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When you hear the sound of the vase in the hall fall and crash into a thousand tiny shards... Know that it was no accident. That was me.The time has come for a change. The time has come for direct action!In case you haven't noticed, petitions and peaceful protests don't do a damn thing. You can't get rid of an icebergh by holding up a match to its tip.We are pawns of our government. We do what we are required to do to feed its greed, and few of us question. And the people who do question don't do much more than that!What has happened? When did we start to TRUST the government? When has the government ever actually proved to be trustworthy? And now what rights we did have are being taken away right under our damn noses and we don't do a frigging thing about it!Let me tell you something. V for Vendetta was a pretty big box office hit, no? Its funny how many people watched that movie and loved it-without giving a second thought as to how it applies to our lives-here and now! I will not get into all the speficS of that here, however, there is one quote from that movie that I would like to stress:"...while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense..." -VThe other quote that I would like to throw out there is this: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. ..." -V
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"Now please pay attention to this, because I'm not going to state it again, and if you don't hear it now much mischief will follow: I believe that the human animal -- the raw material of our physical bodies -- is essentially interchangeable. By this I mean that I could take the children of Fallujah and turn them all into Astronauts, convert Jewish babies into fanatical, mass-murdering SS guards, and shake a generation of the poorest Voodoo-worshippers in Haiti into a cadre of top-flight nuclear physicists, chemical engineers and computer scientists.Race has nothing to do with this -- precisely nothing. The mobs of murdering Hutus and swarms of slaughtering Serbs are as different racially as it is possible to be, and they are cut from precisely the same cloth. " -Bill WhittleLook into their eyes. They are us, and we are them. What have we done to our own kind??...It doesn't have to be like this... We don't have to sit and watch it happen...

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Movers and Shakers.My purpose here is simple: To shake things up. To help you shake things up too. Want to know what you can do to create change? To challenge the system?Ask me. I am no lawyer, and I sure as hell am not a politician. I do not know the ins and outs of the legal system. I am not here to work within that system...I am here to change the whole damn thing...one brick at a time, one person at a time, one dollar at a time...whatever it takes.It is time to take things into our own hands. We can write as many letters to our congressmen as we want, but what good will that do? It is time for direct action. Boycotts. Large protests, civil disobedience in all forms, walk outs, sit ins, and anything else we can think of. Can you think of something else? I want to know. If you have a story about social, political, or economical transformation, I want to hear it. Send it to me, and I will post it in my blog. Have a question? Ask it, and I will post the question and the answer in my blog.Let's start a revolution!

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"Isn't it morbidly ironic that fireflys, by our philosophy and nature, would be one of the most peaceable groups of people on earth. If only we were allowed to live our lives in peace as we see fit. But people feel the need to control us, now we're as dangerous as a wild animal backed into a corner." -- elk"The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war."-- Bill St. Clair

Television:

Where did the phrase "It is funny because it is true" originate from anyway?Got one you want to share? By all means, send it on in.

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Speak out and speak up

As the purpose of my profile is largely to encourage discussion and to provoke thought and response, I am posting one of the first reponses that I have received.I would like to hear what each and ever...
Posted by Cassandra on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:59:00 PST

Capitalism

A Parable by Leo TolstoyI see mankind as a herd of cattle inside a fenced enclosure. Outside the fence are green pastures and plenty for the cattle to eat, while inside the fence there is not quite gr...
Posted by Cassandra on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:05:00 PST

"The Internationale"

(English translation of the original French lyrics by Eugene Pottier in 1870)Arise, the damned of the earth,Arise, prisoners of hunger,For reason thunders in its crater,It is the eruption of the end!L...
Posted by Cassandra on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:31:00 PST