The Ministry of Revolution

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Comment by Captain Maximillian Drake on March 18, 2013 at 9:31pm

"When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."

-Thomas Jefferson

Comment by Captain Maximillian Drake on March 16, 2013 at 2:53pm

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

-Excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Comment by Captain Maximillian Drake on March 12, 2013 at 2:25pm

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:

Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world!

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

-Excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Comment by Captain Maximillian Drake on March 8, 2013 at 9:14am

DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

-Exerpts from the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Comment by Captain Maximillian Drake on June 19, 2012 at 12:23am

I liked your idea, so I joined. I respect those who stand up, strong and proud, for what is right. It takes courage to take a stand against the powers that be.

I will stand strong with you and all those who stand strong with you.

Sadly, most people, governments, corporations, etc., etc., will not what is right simply because it is the right thing to do, they must be made to do so.

If injustice becomes law, then rebellion becomes duty.

Comment by Aether Jones the Warden on December 25, 2011 at 7:53am

The hell is going on here??

Comment by Prof. Sebastian Fate on December 25, 2011 at 1:55am

Hell of a way to achieve social change : war that is , Sir .

Effects of the first world war ( to which WW2 was the second act ) in stifling the trend towards more socially acceptable forms of government should be considered .

The failure of the League of Nations could  be sheeted home to to the  retreat of the USA from collective security and the failure to properly integrate the former defeated nations .

Comment by Major Samuel Garwood on December 25, 2011 at 1:14am

HA! My word sir, it sounds like you speak to me as if I was a small child! :'D

But in all honesty, although the UN is a heavily bureaucratic system in which the First World powers [namely Britain, France, The United States, etc] and the Developing Nations are in control, and swiftly take the reigns of most diplomatic decisions; it's the second major leap forward (after the failure of the League of Nations) towards a much more unified and peaceful world.

Comment by Major Samuel Garwood on December 24, 2011 at 4:01pm

War tends to be a good method for social change. Hell, the current liberal movement in Europe and the creation of the UN were the products of the Second World War.. :P

Comment by Aether Jones the Warden on September 30, 2011 at 2:44pm

-chirp, chirp-

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