[Users] Intellectual Violence - article from Think Or Be Eaten-By Ang

[Davis, Alexandria SM CAP 119 ND/WG ANG CDT SQ]

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You're the insulting one. Give it a freakin brake.

On 04/07/2008, Hanif Kruger <grr at kwagga.com> wrote:
> don't forget those pills, hay.  smirks.
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> From: "Davis,Alexandria SM CAP 119 ND/WG ANG CDT SQ"
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> Subject: Re: [Users] Intellectual Violence - article from Think Or Be
> Eaten-By Ang
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>> No, it's all I want to take the time to say. And yes, I will have a
>> lovely day, because soldiers are fighting for the freedom for me to
>> enjoy it thank you. Now. I have to go do something worthwhile and get
>> packed for Air Force Aux training.
>>
>> On 04/07/2008, Hanif Kruger <grr at kwagga.com> wrote:
>>> Is that all you can say?  Wow, what an intelligent response.
>>>
>>> Have a lovely day further.
>>>
>>> Hanif Kruger
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Davis,Alexandria SM CAP 119 ND/WG ANG CDT SQ"
>>> <alexdavis at honorguardbugler.com>
>>> To: <users at zonebbs.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:50 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] Intellectual Violence - article from Think Or Be
>>> Eaten-
>>> By Ang
>>>
>>>
>>>> Bunch of liberals.
>>>>
>>>> On 04/07/2008, Hanif Kruger <grr at kwagga.com> wrote:
>>>>> Something I've learned over the last few years is that there really is
>>>>> such
>>>>> a thing as evil in this world. True, sheer evil.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've also learned that all evil is perpetrated by force; and that can
>>>>> be
>>>>> physical violence or it can be intellectual violence, i.e. by deceit
>>>>> and
>>>>> deception.
>>>>> Lies. Lies are every bit as much a form of violence as guns, clubs and
>>>>> bombs
>>>>> because just like physical violence, lies are used to violate someone
>>>>> else's
>>>>> free will and free choice.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reality is that the violence of lies is infinitely more common than
>>>>> physical violence. There's just no contest there. Lies are the single
>>>>> most
>>>>> prevalent form of violence in our country today, and that intellectual
>>>>> violence is taking a serious toll.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is violence and why is violence used? It is used as a means to an
>>>>> end.
>>>>> More specifically it is the quickest way to get what you want from
>>>>> somebody
>>>>> else. You can either just shoot someone and take what you want or you
>>>>> can
>>>>> lie them out of what they have that you want, either way, you achieve
>>>>> the
>>>>> goal of getting what you want from somebody else. Lying is the means to
>>>>> perpetrate a robbery or theft. Just like a mugging in a dark alley,
>>>>> individuals and
>>>>> nations alike are violently attacked with the aim of destroying the
>>>>> true
>>>>> owners of something to take what they own for yourself.
>>>>>
>>>>> The mere threat of using violence against somebody is often enough to
>>>>> get
>>>>> them to hand over the desired things. It works well because everybody
>>>>> knows
>>>>> what
>>>>> violence is and nobody wants to be violated, which is exactly what
>>>>> violence
>>>>> is. It is violating another person. It's using whatever superior tools
>>>>> or
>>>>> strength or advantages you posses to harm, or threaten to harm another
>>>>> with
>>>>> the aim of taking something that belongs to them and that you have no
>>>>> right
>>>>> to take. It means over riding the free will and free choice of another
>>>>> person and to force your own will on them, so that you can have it your
>>>>> way.
>>>>> And that's just
>>>>> wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> Depriving others of the God given right of having free choice over
>>>>> their
>>>>> own
>>>>> lives, bodies and property is the very definition of what we think of
>>>>> as
>>>>> crime. That is the DNA behind all crime, that's the reason that we even
>>>>> have
>>>>> the concept of crime. Forcefully depriving another of their free will
>>>>> is
>>>>> what all
>>>>> crime is. It violates a person in the most serious, egregious ways.
>>>>> It's
>>>>> an
>>>>> insult that goes very deep into the psyche of any victim of violence,
>>>>> physical
>>>>> or intellectual.
