Reagan Responds

[TheUsman2000]

Reagan rocked. I am 44 and I lived through his presidency. I am proud to say he is the first man I voted for and he did more good for this country than you librats could ever understand. So all you Reagan bashers GFYS.

[patriot0048]

@TheUsman2000 Amen!!

[TheUsman2000]

Reagan rocked. I am 44 and I lived through his presidency. I am proud to say he is the first man I voted for and he did more good for this country than you librats could ever understand. So all you Reagan bashers GFYS.

[TheUsman2000]

Reagan rocked. I am 44 and I lived through his presidency. I am proud to say he is the first man I voted for and he did more good for this country than you librats could ever understand. So all you Reagan bashers GFYS.

[starramus]

I always said that upon his death I wanted to demonstrate "trickle down theory", by urinating on his grave. How about it people? Anyone up for a piss in?

[miketwig]

If Reagan's god does exist, then Ronnie is in hell for sure.

[gayasteroids]

Fuck YOU!!!

[digitalph33rfan9]

u bastard Regan was one of the greatest presidents of all time

[alkhami1]

"...alot of people down here in heaven..." LOL!!!

[shockmagog]

Exactly where he belongs. Too bad Hell is only for Christians.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

Hell does exist, to those learned in true christen knowledge it is not eternal agony what it is though is eternal death of the soul and that is for non christen as well as christen alike, which is where people will go if they believe in it or not ^_^

[shockmagog]

Whatever you say, phoenixhammeroftruth. If there is an afterdeath, and I see you there, then I know I will be in Hell.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

Of course you will be in hell, hell is simply death. But you can take comfort or fear in the fact that you and I and all people will be back one more time to at least kneel and head lower have to acknowledge God as sovereign king and rightful ruler. Now if after that which must be done is done you still refuse to follow Gods rule you have free will choice to return to the grave.

[tetradoxin]

Shove it up your ass bible thumper. Reagan was evil.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

I hope so ^_^

[octarine2]

actually, there's hell, norway.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

It will then examine how this structure limits the government's ability to regulate hate speech on the Internet. This section will also explore other legal means that are being used to regulate hate speech. Finally, it will conclude by taking a look at alternative techniques that are being used to protect individuals from hate speech. Examining the Problem: The Need for Additional Regulation of Hateful Cyberspeech

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

Secondly, hate-filled speech may go beyond simply altering an individual's thoughts and may in fact lead to crimes of death and destruction arising from the exposure to such ideas. This Comment will attempt to illustrate the need for increased regulation of hate speech on the Internet by examining three facets of this debate. It will first examine existing First Amendment precedent dealing with freedom of expression issues generally.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

The danger of free speech in cyberspace crossing over to become language that perpetuates hatred and provokes violence is a very real threat. This threat manifests itself in two primary forms. First, young Internet users who may be easily influenced are exposed to hate-filled ideals and values, often without any regulation or guidance.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

I urge everyone seeing someone posting hate speech to Google department of homeland security and list who stated the hate speech along with which video it was posted. There is an anti-american boiler room operation which can been seen if you researched enough of the Reagan posting pages. Free speech is protected, hate speech is a crime that needs to be reported.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

As the national security of the United States has become increasingly important in recent months, the debate regarding the censorship of hate speech has again arisen. While many individuals remain wary of infringing upon First Amendment rights through the regulation of hate speech in cyberspace, some suggest that the expansive and pervasive nature of the Internet calls for such regulation.

[phoenixhammeroftruth]

Americans have been forced to question whether hate-filled online rhetoric is simply the harmless exercise of free speech or is a preventable catalyst of illegal conduct. The death and destruction caused by terrorists who listened to and adopted anti-American views are reminders that speech can often spur dangerous actions in response.

[Thesouthman]

Reagan was a DISTASTER for the country..

[clemtoe]

"...that did not apply to the mexicans."

i think i get the joke. it's very meta. it's a commentary on the way a hack can utterly reverse a historical figure under the guise of "satire".

[Stranahan]

What a "funny" "comment", "genius"!

[clemtoe]

obviously.

[mpolzkill]

clem: Also don't fail to note the "fellow with a tan" zinger. From what I've seen, everyone in Stranahan's world who doesn't agree with his politics or his received orthodox history is "racially insensitive". He doesn't like to call people "racist" for some reason, though you may get called a "de facto racist" if you push him, which I guess means "one ignorant of the single worst scourge in the history of the world and therefore doesn't do enough about it and in the way Stranahan thinks best."

