Gillette

I'm a super friendly, idealistic, open-minded, outgoing, loyal and sociable person. I like nothing more than to hang out with my friends, drink, watch movies, listen to music, play guitar, meet new people, drive for the fun of driving, do outdoor activities, play sports, and read - among a million other things. Traveling the world is my passion; I've been to Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tahiti, Iceland, England, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Malta. Also, I am highly political - very liberal. I graduated from the UW in '06. Life is short, so live it up. My house is the party house and you're all invited when I have parties.
“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
-Hermann Göring (Nazi) 1946 Confessions (Nuremberg Diary)
Hmph... sounds like the Bush administration!
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me... and by that time, there was no one to speak up for anyone." -- Martin Niemoeller, Pastor, German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church (1892-1984)
“We’ve got to regain knowledge again, and we’ve got to regain an understanding again, of who we are. Not just those chosen to fuel systems, but individuals who have the power to criticize and analyze, and attack injustice when it becomes prevalent and apparent in front of our faces like it is in ours right now. We’ve been all put to sleep. Put to sleep by a system. A system that continues to perpetrate ignorance amongst our spirit and amongst our minds. One that wants you not to act. A system that would rather see all of you at that bar drinking beer filling your minds being put to sleep with beer or with drugs rather than acting against it and fighting a system which has been perpetrating imperialist lies and other fucking bullshit for five hundred years. So drink up or wake up. You’re part of the solution or you’re part of the fuckin’ problem. I am sick and tired of my own complacence in my life and I know I’m fuckin’ sick of yours. So wake up and stop fuckin’ sleeping. Wake up.”
-Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine
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