I hate it when people say in regaurds to politics and what's happening in the country "If you don't like it then you can just leave". That's one of the most un-american things I've heard. Isn't the whole point of the constitution to guarantee us the right to speak up(Freedom of speech), protest(although non-violant protest isn't gonna do shit) etc etc. I just don't understand how someone like Bill O'Riley, or anyone on the right who calims to be fighting for what America stands for to say it. I mean, isn't that a real totalitarin statement to make? "What ever the country does is fine with me. I don't want a say because I know it's all in my best interest". Although I guess saying all this is in vain because as Geroge Carlin says "Politics don't exist, they're just there make you think you have a choice". Still,nationalists piss me off. This is what I think of while listening to RUN DMC.
Yo man didnt you know if you talk about the constitution like that, youll be labeled a terrorist by our emperor of freedom
We must hereby reflect upon the episode of southpark where Cartman travels back through time to discover what the founding fathers were on about when they came up with the constitution, and why all the adults in southpark were fighting with each other about whether or not the war was justified. He discovers in his adventure that the constitution was engineered so that people could stand up and protest what is wrong, but by doing so are only aiding the "do-what-they-will" government by promoting an air of american good-heartedness. This gives the united states the ability to be complete hypocrites, in they they can fight for one thing on the surface (genuine or not, doesn't matter), and do something completely opposed to what they "believe". A wonderful setup.
dude, damn good point I've never thought about it much, I don't think I'll ever say that again... wow
I think its sad that the highest up people in the united states could care less about your constitutional rights. They are the ones that should be defending it most. Instead they use false flags to make us comprimise our liberty for so called "freedom" which actually turning things more into a police state, and it was Franklin who said that if you sacrifice freedom for security, eventually you will get niether.
Well it sounds to me like Franklin was butt-talking. You sacrifice the freedom of driving whereever you want on the road however you want so that there can be order, and fewer accidents. You sacrifice the freedom of going to work/school and leaving your house unlocked, because that would be breaching your security in that someone could rob you for all that you're worth. You sacrifice the freedom of being able to murder and get away with it, in the hopes that people will think twice before stabbing you to death. To say that "we cannot sacrifice freedom for security" and to say that "we need to care for constitutional rights", are two completely opposing, and clashing arguments.
Yo-dude i think you have something wrong-with-you. Your analogies arent very well thought threw, You have the freedom to lock your house, because theres a goddamn lock on your door. The United States has accepted government surveillance over pretty much everything we do without a court order threw the patriot act, thus sacrificing our liberties for security. Meanwhile 10,000s of people are flooding into the USA illegally, wheres our security? wheres our liberty? both are being diminished. The Government doesnt care about the public. Its not only the government, its more like a new world order, that George Bush senior had actually held an address about, on september 11 ten years before the attacks, in 91'
I actually got into an argument with my grandfather today about politics. There no specific topic, he's just a right wing nationalist and I'm the exact opposite.
. George is a fucking genius. The problem is that the power is pretty much in the hands of corporate America. Just about every decision and policy change is in one way or another calculated to help the rich get richer. The media tells us how to think... and what to get outraged at. Meaningless trivia like the Spears family pregnancy and child custody misadventures as well as baseball players taking steroids are labeled as more scandalous than elected (presumably) officials prosecuting an illegal war based on lies and deceit. We are flooded with all manner of entertainment and electronic diversion while politics is kept at the same excitement level as watching paint dry and I'm not unconvinced that this is by design. Big businesses and the very rich basically pay for the campaigns of those elected, who are beholding to those contributors when they hold office. Such things as campaign finance reform perform like charades to placate you and me and to fool us into believing that politicians aren't corrupted by influence peddlers and the reform legislation basically re-arranges loopholes for big money to install their cronies... who are arranged on a ballot to fool us into believing that there's actually an alternative. Meanwhile, we're collectively held under the spell cast by the likes of Xbox and satellite television not to mention kept busy trying to amass money for what we've convinced ourselves is a comfortable lifestyle and left with little time for politics if we even had the inclination. It's so much easier and more convenient to let the likes of Fox News and CNN to prepackage our opinions for us and feed us the facts THEY decide are pertinent. One reason that people were more involved in the 60's is that there were fewer distractions. Also, the news media was less a mouthpiece of the government and hadn't yet perfected the fine art of blending the perception of credibility with unadulterated bullshit in order to make it palatable... it probably wouldn't have worked because folks tended to PAY MORE ATTENTION ANYWAY. Most people around then had lived through a world war and new well enough not to turn their backs on world events... PLUS with the DRAFT up and running, there was a real chance that purely civilian people would be force-fed ownership of whatever global-scale stupidity our government had us up to our necks in. If you do not like what's going on please do not leave... get involved and do everything you can to enable change. This country desperately needs more young people to pay attention. We need a generation to wrestle control away from those whose only aim is to siphon away a standard of living for the purpose of adding to their already enormous wealth.
