tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post4958270760893046845..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: The Founding Fathers Would Be Proud of the People of Egypt ... And Disgusted With the People of AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-32605374114017270992011-02-13T05:39:33.326-08:002011-02-13T05:39:33.326-08:00What blows my mind is the way the regime in the US...What blows my mind is the way the regime in the US calls for free and fair elections in Egypt when the US doesn't have free and fair elections at home. The Republicrats don't rule the US because that's what the people want, they rule because people aren't permitted to vote for opposition parties such as the Libertarians and Greens. The same goes for peaceful protests. Egypt is a police state and so is the US. The only real difference is the US is better at hiding it at home.Brandon Magoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05822273108069922295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-78527243280022179432011-02-12T12:40:11.758-08:002011-02-12T12:40:11.758-08:00In reply to Ed who said: “Having a high school dip...In reply to Ed who said: “Having a high school diploma or GED isn't uneducated; is it”?<br /><br />Well Ed, a GED is all the formal public education that I received so it depends on what years you were educated; you may have received a substandard education. For instance, can you imagine the class moron like stormin standing up in a Civics class and declaring:<br /><br /> “Democracy, democracy, democracy is what I read above. Democracy is 5 wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner. Do we really mean Representative Republic when we say democracy? Democracy is the gateway drug to socialism and despotism”. Ha. Ha. Well Ed, it would take a complete Fool to take that position and try to defend it in a Civic class and his peers would tear him apart and laugh at him. Ha. Ha. Later, on the football field he would get crunched. Ha. Ha.<br /><br />Ed said: <br />“@ windcatcher better watch those words, might come back to bite you”. Well Bite Me, where is your anti-Democracy/ anti-American argument or do you just whine? Now don’t be shy Ed, stick your lower lip out and jump on out there! Ha. Ha.windcatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01472629221573977747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-23031551225927402502011-02-12T10:33:07.473-08:002011-02-12T10:33:07.473-08:00Amen to this post. Our government preaches freedom...Amen to this post. Our government preaches freedom but, at the same time, constantly warns the public that too much freedom is somehow dangerous, that too much freedom actually caused all of our problems.<br /><br />What a bunch of garbage! It's high time people sack up and start showing just a little bit of courage, the courage to say "No more!" and to demand some accountability, protection of our basic rights and, dare I say, prosecution of those who have repeatedly violated them and stolen from us. Instead, Americans have become fat, happy and lazy, content to believe all the lies, that somehow the erosion of our freedoms, and the protection of those who take them, is somehow good for us.<br /><br />I'm no Founding Father, but I'm sure as hell disgusted.Pete, your Tour Guidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16198328269311090686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-5563607652417456992011-02-12T03:09:10.147-08:002011-02-12T03:09:10.147-08:00@ windcatcher better watch those words, might come...@ <a href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/02/founding-fathers-would-be-proud-of.html?showComment=1297469869985#c8172615653454337155" rel="nofollow">windcatcher</a> better watch those words, might come back to bite you. A person such as you describe <a href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/02/founding-fathers-would-be-proud-of.html?showComment=1297457402080#c9054210346509484671" rel="nofollow">stormin</a>, might be the one to save your educated ass should a another revolution happen here in America.<br /><br />Besides, many uneducated folk are what built this country, along side slaves. Many of the uneducated have in the past, and present, swore that oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Many, if not all, call themselves 'Americans'. <br />Having a high school diploma or GED isn't uneducated; is it ? Don't answer that, I'm sure it is to you. Funny, most that served/serve have this amount of education.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368191563131264697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-71622154053757154232011-02-12T00:13:59.720-08:002011-02-12T00:13:59.720-08:00It's real easy to explain without picking the ...It's real easy to explain without picking the damn report apart bit by bit and arguing over differences of opinions in attempt to define liberty vs. democracy.To debate a topic of such is simply STUPID. If you are an American and you love your country, you should probably 1.stock pile supplies 2.Add to your gun collection or learn how to use one 3.Research biological and chemical warfare 4.Expand your knowledge base on radioactive decontamination and medical procedures to care for your families in the event they are exposed to a toxic agent 4. Learn how to distill water and remove a bullet the old fashioned way. 5.Learn how to ride a bike 6.Pray..Sit back and wait...It's far too late to go for the attack..Don't worry...the fight will come to your door. To those of you who fall under the term "Normalcy Bias" When the color code indicator on the terror alert shines RED...It means get up off your lazy ass,the terror is here, they aren't going to leave, It WILL HAPPEN...If you haven't prepared for it...you might as well bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.Ventmodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01551367440799389851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-53633187643086090222011-02-11T18:30:39.459-08:002011-02-11T18:30:39.459-08:00Just a thought, GDub, but I wonder if you couldn&#...Just a thought, GDub, but I wonder if you couldn't allow people to register here. It would make commenting ever so much easier. Typing in an openId url and then signing in to open ID, then figuring out the Captcha is pretty intense for simple folks like me. ;o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-33276032940113991422011-02-11T17:54:41.551-08:002011-02-11T17:54:41.551-08:00Glenn Greenwald's column of today on the HP Ga...Glenn Greenwald's column of today on the HP Gary debacle-criminality said it right:<br /><br />"The exemption from the rule of law has been fully transferred from the highest level political elites to their counterparts in the private sector. "Law" is something used to restrain ordinary Americans and especially those who oppose this consortium of government and corporate power, but it manifestly does not apply to restrain these elites. Just consider one amazing example illustrating how this works."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-47953096920997769062011-02-11T17:27:50.313-08:002011-02-11T17:27:50.313-08:00Thebes,
