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art guerrilla

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 05:23 PM

gee, good question...

GG, once one realizes the truth of the above, your columns no longer have the power to shock. Only the question arises, what do we replace the current mess with, and how?

-- macgupta

"by any means necessary..."

malcom x

*IF* we had a functioning media, mayhaps they could wake up the sheeples...

hee hee hee

*IF* we had a functioning gummint, mayhaps they would self-police...

ho ho ho

*IF* we had a justice system that wasn't oxymoronic, mayhaps the constitution would mean something...

ha ha ha

but we don't, what *do* that leave us li'l peeps ? ? ?

ak ak ak

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

(archaic document no longer applicable)

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

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