No, all the terrorists are in the 20 levels of secret dungeons below!

I think children should be allowed to vote. The world would change for the better.
There is very little reason why children should not be allowed to vote.
Most adults have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old anyway.

Posted By: bot de pailleI think children should be allowed to vote. The world would change for the better.
There is very little reason why children should not be allowed to vote.
Most adults have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old anyway.

Bot de Paille,, Your thinking along the right lines, Only I'd go further and place a child further up the ladder. I am not, however, happy with your use of the word " allow " No - one has justifiable authority to * Allow * what is fundamental to ~ All conscious beings. The inviolable ~ Right, to have their * Voice * heard, their truth and wishes expressed and exercised. Those who deny anyone the freedom to do so are flagrantly infringing upon natural, basic human liberty.

My idea, ( not that I'd ever really thought about it until this thread ) would be to have an infinitely less formal, meeting of individuals. No yawningly boring and depressing board type meetings. Away also with all that silly arse, pompous attitude " Oh, here, here ! or " My right honourable colleague... " or " Order, I will have order ! The daft masquerade really has got to go. It borders on embarrassing ! A lot of wooden phoneys, sitting on equally wooden benches, trying to look important. Daggers drawn behind their smiles... Drone, drone blah, blah blah, ZZZZZzzzzz.....


~ New Approach, my style * Politicians * - don't like the word, can we have an alternative ? would be drawn from every aspect of society. No age, class, financial or educational barrier. Say, A farmer, A house wife/ A poet / artist , A slum kid / disabled child. A grandma/ A dustman, A librarian. There would be no formal gathering premises. No ridiculous airs and graces. They would meet at random in each others homes, and discuss things at leisure, over, tea, orange juice, bikkies, ice cream, jelly and crisps, Yum Yum !

The old ones would sit in the comfy armchairs and the children would do, as is natural for any self respecting kid, ( me anyway ! ) and sit on the floor. There would be just three qualifications required from these people.

1 ) A simple compassionate heart, for all Humanity and all Wildlife

2 ) Natural inner wonder, love, of nature, protective stance toward the Planet.

3 ) Healthy respect and love, for themselves. ( without this, it is difficult to truly honour others )


That's it, storm to planet Earth, over and out .........

On a more serious note I actualy think that mothers should have a go a running this planet for a while. Penises can take a back seat for a moment.

I feel such an overwhelming magnitude of responsibility with this particular posting that I can hardly contain the enormity of it. It is as though I expose my very own ~ Heart, upon this forum, and offer it up, torn, fresh and bleeding before, largely, hostile eyes. But speak out I ~ Must ! for lives are, quite literally at stake.
As I write, people are dying . So condemn, and criticize as you will, you of closed and fractured selfhood, but for me, no matter what you might think or say, this outpouring represents my most ~ Critical ~ message upon these boards, to date.

No political system, here in the West, can come * anywhere * close, either in form or content, to the highly evolved and balanced social structure of the inspiring peoples of which I am about to speak. A peoples of whom I am in such awe , that I am at a loss for the right words to express, that could ever do them any real justice. Indeed, this is not surprising to me in the least, for much as I love to reach out with the written word, and have loved the language since early childhood. I am acutely aware of the many deficiencies, the limitation, even sinister flaws, which comprise the English language. A far cry from the vibrant, immeasurably superior, infinitely more varied and spiritually expressive language, and culture, of the American indian peoples.


I was born and raised, a slum kid, in the East - end of London. And though I very much loved to play with my pals on the dump sites, climbing shed rooves, or setting fire to the occassional abandoned car which littered the streets. I would far rather have exchanged the oppressive shadow of the surrounding council blocks, and the ever present smell of cigarette smoke, sherbet, and fish and chips, for a life of freedom astride my horse, riding with my brothers across the vast open wilderness of the open prairie.

Glory, indeed, to be tutored by those whose teaching offered strength of character, combined with intimate connection to all life forms......a truly inspired, vibrant, ~ Living ~ education. Suckled at the very breast of Mother Nature herself. Rather than be drained of my wisdom ( as are the majority of western children ) by the dry and stifling catechism of the drab Western school room.....

Proud though I remain, of my East -end street credentials, ( Bermondsy rules, O.K ! ) yet, I have never truly ~ belonged, among Western society. This country might well have housed my body, but my ~ Spirit, payed homage to another world, a finer, more vivid and more natural existance. Where my being could sprout wings, and ~ soar !

PART 2

Today, I feel, I have come full circle. Feeling more and more alienated and disillusioned by Western social attitude, and its resrictive, denatured way of life. Due to this, and my own personal issues, I have been led to withdraw completely from outside contact. I am become an outsider, a loner, and so I thought, finished with the world, for good. And yet now I find myself, quite unintentionally, drawn into a quietly growing ~ Resistance Movement, on behalf of the planet and its peoples.

