Edited by author 01-05-2003 02:27 AM
Great topic! What do the South Koreans know that Americans don't? That democratic process is participatory?

"In the 1996 general voter participation fell below 50 percent for the first time since 1924. The level of turnout was the second lowest since 1824. Since 1960, in Presidential elections, and 1966, in mid-term elections, voter participation has fallen more than 25 percent nationally and more than 30 percent outside the South, the largest and longest such slide in the nation's history. Twenty-five million Americans who used to vote no longer do so. Turnout among young eligible voters (ages 18-24) was 15 percent in the 1994 mid-term election and below 30 percent in 1996. If one counts both its Presidential and mid-term elections, the United States is among the lowest participating democracies of any in the world.

Since most voting studies show that the act of voting is a lowest common denominator political act -- that if one does not vote, one tends not to participate in any other form of constructive civic and social activity -- the decline in voter participation robs the nation of its social capital, the human resources needed for the constructive pursuit of a better society. Conversely, this phenomenon also means that, as voter participation decreases, American politics tends to be dominated by the intensely interested at the expense of the general public welfare, as policies become increasingly adjudicated of, for and by those who vote most heavily."

Source: www.gspm.org/csae/about.html

Mumia Abu Jamal asks a fair question in 1996: "In this presidential election alone, over $800 million dollars was spent by the two major parties -- over $800 million! -- to garner minority percentage of eligible U.S. voters!

Is that, in itself, not a condemnation of this sham democracy?

Eighty percent of a billion dollars used to pay for a "free" election? Over three-fourths of a billions bucks to bankroll a democratic illusion, where the "House" (big business) wins no matter who loses."

Source: www.infoshop.org/gulag/mumia_illusion.html

Unless individual Americans recognize the difference between thoughtless nationalism and authentic patriotism, unless we are willing to stay informed and vote, we are in more fascism here, the political philosophy of the right designed to protect the rights of capital.

what in the world does this have to do with South Korean politics and the interent?

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      Topic: SERMON: "YESTERDAY ENDED LAST NIGHT" ROMANS 8:1
    Posted: Today at 11:28am
 YESTERDAY ENDED LAST NIGHT
?Are you locked into despair, perplexity and condemnation.
 !You will never be promoted until you become overqualified for your present job. Before you start the journey to success, forget the past!
?have you failed, forget about it!
?have you been disappointed with your last performance. Forget about it!
! Stop looking at where you have been and start looking at where you can be.
? How do you do that?
! Here’s the antidote: “Yesterday ended last night!” I REPEAT: “YESTERDAY ENDED LAST NIGHT.”
!It means the past is behind you!
!stop living your life looking in the rearview mirror.
?Does the cross mean anything to you. It means that “Yesterday ended last night!”
 !What you can be is about to happen.
!Act like it. !think like it. talk like it!
 
Paul said it this way in Philippians 3: 13 “forgetting those things which are behind.
!God never examines your past to determine your future.
Moses killed an Egyptian, but God used him to liberate his people, the Israelites.
David committed adultery, yet he was a man after God’s own heart.
Paul was out bounty hunting; yet he was known as the man who shook the world.
!So, what’s the point! Then listen up! Paul, Moses and David’s past hung like a noose over their heads; but they rallied on despite the circumstances. ?why won’t you
?So, what am I saying is this: If something is in your past and its restless and rugged; forget it!
!God has forgiven it, you forget it and move on.
 
When you read the holy book you instantly are made aware of a spirited principle.
!That losers focus on what they are going through, while champions focus on where God’s taking them to.
?Still reminiscing about the past. The past has ended last night. Focus on where God’s taking you to.
?Are you wining about yesterday.
!Yesterday ended last night.
 
1: The success toward eliminating what has ended last night is in your attitude.
Proverbs 23:7 says it this way: “as a man thinketh so is he.” Philippians 2:5 say, “let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus.”
Isaiah 26:3 say, “I will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.”
!You can’t look at “SOAPS:” “FEAR FACTOR”, “YOUNG & RESTLESS” AND “BOLD & SINFUL” all week, and have the peace of God that passeth all understanding, can you?.” Nop! BECAUSE YOU ARE BOLD & BEAUTIFUL, YOU TEND TO BE YOUNG & RESTLESS. BUT AS THE WORLD TURNS, YOUR FREE TIME IS BEING CORRUPTED WITH DYNASTY AS A RESULT OF WHICH YOU'LL END UP IN THE GENERAL HOSPITAL, YOU AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN, ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIVES. Henry Forbes says it in a subtle manner: “whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.” For it’s in your attitude. ! I can’t is the brother of I don’t want to. ! It’s in your attitude, it’s how you see something. ? If so, then what is an attitude.
An attitude is an inner feeling being expressed by your outward behavior.
 
2: How you sing determines whether “yesterday ended last night.”
Singing because you are happy is love and contentment. Singing to be happy is hypocrisy, paganism and being a Pharisee. ?Why Because it shows your attitude without saying a word. It’s an expression of your true self. It shows that you are like a chameleon. How? !You change color for each circumstance.
!how you sing draws people to you or repels people from you. True singing is never content until it is expressed.
! It determines your success or your failure in everything. !Your singing is a choice; it is never base on circumstances. !Quit saying if things had been different at home, on the job and elsewhere. !You can make it different when you decide to make it different. Quit wining about who you have been. Start thinking about where you can be.
 
3: “Yesterday ended last night” determines the quality of your relationship with your family.
A father saw his son eating slothfully at the supper table. !He said: “!son, you’re eating like a pig; stop it!” Then, the father realized that the son had been raised in the city all his life and had never seen a pig. Then the father looked at the boy and said: “!son, you do know what a pig is, don’t you?” The son said “yes” !A pig is a dad’s little boy!
 
