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29 April 2005, 14:14

Hello,

I’m a Canadian who reads this forum on my spare time. I just thought I’d put in my two cents because i think that’s what all this is about. Speaking freely. I have to say it’s really heart warming to see so many people of this ideology speaking out. But there are some things that disturb me and I guess they always come up when dealing with this sort of thing. There are a lot of people that will spout anti-American slogans or will generally say what everyone else is saying then say something like "It’s all the fault of Jew run media" or then something like "believe in the one true god" Seriously, I don’t think religion should be brought into this. Religion is part of the reason this is able to happen.

What I find really disturbing is how similar the current state of society in the U.S. (an even in Canada) resembles the book "1984". The style of oppression can dominate because there is no martyrdom. The innocents who died in Iraq, protests, and any sort of opposition are rarely spoken of in the news. Someone spoke earlier of a "revolution". I think that’s a good idea but maybe not the kind they were thinking of. If the people on this forum are so angry and dedicated to changing things. Why dont you organize something yourselves. Start exchanging emails (i think i saw one person do it). I’m sure what i just said is already being done and i only read 75% of the forum because it was so large and i dont have a lot of time. But none the less i just thought it interesting that everybody says these things but never bothered to actually connect with one another.

Just my two cents

P.S. I’m not talking about a revolution of carrying machine guns around bombing buildings I was thinking something more along the lines of passive resistance and the spreading of information. Just to clarify.