What we can know are the foundations of law: that we're soveriegn & the source of the state's power. We have rights that are not granted by the Constitution, but are guaranteed by it. Acts that violate those rights are acts of war & treason. We have the right to resist those actions with all of our being, individually & collectively.
I can't believe our government isn't 100% transparent--even the military. Maybe it would stop them from planning wars when absolutely none need to take place.
I mean, I honestly can't believe we aren't demanding it. Maybe if foreigners weren't so scared of us they wouldn't attack us. And maybe if we knew what the government was doing, it would stop doing things that it knows would scare people.
So we consent when confronting authority that we are probably wrong. This is the crucial mistake. A govt of the ppl is obliged to make understandable laws, or explain them on demand. Law, esp here, is a contract. Contracts demand full disclosure for validity. Otherwise it is fraud--like we have now...
LOL! Good point, HU. I think one thing we can be certain of is that we are all brainwashed. W/that said, the real choice is whether to take control of the programming ourselves, or to contentedly let someone else do it for us. "The greatest triumph 4 propaganda in the US is the idea, thru propaganda, that propaganda doesn't exist here."
We have a choice to leave here and enter another country which has it's own method of getting us to follow it's laws?
There was no democracy before there was democracy...
Do you run and hide or do we stay and fight? Fight does not necessarily mean mean violence, nor should it. That is what the problem is in the first place.
I don't know if we're brainwashed so therefore we only speak in parable; I think we're brainwashed to be as copesetic as we are talking about what we're talking about. We're talking about freedom and how much we really don't have. People have died for freedom. I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. Is that brainwashed? I think I've been brainwashed to not know.
It's not as if we are able to know all of the laws of the country in which we inhabit. No one person can know all the laws. Therefore, we are guided by fear of breaking unknown laws rather than the laws themselves
But I do question the wisdom of thinking/speaking in these tortured analogies. Are we so brainwashed that the only way we CAN think about this is thru parable or by sarcastically saying the opposite of what we mean? Is the truth so blindingly painful, so ludicrous that it can't be spoken openly?
i like this guy. its rare to see smart ppl as anchors or in the news.
weinmarr 4 years ago 2
Ron Paul!!!2008!!!!Freedom!!!!!!
jdurham70 4 years ago
What we can know are the foundations of law: that we're soveriegn & the source of the state's power. We have rights that are not granted by the Constitution, but are guaranteed by it. Acts that violate those rights are acts of war & treason. We have the right to resist those actions with all of our being, individually & collectively.
MacManiac 4 years ago
I can't believe our government isn't 100% transparent--even the military. Maybe it would stop them from planning wars when absolutely none need to take place.
I mean, I honestly can't believe we aren't demanding it. Maybe if foreigners weren't so scared of us they wouldn't attack us. And maybe if we knew what the government was doing, it would stop doing things that it knows would scare people.
HopefullyUnexpected 4 years ago
So we consent when confronting authority that we are probably wrong. This is the crucial mistake. A govt of the ppl is obliged to make understandable laws, or explain them on demand. Law, esp here, is a contract. Contracts demand full disclosure for validity. Otherwise it is fraud--like we have now...
MacManiac 4 years ago
LOL! Good point, HU. I think one thing we can be certain of is that we are all brainwashed. W/that said, the real choice is whether to take control of the programming ourselves, or to contentedly let someone else do it for us. "The greatest triumph 4 propaganda in the US is the idea, thru propaganda, that propaganda doesn't exist here."
MacManiac 4 years ago
We have a choice to leave here and enter another country which has it's own method of getting us to follow it's laws?
There was no democracy before there was democracy...
Do you run and hide or do we stay and fight? Fight does not necessarily mean mean violence, nor should it. That is what the problem is in the first place.
HopefullyUnexpected 4 years ago
I don't know if we're brainwashed so therefore we only speak in parable; I think we're brainwashed to be as copesetic as we are talking about what we're talking about. We're talking about freedom and how much we really don't have. People have died for freedom. I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. Is that brainwashed? I think I've been brainwashed to not know.
HopefullyUnexpected 4 years ago
It's not as if we are able to know all of the laws of the country in which we inhabit. No one person can know all the laws. Therefore, we are guided by fear of breaking unknown laws rather than the laws themselves
HopefullyUnexpected 4 years ago
But I do question the wisdom of thinking/speaking in these tortured analogies. Are we so brainwashed that the only way we CAN think about this is thru parable or by sarcastically saying the opposite of what we mean? Is the truth so blindingly painful, so ludicrous that it can't be spoken openly?
MacManiac 4 years ago