Bruce Mak

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Member Since: 15/08/2005
Band Members: I think one may clearly see , in the system of customs to be exacted in america by act of parliament , the seeds sown of a total disunion of the two countries , though as yet that event may be at a considerable distance . The course and natural progress seems to be , first , the appointment of needy men as officers , for others do not care to leave England ; then , their necessities make them rapacious , their office makes them proud and insolent , their insolence and rapacity make them odious , and , being conscious that they are hated , they become malicious ; their malice urges them to a continual abuse of the inhabitants in their letters to administration , representing them as disaffected and rebellious , and ( to encourage the use of severity ) as weak , divided , timid , and cowardly . Goverment believes all ; thinks it necessary to support and countenance its officers ; their quarreling with the people is deemed a mark and consequence of their fidelity ; they are therefore more highly rewarded , and this makes their conduct still more insolent and provoking . The resentment of the people will , at times and on particular incidents , burst into outrages and violence upon such offices , and this naturally draws down severity and acts of further oppression from hence . The more the people are dissatisfied the more rigour will be thought necessary ; severe punishments will be inflicted to terrify ; rights and privileges will be abolished ; greater force will then be required to secure execution and submission ; the expense will become enormous ; it will then be thought proper , by fresh exactions , to make the peopel defray it ; thence the British nation and government will become odious , and subjection to it will be no longer tolerable ; war ensues , and the bloody struggle will end in absolute slavery to America or ruin to Britain by the loss of her colonies ; the latter most probable from Americas growing strength and magnitude . I do not pretend to the gift of prophecy . history shows that by these steps great empires have crumbled heretofore ; and the late transactions we have so much to complain of show that we are in the same train , and without a greater share of prudence and wisdom than we have seen both sides to be possessed of we shall probablycome to the same conclusion . BEN FRANKLIN
Influences: J. Krishnamurti , Winston Churchill , Harpo Marx , Ben Franklin , Magic Squares , 444 , 888 1776 , 1332 , Graph Paper , Carlo Rossi , Pepperoncini , Abba Eban , Heritage Civilization and the Jews , Episode 4 , The Crucible of Europe , (9th to 15th Centuries ) , 356 b.c.e. , 1756 c.e. , 2112 , Alexander , Mozart , Calendarix , Bob Marley , Bruce Lee , Ludacris , Nostradamus , Abraham Lincoln , Frank Sinatra , Dizzy Gillespie , To be or not to bop , Ornette Coleman , Gobor Szabo , Sun Ra , Grant Green , Frank Zappa , Qeen - Greatest Hits , Bankei Zen , Translations from the Record of Bankei , by Peter Haskel , Einstein , India , Isaac Asimov , Most religions have said that to kill human beings is the greatest sin. Long before Christianity , the Hindus said this , the Buddhists said it , yet people kill in spite of their belief in God , or their belief in a saviour and so on ; they still pursue the path of killing . Will the reward of heaven change you or the punishment of hell ? That too has been offered to man . And that too has failed . No external imposition , laws , systems , will ever stop the killing of man . Nor will any intellectual , romantic , conviction stop wars . They will stop only when you , as the rest of humanity , see the truth that as long as there is division in any form , there must be conflict , limited or wide , narrow or expansive , that there must be stuggle , conflict , pain . Krishnamurti , Arundhati Roy , The God of Small Things , My Youth , Music , Marx Bros. , Clerks , Team America , Alan Watts , Weather Report , Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism , Lama anagarika Govinda , Randy Rhoads , Ken Nordean , The Yard , Jeff Parker , The Lonious Monk , Stevie Wonder , Fats Waller , Bjork , Billie Holiday , Wesley Willis , Allan Holdsworth , Velvet Darkness , Dreaming , Day Dreaming , Stupid Mean Hatefull People (in a Buddhist kind of way) , Lin Chi , Woody Guthrie , Lurrie Bell , The Impressions , Wes Montgomery , Woody Alen , Sound , X Girlfreds , Past Lives ? , Elvis , Pat Metheny , Kind Sweat Loveing Peopel , Outside Help , Getting Sick , Sunlight , Gonga , Sex , Purcell , Chitramanjari , John Lennon , Ted Nugent , Bob Dylan , Art Tatum , Dalai Lama , Iner and Outer Space , Lies , Bad Weather , W. C. Fields , Charlie Chaplin ,
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