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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Pops » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 15:16:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', ' ')If there's any blame to go around, it's us voting citizens who put some of these guys in power, not our military, who should receive the blame.

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But the greater blame goes to those who partake of the fruits of democracy and efforts of those who serve but contrive excuses for not participating.

It is funny to me those people actively attempt to undermine the very process which allows them their freedom and prosperity instead of sitting back and just mooching.


I guess it is the Tragedy of the Common writ large via cheap energy and easy living.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby rattleshirt » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 15:57:26

I am glad to live where I live and love my land and my friends and family. I consider all nation-states and these bizarre corporate entities to be enemies of freedom and usurpers of power. Though the degree varies. Nonetheless, for me my loyalty is to my people and land and I will act as best for them. Note: When I say land I mean presicely that.


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For the makers of graves,
The builders of Empire,
The takers of slaves.
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While his kinsmen
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Along the shoreside.

For there's fire in the Glen...

So beware of our banners,
And their Generals lies,
There's no glory for the poor man,
No glittering prize."

From the song "Fire in the Glen"
Remember every mighty oak tree started with some nut who stood their ground.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Quinny » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:07:19

So if your country commits international war crimes you should be proud?

and if you're not, you should leave the country?

Surely as a patriot you should stay and try and sort the situation out!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlexdeLarge', 'A')s an American, regardless of your political persuasion or beliefs, if you find you cannot be proud of your Country on this day........you have a serious problem and should consider other abodes.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby mos6507 » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:46:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', '
')Surely as a patriot you should stay and try and sort the situation out!


But didn't you hear? You CAN'T sort the situation out. the NWO/Illuminati are all-powerful. All one can do is wallow in the sacred bliss of eternally impotent victimhood with other likeminded martyrs.

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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Quinny » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:54:34

The operative word was TRY.

As a socialist in a capitalist system, I've been trying for years. :)
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Pops » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:57:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o if your country commits international war crimes you should be proud?

I haven't said I'm proud of everything done have I?

Simply that I'm proud of that to which we aspire.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Schmuto » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 16:57:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', ' ')If there's any blame to go around, it's us voting citizens who put some of these guys in power, not our military, who should receive the blame.


It is funny to me those people actively attempt to undermine the very process which allows them their freedom and prosperity instead of sitting back and just mooching.


I consider it distant from the truth that voting "allows me" my "freedom and prosperity".

I have my freedom and prosperity despite the charade of voting in America.

To be clear, just because we are less enslaved than most people does not mean that we are free.

I have little doubt that the Founding Fathers would guffaw at the notion that what we have today is "freedom."

We are cordoned off into wire mesh cages for our "protests."

The FBI and CIA can wiretap us without warrants.

Our library loans and bookstore purchases can be monitored without our consent.

This is not to mention the economic enslavement, which includes a private bank controlling the money supply, private bankers controlling government and receiving taxpayer money directly for payment of bad bank dept and bonuses, and corporate interests owning politicians.

I say it again, for all to hear - whatever "freedom" we now enjoy is based purely on the momentum of the last 200 years.

A couple of planes and 2,000 or so deaths resulted in us allowing our executive to seize previously-shocking controls that they had not possessed before.

And the situation continues to deteriorate.

Your civil rights are waning, and they will be gone soon. I encourage each of you to enjoy them while you have them.

Toilet paper, hot water on demand, taco Bell at 2 am. These things are lovely, perhaps, but you will not miss them nearly as much as you'll miss your "freedom."

When the conversation we have had here, regardless of whether you agree with me, will be illegal.

It'll be here very soon now. Couple more scare tactics - a terrorist bomb goes off here. A Chicago mob comprising thousands of unemployed are put down at gunpoint. A couple bombs go off there. The next great lie - that of "home grown" terrorists - becomes everyday language.

And it's all gone. And you have as many rights as a Russian citizen circa 1971.

And then you had better keep your mouth shut - all of you. Because the people who post here are, by nature, officious blabbers. You know who you are.

The time will be here soon. You've prepped physically. You've got your butter guns and beans.

How about your mind?

Are you ready for a world where the Feds can kick in your door anytime they want for any reason and . . .

there's nothing you can do about it other than to try to grovel the proper amount?

That day will be here soon.

Pops is a good man. But he's a remnant. He's probably 60 something, maybe pushing 70. He comes from a generation that was fed more patriotic beat-the-commis bull-sh-t than any have since.

I can forgive him for refusing to come to terms with where the country is at, and, more importantly, where it is headed.

You don't have any liberty. You don't have any freedom.

What you have is a momentary respite from the omnipresent weight of the oppression of the monied interests. That respite was provided by cheap oil.

I hope you are well rested, because the mass will soon be reaffixed to you back.

To conclude - the fatal flaw in Pops' 1950s-style patriotism is that Pops actually believes that our military keeps us free.

Think about that. Pops believes that if we immediately shrunk the military by 95% our "freedom" would be at risk.

But a moment's consideration should lead anybody who is young and unindoctrinated to the quite obvious conclusion that there is no tangible risk from any foreign power to American sovereignty nor could there be any time in the near future, that terrorism is, at worst, a bee stinging an elephant and never will be more than that, notwithstanding guys in the desert somewhere training on jungle gyms, and that the ultimate threat to our "freedom" is standing right next to you.

While you scrutinize the horizon so carefully for the enemy of liberty, your massive armies, which cost more than all the world's other armies combined, with your depleted uranium tank shells and your tactical nuclear bombs, you've missed the devil at your heels.