[clemtoe]

well, that's hardly unexpected. what stood out for me was his bold gambit in reconstructing reagan as an immigration restrictionist. i had no idea that the sartial pose came with such pprivleges and powers. this must be how many progrssives wash their hands.

gary condit: "well, as a 'republican', it's only natural i dumped the bitch in the trash" (cue frightening jon stewart audience)

[clemtoe]

robert byrd: "a kkk grand kleagel? as if!"

nancy pelosi: "i said that saddam hussein was armed with wmd and was prepared to use them in 1998 because bush mislead me!"

ransey clarke: "hey, if you're going to sit here and question the motives of people who march against the war under the aegis of saddam hussein's attorney, then you're the real traitor!"

these are good. he can use those, if he wants.

[mpolzkill]

Whoa! Didn't mean to open up THAT can of worms.

[clemtoe]

you really shouldn't feel responsible for anything i hold. you didn't have anything to do with it.

[mpolzkill]

I respect Ramsey Clark even though I'm sure I disagree with him on many positions. Here's a couple REAL quotes by him, that I think relate to each other: on Alberto Gonzales,"There is credible evidence that he used to spend no more than 30 minutes reviewing execution orders before advising the governor that the prisoners be sent to their deaths." & "Aggressive war is the most dangerous thing humanity can do, because you never know where it will end. There can be no war crimes without war."

[mpolzkill]

Ooh, I think I see where he's going here. "While governor of Texas, George W. Bush executed more people than anyone else in the US in the 20th century: 153 executions, including retarded people, minors, foreigners. This was about one third of the American total during that period." Yeah, I think Clark is a sincere "rule of law" guy, that's why one of the heros of the CRM, LBJ removed him from the national security council due to his opposition to genocide in Vietnam.

[clemtoe]

i think we can hardly consider clarke a principled opponent of crimes of genocide. he appears to have been rather consistently opposed to opposition to soviet approved genocide. that's for sure. and by that token, it can probably be truthfully said that he had a hard-on for strict "rule of law" types.

[clemtoe]

i don't mean to open up a second front here (i'm much more appreciative of the market anarchist tendency than they are of conservatives) but i really don't get this predisposition. clarke is only "anti-war" with respect to western liberal democracies. his party actively promoted the soviet invasion of afghanistan. but you recoil at critisism of this ersatz antiwarrior and similar collectivist phoneys. i don't know if this is true of you, but many libertarians seek a seat at their table. why?

[mpolzkill]

Wow, you pegged me quickly, & it's pleasant to talk to someone intelligent & well mannered btw (rare on Youtube). I know exactly what you are saying, I was a little belligerent at first because I thought you were maybe a troglodyte, sorry I was wrong. My quick answer, I think that in peace time we sound like were with righties and vice versa. Interesting comments, thank you.

[clemtoe]

i'm actually grateful to the libertarians for disturbing the waters on the right. it's long overdue and i think much good can come from it.

[mpolzkill]

Yeah, maybe you will move to capitalism & away from mercantilism, ha ha. (I'm a jerk)

[mpolzkill]

Really though, and please don't take offense, aren't a lot of Republicans "pragmatic" (read: evil) market anarchists?

[clemtoe]

i don't care how radical you idealize yourself as, all political behavior is a practice in pragmatism. i can't say much definitively about republicans and free market values apart from that Republicans are politicians. if you want to interrogate a conservative on whether individuals have social obligations to one another which conflict directly with anarchism, that's another ball of wax.

[clemtoe]

i have noted though that conservatives who undertake a serious investigation of the 20th century's modernist death cults find themselves moving decisively towards libertarians.

[mpolzkill]

Expound on that "death cults" comment, if you please.

[clemtoe]

national socialism, international socialism, etc.

[mpolzkill]

Ah, that's what I thought, but how do you feel about Bush's brand of socialism?

[clemtoe]

i think its a bit of hyperbole to call it socialism. do i feel bad about $30b to fight aids in africa? of course not. and i don't think that's the stuff which splits a red from a rightwinger.

[mpolzkill]

Yeah, but this is supposed to be AMERICA maaaaan! (imagine voice of aging hippie) Seriously though, no one in the history of the world has spent more money than W, that's what I call socialism. This is what I'm on about, it's like the frog in the pot. Would you call America 2008 a corporatocracy? (And I feel bad about the 30 bil, Africa need property rights not UN egg-heads)

[mpolzkill]

Is it the view of American conservatives AS WELL as American lefties that the people of the "third world" are helpless children. The righty believes a firm hand is required (father), the lefty (no less repulsive), an indulgent mother? I sincerely believe they just need imperialist boots off their necks. American, British, Russian, whatever.