I believe we got on the wrong side of his...Thebes,<br /><br />I believe we got on the wrong side of history the first time we broke our word with the Native people and first time we allowed a human being to be owned as a slave.<br /><br />sjSpartacus Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08835372223383581959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-81726156534543371552011-02-11T16:17:49.985-08:002011-02-11T16:17:49.985-08:00Stormin, here is Benjamin Franklin’s original quot...Stormin, here is Benjamin Franklin’s original quote you moron:<br /><br />“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote”.<br /><br />Stormin, you are a prime example of the uneducated buffoons who call yourself “American” yet you are so ignorant that you know nothing of your own heritage or even your form of government. Like all Fools, you don’t think, you just have a big mouth with a pee brain that a puppeteer propagandist controls.<br /><br />Our American form of Democratic government is a Representative Democratic Republic. Government of, for and by the People- one citizen, one vote- Get it? Democracy not Tyranny and Totalitarian Fascist rule.<br /><br />You and your kind are the brainless enemy within our country that the multinational corporate power brainwashes and manipulates in their anti-democracy movement of morons in the Tea Party, Libertarians, Republican Party and the Chamber of Commerce. The “get government off our backs and let the multinational corporations rule” is their mantra and the multinational corporations pump billions into this sub-current campaign to co-opt any “Democratic reform” movement from the people.<br /><br />“The best way to defeat your opposition is to organize it yourself.” John D. Rockefeller. The multinational corporate Fascist enemy is organizing an anti-democracy movement against Americans inside our own country, no doubt with the aid of the CIA.<br /><br />It is not the Tea Party that will carry the coming revolution in the United States but the majority of Americans in the educated middle class who are sworn by oath to defend our Democracy and Independence and when they step forward, the anti-American morons will scatter because they have no knowledge or will to draw from to stand and fight. <br /><br />The coming revolution is going to be real ugly folks, I don’t think it will be peaceful, the enemy moves against us every day planning for the chaos and through manipulated chaos they expect to win.windcatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01472629221573977747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-55756627224043899672011-02-11T16:16:51.247-08:002011-02-11T16:16:51.247-08:00All these things you say need to be said. No discl...All these things you say need to be said. No disclaimer necessary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-16316190040880560992011-02-11T15:31:50.027-08:002011-02-11T15:31:50.027-08:00Pertinent quote from Pepe Escobar:
http://www.atim...Pertinent quote from Pepe Escobar:<br />http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MB11Ak01.html<br /><br />Very few, if any, scattered around this cozy, wealthy, high-tech, sprawling apparatchik land could even imagine being confronted by a non-violent, non-sectarian, non-Islamist, non-ideological, non-hierarchical, leaderless, street-level revolution conducted by decent, ordinary citizens of - Holy Koran! - an Arab client-state.<br /><br />There's no (decrepit) army to fight - or to make a cynical deal with (well, "Sheik al-Torture" and his military cohorts can always be bought, but they are not the enemy; they are "our" horses). Where's Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden when you need them?<br /><br />There's no one to demonize, there's no "you're either with us or without us", there's no territory to be bombed by shock and awe. Unless you consider the "enemy" the youth groups (and not "wise men") that spearheaded the revolution, who on Sunday formed a coalition called Unified Leadership of the Youth of the Rage Revolution. "Wow, that sounds communist!" - many will be whispering at Langley.<br /><br />The "enemy" is young Egyptians - guys from the April 6 Youth Movement, the Justice and Freedom Group, the Popular Campaign to Support [Mohamed] ElBaradei, the Democratic Front Party, and - terrorist alert! - the MB. That makes for a combined leadership of 14 guys in their late 20s to early 30s. In an ideal "us against them" world, a crack special forces team - or, more cost-effectively, a Reaper - would drone some realpolitik into their skulls.<br /><br />How to topple Mubarak when the 325,000 goons/informers at central security and the 60,000 soldiers from the National Guard are under Mubarak's Ministry of Interior? And how to do it keeping the military dictatorship in place - the same military that got filthy rich by Mubarakism? How to make them accept some token electoral concessions to appease and demobilize the street revolution? And how to make this all credible, with the working class now into the fray, so that a mass of poor, rural, conscripted soldiers also don't start entertaining revolutionary ideas? (and we're not even mentioning the countryside, where 57% of Egypt lives, and 40% with less than $2 a day).<br /><br />No wonder Washington is scared. No drone-infested surges apply.<br /><br />Luisluishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09009410840042842763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-72773872173324861822011-02-11T13:54:48.808-08:002011-02-11T13:54:48.808-08:00We got on the wrong side of history when we let Co...We got on the wrong side of history when we let Corporations, instead of the people, control our government.<br /><br />That needs to change, and the times are ripe from revolution.Thebeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07936697555720646253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-29623544340266732132011-02-11T13:07:39.851-08:002011-02-11T13:07:39.851-08:00Agree with Storm1n above. Democracy doesn't m...Agree with Storm1n above. Democracy doesn't make a country great, liberty does. Big difference.Purewaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11480488940654324396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-90542103465094846712011-02-11T12:50:02.080-08:002011-02-11T12:50:02.080-08:00Democracy, democracy, democracy is what I read abo...Democracy, democracy, democracy is what I read above. Democracy is 5 wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner.<br /><br />Do we really mean Representative Republic when we say democracy?<br /><br />Democracy is the gateway drug to socialism and despotism.<br /><br />Lest we forget.st0rm1nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00223188045543322944noreply@blogger.com