Message 11/19
Date: 28-Feb-03 @ 07:37 PM Edit: 28-Feb-03 | 07:40 PM -
RE: Eye for an Eye
It's all about resource grabbing,consolidation of power,and extension of authority over as many people as possible.I got into self sufficient farming so as to avoid the system as much as possible but even with your own piece of land the bureaucracy of the EU attempts to stifle any attempt to be self reliant.
The rules for keeping animals have become so stringent and gradually more expensive that only big production line agriculture can survive.I'm forced to pay a vet to check my beef cattle for things that only affect dairy cattle if I don't do it the animals aren't allowed to be outside in the fields where they belong,I'm forced to fill in form after form and jump through hoop after hoop.Most small farms are incapable of continuing so they are selling up and the land goes either to big mega production farmers using the worst farming techniques,or to property developers who create industrial and residential desolation wherever they go.I can buy most food cheaper in the supermarket to the extent that it's hardly worth producing my own,but to give in and simply use the system means to become part of it in a way that is repellent to me personally,every penny I can keep from falling into a profiteers hands is a penny that doesn't go towards propping up a system I despise.
The vast majority of Muslims are exploited by their feudal overlords just in a more primitive way than our overlords exploit us using the distortion of democracy that we have come to accept as our political system,the answer is not to attack the Muslims,but to attack their ignorance and our own.Whatever real freedoms we have won are being eroded and any resistance is swiftly and brutally crushed,more aspects of our life are threatened with scrutiny and control than ever before.Political progress must constantly be pushed for,every freedom that people have ever won has come through organizing and direct action,people have been complacent for too long,political action and involvement has become passe exactly what the powermongers want.R for Referendum lets put this supposed democracy to the test if they refuse a referendum on the most important decision a nation can make there is obviously something wrong with the system.