You have had your vision fixed so long on imagined threats from abroad that you have not considered that our house is not in order.

We are the threat, not them.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Nickel » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 17:09:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'W')e Brits were once the worlds policeman. Now its the turn of the USA. Would you trust the Russians or Chinese in a similar role ??.


Why not? We trusted Churchill. Good lord. :)
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Heineken » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 17:50:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', 'S')o if your country commits international war crimes you should be proud?

I haven't said I'm proud of everything done have I?

Simply that I'm proud of that to which we aspire.


But to what do "we" aspire? (And who's "we"?)

A McDonald's on every block in the world?

Housing developments to every horizon?

All backed by "soft power"?

I honestly don't know.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Quinny » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 18:22:16

Churchill - sends troops against miners. Sounds like 'Little Steel'

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nickel', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'W')e Brits were once the worlds policeman. Now its the turn of the USA. Would you trust the Russians or Chinese in a similar role ??.


Why not? We trusted Churchill. Good lord. :)
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Pops » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:04:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'B')ut to what do "we" aspire?

Good question Henie.

Tell us your aspirations.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Heineken » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:18:01

Pops, you know my aspirations if you've read my posts.

A carless world of walkable, human-scale small towns full of cottage industries, surrounded by small, family-run organic farms, surrounded in turn by large belts of wilderness before you get to the next small town. A few larger, truly green cities. Everything connected by trains. Minimal government and an emphasis on localism, self-determination, and individual freedom.

Values that frown on growth and would actually celebrate and reward downsizing and deinstitutionalization.

Not what we have, and not what Obama aspires to, which amounts to mo' of the same, or a desperate effort to get back to where we were as an engine of infinite "growth."
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby vision-master » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:37:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ot what we have, and not what Obama aspires to, which amounts to mo' of the same, or a desperate effort to get back to where we were as an engine of infinite "growth."


I wonder how that's gonna work?

Looks more like infinite doom from here on out.
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Byron100 » Tue 20 Jan 2009, 20:38:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'P')ops, you know my aspirations if you've read my posts.

[b]A carless world of walkable, human-scale small towns full of cottage industries, surrounded by small, family-run organic farms, surrounded in turn by large belts of wilderness before you get to the next small town. A few larger, truly green cities. Everything connected by trains. Minimal government and an emphasis on localism, self-determination, and individual freedom.

Values that frown on growth and would actually celebrate and reward downsizing and deinstitutionalization.[/b}

Not what we have, and not what Obama aspires to, which amounts to mo' of the same, or a desperate effort to get back to where we were as an engine of infinite "growth."


I would very much like to have that sort of world too, Heineken. But there's just no possible way we're going to get there from here without a massive, cataclysmic dislocation. And what president is going to willingly oversee such a dramatic change of society?

The reason Obama is "one of them" is simple - the American people just don't have a grasp of what we're faced with. And the government sure as heck is not gonna to face up to it either...lol. Obama, just like any other politician on Capital Hill, is going to keep the game going as long as possible. Real change isn't going to happen from within - it's going to happen when it's forced down upon us.

And Obama is the person that's going to ride that ship right down to the bottom. I'm sure am glad I'm not in his shoes right now... :shock:
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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Heineken » Wed 21 Jan 2009, 10:32:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Byron100', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'P')ops, you know my aspirations if you've read my posts.

[b]A carless world of walkable, human-scale small towns full of cottage industries, surrounded by small, family-run organic farms, surrounded in turn by large belts of wilderness before you get to the next small town. A few larger, truly green cities. Everything connected by trains. Minimal government and an emphasis on localism, self-determination, and individual freedom.

Values that frown on growth and would actually celebrate and reward downsizing and deinstitutionalization.[/b}

Not what we have, and not what Obama aspires to, which amounts to mo' of the same, or a desperate effort to get back to where we were as an engine of infinite "growth."


I would very much like to have that sort of world too, Heineken. But there's just no possible way we're going to get there from here without a massive, cataclysmic dislocation. And what president is going to willingly oversee such a dramatic change of society?

The reason Obama is "one of them" is simple - the American people just don't have a grasp of what we're faced with. And the government sure as heck is not gonna to face up to it either...lol. Obama, just like any other politician on Capital Hill, is going to keep the game going as long as possible. Real change isn't going to happen from within - it's going to happen when it's forced down upon us.

And Obama is the person that's going to ride that ship right down to the bottom. I'm sure am glad I'm not in his shoes right now... :shock:


I don't expect my "vision" to come to pass, Byron. Pops invited me, so I expressed it, naive and utopian as it may sound.

Obama could at least start nudging our collective mindset toward such a rational vision of sustainable stability. He has the power to do that, at least. That would be a start.

However, he's doing no such thing.

Instead . . .

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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Nickel » Wed 21 Jan 2009, 12:55:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'B')ut for Winston we would be drinking cool and clear german beer instead of luke warm cloudy bitter, driving BMW's and Mercedes instead of Rovers and eating many varied varieties of sausages instead of spam. !!!!!!!


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Re: Is no one proud of America?

Unread postby Nickel » Wed 21 Jan 2009, 12:57:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'A') carless world of walkable, human-scale small towns full of cottage industries, surrounded by small, family-run organic farms, surrounded in turn by large belts of wilderness before you get to the next small town. A few larger, truly green cities. Everything connected by trains. Minimal government and an emphasis on localism, self-determination, and individual freedom.


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Re: Is no one proud of America?

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