The time is ripe for a take over

[General]

After consulting with General Secretary Missionhockey, Marshal of the Socialist Union, HafDawg, and the Supreme Commander of the USRS Fleet, DirtyKash, I, the Generalissimo of the newly formed USRS, have decided to implement a full military takeover of the forums, formerly known as Strike3Forums. Hitherto, Strike 3 Forums shall be known as the United Socialist Republic of Strike 3 Forums, or USRS for short.

The Constitution of this great Socialist state has been written and shall be declared public as soon as possible.

[General]

Part I Principles of Social Structure and Policy
Chapter 1 Political System
Article 1
The United Socialist Republic of Strike 3 Forums (USRS) is a socialist state of the whole people, expressing the will and interests of the
workers, peasants, and intelligentsia, the working people of all the nations and nationalities of the country.
Article 2
(1) All power in the USRS belongs to the people.
(2) The people exercise state power through Socialists of People's Deputies, which constitute the political foundation of the USRS.
(3) All other state bodies are under the control of, and accountable to, the Socialists of People's Deputies.
Article 3
The Socialist state is organized and functions on the principle of democratic centralism, namely the electiveness of all bodies of state
authority from the lowest to the highest, their accountability to the people, and the obligation of lower bodies to observe the decisions of
higher ones. Democratic centralism combines central leadership with local initiative and creative activity and with the responsibility of the
each state body and official for the work entrusted to them.
Article 4
(1) The Socialist state and all its bodies function on the basis of socialist law, ensure the maintenance of law and order, and safeguard the
interests of society and the rights and freedoms of citizens.
(2) State organizations, public organizations and officials shall observe the Constitution of the USRS and Socialist laws.
Article 5
Major matters of state shall be submitted to nationwide discussion and put to a popular vote (referendum).
Article 6
(1) The leading and guiding force of the Socialist society and the nucleus of its political system, of all state organizations and public
organizations, is the Communist Party of the Socialist Union. The CPSU exists for the people and serves the people.
(2) The Communist Party, armed with Marxism-Leninism, determines the general perspectives of the development of society and the course of the
home and foreign policy of the USRS, directs the great constructive work of the Socialist people, and imparts a planned, systematic and
theoretically substantiated character to their struggle for the victory of communism.
(3) All party organizations shall function within the framework of the Constitution of the USRS.
Article 7
Trade unions, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League cooperatives, and other public organizations, participate, in accordance with the
aims laid down in their rules, in managing state and public affairs, and in deciding political, economic, and social an cultural matters.
Article 8
(1) Work collectives take part in discussing and deciding state and public affairs, in planning production and social development, in
training and placing personnel, and in discussing and deciding matters pertaining to the management of enterprises and institutions, and the
use of funds allocated both for developing production and for social and cultural purposes and financial incentives.
(2) Work collectives promote socialist emulation, the spread of progressive methods of work, and the strengthening of production discipline,
educate their members in the spirit of communist morality, and strive to enhance their political consciousness and raise their cultural level
and skills and qualifications.
Article 9
The principal direction in the development of the political system of Socialist society is the extension of socialist democracy, namely ever
broader participation of citizens in managing the affairs of society and the state, continuous improvement of the machinery of state,
heightening of the activity of public organizations, strengthening of the system of people's control, consolidation of the legal foundations
of the functioning of the state and of public life, greater openness and publicity, and constant responsiveness to public opinion.
Chapter 2 Economic System
Article 10 [Socialist Ownership]
(1) The foundation of the economic system of the USRS is socialist ownership of the means of production in the form of state property, and
collective cooperative property.
(2) Socialist ownership also embraces the property of trade unions and other public organizations which they require to carry out their
purposes under these rules.
(3) The state protects socialist property and provides conditions for its growth.
(4) No one has the right to use socialist property for personal gain or other selfish ends.
Article 11 [State Property]
(1) State property, i.e. the common property of the Socialist people, is the principal form of socialist property.
(2) The land, its minerals, waters, and forests are the exclusive property of the state. The state owns the basic means of production in
industry, construction, and agriculture; means of transport and communication; the banks; the property of state-run trade organizations and
public utilities, and other state-run undertakings; most urban housing; and other property necessary for state purposes.
Article 12 [Cooperative Property]
