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thefool_wa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:19 PM
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Saw "V for Vendetta" last night - Viva La Revolution!
Besides being an excellent movie with very appropriate themes and ideas, this movie gave me a little pause for thought about the tone of the media that has been coming out in the past couple of years.

It seems to have started some time before the American Idiot album hit the streets and has spiraled more and more until, it seems, that the media-scape is finally rife with material on the subject of uprising and revolution in the modern, western world.

In the movie the character said that her father used to say "Artists use lies to tell the truth." (anyone now if this is credited to the author of V or if it is older?) and this is so true. More and more artists in every realm are seeing what we see in the world around us and casting out the warning to those in power that, in the not too distant future, we are going to finally be tired of it and rise against them, bringing about a true New World Order without their tyranny and devastation. My hope is that those of us out there with the charisma and the leadership skills can harness this new openness to the idea of revolution and draw people in who feel the same and are ready to make the sacrifices necessary to affect true change.

I hope to harness this trend both for the promotion of the revolution based fiction I am working on and to help promote a true political revolution in this country. What I am looking for here is a sound off from anyone out there who has something truly revolutionary to say, I'll kick it off:

I feel that we should amend the constitution to create a third house of the legislative branch wherein all US citizens are further represented by officials they elect from within the companies for whom they are employed. The existing system of lobbying congress with regards to legislation would be made completely illegal. I have been working with a group of like minded citizens in the NW who believe this may be an answer to some of the problems our government faces and we have well developed text for these amendments. What we need are people to believe in the ideas.


Interested? Have your own ideas? then sound off DU, show me what you got!
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:12 PM
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1. It might be worth reposting this in GD or GD Politics...
....you'll likely receive some interesting replies.
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thefool_wa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:46 PM
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2. thanks for the suggestion
I will try....
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