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whether it is doktors, or lawyers, or kongresskritters, or bloggers, or the fed, or police...
transparency in gummint (and a functional watchdog -not lapdog- media) are absolutely essential to preventing systemic corruption...
'self-policing' is absolutely guaranteed to produce a corrupt system...
'self-policing' is another means of power elites hiding, codifying, and allowing abuse and corruption for the sake of maintaining their authoritarian systems, and preventing ANY and ALL criticisms that would logically lead to devolving their stranglehold on societal power...
you see, even if it is harmlessly revealed that naturally 'A' follows 'B', that could lead skeptical sheeple to then question whether 'C' follows that, and so forth ! ! !
that inevitably leads to conclusion 'Z' (revolution) ! ! !
*now* you see why it is so vital to stifle even the teeniest tiniest of harmless little camel noses (like single-payer healthcare) from getting in the not-so-big tent of allowable discourse...
*obviously*, that would start stupid li'l sheeples thinking they might actually run things around here, and we can't have that ! ! !
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ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
come the revolution, gated communities won't save you...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
artguerrilla@windstream.net
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leading to one of two conclusions, either:
1. 'our best and brightest' consistently make stupid, irrational, counter-productive decisions that don't benefit society (but -just randomly and by coincidence- consistently benefit the power elites and their interests)
OR
2. 'our best and brightest' are corrupted, coopted, and conditioned to serve power elite interests above all else...
guess what ?
it's not 1...
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ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla@windstream.net
eof
which is why they are required when roughnecking on the space shuttle gantry at kennedy space center...
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ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla@windstream.net
eof
1. zelikow is highly suspect for a number of reasons; my k-k-k-konspiratorial thinking, is that he is positioning himself to steer and defang any/all 'twuff commissions'/etc that *may* still result...
if so, he -as an insider/player/decision-maker of the events in question!- will perform *just* as he did with the nine one one commish: don't ask, don't tell...
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2. doesn't the constant hand-wringing wear the skin off ? ? ? stop it... calm down...
you are NOT going to show our power elites how they are in 'error', that is pointless... (don't you know they have 'beautiful minds' and don't really hear the mewlings of li'l peeps ?)their immoral equation (that you can't imagine civilized nekkid apes using) ALWAYS tilts to their favor, NOT to quaint concepts of 'the greatest good for the greatest number', etc...
'truth', 'justice', 'the american way', 'rule of law', etc, etc, etc have ZERO meaning for them, UNLESS they can use the rigged system against you; otherwise such platitudes are for the propaganda viktims and losers...
ho ho ho
3. again: it is NOT for lack of information, lack of smarts, lack of capability, lack of expertise, lack of constitutional knowledge that prevents our Fearless Leaders (tm) from 'doing the right thing'; it is lack of vision and guts to reject the power elite's agenda and the proscribed, allowable limits of debate and social action which they control...
ha ha ha
4. survival tip: i recommend 'open-pollinated' or 'heriloom' varieties for your garden, hybrids won't do you much good for seeds after the first season...
ak ak ak
come the revolution, everyone will have organic gardens...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla@windstream.net
eof
1. the point of the military either siding with or laying off a citizen uprising is extremely important... we can go constitutional convention (locking out the power elites); or we can go antietam... the choice (as usual) is the power elites...
2. ohmoo made a valid point in regard to how if a protestor falls in the free-speech pen, but no media report it, does it make a difference ? ? ?
korporate media essentially kontrol public opinion (or lack thereof)... there is no mass movement, there is no public outcry, there is no pressure upon our Fearless Leaders, there is no 'popular movement', UNLESS 'our' (sic) infotainment industry says so ! ! !
(besides the fact that 'public outcry' is essentially inoperable in political terms: no, do you have a PAC that can bundle/funnel millions of votes, er, ducats to fat, lazy pols ? *that* is what matters in this corrupted system...)
3. as i've pointed out previously: it DOES NOT matter if a group of protestors are 100% non-violent; The Man (tm) WILL see you as violent the nanosecond you start making a difference, violent or not... (if not have undercover goons provocateur/reichstag your movement)
4. in regards to some kampers putting their hopey-changey eggs in the inertnet basket for samizdat-style dissemination; um, you do know that obama the magnificent and krewe have ushered in new -you know- anti-tourism shit that 'allows' them to shut down the inertnet tubes for whatever reason they happen to feel like ? ? ? you know, our hero, making sure we don't communicate -you know- terroristically... its for our own good...
(now shutup and bailout your betters...)
5. again: is it 'our best and brightest' don't realize the things we sheeple with an inertnet connection do ? ? ?
OR, is it that the system is totally corrupted beyond redemption ? ? ?
uh oh, *NOW* what do you do ? ? ?
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla@windstream.net
eof