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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 09:40 AM
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You say you want a revolution? Yeah, I don't think that's asking too much.
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

---You can count me out of any destruction too John Lennon my brother, but revolutions don't have to be bloody or even violent, there have been many bloodless revolutions in human history. All things evolve, even America, the whole world and all it's peoples are all evolving, when people are oppressed, they evolve into free people, sometimes through revolution, like in 1776.

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait

----People often ask me to show them the plan for improving our current plight, hell, it ain't my job to come up with a plan and show it to you, my plan is for America to have another revolution, we deserve it, we need it, it's long overdue. And dearly beloved Beatle John, I don't contribute money to people with minds that hate, except through the taxes that I pay, and that we all pay. John, you may have been referring to the radical leftist crazies from the sixties who quickly went extinct or surrendered to the dark side, our immediate problem is with our own president and his Nazi crew, something you couldn't have imagined in your wildest imaginings.

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

----I don't want to change the constitution John my brother, I simply want to adhere to it, and follow it's orders, which are to revolt against tyranny and oppression, and as for chairman Mao, his name is stamped on the bottom of every thing I own, and America owes his ghost 10 trillion bucks or so, and he's grinning at us even now from the Olympics in Beijing, and he ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow anyway.

I know these words were written for a song a very long time ago, in a different era of revolution and rock and roll and street fighting, and a lot of water has passed under the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, but we need a revolution now, a real one, we need a Revolution #2, and Revolution #2 begins with me, and you.

I love you John Lennon, and I know this one way dialog with a ghost is silly in the extreme, but revolution has been given a bad name somehow, even though this nation was born of revolution. It's as if the very word is somehow an obscenity in daily conversation, those who utter it are scorned and looked down upon and are even called crazy and unpatriotic.

What the hell can you say about a nation that lets monsters like bush and cheney do what they have done, and get away with what they've gotten away with, AND JUST LETS IT HAPPEN as if it were all perfectly normal?

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TooBigaTent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 09:43 AM
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1. Isn't there that "in" on that White Album version of the song?
To make an omelet...
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:47 AM
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10. Indeed, Revolution 1 says "out...in".
He was ambivalent.
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Bob Dobbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 09:46 AM
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2. "A nation of monsters."
In answer to the question:
"What the hell can you say about a nation that lets monsters like bush and cheney do what they have done, and get away with what they've gotten away with, AND JUST LETS IT HAPPEN as if it were all perfectly normal?"
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 10:09 AM
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3. Some of these monsters go back to the Nixion administration...
...willfull ignorance of history...overall ignorance of the masses who're deluded by their televisions...and believe *magic bullet theories* and how their gov't is there to represent THEM instead of the corporations who make us all their slaves.
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Tindalos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 10:10 AM
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4. Revolution doesn't require violence, just the willingness to make sacrifices
That usually occurs when people have nothing left to lose.

What the hell can you say about a nation that lets monsters like bush and cheney do what they have done, and get away with what they've gotten away with, AND JUST LETS IT HAPPEN as if it were all perfectly normal?

Isolation. Indoctrination. Same process as cults use. The US has been cut off from the outside world, taught to to fear/hate, and most believe it because they lack external contact to verify/contradict what they are told. To them, this has become normal. Infuriating, isn't it?


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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:53 PM
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:57 PM
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:55 PM
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6. Revolution LMFAO!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 12:41 AM
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9. Yep. LMFAO.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 11:59 PM
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 12:41 PM
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11. kick
we all want to change the world
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