RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE AND THE DESPICABLE PROFITEERING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND HUMAN BEINGS, WHO WIELD IT AS A WEAPON, TO DESTROY THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THOSE OF WHOM THEY CHOOSE - FOR WHATEVER REASON!
IN HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND, THERE IS THIS FLUFF AND DISINGENUOUS PR CAMPAIGN CALLED "CHOOSE CIVILITY," DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE ADOLESCENTS, WITH RAGING TESTOSTERONE LEVELS, TO FIND NON-VIOLENT AND NON-PHYSICAL SOLUTIONS TO DISPUTES AND PROBLEMS.
MAKE NO MISTAKE, IT IS FLUFF! IT'S BULLSHIT. IT'S BULLSHIT TO THE CORE, BECAUSE OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, IN SPITE OF THEIR GRINNING PROFITEERING FACES PLASTERED ALL OVER WIDELY DISTRIBUTED LEAFLETS, PAMPHLETS, BUMPER STICKERS, AND AN INTRUSIVE TOWERING KIOSK IN THE LIBRARY, AT WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NATIONS NUMBER 1 RANKED LIBRARY IN THE NATION, (I'LL BET YOU THOUGHT LIBRARY PERSONNEL WERE ALWAYS INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED, ENLIGHTENED, SOPHISTICATED AND POLITE TO A FAULT, DIDN'T YOU? I'LL GIVE 'EM 2 OF 5, AND THAT'S NOT ALL THAT GREAT FOR BEING #1 - BUT LATER), IS ONE OF THE MOST UNCIVIL GOVERNMENTS, YOURS TRULY, HAS EVER ENCOUNTERED IN OVER HALF A CENTURY.
LET'S LOOK AT THE RECORD.
AFRICAN AMERICANS ONLY DISCUSS THIS MATTER WITHIN THEIR PRIVATE COMMUNITIES, AND WHITE AMERICANS ARE JUST MUCH TOO UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE IDEA TO EVER LET IT ENTER THEIR MINDS.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER, COMFORTABLE OR NOT, IS THAT ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS FOR THE MONUMENTAL ADVANCES IN CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION WAS THE ACTUAL, OR PERCEIVED THREAT OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, DIRECTED BY JUSTIFIABLY ANGRY BLACK AMERICANS AGAINST TIMID AND COMFORTABLY LIVING WHITE AMERICANS.
THIS IS THE INDISPUTABLE AND OBJECTIVE FACT OF THE MATTER, THAT EXIST INDEPENDENTLY OF WHAT YOU OR I PREFER, OR ARE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH BELIEVING.
TAKE OFF YOUR ROSE COLORED GLASSES. WHILE A SIZABLE PERCENTAGE OF WHITE AMERICANS GENUINELY CARED ABOUT SUCH THINGS AS EQUAL RIGHTS, AND DIGNITY FOR ALL PEOPLE, MANY WHITES DIDN'T ACQUIESCE TO LANDMARK CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF THEIR HEARTS, THEY ACQUIESCED OUT OF FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES.
IT'S ALSO A FACT THAT THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WITH THE MOST FAR REACHING AND INCLUSIVE RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND PERSONAL LIBERTIES FOR IT'S CITIZENS, WAS BORN OF VIOLENT REVOLUTION AND BLOODSHED.
ANOTHER INDISPUTABLE AND OBJECTIVE FACT!
AND WE CELEBRATE THAT HUMAN BLOODSHED ON THE 4TH DAY OF JULY EVERY YEAR, AND IT'S CALLED INDEPENDENCE DAY.
STILL OTHERS HAVE VERY DIFFERENT METHODS TO RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
ADVISORY - ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES DISCUSSED BELOW ARE ILLEGAL. SHOULD YOU CARRY OUT ANY OF THESE ACTIONS, YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE ARRESTED, PROSECUTED, AND INCARCERATED. THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS IN PRISON, AT THIS VERY MOMENT, SERVING TIME FOR ENGAGING IN THESE ACTIVITIES.
