Expressive Opposition

The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Social Disobedience

Convicted of first-degree sexual assault, Matthew Koso faces anything from probation to 50-years hard time in prison. A Nebraska newspaper reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star was unsure why Koso changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. The New York Times reported today Koso’s mother stated the plea change was “because [Matt] was unsure how a jury would decide the case.” The iron fist of Jon Bruning has made full contact and now we wait to find out the extent of government forced family destruction.

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When there are too many bears, residents of Vernon New Jersey are not safe. The once threatened black bear population has boomed into present overpopulation, driving bears into places they should not be, such as into town, people’s back yards, and where children play. Yet when a state sanctioned hunt takes place to reduce the population to more healthy numbers, which is good for the bears and the people, dopey protestors hold up signs reading, “I’d take a bullet for a bear.” The angry_squirrel contends that human population control can begin with obliging the dopey protestors, perhaps thereby making more room for the remaining bears!

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In what is becoming a police state in Franklin Ohio an elderly woman has been hospitalized after receiving five brutal shots from a police officer using a powerful taser gun. The 68-year-old woman was said to have been “resisting arrest” after she voluntarily went to a police station to settle a domestic disturbance dispute involving her daughter. A very long wait resulted in little reward; she was zapped by the cop and forced to the floor where she was frightened for her very life.

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God doesn’t exist because the History Channel has researched every biblical account and concluded that random, unlikely, yet not impossible, sequences of several natural events occurring in a brief time span can explain any so called “act of God.” From a series of historian interview excerpts, viewers learn how mankind, from ancient Egypt to Renaissance Europe, believed that frequent common natural events like lightning were so difficult to comprehend that God was simply a superstitious way of accepting nature’s forces. Each day the History Channel parades the many reasons Americans should surrender their Christianity and become enlightened atheists or sometimes going even further to help us become more sympathetic to the historical plight of Muslims.

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I’ve always preferred an a la carte model for cable and satellite channel subscriptions, picking and paying only for those channels I want, even if it means paying more per channel. Apparently, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin agrees and plans to release an FCC report which concludes that offering TV programming a la carte is economically feasible and in the best interest of consumers. Greedy cable and satellite providers have always resisted the pick and choose option for customers forcing them to purchase packages containing many channels the customers do not want.

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