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Post#7851 at 03-18-2012 05:38 PM by JohnMc82 [at Back in Jax joined Jan 2011 #posts 1,962]
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Quote Originally Posted by pbrower2a View Post
... and economic and political elites can fall within Great Powers. That is possible if the US does not become a militaristic nightmare.
Become? All that is left is a matter of opinion.

My nightmares are of a high tech surveillance state, an empire that starts wars and occupations based on fabricated and exaggerated evidence, a military that detains and tortures suspects in secretive foreign prisons. I fear that a banking cartel could become so powerful that the cost of living and doing business world-wide would be subject to its whims and greed. I fear a government so captured by said cartel that it would sacrifice the future in order to enrich those few today.

I fear that we've already gone too far, and my opinion is far outside of the mainstream. Average people see these things not as horrors that must be corrected, but rather as unfortunate side-effects of Americanism that must be tolerated or even justified. Many will flatly say they are a good thing.

There is no domestic opposition to the militaristic nightmare. None. Even where pockets of rebellion exist, ie: Occupy Wall Street, there is a concerted effort by some to separate concerns about foreign policy and civil rights from economic matters.

But we cannot attack the financial and political power if we refuse to address the military and police state that protects them...

[9-11] struck too hard when America was at its worst -- near but not quite at the end of the 3T. A Crisis peaking at the time in which an elderly generation of Adaptive leftovers offer piecemeal compromises that nobody wants, aging Idealists who see the world divided neatly between Good and Evil yet fail to recognize the destructiveness of their 'solutions', and Reactive young adults who see Apocalypse as opportunity and adventure instead of carnage... we have seen that before

Given the variables we have been given, I feel like we have already made the choice.
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SAN DIEGO TEA PARTY LEADER ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPE

Ladies and Gents, I give you Republican Family Values!
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Quote Originally Posted by JohnMc82 View Post
Become? All that is left is a matter of opinion.

My nightmares are of a high tech surveillance state, an empire that starts wars and occupations based on fabricated and exaggerated evidence, a military that detains and tortures suspects in secretive foreign prisons. I fear that a banking cartel could become so powerful that the cost of living and doing business world-wide would be subject to its whims and greed. I fear a government so captured by said cartel that it would sacrifice the future in order to enrich those few today.

I fear that we've already gone too far, and my opinion is far outside of the mainstream. Average people see these things not as horrors that must be corrected, but rather as unfortunate side-effects of Americanism that must be tolerated or even justified. Many will flatly say they are a good thing.

There is no domestic opposition to the militaristic nightmare. None. Even where pockets of rebellion exist, ie: Occupy Wall Street, there is a concerted effort by some to separate concerns about foreign policy and civil rights from economic matters.

But we cannot attack the financial and political power if we refuse to address the military and police state that protects them...



Given the variables we have been given, I feel like we have already made the choice.
You have hit the nail on the head. In addition, we have hundreds of *military* bases around the world. Then there's the whole issue of militarized police here in the U.S..
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Quote Originally Posted by Deb C View Post
You have hit the nail on the head. In addition, we have hundreds of *military* bases around the world. Then there's the whole issue of militarized police here in the U.S..
I agree that we have too many military bases and troops around the world, but also favor an even stronger navy. However, I don't understand the issue of miliarized police in the US.







Post#7855 at 03-18-2012 09:21 PM by pbrower2a [at "Michigrim" joined May 2005 #posts 15,014]
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Quote Originally Posted by JohnMc82 View Post
Become? All that is left is a matter of opinion.

My nightmares are of a high tech surveillance state, an empire that starts wars and occupations based on fabricated and exaggerated evidence, a military that detains and tortures suspects in secretive foreign prisons. I fear that a banking cartel could become so powerful that the cost of living and doing business world-wide would be subject to its whims and greed. I fear a government so captured by said cartel that it would sacrifice the future in order to enrich those few today.
Without question that would be an America run by people no better than gangsters except they might be a bit more sophisticated than Don Vito Corleone. Powerful interests would effectively grab a bite out of every economic activity on the assumption that such is not simply necessary but even good. Once it is able to impose private taxes without having performed useful services, or without the expectation of performance of any useful services, we would effectively have an economic order that exists solely for the enrichment of the Few.

I fear that we've already gone too far, and my opinion is far outside of the mainstream. Average people see these things not as horrors that must be corrected, but rather as unfortunate side-effects of Americanism that must be tolerated or even justified. Many will flatly say they are a good thing.

