Some advice: Just don't give a s**t

Seems that there's more people who don't give a crap than people who really care or we wouldn't be in the situation that we are in. Our political system sucks because of us. Why? Because we didn't do anything to change things and it just gets worse for us. We are all guilty of sitting around doing nothing and not caring...go about our everyday lives(go to work ,come home, make dinner,watch tv and go to bed and do it all over again). We have a choice but we are complacent with what we have. Don't get me wrong....I would live no other place than the good old USA. Support our troops....I do.

And if you are stupid enough to try to knock down a car by running into it, then you won't even have to whine because you're dead.

Then be a slave and quit whining about it

The thing is, we have to be smart about the situation. Right now is not a time to give a crap about the government and what it does. It holds too much power and influence that it really doesn't matter how much you try to change it. It won't.

Just wait until this Richard Clarke deal is blown wide open (if it ever does). Then it's time to give a #.

Hey, you can be the slave, not me, thank you. Since you like the concept, you'd be a really good slave too!

No thanks I am all ready married

SWEAT,
You are correct in that you can choose inaction if you wish.
However, by doing nothing, you more empower those that have the power you would oppose, as you dont resist....
and well, i love it when others abdicate their choice to me and others....

Then I guess that's settled then! You've decided to decline your own offer. It's all good!

Be smart about it. Don't do something just because you believe in "fighting for it." If you aren't wise about it, you'll get burned.

I resist when the time is right. That's all I'll say.

I wish you the best of everything in your "resistance."

give me liberty, or give me death....(smart choice?? worth it?)

No risk, no gain.....

you cant win if you dont enter...

the greater the danger, the bigger the rewards....

the best things in life arent free......

you cant trust freedom when its not in your hands, when everybody's fighting for the promised land. (G+R)

You seem to be saying, only resist if you can...resistance in the face of danger is noble, it is what distinguishes a hero from a soldier.

If the cause is worth fighting for in the first place, then weather or not your approach to it is a smart tactic or not, the resistance is worth fighting for....only the tactics are in question, not the need for resistance.

will you as a marine, refuse to obey a direct order to "take that hill" when you feel that the odds say your gonna die? Thats what it sounds like your saying would be acceptable. It doesnt matter if you think a frontal assault is wise/logical/workable...indeed it may not be, but thats not for you to decide as a front line soldier is it? Mabey you dont have the big picture fronm the front lines...your cmdr is relying on your sworn duty to carry out the order, not debate it/disobey. So when your officer tels you you dont know sh-t, and you dont even need to know sh-t just take the hill soldier...based on what youve said about when you feel its time to resist or not to, i picture you going awol or being shot for dissertion.

If your enemy is worth fighting, then even tho THIS battle might not be a success, the overall war might be won.

I think this is all you needed to say. The fight is what is noble. The tactics are negotiable and will differ between people, but the fight is what matters.

Doing nothing is not a tactic, it is exemption and is fairly selfish.

As for you enjoying the rights you have, good on ya. Have a blast, but I think it's rather shaming for you to trounce what people have worked hard to give you.

If you were black or a woman I'd be much harder on you though

CazMedia,

Your point is well taken.



For some reason, I kinda see this happening to you. Don't know, maybe that's a good reason you never joined the military?

That's all. Dismissed dude.

Explain the above quote please. But as a sidenote, you were never "hard" on me. I said many times, you can believe whatever you want, right or wrong. Since I realize that, there is no reason for me to feel pressured in any way by what you say. Of course I'll listen/discuss/think, but I don't need to feel any sort of commitment to think of it as a life-changing lesson, especially since it isn't. Just thought I'd clear that up.

Anyway, your points are well taken. I think this thread showed the limitations of discussion on a message board as opposed to face-to-face. It's so much harder to write things clearly than to say things clearly sometimes.

This is the wrong way to believe, and unfortunately it is the way many in the U.S. do. This is why our government gets away with a lot is because of lazy Americans just ignoring the problem. Your bit of advice is bad advice.

Not ignore the problem. Acknowledge the problem and accept the fact things are screwed. Until you get an opportunity to bring them down, at least.