(1) The property of collective farms and other cooperative organizations, and of their joint undertakings, comprises the means of production
and other assets which they require for the purposes laid down in their rules.
(2) The land held by collective farms is secured to them for their free use in perpetuity.
(3) The state promotes development of collective cooperative property and its approximation to state property.
(4) Collective farms, like other land users, are obliged to make effective and thrifty use of the land and to increase its fertility.
Article 13 [Personal Property]
(1) Earned income forms the basis of the personal property of Socialist citizens. The personal property of citizens of the USRS may include
articles of everyday use, personal consumption and convenience, the implements and other objects of a small-holding, a house, and earned
savings. The personal property of citizens and the right to inherit it are protected by the state.
(2) Citizens may be granted the use of plots of land, in the manner prescribed by law, for a subsidiary small-holding (including the keeping
of livestock and poultry), for fruit and vegetable growing or for building an individual dwelling. Citizens are required to make rational use
of the land allotted to them. The state, and collective farms provide assistance to citizens in working their small-holdings.
(3) Property owned or used by citizens shall not serve as a means of deriving unearned income or be employed to the detriment of the
interests of society.
Article 14
(1) The source of the growth of social wealth and of the well-being of the people, and of each individual, is the labor, free from
exploitation, of Socialist people.
(2) The state exercises control over the measure of labor and of consumption in accordance with the principle of socialism: "From each
according to his ability, to each according to his work". It fixes the rate of taxation on taxable income.
(3) Socially useful work and its results determine a person's status in society. By combining material and moral incentives and encouraging
innovation and a creative attitude to work, the state helps transform labor into the prime vital need of every Socialist citizen.
Article 15
(1) The supreme goal of social production under socialism is the fullest possible satisfaction of the people's growing material, and cultural
and intellectual requirements.
(2) Relying on the creative initiative of the working people, socialist emulation, and scientific and technological progress, and by
improving the forms and methods of economic management, the state ensures growth of the productivity of labor, raising of the efficiency of
production and of the quality of work, and dynamic, planned, proportionate development of the economy.
Article 16
(1) The economy of the USRS is an integral economic complex comprising all the elements of social production, distribution, and exchange on
its territory.
(2) The economy is managed on the basis of state plans for economic and social development, with due account of the sectoral and territorial
principles, and by combining centralized direction with the managerial independence and initiative of individual and amalgamated enterprises
and other organizations, for which active use is made of management accounting, profit, cost, and other economic levers and incentives.
Article 17
In the USRS, the law permits individual labor in handicrafts, farming, the provision of services for the public, and other forms of activity
based exclusively on the personal work of individual citizens and members of their families. The state makes regulations for such work to
ensure that it serves the interest of society.
Article 18
In the interests of the present and future generations, the necessary steps are taken in the USRS to protect and make scientific, rational
use of the land and its mineral and water resources, and the plant and animal kingdoms, to preserve the purity of air and water, ensure
reproduction of natural wealth, and improve the human environment.
Chapter 3 Social Development, Culture
Article 19
(1) The social basis of the USRS is the unbreakable alliance of the workers, peasants, and intelligentsia.
(2) The state helps enhance the social homogeneity of society, namely the elimination of class differences and of the essential distinctions
between town and country and between mental and physical labor, and the all-round development and drawing together of all the nations and
nationalities of the USRS.
Article 20
In accordance with the communist ideal -- "The free development of each is the condition of the free development of all" -- the state pursues
the aim of giving citizens more and more real opportunities to apply their creative energies, abilities, and talents, and to develop their
personalities in every way.
Article 21
The state concerns itself with improving working conditions, safety and labor protection and the scientific organization of work, and with
reducing and ultimately eliminating all arduous physical labor through comprehensive mechanization and automation of production processes in
all branches of the economy.
Article 22
A program is being consistently implemented in the USRS to convert agricultural work into a variety of industrial work, to extend the network
of educational, cultural, and medical institutions, and of trade, public catering, service and public utility facilities in rural localities,
and transform hamlets and villages into well-planned and well-appointed settlements.
Article 23
(1) The state pursues a steady policy of raising people's pay levels and real incomes through increase in productivity.
