What we need is a .........REVOLUTION...

[kentuck]

And it doesn't have to be a revolution of guns and violence. We need a revolution that wakes up the people. We need a revolution where the people take back their country because they feel it is worth fighting for. We need a revolution where the young people lead and the baby boomers follow. It is their world now.

We need a revolution where people take seriously their freedoms and the right to vote. We need a revolution where people are willing to stand up and challenge authority. We need a revolution to take back America. Because America is a great country. Thru all her faults, America has done many a great thing and we should celebrate that and not let the theives steal it from us.

[Ringo84]

1. Re:

I agree wholeheartedly. It's like that Beatles song that we all know and love..... hit it, pianist!
Ringo

[Webster Green]

2. Torches & pitchforks...

I saw some Tiki torches at Home Depot today, $3.99 ea., mounted on a stick...perfect.

Pitchforks are like 15 bucks or so.

Need quite a few to really get the job done though.

Wonder what's on the TeeVee?

[Brigid]

5. Wait till . . .

"V For Vendetta" hits cable.

As for the torches, pikes,pitchforks and such, why not? The Continental Army faced the British with little more than these more than once.

[Cheap_Trick]

3. you say you want a revolution......

Count me in. A revolution or insurrection is the ONLY way things are ever going to change in this country. As long as the neotards control the voting machines and are allowed to use the rest of their bag of dirty election tricks, voting reform is a fantasy. As long as the bulk of the MSM continues to turn a blind eye towards this cowardly and crooked administration (regime), Bush and his axis of assholes will continue to pervert EVERYTHING this country has ever stood for. What these motherfuckers and guckertsuckers seem to forget is that a civil war was fought in this country without the aid of television, cell phones, radio, or the internet and can be again. They think they can divide and conquer us. We need to show them just how wrong they are.

[Brigid]

4. We are taking our rights and freedoms for granted.

We think fascism and dictatorship can't happen here. We're the good ol' US of A, right? And what's to worry about if you don't have anything to hide, right? Wrong! the Bush regime is the most dangerous we've ever had, no mistake about it. These people have no respect for their fellow Americans unless they toe the right-wing/fundie/neocon line.

I am a baby boomer, and let me tell you, many of us see the danger. Let's not worry about who leads and who follows, let's just get the word out, and don't let the mockery of those on the right intimidate us. Out founders would expect no less.

Toward the end of the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin was asked what kind of government the delegates had come up with. He famously replied, "A republic -- if you can keep it." Let's remember that.

[lonehalf]

12. Republic

I have a neighbor who is going through the process of attaining his US citizenship.

One of the answers he got wrong on the test was: What type of government does the USA have?

His answer: Republic.

He was told by the tester that we have a Democracy.

I guess that makes ole Ben wrong, huh.

:dem:

[Odin2005]

15. Your neighbor is right.

The US has never been a democracy. the intentional confusion of the two terms was a result of rhetoric during WW2 that carried over to the Cold War.

[undergroundpanther]

6. Yes we DO

A thorough perusal of the history of human development will disclose two elements in bitter conflict with each other; elements that are only now beginning to be understood, not as foreign to each other, but as closely related and truly harmonious, if only placed in proper environment: the individual and social instincts. The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other. The individual and social instincts,--the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for mutual helpfulness and social well-being.

http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Anarchism/anarchism.html
http://www.diggers.org/top_entry.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secJcon.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. agreed. That's how I picked my name.

I've been ready since Selection '04.



edit: those aren't bullets, they're lipsticks. :P

[Union Thug]

8. I think the next revolution, if there is a next revolution..

will be fought on the economic front. I think future savvy revolutionaries will put down the guns, and employ an army of code-monkies coupled with widespread direct debtor/creditor revolt to shut down the economy.

[Richard D]

14. What if they gave a revolution . . .

. . . and no one bought anything?

[diamondsndust]

9. Oh great... a pacifist revolution....

let me know how that turns out, ok? I can dig what you're pushing, but I don't think it'll work out too good. The only language these criminals understand is violence. They want to wage a war of aggression? Let's give them what they want. These dirtbags aren't going to leave without being FORCED to do so.

Let the Revolution begin!!

[Vidar]

11. Ditto to that!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. revolution...

Even as the empire is coming down around us all very few can possibly believe it. Why should they? Nothing seems to have changed their particular religious or political camps. Literate and thoughtful liberals can still watch Brit coms and send their kids to Shakespeare camp. Less-than-literate Fox Network-watching worker bee Republicans can still sup on the easy piety of cross and flag… ogle Anne Coulter’s boney ass. And Joe Six-pack still scratches his belly in irrelevance as the elites of two political priesthoods struggle, one to get their mitts deeper into the national treasury, the other to convince us that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden actually have blood in their veins. The next elections, both parties tell us, will determine the fate of our nation. Really? Regardless of who wins, Joe Six-pack will lose. Virgil will lose. The rest of us will continue being carried along by the media hologram of political lies and profitable illusions that holds it all together. Today I read a news story about how the massacre of Iraqi families in Hidatha "traumatized” our heroes. What do you call a republic that dishes up such shit up to its citizens? What do you call the citizens who mindlessly swallow it? What do you call people who do not march in the streets and start fires in protest of a horrific regime that guts small democracies, slaughters whole families and villages abroad and rigs the ballot boxes at home? What do you call such deniers of the obvious?
http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=3719

[raccoon]

17. Great article, however...

"In any case, most liberals/leftists/progressives, whatever the hell one calls such an ineffectual bunch of twits, refuse to even consider open resistance. They exist in the same prison of learned helplessness and planet-devouring gluttony as conservatives, but with New Age or pseudo-leftist wallpaper."

And what does he suggest that liberals/leftists/progressives do?

[Union Thug]

18. This is a painful truth that I've been struggling with for a while now.

For a large percentage of neo-leftists, what you have quoted is true. They are deeply invested in the status quo, and would not consider even for a moment, physical confrontation (outside of a peaceful protest).

I think there is a very strong, "old school" brand of leftist still very vocal, relatively powerful and active within the ILWU and perhaps in what remains of the Teamsters. But you won't find a large number of college campus liberals (aside from old professors who were active in labor many years ago), ready for the kind of physical confrontation that our working class forbears were willing to endure.

Forget the voting booths and campus debates people. Look at the history of the ILWU and Teamsters and IWW to learn about how rights are won in this country. As the military enthusiasts are fond of saying, people died to win that which you now take for granted.

[Kablooie]

13. We need a Revolution Resolution.

Kinda like a Dalmation Plantation.

[bdamomma]

16. I would love to prove my husband wrong (he is not American)

he says we are gutless. How much more of this shit are we going to take? We need to challenge them.