AS TO THE QUESTION OF BEING MORAL, THAT IS A QUESTION EACH OF US MUST ANSWER FOR OURSELVES.
GODLESS BOB STRONGLY URGES YOU TO CHOOSE CIVILITY, BY FINDING MORE PEACEFUL MEANS OF PROTESTING YOUR GOVERNMENT, EVEN WHEN THEY DO NOT.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE METHODS, SOME OF YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!
SOME OF THESE ARE RATHER PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE WAYS IN WHICH THE OPPRESSED HAVE SOUGHT REDRESS OR SIMPLY TO PROTEST ABUSIVE TREATMENT BY GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY. IT'S QUESTIONABLE AS TO HOW MUCH CHANGE OR PROGRESS IT PROMOTES, BUT AS PROTEST, AND QUITE POSSIBLY REVENGE, IT'S VERY EFFECTIVE, BECAUSE IT'S COMPLETELY UNDER THE RADAR AND NOBODY KNOWS THEY'VE BEEN HIT TILL IT'S TOO LATE AND THEY'RE ON, MAYBE, THEIR DEATHBED.
ONE SUCH EXAMPLE - BUG CHASERS. THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO THE HIV VIRUS, AND PROCEED TO DELIBERATELY INFECT, POLLINATE, OTHERS NOT ALREADY INFECTED.
ANOTHER - THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY REFUSE VACCINATIONS SUCH AS H1N1 SHOTS, THEN DELIBERATELY PUT THEMSELVES IN CROWDED PUBLIC SETTINGS BEING RATHER INDISCREET ABOUT THEIR COUGHING AND SNEEZING. DEPENDING ON THEIR LEVEL OF ANGER, THEY MAY BE ABSOLUTELY AGGRESSIVE ABOUT THOSE PERSONAL INDISCRETIONS.
ANOTHER METHOD SIMILAR TO THOSE, IN THAT THERE IS NO DETERRENT BECAUSE THE ULTIMATE FEAR OF DEATH HAS BEEN REMOVED, EVEN THOUGH CLEARLY ILLEGAL, IS THE MURDER SUICIDE SCENARIO -
HARRIS, KLEBOLD AND CHO RING A BELL?
DING, DING, DING, DING DING!
LOOK, ALL OF THE CASES ABOVE HAVE ONE SAME CHARACTERISTIC, AND IT'S NOT THAT MYSTERIOUS REALLY. ALL FEAR EXPERIENCED BY ALL LIFE, HUMAN OR ANIMAL, BOILS DOWN TO THE SAME COMMON DENOMINATOR, THE FEAR OF DEATH. ONCE AN INDIVIDUAL HAS ACCEPTED HIS OWN DEATH AS AN INEVITABLE PRICE TO PAY TO RIGHT A WRONG, HE HAS ALREADY COME TO TERMS WITH AND REMOVED THAT FEAR OF DEATH AND THEREFORE FEARS NOTHING ELSE. NOTHING!
THE REAL TRAGEDY, THOUGH, IS NOT ONLY THE INDIVIDUAL WHO LOSES HIS LIFE, IT'S ALL OF HUMAN SOCIETY WHO LOSES, AND IT'S BROUGHT ABOUT BY A SOCIETY, AND IT'S GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, WHO HAVE A DUTY TO TAKE THE LEAD AND BE A ROLE MODEL FOR IT'S CITIZENS, BUT ALL TOO OFTEN THEMSELVES, DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE MODEL CITIZENS. THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO LEAD. THEY ARE JUST AS CAUSTIC AND DESTRUCTIVE TO THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, AS THE SOCIETY AT LARGE. HOW CAN WE EXPECT INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO BE CIVIL, WHEN OUR OWN LEADERS DON'T HAVE A CLUE AS TO HOW TO BE?
WHAT MAKES US THINK WE ARE SO CIVILIZED ANYWAY?
PERHAPS IT'S THE GRAND DELUSION!
