[TheForge] Sighting in Rifles

[Andrew Vida]

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> So,it's okay if W invades Iraq on false pretenses,
> denies Constitutional and Geneva Convention
> protections to prisoners, wiretaps you and everybody
> else, and your sends your kids off to kill people. 
> All that's okay...
	
	Eh?  I must have missed something because I cannot for the life of me 
see how you come to those inferences, based on what Bob wrote.
> 
> ...As long as you can smoke your lungs out, buy guns,
> and avoid wearing seat belts and motorcycle helmets.

	Ah... OK, I see.  Uh...  no.
> 
> That's quite a vigil!
> 
> Somehow, my vision of America seems divergent from
> yours.

	I think you are talking past each other and this is not surprising 
because these are perennial hot button issues that seem to have the 
magical ability to cause people to abandon their faculties, their reason 
in particular.  I cannot speak for Bob, but I would bet that he has not 
implied anything you assert.  But I will agree with you that Americans, 
by and large, aren't worth wiping your ass with in terms of putting 
their money (or muscle) where their mouths are.  I'm probably on of 
those.  I watch year after year go by as this government imposes ever 
tighter and more draconian restrictions upon us as the corporate 
fascists take over, yet for all the complaining I see no substantive 
action taken.  We get what we deserve, and if we as a nation fall fully 
into slavery, we will have nobody to blame but ourselves.  The shame of 
it that had we take n our heads out of our assholes 27 years ago and put 
the simpleton Reagan and his fascist c handlers in their places, we 
might be enjoying a far better life than we do.  And with every year 
that passes in self-absorption or apathy, we come closer and closer to 
the need to take up arms in order to restore ourselves, if even the will 
shall ever exist again to do so.  Talking would be a lot easier than 
shooting.