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To: Prodigal Son
I haven't owned a television in 18 years.....
The world is just a different place to me than it is to you- I'm pretty sure about it. And that aint apt to change I don't reckon.

My husband is on a news boycott. He can't believe this country has voted in a Muslim liberal (Black Panther) as a president. It blew him away. He's lost all hope for this country. Unless something changes, he'll still vote Conservative, but he'll just stand back and let the damages fall where they may. He doesn't want to hear about them.

He says he'd rather stay in his happy place instead and wait it out.

157 posted on 05/01/2009 9:11:57 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics
He can't believe this country has voted in a Muslim liberal (Black Panther) as a president.

Where do you get your information from? First of all, Obama isn't/wasn't a Black Panther, although his Weather Underground pals were allied with them in their war against America. Second, the Black Panthers were communist revolutionaries, not "Muslim liberals". Third, Obama is a 20-plus year student of Wright's "Black Liberation Theology". BLT advocates the communist overthrow of capitalism. Farrakhan's "Nation Of Islam" is nothing more than a BLT communist front movement. Commies have concocted these and other 'religions' to advance the communist cause.

From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):

http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about
Wright's "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

Hint...

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

158 posted on 05/01/2009 9:30:58 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: concerned about politics
I can understand your husband.

For me, it was just the realisation that the news media is designed to agitate me. This realisation only really hit me after several years without the television. My initial realisation was that living without television advertising was a hugely liberating experience. Then I got to seeing how the news media has perfected the art of 'reaching out and grabbing you' and not letting go.

Obviously, this is tied to advertising as well (viewer numbers) but then when you couple it with the idea that the news media are just as much in the people control business as the government it became like this big epiphany for me. That was a long time ago.

I don't miss the television at all. I read the paper. I keep up with things. But it just doesn't have that same 'hot effect' like a live telecast does.

I find that living life like this makes me focus more on my immediate environment and the people in my life. I'm a bit of a parametric determinist in that sense. I try to focus more on the range of choices I actually have rather than on things that (as I see it) are at this point 'irresistable forces' moving under their own inertia.

You know what I mean? I can bring a girl a flower when she wasn't expecting one or smile at one and tell her she's beautiful when I can see she doesn't hear that too often. I can stop long enough to show a child how to do something or to point out to him/her why what they're doing isn't such a good idea. I can keep my word to the people around me and make good on promises to my friends. These things have an immediate impact on me and the people around me.

I've just given up on politics. I try to enjoy what life I have left while I can- and while the government still allows people to travel. If a civil war ever kicks off again, I reckon I'll come home and pick a side and spend my ammo and maybe my life. That's about all I can do. But it just sort of starts to feel like anything anybody could do only amounts to pissing upwind.

Maybe if this 'Singularity' thing actually happens in my lifetime I can live long enough to see a different and better world. But I'm not banking on that one...

160 posted on 05/01/2009 9:50:59 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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