HouseWulf
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Joined: 7/5/2005 Status: offline
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Hello everyone, I've been in the scene here in Denver for many years and I've seent things come and go. What baffles me is the inconsistancy in the "community". Now I use that term lightly because we do not have a community; LA has a community; SF has a community; NYC has a community because they have an established presence of dedicated people. Here in Denver you have a group of weekend warriors, dabblers and perverted troubadores spouting community and the by-lines of "Community". There are very few people who acutally live this, understand this as a way of life and make the commitment to further a real sense of Community. Unfortunately these few people are getting tired of the part timers who see this as just a way to get off. I know...I am one of the tired ones. We spout all the platitudes, we say the catch phrases and yet when it comes down to stepping up...it's about letting the other guy do it while we trot along placidly in a self absorbed bubble until we are hit upside the head with a tree branch. The Enclave is a last, best hope to create a community, not some "undergound" and our so-called community is letting it fail. The owners have fought a valient battle, they've done something that few if any BDSM Club owners have ever tried...legality....yet they are exhausted, drained and the City will win. The Bureacrats will win, the Blue Noses will win, prejudice will win, descrimination will win and worst of all...our freedoms will be dragged in the dirt because some anally retentive, psyco-sexually repressed parasite politician thinks their view of the world should dictate who and what we are. And the majority of our community turns a blind eye to this. They don't care...as long as they are not inconvieninaced. This reminds me of what the Nazi Regime did in Germany, they chose a group and removed their right to exist. No one did anything and the Nazis moved to the next group and removed their right to exist...so on and so forth until there was no one left to fight against them for their rights...they were all too afraid of the Nazis. Now we are facing a similar thing. To be sure our lives aren't at stake, but our freedoms are. Sure the City won't raid the place risking a constitutional issue...what they WILL do is drag things out and suck the last financial vestiges from the owners...who will then close the doors and the City wins. That is power at it's most repugnant essence at work. I would like to ask each and every person who reads this to think about one thing... why do you wait to help? During the Revolutionary War Patrick Henery exhorted the members of the Virginia State House to join the fight. His words ring true today just as they did then: " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775 Our chains are being forged in Commerce City, why stand we here idle? What is it the community wants, what would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the casual destruction of our civil rights. I know not what course others will take but I will never stop fighting this type of oppression, how about YOU? BlackWulf
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