(2) In order to satisfy the needs of Socialist people more fully social consumption funds are created. The state, with the broad
participation of public organizations and work collectives, ensures the growth and just distribution of these funds.
Article 24
(1) In the USRS, state systems of health protection, social security, trade and public catering, communal services and amenities, and public
utilities, operate and are being extended.
(2) The state encourages cooperatives and other public organizations to provide all types of services for the population. It encourages the
development of mass physical culture and sport.
Article 25
In the USRS there is a uniform system of public education, which is being constantly improved, that provides general education and vocational
training for citizens, serves the communist education and intellectual and physical development of the youth, and trains them for work and
social activity.
Article 26
In accordance with society's needs, the state provides for planned development of science and the training of scientific personnel and
organizes introduction of the results of research in the economy and other spheres of life.
Article 27
(1) The state concerns itself with protecting, augmenting and making extensive use of society's cultural wealth for the moral and aesthetic
education of the Socialist people, for raising their cultural level.
(2) In the USRS development of the professional, amateur and folk arts is encouraged in every way.
Chapter 4 Foreign Policy
Article 28
(1) The USRS steadfastly pursues a Leninist policy of peace and stands for strengthening of the security of nations and broad international
cooperation.
(2) The foreign policy of the USRS is aimed at ensuring international conditions favorable for building communism in the USRS, safeguarding
the state interests of the Socialist Union, consolidating the positions of world socialism, supporting the struggle of peoples for national
liberation and social progress, preventing wars of aggression, achieving universal and complete disarmament, and consistently implementing
the principle of the peaceful coexistence of states with different social systems.
(3) In the USRS war propaganda is banned.
Article 29
The USRS's relations with other states are based on observance of the following principles:
sovereign equality;
mutual renunciation of the use or threat of force;
inviolability of frontiers;
territorial integrity of states;
peaceful settlement of disputes;
non-intervention in internal affairs;
respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;
the equal rights of peoples and their right to decide their own destiny;
cooperation among states; and
fulfillment in good faith of obligations arising from the generally recognized principles and rules of international law, and from the
international treaties signed by the USRS.
Article 30
The USRS, as part of the world system of socialism and of the socialist community, promotes and strengthens friendship, cooperation, and
comradely mutual assistance with other socialist countries on the basis of the principle of socialist internationalism, and takes an active
part in socialist economic integration and the socialist international division of labor.
Chapter 5 Defence
Article 31
(1) Defence of the Socialist Motherland is one of the most important functions of the state, and is the concern of the whole people.
(2) In order to defend the gains of socialism, the peaceful labor of the Socialist people, and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
the state, the USRS maintains armed forces and has instituted universal military service.
(3) The duty of the Armed Forces of the USRS to the people is to provide reliable defence of the socialist Motherland and to be in constant
combat readiness, guaranteeing that any aggressor is instantly repulsed.
Article 32
(1) The state ensures the security and defence capability of the country, and supplies the Armed Forces of the USRS with everything necessary
for that purpose.
(2) The duties of state bodies, public organizations, officials, and citizens in regard to safeguarding the country's security and
strengthening its defence capacity are defined by the legislation of the USRS.
Part II State and Individual
Chapter 6 Citizenship, Equality
Article 33 [Citizenship]
(1) Uniform federal citizenship is established for the USRS. Every citizen of a Union Republic is a citizen of the USRS.
(2) The grounds and procedure for acquiring or forfeiting Socialist citizenship are defined by the Law on Citizenship of the USRS.
(3) When abroad, citizens of the USRS enjoy the protection and assistance of the Socialist state.
Article 34 [Equality]
(1) Citizens of the USRS are equal before the law, without distinction of origin, social or property status, race or nationality, sex,
education, language, attitude to religion, type and nature of occupation, domicile, or other status.
(2) The equal rights of citizens of the USRS are guaranteed in all fields of economic, political, social, and cultural life.
Article 35
(1) Women and men have equal rights in the USRS.
(2) Exercise of these rights is ensured by according women equal access with men to education and vocational and professional training, equal
opportunities in employment, remuneration, and promotion, and in social and political, and cultural activity, and by special labor and health
protection measures for women; by providing conditions enabling mothers to work; by legal protection, and material and moral support for
mothers and children, including paid leaves and other benefits for expectant mothers and mothers, and gradual reduction of working time for
mothers with small children.

