Excerpt:  No-one is immune to potential disability. With SSI being cut, more families will be forced to go into debt, much faster, much deeper, so Bush can fill up all those shiny new debtors prisons. So people can be forced to work for free, to work off obscene "interests" that never will get paid down, debts and interest caused by hospital bills from families struggling to pay what SSI once paid.

The noose is closing in on the wage-slave system. Soon credit lords will create a never-ending excuse for the continuing debt slavery of the American people. Don't believe me? Why was the bankruptcy law changed for the poor, but not for corporations? Why have credit card companies been allowed by law to become more predatory, allowed to hike fees and charge hidden fees at a whim? It's almost as if they want people to STAY in debt. Almost as if.

Excerpt:  Justice without teeth is the kind of justice bullies prefer. Abusers of the human impulse of cooperation, trust, and goodwill, just laugh at toothless justice, and keep on abusing, despite what we think or say. Abusers know no shame, because to them might makes them right. Abusers grow more cruel and brazen until someone limits their reach, until their illusion of normalcy is destroyed by the patterns of their actions and it cuts off (or threatens) the "narcissistic supply" -- whatever "reward" it is that they seek, by exercising power over others -- whatever makes them numbs and excuses their depraved, diseased, devouring, sadistic egos, and drives them to deny their consciences and ignore the choices to be the way they are.

Evil is real and it lives in human hearts. Evil is expressed more fully in the hearts that have killed their own conscience for wealth, status, or convenience or even 'survival' and 'self defense'.

Excerpt:  So long as we're seeking leaders who appear Strong, Decisive, and Confident, who project an image and aura of competence and surety in an uncertain world, manipulative actors who have no integrity will be packaged and sold to us as Strong, Decisive, Confident, and Competent.

In a world full of things that are out of control, we'll keep electing salesmen who are really sociopaths, who do not care about the people they govern at all

Excerpt:  I don't need a definition, or 'permission' to be myself. I will never blithely conform to any so-called norms without questioning their reasons for existing. Authoritarians hate having their authority questioned by an equal. And to that I say... get over yerself.

Excerpt:  The rest of the world might reject me, call me freak and be scared of me... but I have learned the hard way that I cannot live my life for anyone else, or live as anyone else, and still be happy in my own skin at the same time.

Excerpt:  To me, language SUCKS. On-line word type-imitation talking monologues suck even worse. Reality and the relationships that make up our social reality are at once immensely complex, and immediate. They change every millisecond and at the same time can also be devastatingly simple. Communicating via a bunch of ones and zeros will never be capable of conveying the subtleties that a conversation face to face has. It is said 90 percent of a talk with a person is non-verbal as in body language, facial expressions, eye contact, pheromones, etc. I hate talking on the phone for this reason too.

Excerpt:  The corporations and government have us all on camera as we shop at their stores. They see our eyes dilate over the chocolate bars and sexy models on Cosmo covers. They see us at stop lights, ATMs and banks, gas stations. They have our home, cell, and other phone numbers, our addresses, our medical and psych records, bank records, car registration and insurance info, our social security numbers. They know what we’ve been reading, which tile cleaners we like best, and which type of tomato soup we prefer. They know what we say on the phone, what we type on the web. They know where our kids go to school, who they are, how many pets we have, our parents’ names and addresses and such. They know when we are sleeping ...

Excerpt:  I am well aware the average soldier might not be an asshole in reality, but the minute you let an asshole step in and be your moral compass for you, you become an asshole by proxy. I fuckin' hate that chain of command bullshit people buy into so easily, and all the corruption it fosters in otherwise pretty decent people.

If you choose to obey an asshole who's asking asshole things of you, you become an asshole. If you follow asshole orders from assholes somewhere higher up on that chain of command without question, what does that make you? No matter who you blame, you pulled the trigger. You dropped the bomb that kills.

To me, the unquestioning obedience demanded of the military is the essence of a broken moral character in America and its "leadership. But broken character or not, in the military or not, you are still repsonsible for what you do.

Excerpt:  When sodomy becomes just another flavor of sexual pleasure, then it will hold no more social power of shame over the people who have been hurt, betrayed, shamed, or socially coerced into playing the role of an object to be fucked up. It would have a new meaning. Because it would respect personhood.

The insult (sodomy) would have no more weapon-power. It would cease to be a threat, if the real purpose of the shame was visible. People would be outraged and bite the hand that feeds people these hurtful lies.

Excerpt:  Why do we desire to have separate houses, separate rooms? Separate tables when we go to restaurants, separate cars?

This desire for a wall of separation between other people is a recent innovation. It is a thing created to manage people and discourage solidarity...

Our culture's need for privacy is manufactured. A social control experiment gone awry. It is the result of a long trend of state sponsored social conditioning.

Excerpt:  When survival is glorified as the highest law for mankind to live by, you can be corrupted and bribed with the hope of continued success or survival. Eventually, when atrocity touches your life, you must change the "law" in your own heart and stop fearing death and loss and stand up for what is right and speak out loud what is true in your own heart. This means you will refuse to go with the program. You might be an enemy of the state when the state leaders lose their souls, and you choose to side with mercy and keep your integrity even though it could be the end of you.

Excerpt:  What is a Nation really, but a bit of land mass encircled by an invisible concept, a massive mental fence that says, in effect, this collective 'we', the 'US' people, have pissed here first, and doing such have staked out a claim on this space so you, KEEP OUT.

Excerpt:  As little kids, before we could discern reality from illusions, we were taught by our ignorant well-meaning parents and this sick culture to dehumanize and repress certain aspects of ourselves, as they were deemed 'bad' or shameful. We learned other behaviors were "good, " and in this reward and punishment game we play to survive, we forget compassion. Eventually we learned to separate ourselves from ourselves. We practice excessive inappropriate repression of emotions, and put out of consciousness our own feelings, ideas and thoughts.

We deaden ourselves to ourselves and the pain we feel, we resign by pulling out of life and its various involvements, and settle for less than we deserve. We sell out our potential for what we are told we want. We forget who we are...

Excerpt:  How can Americans understand democracy if all they know is reward or punishment?

Knowing how and why you make choices, and knowing to choose empowerment over fear of pain is part of recovering your own integrity.

This choice to act with integrity is the key to overcoming abusers in your life as well as abusive urges inside yourself … remembering the choice of NO, I will not ... I won't believe it, do it, shut up about it, or obey ... I can be a voice of empowerment instead of not making waves. This kind of courage can be like an Anti Stockholm syndrome.

Excerpt:  America didn't get to be the richest, most powerful country in the world by being "nice." It is a warlike, greedy country, and full of cutthroat competition. America has used biological weapons: Smallpox-infested blankets were used in the American genocide of the Indian nations, yet because the American people have developed National Alzheimer's disease, they never remember the historical proof of the boldfaced hypocrisies invading their living rooms on TV.

Bush spins away, reading prepared statements he didn't even write, and we nod like robots' heads on a spring.