Posted on 02/20/2011 9:12:42 PM PST by TheConservativeCitizen
Have you heard the term Globalrev yet? You may want to acclimate yourself with the term because, it seems like every time I look up, there’s another country in the throes of making some equality for those on the bottom. Personally, I thought it was going to start with one of the P.I.I.G.S. countries (I had my money on Greece). Instead it fired off in the middle east and, it’s spreading like a wildfire. It’s exactly like I’ve been saying for years;“You can only keep your foot on a people’s neck for so long before they feel vindicated in coming to kill you and take back what they feel is theirs.” Something more true has seldom been said although I tend believe more progress gets made (and fewer people get hurt) with the nonviolent variety of revolution. You win more people with nonviolence and, when the other side engages in beatings or worse, you tend to gain support via sympathy as well.
Whether you’re a liberal or conservative leader these days, odds are you can probably feel the sweat rolling down your brow and back in uneasy expectation. It seems as though there is a tidal wave beginning to sweep the globe and I, for one, am happy to finally see the backlash coming. With the wealthy getting wealthier and the poor also becoming more so for decades, it seems as though the time has finally come for many of the folks who feel like second and third-class citizens to rise up and get theirs. When 1% of the world’s population controls more than 90% of the money and resources, what would you expect?
I’m sure leaders in this country have been waiting for this to happen here for a few years now. Some say that the secret session of congress back in March of 2008 was about precisely that. And that was before bailouts, Obamacare, bank failures, and the almost simultaneous collapse of housing, the stock market and, employment! I’d hate to be a member of congress now, just waiting for the other shoe to drop! How would you like to be waiting for the business end of a pitchfork? No thank you. I can’t even imagine!
I’m all about people taking to the streets to express their displeasure for the inequalities they feel, so long as they’re doing it peacefully. With the advent of all the social media and the speed with which it travels, it seems like it’s only a matter of time before this happens everywhere there’s any kind of necessary redress. But here we come up against a very serious problem in this country….our first amendment right;our freedom of speech.
It’s come to my attention recently that there are a great deal of political and business leaders trying to stifle both access and bandwidth when it comes to the internet. Being a constitutionalist, I’m unnerved by some of the talk flying around Washington about an “internet kill switch.” It seems like ever since 9-11, there’s been more and more of an erosion of rights. There are actually people that are willing to give up their hard won freedoms to feel safe! Benjamin Franklin said it best when he wrote “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” I could not have said it better myself.
Your friend and mine, Joe Lieberman (please note sarcasm), was the first person I heard this from. A more callow individual I can not imagine and these words coming from his mouth doesn’t surprise me one bit. If someone were to tell me that there was a member of the Senate trying to make an internet kill switch happen without telling me who it was, I would have guessed ol’ Casper Milktoast right away. What surprises me even less is that Obama is in favor of it. And one of my biggest pet peeves, seems like every time there’s another bit of freedom we need to rescind, we get beaten over the head with the fear hammer of terrorism.
If it is precisely because of our freedom that we’re hated, why would we then stifle it? It seems to me that, with the advent of globalrev, and the idea of an internet kill switch happening in such close proximity, I’m not entirely convinced that one didn’t spawn the other. With the members of congress looking over their shoulder and waiting for the other shoe to drop I’m hardly surprised either. How else could people in Washington retard the onset of the people rising up to express their unhappiness over the state of things? Not only that, but what could be easier and more effective?
I’ve already called, written an email and a letter to my reps in Washington. I can’t stand aside and let them stifle the voice of the people just when it’s about to count more than it has in a generation. And I’m afraid that’s exactly the outcome that’s desired.
Btt
Is this mishmash actually supposed to say something intelligible??
“some equality for those on the bottom”
In an ideal world, this would be what is happening, but we don’t live there. In our world, a small, well-funded group of conspirators indoctrinate, cajole, lie to and pay a larger group of useful idiots to put on a “downtrodden peasant” show. It’s been going on since the French revolution.
And it’s all so that the biggies of this world can secure their grip of control on the rest of us. It’s done with lies and money.
Equality is produced by effort.
No effort, no equality.
Inequality is the child of laziness
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