• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Don’t just blame Republicans. This lack of action in the face of this corrupt, treasonous, pedophile is the government.

    Today our people can see that we’re faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The senators who are a filibustering concerning your and my rights, that’s the government. Don’t say it’s Southern senators. This is the government. This is a government filibuster. It’s not a segregationist filibuster, it’s a government filibuster. Any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that’s the government. Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government. Any kind of pussyfooting, that’s the government. Any kind of act that’s designed to delay or deprive you in need right now of getting full rights, that’s the government that’s responsible. And anytime you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress.

    • Malcolm X, the Ballot or the Bullet
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      Don’t just blame Republicans.

      I’m sorry, is there another party that controls virtually all of the government right now?

      Saying it’s “the government” is just reinforcing the age-old Murc’s Law media trick that lets the Republicans skate away scot-free.

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        You clearly missed the point of the quoted speech. This isn’t just Republicans. This is the government in action. Democrats chose to vote on the BBB instead of indefinite filibuster. Democrats helped keep the iran war going. Democrats are enabling Trump and the Republicans. It’s not just Republicans. The government has failed us.

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      [Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. June 2, 1784

      (Emphasis added)

      https://www.nh.gov/glance/state-constitution/bill-rights