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Talk of revolution in the campaign

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 6, 2007 11:37 AM

This presidential election is all about change, everyone agrees.

Over the last day, it has also become about revolution, in a way.

To bring in a record one-day fund-raising haul for Republicans, Ron Paul's supporters used Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates the conspiracy by English Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I in 1605. The plot was discovered and the conspirators, including Fawkes, either imprisoned, killed, or executed. The day is marked in England with fireworks and bonfires that burn effigies of Fawkes.

Meanwhile, John Edwards is encouraging talk of revolution in Iowa as he tries to convince voters in the first caucus state that he, not Barack Obama and definitely not Hillary Clinton, is the Democrat best able to change the country's direction.

In a question-and-answer session, a retired farmer told Edwards, "If the American people understood what's going on all over, there would be a revolution tomorrow morning," according to an account today in The New York Times.

To which Edwards replied, "I'm with you, brother!"

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  1. With the presidential election nearing, the rise in gasoline prices effecting the prices of everything shipped by gasoline, along with greater income taxes and the national deficit all being linked to profiteering by Oil Corporations and the Federal Reserve (a private organization not bound to checks and balances of government oversight); of late there have been rumors and suggestions by not only private citizens but union members regarding a revolt against the current government structure due to it's members' inability to govern themselves well enough to govern the people they govern. I find this disturbing to the end that it's almost appealing. It reminded me of the motion picture recently released to DVD entitled "V for Vendetta" where a masked figure insites people to stand up to its government in protest, and through the actions of the destruction of the Building of Parliament the idea of hope for prosperity was achieved. I find it frighteningly more real when I notice that the structure of my own family is functioning much like a socialist republic with tyrrany in the forefront, but to be an individual with a voice, ideas, rights, liberties and responsibilities to uphold; the respect for others is diminished out of sight due to the pride of self-preservation. So the question I propose is, what would be my course of action? Perhaps my choice was made long before these events have transpired.

    Posted by Anonymous May 1, 08 10:34 AM
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