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Composed Thinker Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:49 PM
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Who Is Ready to Take Back the Country or At Least Die Trying?
Edited on Mon Aug-04-03 07:19 PM by Composed Thinker
I'm ready. Who else is ready?

(Just to be clear: I am not advocating the violent overthrow of the government.) I'm simply asking who is ready to give all that he has to give.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:50 PM
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1. Are you advocating violence against the current government?
I hope not
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:52 PM
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4. hopefully violence will NOT be
required
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:54 PM
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6. Then what would one die of?
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Composed Thinker Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:54 PM
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7. No
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:51 PM
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2. I sure am
I also want our Deomocratic party back to left of center.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:55 PM
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10. I want the center to realize they're liberals
and not dogmatic extremists. Then the Democratic Party will be the natural place for them to be.
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kixot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:51 PM
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3. I hate to be a jerk, but.
"Take back our country"? What I want to know is who has it and where did it go?

Yes, yes, I know what you really meant and a full scale revolution in this country sounds pretty sweet right about now, but that means we'd have two coup d'etats in less than 3 years. Not a good record. Plus, something tells me that a popular uprising would not be a bloodless one like that last one was.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:56 PM
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13. I think if we all focused on one, united,
sole goal, that of getting the Bushista occupiers out of the WH in 2004, and energized and capitalized on the country's growing unease and disapproval of him, we could, indeed, take back the country LEGALLY through an official, LEGAL election. And we would need to do everything we could to make sure that it would, indeed, be non-violent, bloodless, and LEGAL.
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whoYaCallinAlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:53 PM
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5. Surely you jest?
You really want to overthrow the government with violence?
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Composed Thinker Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:54 PM
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8. I obviously meant "die" as in one doing all he can to get someone elected
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:55 PM
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9. That's not really obvious
Obviously
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:55 PM
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11. You have time to change the wording of your post.
Highly recommended....
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Composed Thinker Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:56 PM
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14. Will do
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:56 PM
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12. oh please dont. you might anger the centrists.
:crazy:
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MiltonLeBerle Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:04 PM
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15. Ummmm..."Die Trying"...?
No, thanks.
We only get the one short ride as it is, and it's not like anyone would take notice or even appreciate the effort.
I'll continue to try to change the system, but I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that we are living in a modern-day Dark Ages, and things may very likely not change much in the remainder of my lifetime.

But...if I do have to live my life in unenlightened times, at least I can do so as a middle middle-class white, heterosexual, married, non-vanilla lifestyled male, realizing his boyhood dream of being a kept man.

Only in America, my friend.
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Composed Thinker Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:05 PM
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16. You've never heard of hyperbole?
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:15 PM
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18. too late!
shoulda went to the mattresses when reagan got in (1980).....the takeover began in earnest then....
the fascists got us all figured out i fear
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:14 PM
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17. I'm with you, Milton
Well, not really with you, because you are way over there, somewhere. Right?

But yeah, ya know, this ol life just ain't worth dieng for, ya know? We're all just spinning around and where we end up, nobody knows.

How many have died trying? Do we really appreciate those who have?

BTW, this kept man bizz...any advice ya can give one who wants to learn how?
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 06:31 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=127851&mesg_id=127851

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