Re: VOICES OF DISSENT: ACTIVISM & AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Yes my dear. I hear you.
What's always a bit daunting for me in these forums is the knowledge that we are singing to the choir.
I know you understand the song I sing to you. You picked up the harmony right away. I understand yours as well and can harmonize to your music. I appreciate your efforts.
We are all awake and aware here. I was not at that 2003 protest in question but I was at a different one that day. I was not shot at. I was interviewed. It was not Amerika. However it's happening with more frequency in the "civilized" first and second world countries.
Not less frequency.
The sheeple might be accustomed to the loss of their freedoms like frogs become accustomed to the temperature of slowly heating water in a pot on a stove until they boil but me? I was thrown into a boiling pot as a tadpole and leapt out and so now?
I am hyper aware of when I am being placed in a cold pot of water.
I tend to jump out automatically. I don't stick around to see what happens. I know what's going to happen.
Most of us on these forums didn't just jump off the turnip truck so now what?
What the hell do most of us we ever do on these forums except sing to the choir. We post these videos and linked articles of our freedoms being eroded, and other people voicing their dissent and being fired at by those whom we pay to serve and protect us.
The man who posted his tiny little loved ones trauma at the hands of the TSA on U Tube is being proactive. He's mad as hell and I bet he's not going to take it any more. He didn't take it up with the chimp and get locked up and lose a very expensive flight and accommodations to Disney World with the family.
He took his anger to You Tube. People saw it. They commented. I showed it to my family. We discussed it.
How are we going to change the status quo
here at UP? First things first: we can agree to quit fighting amongst our brethren, form a circle, pass around a talking stick and a peace pipe, of our choice, and try to Unite our People.
If it can be done here, that's fine with me. If there's a better platform somewhere, fine and dandy too.
If it can't be done? Then I'm done.
Enough of our petty squabbling from forum to forum and let's
ACTIVATE ourselves.
Coalesce.
I can imagine a coalition of the willing and committed working here. Or somewhere. I will lend my full support to this vision of a United People.
Not to more of the same old same old.
No disrespect to anyone on this forum who is doing their best to awaken me and others to things going on in the world and corruption and corporate greed etc., but seriously by the time I got here? I was on my 4th cup of coffee.
I'm wide awake.
Now what?