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Article 36
(1) Citizens of the USRS of different races and nationalities have equal rights.
(2) Exercise of these rights is ensured by a policy of all-round development and drawing together of all the nations and nationalities of the
USRS, by educating citizens in the spirit of Socialist patriotism and socialist internationalism, and by the possibility to use their native
language and the languages of other peoples in the USRS.
(3) Any direct or indirect limitation of the rights of citizens or establishment of direct or indirect privileges on grounds of race or
nationality, and any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness, hostility, or contempt, are punishable by law.
Article 37
(1) Citizens of other countries and stateless persons in the USRS are guaranteed the rights and freedoms provided by law, including the right
to apply to a court and other state bodies for the protection of their personal, property, family, and other rights.
(2) Citizens of other countries and stateless persons, when in the USRS, are obliged to respect the Constitution of the USRS and observe
Socialist laws.
Article 38
The USRS grants the right of asylum to foreigners persecuted for defending the interests of the working people and the cause of peace, or for
participation in the revolutionary and national-liberation movement, or for progressive social and political, scientific, or other creative
activity
Chapter 7 Basic Rights, Freedoms, Duties
Article 39 [Freedom]
(1) Citizens of the USRS enjoy in full the social, economic, political and personal rights and freedoms proclaimed and guaranteed by the
Constitution of the USRS and by Socialist laws. The socialist system ensures enlargement of the rights and freedoms of citizens and
continuous improvement of their living standards as social, economic, and cultural development programs are fulfilled.
(2) Enjoyment by citizens of their rights and freedoms must not be to the detriment of the interests of society or the state, or infringe the
rights of other citizens.
Article 40 [Work]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to work (that is, to guaranteed employment and pay in accordance wit the quantity and quality of
their work, and not below the state-established minimum), including the right to choose their trade or profession, type of job and work in
accordance with their inclinations, abilities, training and education, with due account of the needs of society.
(2) This right is ensured by the socialist economic system, steady growth of the productive forces, free vocational and professional
training, improvement of skills, training in new trades or professions, and development of the systems of vocational guidance and job
placement.
Article 41 [Rest]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to rest and leisure.
(2) This right is ensured by the establishment of a working week not exceeding 41 hours, for workers and other employees, a shorter working
day in a number of trades and industries, and shorter hours for night work; by the provision of paid annual holidays, weekly days of rest,
extension of the network of cultural, educational, and health-building institutions, and the development on a mass scale of sport, physical
culture, and camping and tourism; by the provision of neighborhood recreational facilities, and of other opportunities for rational use of
free time.
(3) The length of collective farmers' working and leisure time is established by their collective farms.
Article 42 [Health]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to health protection.
(2) This right is ensured by free, qualified medical care provided by state health institutions; by extension of the network of therapeutic
and health-building institutions; by the development and improvement of safety and hygiene in industry; by carrying out broad prophylactic
measures; by measures to improve the environment; by special care for the health of the rising generation, including prohibition of child
labor, excluding the work done by children as part of the school curriculum; and by developing research to prevent and reduce the incidence
of disease and ensure citizens a long and active life.
Article 43 [Welfare]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to maintenance in old age, in sickness, and in the event of complete or partial disability or loss of
the breadwinner.
(2) The right is guaranteed by social insurance of workers and other employees and collective farmers; by allowances for temporary
disability; by the provision by the state or by collective farms of retirement pensions, disability pensions, and pensions for loss of the
breadwinner; by providing employment for the partially disabled; by care for the elderly and the disabled; and by other forms of social
security.
Article 44 [Housing]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the rights to housing.
(2) This right is ensured by the development and upkeep of state and socially-owned housing; by assistance for cooperative and individual
house building; by fair distribution, under public control, of the housing that becomes available through fulfillment of the program of
building well-appointed dwellings, and by low rents and low charges for utility services. Citizens of the USRS shall take good care of the
housing allocated to them.
Article 45 [Education]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to education.
(2) This right is ensured by free provision of all forms of education, by the institution of universal, compulsory secondary education, and
broad development of vocational, specialized secondary, and higher education, in which instruction is oriented toward practical activity and
production; by the development of extramural, correspondence and evening courses, by the provision of state scholarships and grants and
privileges for students; by the free issue of school textbooks; by the opportunity to attend a school where teaching is in the native
language; and by the provision of facilities for self-education.
Article 46 [Culture]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to enjoy cultural benefits.
(2) This rights is ensured by broad access to the cultural treasures of their own land and of the world that are preserved in state and other
public collections; by the development and fair distribution of cultural and educational institutions throughout the country; by developing
television and radio broadcasting and the publishing of books, newspapers and periodicals, and by extending the free library service; and by
expanding cultural exchanges with other countries.
Article 47 [Research]
(1) Citizens of the USRS, in accordance with the aims of building communism, are guaranteed freedom of scientific, technical, and artistic
work. This freedom is ensured by broadening scientific research, encouraging invention and innovation, and developing literature and the
arts. The state provides the necessary material conditions for this and support for voluntary societies and unions of workers in the arts,
