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Fire Walk With Me

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Sat Dec 24, 2011, 12:46 PM Dec 2011

I believe I need to make a quick clarification about my views, please. [View all]

When I discuss the #Occupy General Assembly (eventually and hopefully) replacing the government, I am talking evolution and the will of the people as they regain and utilize their voice. I love America and I am non-violent. What I don't love and wish to see changed, is this fascism:

"We’re seeing Washington and Wall Street working so closely together that you really can’t tell the difference between them...The government officials we are trusting and paying to look out for Americans are using those positions to get really nice, high-paying jobs in private-sector places, including Wall Street, that are effectively being used as bribes." - Leah Goodman, The Asylum

www.zerohedge.com/contributed/twas-friday-christmas (Thank you to DUer elehhhhna for this.)

I am not saying we need to be violent. I am not saying we need to storm the government. I AM saying we need to continue to STAND UP AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT AND BE HIGHLY VOCAL ABOUT IT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN PURCHASED and we have descended into true fascism. Those who have bought the government are attempting to use its lawmaking branch to stifle all Constitutional rights, so THEY may continue to be able to control and prosper. They have overthrown our government, the government of the people, for the people, by the people. They are treasonous. We are demanding an end to this. They will resist. We will resist with even more strength. Or we will have fascism, with its corresponding iron fist into the faces of the average American (see the bills these very people are attempting to pass to create laws protecting and empowering themselves, such as SOPA, the NDAA, etc.). Under these laws, THEY will be able to call anyone who resists their fascism, a terrorist, THEY will control what we can see and hear...and eventually, what we can do.

Anonymous: Night Raid Equipment-Maker Lobbied for NDAA, Singles Out Sen. Rob Portman.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/19/1046972/-Anonymous-Uncovers-Night-Raid-Equipment-Maker-Donations-From-NDAA-Supporter-to-Sen-Rob-Portman

#Occupy. Speak up and call them on their usurpation. Make them slink back under their rock. If you are voting or working to elect "authorities", make CERTAIN they aren't just another Scott Walker in sheep's clothing. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance! Money out of politics, return politics to the people!

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I would like to take exception to everything you say here. Jackpine Radical Dec 2011 #1
If our current government was 'true fascism' as you said... randome Dec 2011 #2
Once again, it doesn't have to be full blown fascism socialist_n_TN Dec 2011 #3
he's never lived in a facsist state. demosincebirth Dec 2011 #9
I'd recommend a few books by actual political sciencitists of where we are nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #19
An Aaron Burr mask might be more appropriate Downwinder Dec 2011 #4
Hmph. Fire Walk With Me Dec 2011 #11
Vidal had a different take. Downwinder Dec 2011 #12
Oh, now that's interesting! Fire Walk With Me Dec 2011 #16
for what it's worth, barbtries Dec 2011 #5
100% agree with this. n/t 2pooped2pop Dec 2011 #6
Agreed....IMO we evolve or we become extinct. Magoo48 Dec 2011 #7
Fascism doesn't have to be violent to be fascism. Sheldon Wollin calls it "inverted totalitarianism" Citizen Worker Dec 2011 #8
Whchi is what we now live in, just my opinion of course. sarcasmo Dec 2011 #15
K&R (nt) T S Justly Dec 2011 #10
There are many who will not acknowledge problems, much less seek to solve them TheKentuckian Dec 2011 #13
Who are you? tabasco Dec 2011 #14
You shouldn't. I'm just clarifying because I have recently been dangerously misinterpreted. Fire Walk With Me Dec 2011 #17
Merry Christmas you crazy bastard!!! greytdemocrat Dec 2011 #18
Unfortunately they will not listen to reason and will not change. Quartermass Dec 2011 #20
What he said tavalon Dec 2011 #21
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