tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post7819582834866137967..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: PhD Economists and Economic Professors Call For ProtestsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-15388723880627285542009-10-21T19:55:52.133-07:002009-10-21T19:55:52.133-07:00I know this is kind of tangential, but Daniel Ells...I know this is kind of tangential, but Daniel Ellsberg wrote about the nuclear option and Vietnam in his book "Secrets." My recollection is that hitting Vietnam and maybe even China was discussed by more than Nixon. Also, Ellsberg is recounting his role in nuclear policy planning, the first installment is about a first strike that would have killed an estimated 600 million people:<br /><br />http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_a_hundred_holocausts_an_insiders_window_into_us_nuclear_policy/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-36351721024239721102009-10-18T17:11:03.990-07:002009-10-18T17:11:03.990-07:00As someone who participated in many anti-war prote...As someone who participated in many anti-war protests in DC in the 70's, I can report that they were mostly peaceful. The only violence I saw was perpetrated on the protestors, other than the after-march face off between "the crazies" and the riot police on the National Mall. Given that the situation was much more incendiary then, I would not expect that protests would become violent now. <br /><br />My own view is that the left would assist the Obama administration by mounting its own protests, instead of leaving the floor to the right-wing populists. Unless there is massive opposition to the the Great Rip-Off, it will only continue and get worse. So far, the administration is too weak (or too complicit) to stand up to the plutocracy that rents the government by buying influence.<br /><br />Get the money out of politics. Institute public funding of campaigns and outlaw campaign contributions and all other forms of legalized bribery.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-91780003363910082142009-10-18T17:05:47.309-07:002009-10-18T17:05:47.309-07:00It takes no special expertise to call the rabble o...It takes no special expertise to call the rabble out into the streets. -Nor to exhort into their deaf ears to remain peaceful, law-abiding, non-violent citizens.<br /><br />As we have seen presumed here, neither does it take any special expertise to know WHEN to call the indecent multitudes out into the streets either.<br /><br />No...<br /><br />The especially gifted genius-of-incitement patting himself gleefully on the back once he has all the mulling cretins out into the streets -will probably note for himself -with some vile self-satisfaction -just how much more ferocious they are in person, -their hideous smells, -their vulgar, rank and foul language, -and- their sure propensity toward violent, lewd, drunken and promiscuous behavior.<br /><br />They have no idea why they have been called out, -is the general rule.<br /><br />The childish hubris of the academics always appalls me.<br /><br />All pretense of education is a fraud.<br /><br />I never met a man woman or child -who could not do something I could not do. There are two sides to that ancient coin, folks.<br /><br />And you don't want to go there anytime soon, ---if ever.<br /><br />When the wholly rapacious crowds are finally ALL out in the streets, there always seems to assemble a bunch looking to make things change, and to force the issue on their terms, and by their own rules, -rules that are miserably hysterical jokes to them -and them alone.<br /><br />And this time -I dare say- they will come looking for anyone who is over the age of twenty-five -that still has all their teeth- -or perhaps just -no- tattoos.<br /><br />Either -fatal social flaw- is likely good enough evidence for being a likely enough suspect to round up for the gallows, if they are so formal this time.<br /><br />This is your lot, humanity-<br /><br />http://preview.tinyurl.com/b4ee7w<br /><br />Unleash them whenever you will, Professor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com