reply to post by Spiramirabilis
I believe for now, you will serve as an excellent example of this mysterious '1%'
Anybody will. That's the wonder of it.
Tie them to a chair and throw them in the water. If they sink - they are not a witch (and their family is eligible for inheritance after they drown).
If they float - they are a witch, and need to be executed.
It's amazing how history repeats itself.
In fact, you just stated that you do approve of angry mobs - as long as you get to be in the mob
Please learn to read.
My way of life is to do something productive. I like to garden. I like to engineer electronic devices, circuits, and a number of transportation,
habitation, and defense solutions (which incorporate more than just electronics). I enjoy manufacturing and the feeling of watching blocks of metal
become purposed structures and being a part of that process.
That's the way of life I seek.
I don't always get to do that. However, when I don't, my response is to attempt to find a way to create that for myself. That may be through a
change of employment - it could be through the development of my hobby skills into a business venture of my own. I've got a number of ways to go
about it.
Now, look at what has been proposed, here. "Living the way I want to is a right. It should be provided to me. Things need to change so that this
happens. If they don't, violence will be used!"
I will kill people who resort to that kind of barbarism - and be glad for the help of others.
Then I will go back to living my life until someone else decides to try and force their way of life upon me.
So, as far as you're concerned - any complaint a citizen might have about how this government is being run is subversive? Even when it's out
in the open - in the bright light of day and all that - and loud as loud can be?
Our government is designed so that the citizens may make changes to it. It does not, however, function based on protests.
There are mechanics to our government. They are not difficult to understand, or to utilize.
We are guaranteed a voice in this country by that same piece of paper you claim to love
You are given the right to vote for representatives and to speak to those representatives. You are not given the right to your way.
There's a bit of a disconnect in your thinking.
Is the Constitution written in stone - or is it a living breathing document meant to serve a living breathing form of government?
The Constitution is a formal agreement by citizens to live and function according to certain rules and principles. Within it is a system that grants
the citizens the power, authority, and outlines the means in which they can modify that agreement.
It is not a "living, breathing thing." It is a contract that has, within it, provisions for how that contract can be amended and the way in which
those amendments must be approved by the holders of that contract.
If everyone can interpret that contract to mean anything they want - then it loses its value and its integrity, and we end up with our current
situation.
People who fear change to this degree are the stuff of nightmares
You know little about me.
I can list the changes I want to see, and am pushing for.
=Dissolving the Federal Reserve
=Return to a backed standard of currency
=Elimination of the income tax and IRS - transition to a flat-rate sales tax with prebate system
=Dissolve social security.
=Dissolve medicare/medicaid
=A complete re-write of the Constitution that redefines the powers of the national government and affirms the powers of the state governments; to be
ratified by popular vote.
Within that:
-National Government forbidden from running a deficit budget for more than 3 consecutive years without a direct vote to approve from state governments
(recurring every year there is a deficit).
-National Debt and its ceilings to be voted and approved by state governments, not national representatives.
-No money may be issued to state governments outside of disaster relief (to be clearly defined as pathogenic pandemics, war/riots, and weather
damage). All state revenues are to be entirely self-standing.
-National government forbidden to issue payment to individuals outside of the tax prebate, and shall not appropriate funds for or to individuals or
agencies in the effort to provide a standard of living (the national government forbidden from welfare efforts)
-All government issued and/or backed bonds are to be classified as national debt and subject to restrictions thereof
-Earmarks eliminated - all funding/budgeting will be forced into specific budget bills and be subject to line-item veto by the President.
Basically - gut the National government and return powers to the states - where they can choose to run their own programs.
I was waiting for someone to use gandhi as an example. Personally I think he was a tool used by the British to get the local groups to put down arms and take the oppressive colonialism right were they stand. I mean betwenn 1800-1830 India's textile industry was outproducing the Brits, after 1840 up to 1900 the PER CAPITA INCOME OF ALL INDIAN"S FELL 65%! This is why I feel that violence can be a tool used like all things good AND bad.
