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Originally Posted by tesla69
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I find this post by resident nutball tesla69 especially telling. If you explore the link, it's fairly sensationalized copy on that page.
What don't you understand, tesla69?
If you march around in an unlawful assembly, it doesn't matter what document you're reading from! Duh!
This so reminds me of the ingrate down in Gainesville who got tased at the Kerry speech.
In the video at the landing page, what we see is a bunch of spoiled rotten kids playing a little game of "political activism" for the benefit of the camera. These brats have no knowledge of how to bring their message to people, nor do they care or even have an intelligent message in the first place. All they care about is getting their kicks and making a video for dissemination on YouTube and the like.
And don't get the sense that I'm just taking easy pot shots at today's generation. The Yippies and the Merry Pranksters back in the sixties were just as immature and misinformed with no real answers or direction. They claimed they wanted to "shake things up," to let their "freak flag fly" as a show of protest and irreverence, but any concerned individual (& let's face facts, people, it's time to get
very seriously concerned) knows that one must be (a) informed to a fault, and (b) respectful to authority to a fault, to get anything accomplished. It seems people understood this concept intrinsically during the early sixties with the Civil Rights Movement, but that a bunch of yahoos began to make careers out of being leftist fruit loops in their stead later on in the sixties, and that this is, unfortunately, a fucked-up tradition that continues to this very day.
In October 2006, the 2007 John Warner Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5122) was signed into law. Outlined in this legislation are expansions of the powers of the Insurrection Act, which allow the President and the President alone (without the approval of Congress or any state or local authority being necessary) to authorize the deployment of National Guard troops within the borders of the United States to combat unlawful assemblies of protesters, illegal aliens and "undesirables" in general. The same law also contains an equally disturbing provision granting the President emergency powers in a time of national crisis or emergency that supersede any state or local authority.
So, apparently, none of the posters in this thread (that feign concern) have any kind of clue at all as to the mechanism providing for eventual possible realities of a police state in the U.S., since this law
has not been mentioned in this topic.
What seems a horrible possibility is that more attacks may be allowed to happen. In the aftermath, protesters may be squelched under the Warner provisions. And chances are, the authorities will be using the
Raytheon Silent Guardian on the crowds.
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But, thank goodness that everyone is not a complete idiot. This guy actually has sense:
Serious Change: dress like you're going to the most important job interview of your life
September 30, 2007 11:10 AM
Seriously pissed? How about serious change? Decades from now, no one will accuse our generation of
not protesting enough, but you'll probably be making excuses for
how we did it. No offense to those who
have protested this way- your heart's in the right place and you've probably given lots of time and money to doing the right thing- but what if you're not helping? What if hundreds of thousands of people turned out in their very best, most serious clothes, with no puppets, no "clever" home-made signs, and no instruments?
It's worked before. As
Matt Taibbi put it in AdBusters (
previously on MeFi),
"Next thing you know, you’ve got guys on stilts wearing mime makeup and Cat-in-the-Hat striped top-hats leading a half-million people at an anti-war rally. Why is that guy there? Because no one told him that war is a matter of life and death and that he should leave his fucking stilts at home." These things always
start small, but who knows? This is serious- let's act like it. If you wouldn't bring it or wear it to your grandmother's funeral, leave it at home.
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