Cetacea
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Fri Jan-21-11 10:35 PM
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All bow before your corporate masters |
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Edited on Fri Jan-21-11 10:36 PM by Cetacea
All of your dreams were sold all long time ago by the same people who hypnotize you daily through the sights and sounds of the television. The left went the way of the fairness doctrine. If you do not believe that the "liberal" media controls the political agenda then you are not paying close enough attention.
People actually believe that the Morning Joe show is left-wing.
Good night and good luck...
edit..Thank you Keith for all that you did
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Lorien
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Sat Jan-22-11 06:01 PM
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1. If we took the time to ORGANIZE and demanded that: |
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1). The Fairness Doctrine be reinstated
2). That Citizens United be overturned (start by removing the compromised Thomas and Scalia from the SCOTUS).
3). Demand real campaign finance reform.
4). Break up the media monopolies.
Now I don't expect any real responses to this post. Calls for action usually get...well, little more than a "+1" at best or a list of why doing any of those things won't help at worst (the DLCers always have those talking points handy). Whatever happened to the DU activist corps? When was our last organized action where we all were sent an email with instructions that would lead to each of us DOING something instead on just typing our complaints to one another? We CAN make a difference, but it means motivating yourself to move, not waiting for someone else to step forward and make the effort on your behalf.
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Doctor_J
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Sat Jan-22-11 06:04 PM
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2. We can't demand anything |
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You need to come to grips with that fact before posting these types of screeds
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Lorien
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Sat Jan-22-11 09:02 PM
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4. Sorry to burst your whiner bubble, Doctor_J, but if enough of us take the time |
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Edited on Sat Jan-22-11 09:07 PM by Lorien
we damn well CAN demand anything. Look at France. Look and Spain. Turn off your TV.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems." M. K. Gandhi
The reason you believe that you're powerless is simple; it's easier then getting off your ass and taking action.
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Doctor_J
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Sat Jan-22-11 10:44 PM
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5. Appromiately 3 million of us were in the streets before |
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Operation I'm A War President started. How'd that work out? We called, wrote, e-mailed concerning Citizens United, Comcast vs. America, Bush/Cheney War Crimes, top-heavy tax cuts, and health insurance giveaways. Notice a pattern?
Please tell me how you're going to wrestle control of the country from Beck and Limpballs. Be specific.
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." - M. K. Gandhi
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H2O Man
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Sat Jan-22-11 10:48 PM
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like King, did "march in the streets," but they both accomplished theie victories by going to jail. And many, many of their followers went to jail with them.
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Lorien
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Sun Jan-23-11 09:20 AM
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9. One idea (borrowed from the French); a sort of highway "sit in" |
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The French people shut down their government when the government refused to listen by filling all highways and roads going into Paris with very slow moving vehicles-including farm equipment- early every day of the week until the government buckled. It was a simple, nonviolent, legal action, and it got the desired result. We could do the same to DC, or on a smaller scale; media headquarters.
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lpbk2713
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Sat Jan-22-11 06:07 PM
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3. Better oversight of the election process. |
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All the way up and down the line.
A 14 year old with a PC and a little time on his hands could assure a landslide victory for anyone.
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H2O Man
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Sat Jan-22-11 10:49 PM
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Very well said, and entirely correct.
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