There is no domestic opposition to the militaristic nightmare. None. Even where pockets of rebellion exist, ie: Occupy Wall Street, there is a concerted effort by some to separate concerns about foreign policy and civil rights from economic matters.
At least we have gone back to the sane and sober foreign policy of the elder Bush and Clinton. I have no problem with terrorist masterminds and pirates being whacked. Iraq never had any resolution, and Afghanistan is going to be much the same. Thank you, Dubya. Of course I would prefer that the Patriot Act be rescinded. All that we need for a full-blown dictatorship is for some ruling clique to decide that any dissident "pals (sic!) with terrorism" (in the parlance of Sarah Palin, a great mangler of logic and the English language). If there are no civil liberties, then the economy can be perverted into some monstrosity of a welfare state for the well-connected and a jungle for all others.

But we cannot attack the financial and political power if we refuse to address the military and police state that protects them...
We do not yet have a police state. If we did we would never see the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street types. Someone who says that "someone ought to kill the President" while inebriated in a small-town bar legitimately draws the attention of the police. But without question -- the financial power does not yet have full control of the political system. If it ever does, then our system of Constitutional government will be as full of loopholes as was the Soviet Union under the 1936 (Stalin) Constitution -- with the equivalent of Article 6 in the Constitution enshrining a dominant-Party system in which the Party with real power has a cadre system of internal enforcement, and the Criminal Code has an Article 58 that practically turns everyone into a defined offender who operates only with the indulgence of the powerful.

Quote Originally Posted by me, if with a twist
[9-11] struck too hard when America was at its worst -- near but not quite at the end of the 3T. A Crisis peaking at the time in which an elderly generation of Adaptive leftovers offer piecemeal compromises that nobody wants, aging Idealists who see the world divided neatly between Good and Evil yet fail to recognize the destructiveness of their 'solutions', and Reactive young adults who see Apocalypse as opportunity and adventure instead of carnage... we have seen that before

Given the variables we have been given, I feel like we have already made the choice.
The 3T/4T cusp usually features some of the weakest or compromised leadership then possible because people then want a government that acquiesces in the greed, mindless hedonism, fanaticism, and selfishness. Dubya may prove to be the worst President in American history for his freakish combination of shallowness, corruption, and malleability. Hoover, the sort of entrepreneur who goes in vogue late in a 3T when (as his predecessor Calvin Coolidge -- another awful President -- said): The business of America is business. But even Hoover, for all his faults, was a man of principle and no militarist. James Buchanan, presiding over a rifting America, may have simply been far past prime as President.

I think that Senator John McCain would have been a disaster as President. He would be pulled at from all sides, most notably from the Tea Party types who would think of him as "not conservative enough" and from saber-rattling militarists. I don't know whether the King Lear scenario is specifically about an elderly Adaptive, but it certainly looks as if it would fit him -- especially if the Vice-President were throwing temper tantrums when she didn't get her way.

President Obama is no Idealist. His hit on Osama bin Laden is little different in style from that of a Chicago gangster even if it is for honorable purposes. He will not and cannot be the Churchillian or Lincolnesque "Gray Champion". At most he can calm things so that when things get extremely dangerous, America will be better prepared. He is a Reactive who acts much like a sixty-something John Adams, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman, or Dwight Eisenhower. The most dangerous Reactive is a cynical operator who uses high office largely to salve old hurt feelings.
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" (or) even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by (those) who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."


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How to Fund an American Police State

"At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting upon us from nowhere. "


"There should have been no surprise. Those flash grenades exploding in Oakland and the sound cannons on New York’s streets simply opened small windows onto a national policing landscape long in the process of militarization -- a bleak domestic no man’s land marked by tanks and drones, robot bomb detectors, grenade launchers, tasers, and most of all, interlinked video surveillance cameras and information databases growing quietly on unobtrusive server farms everywhere."

"The ubiquitous fantasy of “homeland security,” pushed hard by the federal government in the wake of 9/11, has been widely embraced by the public. It has also excited intense weapons- and techno-envy among police departments and municipalities vying for the latest in armor and spy technology."

More snippets from the article:




"The chances of an American dying in a terrorist incident in a given year are 1 in 3.5 million. To reduce that risk, to make something minuscule even more minuscule, what has the nation spent? What has it cost us? Instead of rebuilding a ravaged American city in a timely fashion or making Americans more secure in their “underwater” homes and their disappearing jobs, we have created militarized police forces, visible evidence of police-state-style funding."


The Rise of the Fusion Centers



The idea for these centers grew from the notion that agencies needed to share what they knew in an “unfettered” environment. How comforting to know that the walls between intelligence and law enforcement are breached in an essentially unregulated fashion.
Many other states have monitored antiwar activists, gathering and storing names and information.Texas and other states have stored “intelligence” on Muslims. Pennsylvania gathered reports on opponents of natural gas drilling. Florida has scrutinized supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul. The list of such questionable activities is very long. We have no idea how much dubious data has been squirreled away by authorities and remains within the networked system. But we do know that information pours into it with relative ease and spreads like an oil slick. Cleaning up and removing the mess is another story entirely.