>>>>>
>>>>> Victims of violence do feel violated. They feel the terror of
>>>>> powerlessness
>>>>> over their own lives. They feel the horrible loss of control over their
>>>>> own
>>>>> fate. The overwhelming insult of not having any choice in matters
>>>>> regarding
>>>>> their own life and best interests. They are reduced to irrelevance
>>>>> because
>>>>> of the appetites and will of their attackers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Being made to feel irrelevant is probably the most damaging experience
>>>>> that
>>>>> any human being can go through. It's the worst feeling in the world to
>>>>> suddenly become nothing and no one as far as some dominating, violent
>>>>> others
>>>>> are concerned. To be deprived of the obligatory recognition of your
>>>>> sentience and inherent right to be treated as an equal to other human
>>>>> beings
>>>>> is to feel one's own life being negated, as if it had no meaning,
>>>>> importance
>>>>> or significance. There is no greater insult and no greater harm that
>>>>> can
>>>>> be
>>>>> perpetrated on another.
>>>>>
>>>>> To become nothing more than the extension of another man's will is to
>>>>> become
>>>>> a slave or an object, and we are not slaves or objects. We are equals
>>>>> with
>>>>> the same human rights in this world, and we all deserve to retain our
>>>>> dignity and sovereignty at all times. No one has a right to take those
>>>>> things from us. When they do take those things they defy known reality
>>>>> and
>>>>> relegate us to a realm of confused suffering, and permanent damage that
>>>>> cannot be undone or recompensed.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only way anyone can make you feel that way is by violating you,
>>>>> depriving you of your dignity and personal sovereignty, and this is why
>>>>> the
>>>>> concept
>>>>> of simple respect for others is such an important thing. It's a huge
>>>>> thing.
>>>>> In fact I'd have to say it's the biggest thing there is.
>>>>>
>>>>> In a decent world we would all agree to respect the others in our lives
>>>>> and
>>>>> all over the world. We would comprehend the simple fact that those
>>>>> others
>>>>>
>>>>> do
>>>>> not owe us anything. They don't owe us their prosperity or their lives.
>>>>> They
>>>>> don't owe us their property or their rights. They are not in any way
>>>>> obligated to do as we desire so that we may feel happy.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only people who think the opposite is true are the people in this
>>>>> world
>>>>> who are truly evil. They are the criminals who commit all the worst
>>>>> crimes
>>>>> in this world. Although those crimes can take many forms the bottom
>>>>> line
>>>>> is
>>>>> that it's always the same crime being committed, the crime of depriving
>>>>> another of their free will and their right to determine their own fate
>>>>> and
>>>>> their own life choices, whether or not anyone else happens to like
>>>>> those
>>>>> choices. It's just not our call to make for anyone else.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's where we run into problems because there are a great many
>>>>> people,
>>>>> people who think of themselves as upright, good people, religious
>>>>> people
>>>>> even, who will not agree that everyone has the same right to self
>>>>> determination in this world. Right off the bat, that attitude is
>>>>> criminal.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Liar's Toolbox
>>>>>
>>>>> Today there is much killing of innocents happening in the name of the
>>>>> good
>>>>> guys vs. the bad guys, but what is never called to account is who
>>>>> defines
>>>>> good and bad. Without exception it is never a simple case of good guys
>>>>> versus bad guys; it is in fact a case of aggressors calling the others
>>>>> bad
>>>>> because those others are not doing what is desired by the aggressor.
>>>>> They
>>>>> are the legal owners of lands and resources the aggressor covets, they
>>>>> exist
>>>>> in the way of the aggressors and in blatant contradiction to false
>>>>> claims
>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>> ownership of the land and its resources. The others who have what the
>>>>> aggressors want are always automatically the bad guys, and that's
>>>>> nothing
>>>>> but a big fat lie. It's hypocrisy. And that's always attached to lies.
>>>>> Hypocrisy is one of the main tools in the liar's toolbox.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hypocrisy is when we believe we deserve to have free will but we refuse
>>>>> to
>>>>> extend the same human right to others. This is a very important tool in
>>>>> the
>>>>> Liar's toolbox. It is used to try to justify violence against others
>>>>> with
>>>>> all manner of lies and excuses, like religious differences, racial
>>>>> differences, any kind of differences will be used to try to justify
>>>>> perpetrating violence against others when we want what belongs to them.
