"We’re forcing a new conversation that’s not liberal vs. conservative, but what’s moral and immoral"
Moral Mondays: 700 Arrested in North Carolina Civil Disobedience Campaign Against GOP Lawmakers
And what we’ve been seeing since January in this Legislature is that to cut 500,000 people from Medicaid and from—Medicaid—disabled children—is immoral, it’s extreme, and it’s bad policy. To deny 170,000 people unemployment, who lost their jobs with no fault of their own, is extreme, it’s immoral, and it’s bad policy. To attack the poor by undoing the earned income tax credit, that even Ronald Reagan said was good—900,000 people, so that you can give 23 families, wealthy families, a tax cut—is immoral, extreme and bad policy. To attack women’s rights, to attack voting rights, to try to engage in voter suppression, to undermine public education—all of these are part of what this extreme Legislature—I don’t even call them Republican, Democrat—but extreme Legislature is doing. We believe it’s immoral.
And we’re forcing a new conversation in the public arena that’s not Republican and Democrat, that’s not liberal versus conservative, but really is talking about what’s moral and immoral, what’s extreme and what’s bad policy. We say it like this: It’s constitutionally inconsistent, it’s morally indefensible, and it’s economically insane, what they’re doing.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/12/moral_mondays_700_arrested_in_north
Transcript at the link. Please read it if you have time.
For weeks, thousands of people have been gathering at the North Carolina State Legislative Building for the weekly "Moral Monday" protest called by the NAACP to protest the agenda of the Republican-led state Legislature. Over the past 10 Mondays, 700 people have been arrested, including the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. "If you want to change the nation, you have to change the South," Barber says. "If you want to change the South, you have to change the state capitals, and we believe that this extreme ideological group understands that their narrow minded agenda doesn't have much longer in the public arena."
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covering Rev. Barber and the Moral Monday protests.
I think it is a common issue, many Republicans think when Democrats win it is rigged, Democrats vica-versa. We all know that the politicians do what their biggest contributors want, why not protest for publicly funded elections and outlaw campaign contributions? This would mean that when 90% of us want background checks for assault weapons it would pass easily instead of dying a slow death like it did.
I think Moral Mondays is a good way to start the discussion. I hope they will look for the root of the problem, which is the almost total corruption of our political system. The solution is to fight like hell for CCFR. Patriotic Americans should be part of this movement since what is going on now is unconstitutional and criminal!
I think I have heard of Bill Hicks not sure? But I like
RIP George Carlin, my generation. 
George is from our generation and Bill came a little after and didn't stay long.
- But I think both were cut from the same piece of cloth, they just have different designs....
sounds good to me! 
We have witnessed forty years of government by actual Republicans and the Republican Lite, and this combo has entrenched the nation in endless wars, including the Coming War on Ourselves to help the One Percent secure the profits off those Surveillance State Monies.
Over the last five years, we have set in motion the perpetual "Too Big To Fail, and Too Big To Jail," crowd. Geithner remains a free man despite his immoral and quasi legal legal maneuvering of the financial players during the Autumn 2008 Bailout Swindle. (He has also lied to Congress, a felony, and one that should have had him impeached from being head of the US Treasury. But now I guess, doesn't every official lie to Congress?) It is becoming the "New Normal."
Meanwhile the poor sap who put forth countless hours of effort on the behalf of sick people in Calif.'s Central Valley is starting out his prison sentence of ten years, as Obama's DOJ goes after the medical marijuana providers and yet avoids prosecuting the executives at banks that launder the violent cartel monies.
" It’s constitutionally inconsistent, it’s morally indefensible, and it’s economically insane, what they’re doing."
Those words rank right up there with these spoken by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King.....
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Rec number 111. That's kind of cool. 
