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Stop the whimpering, go out and do something!
shout your manifesto!
join the underground!
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Hi LOl, YES YES , make a point let people know whats going on, make changes now!!!!
Go Blogging!
“Go Blogging!”
Yea, with a megaphone on the street ^^
true, the time for change has come
But only change we can believe in!
(none of that unbelievable sort of change)
Stand in the streets and bark at the sun!
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
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
all right, all right
Let’s all inspire some young teens to firebomb a police car and get their asses blown away.
Need some more of that, don’t we?
As someone who came out of the 60’s who did his own protesting rather than putting children in harms way, I say shame on you all.
like blogging would of helped civil rights anymore than what happened on the streets and the physical presence of those that had some courage.
Thank you fanofgrendel, I always feel a bit lonely when I read stuff like this…I don’t think a second Reign of Terror is necessary in a nation of free men governed by (and responsible for) fellow citizens. We solve problems in courtrooms and legislatures.
@mrchives
too bad 99% of the guys in power are assholes just caring about themselves
What are we supposed to protest against now?
Great pic. Context?
If protest isn´t expensive for the state, the state just don´t care. No matter if you´re alone or with a few millions – they won´t listen if it doesn´t hurt. BUT: Harming people and destroying infrastructure and logistics is something different.
Choose your own limit and don´t be as worse as your enemy.
@fanofgrendel: they even blow your ass away if you have done nothing. Remember Alexandros!
No peace with tyranny.
These are powerful images but mostly useless without context.
What exactly are these kids protesting? What manifesto are they shouting? Which underground have they joined?
everything just comes apart.
I am amazed some don’t know the context of these images which were prominent in the news. You have selected the very best ones Josh. My compliments on your excellent taste.
I agree completely with ChaosAD when he says “they even blow your ass away if you have done nothing”!
MrChives, fanofgrendel and dyrcosis just don’t get it. They’re dead in the water and don’t know it.
We should heed the warning of Herbert Marcuse: “The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.”
Off with their heads. Off with our heads. And while we are at it, lets send Gavroche over the barricades to collect some bullets from dead National Guardsmen. We need the publicity.
As long as there are old men trying to make things “right” there will be kids throwing themselves into the cogs to prove a point. There’s clearly nothing new about it, it’s just that the kids don’t know they’re following a well worn path.
The old men will do what they’ve been doing for centuries and likewise the kids will get riled behind one set of ideals or another. Kids don’t have critical facilities and are full of hormones, so they’re easy to point, like missiles, and fired at a target with little regard for the possibility that they will die.
@oaksong
“Kids don’t have critical facilities and are full of hormones, so they’re easy to point”
Sorry but that’s nonsense. Intelligence and independence are no questions of age, a LOT of kids are smarter than any adult will ever be.
Not a question of smart, it’s a question of manipulation. There is a reason 18-year-olds were drafted.
Sargent: take that hill!
18-year-old: yes sir!
35-year-old: I don’t think so.
generalisation anyone? *sigh* -__-
I’m generalizing about the U.S. armed forces where I have relatives serving. I could be wrong about today’s German army. NATO can’t get them to come out of their bases and fight after dark in Afghanistan.
everybody together:
condescending *sigh* -__-
Tbh, without knowing the context, I feel a bit queasy about some of the pictures (particularly #4).
Adelmus, ChaosAD, and others; We (meaning anyone living in a country with universal adult suffrage) don’t have the luxury that the English had in 1649, the American colonies had in 1776, the French had in 1789, etc. This isn’t resistance to the arbitrary rule of the top 3% of society. If 99% of the people in power are unworthy of high office, it is our prerogative to remove them or replace them at the next election cycle.
As for Alexandros, I join you in condemning this tragedy. Murder demands justice; however, the West doesn’t dispense it with carbombs and Molotov cocktails. From John Adams: “Counsel ought to be the very last thing an accused person should want [be without] in a free country.”
Josh; “a LOT of kids are smarter than any adult will ever be.” and “generalisation anyone?”
…Pot calling the kettle black, anyone?
Yeah MrChives!
Just like it took us 8 years to replace the devil BUSH!
During that time he has created a mess that the world may never recover from… ever!
Bring on the revolution! Greece is the origin of Western Democracy and they understand how to handle the situation even today.
I support the rebellious people in Greece. It’s too bad the Yanks didn’t learn a lesson from them before it was too late.
First Reagan, then 8 years of nothing with Clinton, in fact he kept all the repressive legislation of Reagan-Bush intact and then 8 years on top of that of the worst leader the modern world has known! Bush did what Hitler never could have dreamed of doing and he it did it with the support of the stupid American people. Even now it may be too late for any kind of revolution. Just look around you… anywhere! We are in the midst of one of the greatest collapses in the history of the human race.
Read Noam Chomsky.
As usual, Josh understands the situation perfectly.