4: “Yesterday ending last night” is not what happens to you that matters but what happens in you that matters.
It’s one of two choices. A good attitude and a bad attitude; you have one of those right now; and is yours by choice. !If you’re angry, you’re angry by choice; because you’ve chosen to be angry. The illustration of Dr. Franklin so vividly describes this. Dr. Franklin was a Jewish doctor picked up by the Nazi’s in the holocaust and put in a concentration camp. They killed his family, they gave him a Nazi’s tattoo, cut his hair off, and treated him as an animal. And all through the duration of the holocaust, those whom were around him were amazed at the bright, tough, minded optimism that the man had. And when he was older, they ask him.
?How do you maintain such a script. He said:
 
“The Nazi’s could take my name, and my family. They could starve me and treat me like an animal. But they could not force me to choose the way I thought about myself and about the future. I refuse to let another man affect the way I feel about myself, and tomorrow.” ! LADIES/GIRL That Mr. is the man you are looking for. !King David said. “let us rejoice and be glad in it.” !Rejoice by choice.
!interpretation: “Yesterday ended last Night.”
!So the next time someone rubs you the wrong way, !choose your attitude.
 
5: “Yesterday ended last night” determines your attitude for the Day.
Decision is your attitude for the day.
!Think of the things that you allow to destroy your peace. Things such as: the weather, the temperature of the wind, and the cold.
Why? !Remember Birds only pick at the best fruit when it’s ripe! On the other hand, if you can avoid criticism by saying nothing and doing nothing and being nothing, !fine !Choose how you will act, not react. For !I’d rather be criticized and be scandalized than have the appeal of the masses. ?Would you.
?have you had an attitude when going through customs at the airport.
!Does the idea of standing in those long lines irritates the thunder out of you.
?So just when do you choose your attitude.
Bible says: !You choose it in the morning when you get up. Pro 8:17 says “Those that seek me early will find me!”
 
6: “Yesterday ended last night is determined by your belief.
Think of Thomas and the apostle Paul in conversation. Doubting Thomas had as his professor the son of God who dispel all skeptics. !Sounds like pretty good leadership to me. Yet, all he could say after 31/2 years is: !Paul, I can’t believe it unless I push my thumb in his side. Paul say, !You kidding me. ?You remember my encounter with God on the way to Damascus. He said; If God can forgive a sinner like me, am out of here! He had the greatest ministry outside the son of God himself.
?What is the difference. Paul said, I can do all things through Christ. !Thomas said: “until I see, I will never believe. !Your belief is contagious. Just like One day a boy came home from school and said: “Dad, I failed my arithmetic test” Dad said: “!That’s negative son be positive or don’t say that!” The boy said: “!Am positive! for I fail my arithmetic test!”
Your belief inhales oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide. !That kind of attitude spreads like wildfire!
 
7: “Yesterday ending last night hinges on your attitude towards others as God’s attitude toward you.
?People do not go around petting bulldogs or pit bulls, do they?. If you have friends, you must show yourself friendly.
?Would you choose to live your life like a prickle pear. The story is told of a housewife who forgot that it was garbage pickup day! As the garbage truck came by, she was running with the garbage can. Her hair was in curlers, the bathrobes toss in the wind, her false teeth were out and her wig was not on.
!She shouted to the man on the garbage truck, ?am I too late, am I too late!. He said:
!Come, jump on honey, we got plenty of room.
!Your attitude toward God determines his attitude toward you.
A wealthy man died and left his will. And by law, his estate was to be sold at the auction and converted and given to the surviving relatives. During the sale, the auctioneer held up and old frame photograph of his son in law.
!Here’s a picture of the Son of the man who had died! This son saved a drowning woman from a ragging storm. The bids went; once, twice, three times.
!It was bought by an old lady, was wrapped, taken home, and placed on the night stand;
Next morning, she picked it up, unwrapped it, and found the will in the hollow part of the back! It said:
“I give all my possessions to the person who loves my son in law to purchase his photograph.
!She is instantly that inheritor! Just like God the father has a son whose name is Jesus. He has promised to give a life to those who love him and accept him. If you choose to accept him, “Yesterday will have ended last night for you! ” If not, you’ll remain with a proud look, a harsh tone, a callous handshake and a pompous walk. For you will choose whether yesterday has ended last night!


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Alert for all travellers to North America: Abuse of Human Rights and Privacy Violations:

Racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen claim to be despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, and through their internet and private telephones. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then accelerating their cars loudly and intimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving intimidatingly right up and over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. It is all done slyly, supposedly smartly, however, they cannot fool all the people all the time. The cops also participate themselves to wail their sirens abusively everytime non-whites move and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having their henchmen, and often, using their non-white gutless henchmen in cars, transport, shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling deeds at all times day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the whites well-known for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen. It's a shameful disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around. So, they and their henchmen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network cowardly to commit sly acts of provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes, working in networking syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor only the whites? The law itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious institutions for their ugly deeds - such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh! Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside, full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame! Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical evidence, the white cops, security, socieities, and their henchmen are laughing sinisterly at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling penetrates public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites and those who don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their henchmen who do just as they are told and from behind the safety cushion of their oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the immoral, despotic, and cowardly behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen who do just as they are told, fuelled as they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the racially manipulative corporate controlled media.

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Volunteers are welcome to circulate this information to all they know to put an end to this abuse and violations of human rights committed by immorally misbehaved white cops, security, white communities, public transports, shops, stores, etc, and their dumb henchmen who do just as they are told in their racial frenzy.

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Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.

It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries. It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they haven't yet evolved to basic human concepts of all humans have red blood irrespective of race.

Racism stems from social attitudes that are perpetuated by racist societies, the media, the authoritarians, and the peers. It's time to say, shame on all those who perpetuate racism and racist attitudes.

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