The best people one will meet is activists because their focus is beyond their immediate needs and to the greater good and they are willing to pour themselves into a cause that they believe will help mankind. But activists do have a particular liability in common that we should confront and acknowledge for our own benefit. We love the fight so much that we sometimes forget to win .
I was a member of an organization composed of leaders of various activist groups protesting various things and it seemed that the height of their accomplishment was that once in a while one of their members would go out and get himself arrested for protesting something.
Unfortunately, though, this accomplishes absolutely nothing for anybody except the individual who gets himself arrested . He gets to feel like Jesus or some other martyr for a cause and position himself in history because he got locked up in a cell for few hours with a gang of alcoholics and unsuccessful car thieves .
Let me put this another way.
Do you remember watching Bugs Bunny cartoons or the Three Stooges (come on, admit it!) where they do this gag of hammering on the door to some room they frantically need to get into and someone walks by them through an open door to one side or another of that door and goes right into the room with no effort whatsoever?
It can be like that for activists, too .
For someone with a cause to beat the drum for, getting out there and “beating that drum” can be a huge kick, an unbeatable high derived from confronting the evil, getting a chance to express their deepest feelings and concerns and be heard while standing with their brothers and sisters who are also fighting for the same cause. It is a sensation that only an activist can appreciate. Others get it by being spectators at sporting events but activists get it by actually going out there and doing something effective.
However, we activists sometimes have so much fun doing what we are doing that we forget one little thing… to WIN!
A case in point is the Water4Gas system for converting car engines from gasoline to gasoline/hydrogen hybrid which helps the individual driver tremendously with drastically improved fuel economy and higher MPG and a quieter and smoother running engine. But it also helps the environment in a major way with much cleaner emissions. It converts the car engine from gasoline to a gasoline/hydrogen hybrid.
It is an old mechanic’s trick, like if they want a car to pass emissions, they just pour water into the engine, all the gunk shoots out the back and then they take the car into the local smog inspection station and it passes. Well, that is a fraudulent practice because the car should not have passed emissions.But the same principle applies to the Water4Gas system, putting hydrogen into the air/gas mixture for a couple of weeks will eventually clean up the emissions and permanently, not just to pass an emissions test!
So the point is that all of this activism for alternative clean renewable fuel and energy has led us to biofuel and now we have a global food shortage and 10 to 20 million people dieing this year alone because crops were used for gas instead of food! And biofuel doesn’t even make a cleaner environment, it worsens it!
So all this lobbying, all this hysteria of global warming and so forth and all this effort and energy and creativity invested into the environmental movement when all people have to do is buy Water4Gas information, install the system in their cars, get others to do so and we win!
And then these activists can refocus their energies towards other vital issues such as the restoration of the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus and due process and the defeat of Big Brother surveillance and the National ID card in America .