That must be it. Crazy in love with your cunning mind!
Heh. Wow. So you think we live in a tyrannical state now? So basically if people run the country and disagree with you it's a tyranny. Cool. Glad to know democracy is so bad.
Heh. Wow. Cool. Your comprehension ability is amazing. You don’t have much going on upstairs do you? But your heart is in the right place so instead of not replying I throw a bunch of quotes at you.
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged,
and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight,
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
"America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles Austin Beard
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." --Russell Baker
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." --Malcolm X
Intellectual freedom? So what, the people who work for AEI or Heritage are censored and tortured? Do you realize how many people agree with you on political issues are actually in congress still?
You have no idea what my stances are on political issues. I’m probably the most liberal person alive. Unless you are a cult member and take liberal to be defined as social fascism, in which case okay, I guess you know everything you need to know about my stance on everything, which is “not yours,” which in turn makes me a racist and a terrorist.
Illegal orders? Sorry, ending an active rebellion would not be illegal orders. You're talking about a group of the military actively supporting a revolution against THE LAWFULLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT. That is a rebellion. That is treason. If the military supported that effort, it would be a coup. Alright, well, I guess you've pretty much explained that you are crazy. I guess I'll be hearing about you blowing up a federal building or holding up on some ranch in Montana on the news.
You’re still stuck on coups. Read the definition. Again, this country was taken over by a coup years ago. But again, it wouldn’t be a coup. And stop speaking for the military like you have your finger on the pulse of what makes them tick. Playing video games doesn’t make you a military expert, regardless of the picture you chose to use for your handle.
You have no idea what ROE is. Ordering anyone in the military to shoot a non-hostile who poses no direct threat to life or equipment is an illegal order and can be ignored. They could give the order because stealing military equipment is as direct a threat to equipment as possible, but if the brass kept pushing the “disobeying a legal order” nonsense everyone would turn into conscientious objectors. It’s like the only military doctrine you are familiar with was alive and well with Baron Von Steuben. Shit has changed. Vietnam to today has basically rendered most of the UCMJ irrelevant, and that is pretty new when compared to the life of this country. Nothing happens to soldiers who go awol or disobey orders. There is too many ways around everything. The military today is basically run on everyone being willing to play the game, and going to war with Texas if they had a democratic election to secede would be a game they won’t want to play.
Obama is smart enough not to force the military to ignore him, and undermine all his authority as commander and chief. He wouldn’t try to start hostilities. The most he could hope for is for Texas to start hostilities, in which case things would be different.
And of course, we’ve come to people who won’t join the cult and who speak against the cult being terrorists. Sure.
Because a state seceding has already been ruled illegal by the Supreme Court and the Civil War. The federal government would never allow it. It'd pretty much undermine the authority it has.
Your brain works like a well oiled machine. You think Texas would say they are doing something illegal? Do the states that break federal law regularly admit they are breaking federal law? That isn’t how it works. Different groups of people put different weights of value on different articles, laws, amendments, and rights. No one is illegal, my dear Rathrandil. No one is illegal.
Kind of funny to hear how upset you are and how unjust it is for you to be called names after that "pompous elitist cultist uppity jackass tyrant' thing—
I can’t be called racist, I’m black. The new definition of racist is non-cult white folk. I have Stockholm Syndrome. I fell in love with my captors. And not being a member of the cult means my synapses’ misfires and my brain—it just don’t work right.
You seem to think the entire country is composed of people who hate other people, or care enough to do so.
No, the cult hates anyone who disagrees with them. The rest just don't want to be meddled with. I didn’t see a lot or any hate on the little coverage I was able to see of the Tea Parties. I’m guessing you didn’t watch the video I linked to.
I have my own problems, so I, socialist cult member tho I am, don't have the time or inclination to meddle in your life and hate you and call you a racist.
Awesome. But blacks can’t be racist and if you called me one you’d be racist. I don’t mind socialists, I do mind the cult member’s modern day McCarthyism. But you can’t be bothered, so who cares. Its not like the cult members are being bullied into silence. You have your own problems, why stick up for the rights of people you disagree with to not be marginalized or ignored.
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." --Robert A. Heinlein
I’m sorry, I forgot Heinlein is considered a fascist by cult members. Lets fake I didn’t quote him.
I love my country, even if I don't wrap the flag around myself, and I have a loyalty to her that says if the government does something which I personally think is wrong, I will say so and work to change it if I can, not walk away in a childish tantrum because someone has pissed me off and my team lost the election because it was out of sync with the rest of the country, which it's been many times.
A socialist loves a capitalist country? I don’t understand. It’s so insane I can’t get past this. It’s like Gandhi telling the Dalai Lama how much he loved their UFC fight. And again, who is my side? It has nothing to do with D’s or R’s. It has to do with those who want to impose their moral will on those who don’t want to be meddled with, D's and R's and I's and L's and G's alike. The label doesn't matter, the intent does. I'm not a fan of oppression from any side.
So keep in mind you are saying everyone who moved to Canada when Bush won an election threw a childish tantrum. So, me wanted to live in a free society free of meddling is childish. I guess me moving to a city because I liked city life would be childish, or to the country if I liked it. I shouldn’t have a choice to move to a community I feel like a better fit in or that I would enjoy more?
If South Dakota wanted to secede democratically to become a country catering to the needs of sexual deviants and circus clowns why would it make anyone mad? Let them live their life how they want. Why force people to fall in line when they don’t want to be in line. I don’t want to give them the money i worked for or to force me to make sweet love to a donkey while wearing a clown outfit, but other than that, good for them. I’d leave them alone, they’d leave me alone. No harm no foul. Live and let live. And if I ever want to regularly tag team a sea cow and a midget dressed as bozo while a chimp whips me and pours hot wax on my balls or similar wacky sexual exploration, I’ll know what country to go to. The world would be a richer and more diverse place with less oppression and more freedoms for consenting adults. No one loses. Except the cult members who want to control the thoughts and minds of everyone.
What's happened to your sense of humor, roqua? It's all a circus, but none of it is as sinister as you're making out.
My sense of humor ends where oppression begins. The hypocrisy and crazy is too prominent and imbedded too deep. No one tries to learn anymore. Everyone just closed their mind off from tolerance and growth, along with reason and sensibility.
". . . it lies within the power as well as the duty of all of us to recognize not only the possibility that we might be wrong but the virtual certainty that on some occasions we are bound to be. The fact that this is so does not absolve us from the duty of having views and putting them forward. But it does make it incumbent upon us to recognize the element of doubt that still surrounds the correctness of these views. And if we do that, we will not be able to lose ourselves in the transports of moral indignation against those who are of opposite opinion and follow a different line, we will put our views forward only with a prayer for forgiveness for the event that we prove to be mistaken." George Kennan