trouble is, what you gonna do to get out of it? when it comes down to it, these things will be imposed using violence backed up by the
full force of the law. If it involves breaking your arm first, then doing it anyway, they don't care. and all you get as a bonus is a broken arm. Look at the guy who burnt himself to death recently in Chicago! :(
not so much as a
whisper about it on the mass media - they make damn sure that any personal 'demonstration' has its effectiveness limited so that no-one else sees it to gets any clever ideas.
joejoeba said:
I am going to refuse to have a card, even if it makes me a prisoner on my own island.
I also have stopped paying tax as I don't want to fund war. So far I have got away with it for two years with hardly a letter.
I have also stopped payinng speed tickets/parking charges/or any kind of fine.
I have taken my bank to court. (and won). I am part of a growing group who are not afraid of the faceless system of litigation that keeps our nation on a leash.
Eventually I will be taken to court properly and then My voice will be heard.
man, I admire that stubbornness!
how the hell did you stop paying
any tax without starving to death!? that is
some manouvre. do you grow your own food? (edit: or do you just mean income tax? even so, still impressive). edit 2: though that is illegal, so I'm not endorsing it, because it also goes towards the health and social security services, intented to support the weak and vulnerable members of society (though it rarely works like that in practice)
but I don't know if I entirely go along with your approach. I'm not criticising you for sticking up for what you find approprate to do. maybe I'm being a bit pessimistic about it, I just think that it might be counterproductive to 'face off' the PTB directly. You're ok as long as your scope of influence is fairly limited, but the pathocracy
will stamp you out if you appear to threaten it. There are
many incidents that demonstrate this - look at Tienenman Square.
I prefer a less obvious and more... devious approach ;) I think it is always important to try to find as much of the bigger picture as possible, and to stick up for truth in whatever way seems possible at the time, in that way sticking up for those who are unable to stick up for themselves. It is just the 'how' that I see differently to you. I guess everyone has to find their own 'how'.