I'm Tired Of All This Injustice

Turn the anger into action.

Time to change how we describe policies and laws. We are getting robbed and poisoned- and that is enabled by governmental collusion. Regular lip service is paid to breaking our so-called addiction to oil but nothing is done. Rhetoric about the development of ethanol as an alternative is used to excuse the spiking of corn, milk, and beef prices but there are no ethanol stations. Our military is deployed to keep a dictator from breaking sanctions and flooding the global oil market with a glut of petroleum- that and the fact that their presence has further destabilized an area has given oil corporations to gouge the working poor. Our government gives us $600 but that won't even fill a tank of heating oil.

The balance of power is supposed to include people, but collectively we've abdicated- and that vacuum has been filled by special interests. As a result, every new law, every new policy is in one way or another designed to line pockets of the obscenely rich. Most people are too comfortable to care. They need to be uncomfortable. Gasoline needs to cost $10 a gallon and heating oil should go for $12. The same usury pricing needs to apply to food. Cold and hungry is not comfortable. When people stop being comfortable they will become involved. Until then, the majority will be brainwashed into being comfortable with being robbed.

 

Um, NoDirectionHome, you have misunderstood. Polarity doesn't mean stillness. You decide which side you're on. However, there are always going to be "poor" & "rich" even though each are neither because money is worthless....

You are thinking way too narrowly, I'd say.

My husband gave a homeless guy a dollar yesterday at a red light (he looked cool), you think we wouldn't have contributed to his beer fund (we saw him with 6-pack like an hour later, haha--right on, brother) because we thought things are how they're supposed to be??

Hell no! It's a fight! Light versus dark. They both get their time to shine.

Polarity does not mean non-movement. & stop bum rushing my thread with your whining about Gardner. Gardner is light & dark too (like everyone) so why don't you let him help you grow some tomatuhs? I'm sure there will be more smiles.

 

Okay, I read this since it has riddled my thread, & I think it is IDIOTIC to PLAN on getting arrested. This is like the dumbest thing I've read today. I can understand wanting a voice, wanting to be heard, verbalizing emotion in such mad, mad times...but the arrest part is something you want to avoid on the path for the fight. It's something that may happen but it's unfortunate if it goes down.

Do you know how bad cops really are?? Man. They will beat you. They don't care if you are a girl. Small... whatever. Pigs are nuts!

You can't put "revolutionary" on your ego-resume without real passion for cause. That's like joining a new religion every week, or robbing a convenience store not because you need money for crack (real ghetto) but because that what your damn dumb ass manufactured "gansta" rap tells you is cool.

Think we all need to find our crack (passion) in life. (My oddest analogy yet...!)

 

Civil disobedience is essential to a movement. Do you honestly think the Civil Rights Movement would have gotten as far as it did without civil disobedience? It's "idiotic to plan on getting arrested"? Would you rather I sat in the middle of a blockade not knowing what to expect? That sounds stupid to me.

And yes, I "know how bad cops really are." How could I not?

As for my "ego-resume," I have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to mean, but I don't understand why you're making assumptions about my level of "passion for [the] cause."

 

I feel like this whole ridiculous argument we've gotten into is based upon the assumption that youth cannot make informed decisions to take action on the issues that matter to them.

I know a great number of young people who DO care, who take the time to educate themselves and others, who know a lot more than any of us here (myself included) about youth organising, who really can (and will!) change the world. Telling youth that we need to educate ourselves ("once we reach the voting age") is patronising.

Accusing youth of being stupid and immature because of a desire to particiapte in civil disobedience is ageist. The young people I know didn't just wake up one morning and decide "hey, I'm gonna be a radical now, and I'm gonna go out today and get arrested!" I feel like it was a gradual process for most of us, and denigrating youth who are trying to develop politically is discouraging and not at all helpful.

We're going to be the ones to change the world someday, when all the disrespectful, patronising older folks are in rest homes, or six feet underground.

 

Okay--down, down down.

Sorry to put labels on you, yadda, yadda... I think really you're original term of "plan" is the point of debate.

If you mean "plan" in regards to mentally prepare, I'm down with that. If you mean "plan" as in "yes, I'm going to try to get arrested...but for the cause!" then that is what I disagree with, & now I see that that wasn't what you mean to do.

HOWEVER, people do try to get arrested for pig-smack value. Like, "yep, I got arrested" & people DO stick that on their egos. I wasn't trying to call you egotystical, because that's not what I mean by ego.

ANYHOW, I think maybe you've been misunderstood by wording & by way of trying to make a difference/ have a voice, period, you are a higher step on the ladder, so congrats.

I agree with you & Gardner, & see where you fail to agree by understanding, but see where each other is coming from.

You said it yourself that it is dumb to go into it with the GOAL of being arrested, Gardner saw you as that, assumingly falsely & so you really agree with each other but have perspectives on each other that are trying to be filled unless you wish otherwise.

So, agree or disagree, you're choice, but your opinions are the same.

 

Oh no, no, no...youth are the MOST likely to make informed actions, but they must listen to the older & wiser. Youth are all action, elders are all wisdom & no action.

& please don't think I am saying that all old are lazy that all youth are all idiots, because then you are missing the point.

 

And I hate your, OP, hypocrisy. You say you hate that 'they' pin white vs. black and then you go and blame it on WHITE men. Bullcrap.

 

Please don't buy any "kosher" food, because whenever you go out and buy "kosher" food, you're giving financial assistance to an international criminal syndicate that's using your money for the purpose of fomenting wars and genocide. Think about that poor little Iraqi girl who's laying around dead in the street with her brains blown out. If you multiply that one dead Iraqi girl by a factor of ten hundred thousand, you'll come away with a fairly decent picture of what exactly it is that you're paying for whenever you go out and buy kosher food. Now take a good look at your own friends and family members, and then try to imagine what they'd look like if they were laying around dead in the street with their brains blown out, just like that dead Iraqi girl. OK, so you haven't seen any corpses laying around in your neighborhood (at least not thus far, you haven't), but that, too, is bound to change sooner or later ... providing of course that you keep on giving financial support to organized Judaism through your continued purchase of kosher food.

It isn't really that hard to avoid buying kosher food. Just look at the package: If you happen to notice that there's a big "U" on the package with a circle around it, it means that the product is kosher. Also look for a big letter "K" or for the word "pareve."

We've got to stop the murderous rampage of organized Judaism, but there's only one way to stop it, and that is to stop financing it.

 

kill whitey..

 

Kill nobody ... except in self-defense and ONLY when there's no other alternative.