Stacy Summary: Hmmm. This is the second Wall Street destroying democracy meme in as many days. Honestly, I think they are using wrong tense of word; I think democracy has already been destroyed. Between this headline and yesterdays’ headline from Strauss-Kahn, they leave out hope that somehow it can all be fixed from the state in which we find ourselves. What do you think?
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@Y’all
Ex Pats… ya have to laugh… not … you can’t freeze a country or place in time… and think you have anything very relevant to say… I think europeans opinions about america are limited at best and insulting and meaningless most generally…. a bit like these people who try to make points about england but the only reference they have is some experience from the 60′s or 70′s or 80′s… countries move on and are living and breathing things… Ex Pats they run away but can’t let go or they should commit competely to their new home… and from an english perspective…. Ex Pats aint english… it’s just like a snow globe in your mind… I made the same point to Stacy once and asked why they don’t have a french show…. her reply about not knowing enough about the culture… I thought was a pretty feeble reply… I mean the TAM NZ show proves that!!!
@frances … COALITION OF THE WILLING!!!
Germany : The German constitution forbids aggressive acts of war , and only allows the “Bundeswehr” to defend their own land.
Of course, Politicians these days think nothing of changed their rules to suit themselves.
I’d like to see Merkel on the battle front with her family and friends setting an example to the others she sends there to die.
Things have certainly changed since 1197 !
@Phil:
I keep thinking about an email someone sent me with a photo of a US soldier in a tent in Afghanistan holding a child with a scar on his head. They were both sleeping. Apparently, the child’s whole family was killed and the small one could not sleep alone. The photo was supposed to elicit sympathy for our troops, ‘the good guys’.
That kind of mentality permeates America.
If all men would stand up and refuse to fight in a war for profit, then the child would still have his family.
Merkel, Obama, Brown, Sarkozy have all sealed their hearts from feeling.
I find Obama’s patriotic acting play-acting sickening.
Do you think the people on top care?
Can you believe that any decent person would do this to another? The state has money for banquet dinners but not this situation?
Boynton nursing home takes patient to homeless shelter
“I begged and pleaded with them to give me a few days to find some place for her,” Hodges said.
According to witnesses, ManorCare did exactly what it said it was going to do, loading up Thai Hodges and driving her to the Westgate Tabernacle homeless shelter Thursday night.
“She was in tears when she got here,” said shelter coordinator Sylvia Negley. “She didn’t know what was going on.”
http://tinyurl.com/y8d2aqw
@If all men would stand up and refuse to fight in a war for profit, then the child would still have his family. // I find Obama’s patriotic acting play-acting sickening.
Yep … was effectively going to ask the same.
e.g.
If the “comfortable masses” of today were suddenly told to join the Army to fight some war, I wonder how fast they would protest.
It would hit them like a brick.
On one day, they’re making tea in the office, the next day, they’re grabbing a rifle for warfare training.
I would imagine that they’ll pick on the 18 yr. olds first for conscription .
Do you remember Vietnam ?
A guy that used to work for me was 4 years in Vietnam.
He told me if you were 18 and didn’t have a place at University, you were automatically called up !
Can anyone confirm that ( in the US of course ) ?
@Dante:
Good Lord! How heartless!!! What are the old folk to do?
@Phil;
Yes, that’s the way it was. Did you read, “The Things They Carried.” Great book: author used Joseph Conrad’s literary technique to good purpose!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_They_Carried
@frances snoot … Yes, that’s the way it was.
Sheesh … No wonder there were protests !
I would have changed my passport to somewhere else under those circumstances .. what a fascist system. I mean, it is not like they were called up to “defend” America .. but I suppose it was the paranoic fear of communism.
People with too much power are very dangerous – period !
Nixon was a Nazi.
Here are the dates, Phil:
http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/timeline/1968-1973.htm
(I meant that about Nixon figurately, of course)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10000981@N02/790033026/
Apparently the draft never ended after WW2!
@frances .. Thanks … looks like a Govt. Criminal Record …
Wow, the guts of Paul Farrell. “Balls of solid rock.” If I were him, I would be checking my six constantly after writing that scorcher. Bullies/Wallstreet losers are dangerous criminals. Know it, live it, be it.
@Phil- Indeed, the Vietnam-era draft was for all men (boys) 18 years and older. My high school class (1976) lucked out- the draft had ended two years before. But as a child and teen, I watched the young men go away to south-east Asia. Some returned, most with broken bodies or broken minds. Yes, that is why there were so many protests, unless one was in college, disabled, or “knew someone”, they were sent off to the jungles. We got to see, on the TV, the flag-draped coffins returning, year after year. Some childhood.
@norcalkid … yes , absolutely disgusting for both sides .
Was anyone in the Govt. jailed ? .. of course not.
Democracy has to be stolen first in order to steal the unaccountable power to steal the money. That is why our leaders do not listen to the majority. I am so pleased Germany’s leaders rejected the purposely evidence-free e-voting machines. (hopefully, computerized scanners and tabulators too, correct?)
And, people are trying to return evidence to voting to recover our democracy, economy, media, education and climate:
Bev Harris at http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://electiondefensealliance.org/
http://velvetrevolution.us/
Lynn Landes at http://thelandesreport.com/VotingSecurity.htm and who has owned and pushed these intentionally hackable computers
“Making matters worse, our public voting system has been privatized and outsourced to a handful of domestic, foreign, and multi-national corporations, most of whom have close ties to the right wing of the Republican Party. Just two companies, ES&S and Diebold, started by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich, electronically process (using touchscreen machines or optical scanners), 80% of all votes. Their employees are in a perfect position to rig elections nation-wide. And evidence is mounting that elections in America have been computer programmed to prefer conservative candidates of both political parties.”
http://thelandesreport.com/VotingMachineCompanies.htm
Hand count paper ballot evidence at the polls on election night to restore democracy.
When most citizens in a nation don’t have a reasonable adult understanding of how the world works, how could their votes produce anything positive anyways?
@ Daniel S
An interesting observation.
I worry that this might be why “education for all” might be so restricted.
I’ll say no more.