A Call to Action

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Call to Action

We the People are not presently well represented by our elected officials. Our basic needs are often times left to what we can muster between ourselves. Government at all levels fails us daily. Redresses for these outright crimes against civility are met with courts and bureaucracies that are impenetrable to appeal or petition. From state and federal down to our county and city levels, government suffers shortcomings. Our government has become the hindrance upon our pursuit of happiness, basic freedom, and even equality under the law. People, this is not what government was intended to be. Government is merely People realizing that problems can best be handled by people working together, rather than against one another. You are not alone. We the People left the State of Nature, in order to form a more Perfect Union. We levied claims that We would work together to see to it that certain Rights were inalienable. Moreover, We claimed that when government failed, that it was Our Duty to fix it. The problem is that We have become complacent, and unaware of our government's actions. We don’t see, or hear reported their everyday doings, dealings, decisions, or deliberations. More often than not, their meetings take place in executive session, behind closed doors, and well beyond the eyes and ears of the public. Local governments fare no better holding meetings, courts, and councils in rooms not large enough to accommodate a score of public attendees. And those charged with reporting on these events, that Free Press, being necessary to secure a Free State, is woefully inadequate. They are as bought and paid for by these elected officials, as can be expected. We the People simply don’t see, or know about the shortcomings of our elected officials. More sad, is the fact that We just don’t care. Only about two-thirds of us are even registered to vote whom qualify, only half of which actually show up to vote on election day. If there is no federal election, local and state elections' turnouts fare far worse. The point being that, most of us are staying out of and or are completely unaware of the election process, and this is why government is so unresponsive to our daily needs. There are no checks and thus no balances. We simply have to know more about those we elect. We have to know how they vote each and every day, on each and every issue. We have to be the watchdogs upon our own government, lest they stray from their true purpose, to serve the Will and Needs of the People.

This is a Call to Action. I entreat you, reach out and lend an ear to the movements and daily actions of those whom you have and are to vote for, see for your own eyes if they represent your values and ideas, or those listed in the Constitution of the United States. Show up at these public hearings, meetings, or counsels and witness the utter and complete incompetence, as I have. You have to see with your own eyes, to know and understand the depth of this problem I am calling attention to. I have met a water board president, who couldn’t tell me and or didn’t know the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety level for lead contamination in drinking water, and was unaware that it can't be filtered out. I have encountered a library board president who had never heard of the Library Bill of Rights, or the American Library Association. I have seen judges and courts ignore their own sanctioned policies to limit the rights of citizens, merely because they had to cover for one of the officials they appointed. Almost every time I have attended a board or counsel meeting, I have seen or heard arguments for or in favor of limiting public access to government services, the very things our tax dollars fund. These elected officials forgot, or never initially understood, that it is their first duty to protect the individual’s right to public services, and to indeed help us gain access to these resources. It has become far too often that I have seen the opposite. I call on you now, to see and bare witness to the same. Then I call on you to VOTE for those who would act in line with standards you care about. Bare true witness to these things, and begin holding elected or appointed officials accountable for their shortcomings. Governments’ failure to act, is merely our failure to oversee their actions as voters. Politicians are re-elected most of the time, so We don’t know, We don’t care, and We have only ourselves to blame. That said every passing moment is an opportunity to turn it all around. Help me, help us, to elect a government responsive to the needs of it’s citizenry. Let’s re-make government what it was intended to be, a State not of competitors, but teammates, intended to help and look out for one another. We are a Community, and when We act together there is nothing We can’t achieve. It is only when We act as individuals, that We separate ourselves from the communal goods and services that We’ve already paid for through taxes. We are that more perfect Union, or We are merely individuals acting as competitors stuck in the State of Nature, where the one with the strongest arm and biggest stick, makes all the rules. We Left that State, in order to form this more Perfect Union. American Democracy may very well be the best of what Government has to offer, but today that’s like being valedictorian of summer school. Our inaction, inattention, and general unawares and ignorance has given us our government induced problems. As a Democracy, We get the government we deserve.

Today, our best is just not good enough. Yet, all that is needed is that those who vote, to do so in a fully informed manner. With that, I ask you to now, to Vote Smart, or don't vote at all. Know not just the names of those whom you would vote for, but be able to boast of the actual votes they’ve made in line with your own beliefs. Stop voting for incumbents who haven’t done their job, and don’t represent you or your stances.

