Hey all

im new to ATS but here goes
Number1 gas prices threw the roof and are not gona get better
Number2 the bill of rights is being riped away from under youre feet
Number3 we have more then enough food yet ppl starve
Number4 we have more then enough land yet ppl are homeless
I could go on and on...
So my question is when are ppl going to snap and why havent they already?

[edit on 14-8-2008 by Spike Spiegle]

if I have posted this in the wrong forums please let me know and please direct me to a better forum

thanks.

Welcome to the board. My question to you is...what good would snapping do?

The Boston Tea Party was the result of people snapping ......... it did plenty good.

I think that's what OP is implying bt "snap".

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That's not snapping. Snapping is going nuts and beheading a passenger on a bus. Shooting your boss at work. Running someone over with your car on purpose, etc. Losing all sense of rationality.

To me, there's never a good time for that.

maybe you missunderstood me



all the peacefull protests in the last 10 to 8 years have gotten alot of mass media attention yes...but what has that done?
nothing

at this point sadly I think we all need to rise up and make change happen.


[edit on 14-8-2008 by Spike Spiegle]

and please dont get me wrong I'm not for violence i'm for the masses rising up with the truth and our numbers as our weapons...

again this is my 1st real post go easy on me just shootin the intelectual sh*t

Yeah and how else do you think we need to rise up and make a change? by snapping or making a protest for a change?

Maybe the word 'revolt' would be more suffice for the subject than 'snap'?

I dont know how...
i agree that most mass uprisings would be put down....
I guess we are fu@&ed
but still are you not amazed that ppl just around and hope for the best?

Yes a world revolt is more what i mean thanks misfit.

I dint mean for us all to go nutz and shoot our t.v sets and microwave our cats..lol

by the way ATS don't really condone one line posts and people who repeatedly post two or three times, one after the other because they want a reply to there own thread.

by the way ATS don't really condone one line posts and people who repeatedly post two or three times, one after the other because they want a reply to there own thread.

um sorry I was not looking for replies I dint think about that
I will do my best not to do one liners.
again this is my 1st post

Granted, it needs to happen, the question is how? How does one/many go about correlating a successful revolt the size of a nation?

I think it's time too ........ but no idea what to do about it. I don't want to do harm nor damage in the process, yet "peaceful revolts" obviously gain nothing.

well said misfit
I have often thought about that same question...
perhpas if we look at other revolts in history that have got results nad to that modern day thinking and tech.

one thing is for sure it would have to be massive and quick.

If you mean that peaceful revolts have never gained anything I have to disagree, look at the German revolution for example. But unfortunately I have to agree that peaceful revolt or protest is getting more and more difficult and senseless. You make no impression shouting at a fenced off free-speech zone while the media is ignoring or ridiculing you.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy, 1962

I think a lot of the energy that traditionally would have been used towards protesting and revolting in the streets is channeled online, complaining and theorizing. It reaches a lot of people, but with little real life results yet. Hopefully some peaceful event will trigger the critical online avatars to send their real-life identities out on the streets to bring real change.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- John F. Kennedy, 1962


that quote speaks the truth and i agree totaly with you.