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DeSwiss

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14. I don't know why all the hubbub.....
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 09:09 PM
Dec 2011

...since we've been living in a POLICE STATE for quite some time now. Since the beginning, really. That's because property ownership and Capitalism was always at the center of what was of most importance in this business of ours. And as long as it remained that way, we were never truly free.

I suppose such a blatant act such as this one, where there is no longer any pretense being made as to who holds the power in this country, may have FINALLY aroused the few brain cells that remained in denial (not everyone, of course - some still cling to HOPE!). But the disconnect between what the laws said and what was happening in reality should have been apparent. To anyone who was awake.

However, I now fear that for us to right this wrong, it will cost much in bloodshed. But of course bloodshed is what this is all about. And it will be shed one way on another.

- It's just a matter of how much and whose......

K&R

"Americans like to talk about Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there."

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

~Frank Zappa~


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