Was once my love ...

[Strider]

Hello, dear lady. A lovely evening, is it not? Forgive me for intruding. Perhaps you were intending to take a stroll, or pehaps you were merely enjoying the view. No matter. I thought that it was time we had a little chat, you and I.

Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me Strider.

Old Glory, this is Strider. Strider, this is Old Glory.

Hello, Old Glory.

"Good evening, Strider."

There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking .. "the poor boy has a crush on me .. an adolescent infatuation." I beg your pardon, madam. It isn't like that at all.

I've long admired you, albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a symbol, as an ideal. That was a long time ago; I'm afraid there's someone else now.

"What? Strider! For shame! You have betrayed me for some shallow, vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!"

I, madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. Oh, but I do. I know! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

"Uniform? Why, I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, Strider. You were the only one ..."

Liar! Adultress! Harlot! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jack boots!

Well? Cat got your tongue? I thought as much. Very well. So you stand, revealed, at last. You are no longer MY justice. You are his justice now, you have bedded another. Well, two can play at that game!

"Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, Strider? What is her name?"

Her name is Anarchy. She has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises, and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now, I know.

So goodbye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman that I once loved.

The flames of freedom. How lovely. How just. Ah, my precious anarchy ... "o beauty, 'til now I never knew thee."

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Seek therapy. Immediately.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

The inevitable end of flag adoration.

Idolater!

bk

 

[Kent Allard]

Strider, you may want to cut back on the number of times you read "V for Vendetta". Once a day might be overdoing it a tad.

 

[BellyTank]

Well done Old Chap!

B
T

 

[Andykev]

Now this is scary

Someone needs to take the elevator to the top floor and get a reality check. Who in their right mind advocates the embrace of anarchy? Think mobs running in the streets, smashing store front windows, rolling cars, setting things on fire, blowing whistles.....throwing red paint..oh ya, that happens a lot these days. Freedom of speech does ot grant unbridled destruction of property.

So what is this post all for anyway? Anarchy is dangerous.

 

[Senator Jack]

Hey, if everyone were as clear thinking and ethical as I am, anarchy would work. But, alas, we're not, and there are too many greedy Republicans out there to make it work, so we must have gov't oppression.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Strider]

Strider, you may want to cut back on the number of times you read "V for Vendetta". Once a day might be overdoing it a tad.

Very good! I wasn't sure if anyone would catch the reference. Hats off to you, my friend.

Think mobs running in the streets, smashing store front windows, rolling cars, setting things on fire, blowing whistles.....throwing red paint..oh ya, that happens a lot these days. Freedom of speech does ot grant unbridled destruction of property.

So what is this post all for anyway? Anarchy is dangerous.

No, no. You're describing chaos. Anarchy means without leaders, not without order.

 

[Sefton]

It seems to me that this post is not intended to start any kind of meaningful discussion. Just throwing a match onto the straw man? What for? Is that what "Anarchy" means...? I predict any early lock-down for this one.

 

[Feraud]

No, no. You're describing chaos. Anarchy means without leaders, not without order.

Same silly difference..:eusa_doh:

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Anarchy is disorder as a result of lacking political leadership. It is a state of disorder resulting from the lack of government.

In common usuage, it equates to total chaos.

I am a little surprised, Strider; I thought this was something you came up with on your own. Don't you know that copying from another source without immediately attributing it is plagarism? :eusa_doh:

 

[Senator Jack]

Greedy republicans think of anarchy as looting stores because that is the firs thing THEY would do. Why not, they've been looting the country for years. This is a meaningful discussion - for people who don't put money first.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

According to Webster's,....

anarchy
(an'.er.ki.) n. 1. want of government in society;
2. lawless disorder in a country;
3. a political theory, which would dispense with all laws, founding authority on the individual conscience.
I think # 3 makes the most sense, and it's what we are really talking about here.

 

[Sefton]

Living in San Francisco one sees a lot of those people who don't put money first smashing shop windows and setting fires and intentionally provoking violent confrontation...and they call themselves 'Anarchists'. Are they secretly Republican infiltrators?

 

[scotrace]

I predict any early lock-down for this one.

If I could just get you to pick my lottery numbers...