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Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« on: June 18, 2008, 01:02:52 PM »
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Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
Posted by nadinbrzezinski on Tue Jun-17-08 10:19 PM

not doing what is expected is a revolutionary act

In a society so carefully controlled as ours, biking instead of driving, and dropping your consumption to the minimum required to survive is a revolutionary act.

Not watching the MSM is a revolutionary act

Taking action, is a revolutionary act

That is all

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You welcome and lets see how many of us have acted
Posted by nadinbrzezinski on Tue Jun-17-08 10:27 PM

me use a bike as much as I can now... and drive as little or I can

Buy what I need, not what i can.

And I speak truth to power as often as I can
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
  -- Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU

Offline franksolich

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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2008, 01:37:58 PM »
The primitives have this "speaking truth to power" thing all wrong.

And it was the Bostonian Drunkard who started it.

There is no courage, no bravery, in "speaking truth to power" when there are no consequences.

The existence of Skins's island proves this; despite all the primitive yimmer-yammering of Hate and racism and intolerance, Skins's island still exists, unhampered by the power in the White House.

Whooppee shit.

Real courage occurs when one "speaks truth to power" in the main square of Havana or Pyongyang or Hanoi or Peking or Caracas or Salisbury or Rangoon or Minsk or Teheran or anywhere else where there's a socialist paradise of the workers and peasants.....and when there are consequences, sometimes fatal, for speaking out.

Some primitive cursing at George Bush isn't being brave or heroic; the primitive already knows there's nothing that's going to happen to him.

Real courage occurs when one "speaks truth to power" and suddenly evaporates, nebel und nacht, into a dark fog, never to be seen again......as has happened tens of millions of times in socialist paradises of the workers and peasants.

Damn, the primitives are so stupid.
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 02:43:53 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on June 18, 2008, 01:37:58 PM
The primitives have this "speaking truth to power" thing all wrong.

And it was the Bostonian Drunkard who started it.

There is no courage, no bravery, in "speaking truth to power" when there are no consequences.

The existence of Skins's island proves this; despite all the primitive yimmer-yammering of Hate and racism and intolerance, Skins's island still exists, unhampered by the power in the White House.

Whooppee shit.

Real courage occurs when one "speaks truth to power" in the main square of Havana or Pyongyang or Hanoi or Peking or Caracas or Salisbury or Rangoon or Minsk or Teheran or anywhere else where there's a socialist paradise of the workers and peasants.....and when there are consequences, sometimes fatal, for speaking out.

Some primitive cursing at George Bush isn't being brave or heroic; the primitive already knows there's nothing that's going to happen to him.

Real courage occurs when one "speaks truth to power" and suddenly evaporates, nebel und nacht, into a dark fog, never to be seen again......as has happened tens of millions of times in socialist paradises of the workers and peasants.

Damn, the primitives are so stupid.


They are beyond stupid. They don't even know the meaning of the quote they love to use.
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2008, 02:44:19 PM »
Is it still a revolutionary act when WE speak truth to THEIR power?

Just mention St. Barack's:
 middle name
 ears
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 Paster
 Marxist leanings
 lack of accomplishments

See how fast they award you the granite cookie! Yep... Scratch a liberal, find a fascist!
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2008, 03:44:39 PM »
Truth to power, truth to power, blah, blah, blah, ........I just want to know when they'll get the power to speak the truth?
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2008, 06:46:49 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 18, 2008, 03:44:39 PM
Truth to power, truth to power, blah, blah, blah, ........I just want to know when they'll get the power to speak the truth?
They have the power, they lack the capacity.  They can't speak what they don't know.
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2008, 06:59:03 PM »
Before one may speak Truth to anyone or anything one must first know the Truth.
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2008, 07:28:39 PM »
This begs a larger question....

Why in the heck do you want a revolution in the best country in the world?
The country with the most freedom, security, and opportunity?
Do you want to take those things away?
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2008, 07:39:41 PM »
Quote from: InfamousAndy on June 18, 2008, 07:28:39 PM
This begs a larger question....

Why in the heck do you want a revolution in the best country in the world?
The country with the most freedom, security, and opportunity?
Do you want to take those things away?

In the DUmmies eyes, we already live in the Gulag.
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2008, 08:17:19 PM »
Quote from: InfamousAndy on June 18, 2008, 07:28:39 PM
This begs a larger question....

Why in the heck do you want a revolution in the best country in the world?
The country with the most freedom, security, and opportunity?
Do you want to take those things away?


they only want it taken away from those of us who think differently than they do....as long as we agree with them, we can have our freedom of speech, etc.
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2008, 08:34:23 PM »
I'm so sick of that catchphrase.

Speaking lies to truth... it's a leftist act.  ::)
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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2008, 03:03:58 AM »
I already vented on this once- - anyone who uses that phrase should be shot.

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Re: Speaking truth to power, is a revolutionary act
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2008, 12:42:13 PM »
Quote from: RedTail on June 19, 2008, 03:03:58 AM
I already vented on this once- - anyone who uses that phrase should be shot.

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It comes from Quaker beginnings (1800's in a sense the original "peaceniks") and was then adopted during WWII as an anti-war stance. Ya, these idiots were upset we bombed the crap out of the Japanese.  :whatever:

I doubt the primitives understand that it was/is a christian way of life.
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