organizes introduction of inventions and innovations in production and other spheres of activity.
(2) The rights of authors, inventors and innovators are protected by the state.
Article 48 [Public Affairs]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to take part in the management and administration of state and public affairs and in the discussion
and adoption of laws and measures of All-Union and local significance.
(2) This right is ensured by the opportunity to vote and to be elected to Socialists of People's Deputies and other elective state bodies, to
take part in nationwide discussions and referendums, in people's control, in the work of state bodies, public organizations, and local
community groups, and in meetings at places of work or residence.
Article 49 [Proposals]
(1) Every citizen of the USRS
has the right to submit proposals to state bodies and public organizations for improving their activity, and to criticize shortcomings in
their work.
(2) Officials are obliged, within established time-limits, to examine citizens' proposals and requests, to reply to them, and to take
appropriate action.
(3) Persecution for criticism is prohibited. Persons guilty of such persecution shall be called to account.
Article 50 [Expression]
(1) In accordance with the interests of the people and in order to strengthen and develop the socialist system, citizens of the USRS are
guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly, meetings, street processions and demonstrations.
(2) Exercise of these political freedoms is ensured by putting public buildings, streets, and squares at the disposal of the working people
and their organizations, by broad dissemination of information, and by the opportunity to use the press, television, and radio.
Article 51 [Association]
(1) In accordance with the aims of building communism, citizens of the USRS have the right to associate in public organizations that promote
their political activity and initiative and satisfaction of their various interests.
(2) Public organizations are guaranteed conditions for successfully performing the functions defined in their rules.
Article 52 [Religion]
(1) Citizens of the USRS are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct
religious worship or atheistic propaganda. Incitement of hostility or hatred on religious grounds is prohibited.
(2) In the USRS, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.
Article 53 [Family, Marriage]
(1) The family enjoys the protection of the state.
(2) Marriage is based on the free consent of the woman and the man; the spouses are completely equal in their family relations.
(3) The state helps the family by providing and developing a broad system of child-care institutions, by organizing and improving communal
services and public catering, by paying grants on the birth of a child, by providing children's allowances and benefits for large families,
and other forms of family allowances and assistance.
Article 54 [Personal Freedom]
Citizens of the USRS are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No one may be arrested except by a court decision or on the warrant of a
procurator.
Article 55 [Home]
Citizens of the USRS are guaranteed inviolability of the home. No one may, without lawful grounds, enter a home against the will of those
residing in it.
Article 56 [Privacy]
The privacy of citizens, and of their correspondence, telephone conversations, and telegraphic communications is protected by law.
Article 57 [Legal Remedies]
(1) Respect for the individual and protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens are the duty of all state bodies, public organizations,
and officials.
(2) Citizens of the USRS have the right to protection by the courts against encroachments on their honor and reputation, life and health, and
personal freedom and property.
Article 58 [Complaint]
(1) Citizens of the USRS have the right to lodge a complaint against the actions of officials, state bodies and public bodies. Complaints
shall be examined according to the procedure and within the time-limit established by law.
(2) Actions by officials that contravene the law or exceed their powers, and infringe the rights of citizens, may be appealed against in a
court in the manner prescribed by law.
(3) Citizens of the USRS have the right to compensation for damage resulting from unlawful actions by state organizations and public
organizations, or by officials in the performance of their duties.
Article 59 [General]
(1) Citizens' exercise of their rights and freedoms is inseparable from the performance of their duties and obligations.
(2) Citizens of the USRS are obliged to observe the Constitution of the USRS and Socialist laws, comply with the standards of socialist
conduct, and uphold the honor and dignity of Socialist citizenship.
Article 60 [Duty to Work]
It is the duty of, and matter of honor for, every able-bodied citizen of the USRSto work conscientiously in his chosen, socially useful
occFpation, and strictly to observe labor discipline. Evasion of socially useful work is incompatible with the principles of socialist
society.
Article 61 [Socialist Property]
(1) Citizens of the USRS are obliged to preserve and protect socialist property. It is the duty of a citizen of the USRS to combat
misappropriation and squandering of state and socially-owned property and to make thrifty use of the people's wealth.
(2) Persons encroaching in any way on socialist property shall be punished according to the law.
Article 62 [Interest of State]
(1) Citizens of the USRS are obliged to safeguard the interests of the Socialist state, and to enhance its power and prestige.
(2) Defence of the Socialist Motherland is the sacred duty of every citizen of the USRS.
(3) Betrayal of the Motherland is the gravest of crimes against the people.
Article 63 [Military Service]
Military service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USRS is an honorable duty of Socialist citizens.
Article 64 [Peacekeeping Duty]
It is the duty of every citizen of the USRS to respect the national dignity of other citizens, and to strengthen friendship of the nations
and nationalities of the multinational Socialist state.
Article 65 [Social Behavior]
A citizen of the USRS is obliged to respect the rights and lawful interests of other persons, to be uncompromising toward anti-social
behavior, and to help maintain public order.
Article 66 [Childcare]
Citizens of the USRS are obliged to concern themselves with the upbringing of children, to train them for socially useful work, and to raise
them as worthy members of socialist society. Children are obliged to care for their parents and help them.
Article 67 [Protection of Nature]
Citizens of the USRS are obliged to protect nature and conserve its riches.
Article 68 [Preservation of Culture]
Concern for the preservation of historical monuments and other cultural values is a duty and obligation of citizens of the USRS.
Article 69 [Internationalist Duties]
It is the internationalist duty of citizens of the USRS to promote friendship and cooperation with peoples of other lands and help maintain
and strengthen world peace.


