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What does "anger" do?  Does it matter?

Now where's the fun in that! - Megatron
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 04:08:40 PM EST
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Damn right it matters. they sat and presided over an illegal war, 35 years of making the rich richer, telling us tax evasion was good for us, robbing our pensions, encouraging indebtedness for those least able to pay and told us it was our own fault.

All the while they've been salting our money away in their own gilded layrinths for their own pleasures.

Screw 'em. I want justice, and if I cna't have that then I'll settle for the populist rolls of the tumbril and the smell of careers burning on pyres.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 04:35:34 PM EST
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as you note, they've done all that - an illegal war, massive redistribution, etc... - , and now they are threatened by dubious £1,000 claims?

Or is this just a distraction?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 04:53:53 PM EST
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No, I think this is the real deal. A lot of the other issues I listed are a bit too abstract given how they're portrayed in the media or people simply don't care that much about them.

But they're all lurking in the background, a sense that things are decided we don't agree with, wouldn't agree with and now this is the straw that breaks the came's back. The realisation that MPs are getting away with things that anybody else would go to jail for. that in any other walk of life would be crimes resuling in jail. That contrast, that unfairness, cannot be explained away, can't be laughed off. They're rubbing our noses in their superiority, and they think they can get away with it, think they're better than us.

Well, Earth calling Westminster. Here's a newsflash....

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 05:07:22 PM EST
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Sounds good but will it translate into anything substantially different?  I'm watching California as a microcosm of all this crap.  Which way will things go?  I'm not optimistic but I'll keep you informed.

Now where's the fun in that! - Megatron
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 07:02:21 AM EST
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