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“Whoever you vote for,

….. the government still gets elected.”

 

DIRECT ACTION enables people to develop a new sense of self-confidence and an awareness of their individual and collective power.

 

 

DIRECT ACTION is founded on the idea that people can develop the ability for self rule only through practice, and proposes that all persons directly decide the important issues facing them.

 

 

DIRECT ACTION is not just a tactic, it is individuals asserting their ability to control their own lives and to participate in social life without the need for mediation or control by bureaucrats or professional politicians.

 

 

DIRECT ACTION encompasses a whole range of activities, from organising co-ops to engaging in resistance to authority.

 

 

DIRECT ACTION places moral commitment above law.

 

 

DIRECT ACTION is not a last resort when other methods have failed, but the preferred way of doing things.

“Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen … Always”.

 

 

M.K. Gandhi: When asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Gandhi replied:

 

That he thought that it would be a good idea!!

 

As an after thought, somebody wrote:

 

“Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch”.  Anon.

 

Don’t you just know that’s right?

 

Political jargon is difficult to understand most of the time so when I came across an explanation, I thought I should pass it on…. I hope this helps 🙂

 

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

 

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

 

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.

 

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

 

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbours help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

 

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM:  You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

 

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

 

MILITARISM:  You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

 

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbours decide who gets the milk.

 

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbours pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

 

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair “Cowgate”. The cows are set free.

 

BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheep brains and they go mad. The government doesn’t do anything.

 

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

 

ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.

 

CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

 

HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute an debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows’ milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.

 

Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the Feng Shui is bad.

 

ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.

 

TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed.

Milk is banned.

 

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: You are associated with (the concept of “ownership” is an outdated symbol of your decadent, warmongering, intolerant past) two differently aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of nonspecific gender.

 

COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there’s like… these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.

 

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

 

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