Undertaker wrote:
I heard a news report just last week that said the weather is more right now for a revolution than has been ever. I don't know, it's not a good thing to think about. I believe there's as much chance for a revolution as there is for another attack on U.S. soil.
I just remember the knee jerk reaction of the American People after 9/11. I was so disappointed in my fellow Americans as they gladly and willingly handed over their freedoms and liberty to the Bush Administration. I hope the people of this forum were screaming at the top of their lungs when the federal government with the will of the people started tapping citizens phones with illegal phone taps. I have argued this same point with people on the right and left and they seemed to say, "Well if you are not guilty of wrongdoing who cares?". The idea of the executive branch simply bypassing the Judicial Branch as no legal opinion was sought for these investigations. Legislative was disregarded due to the law not being followed, and yet now is a time when some of you think a revolution will happen? When the Patriot Act was making George Orwell's 1984 look like an instruction manual where were you? When people were claiming you are with us or against us! Where were you. When people blindly entered into Iraq claiming that we have to fight them over there, and the illusion was given that Iraq had a play in 9/11; Where were you?
Patriot Act gave the Federal Government the ability to tap your phones, contact your lawyer and demand information without your knowledge and a gag order. You to be picked up and taken away for interrogation without trial or legal representation. Where was the public outcry then when the Government were giving the green light to illegal search and seizure and suspension of civil rights? What is so much worse right now, that this would be the time?
Don't be fooled into thinking that most Americans are independent thinkers. They believed in the previous mentioned items because they were scared, or in their own little bubble and didn't think it important to them.
Where were you when a conservitive was using the constitution for toilet paper? Now a democrat is in office and has to deal with a huge defecit, multiple wars, severance of foreign relations, terrorism and a faltering economy, and you would say now is the time many want to revolt. Let me ask, what would you do once it was done? How would we be better off? I always hear complaining, moaning and groaning, but very, very few posts show an idea.
Get real, you live in the greatest country in the world and without an idea to make a better country what is the point of revolution?
V/R
Proud American
Without an idea? True revolutionaries are never without an idea. Is it time to change your clock? Are you oppressed by current government, over taxed, et cetera?
Over taxed is a really old concept; remember the phrase, "Taxation, without representation?" Did your forbearers fight and die for this?
So, who keeps tacking on new taxes? Who's paying for the rich to get richer? That would be you. Any questions?
And who's getting poorer? That would be everyone below you, known as the common middle class. And, who is getting richer because of this? Not you!
I'm going to drift off now, and hope you see the light. Good luck, the fight is yours.
