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By Sean Penn
It's been an odd week. For me, a particularly odd week. But that's another story. So, wait a minute. Iran DOESN'T have nuclear weapon capability??? So, who are we g...
By Sean Penn It's been an odd week. For me, a particularly odd week. But that's another story. So, wait a minute. Iran DOESN'T have nuclear weapon capability??? So, who are we gonna bomb? I want to bomb somebody! Didn't Senator Clinton just vote in essence to give President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he had done it last week, would that have made her right? I mean, if she knew then what she knows now? Or am I getting that backward? Golly, I'm confused. And what about President Bush? This week, Vladimir Putin, the man Mr. Bush said he "Looked into the eyes of and found to be very straightforward and trustworthy." So much so, he was "able to get a sense of his soul." Well that soulful fella has just successfully coalesced the most dangerous power base in Russia since the Cold War amid rumors that include allegations he ordered the assassinations of journalists and imprisonment of noted proponents of freedom (Oops). Meanwhile, our President's great enemy in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, that "totalitarian," "authoritarian," "dictator," that "mad man run amok," somehow was unsuccessful in his bid for the constitutional reforms that would have allowed him to be repeatedly re-elected for life...Hmmm? Odd week, you know? Really. What happened to Chavez's "strong-arming?" His "electoral corruption?" His alleged "gagging of the press?" How in the hell could he have lost? I'm sorry, did I miss something? How is it that this "Commie bastard" with 80% of his citizens having elected him in the first place was unable to prevail? Could it be that we've been lied to about him? I mean, Pat Robertson's not a liar, is he? His god wouldn't let that happen, would he? And god-forbid, our god would let the right-wing pundits, left-wing corporates, or our own administration send us a bill of goods!? Is it possible, I mean I know it's silly, but is it just a little bit possible that President Chavez is in fact a defender of his people's Constitution? That, that's how his referendum could fail? And that that's why he accepted it with such grace? A constitution which I have read several times. Quite a beautiful document, not dissimilar to our own. You might give it a read. Oh, I forgot -- he's a "drug runner." Let me share something with you. Late one night in Caracas, I met with a couple of fellas, mercenaries I think you call them. Goddamit, I keep doing that. I mean "contractors." They were Brits, their specialty: drug interdiction. These two were no great fans of Chavez. They called him "radical" and expected him to fall to an assassin's bullet within the year. Like him or not, he had the cash to win their acceptance of his employ. And working alongside the Venezuelan military, these two, based in Caracas, had played the mountainous and jungled border between Columbia and Venezuela. A zone rife with paramilitaries, FARC guerillas, and mer...scratch that, contractors. What I was told that evening in Caracas by these piano wire puppeteers was that they had never worked for a government whose investment in drug interdiction was so genuine. "Yeah," said one of the Brits, "I gotta give the bastard Chavez that." But I was talking about the Constitution. Most importantly, our own. And what an odd week it has been. Our culture is engrained with a tradition that blurs the line between what is right, what is just and what is constitutional, with what is a scam. That tradition is the cult of personality. What can TV sell, what kind of crap will we buy. And at what point are we buying and selling our rights, our pride, our flag, our children, and succumbing to meaningless slogans that are ultimately pure titles for un-Americanism. How do we know what's American and what is not? Because John Wayne tells us so? Because Sean Penn tells us so? Susan Sarandon? Bill O'Reilly? Michael Moore? Senator Bull? Or Senator Shit? Ann "my bowel expenditure" Coulter? No. It's our Constitution. We don't use it just to win. We depend on it because it's the only "us" worth being. And because it's our children's inheritance from our shared forefathers and the traditions that really do speak best of our country.
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"I just don't think land, animals, or humans are property." Production does not involve creating animals/humans. Goods are not linked to animals/humans, HHOOLLY SSHHIITT!!!!...GOODS COME FROM LAND!!! So following your logic, all goods cannot be owned! "anything produced by you, or earned by you, belongs to you." If you "earn" anything, that means you have to trade what you have earned for goods. By your logic(think banana analogy) that is only something only "true in our society today".