I have learnt much of the governments clandestine hopes and plans to rule the worlds populace as one homogeneous entity. Wielding such magnitude of control that, if not stopped, personal autonomy will become, for all of Earth's inhabitants, as no more than unattainable myth.

There is, however, a certain variety of people whose very nature of being constitutes real threat to the present government agenda. Those who are vehemently hated and feared by the established, ( presently disguised ) dictatorship, more than any in this world today, Those whose way of life represents ultimate Freedom and harmonious co-existantance with the environment ~ The Native American Indian.

It is high time, the general populace, here in the U.K, as well as in other countries, woke up to the true and growing position of the political powers that govern over them. Your heads of state are not bungling harmless idiots, they are highly organised ~ Fascists, with a fully operational agenda in mind. The masterminds, behind the scenes, are plutocrats, with a ~ hatred, of Natural, pure, expression of being, for this flys in the face of their objective.

Above all else they absolutely abhore anything or anyone that represents powerful ~ FREEDOM , of mind, or of spirit.

The aspring global dictatorship, seeks to subjugate the very essence of such concept within the psyche of the masses that they seek to control. Therefore they must extinguish all such inspiration to the human soul, in what ever form it might appear. From the Wild roaming MUSTANG of America, to the powerful and playful BADGER here in the U.K.. From the magnificent WOLF, to the canny FOX, to the breathtaking flight of the FALCON. From the mighty BULL and BUFFALO, to the STAG and BUZZARD, All such creatures are being attacked, hunted down, and WIPED OUT ACROSS THE PLANET , in their many ~Thousands.

This is why, also, the * Original * inhabitants of the Americas, The Native indian peoples, have been hunted down and exterminated in such huge numbers over the past couple of centuries. Masacre of such unprecidented scale, infact, that they are, now, quite literally, near to extinction. Has any media documentary reported on the reality of the Native indian situation, past or present ? No way ! Do your school books document this ? No, not a hope in hell, and this is no mere oversight.

You are surely aware of the extermination of the Jews, and the barbaric slaughter and subsequent slavery of the Africans. Yet have you ever been informed of the 90 %, almost total obliteration of the American indian people ? Did you know that this once proud, dignified , indomitable peoples, have been reduced, today, to such levels of poverty, that some have little recourse other than to rifle threw dustbins for food to feed their familly ?
Have you any concept of the deprevations that constitute " life " on an indian reservation ?

These once intensely robust and healthy people ( before the invasion of western frontier, they could run 40 miles a day, without stopping ! ) now suffer such illness of body and despair of mind , that all they can do is turn to the bottle or to drugs for respite. Driven as they are, through political machination, to become, collectively, one of the poorest, downtrodden nations, barely, alive today on this planet.

Typical life expectancy of an indian today is just 44 years old. Yet many die sooner. Suicide , by those as young as 10 years old is not at all uncommon.

As bleak as the picture may appear, however. There are Native spiritual leaders, and elders, who strive, with tremendous passion against all the odds, to retain life, motivation and culture for their people, but, as can be appreciated, even further decline is a forgone conclusion without, at least, some outside recognition of their plight

I ardently believe, that the future of this ~ Entire Planet ~ is inextricably tied up with the destiny of its, near extinct, Indian population. No one loves the planet as they do. No one has the ~ Power, to heal the planet, as they can. Yet just 10 % of these intensely ~ KEY, vitally important people remain upon this Earth.

They are in ~ Urgent ~ need of support. * Your support * I ~ Do Not ~ ask for your money, nor your time,

I ask only, that you sign the petition below, and, please, ~ Spread the word ! ~

Help bring resolutiion to just one of so many outrages which are continually perpetrated, still ~ Today, against the Native indians ~

Their destiny, is, ultimately ~ Your Destiny ,

~ " We are all connected ........ "

FIGHT FOR US, SO THAT ONE DAY, WE CAN FIGHT FOR YOU !

~ storm.

Petition - Please sign, there are barely more than 5000 signatures.

http://www.petitiononline.com/CrowCrek/petition.html

Crow Creek - The situation ( Crow creek - Ride for lights )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTm_LYIMZds

Save Mustangs - commentary by JAR.

For those who love the Spirit of the Wild roaming horse, and their own freedom !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bjY4Ngs8Ns

Native Genocide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbiLBXIccw

Many thanks for the support, Owlman ! Shame no -one else shares your enthusiasm.
Too busy watching soap operas on the TV, than to worry about real life ........