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RESISTING TYRANNY IS BOTH A UNIVERSAL RIGHT AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD.
Stephen Lendman of OpEdNews points out that history is replete with lectures and directives on the public revolt against corrupt government. Even our own Declaration of Independence anticipated that we may find ourselves in our current situation, where our legislators and government have violated their fiduciary and responsibility to the people, in favor of select others and for their own personal enrichments.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: "All who govern in the interests of themselves rather than of the common good are tyrants...., ...If the lawmakers (i) are motivated not by concern for the community's common good but by greed or vanity (private motivations that make them tyrants, whatever the content of their legislation), ...one has the right of forcible resistance; as a private right this could extend as far as (KILLING THE TYRANT) as a foreseen side-effect of one's (LEGITIMATE SELF-DEFENSE)."
Later, John Locke, "the Father of Liberalism" and renown English philosopher, wrote: "there can be but one Supream (sic) Power, which is the Legislature, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the Legislature being only a Fiduciary Power to act for certain ends, ( the people's welfare and will), there remains still in the People a Supream Power to (REMOVE OR ALTER) the Legislature,
Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." Our own Declaration of Independence cites the following: "...governments are instituted...from the consent of the governed...whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends ( acting in the people's best interests )...it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...".
Indeed, suffragette Susan B. Anthony urged: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God". And we all know, that women would never have gained the rights that they now have, if they did not demand them and fight for them!
I am grateful to Stephen Lendman for incorporating all of these quotations into one article, for validating my feelings that common people have once again been victimized by our government, and for vindicating my sense of rage against, and intolerance of those legislators who's life's occupation is striving to exploit and enslave each of us. All of us can now take solace in the fact that the greatest of saints, philosophers, politicians and human rights advocates recognized that governments can become corrupted, and that when they do, it is both our right and obligation to dissolve that government; if we choose, and to reform whatever one might be in our best collective interest!
This is the point of, by the way, and the non violent; ( their personal preference ), process that Revolution 2.0 is pursuing: http://www.osixs.org/Rev2_menu_intro.aspx
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Resisting-Tyranny-A-Unive-by-Stephen-Lendman-101224-901.htmlRESISTING TYRANNY IS BOTH A UNIVERSAL RIGHT AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD.
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I never understood why people love watching television. When someone would tell me about the previous night's Law & Order, I'd wonder why they wasted so much time with television. Wouldn't they rather do something creative instead?
In college that thought became "why would you waste your time in front of a television, when you could waste your time in front of a beer bong, getting wasted."
My mind has been inundated with 75 years of academic scholarship, which attempted to convince me that popular culture's only purpose is to hegemonize the proletariat. It was easy for me to believe, because I'd never been a TV fan.
This changed when I was cold lampin' around my parent's house. I'd just returned from a trip to South America, when a friend came over with LOST season 1 DVDs. I was skeptical. I told him I had better things to do. He knew that I didn't. He turned on the DVD. I watched 25 hours in three days.
LOST had won me over.
By the time 815's survivors from the front of the plane met the survivors from the back, I'd moved back to my old college town. I didn't have a TV, but a friend gave me his key so I could watch episodes while he was at class. I'd invite people over to have LOST parties in his living room.
Around the time the Others watched 815 crash, I was living in Mexico. I had one fear before moving to Mexico, and it was that I might not be able to watch LOST. To my luck, I was able to buy an iTunes season pass. Watching abroad, helped me keep up on gossip with friends in the United States. LOST helped cure homesickness.
I left Mexico before the season ended. I took a trip up the Pacific coast. I watched episodes in Portland and Kelowna. I screeched at the top of my lungs from a motel room in Yreka, when I realized the last episode was a flash-forward.
I watched the helicopter crash with friends in North Hollywood. By the time we met Kevin Johnson, I was living in Brooklyn.
I watched the first episode of the fifth season at my parent's house, after returning from another trip to South America. I watched episodes in San Francisco, Seattle, London, Heidelberg and Lower Manhattan. Season five ended 2 days before I signed a lease for an apartment in Los Angeles.
I've moved around a lot, the past five seasons. I guess you could say that LOST has been my constant. And now, I truly understand what it means to love watching television.
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