Well, all I'm saying is that you, yourself as an individual try to stand up for yourself on an issue that nobody agrees with you on. Try it. Watch people, walk away, pretend you don't exist and not give two shits for what you think. That's what government treats individual quarrels and complaints when whom also happen to be just a peon. Nobody gives a flying fuck, and may be I should agree with those who are the ones who (a) control my livelihood and (b) pay my check.
Sometimes there is only one job for that individual and may be that job is their career. If you are in a job that you want to work--because of love for it--you wil do anything to make your dream happen--even if you fail. For example, my high school gym teacher lived three hours away, back and forth, and he had to leave his family to work at my high school, coach soccer and track & field to a bunch of high school misfits, because he couldn't get a job on the island. He did that for 30+ years until he retired. Imagine seeing your sons may be twice a month (if lucky enough) just to satisfy a bunch of school kids whom later on would work mainly "civil servant" jobs and be called thugs (because I have the feeling Bloomberg would say nigger, but he's a public icon, they know better). There are many people who do this, just so their family can live a good life, go to a decent school, and may wind up at a "UNIVERSITY" and then learn occupational politics so that they can control others in the real world.
All, I'm saying is that, when we get our degrees, become executives at age 25, or run for public offices; to run in positions of power and positions to abuse power, or to become engineers being the influencers and bosses of some design project which can either kill millions or make billions, what is understood is that there is political freedom--and the result of it--affectual freedom. Whatever misinterpretation of our rights that is left (if the Bill of Rights is just a pile of bullshit meant to be smoked as a Cuban cigar) is what really means for us. Us people, whether you have it all, or hope to have a piece just to keep you living sanely for another week, or if you have nothing at all, the affectual freedom that allows people to do something, to voice a message, whether it's illegal or not, that people are free to do this with their own volition. Amendment 1 of the US Constitution allows this: except for when it endangers the lives of others. If this strike really endangered the lives of others, why weren't terror alerts didn't make the federal government kick into this situation, why did the politicians and executives of the MTA stoop to namecalling of TWU and MTA employees? Where is the professionality in that?
Personally, I didn't care, and honestly I gave a flying fuck if they went on strike or not. What I cared about is what actions that were happening and the results that came from it? Imagine if our President really gave no damn about the students of Polytechnic University. Honestly, nothing would really happen. But imagine if our President really gave no care about the administration, his e-board, and the rest of those that make Poly work at his level, will he have a job at Poly? No. It's all about politics.
Understand politics, and understand rights. May be we're no longer fighting for rights, but we sure as hell have to be a majority for them.
So understand: a voice + representation = you
may be heard!
