George Carlin- Its not the Bill of Rights its a bill of TEMPORARY privileges

[Ichingcarpenter]

''Just when these American citizens needed their rights most, the government took them away. And rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, a bill of TEMPORARY privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you will know the list gets shorter, and shorter and shorter.

Sooner or later, the people in this country are going to realize the government doesn't give a fuck about them. The government doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn't give a fuck about you. It's interested in its own power. That's the only thing. Keeping it, and expanding it wherever possible.

Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true: either we have unlimited rights or we have no rights at all."






http://pinkandpop.blogspot.com/2010/01/george-carlin-on-human-rights.html

[Fumesucker]

1. Frank Zappa-

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

[Defectata]

2. +1000

[bigmonkey]

3. This seems like "evangelistic" despair to me.

I feel the effect in this forum of continually, repetitively citing these statements as if they were fresh and realistic has a preponderantly enervating effect. It's like a clarion call to give up. Where is the safe spot from which to make this pronouncement? Get behind the wheel of change, will you? Is it too hard?