Spot on Josh!
As usual, incoherent vagaries and unfounded claims exhorted at the utmost extreme of hyperbole. Yes, Bush was awful. WE elected him. Twice. Yes, he created problems. “a mess that the world may never recover from…ever!”…? Which mess would that be? If you’re speaking of the worldwide economic crisis, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a hundred people who were 100% responsible, much less one man. If you’re speaking of the various debacles in the Middle East, you need to look farther back for the actual chain of causation. What made him so terrible was that he involved us in the fiasco that’s decades and perhaps centuries old, but he didn’t create it. And I should REALLY like to know what he did that even Hitler never dreamed of. You failed to mention what that was, so, as an educational experience for me personally, please elaborate. If you find yourself unable, as surely you will, then you need to put more thought into call for revolution.
…”Read Noam Chomsky.” Lovely capstone.
Well, perhaps I’m spot off. Perhaps we really do want to encourage cute teenage boys to go for the glory of throwing rocks at policemen and then, maybe firebombs. That’s worked out well for the Islamist extremists, and it worked at well in Greece. Things are so much better there now.
Meanwhile we can safely monitor the situation while we go blogging. Bad luck if an ugly teenage boy gets hurt.
MI PIACE QUESTA MUSICA RIVOLUZIONARIA DI CHI E ?
MrChives, fanofgrendel,
The two of you always land on the most repressive and extreme right wing side of issues. You are such great defenders of the status quo I suspect you must have a vested interest in suppressing people. Maybe you are cops or prison guards. You certainly sound it.
Anyway, take up your case with Josh who wrote under this dramatic picture the following, and he may have had the two of you in mind in doing so:
“Stop the whimpering, go out and do something!”
Last time I looked the unintended consequences of urging rioting and civil disruption were at least worth considering. Civil unrest in the name of “revolution” was used as justification to bring such varied authoritarian figures to power as Nixon and Hitler. If I have served to temper the enthusiasm of sending children into harms way for an undefined and romanticized vision of revolution, then I am pleased with myself.
Its not about preserving the status quo, its about effecting change -within- a system that is fundamentally functional. We can achieve rights the same way blacks, women, Native Americans, and others did; with the extremely dynamic set of laws that govern this nation (and like systems around the world). Because revolutions -I mean real, honest to god revolutions- generally yield either radical dictators or reactionary fascists. I’m just saying use common sense when you work for progress.
And Josh stopped arguing with me directly several weeks ago ;)
And as much as I hate to give Ad Hominem arguments the time of day, I’m a 20yo liberal gay atheist college student with two jobs, conservative parents, and exorbitant student loan debt living in a small city in a religious corner of Iowa. If I can wait for an idea who’s time has quite nearly come, I think anyone can.
sono un eterno ribelle,odio la repressione dei popoli,voglio rimanere puro di spirito,voglio essere l’inferno contro le dittature.Ma so’anche che nel mondo,finche’ce’ gente come voi tutto e’possibile. P.S. SI PUO’AVERE IL CD DI QUESTO AUTORE VI MANDO I SOLDI IN CONTRASSEGNO GRAZIE……..POI NON POSSO ESSERE UN COPS IMPOSSIBLE……BY ROBIN FLY
German school gunman ‘kills 15′
Ragazzi insoddisfatti della vita,ancora senza la percezione dell’equilibrio pscofisico sono bombe ad orologia,quando scatta la molla sono incontrollabili,altri ne seguiranno le orme,e’una nuova forma di fare terrorismo,sono autonomi e consapevoli dei danni che provocano,i segni indicano la forma dei kamicaze suicidi.
What is the source (or who is the photographer) of the main picture here?
@Kenneth
It’s a press agency photo so I’m not sure.
In ogni rivoluzione ce’ speranza di un nuovo futuro,questa foto emblematica la rappresenta tutta.
Why would you post Muslim protesters?
Of all the bigoted, homophobic groups of people out there…you chose the one with the most history of violence against gays.
@Antistar
“the one with the most history of violence against gays.” – That’s utterly nonsense.
Reagire ai soprusi,la comunity deve affrontare di petto i responsabili delle discriminazioni ai gay.la comunita’cristiana in primis il Vaticano con la chiesa cattolica.Segue la comunita’mussulmana anch’essa responsabile di delitti contro i Florenz(gay)peggio sono gli integralisti islamici che li vogliono a morte.Queste comunita hanno in comune una sola cosa,la distruzione totale degli esseri umani che hanno delle diversita’ sessuali. Non sanno pero’ che DIO e’ con noi, che sta’con gli oppressi,il vostro DIO sta dalla parte nostra,sta’ dalla parte della natura che ha creato, la natura non si distrugge si rispetta.la storia di Sodoma e Gomorra e’una vostra invenzione,era solo la natura di un terremoto che anche a quei tempi esisteva altro che punizione divina,bugiardi.