Shooting In Oakland

number6horse

number6horse

okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
six horse, you're right, a national strike would have a dramatic effect, but let's face it: fear and desperate rage rarely morph into smart, socially conscious protest, and almost never is properly directed.
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Agreed.

mostly shit gets burnt the fuck up, and when people are crazed and have nowhere to turn, they often feast upon each other like Common Orcs. but if shit's got to burn, then by god, why not grab those Villager Brand(tm) Torches and head to the slumlord's/good ol' boy politician's part of town?
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Yep.

ahh, of course, brutality never solves any problem like this, as "The Man" always has bigger clubs and more bootheels than you do, Citizen, and is more than prepared to defend their position. I'd love to see the nationwide sit in, but folks have jobs to save from destruction and homes to hang onto if they can afford their soaring mortgages and children to keep out of harm's way and cellphones to answer and television to watch, etc. etc.
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True.

I myself prefer to protest by sitting very still in a dark room with a cold beer and a pistol, waiting for the tide of ugly to come down my street; as I understand it, the apocalypse is right around the corner, always...
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True. Creepy.....but true.

scribbler said:
Most of existence is protest. Overcoming, thwarting, holding-off, escaping, sustaining, compromising and bending (but not breaking) is how an individual spends most of his energy. But there are episodes available, secret ones, that THEY dont have to know about. The illuminati gathered there is all yours if you can get it; if you have the nerve, the courage. Chase THAT...instead of justice.
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You might be joking or waxing poetic but I'll ask anyway: Do you really think there's anything worth pursuing more than justice ?
 
scribbler

scribbler

One man's justice might be another'man's undoing. There are winners and losers in justice. It might be well out of ones hands what brand of it he is being dealt. So, an individual will be better off reaching for purities that do not attempt to satisfy the collective. There are rewards available to a gifted consciousness that have NOTHING to do will the ups and downs and moral tapestries of all the busybodies everywhere. There are "rectifications" available through immaculately detached interactions...unrequired creative responses to callings so far away that they HAD to come from inside. Sometimes "justice" is not the solution to injustice. Sometimes "solutions" are not the solution...as more wonder gets snapped solidly into place.

Waxing poetic? Maybe, Joking? people laugh at different things. And as "justice" is just some more wrongs getting righted...well, it leaves much to be desired.
 
number6horse

number6horse

okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
scribbler said:
And as "justice" is just some more wrongs getting righted...well, it leaves much to be desired.
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But that's the entire point of justice (not revenge or "street justice"). Wrongs getting righted within the context of a larger organized system. Ideally that system can be corrected from the outside.

Your above post is thoughtful and carefully considered. It deserves more than what I am dashing off here, so I'll try again later tonight.
 
scribbler

scribbler

Never read any Rand, M, but I did listen to alotta Rush back in the day. (1st album was the best...the "Working Man" song, aw man... Rock n Roll!).

...do you suppose THAT is where I get all these thoughts? Rush is the culprit? Hmmmmm. I'd thought I'd toasted those cells long ago.
 
bogthing

bogthing

There's a few reasons I choose to no longer reside in a "urban" area. The above mentioned is just one. An unfortunate chapter, but one that will be well read. So many, how do theychoose?
 
jordan

jordan

lothario speedwagon
downtown was on lockdown tonight... riot cops everywhere, and 10 helcopters circling a 2-square-mile area.
 
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