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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2014, 01:07 AM Sep 2014

WTF ...127




We live in a bizarre society.

A society in which we lock up people for doing certain drugs, yet it it perfectly legal to walk into a store or bar and buy even more dangerous alcohol.

A society in which we spend more on the military than we do on feeding, clothing, or educating our children.

A society in which we feed on the babies of our fellow creatures, yet recoil in horror when we learn of crimes against our own children.

A society that tolerates hatred, violence, bigotry, and cruelty in the name of freedom.


A society that embraces and extols gods and myths, while ignoring the plights of people and animals. Especially people and animals that aren't within our borders.

How do we change all this?
How do we wake people up?
How do we make people look into a mirror to see what they have become?

Shake folks awake!
Put the truth in front of their noses.
Point out the obscenities which are accepted as normal.
Press tracts into their hands.
Books into their laps.
Videos onto their screens.

That breakast you're eating is someone's baby.
That snack was a life.
That shoe was some poor creature's skin.
That person you sent to jail is your neighbor's son.
That child you do not want to feed is just like your own.
The Republican you voted for is giving billions to corporations.
That Conservative you supported is passing laws making it illegal to report animal cruelty.
That Congressman you meet at the Rotary Club is killing wild horses.
The preacher you listen to on Sundays wants to make this a theocratic state and outlaw women's reproductive healthcare.

Most will ignore us.
But a few will listen.
Some who listen may agree.
Some who agree will join us.
Many who join us will help others.

Most will ignore us. But so what?
The world was never changed by the majority.
It has always been changed by a tiny fraction of the population.
Radicals.
Liberals.
Visionaries.

It is why we no longer live in caves or dance around fires.
Why people are no longer stoned or crucified.
Why we no longer have kings or conquerors.
Why slavery is no longer.
Why people can vote.
Why the world is ours to change.

http://www.leftwingradiostations.com/#!inmates-running-the-asylum/c1m05

And it is why sooner rather than later ISIS or whatever the fuck you want to call them will no longer exist ...
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