ANTONIO | 2005-12-20
Antonio says,
"Bob, My experience leads me to wonder if there is something congenitally wrong with our people and the only remedy is to tear power from their grasp."
"A few years ago I lived in a loft with five roomates. There we were, five white kids living in Spanish harlem behind an iron fence and barred windows. One of my roomates was a New England Anglo Saxon who's ancestor fought in the Revolutionary war. He made a good income and devoted his free time to teaching illeagal hispanic imigrants to read and write. To his amazement most of his students were illiterate in Spanish as well. Some couldn't read the floor numbers in an elevator. He felt just terrible for them."
"One day he was out walking in the Barrio with our pretty blond female roomate and some Latino Youths began yelling threats and insults at them. They kept walking. The girl said "Those lousey _____ want to kill us!" The guy replied, "No they want to kill me. You they just want to beat and gang-rape." And he wasn't joking. But he kept volunteering his free time to help educate the "newcomers" and give back to the community, not caring that the community hated him for being white. And he wasn't alone. Another friend of mine teaches swimming and martial arts at the community center in the same neighborhood."
"What do you do with people who are impervious to argument because they're locked into a death spiral like some suicide cult member?"
Comment by Antonio Fini — 12/
Antonio, every soldier who has ever held a dying comrade in his arms has knows that, back home, tens of thousands of people were using the war for profit.
There are no exceptions to this.
In every single case that soldier has had two options. 1) He could encourage his fellow fighters to keep up the fight or he cold 2) obsess on the profiteers and tell them they should get out of way and let the enemy have theirmiserable homeland taht was full of traitos and opportunists.
Your mistake is that thinking that the guy you are talking is any different from the war profiteers because he is not making money off of his treason. There is NO difference.
There will always be us and the traitors. We must decide whether we will follow reaction 1) or reaction 2).
As for taking power AWAY from people, I have just engaged in a long explanation of why it is that no one HAS power.
We are steppting into a vacuum that I have very, very carefully explained.
If you think there is something congenitally wrong with us, you may not believe that the Jews in Nazi Gemany and the Russians under Stalin reacted even WORSE than we are reacting.
The South African Boere are truly pathetic.
Please stop hitting on Reaction 2) and get in the battle with me.
This is a critical moment. I need a seminar, not a bitching session.
I have met you, Antonio, and I need you desperately to jump in here right here and right now.
For every ten thousands bitchers there is one person who can actually THINK.
You are the one in ten thousand. Knowing that is the only reward you will get.
But as you approach my age, you will learn that all the praise in the world means very little compared to the approval of what you have done by the one person in the world whose approval means everything to you.
Yourself.