>>>>> Where ever there is hypocrisy there is lying going on and the sad
>>>>> reality
>>>>> will be that a lot of good people will have bought in to those lies and
>>>>> will
>>>>> be an opposing force to the truth. They will not be able to see their
>>>>> own
>>>>> hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is a serious, dangerous sin and it's one we should
>>>>> add
>>>>> to the list of things we want to find
>>>>> in ourselves and do away with.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another item in the Liar's Toolbox is indifference. Sometimes called
>>>>> depraved indifference the meaning is simple enough to gather. When we
>>>>> are
>>>>> indifferent to the suffering of others we are committing a crime of
>>>>> violence
>>>>> against them. When big corporations or governments take steps in their
>>>>> own
>>>>> self interests that result in harm being done to others, directly or
>>>>> indirectly, they know it. That they proceed anyway makes it criminal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Failing to notice or consider that our actions harm others is not an
>>>>> excuse
>>>>> and it cannot be justified. Saying they just didn't know, or worse,
>>>>> framing
>>>>> and promoting illicit depraved concepts like "collateral damage" is no
>>>>> excuse either. There is no such thing as lives that don't matter.
>>>>>
>>>>> No matter what claims are being made to justify violence in the name of
>>>>> self
>>>>> interest, there is no justification. When we are led to believe
>>>>> otherwise
>>>>> that in itself is a crime being perpetrated on all of us. We are being
>>>>> insulted every bit as much as their innocent victims. The message is
>>>>> that
>>>>> others don't matter in the name of their personal goals and desires,
>>>>> and
>>>>> that's invalid on its face. Others always matter and life always
>>>>> matters
>>>>> more than any ideology or game plan. More than any government's desire
>>>>> for
>>>>> power and prestige, more than any corporation's greed and psychotic
>>>>> lust
>>>>> for
>>>>> endless expansion. Those things in fact and in reality are worthless up
>>>>> against human life and well being. Pretending otherwise is always and
>>>>> only a
>>>>> lie.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's Not Just About Stuff
>>>>>
>>>>> We're encouraged to believe that crime is all about property and
>>>>> ownership
>>>>> rights, and that there can be no crimes without property or life being
>>>>> involved but that's only seeing the peel and missing the entire banana
>>>>> beneath it. Every dishonest contract, every con job, every petty theft,
>>>>> every rape or act of child molestation, every bogus war we're led into
>>>>> based
>>>>> on lies, is always about depriving people of something that's
>>>>> rightfully
>>>>> and
>>>>> only theirs. That can be property, rights, dignity, life or limb,
>>>>> freedom
>>>>>
>>>>> of
>>>>> choice, or even the information needed to make the best decisions.
>>>>> Again,
>>>>> all of that boils down to overriding the free will of others. These are
>>>>> all
>>>>> forms of violence, ways of violating the human birthright to have free
>>>>> will
>>>>> and freedom of choice in all things pertaining to our own lives,
>>>>> persons,
>>>>> and property.
>>>>>
>>>>> Violence used at any other time than in literal, imminent self defense
>>>>> from
>>>>> a violent attacker is criminal. It is unnecessary and unjustified. Yet
>>>>> it
>>>>>
>>>>> is
>>>>> prevalent and it is everywhere, from behind the closed doors of private
>>>>> homes to out in the open in the streets, the kinds of violence of wars
>>>>> and
>>>>> political unrest. Take Africa for example and the carnage going on
>>>>> there.
>>>>> It's all completely unjustified, it's criminal, people are getting hurt
>>>>> and
>>>>> dying and there is no end in sight. No good comes of this way of
>>>>> getting
>>>>> what you want at the expense of others without the consent of all
>>>>> involved.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no need to fund and instigate the social crisis there, which
>>>>> is
>>>>> what is being done by powerful, wealthy corporations and their
>>>>> copartners
>>>>>
>>>>> in
>>>>> governments. It is being done to consume the rich resources of that
>>>>> land
>>>>> for
>>>>> the benefit of those who already have more than enough, so that they
>>>>> can
>>>>> have even more for themselves. Greed is not good. It is just another
>>>>> weapon
>>>>> in the liars toolbox. Greed is always fed with the blood of innocent
>>>>> people
>>>>> and it is a crime.
