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Monks and Martyrs: A Controversial Perspective on Dissent in 21st Century America

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Two months ago, I highlighted a powerful video from Warren Pollock in the post: Video of the Day – The Religion of Consumerism. Today, I am highlighting another one of his videos.

While this one is no less interesting, it’s likely to be quite a bit more controversial. He poses questions that philosophers have no doubt pondered from the very first moment human beings came together to organize into centralized political structures.

Namely, what is the responsibility of a citizen in a society in which the majority is ruled by a small minority? By living passively within this system has a citizen de facto given his or her consent to the minority? If so, is that citizen therefore ultimately responsible for the fate of the society as a whole?

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Secret Service Shuts Down Eric Holder Protest but Saves us from Al Qaeda!

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Another terrorist attack thwarted.  Another protest crushed.  Take that Al Qaeda! You know the Obama goons couldn’t stand this photo below.  Particularly since their only rebuttal to any criticism to the fact this entire Administration appears to be complete and total criminals is to yell “racist!” A huge kudos to this guy for calling out … Read more

Veterans Toss Their Medals into the Chicago Street in Symbolic Protest

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My Take:  This article from yesterday’s NY Times on the protests at Chicago’s NATO summit has several interesting nuggets in it, including the arrest of some so called “domestic terrorists,” but the most interesting and powerful part of the protest occurred when about 40 veterans decided to toss their medals into the street as a form … Read more