It has has redefined "people", established a super-class of people (corporations), fomented aristocracy, declared the elite as having superior "speech" (money), and now it has passed and enforced a law at the federal level banning basic human expression!! The US Government is in breach of the constitutional contract!! WHY would the founders clarify a government for and by PEOPLE. Of course it is people! WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY "PEOPLE"? By saying "people" they are EXCLUDING aristocracy, organizations, corporations, etc. from being the composition of government, the sole benefactors and actuators of government greed. The US Government is in breach of the constitutional contract!!! The totality of US behaviour is descriptively EVIL!!! [video=youtube;PWeF6lwg4aY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeF6lwg4aY&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]
As a Canadian, I see this as perfect!! The dancers got the attention they craved and the police overreacted. It's time for you Americans to do something meaningful to stop this and I don't mean get out your guns because you will only end up losing if you do that.
Go Americans! This is your Tianneman square! This is the opportunity to start change! It's not going to get any better than this one. Cause them to call out the military. Cause them to shoot somebody. And don't let it turn into a Kent State style loss.
Even the Nazis with all of their paint-within-the-lines social policy would not outlaw dancing at one of their statues.
The United States is not Nazi Germany. Generally speaking, not counting the war, the Nazis took care of their people (Germans at least) through social services and suitable jobs. The United States has no such policy.
In many ways the US is like the opposite but still evil version of Nazis. The Nazis had the decency to believe in the superiority of their people. The US corporate swine and pentagon parasite care only (I believe) about their hegemony and infrastructure and I challenge whether they regard the US people as anything more than civillian casualties. The Nazis had the decency to ensure local productive capability. The US corporate swine and pentagon parasite have the indecency of farming out all of their productive capacity to foreign nations while depriving the "real" people of productive capacity. The Nazis had the decency to defend Germania to the death. The US corporate swine and Pentagon parasites would (I believe) abandon America in conflict and win the war while stationed at one of the many overseas bases, and then they would repopulate the American country by importing peasant labour for their war machine, satisfying themselves at their defense capability.
The Nazis had the decency to allow dancing at their statues. More proof the Americans are not like the Nazis.
This is why collectivism is dangerous. When you treat groups of people as individuals under the law, you are only going to have disastrous consequences that could only ever mean individual rights taking a backseat to the false rights of these artificial groups. The American people get the government they deserve. The democratic majority has voted us into this mess, now they're going to have to vote us out of it. But that's not going to happen as long as we keep electing collectivist Republicans and Democrats that hate the Constitution.
The vote doesn't count anyway. Albert Arnold Gore The Second won the popular vote. You can hardly say Democrats voted the US into this mess. The president after him would have been Republican. Wait... I know who's fault it is... It's the Republicans' fault!!!
The Electoral College is one of the last things keeping a check on the tyranny of the majority. The Democrats have been alternating in power with the Republicans to create this mess for the last century. Baseless speculation. And the Democrats' fault.
Tyranny of the majority? Majority? Bahaha heheh ehhh ahh ahhahaha. Tyranny of the Majority! You cannot have a government OF and FOR the people, if the people are corporations and not flesh/blood. You are a contradiction of your founding principles! B.S... Maybe it's time for the US to change to a democracy. The natural people would do better than the electoral collage. Right. YES. Without shared responsibility is merely complete idiocy. The Republicans are a part of the horrific condition of America also. Your politicians are so comfortable floating on clouds and eating fresh caviar that they CANNOT SEE the significant American problems. That is the undoing of Rome! You have created an aristocracy and in all history it always leads to problems. Good luck!!
Dudes in the last 80 years the Republicns have hell both house of congress and the presidence four exactly 4 years and never with the super majority necessary to end a filibuster in the senate. In the same time priod the democrats have held them for ten years under Roosevelt, 4 years under Truman 2 years under Kennedy, 6 under LBJ, 4 under Carter and two under Clinton a total of 26 years.
I will need to verify your figures. However during this time the parties and their philosophies have actually shifted and changed. These days I find displeasure in the message from both parties. The extreme left socialist agenda of Obongo who commits the US to a spending bonanza and insults personal liberty by mandating a corporate purchase from every American simply for living and breathing. The extreme right elitist scum policies of the republicans who wish to drain the people in deference to the few rich and place the American people into servitude and corporate slavery and exploitation. It matters not what happened in the history. Today is VERY, VERY different. Both parties are a sacrilege and disgrace to the American founding principles and the US Government itself is a shameful parody of its former greatness.
I don't fear "tyranny of the majority". If minorities are oppressed, let said minorities form their own political oganiation, locales, etc. Frankly the blacks, for instance, would probably be better off with their own Israel in the United States.
I agree. Corporations are groups of people, not individuals...and only individuals should have rights. Granting rights to a group of people is collectivism. The democratic majority in this country has overwhelmingly voted for this form of collectivism. No I'm not. Not at all. It's a fact that the Republicans and Democrats have overwhelmingly controlled our government for the last century. I disagree with your opinion. We've already seen what democracy has done to this country - the democratic majority has voted the rights of the individual away. It's not that the cannot see the significant American problems. Alot of them just don't care as long as they can keep convincing the ignorant democratic majority to vote for them. The democratic majority is what has created the aristocracy you speak of by voting in this type of government at the expense of individual rights. - - - Updated - - - Minorities being oppressed is only a symptom of the bigger problem. If minorities are being oppressed, that means individuals are also being oppressed. The individual is the smallest minority. If you respect individual rights, then you are respecting the rights of all minorities, equally. - - - Updated - - - Minorities being oppressed is only a symptom of the bigger problem. If minorities are being oppressed, that means individuals are also being oppressed. The individual is the smallest minority. If you respect individual rights, then you are respecting the rights of all minorities, equally.
That's interesting propaganda, Dr. Righteous, but the United states does not respect individual rights.
First off, I believe I saw this video sometime ago. I looked deeper into it at the time and remember that the courts ruled that it was illegal to dance in front of the memorial. I would imagine Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave with the mere thought of this occurring. More to the point, it doesn't surprise me that this is occurring. People vote for these type of policies to be enacted. I'm sure there are some people out there that believe it's a law, it should be enforced, and justifies everything the cops did in that video. All the while, they have no idea how their very freedoms continue to be striped away from them with every passing law. They wouldn't dance in front of the memorial, they will agree with law, because it doesn't effect them. Little do they know that it highly effects them. As AceFrehley stated, there's really nothing shockingly awful anymore. It's just a fact of life that we've succumb to. Folks are beginning to wake up and snap out of the slumber we've allowed ourselves to get into. As things continue to hit the proverbial fan, what little freedoms we do have won't look all that great to everyone any more. That day is coming...it's only a matter of when.
The extreme right elitist scum policies of the republicans who wish to drain the people in deference to the few rich and place the American people into servitude and corporate slavery and exploitation. Nice Democratic talking point. It isn't the reality. You find tons of Republicans yelling about rules and regulations that stifle individual initiative and empower the corporate elite. It shouldn't take six months for you to do the paper work so your kid can get a license to set up a lemonade stand in your front yard. That shouldn't even require a license. But it does in a lot of places, and most of those places have been firmly in the hands of the Democratic party for decades.