-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/2016 10:50 PM, Razer wrote:
On 09/21/2016 06:32 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
rulers out. That is why the Revolutionary War had the necessary organization and mass public support to succeed.
There was no American Revolution. Revolutions are based on ideology.
Greed IS NOT an ideology.
In my view, Religion is about ideology and Politics is about power. Since Greed is about power, a political revolution has little if anything to do with ideology, except in that ideological propaganda (emotionally charged fact-free bullshit) is always employed to persuade people to support and participate in revolutions - or to violently oppose them, as the propagandists' employers may direct.
("...started refusing to pay taxes and surcharges, ignoring the orders of Crown authorities, and constructing their own systems of commerce..." That favored ***THEIR*** WHITE RICH MALE interests.)
Well duh. Before the American Revolution, holders of Crown land grants were the most wealthy and powerful people in the Colonies. After the American Revolution, former holders of Crown land grants were the most wealthy and powerful people in the States. The U.S. Constitution was written for the purpose of creating a Federal authority capable of stomping down popular uprisings against abuses of power by these same de facto rulers. American racism was invented by the same fine folks, as a response to slave uprisings earlier in Colonial history: By granting White "indentured" slaves special privileges, they successfully divided the conquered. That process has continued uninterrupted, with adaptations to accommodate changing conditions, until the present day: In Obama's Amerika, any black person with a Master's Degree or above is as good as any white person - all others pay in blood. Which is why we need more revolutions, beginning with establishing alternative ways of life that reduce or eliminate the role of today's rulers and the passionately held, completely false Truths they dictate to our own communities. Big job? The biggest. If not for the pending collapse of the global material economy, I would call it an impossible job - vs. one of the most important jobs anyone could be working on today. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX40zpAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqDxAH/0ifQv7+R+SECOqmtuZQzEUD JjokbXc47u7xPdWVjwmFQNkq63LKbGd08SmKaAeS7CKix4tmAkcjZpHLbMsbR6W5 7ksZbPJrA8AgXysWNcCbbys6ayuo0Rn482F19n1f9mjIj8xJJQNzEhF97/AQJ2LK MeOdH4dD9pxw/OxhZVl8pU4wmNO7nRFoia1uondkoz8k9QPN4fHVre24W05WAAFj ljZd6lqLit8pmdIqzPHfcijd99LErntw9MqmN/6jOg8y2wGIm/QX7SqRMheM02kq gIaYFhVxzPQqRXlC/NwLY37iIWm4A6OKiBWUtLjW2risvhi8lgJBwp5TXXbyVhs= =N+8q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----