I am enraged.
I cannot stand to sit one more minute under this regime. Revolution, I say! Yes, it has come to this. We have been stripped willingly of our power to decide our future. And yes, I accept the possibility of being sent to a secret prison camp for what I think and what I say. It is treason for an administration that is all about loyalty. Keep silent, obey your master. Good dog, have a bone. Or some oil you may prefer.
That the current executive is immoral is common knowledge. But to see the legislative go down the drain enrages me. This was our last bastion of truth, of hope, of morality. And now, I see people debating the interpretation of laws written by others, the twisting of laws, instead of debating what is fundamentally moral and what the laws should be. Where is our power to vote on laws? How long before simple online referendums are implemented, with free public secure booths? Most americans may be of lesser intelligence than an average slashdotter, but they still have a right to govern themselves and vote on basic laws. Where is the outrage when the president is elected not by the people but by a select few high electors, who spit in the face of the public and their will? Are we but sheep, to be trampled, to be let where they will, and to talk between ourselves in hushed voices but in the end without actions significant? How can we sit, basking in the glow of our LCDs, while they laugh at us and our complacence, and reap the benefits of raping both US citizens and the world? If we do not stop Bush (and his army of profiteers and loyals) by force before the end of his rule, what kind of example are we setting for posterity? There is precious little time left. What is to to stop the Bush monarchy to implement a controlled minion as next president, as Putin did with Medvedev?
How can politicians promise policies that differ completely once they are in office, as we stand by powerless? Where is accountability? We need to reclaim our power to decide our fate ourselves.
This we will accomplish by voting directly on laws and destroying all these politicians, all these middlemen so cunning that they have us believing they are actually useful. And what now?
To the streets, I say! Let their greedy heads fall, and let us reclaim our right to live free and govern ourselves, and no longer live in fear of our own government!
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I am enraged.
I cannot stand to sit one more minute under this regime. Revolution, I say! Yes, it has come to this. We have been stripped willingly of our power to decide our future. And yes, I accept the possibility of being sent to a secret prison camp for what I think and what I say. It is treason for an administration that is all about loyalty. Keep silent, obey your master. Good dog, have a bone. Or some oil you may prefer.
That the current executive is immoral is common knowledge. But to see the legislative go down the drain enrages me. This was our last bastion of truth, of hope, of morality. And now, I see people debating the interpretation of laws written by others, the twisting of laws, instead of debating what is fundamentally moral and what the laws should be. Where is our power to vote on laws? How long before simple online referendums are implemented, with free public secure booths? Most americans may be of lesser intelligence than an average slashdotter, but they still have a right to govern themselves and vote on basic laws. Where is the outrage when the president is elected not by the people but by a select few high electors, who spit in the face of the public and their will? Are we but sheep, to be trampled, to be let where they will, and to talk between ourselves in hushed voices but in the end without actions significant?
How can we sit, basking in the glow of our LCDs, while they laugh at us and our complacence, and reap the benefits of raping both US citizens and the world? If we do not stop Bush (and his army of profiteers and loyals) by force before the end of his rule, what kind of example are we setting for posterity? There is precious little time left. What is to to stop the Bush monarchy to implement a controlled minion as next president, as Putin did with Medvedev?
How can politicians promise policies that differ completely once they are in office, as we stand by powerless? Where is accountability? We need to reclaim our power to decide our fate ourselves. This we will accomplish by voting directly on laws and destroying all these politicians, all these middlemen so cunning that they have us believing they are actually useful.
And what now?
To the streets, I say! Let their greedy heads fall, and let us reclaim our right to live free and govern ourselves, and no longer live in fear of our own government!