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Originally posted by Helious
Let me ask you one simple question if I may? What if the American settlers had a no violence policy regarding Great Briton? The answer is that we would be having this conversation, assuming the Queen allowed it.
Originally posted by PrimalRed
Originally posted by Helious
Let me ask you one simple question if I may? What if the American settlers had a no violence policy regarding Great Briton? The answer is that we would be having this conversation, assuming the Queen allowed it.
Elton John prohibits free speech now?
Originally posted by Helious
Let me ask you one simple question if I may? What if the American settlers had a no violence policy regarding Great Briton? The answer is that we would be having this conversation, assuming the Queen allowed it.
Originally posted by PrimalRed
Originally posted by Helious
Let me ask you one simple question if I may? What if the American settlers had a no violence policy regarding Great Briton? The answer is that we would be having this conversation, assuming the Queen allowed it.
Elton John prohibits free speech now?
Originally posted by eleven44
reply to post by Americanist
Or, better yet,
learn how to come together
to curtail the amount of money and energy being spent on military expenses every year,
so that in the future there won't be so many bullets flying around.
Originally posted by Americanist
reply to post by Americanist
Hate to see a FMJ with your name on it.
Originally posted by Helious
reply to post by eleven44
Let me tell you one thing. The military is far more for the people than the police force. Police departments all across the country have been infested with agents from homeland security and that is where most receive there training from these days.
Americans won't "YET" tolerate the military controlling domestic matters so the police, in semi secret are being trained in a very systematic and desensitizing way to be the government gestapo. Most military men are slammed by endless propaganda about God and country in the attempt to control and manipulate, the problem with the establishment is that through human nature, military men experiencing battle, seeing a friend die in horrific fashion or having to take another life, will eventual see through the BS and start to contemplate there own mortality and morality.
Some may even see this through the simple separation from there wives, husbands or children. This brings most back into reality and separates them from the brainwashing they have received and are broken free of the chains of enslavement or tools of murder for the glory of lesser men.
They keep the police force, local, there best interests right in front of them so that the decision is much harder as there is an immediate and dynamic effect on there lives should they choose to disobey. Wise is the right hand that secretly knows what the left will do and plans in advance........
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
nope, the OWS people are dirty, illiterate, subhuman hippies that need a good pepper spray.
*heavy sarcasm*
or at least that's what the msm would have you believe.
Originally posted by PrimalRed
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
nope, the OWS people are dirty, illiterate, subhuman hippies that need a good pepper spray.
*heavy sarcasm*
or at least that's what the msm would have you believe.
No, they have done a pretty good job of convincing me of that all by themselves
"If a soldier demands that you carry his gear for a mile, carry it two miles." --Matthew 5:41
In first century Judea, the poor were oppressed under a practice called angareia – the involuntary drafting of peasants to carry the gear of Roman soldiers. Angareia is seen in the Bible when Simon of Cyrene was forced by Roman soldiers to carry the cross of Jesus. He was only forced to carry the cross part of the way, however, since the Roman government had ruled that the maximum distance a man could be forced to carry gear under angareia was one mile.
One mile might not sound very far, but Roman soldiers often carried at least seventy pounds of gear with them. If a man was asked to carry this gear for a mile and he resisted, he would be beaten, arrested, and imprisoned. If he surrendered to the Roman soldier’s demand, he would have to carry the gear for an entire mile. After one mile, the Roman soldier would tell him to stop, since carrying it further than one mile was a crime under Roman law.
The Jews hated angareia with a burning passion – it was a horrible injustice. But rather than attempting to resist it through violence, Jesus offers another creative form of nonviolent resistance. If a man was forced by a Roman soldier to carry gear for one mile, what would happen if he continued to carry the gear for more than one mile? The soldier would be placed in a very awkward position. If a peasant was drafted under angareia, Roman law dictated that the solider had to stop him after one mile. If anyone found out that the peasant had continued for two miles, the soldier could himself could be arrested and beaten!
Once again Jesus offers a creative method of nonviolent resistance that would repay the soldier for his oppression without resorting to violence on the part of the peasant. If enough peasants heeded Christ’s command, hundreds of Roman soldiers would be beaten by other Roman soldiers of higher rank. The “enemy” would thus destroy itself, with no need for violence on the part of the peasants. The entire system of oppression that existed under angareia would be comprised.
Roman soldiers beaten for breaking the law would be much less likely to draft peasants under angareia again in the future. Once again we see that we can overcome evil not by repaying it with more evil, but by repaying it with good. By carrying the gear for an extra mile – an act of compassion rather than violence – the Roman system of oppression would be horribly compromised.
Being a "revolutionary" is easy scream as loud as you can about freedom of speech then get super offended when someone has says something contrary to what you believe.