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Subject: Re: [USQuagmire] Re: Protest Is Dead. Long Live Protest.>
>> I fail to see what purpose arming the left will do. They are
>> misguided.
>>
>> There is an effective way to deal with politics that is rarely
>> tried. It's called, go to the Zionist meetings. Expose them.
>> Nobody does this. I don't think anyone has the right to go from
>> protesting uselessly to shooting off a gun uselessly without at
>> least TRYING to figure out whose fault this mess is.
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/10/2007 1:06:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> lrprice@snet.net writes:
>>> http://www.legitgov.org/
>>> essay_southwell_arming_the_left_is_the_time_now_102203.html
>>> Arming the Left: Is the time now? --by Charles Southwell*
>>>
>>> I hope you didn't open this page to read what we already know:
>>> that this is the most rightwing government we have ever had in
>>> the US, even far right of Bush I, that our rights are being
>>> eroded daily, and that our democratic process is all but gone, if
>>> it isn't already gone.
>>>
>>> I hope you came here to read about tactics for action that will
>>> finally have some consequence. I hope you agree that our
>>> protests, petitions, letters, and on and on, have been utterly
>>> ignored. The fascistas that run our country laugh at us. They
>>> believe they can do anything and that we haven't got the guts to
>>> revolt, but only to wage a war of words. I have seen the Bush
>>> cavalcades, as they drive away, his aids sneering and jeering and
>>> laughing and mocking our protests. They think we are a JOKE. Tens
>>> of millions of Americans protested the war, but because we posed
>>> no REAL THREAT to their power, we were UTTERLY IGNORED.
>>>
>>> As long as we pose no REAL threat to the powers-that-be, to what
>>> is shaping up into a dictatorship, we will continue to be
>>> ignored. Right now, we are ignored because we present no
>>> organized power to fight this onslaught of anti-democratic,
>>> totalitarian government that we are up against.
>>>
>>> It will take time, but it's time to get more left-leaning
>>> liberals and outright leftists to at least POSE a threat, by
>>> getting organized and getting ARMED. It's time to get well past
>>> this liberal phobia and taboo about weapons and force. After all,
>>> our liberalism was won with a REVOLUTIONARY WAR! they used real
>>> guns in that war. The French Revolution was also a WAR and they
>>> used real weapons there too.
>>>
>>> Perhaps people believe that since the US federal government has
>>> the fire power to blow up the world X times over, that we have no
>>> chance, and that the 2nd amendment is therefore moot. I used to
>>> think the same thing. In fact, this was the major if not the only
>>> lasting upshot of the Cold War! the Cold war wasn't about one
>>> opposing ideology against the other; it wasn't about the East vs.
>>> the West. In the end, it was about the respective governments
>>> against their own peoples. The Cold War resulted in the
>>> repression of the peoples in those countries, and likewise, of
>>> peoples around the world.
>>>
>>> But, it is still a myth that the US citizens are powerless
>>> against their government, a government that has become tyrannical
>>> and has usurped our democratic rights. We are not powerless
>>> against it. If we get organized and armed, and form a force of
>>> hundreds of thousands, we can overcome this government, or pose
>>> enough of a threat to have power. The government cannot drop a
>>> nuclear bomb on DC. It cannot risk the lives of whole cities,
>>> without revealing its own contradictions that is. Further, there
>>> is no guarantee that the military will remain loyal to a
>>> government that continually reveals itself as imperialistic and
>>> ruthless and having no real concern for its own personnel. The
>>> Iraqi occupation is teaching many of them that hard lesson. They
>>> are realizing that not Hussein, but the Bush regime, is their
>>> real enemy.
>>>
>>> So I ask you, isn't it time that left-leaning liberals and
>>> leftists exercised their 2nd amendment rights and got organized
>>> and prepared? Isn't it time, before it's too late? Isn't it time,
>>> before another Bush coup and the following four years of
>>> increased repression and economic ruin?
>>>
>>> We should remain committed to the absolute condemnation of
>>> individual acts of violence or terrorism. Read Trotsky's essay on
>>> terrorism, in the political education section of this website.
>>> Our reference to Trotsky does not mean that we are Marxists. I am
>>> merely referring to a good argument for any real revolutionaries
>>> against terrorism. We want a democratic government, which is not
>>> predicated on a Marxist state. In fact, we leave that to the
>>> future of the new movement for democracy, given that the future
>>> should be democratic and in a democracy, the people will decide.
>>> But, our goal is to make a future wherein the people CAN and WILL
>>> decide!!!!!!
>>>
>>> 21 October 2003
>>>
>>> Also see CLG's Political Education page
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