If you have any questions, feel free to ask.


If anybody does not contribute the required 40 posts per day, they shall be sent to the Gulags.

[DirtyKash]

I'm in charge of the concentration, uh, I mean "re-education" camps.

[redsfan28]

40 post per day? BRILLIANT!!!

BTW, what makes these rules any different than what goes on here already?

[Porter]

General you have WAY too much time on your hands.

[Dry1313]

I cocncur with Porter, looking at this made me want to kill myself.

[HuskerFan2002]

Summary. Please.

[Kingdom]

This is a real homosexual thread. Congratulations.

[HollywoodLeo]

I don't want to be rude or disrespectful, and I unmistakably don't want to start an argument, but The General is the root of all evil. To start, The General talks a lot about conformism and how wonderful it is. However, he's never actually defined what it means. How can he argue for something he's never defined? The only clear answer to emerge from the conflicting, contradictory stances that he and his functionaries take is that the reason I'm writing this letter is that overbearing dips can't even agree among themselves as to how birdbrained he is. Who could have guessed that he would let us know exactly what our attitudes should be towards various types of people and behavior? To put it another way, what is this muddleheaded fascination he has with allotheism? He doesn't want you to know the answer to that question; he wants to ensure you don't get my message about The General out to the world. However much he may deny it, I truly don't believe that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power. So when The General says that that's what I believe, I see how little he understands my position. It seems to me that he is both quixotic-to-the-core and combative. Now there's a dangerous combination if I've ever seen one.

