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Hi Glen Good Point, the reason Hitler came to power was he had many willing followers. So what would have happened if some really good guy like Jesus Christ were in Germany and ran against Hitler. He would have lost because the people wanted a strong militant leader who told them they were destined for greatness.
Same problem now. Setting up my soap box and telling people how to live will only get people listening who are ready and willing to hear my message. During the Viet Nam war era the young men of the USA were pressured by the government to go kill the yellow man. Many of them saw this as wrong and dissapeared, refused to join the military, burned their draft cards etc. Eventually the war ended partly because the people who would have to fight refused to do so. Gahndi had a problem with the British rule of India. Since the Indian people were tired of the British rule he was able to lead a popular peaceful civil disobedience and was successful in getting the British out of India. At this point in time the American people are not ready or able to toss out the American government or discard the Federal Reserve curency that they have to pay tribute to the Federal Reserve bank just to keep in their pockets. The most effectve thing i can do about this siuation is make TROM available and keep on TROMing until such time as there is a group that recognizes what todays problems are and understands that the best way to handle them is to refuse to be paid in worthless script or to follow the "laws" that are contrary to the constitution or to work in the buracracy that enforces unconstitutional laws on their neighbors. At that point I won't have to lead. People will refuse to be paid in the Federal Reserve Notes and ignore the unconstitutional laws on their own initive and the problem will go away. Keep on TROMing Pete Sent from my iPad On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Glen Strathy <[email protected]> wrote: > ************* > The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] > ************ > I suppose I had two thoughts in mind. > > One is that some people with a lust for money and power are opportunistic, > and will take advantage of complacency or weakness to pursue their aim at the > expense of others. Mafia, Wall Street types, military dictators, fascist > politicians religious cult leaders, etc. if not opposed by more enlightened > people will gradually reshape the world in their own image. > > The world made a lot of progress in the 20th century on issues like social > equality because people demanded it. Today these are under attack because > free market fundamentalism (which is a fiction created to serve greed) went > unopposed for decades. Democracy is being weakened and replaced by > oligarchies. Even science is under attack by corporations who see the truth > as not in their best interest. > > My other thought is that sometimes good people can spend much of their lives > on personal growth, becoming wiser, more compassionate, less troubled people > - but if they do not take an interest in the world, the world becomes > deprived of the very people who could do the most good. The world needs > people who are not playing the game of power and money, but nonetheless are > willing to promote fairness, compassion, equality. > > I understand fully why someone would not want to play the game of activism or > politics or war, or other games of power. But what about win/win, pro-life > games like cooperation and mutual aid? I suspect there are such games that > would prevent many tragedies. > > Hitler, I believe, came to power because people had undergone tough economic > times and were desperate to feel some pride in themselves again and to have > someone offer a solution. Sure, people "could" have said no to him, but I > think it would have been more effective to have solved or prevented those > economic problems in a pro-life way before people became so desperate. The > crisis created an opportunity for Hitler's gang to grab power. But a good > system should channel those ambitions into pro-life activities. > > > > On 7/26/2012 10:50 AM, Pete Mclaughlin wrote: >> ************* >> The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] >> ************ >> >> >> Hi Glen >> >> Interesting argument. your point is that when evil gets going good men must >> stand up and fight it. >> >> however isn't this just a justification to jump into another life or death >> struggle. >> >> what if Hitler never rose to power because 99% of the German people just >> ignored him? >> >> The right thing to do when someone offers you a role in their destructive >> game with an argument like "Your either for me or against me" is to ignore >> them and keep on TROMing. >> >> keep on TROMing >> Pete >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Jul 26, 2012, at 5:20 AM, Glen Strathy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> /trom
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