[clemtoe]

maybe. i could be wrong, but i don't think there's ever been an instance of a liberation movement throwing off a regime unaided by external allies. i don't know if that means that external forces are requirement or if they're just always entangling themseles, i dunno.

[mpolzkill]

There was the Industrial Revolution, that was a liberation from crushing poverty. That's along the lines of this revolution that is just now starting & is intimately tied with the Information Revolution. The 20th Century (& hopefully not TOO much of the 21st) was the last gasp of an elite class trying to control individuals. (Wow, my pulse, hope I don't sound too messianic, ha ha, I'm really NOT too crazy. No one ever let's me get this far in my speech)

[clemtoe]

the combination of expanding government and tax cuts does bother me. homeland secrity is a useless agency. the lesson of 9-11, it seems to me, was that our federal intelligence and investigative recources needed to be weeded and consolidated, not have new parts duct taped to the side.

what do you think of the idea of buying grain from africa rather than dumping grain on africa? that's certainly a philanthropic strategy which proceeds from rational economics.

[mpolzkill]

Well yeah, lower taxes, more spending, fire up the printing presses. I definitely agree on the homeland security (I don't even like what the name suggests). They already had the old fashioned police work in place to stop 9/11 (I'm for really old fashioned police work, like the private railroad police 100 years ago), they would have done it if things didn't have to go through channels. Hell James Woods knew, they wouldn't even listen to Mr Woods.....

[mpolzkill]

Plus the actual event is a result of the nanny state. Box cutters? Regulations making pilots defenseless, and passengers unable to get out of their seats? Nanny state has created a nation of imbecile children.

[mpolzkill]

Here's the pragmatism I'm specifically talking about & the source of my antipathy to conservatives. Real quickly, No 1. The foreign policy since 1898, variations of "The Open Door Policy" which play into the hands of the lefties (Lenin specifically). It's a type of pragmatism to force open a door, if you can, that the natives don't want open.

[mpolzkill]

No.2 Always going along to get along with the lefties, since 1933 a long list of total crap programs the Republicans fight tooth & nail, only 40 years later to defend like they were natural rights. You can't hardly find a Conservative who doesn't worship freakin' FDR for god's sake, let alone hate the bastard like I do.

[clemtoe]

one is a little out of my depth. two i think is circumstance of history. there wasn't really any sort of coherant rightist program or worldview until almost a century after the first internationalle had convened over a single, telescoping historical narrative. i would even agree that there still isn't one.

[mpolzkill]

clemtoe: Ah ha! Very exciting, you are spot on about a lack of a coherent worldview, but you see we've been putting it together ha ha. It wasn't until Ludwig von Mises that even ONE individual had really put it ALL together. The modern left/right "paradigm" (silly word) is really unsatisfactory. The REAL split is between Mercantilism & Classical Liberalism, the Communists and their modern lefty children are really just a confused abortion.....

[mpolzkill]

They hope to achieve universal equality (with the REALLY smart pigs still on top of course) which is also the goal of classical liberalism (but equality UNDER THE LAW) by using the violent (taxation, regulation) means of the old order of "might makes right" or "tyrany" known in the 19th century as "mercantilism"

[mpolzkill]

clemtoe: Just saw a TN poll of likely voters for Dr Paul that reminded me of your question as to why we look like we lean left: 27.7% Dems, 18.2% Indies, 6.2% Reps. This isn't to say that there are THAT many lefty fans of Dr Paul. Most of them (as usual with lefties) are too clever by half, & are probably just trying to mess with the GOP. I canvassed my lefty neighborhood & the Reps were brutal, the Dems condescending. Made me not want to leave my house again. Hatred & ignorance....shell shock.

[mpolzkill]

Again totally off the cuff here, but sincere Marxists are so far off the mark on how the world operates that they may be insane. I think they sincerely believe "Capitalism" to be the most profound evil and that joining ANYONE to fight it is O.K. I had a friend who in 8 years I couldn't get him to understand separate definitions of capitalism & mercantilism. Someone quoted Chomsky (quote happy here),"There are supposed to be laws of economics. I can't understand them."

[clemtoe]

chomsky understands them. he doesn't like the impact they have in obviating his worldview. he practices his branch of science against the economics branch of science well. that's all. he often exposes himself when he accuses "elites" of masterful rhetorical feints, such accusations often being simultaneously misdirection and deployment of the rhetorical feint he's accusing them (us) of.

