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Something to Think About

Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago to Government
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This is something that can happen to you.The following couldn't happen to a congressman or United States Senator. Most people are unaware of it, but for decades politicians have exempted current and future members from most of the laws they pass. Asset forfeiture, for one.If cops nail a senator peddling cocaine out of his Mercedes by a schoolyard, his car can't be seized but your car and even your house can be seized.As you read this do you feel under hypnosis?If you try to get a politician prosecutedfor drug dealing and a conviction but you couldn't seize his assets the way your car or house would be seized.His fellow politicians might just censor him or expel him from congress and, at the same time, arrange his immunity from prosecution.But you couldn't seize his assets for drug dealing or any other of the two hundred offenses for which they can seize yours.Politicians have their own retirement fund They pay no social security taxes.They rob social security to finance other programs.Their pensions are safe.Recent events have brought to light a deep distrust of congress by the American people.

They exempt themselves from health care plans they intend to force upon you, so that some day you'll have to wait months for things like gall bladder surgery, but they get the care they need on demand.Somehow, we've allowed ourselves to be ruled by the greediest and most envious among us.


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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll try again, but I've sent you more than one private message (if I've not been blocked somehow).
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd like to burn your cable tv down. I'm jealous for your full attention (and besides, Youtube is lousy with excellent content which I'm constantly working to promote as part of my purpose).
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    All I have are the words people choose to fight with. I do not pretend to more knowledge than is available in the moment of those I've never met or are ever likely to meet. That being the fact, I cannot be offended by anything anyone chooses to post (I'm not in the picture and neither are they).

    I will only note that I've received nothing but admonishment from those who've done nothing but repeat the sort of drivel I've read countless times before.

    So call me a prick if you must and I'll take the epithet with pride -- because I'm "a prick with a purpose." What purpose can you ascribe to my detractors?
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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, since I hate name calling I have refrained from doing so, but let me reply. As you know, "There will ever be greater and lesser than yourself." - Bernard Hermann . Marking other posts down you come off as an arrogant prick. Especially with the persons you are creating friction with. Two of the best. There are more to persons than intellect. Intellect without imagination is as fecund as the dessert.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The book was published in 1948. As part of the irony, Orwell reversed the last two numbers to represent the future. It was merely a little jab in the behind, a typical Orwellian sarcasm.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Many States, like FL are changing the laws at the State Level. This is where this should start.
    This is INSANE to declare an OBJECT (like money) to be "criminal" and abscond with it!

    But the IRS and the Feds are still able to do it.

    And it is NEVER used to go after the GIANT Drug Dealers (like the CIA), just the average people who have cash on them, etc.
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  • Posted by shaifferg 6 years, 6 months ago
    It would help if Article V were read and some of this energy was directed at assisting the Convention of States call for amendments to the constitution. One possible out come could be laws passed by congress apply to everyone including the members that passed the law(s).
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Call it virtue signaling if you must, but this honestly explains the way I, honest romantic revolutionary for reason in a world of suicidal insanity, think & feel, how I choose to SEE myself in an insipid "sea of stupidity" (now, recovering from a long academic road that began in symbolic logic. In other words, if I cannot be literal, at least let https://youtu.be/iPgzfxdQ7cg

    Days [Be] Numbers (The Traveller)
    The Alan Parsons Project
    Chris Rainbow - Lead Vocals

    The traveler is always leaving town
    He never has the time to turn around
    And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere
    He seems to be completely unaware

    The traveler is always leaving home
    The only kind of life he's ever known
    When every moment seems to be
    A race against the time
    There's always one more mountain left to climb

    Days are numbers
    Watch the stars
    We can only see so far
    Someday, you'll know where you are

    Remember
    Days are numbers
    Count the stars
    We can only go so far
    One day, you'll know where you are

    The traveler awaits the morning tide
    He doesn't know what's on the other side
    But something deep inside of him
    Keeps telling him to go
    He hasn't found a reason to say no

    The traveler is only passing through
    He cannot understand your point of view
    Abandoning {unreality, sure} of what he'll find
    The traveler in [you] is close behind

    Days are numbers
    Watch the stars
    We can only see so far
    Someday, you'll know where you are

    Remember
    Days are numbers
    Count the stars
    We can only go so far
    One day, you'll know where you are

    Songwriters: Alan Parsons / Eric Woolfson
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm fighting for a vision, they're knot. You see, I hold that irony is the flip side of the same coin: Justice. But there are those who fall afoul of the poet of the revolution. In other words, I didn't get degrees in linguistics and theater for nothing. Maybe instead of being merely the Patrick Henry of whatever political revolution anyone had in mind, I'll instead be the Cyrano d'Bergerac. And I'm good with a turn of a phrase, e.g., You must BE the Revolution or there IS no revolution!!

    When I find myself in a bowl of subjective or word-twisting, ankle-biting pedantic spaghetti prepared by those unable to grasp what it means to think IN principle (not merely in a "relational" or "compartmentalized" way, but to see the poetry and principles of Galt in the reality of their lives, their motives, their thought processes, to listen to Scott Brick not Christopher (oh) Hurt (me!) and that insipid, hallmark pastiche of the Atlas Shrugged movies. Yech. --Then I must quickly cut myself free and move on! (i.e., It's ok, I'm gonna delete all this "slanderous" "libel" of others' slanderous and libelous behavior toward the Ayn Rand they think they're holding hostage to their hippielove). In a word, I'm arrogant but I'm not allowed to pronounce moral judgement (apparently, as I've been told, there's no room for ad hominem in the Gulch (now who are the Thought Police?)

    {Burn After Reading}
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Who said the year was 1984? It could have been 2030. Or even 2130. History, news and minds were so corrupted by the book’s collectivist ideology that even the actual year became unknown.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Royalty, huh?The truth is that they are just common grifters. Especially the Clintons. A nastier couple of criminals have never graced the halls of government. They could steal your underwear while you were still wearing them and if you caught them they'd bribe you with the stash they've been accumulating since Arkansas.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    44lbs?
    Set it on fire in the backyard of their house and turn the entire neighborhood on.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 6 months ago
    They feel they are 'Royalty' even though we don't recognize Royalty in America. My husband stopped a Texas State Representative who was driving recklessly and found to be intoxicated. He told my husband, 'You can't arrest me.' My husband said, 'You are right. But I did call your wife and she is on her way over here now to pick up your car and take you home. Good luck!'
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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The ethics found in most current philosophies, professed or inferred, is horrid. Left is right, up is down, good is blue, green is west. Makes less sense than the Big Bang.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I live in Tarpon Springs which is on the west coast of the east coast of Florida.
    I was wondering what caused you to arouse such ire in the hearts of my friends.Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 6 years, 6 months ago
    All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell
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