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Originally posted by Indigo_Child
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) -- A Salinas man will have to choose between going to jail or joining the military as his punishment for possession of marijuana.
A judge surprised both the prosecution and defense yesterday when he told Brian Barr that he could avoid a jail term by enlisting in the military.
So there you have it, criminals are being drafted into security forces for the people. That is one way of forming a police force against the people.
BS. This has been happening for years and years. It's nothing new at all and I know quite a few people my age (40s) who were given the same kind of choice over 20 years ago. It was thought that an individual might turn his life around better in the military than in jail. I would have to agree and if I had to make the same choice, I would choose the military and be damn glad the choice was available at all.
Originally posted by Iwunder
At this point an unorganized civil war would be music to their ears, an excuse to blow away anyone they felt raised a finger of protest would surely be slain.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Are there viable and factual information to assuredly assert that there will indeed be a 'civil war'?
Originally posted by Cade
Originally posted by Seekerof
Are there viable and factual information to assuredly assert that there will indeed be a 'civil war'?
For that question to even matter you must first go back into history and determine if there was ever factual information to assuredly assert that a civil war was comming when in fact it came.
Have we become so society-box-thinking that we now actually expect a civil war to be "announced" like the next sea hawks game?
"It takes but a sparke to ignite the fires of rebellion"
Sincerly
Cade
Originally posted by twitchy
Writing letters and calling your senator or representative is step one, and unfortunately step one is no longer a viable option to produce any change in the system. When was the last time you had a steak dinner with your senator or made a major monetary contribution to their campaign? The Industrial Revolution, as I have said before, was indeed a revolution and the capitalist seized power in this country and the soverignty of "We the People" is a memory. You are not a constiuent of your representatives anymore. Do you honestly think that writing a letter is going to make an impact when we have folks like the 9-11 families filing law suits and beign told that the evidence they need to persue legal recourse is unavailable to them because of 'National Security" issues? There is no "Internal Affairs" department inside the US Government for our legislators or president to answer to, yes there are committees who would seem to function as such, but your asking criminals to investigate their own criminality, it simply isn't going to happen. Given the recent election scandals (yes I said scandals), how much more do you need to see to know that the power of the american people is not waning any more, but gone completely. Diebold and ESS put the final nail in the coffin of the soverignty of the American People. Write all the letters you like, it isn't going to make any difference. Free Enterprise was a great idea, capitalism was not.
Originally posted by HISTER
Originally posted by Cade
Originally posted by Seekerof
Are there viable and factual information to assuredly assert that there will indeed be a 'civil war'?
For that question to even matter you must first go back into history and determine if there was ever factual information to assuredly assert that a civil war was comming when in fact it came.
Have we become so society-box-thinking that we now actually expect a civil war to be "announced" like the next sea hawks game?
"It takes but a sparke to ignite the fires of rebellion"
Sincerly
Cade
I thought that the Civil War was scheduled AFTER the Seahawks game... now i need to check with my secretary. what the hell is goin on?
...BTW, didn't Ukraine "announce" civil war?