Yours Truly,
-Silence Do-Good
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_paranoia#Fusion_paranoia


Fusion paranoia


Michael Kelly, a Washington Post journalist and critic of anti-war movements on both the left and right, coined the term "fusion paranoia" to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists around anti-war issues and civil liberties, which he claimed were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.

Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. They warn that this development may not only fuel lone wolf terrorism but have devastating effects on American political life, such as the rise of a revolutionary right-wing populist movement capable of subverting the established political powers.[35]

Daniel Pipes wrote in a 2004 Jerusalem Post article titled Fusion Paranoia:

Fears of a petty conspiracy – a political rival or business competitor plotting to do you harm – are as old as the human psyche. But fears of a grand conspiracy – that the Illuminati or Jews plan to take over the world – go back only 900 years and have been operational for just two centuries, since the French Revolution. Conspiracy theories grew in importance from then until World War II, when two arch-conspiracy theorists, Hitler and Stalin, faced off against each other, causing the greatest blood-letting in human history. This hideous spectacle sobered Americans, who in subsequent decades relegated conspiracy theories to the fringe, where mainly two groups promoted such ideas.
The politically disaffected: Blacks (Louis Farrakhan, Cynthia McKinney), the hard Right (John Birch Society, Pat Buchanan), and other alienated elements (Ross Perot, Lyndon LaRouche). Their theories imply a political agenda, but lack much of a following.

The culturally suspicious: These include "Kennedy assassinologists," "ufologists," and those who believe a reptilian race runs the earth and alien installations exist under the earth's surface. Such themes enjoy enormous popularity (a year 2000 poll found 43 percent of Americans believing in UFOs), but carry no political agenda.

The major new development, reports Barkun, professor of political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, is not just an erosion in the divisions between these two groups, but their joining forces with occultists, persons bored by rationalism. Occultists are drawn to what Barkun calls the "cultural dumping ground of the heretical, the scandalous, the unfashionable, and the dangerous" – such as spiritualism, Theosophy, alternative medicine, alchemy, and astrology. Thus, the author who worries about the Secret Service taking orders from the Bavarian Illuminati is old school; the one who worries about a "joint Reptilian-Bavarian Illuminati" takeover is at the cutting edge of the new synthesis. These bizarre notions constitute what the late Michael Kelly termed "fusion paranoia," a promiscuous absorption of fears from any source whatsoever.[36]
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Topspin said:
I like putting non college grad right wingers on ignore:321:
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One would think that a person who claims to be College educated would know that when they are on the negative side of the REP count, that they can't negatvie REP another poster.
But then, you're still in grade school and that explains why your cognitive ability really sucks.

LOL
 
I hate your narrow minded militia existance. At times you seem like you could shed your inner mcveigh. But when one of your militia pals flames out against an educated person hello timmy!!
 
Topspin said:
I hate your narrow minded militia existance. At times you seem like you could shed your inner mcveigh. But when one of your militia pals flames out against an educated person hello timmy!!
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You're an idiot without equal here, and that says a lot.

What the fuck have you done for freedom? You'll sit and bitch and piss and moan until you're blue in the face about the government and their prohibition of weed, but what the fuck have you done about it? You certainly haven't shed blood. Or sweat. Or tears. All you've given is hot fucking air.

You'll sit around all day and lecture us about how much money you make and this and that. Big fucking deal. At the end of the day your entire existence is entirely meaningless. OOOOO you have money. That's all you have.

Like I said in the beginning, you hate freedom. Otherwise you'd give something for yours.
 
CaptBillyTheKid said:
You're an idiot without equal here, and that says a lot.

What the fuck have you done for freedom? You'll sit and bitch and piss and moan until you're blue in the face about the government and their prohibition of weed, but what the fuck have you done about it? You certainly haven't shed blood. Or sweat. Or tears. All you've given is hot fucking air.

You'll sit around all day and lecture us about how much money you make and this and that. Big fucking deal. At the end of the day your entire existence is entirely meaningless. OOOOO you have money. That's all you have.

Like I said in the beginning, you hate freedom. Otherwise you'd give something for yours.
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Off to ignore GED boy, study your malitia because real study I'd beyond your limited capacity:gives:
 
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