Or are you just another douche bag blathering on the internet, blaming everyone else for their "weakness" and "lack of courage" because they're not hard case like you (who just talks a lot)?
Heyoka Bianco
There is no revolution because everyone has chosen to be a victim.
Revolutions are inspired by people who want to change society for the better. For the better of ALL.
Today we have people who want to be greedy, who want to steal from the poor , the sick and the elderly.
People who refuse to understand that a rising tide raises all boats, not just their dinghy.
Revolutions involve people with a social conscience, people are sick of poverty, sick of greed, sick of two laws one for those of privilege and one for everyone else.
Revolutions are lead by people who want a level playing field for everyone.
Greedy ignorant fucks don't lead revolutions, racist classist idiots don't lead revolutions, people who whine how eveyone else is keeping them back instead of addressing their own weakness don't lead revolutions.
When you choose to be a victim of your own selfdefeating nature, you fail to have the vision to even participate in real revolution. One that benefits all equally.
Huzzah! Heyoka Bianco!!
Yeah sure...
Then theres always people who start revolutions just to fuck things up and burn things down.
Then theres always people who start revolutions just to fuck things up and burn things down.
But would they bother doing that if they had better things to do?
And a few more who are there just to take charge once the competition has been blown away.
Revolutions are inspired by people who want to change society for the better.
Revolutions can occur only when there is a sizeable goup of people available who have nothing better to do. These are the people who can maybe be inspired by people who want to change society (for better or worse). Those who have better things to do won't be paying any attention to the inspirers.
Bread and circuses have become cliche for a reason. They work.
Average real unemployment is about 19% in USA according to SGS. Bit of a problem in Europe too. Yesterday Mish went ahead and called a US recession, saying it most probably started in June.
So by the time another recession plays-out, while derbanke is busy propping up banks, and TOTALLY ignoring the unemployed, and the economy is spitting teeth, would that be enough people with "...nothing better to do..."? Because real US unemployment could go much closer to 30% about 18 months from now, if we get another synchronous global trade collapse.
And all those people who went to University to try and ride-out the economic malaise, and get an education in the interim, they will be finishing their degree and finding no job, really soon. Educated, broke, bored disillusioned idealists, looking at meaningless wars, whilst watching the derbanke and corrupt lying politicians shovelling the country's treasure into zombie banks that are absolutely going to fail anyway, while every criminal act committed by the elite goes unpunished, and cops run-amok against the 99% ... You think they won't get a wee bit agitated? Look at every revolution and mass-protest movement and you will find a common factor ...
A N G R Y I N C E N S E D S T U D E N T S
I won't mention student loan debt repayment schedules ... oops ... just did.
wise words Gully.
consider yourself quote-able.