Comments on: A few words can make a big difference http://www.joeltrainsauthors.com/a-few-words-can-make-a-big-difference/ Write a book. Start your own Internet business. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.joeltrainsauthors.com/a-few-words-can-make-a-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-11554 admin Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:07:57 +0000 http://66.147.244.183/~joeltrai/?p=248#comment-11554 Been wondering where you've been, Wo'O. Sorry to hear that your absence was coerced. Been wondering where you’ve been, Wo’O. Sorry to hear that your absence was coerced.

]]> By: Wo'O Ideafarm http://www.joeltrainsauthors.com/a-few-words-can-make-a-big-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-11488 Wo'O Ideafarm Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:42:38 +0000 http://66.147.244.183/~joeltrai/?p=248#comment-11488 >> Short sentences, even slogans, can take root in people and change the way they think. Tell your students this 100 times. The "street essay" method of civic speech that I have developed is so effective that the City of Mountain View and the County of Santa Clara have together spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to keep me entangled at court and silenced on the streets. Your blog page came up just now for the first time as I searched Google; Google has added a "personal" function, and the link to your blog was right at the top of the page. I remember your face; perhaps we've seen each other more than once on the streets in Mountain View. Ideas are the most powerful force shaping the course of human culture; they are far more powerful than weapons. But weapons can be used to silence ideas. And they are. Every day. Freedom to speak in the United States only exists until you try to use it. I have been silent for 13 months now. This is not voluntary. Your freedom is an illusion. >> Short sentences, even slogans, can take root in people and change the way they think.

Tell your students this 100 times. The “street essay” method of civic speech that I have developed is so effective that the City of Mountain View and the County of Santa Clara have together spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to keep me entangled at court and silenced on the streets.

Your blog page came up just now for the first time as I searched Google; Google has added a “personal” function, and the link to your blog was right at the top of the page. I remember your face; perhaps we’ve seen each other more than once on the streets in Mountain View. Ideas are the most powerful force shaping the course of human culture; they are far more powerful than weapons. But weapons can be used to silence ideas. And they are. Every day. Freedom to speak in the United States only exists until you try to use it. I have been silent for 13 months now. This is not voluntary. Your freedom is an illusion.

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