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Date Posted: 21:11:03 05/20/02 Mon
Author: The Serpent
Subject: Re: Did Ghandi live within a democratic republic?
In reply to: Drummond 's message, "The great thing about democracy Sue" on 00:25:16 05/20/02 Mon

Yeah, we got democracy, but we never use it. Even socialist, communist, and monarchies use their human rights to fight and get something. Perhaps they aren't as lazy, and aren't fed an un-ending diet of false patriotism.

And look at what that's done for them, as a simple spark starting fires throughout history all over the world. Hell, I'll even give Americans credit for stopping the Vietnam War. Slowly (but surely) we got rid of the first Nixon.

The whole Berkeley free speech movement wasn't planned, it just happened. When the cops were trying to drag a protester away from campus in a police car. First, one protester stood in front of the car, Chinese style, then another one, then another, then by the dozen, then by the hundreds they surrounded that cop car, and wouldn't let it leave for thirty two hours.

That got on T.V., and the whole world was watching, and a movement, or two, was born.

Half a million people block a dam in India.

A dam gets cancelled in Tasmania because the people just wouldn't stop chaining themselves to construction equipment.

March 25th, 1995, ten thousand people walked outta school and marched on city hall in New York City. Not just students, but teachers and principals and parents, all united against Republican budget cuts.

No surprise that got blacked out of the national news.

Education benefits slashed by right-wingers in Italy, even five year old kids walked out on strike. Schools and universities in Rome stayed virtually empty until budget cuts were restored.

When the French government tried American-style budget cuts, the workers didn't sit there and grumble about it like a bunch of Americans. They went on strike, and shut the whole country down for a month.

The people have the power. Always have and always will. However, we're stuck with either fear from terrorism (you know my current thoughts about that), or the cops, or anything "they" can do to us here in Soviet America, or we're just too stupid and numb to see our human rights being taken away from us left and right, and if someone even mentions it we get all kinds of shit from the so called patriots who say,

"Try living in Russia!"

"I'd rather be beaten, rapped, and possibly killed by a cop than mugged by a criminal."

That's just a hint of the brainwashing we've been given.

The greatest thing about (no! not democracy but..) having a mind of your own is that we have a right to think and change things.

No more life-times preparing for death. No more, "give me lithium or give me meth". No more, "can't fix nothing cuz everything's ruined already. Why try?"

No more being a spectator in our own lives. Help break out of, "no I can't," to "yes I can," to "now I must."

We're not equal til we're equal. We're not free until we're free.

I'd rather work for something I want and not get it than work or vote for something I don't want and get it.

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Re: Did Ghandi live within a democratic republic? -- sue da babe, 12:32:24 05/21/02 Tue