AYanker wrote on Dec 16
th, 2014 at 4:49pm:
I'm very sorry for what happened in your country today guys. From my vista across the pond, you seem to be a peaceful people and unaccustomed to violence like this. While you will surely ask yourselves why this happened and how you can prevent it from happening again, I hope you will not allow it to change who you are.
Our hatred and desire for revenge post 9/11 led us down a path of decadency I really don't think we'll ever recover from. We have become renowned war mongers, spies, torturers and have sacrificed the values of liberty and transparency to appease our anger against others. In the end, the weapons we developed to fortify our freedom have been turned on us to destroy it. Every email is read, every call recorded; warrantless searches; checkpoints that aren't at the border; police officers that murder civilians weekly on camera and walk free; trigger-happy SWAT teams raiding barbershops in poor neighborhoods simply to verify barber's licenses; and even the smallest towns now have armored vehicles and arms from Iraq that the local police are now beginning to deploy to address misdemeanors and collect fines.
You do not want this to become your daily reality. You *must not* allow this man to convince you to destroy yourselves. People will seize on this opportunity to try to barter your freedom for your security. Don't fall for it. They'll call you "traitors" and "anti-Aussie" and other nasty things. The more they talk, the more stubborn and noisy you need to get. Shout them down. Don't even let them *set foot* on that slippery slope.
Secondly, I am warning you, as a black man living in this buggered-up, sadistic, evil, twisted, racist American society: hatred is like a cancer -- it is slow and budding at first, but quietly, it consumes everything you are, spreading from place to place until it kills the very organism that hosts it. I see how you (as a people) treat immigrants in your country, and what I see makes me sad. And at the core of it is that same budding hatred -- all of it's ugliness and viciousness tucked deep, deep down where it will ferment until it is bursting at the seams. Hatred will only beget more hatred, and not just from those your nation mistreats. It never stops there. When you practice lack of compassion, you'll eventually lose it for each other.
Good, honest post AYanker.....we follow the USA 100%, in fact we are the 51st state, if it happened there two or three years ago, it's more than likely happening here right now.
I see your government turning on their own, and whilst they have a lot of opposition, it's not enough. Nothing short of a revolution will stop the rot.
We are starting to get anti government activist groups, but we are predominantly lazy and Aussies don't really like to make a noise. Like you guys, we are losing one freedom after another, the freedoms we fought for over the last century as a developing nation.......all going and being replaced with draconian laws placed to make us compliant to leaders that would like to see us kissing their rs's rather than trying to get the country back on its feet.
Personally, I think it's too late for your country and mine, the damage has been done over many decades, the sheeples are brainwashed, but thanks for the warning. Take care.
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