Stalking the Shadows: If the worst happens, who will our leaders be?

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shadowknows69  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 09:16 AM
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Stalking the Shadows: If the worst happens, who will our leaders be?   Updated at 9:16 AM
   
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Edited on Wed Jul-16-08 10:02 AM by shadowknows69
"I don't mind stealing bread from the mouth of decadence"
-"Hunger Strike", Temple of the Dog

I doubt I'm alone in this country in that I occasionally entertain nightmare scenarios for our nation from the remaining days of this evil cabal that has hijacked our government. It is hard to imagine that they will abandon the astounding power grab they have accomplished under the watch of a sleeping, frightened populace and a complicit Congress and Supreme Court. I find even my hope for a President Obama waning at times because I wouldn't put it past these Ivy League Machiavellians who hold power to have completely infiltrated our party and Barack will be just another puppet. That is my first nightmare scenario.

The saber rattling with Iran continues to evoke memories of the lie filled beginnings of the Iraq invasion and there is ample evidence to suggest that Bush wants an attack on "noo-ku-lar" Iran as part of his twisted and bloody legacy. There was no lack of trying to show our leaders our opposition to the heinous action we inflicted on the Iraqi people and our voice has not subsided although we have still been given no mainstream coverage. We had hope in 2006 that the Democrats time had come again and we would finally have some foil to the horrible Bush killing machine, but we quickly found that strength lacking in our leaders.

It seems even when we "vote da' bums out" they're replaced with pre-corrupted carbon copies of the previous bum, or the incumbent bum is so inexplicably entrenched that no one with any chance even attempts to run against them. So when our government and our elected officials have failed us, where will our new leaders come from? If our government has made itself an enemy of the people who put it in power what alternative is there? Many brave voices are speaking but the right people aren't hearing or intentionally aren't listening. Has it come to the point where we must force ourselves to be heard? By any means necessary? Will we have to become the monster to destroy the monster? If so where will we find the leaders with the strength and courage to do what's "necessary"?

Nightmare scenario number two is that Bush/Cheney get their greatest wish and decide to attack Iran or by proxy destroy them through Israel and unleash the profitable Dogs of War upon a larger part of the world. What becomes of us as a country at that point? We have already allowed our leaders to make our nation a rogue state in the eyes of the world and probably genocidal maniacs in the eyes of many Iraqis and Afghanis. Whether Bush/Cheney take the extreme step of declaring marital law after the inevitable attacks on our soil and even possibly suspend elections or they simply just leave our next President an untenable world war to manage and hopefully stop before we're past the point of stupidity, we will need real and possibly radical actions to save ourselves from ourselves.

Where will our leaders come from at that point? It may well be at some point in this nation's future, if it is to have one, that "We the People" may have to wrest our country back from unworthy hands, perhaps with means that will be deemed seditious. Where will those leaders come from that can inspire the bravery of our founding fathers and mothers?

Who will be our Thomas Paine, our Ben Franklin, our Patrick Henry? Then again who will be our Crispus Attucks or Nathan Hale if it comes to that. Will our celebrities be our Paul Revere this time? Will someone in the mainstream media take matters into their hands to declare on live television that we are living under a very cleverly disguised dictatorship that they have enabled and the people need to act? Is there even the will?

I'm too old, broke and broken to ever have that dark dream of being able to save our country should the will of the people be utterly ignored and usurped. It's a time we almost find ourselves at and we are at a crossroads of salvation or ruin in my opinion. I wait with a hopeful but realistic heart that new leaders with a new vision for this country will arise. I hope it will be as soon as this next election and we can prevent the warmongers from causing any more death and our nation can remain one at peace with the world and itself.

If not I will await our new leaders with a heavy heart, whether they step out of the shadows or have to flee into them to do the dirty work of democracy, I will dedicate whatever strength in me to those who would champion liberty's cause.
S

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desktop  (21 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 09:29 AM
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2. Well I don't think Obama is a secret neocon, but...
   
My fears are starting to come forward that in the end, McCain will win this election. The polls are slowly starting to disintegrate for Obama, maybe after a huge media campaign, Obama can take a strong lead again. But I don't trust our election process, I don't trust the non racism of white people, and I don't trust the soundness of mind of the majority of the electorate. FOXnews, CNN, and the rest control the minds of to many Americans.
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shadowknows69  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 09:31 AM
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3. If McCain does win I think we can be sure that the process is completely corrupt   Updated at 9:16 AM
   
Which I pretty much became sure of in 2004 anyway but this would definitely confirm it. Even with CNN and FoX's brainwashing machine there can't be enough people to elect Popeye. I won't believe that.
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If McCain wins it will be because he won fair and square. Not everything is a secret conspiracy, idiot.

higher class  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 09:45 AM
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5. Can we really trust the polls? If they can keep them even - it will be
   
easier for them to steal. The history of stealing our votes is nearly a 50=50 split. Polls and corporate networks on the one side and Rovian and RNC tacktect on the other.

The polls are their tool to steal.
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ALL HAIL LORD ROVE

rucognizant  (480 posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 01:25 PM
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15. ANd eventhe liberal Mag. New Yorker...
   
kicked in with the erroneouds "satire" delpicing the Obamas as the low info voters worst nightmare.
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As Michelle Malkin said, political cartoonists spare no one.

[LC EFA]

If the worst happens, who will our leaders be?

Not too sure of who the leaders will be "if the worst happens", but I do know for damn sure who they're NOT going to be.

Back to work DUmmie, that corn ain't gonna pick itself.

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shadowknows69  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 09:16 AM
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Stalking the Shadows: If the worst happens, who will our leaders be?   Updated at 9:16 AM

*Sigh*

We WILL designate group leaders to organize the detainee truck cargos, you nitwit.

You don't have to worry.  SOMEONE will be there to nudge you with a cattle prod on your way from the duece and a half to your new home in labor camp #28,505.

****ing up the details is YOUR job.  We take our responsibilities as your future Overlords VERY seriously.

[BlueStateSaint]

shadowknows69  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed Jul-16-08 09:16 AM
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Stalking the Shadows: If the worst happens, who will our leaders be?   Updated at 9:16 AM

*Sigh*

We WILL designate group leaders to organize the detainee truck cargos, you nitwit.

You don't have to worry.  SOMEONE will be there to nudge you with a cattle prod on your way from the duece and a half to your new home in labor camp #28,505.

****ing up the details is YOUR job.  We take our responsibilities as your future Overlords VERY seriously.

Ya know, after seeing what we plan to do, multiple times, you'd think that they would stop asking that question.  Obviously, there's too many bong hits intervening . . .

[jukin]

My, my the OP must have just gotten back from his dealer's house or gotten it's prescription filled.