Eventually, things will get to the point where the majority of Americans feel there is a greater risk in remaining silent than in rising up and cleaning out the party and a half of corporate whores.

For those of you who think we live in a democratic republic, think again. Let’s see what Webster’s has to say.

Plutocracy: 1. The rule or power of wealth or the wealthy; 2. A government or state in which the wealthy class rules. 3. A class for group ruling, or exercising power or influence, by virtue of its wealth.
- Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary

I am a quote collector and thought I would share with you some memorable and apropos quotes from throughout history. Please copy and share.

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“A constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored; liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” – John Adams

“It is not that we see democracy through the haze of optimism. We know that democracy is a jewel that must be polished constantly to maintain its luster. To prevent it from being damaged or stolen, democracy must be guarded with unremitting vigilance.” – Aung San Suu Kyi

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1791

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government… The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.” – Mark Twain

“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln in his Lyceum address

“The question shall arise, and arise in your day, which shall rule, wealth or man; which shall lead, money or intellect; who shall fill public stations – educated and patriotic free men or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?” – Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Ryan, 1873

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

“The world is more and more of a neighborhood. But is it any more of a brotherhood? If we don’t learn to live together as brothers and sisters, we shall perish together as fools.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments in life when one resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for themselves.” – Archibald Macleish

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal – well-meaning but without understanding.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.” – Henry David Thoreau, 1848

“A society of sheep must beget in time a government of wolves.” – Bertrand de Jouvenel

“You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.” – Louis Brandeis

“How wealthy the wealthy are does matter. If we allow great wealth to accumulate in the pockets of a few, then great wealth can set our political agenda and shape our political culture — and the agenda and the culture that emerge will not welcome efforts to make American work for all Americans.” – Sam Pizzigati

The alarming development and aggressiveness of great capitalists and corporations, unless checked, will inevitably lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses. It is imperative, if we desire to enjoy the full blessings of life, that a check be placed upon unjust accumulations and the power for evil of aggravated wealth.
- Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1869

“Inherited economic power is as inconsistent with the ideals of this generation as inherited political power was inconsistent with the ideals of the generation which established our government.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“So merciless is the tyranny of economic appetites … that a doctrine which confines them to their proper sphere, as the servant, not the master of civilization, may reasonably be regarded as … a permanent element in any sane philosophy.” – British historian R.H. Tawney

AND FINALLY, FROM THE RESPECTABLE AND STRONG RUSS FEINGOLD…

“There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where the police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a country where people could be held indefinitely based … on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover and arrest more terrorists, or would-be terrorists…. But that wouldn’t be a country in which we would want to live.”

Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

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Best of luck to you ALL in the coming storm.

To PARTICIPATE in the FRAUD ONLY adds to the Fraud… as we SHEEP, gatherm herd, and comply.

A CALL of NO! “NO!” Should go out now by tens of thousands of us that WE WILL NOT participate in FARUDELENT US ELECTIONS… to further “support” spineless and reckless “democrats” who have failed at every step to acknowldege FRAUD VOTING MACHINES and Processes.

Democrats should be shamed and FRIGHTENED into wondering if even ANY of their dependable supporters will give them more DC power while they neglect their Oath to the Constitution… and neglect We- The People.

These Democratic FRAUDS and COMPLICITY MUST BE MET with at LEAST AS MUCH challenge as we focus on all issues. AND REGRETTABLY– Voting Machines and Vote Fraud has been SUPPORTED BY and/or IGNORED by “Democrats.”

Let the whole system-society fall if it must. We ARE NEARLY there, NOW! I for one… a long time organizer, staffer, advocate, precint walker, fundraiser, etc, etc. .. WILL NOT VOTE in 2006 or any other ‘election,’ in this Country as it now stands.

The JOKE is on ME …and us…. on “elections”… but I will at least have the DIGNITY of not participating in the ridicule and humor and deceit against me… on stage… As staged…by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia sham elections.

I will at the Very Least… take the position of DIGNITY of many “third world” folks who BOYCOTT the SILLY charades called elections in ther countries.

We should RALLY and “BOYCOTT the US VOTE”. Create a consciousness about these Dire MEASURE and CHOICEto NOT PARTICIPATE in MY OWN CIVIC DESTRUCTION.

Maybe there will be PAPER BALLOTS– not paper trails– come September 2006 if we Truly Show our REFUSAL to GET IN the CATTLE LINES– as Germans should have refused to get in the Cattle Cars –that took them to Death Camps. God Bless the USA (deceased 2000- 2006.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/172151/867

You write: “THEN, vote the bastards out of office. Take note: Democracy is not a spectator sport.” You seem to be unaware that we do NOT live in a democracy; rather, we live in a constitutional republic. In a democracy, people’s votes are DIRECTLY represented, while in a republic, people’s votes are only INDIRECTLY represented. What this means is that in a democracy there is a REALISTIC possibility of majority rule, while in a republic there is only a THEORETICAL — not realistic — possibility of majority rule.

–n
Metro D.C.

Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Cheney could attend or not, as they preferred.

Anybody pissed off yet?