>>>>>
>>>>> Depriving others of what's rightfully theirs is what it always boils
>>>>> down
>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>> and that's why violence beyond literal, imminent self defense from a
>>>>> violent
>>>>> attacker is always criminal. It can not be tolerated. Not any more. Not
>>>>> in
>>>>> the 21st Century. It is long past time for humanity with its
>>>>> consciousness
>>>>> raised and its improved access to education to make the necessary
>>>>> spiritual/emotional/doctrinal adjustments to go along with that
>>>>> increased
>>>>> knowledge and awareness. Meaning, it's time for us to change for the
>>>>> better.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's time for us now to take responsibility, which is what must be done
>>>>> when
>>>>> we become world aware and educated. To posses and use knowledge without
>>>>> responsibility is an unforgivable failure. It's also self-defeating
>>>>> because
>>>>> it enables that which is not true to dominate us.
>>>>>
>>>>> Honesty isn't just the best public policy, it's the only public policy
>>>>> because dishonesty is literally a criminal act. It's an act of violence
>>>>> because it violates the peoples right to exercise their free will. It
>>>>> undermines our ability to make intelligent, meaningful choices for
>>>>> ourselves
>>>>> by giving us
>>>>> false information and forcing false perspectives on us that will lead
>>>>> us
>>>>> to
>>>>> draw conclusions based on that false information. The public will then
>>>>> be
>>>>> infinitely more likely to agree to whatever the liar or liars want.
>>>>> That's
>>>>> every bit as violent as holding a gun to our heads, it's just not
>>>>> recognized
>>>>> as such, and that's no accident. It's so obvious as to be painful, yet
>>>>> how
>>>>> many of us have ever made the connection? They're taking what they want
>>>>> by
>>>>> force and we can't even see it anymore, we expect no less.
>>>>>
>>>>> We tend to think of violence only in terms of physical things, blood,
>>>>> bullet
>>>>> wounds, physical harm. But being lied to can do equal damage to our
>>>>> minds
>>>>> and souls, and can and does cause terrible harm and injury to the
>>>>> collective
>>>>> consciousness of mankind.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're living in a society which, at this moment in time, is being
>>>>> controlled
>>>>> and dominated by people who have no respect for others. By people who
>>>>> by
>>>>> the
>>>>> very nature of how they think and act are criminals. There's no wiggle
>>>>> room
>>>>> here, it's quite simple when you stop to remember that the essence of
>>>>> crime
>>>>> is depriving others of their free will and their right to act in their
>>>>> own
>>>>> best interests. Those who dominate our reality right now are master
>>>>> liars,
>>>>> and
>>>>> the damage they are perpetrating has no historical equivalent in this
>>>>> country. The destruction they're wreaking is total and we're only
>>>>> beginning
>>>>> to see the tip of the iceberg. By the time they're done there won't be
>>>>> much
>>>>> left standing, and a whole lot of people are going to suffer, and a
>>>>> whole
>>>>> lot of people are going to die. You tell me what's not criminal about
>>>>> that.
>>>>> Everything about it is criminal.
>>>>>
>>>>> These controllers have managed to get a dominant foothold into every
>>>>> major
>>>>> aspect of society. The justice system, the departments of government,
>>>>> the
>>>>> church, public and higher education have all been infiltrated and are
>>>>> in
>>>>> the
>>>>> process of being ideologically raped. They own and control the media
>>>>> and
>>>>> they do this with the specific purpose of being able to withhold the
>>>>> truth
>>>>> about themselves and what they do, what they want and how they're
>>>>> getting
>>>>> what they want,
>>>>> from the public. You can't even buy TV time today if you have a
>>>>> different
>>>>> perspective than the one they want to dominate the public consciousness
>>>>> with. They can't afford the truth going out to the people because they
>>>>> know
>>>>> the people would never agree to go along with them. Therefore, they
>>>>> either
>>>>> have to shoot us all, which simply isn't possible, or they have to
>>>>> violate
>>>>> our consciousness with an endless stream of lies to make us want to go
>>>>> along
>>>>> with them. And they're experts at this. And we pay them to do it and
>>>>> they
>>>>> use our money to do it to us.
