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Boston Tea Party ---?
Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Thursday, May 13 2004, 9:06:49 (CEST)
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parhad wrote:
>...if it showed an American woman being treated like that by Muslims would have been enough to launch a war...and I`m afraid that until the Americans don`t pay tit for cunt....they`re going to continue seeing Muslims as sub-human. To an American that particular rape isn`t what`s degrading..it`s not "doing it" that`s the offense...what`s offensive is doing nothing about it.
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>Unfortunately Islam has been way too decent in its dealings with Christianity. They`ve allowed themselves to be smeared for decades and thought that by preserving their own dignity they were handling the situation best. It was a mistake...like dogs these Westerners gain courgae as they think they can get away easily. You have to hit them on the nose hard if you want their respect. But with that comes the spectre of more violence..and more violence..of Muslims kidnapping innocent women and taking porn shots...that way everybody loses.
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>There is one easy, simple and pleasant way to fight back..it involves no violence and once set in place will be the most empowering of all...don`t buy.
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>Corporations that take in billions don`t make billions in profits. The profit margin for most of them isn`t that big and they need every cent. It isn`t necessary, for a boycott to work, to bring all revenue to a halt...just a drop of a few percentage points can start the whole thing unravelling.
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>They may scoff in the beginning...but if ten percent of the people who drink Coke switched to Pepsi...and kept it up and maybe built it up to 11 percent and then 11.5...you can bet Coke would sit up and take notice. NO corporation is content to make the same amount of money year after year and no matter its profits, any decline the following year is seen as a disaster. They are killing us with that margin they have left over to buy politicians and our government with. Their business should be making soft drinks and competing fairly...rather it`s become influencing school systems and government health agencies and then buying politicians..all of which they can afford to do with that small margin that allows them "mad money".
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>It`s far-fethced I know...but that`s because it can be done and we don`t want to believe it could be that simple..we want to think in terms of wars to oppose other wars...big guns and violence and more violence to match opposing violence..and then the corporations grow even richer and fatter...and we get more and more debased.
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>Gandhi got the British out not by appealing to their consciences...as they colorfully like to retell it...it wasn`t his frail passivity that did it..it was his ACTIVE endoresment of boycotts against British cloth and the salt monopoly that made them fear this sort of thing could spread. Gandhi wove his own cloth...something the Indians had been doing for centuries before the British passed "laws" saying they had to buy the cotton fabric made from the cotton the Brits took back to Liverpool to make cloth from..it was the same Merchantilism they used against the Colonies till they too had enough. Indians had their own cotton..they had spinning wheels...all they had to do was dust them off and liberate themselves one yard of cotton cloth at a time..and of course revert to their own way of dressing and not the tailored suits the Brits wanted them to switch to..so they would look more pleasing to them.
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>It`s within every person`s hands...you shop anyway...why not a Blacklist like merchants themselves used against any company they suspected of being "Pink"...like they used against college professors and writers and artists who wouldn`t toe the line. No one says you have to forego a soft drink..it isn`t even as radical as that...just politicize your drinking habits...and your bread eating habits etc.
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>Surely we must know by now that the path the United States corporations have us all dancing down will be a lot worse for us than for them...and it will hit us first while they have ways of shielding themselves from the harm they inflict. Why wait. Why wait till there is ruin and devastation brought home to America...surely it will come....no one has ever gotten away with this sort of thing and it will be the little guy and woman who get hit first and get hit the hardest...and all they had to do was join a boycott of any and all goods that are made by corporations who meddle in politics in ANY way...in ANY way. Of course they have the right to...of course they`ve structured the laws themselves in such a way as to allow them to buy government...but we can make it unprofitable for them to do so. "Unprofit"...is the greatest weapon of all...far more powerful than nuclear bombs...because you need a lot of profit to build one...like the astronaut said..."no bucks, no Buck Rogers". Everything is built by and on the money WE hand over to them...let`s control our own hands.
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>There`s no use complaining to the very corprorate politicnas money bought and paid for..they aren`t going to hurt their own funding source...for not many of them could claim our attention without the massive bucks they get. And campaign finance reform, like clean air and water and consumer protection are all dead....with everyone`s attention being FORCED to look to the skies for falling Arabs.
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>It`s time for a Boston Tea Party...for aresistance to any number of Stamp Acts...for a bold stand and a non-violent one, in the face of economic opression...that`s what Americans are suffering from today..the opression that comes when your government is bought..and corporations need money to buy our government..and like dumb clucks, we give it to them.
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>Have you ANY idea of the havoc that could be caused? And just how could they fight back?

*** The idea is brilliant. I'm sure the organizers of such a plan would be killed. Also, it would have to be something that was based from a web site on the internet. Kris...are you up for a challenge?



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