Anyone who wants to learn something about fusion center funding will also find it maddeningly difficult to track. Not even the Homeland Security Department can say with certainty how much of its own money has gone into these data nests over the last decade.

The amounts are staggering, however. From 2004 to 2009 alone, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that states used about $426 million in Homeland Security Department grants to fund fusion-related activities nationally. The centers also receive state and local funds, as well as funds from other federal agencies. How much? We don’t know, although GAO data suggest state and local funding at least equals the Homeland Security share.

Yet, as Tampa, New York City, and other urban areas bulk up with high-tech anti-terrorism equipment and fusion centers have proliferated, the number of even remotely “terror-related” incidents has declined. The equipment acquired and projects inaugurated to fend off largely imaginary threats is instead increasingly deployed to address ordinary criminal activity, perceived political disruptions, and the tracking and surveillance of American Muslims.

The Transportation Safety Administration is now even patrolling highways. It could be called a case of mission creep, but the more accurate description might be: bait-and-switch.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stepha...b_1320987.html
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Post#7857 at 03-19-2012 12:14 PM by Wallace 88 [at joined Dec 2010 #posts 1,232]
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Quote Originally Posted by Odin View Post
SAN DIEGO TEA PARTY LEADER ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPE

Ladies and Gents, I give you Republican Family Values!
Maybe he thought he was at one of those Occupy Wall Street rallies.







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Quote Originally Posted by Wallace 88 View Post
Maybe he thought he was at one of those Occupy Wall Street rallies.
Maybe he thought he was back at the Tappa Kegga Brew fraternity house!
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."

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Quote Originally Posted by Wallace 88 View Post
Maybe he thought he was at one of those Occupy Wall Street rallies.
The ***hole yelling the "stop raping people" lies dropped dead a couple weeks ago. Karma's a b*tch.
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Quote Originally Posted by Odin View Post
SAN DIEGO TEA PARTY LEADER ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPE

Ladies and Gents, I give you Republican Family Values!
I saw this story and my first reaction was: Tea Party hypocrite. Then I got queasy at my own reaction. I can't hold an entire group responsible for the hideousness of one of their members. Not that I support the Tea Party, but I doubt most Tea Party members are thrilled about this man's actions.







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Quote Originally Posted by annla899 View Post
I saw this story and my first reaction was: Tea Party hypocrite. Then I got queasy at my own reaction. I can't hold an entire group responsible for the hideousness of one of their members. Not that I support the Tea Party, but I doubt most Tea Party members are thrilled about this man's actions.
Any decent person would be appalled by such behavior. I think all such violent crimes such be punished with very long sentences. If necessary, let those in prison for minor drug violations out to make room for the truly dangerous felons.







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Quote Originally Posted by Odin View Post
SAN DIEGO TEA PARTY LEADER ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPE

Ladies and Gents, I give you Republican Family Values!
Odin, you might be one of the most bigoted people on this forum.







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Quote Originally Posted by antichrist View Post
Odin, you might be one of the most bigoted people on this forum.
Even after reading this article, the man has not been part or represented the Tea Party since January. He acted on his own accord and stupidity. Anything to white wash an association.







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Quote Originally Posted by Odin View Post
The ***hole yelling the "stop raping people" lies dropped dead a couple weeks ago. Karma's a b*tch.
Yeah, let's celebrate someone's death because we don't agree with their position and because they are acting like an asshole in so doing.

And yet you call other people hateful and bigoted all the time...

Seriously -- despite claiming to the ideology of tolerance and diversity, it's been my experience that collectively, the Left is far more eager to dance on the graves of its political opponents (in most cases) than the Right is. So much for tolerance for dissenting opinions and diversity of political thought.

There's a big moral difference between being glad for the political defeat of an adversary at the ballot box, and being glad they are dead.
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Post#7865 at 03-20-2012 07:05 PM by Chas'88 [at In between Pennsylvania & Pennsyltucky joined Nov 2008 #posts 9,432]
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Quote Originally Posted by ziggyX65 View Post
There's a big moral difference between being glad for the political defeat of an adversary at the ballot box, and being glad they are dead.
First bit of sense that I've seen on this thread for a while...

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Quote Originally Posted by ziggyX65 View Post
Yeah, let's celebrate someone's death because we don't agree with their position and because they are acting like an asshole in so doing.

And yet you call other people hateful and bigoted all the time...

Seriously -- despite claiming to the ideology of tolerance and diversity, it's been my experience that collectively, the Left is far more eager to dance on the graves of its political opponents (in most cases) than the Right is. So much for tolerance for dissenting opinions and diversity of political thought.