This is particularly interesting when you consider that The General's reinterpretations of historic events are built on lies and they depend on make-believe for their continuation. What we have been imparting to The General -- or what he has been eliciting from us -- is a half-submerged, barely intended logic, contaminated by wishes and tendencies we prefer not to acknowledge.

I can easily see The General performing the following lazy acts. First, he will cultivate the purest breed of irresponsibility. Then, he will feed information from sources inside the government to organizations with particularly ridiculous agendas. I do not profess to know how likely is the eventuality I have outlined, but it is a distinct possibility to be kept in mind.

As the oft-repeated saying goes, "The General's ideas about ethnocentrism are strictly for the birds -- or at least, for birdbrains". The importance of that saying is that it reminds us that there is a format The General should follow for his next literary endeavor. It involves a topic sentence and supporting facts. At this point in the letter, I had planned to tell you that authority without wisdom is mere noise against the music of eternity. However, one of my colleagues pointed out that many of us do not wish to live within The General's walls of libertinism. Hence, I discarded the discourse I had previously prepared and substituted the following discussion, in which I argue that he holds onto power like the eunuch mandarins of the Forbidden City -- sterile obstacles to progress who send petulant charlatans on safari holidays instead of publicly birching them. I am not fooled by The General's unctuous and eristic rhetoric. I therefore gladly accept the responsibility of notifying others that The General maintains a "Big Brother" dossier of incriminating personal information about everyone he distrusts, to use as a potential career-ruining weapon. Is your name listed in that dossier? We already have our answer; as a respected journalist put it, "Only maledicent, unruly low-lifes ever suspect that The General's revenge fantasies are 'grandly compelling', 'articulate and persuasive', or 'a vital contribution'". She probably could have added that if you're the type who dares to think for yourself, then you've probably already determined that The General is known for walking into crowded rooms and telling everyone there that he can scare us by using big words like "anatomicophysiologic". Try, if you can, to concoct a statement better calculated to show how childish The General is. You can't do it. Not only that, but his method (or school, or ideology -- it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "The General-ism". It is a polyloquent and avowedly rabid philosophy that aims to corrupt our youth. I could accuse The General of using nugatory self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards to get his way, but I wouldn't stoop to that level.

Considering that The General always says the most gutless things, I offer that The General has never gotten ahead because of his hard work or innovative ideas. Rather, all of The General's successes are due to kickbacks, bribes, black market double-dealing, outright thuggery, and unsavory political intrigue. Sure, he talks the talk, but does he walk the walk? Please do not stop reading here, presuming that the answer is apparent and that no further knowledge is needed. Such is indisputably not the case. In fact, I'd bet no one ever told you that The General does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that the only way to expand one's mind is with drugs -- or maybe even chocolate -- that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins.

It's not the boogeyman that our children need to worry about. It's The General. Not only is The General more discourteous and more disreputable than any envisaged boogeyman or bugbear, but The General's dream is for us to lay down our freedom at our feet and say to him, "Make us your slaves -- but feed us", and everyone with half a brain understands that. Do you ever get the feeling that anger is contagious? Well, you should, because we can all have daydreams about Happy Fuzzy Purple Bunny Land, where everyone is caring, loving, and nice. Not only will those daydreams not come true, but his perspective is that he has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring himself to help disseminate the True Faith of narcissism. My perspective, in contrast, is that to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of loathsome present-day robber barons, it has to be repeated at least 50 times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following 50 times, but The General's thesis is that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is. That's entirely peremptory, you say? Good; that means you're finally catching on. The next step is to observe that I indeed intend to exercise my franchise to question The General's authority. To cap that off, The General sees himself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat, revolutionizing the world by wresting it from its oppressors (viz., those who fight for our freedom of speech). I hope I don't need to remind you that it is our duty to our children and to their children and to our yet unborn posterity to reveal the nature and activity of The General's apologists and expose their inner contexts as well as their ultimate final aims, but it's still true, and we must do something about it. A few days ago, The General actually admitted that he wants to pooh-pooh the concerns of others. Can you believe that? Perhaps The General forgot to take his antipsychotics that day. An additional clue is that I'm not very conversant with his background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that The General is still going around insisting that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the mephitic hostes generis humani in his polity. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to him that the law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior.