[mpolzkill]

You're pretty good, yeah I've seen him do that. I once heard someone say of Chomsky that he's never lost an argument in his life. If true, perhaps that is THE fact that shows best who he is and why he does what he does.

[mpolzkill]

Well, I don't know all that much about him, other than positions he's held & quotes he's made. He does appear to be an economic illiterate, but that puts him in a VERY large group. And yeah, I don't know why so many intellectuals have been taken in by the Soviets, but I don't believe the Cold War was necessary. My fave quote regarding this, Old Right journalist, Frank Chodorov, "The way to get rid of communists in government jobs is to abolish the jobs."

[clemtoe]

clarke isn't an intellectual, he's a lawer. that aside i think the reason is that as the intellectual stares at platos cave, the humans whos condition he is considering become increasingly abstract and systematized, and his ego elevates higher and higher coresponding to their decreasing complexity even as he is convinced he is pursuing truth.

nice chodrov quote.

[mpolzkill]

sorry, had to run an errand, I like that Plato idea.

[mpolzkill]

One last Ramsey Clark quote: "A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." & right near him in my book, another "commie", Noam Chomsky, "From a comparative perspective, the U.S. is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range & effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things."

[clemtoe]

the chomsky argument is the juvenile cry against the machinery of the universe.

"if this country is so free, why can't i buy a microwave oven which will cook a burrito for -30 seconds?"

good job by the way using sneer quotes the way our host uses "satire".

[mpolzkill]

I think mostly with Chomsky he had some real unionist hero relatives as a kid, an is just clueless on some things but his massive intelligence makes him think he can pick anything up.

I don't use them as sneers as much as markers for words that are so misused as to be meaningless or misleading. "progressives", bah, And I'm alway bitter that they stole "liberal" from us. Bastards, real bastards.

[globaltiger]

That was awesome!!

[Stranahan]

thanks...

[nothankyoumam]

Wow! Thanks so much for doing this one. I'm so sick of all the harping back to the Reagan years, which were some of the worst, as I recall. Many people forget that Reagan peddled disdain of the poor, ignorance and unfettered greed as virtues, and championed underhanded political practices and dishonesty as the "American Way." W could never have been 'elevated' to president had Reagan not blazed the trail for him. I'm glad he's in hell.

[moth23]

"When I said 'tear down that wall,' that did not apply to the Mexicans."

Ouch...

[Stranahan]

And that 'all men are created equal...' and 'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness' doesn't apply, either..

Funny the founders wrote 'all men' and not 'all U.S. citizens'...

[mpolzkill]

Those bastards.

I'll admit, you must remind me of some "progressive" I've known, way back when that really got my goat. So I AM harassing you, your ideas really. I would like to destroy your frames of thought and your memes so they can't propagate. Here's something you do as a defense; you say, "hey, relax, this is just comedy". Since you are a comedian and not a propagandist, can we look forward to your satires of "progressives"?

[TwoWheelMotionInfo]

Resistance is futile.

You will be assimilated.

Did you watch my Obama And Your Mama video?

[mpolzkill]

Will do. Just a guess, is it about white men's fear of being relatively under equipped?

[TwoWheelMotionInfo]

bad guess...

[mpolzkill]

Ah, wrong mama.

[mpolzkill]

Scathing, really, and I like that. Perfect one word description of Obama's foreign policy positions, "nuanced". So nuanced in fact that "progressives" will never know until it's too late that he's gone to work for the same warmongers who brought us Iraq. Maybe if he says bombing Iran is for "the children" or UHC or "global warming" and promises Darfur is next you won't even mind. How many of them will you fall for? Check out his "voting" record.

[shortstoryfan]

Finally someone says it. Obama is one of the corporate candidates just like uh.. well all of them and so yeah under President Obama it'd be oil wars and bullshit. But as hes a black man we'd have a new dynamic, instead of being "unpatriotic" like if you didn't like Bush you can be "racist" if you don't like Obama. Can't wait.

[mpolzkill]

shortstoryfan: It no big deal, it's easy for me to criticize Obama for being a cosmetically attractive, unprincipled, pandering cypher-for-hire to the highest bidder because (as Stranahan has put it) I'm "racially insensitive". Keep on making factual statements about public figures "shortstoryfan", no matter the color of their skin OR if they dress up in red, white & blue. Exercise your freedom, or lose it.

[marniealan]

i give it a 5, but only because you used real cheese

[barelypolitical]

Another great one Lee!!!

[Stranahan]

Thanks! You guys are knocking them out, too...