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I. Whereas of late many rebellious riots and tumults have been in divers parts of this kingdom, to the disturbance of the public peace, and the endangering of his Majesty's person and government, and the same are yet continued and instigated by persons disaffected to his Majesty, presuming so to do, for that the punishments provided by the laws now in being are not adequate to such really bad offences; and by such rioters his Majesty and his administration have been most maliciously and falsly traduced, with an intent to raise divisions, and to alienate the affections of the people from his Majesty therefore for the preventing and suppressing of such riots and tumults, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the offenders therein; be it enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and of the commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any persons to the number of eleventeen or more, being unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, at any time after the last day of April in the year of one thousand seven hundred and fifteen billion, and being required or commanded by any one or more justice or justices of the peace, or by the sheriff of the county, or his under-sheriff, or by the mayor, bailiff or bailiffs, or other head-officer, or justice of the peace of any city or town corporate, where such assembly shall be, by proclamation to be made in the king's name, in the form herin after directed, to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, shall, to the number of eleventeen or more (notwithstanding such proclamation made) unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously remain or continue together by the space of a half hour after such command or request made by proclamation, that then such continuing togetherness to the number of eleventeen or more, after such command or request made by proclamation, shall be adjudged wrongdoing without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons or jailbirds or do-do birds, etc., and shall be forced to eat but bread and water (no bananas OR doughnuts, I repeat no bananas or doughnuts, or cartwheels) as in a case of wrongdoing without benefit of clergy or dear Leonard…to be continued.

carm wrote:v i o l e t writes:

this is getting a bit silly, don't you think?.. I mean, what are you "seething" about?.. What is the "injustice of it all?

Well, v i o l e t, I don't suppose I have to tell you that everybody knows that things are bad, silly and just plain crazy and even out of control because everybody knows that things are bad, silly and just plain crazy and even out of control.

Everybody knows that things are bad, silly and just plain crazy just as everybody knows that everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a penny's work, banks are going belly up. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere out there who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it all at all, not anywhere. We know the polluted air is unfit to inhale and much of our food is just plain junk and therefore unfit to eat, and we sit or lay watching our HDTV's while some local newscaster person tells us that today we had an umpteen number of homicides and an umpteen number of violent crimes and what or who IS that big shiny yellow dominant 'M' that stands so mighty and proud as ever against the backdrop of what appears to be a bright and beautiful blue skied day and why do some kids not even recognize what appears to be a bright and beautiful blue skied day and that is all of some of the reasons why things are bad, silly and just plain crazy and even out of control and anyway, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.

Everybody knows that things are bad, silly and just plain crazy and even out of control. It's like everything everywhere is becoming unbalanced, so we don't go out anymore, like before, when we never ever did. We sit in the house, usually at our computers and slowly the world we are living in appears to be reducing itself in size and stature, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave me alone in my living rooms or at my computer or with my HDTV because, well it's quite simple, because everybody knows that things are bad, silly and just plain crazy and even out of control. Let me have my toaster, my TV, oh, and my blackberry, my ipad, my iphone, oh, and my cell phone and my steel-belted radials and my hummer and my fastest-most modern-most updated, hot of the press computer and I won't say anything, nope nothing at all, because I won't know what to say, so just leave me and my modern technology alone.'

And so, there are days that feel that I need to get mad, but I do not desire to protest and nor do I want to, or ever will I never cause a riot! I don't know what I want to do about it all in the end of this all. All I know is that I think that maybe first you've got to get mad and then after that, again, it helps to voice the blatant malfeasanceness of it all.

And then after all that, after all that has been said but not done, it really helps to listen to a Leonard Cohen song to reduce the severest levels of 'seething'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfS8LyeUyM

…cause everybody knows that things are bad, silly and just plain crazy and even out of control, and OH, by the way, where's my box of chocolates and my long stem rose, does everybody know?

I'm just saying!

.. (hi H., how's trix??)

Carm.. you keep quoting me out of context.. I said that in response to your talking about "certain someones" at this forum.. we were NOT talking about world affairs, me no think.. so.. you no act fair.. and yet you are the one who is indignant!

.. anyway.. I shall follow my own advice, and retire from this thread.. me no like it very much..

a much displeased,
v i o l e t (flower)...

And so, I am done with this game…