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Freepers, thinking of 'going galt' [Opus]
Self | The Watcher

Posted on 04/16/2011 11:31:56 PM PDT by The Watcher

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To: The Watcher
I remember a time where the people were all good God-fearing citizens who would send a lost child home or watch out for their neighbors. Those days are gone. Now the people are looking at what they can take from you and half of them are doing nothing but living off of the industriousness of others. My personal opinion is that this country is doomed as surely as ancient Rome and nothing we do will change it. There is a cliff looming and sooner or later we will plunge off the edge, most of wondering what the hell happened. The only decision to be made at this point is where you will fit into the new totalitarian paradigm. I, for one, will consider myself lucky to simply be left alone for the remainder of my days.
61 posted on 04/17/2011 6:14:25 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: Yet_Again

“Truly instituting change from the ground up involves first seizing and securing the Public school system...like the extreme left did back in the 70s, with a second more radical wave hitting in the 90s. By doing this, they ensured that they had a factory of willing atheists and socialists at their beck and call.

Unless you can take over or destroy the Department of Education, ground up change is an illusion.”

You’re right about that, and we also need to take back the newspaper, TV News and entertainment media). More accurately, they need to be liberated.


62 posted on 04/17/2011 6:19:57 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: The Watcher
That of the alteration of education.

This is how you take back the school system.

Take over the local boards of education in every school district in the country. Most people don't understand that their intended role is to represent the taxpayer. This ignorance is why most people vote for educators for this position or don't vote at all

Rule 1 - NEVER vote for an educator to sit on the board of education. (fox guarding henhouse)

Rule 2 - Inform all of your neighbors about the intended role of the board of education.

Rule 3 - Publish a brief fact sheet on every board of education candidate and distribute before election day.

Rule 4 - Recruit local small business owners to run for the board of education.

Rule 5 - Honor Rule 1 at all times.

I think you get the idea. Feel free to add.


63 posted on 04/17/2011 6:22:00 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: RoadTest
Without changing the hearts and minds of the people, it is pointless to discuss specific attack plans.It's the people who let those things happen in the first place. Honestly, the poster who said we need a catastrophic event...civil war or disaster to clarify the people's minds towards that which is important, probably had it right, imho.
64 posted on 04/17/2011 6:23:13 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: paulycy

I think maybe the original poster may have been misunderstood, or perhaps he didn’t find the right words.

I have been working on a Christian theology forum of my own — not political and not a competitor to FR — that would be built with a new type of forum engine. Current forum software projects aren’t very good at building communities that revolve around ongoing, prolonged discussions. I think that was what the original poster was trying to get at.

I have been planning to give the software I am writing to Jim for use here on FR, if he ever wants it. It will take some time to write, but he might like some of my ideas.

I think there has been a miscommunication somewhere.


65 posted on 04/17/2011 6:24:04 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: PastorBooks
I have been planning to give the software I am writing to Jim for use here on FR, if he ever wants it. It will take some time to write, but he might like some of my ideas. I think there has been a miscommunication somewhere.

You may be correct. There is ample space and time for a rebuttal and a retraction from myself and others who might be in the wrong.

We shall see what we shall see.

Your forum software sounds interesting. you might talk to John Robinson, the software genius, too.

66 posted on 04/17/2011 6:30:46 AM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: ez

“Without changing the hearts and minds of the people, it is pointless to discuss specific attack plans.”

I can’t find anything wrong with that. To attack the externals would be to use the Demonrats’ method. The heart of man is where the action is.


67 posted on 04/17/2011 6:32:18 AM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: Yet_Again
Truly instituting change from the ground up involves first seizing and securing the Public school system

See post # 63

68 posted on 04/17/2011 6:36:21 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: scott7278
That is not the way to win hearts and minds.

People who make their decisions based on how their feelings are massaged aren't the kind of people I care to surround myself with...

69 posted on 04/17/2011 6:40:03 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: The Watcher
There are other more direct ways, besides going Galt, to fight federal tyranny.

Fighting Federal Tyranny since 1861.

"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."

— Jefferson Davis ...

70 posted on 04/17/2011 6:50:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bankwalker
Speaking of rules; I have always held the two 'Maybury Laws' in high regard:

1. Do all you have agreed to do.
2. Do not encroach on other persons or their property.

71 posted on 04/17/2011 6:51:51 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: The Watcher

“JimRob, you can’t sit on your laurels any longer...”

What arrogance! If you don’t appreciate JimRob’s site any longer, feel free to start your own!

JC


72 posted on 04/17/2011 2:07:41 PM PDT by cracker45
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To: The Watcher
I’d say this is probably my last post for FR, ...

Good. You're obviously not serious. I wasted my time reading your screed and giving you an honest assessment and get back this self aggrandizing BS. Grow up!

73 posted on 04/17/2011 3:22:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: paulycy
Someday, we may all be this position.


74 posted on 04/17/2011 3:25:58 PM PDT by Daffynition (DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: The Watcher
...and even amused by the poor schmuck who insisted I didn’t know how to write or think coherently.

You don't.

The early days of FR would have had me peppered with relevant questions, even hard ones, that displayed a keen and active mind.

I did better than that. I told you exactly what your post was missing and how to proceed.

75 posted on 04/17/2011 3:26:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: The Watcher
Which is why I said we need a grassroots discussion of accomplishing durable change in our nation. I have yet to find such a thing, anywhere. Not even here.

Instead of a kneejerk reaction, why not begin reading FR, listening to Rush and all the other radio talk shows, and see, actually see all the progress already being made by the Tea Party Folks and others towards making durable change in our system.

76 posted on 04/17/2011 3:35:54 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: The Watcher

I’m a little busy right now. I’m trying to light some golf balls on fire...


77 posted on 04/17/2011 3:53:03 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: The Watcher

The Galt characters called by Rand are the big corporate businessmen and college girls with the disturbed minds of Soviet Russian plutocrats. Those “going Galt” in reality now are working class technicians and engineers: the few Americans of ingenuity.

I know, because I’m one of them. We only want peace and quiet. We get along fine with our humble, hard working neighbors.


78 posted on 04/17/2011 3:58:10 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
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To: Tainan
"thread might be of interest"

Thank you. Winter's finally turning to three or four months of spring/fall in this harsh place (no summer here). It's nice to get more work done in a day.


79 posted on 04/17/2011 4:00:29 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
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To: The Watcher

And don’t mind the insulting comments. Those are from people who’ve read Rand in college and are now dependent upon government incomes or incomes derived from government employees on vacation (services, contractors). The default’s imminent, and they’ll lose no matter what.


80 posted on 04/17/2011 4:07:38 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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