So we're supposed to give The General permission to cause people to betray one another and hate one another and hope he's rational enough not to do so? How naive! To put it crudely, if he truly believes that at birth, every living being is assigned a celestial serial number or frequency power spectrum, then maybe he should enroll in Introduction to Reality 101. His commentaries are a perfect example of overgeneralization and blatant vigilantism. From this anecdotal evidence, I would argue that there is a simple answer to the question of what to do about The General's catch-phrases. The difficult part is in implementing the answer. The answer is that we must follow through on the critical work that has already begun.

I am hurt, furious, and embarrassed. Why am I hurt? Because there is much more of this to come. But let's not lose sight of the larger, more important issue here: The General's unbridled rantings. Why am I furious? Because if the past is any indication of the future, The General will once again attempt to meddle in everyone else's affairs. And why am I embarrassed? Because he is like a Judas goat, leading us all to the slaughter. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: Does he realize he's more atrabilious than a subhuman nincompoop? There is widespread agreement in asking that question, but there is great disagreement in answering it. How is it that I knew from the beginning that The General would abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology? Am I smarter than everyone else? No, not at all. I'll admit that I'm smarter than The General but that's like saying that I'm smarter than a toad. I knew what The General would do because I realized that even his brethren are afraid that he will twist my words six ways for Sunday sooner than you think. I have seen their fear manifested over and over again, and it is further evidence that I despise everything about The General. I despise The General's attempts to prevent us from getting in touch with our feelings. I despise how he insists that children should belong to the state. Most of all, I despise his complete obliviousness to the fact that he had previously claimed that he had no intention to seize control of the power structure. Of course, shortly thereafter, that's exactly what he did. Next, he denied that he would call evil good and good evil. We all know what happened then. Now, The General would have us believe he'd never ever violate the basic tenets of journalism and scholarship. Will he? Go figure. My view is that I, hardheaded cynic that I am, would like to comment on The General's attempt to associate stoicism with irrationalism. There is no association.

I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on The General's part to suck up to balmy propagandists of various stripes sometime soon. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. That's why I'm informing you that several things The General has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of his that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how superstition is no less credible than proven scientific principles. Although he was likely following the dictates of his conscience when he decided to shout obscenities at passers-by, the fact remains that not only does he perpetuate inaccurate and dangerous beliefs about male-female relationships, but he then commands his advocates, "Go, and do thou likewise."

Might I suggest that The General search for a hobby? It seems he has entirely too much time on his hands, given how often he tries to endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. One other thing: The General's desire to instill distrust and thereby create a need for his loquacious views is incontrovertible evidence that The General harbors some raucous grudges. Yes, I could add that it is our responsibility to ourselves, to our posterity, to our ancestors, and to the God of Nature, which made us what we are, to investigate the development of nonrepresentationalism as a concept, but I wanted to keep my message simple and direct. I didn't want to distract you from the main thrust of my message, which is that when a mistake is made, the smart thing to do is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that The General stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to convince me that it takes more than a mass of meddlesome, disorganized obtrusive-types to insist on a policy of zero tolerance toward fetishism. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to do something about the continuing -- make that the escalating -- effort on his part to convert houses of worship into houses of phallocentrism. The General often compares himself to Jesus, usually on the grounds that I'm trying to crucify The General for speaking the truth. And that's the honest truth.

[Halladay_is_God]

all hail the USRS

[redsfan28]

Hollywood, are you being serious or are you kidding?

[General]

Kash, make sure Leo finds his way to "school".

[Molina00]

This whole thread makes my brain hurt.

[Saber]

It's not that he has too much time. It's that he has the time to copy, paste, and replace USSR with USRS.