There's a big moral difference between being glad for the political defeat of an adversary at the ballot box, and being glad they are dead.
But, Ziggy, while Odin is on the Left, he is not The Left. He is one person who has let his animus run wild and free all over the boards and probably, the break room at work. Head down to the donut shop at breakfast time and you will hear people of the same temperament sounding off on both Left and Right, and every other political direction on the map including Out of the Clear Blue Sky.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."

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Quote Originally Posted by ziggyX65 View Post
Yeah, let's celebrate someone's death because we don't agree with their position and because they are acting like an asshole in so doing.

And yet you call other people hateful and bigoted all the time...

Seriously -- despite claiming to the ideology of tolerance and diversity, it's been my experience that collectively, the Left is far more eager to dance on the graves of its political opponents (in most cases) than the Right is. So much for tolerance for dissenting opinions and diversity of political thought.

There's a big moral difference between being glad for the political defeat of an adversary at the ballot box, and being glad they are dead.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

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The American Right with it's hate radio qualifies at the moment.



Breitbart's death was certainly a tragedy for his family, but I cannot personally feel sorry for his death.
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Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger View Post
But, Ziggy, while Odin is on the Left, he is not The Left. He is one person who has let his animus run wild and free all over the boards and probably, the break room at work. Head down to the donut shop at breakfast time and you will hear people of the same temperament sounding off on both Left and Right, and every other political direction on the map including Out of the Clear Blue Sky.
I tried to believe that most people on the other side could be reasoned with, that, agreeing with Obama while he was running for president, compromise was a good thing. The last 4 years melted that naivete away. We have tried reasoning with the other side, they have just gotten more strident and obstructionist. Now they have gone off the deep end regarding women's rights, they want to force women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Does this say something about the GOP this year? In 25 counties in Illinois, the ballots are too large to fit he machines.
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" (or) even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by (those) who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."


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Quote Originally Posted by pbrower2a View Post
Does this say something about the GOP this year? In 25 counties in Illinois, the ballots are too large to fit he machines.
Let me say about our country's politics what someone once said about his church - "I know it must be given by God, or it would not have otherwise survived such knavish incompetence for a single year." Quote from memory so nitpick it and correct it at will.
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Quote Originally Posted by pbrower2a View Post
Does this say something about the GOP this year? In 25 counties in Illinois, the ballots are too large to fit he machines.
Hey, atleast the GOP won't be bickering about hanging chads.







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Quote Originally Posted by ziggyX65 View Post
Yeah, let's celebrate someone's death because we don't agree with their position and because they are acting like an asshole in so doing.

And yet you call other people hateful and bigoted all the time...

Seriously -- despite claiming to the ideology of tolerance and diversity, it's been my experience that collectively, the Left is far more eager to dance on the graves of its political opponents (in most cases) than the Right is. So much for tolerance for dissenting opinions and diversity of political thought.

There's a big moral difference between being glad for the political defeat of an adversary at the ballot box, and being glad they are dead.
Nice point. I can be a staunch and a mean RW asshole but atleast I'm man enough to be able to see it and openly admit it. I wasn't raised or taught to hate the left. I actually grew up and got to know them before I started hating them.
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Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger View Post
But, Ziggy, while Odin is on the Left, he is not The Left. He is one person who has let his animus run wild and free all over the boards and probably, the break room at work. Head down to the donut shop at breakfast time and you will hear people of the same temperament sounding off on both Left and Right, and every other political direction on the map including Out of the Clear Blue Sky.
Are you on the Left or are you part of The Left or are you The Left?







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Quote Originally Posted by ziggyX65 View Post
Yeah, let's celebrate someone's death because we don't agree with their position and because they are acting like an asshole in so doing.

And yet you call other people hateful and bigoted all the time...

Seriously -- despite claiming to the ideology of tolerance and diversity, it's been my experience that collectively, the Left is far more eager to dance on the graves of its political opponents (in most cases) than the Right is. So much for tolerance for dissenting opinions and diversity of political thought.

There's a big moral difference between being glad for the political defeat of an adversary at the ballot box, and being glad they are dead.
And yet, it is always the Left or the Democrats who are willing to compromise and even sell out their positions for the sake of harmony and accomplishment, while the right/Republicans are willing to bankrupt the nation or the world in order to get their way. The Clinton/Lewinsky episode shows clearly that it is the right that is intolerant and hypocritical.
"I close my eyes, and I can see a better day" -- Justin Bieber

Keep the spirit alive,

Eric A. Meece







Post#7875 at 03-21-2012 08:01 AM by KaiserD2 [at David Kaiser '47 joined Jul 2001 #posts 5,220]
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Exit polls show 98% of voters in the Republican Illinois primary were white and 17% (sic) were under 40. The Republicans are in big trouble come November.
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