If your enemy wants you silenced, you scream louder.

Let me give you a little bit of insight into the mind of this common man. I 
was born in Scotland and came to Canada as a young lad. My parents were both 
Scottish as were most of my Grandparents. One of them was of Irish decent.
My origins of my clan (Fraser) goes back to the north-west of France where 
the name comes from strawberry growers.

I am for all intents and purpose Scottish and proud of my heritage. I even 
have a great grandmother who was jewish. My lineage is strictly working 
class and I am also. I have much to be thankful for in that respect since I 
have seen a few of my friends attend places of higher learning and although 
they are better off than I financially, they endure the same legislative
insanity that I do. Though they may be better able to meet that demand with 
their resources, I speculate they don't have a clue as to the source of 
their oppression. They are also quite disrespectful of anyone who does not 
share their views and have a remarkably broken sense of ethics and morals. 
I'm not sure what happened to them but I suspect it may have something to do
with the post secondary education they received and this falls in line with 
my thoughts about the enemy of arrogance. Yes, they are also very arrogant.

I suppose it stands to reason that in their indoctrination they have come to 
believe in the value of currency and "shiny things". Not their fault to be 
sure, they have simply bought into that particular philosophy as it seems 
the majority of people have. It can be argued that I too have bought into a 
particular philosophy but where we differ comes from the paths we have
followed to acceptance. Its not difficult to envision a different result 
given differing experience.

As I have pointed out previously, we can be more stupid than the apes with 
our societal trappings both hindering and shaping our perspective. It works 
both ways I suppose in that I am just as stupid and stubborn as the next 
person. I too have the ability for willful ignorance and arrogance as my 
history of posts will surely indicate.

The elements in our society currently waging political warfare to meet their 
own idealist visions of a better tomorrow are misguided. It may be difficult 
for them to truly understand the mind of a simple man born out of working 
class Britain when their reference becomes the reference books that fill 
their personal libraries. This presents another problem since the authors to
a great extent are also not working class nor are their predecessors.

Since the working class views life as drudgery, they tend to cling to it 
less. They don't mind nor do they fear death. Many have the ability to 
welcome it. This is quite unlike the intellectual class. They know there's 
nothing afterward and it scares the hell out of them. They also fear poverty 
since they have no experience living in it. The working class will hold to 
their beliefs like the ape in the mud who refuse to grasp the stick to "a 
better life". Their fundamental mistake maybe that they completely 
underestimate both the intelligence and the stupidity of the ones they hope 
to oppress. They think if they introduce enough fear, the results will 
eventually bare the results they seek. They mistake people like me for sheep 
and that is a critical error.

I suggest this is not the case and their thoughts have been clouded by their 
books and misguided by their arrogance in their supposed knowledge and 
intellect. Newsgroups are a microcosm of this process playing out behind the 
closed doors of the intellectual and power elite.

They will fail and even if they succeed in their dastardly plans of 
domination, it will only be a temporary victory.

I for one, will become louder as they continue to bring a deadly silence 
upon the world and I will keep shouting until I finally expire. Part of this 
may be due to my Scottish heritage and part my own stubborn stupidity, but 
it is what is it. I'm willing to err where they are not. They can't afford 
to. To succeed they have to be 99 percent right or else they lose for 
instance
their funding and their padded chair. By comparison, I can be 99 percent 
wrong. My funding is not jeopardized and neither in my padded chair.

The French Revolution saw only a temporary victory for the commons but a 
significant number of elite most certainly paid a price. For them the 
uprising was permanent. ;)

To anyone left still fighting, you are not alone.

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing." - Robert Burns