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In reply to the discussion: Obama is BOUND BY LAW to prosecute torture. [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Welcome aboard --
At least here you'll always know where you stand. No illusions. No false promises. No one can ever claim to be better than you because he has a badge or a title.
It's a startling thought, I know. I felt it too; but soon enough the shock will fade and it actually may begin to feel quite comfortable. Liberating, even.
I know. I know. "We can't have anarchy because then we'd have -- ANARCHY!" Don't let the System lie to you. Anarchists can still come together to build roads, run a fire department, build and stock libraries and even defend each other. What they can't -- won't -- do is affix a piece of shiny metal on their shirts and claim special demands on your life and property that you are not entitled to make against them in return.
Don't think that is how the System really works?
Suppose Obama never holds the offenders to account? Who will hold Obama to account?
What happens if that party, in turn, is in dereliction of its duty?
And then?
And then?
And so on.
But what would happen to you if you tried to hold them to account?
Wait. What? You mean we've assembled this massive apparatus of the nation-state, promulgated it to every corner of the world to govern every facet of our lives and all it does is surround those administering it with cops and soldiers that will protect those administering it more than those whom it tortures?
YES!
The victims of the System are more liable to be punished under the colors of the System for seeking the protections promised to them under the System than those who flout the decrees of the very same System in order to torture.
Why?
Because those who are abused by the system are abused in the name of protecting the System, not those under its aegis. It cannot be claimed with a straight face that the System abuses in order to protect the people because the people are the ones being abused.
And changing administration of the system is a vain hope. Remember when we were promised Change? I do. Yet, here we are.
The only thing you can change is -- you; and how much do you even need to change since you already see the infuriating hypocrisy of it all. Change yourself. Govern yourself. That is all any person should be allowed to govern and then we will meet each other as true equals...not as masters and servants jockeying for position but as friends and neighbors.
If my words are lacking I offer nothing more except an outstretched hand and a smile.