Words to Live By

Why This Blog?



In today's age, media is the ocean that floods our society. It used to be that if there was an earthquake in Chile, it took you months to find out about it. Nowadays if there is an earthquake in Chile, you find out about it pretty much instantly.

Social media such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter abound... you can broadcast pretty much anything on it... what you had for breakfast. What coloring book you bought the kids. Color of underwear you're wearing, etc.

Trouble is, the media is biased, toward its sponsors. E.G. the persons or corporations that are paying for them. Every day, you and I are subjected to a flood of information, in addition to being subjected to a heaping of abuses from government, banks, creditors, bureaucratic agencies, tax authorities, etc, that is sympathetic toward the same. Case in point: Bank of America took it upon themselves to padlock a woman's house, and confiscate her belongings including her pet parrot. Yet, lo and behold, the media deflected the criticism to... the lowly contractor who was given faulty directions and was doing his job. It's NEVER the system's fault, is it...?

And Twitter? Law enforcement's favorite tool for busting thought criminals! One 140 character long statement can land you in more hot water with the law than all of the long screeds in the world.
Facebook and Myspace? They are not only ubiquitous, they are definitely slanted toward big government. One little conviction in your past can get you banned for life. One false move can bring the authorities knocking at your door. And so it goes.

I am one voice. I am one person. I am the Synaptic Dissident. There are no editors here. There are no sponsors here. There are no slants toward Democrats, Republicans, right wing, left wing, moderate, extremist, or any other label that happens to exist.There is no money going in my pocket, therefore I am free to call it as I see it. A spade is a spade is a spade.

Fair and balanced are long out the window, and so I will not even make the claim that I am that. Let my penned word be the sword that smites the evil of government run amok that threatens our way of life. Let my penned word be soothing balm to the good people who find themselves on the wrong end of the system, be it the banking system, or the uncalibrated scales of justice. Let my penned word shine light on the injustices of the same, and let it be the vibrating current that resonates in the hearts of the Americans strong enough and willing enough to fix it. There's your fair and balanced.

For the record: I am not anti-government. I am anti-government corruption. Not anti-law enforcement, just anti - jackbooted thug. Not anti IRS... ok, so looks like I lied there. :) Stay within your realm of public servant, and I remain your humble servant. Step out of your realm and that is when it will come to this...

Your name, your actions, your sins of commission and omission on my nice little blog.

I do not pass judgment, it's not for me to judge. What you whisper in the darkness, I make it my business to shout from the rooftops. Your fucked up little plots to take over our lives and confiscate all for which we have labored becomes common knowledge.

You've already made it clear what would happen if I shot at you with an AK47... I would be shot dead, or arrested and incarcerated for life, painted by the media as a rogue, a loner, insane, mentally ill, written off, swept under the rug, forgotten. You've also made it clear what would happen if I went after you using legal channels... request denied, pay up or else, you have until this date, blah blah blah. For you own the media and the courts and you've inevitably stacked the deck in your favor there. I recognize this.

But you don't own my blog nor do you own my mind. Nor my intellect, my spirit or my soul. If you decided to track me down tomorrow, and beat down my door, place me in handcuffs, trump up stupid charges against me, etc. etc. I would welcome it, because it simply proves what I have maintained all along.

That you are not the saviours of mankind nor the preservers of human rights or American freedom, but simply a bunch of power infatuated assholes who have appointed yourselves as such. I will come forth and say what no other social media has the balls to say: You are a festering boil on the asscrack of the average working American man or woman. You accept the military enlistments of young men and women willing to put their asses on the line and when they get hurt you leave them to rot in a hell hole called Walter Reed. You send them to die in a war whose hoped for goals remain fuzzy or worse yet completely undefined. You send billions of dollars helping third world countries while ignoring the fact that we are increasingly hungry, jobless, homeless and still broke.

You are self important, publicity hungry, weaselly little twats. I no longer put faith in you. Neither do the thousands of Americans you have fucked over, taking their children, their income, their retirement accounts, their livelihoods, their homes, their belongings and their human dignity, all without considering their input or how they viewed it.

You have much to answer for at the throne of judgment and no one will help you with your teleprompter then.

And now, for you, the average Joe who is reading this...

You are not alone and you are not unloved.

I forever remain on your side. Why do you think I constantly tell you not to lose your common sense when dealing with the system? Your day is coming my friend. You may be down but you are not yet out. Things may get better, they might not. Who can say. But know this. I care enough to speak the truth of your situation.

I have been there.