>>>>>
>>>>> Every aspect of how they operate is an insult and a violation of the
>>>>> public's right to choose in their own behalf. We can no longer make
>>>>> appropriate choices because we no longer have access to all of the
>>>>> information, to truth, or to all of the sides to any story. All we will
>>>>> ever
>>>>> hear again as long as the media laws stay the same is only what they
>>>>> want
>>>>>
>>>>> us
>>>>> to hear.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have only to look around us to gauge the numbers of innocent people
>>>>> dying
>>>>> both here and abroad to get an accurate idea of just how much evil has
>>>>> managed to insinuate itself into our minds and lives. We have only to
>>>>> witness the metamorphosis of ordinary men who once upheld our laws to
>>>>> protect us, into militarized, soulless, dishonest inhuman robot killers
>>>>> and
>>>>> thugs to recognize that evil is transforming our society from its very
>>>>> roots
>>>>> and defining principles into its exact mirror opposite. We are being
>>>>> turned
>>>>> into everything we claim to hate and would risk our lives to fight
>>>>> against,
>>>>> and we no longer seem capable
>>>>> of recognizing it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our laws are quickly being changed from things that protect our God
>>>>> given
>>>>> right to exercise our free will without encumbrance from power and
>>>>> privilege, into things which give all permission to power and privilege
>>>>> to
>>>>> encumber us and prevent us from living in freedom. The lie is that it
>>>>> is
>>>>> being done to secure us, but we are not secure. We could never be kept
>>>>> safe
>>>>> by anyone, and especially not by a government so obsessed with secrecy,
>>>>> so
>>>>> disdainful of
>>>>> being bound by the laws that bind the rest of us, and so unconcerned
>>>>> with
>>>>> our core principles of protecting every individual from violence and
>>>>> interference
>>>>> by the government into their private lives. This government represents
>>>>> everything we once fought to be free of, and then some.
>>>>>
>>>>> They use every form of violence and force conceivable, and have many
>>>>> others
>>>>> being developed, most of which are further insults to freedom and free
>>>>> will.
>>>>> All of them have the intended goal of depriving us of even more
>>>>> freedom,
>>>>> of
>>>>> our right to speak openly about what we see happening, of our hope and
>>>>> expectation that justice will be done and that they will be made to
>>>>> stop.
>>>>> Now that they are making the rules they will not stop. We are drowning
>>>>> in
>>>>>
>>>>> a
>>>>> sea of lies.
>>>>>
>>>>> When lies dominate us then evil dominates our society. We are willingly
>>>>> or
>>>>> unwillingly forced to be complicit in the actions that evil desires to
>>>>> carry
>>>>> out. And it will always desire to perpetrate the greatest possible
>>>>> evils
>>>>> it
>>>>> can get away with. It spells the destruction of centuries of hard work
>>>>> and
>>>>> struggle specifically to stop, control and prevent evil from taking
>>>>> over
>>>>> our
>>>>> government, our country and our private lives. When lies are so common
>>>>> they
>>>>> become what feels normal and rational to us, we are certainly lost and
>>>>> it's
>>>>> only a matter of time before we'll have to pay the price of our
>>>>> ignorance
>>>>> and inability to discern something as simple as right from wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are all victims of intellectual violence, and knowing right from
>>>>> wrong
>>>>> will always be the first thing to go, and the last thing we'll ever
>>>>> recognize. Until it's far too late.
>>>>>
>>>>> source - http://ThinkOrBeEaten.Blogspot.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Hanif Kruger
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Alexandria Davis
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>>>> Squadron CAP, The United States Air Force Auxiliary
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Alexandria Davis
Senior Member Tech Admin Officer 119th Air National Guard Cadet
Squadron CAP, The United States Air Force Auxiliary
http://www.happyhooligans.org
http://www.cap.gov
American Military University Student Sociology Major and Military History Minor
Bugles Across America
North Dakota State Director
Phone: 701-540-5555
Honor Guard Bugler
http://www.buglesacrossamerica.org
Beginning Member Company of Fifers and Drummers
http://www.companyoffifeanddrum.org/
Milford Fife and Drum Corps Honorary Member
Bagpipe Soloist Midwest Pipe Band Association Beginning Competitor
http://www.honorguardbugler.com