In your "theoretical and philosophical terms", NOTHING would be earned. Goods would not exist because you could not exploit land. The logical conclusion of this idea is ALL property is part of earth, and cannot be owned because that is a "dictatorship". VERY anti-humanist!
"he HOSTED a fundraiser for bigot who wants to deport all non-whites, somehow changes?" 1. The fundraiser was at Johnson's house, hosted by Johnson. 2. When learning about Bill Johnson's rascism, he retracted his endorsement. "doesn't Paul want to deport all whites by ending birthright citizenship?! Indeed, he does!!" WTF does that mean? That makes zero sense! You should have your mom come down to the basement, and take away your crack pipe!
"You don't fool anyone" Not only do YOU not fool anyone, you cannot even respond to ANY of my corrections of your logic, NOT EVEN 1! "We all know you are not an anarchist." We all? Do you mean you, and your "fascist" 6 youtube accounts? Anarchism, Wikipedia:"the state, as compulsory government, to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable, and promote the elimination of the State" Who does that sound closer to, me or you? You are more like a banal/trite socialist/collectivist.
"private sector dictatorships" Oxymoron. "mass segregation, poverty, union busting, and warlords" You are for these things, government segregates society(who did it in the U.S.?), increase poverty on a frightening level. I have ZERO problems with worker's organizing...peacefully, and war is the health of the state.
"Land is not created wealth" Everything is part of the land. Bringing your flawed point to it's conclusion, NOTHING is created wealth. "breeding animals is not created wealth" What does this have to do with anything? "Land belongs to the earth, and not individuals." Everything is part of the land! Everything is part of the earth! How can ANYTHING belong to the earth? The earth is not a living, sovereign thinking organism.
You are VERY anti-humanist! And you are absolutely WRONG! "Accept the simple fact that we are not gods" YOU must accept the fact that the environment is not a god either, there is NO such thing as ANY god! The ONLY way to create wealth for ALL of humanity is to allow production! And the ONLY way to do that is through property rights!
"Wow. You are SERIOUSLY trying to get a cheep-shot in on such a serious subject?" HAHAHAHA! You brought up Jim Crow laws. Arguing against the natural right of property ownership, you said peaceful, private individuals owning and trading land would lead to people being "coerced off of "white land" like with Jim Crow laws." "Try actually addressing my point, halfwit." WOW! If you would take this advice, you might not have started the Jim Crow analogies! "numbnuts"!
Remember earlier when you said socialism/fascism were different? "fascist is a far-right ideology and socialism is leftist". "Left-wing" and "Right-wing" are just forms of government. "Private sector fascist monopolization" OXYMORON! Fascism is any authoritarian government, private sector is just goods owned and traded privately. And the only entity that holds up monopolization is government barring competition.
"Jews could not "roam freely" under that right-wing fascist monopoly." You are right, under the coercive socialist/fascist government monopoly people were oppresed in the third reich. If there would have been ZERO government, there would have been no hyperinflationary period, or Auschwitz. As Doug Newman greatly said, "When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock; when you let governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz"
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Production does not involve creating animals/humans. Goods are not linked to animals/humans, HHOOLLY SSHHIITT!!!!...GOODS COME FROM LAND!!! So following your logic, all goods cannot be owned!
"anything produced by you, or earned by you, belongs to you."
If you "earn" anything, that means you have to trade what you have earned for goods. By your logic(think banana analogy) that is only something only "true in our society today".
Goods would not exist because you could not exploit land. The logical conclusion of this idea is ALL property is part of
earth, and cannot be owned because that is a "dictatorship". VERY anti-humanist!
1. The fundraiser was at Johnson's house, hosted by Johnson.
2. When learning about Bill Johnson's rascism, he retracted his endorsement.
"doesn't Paul want to deport all whites by ending birthright citizenship?! Indeed, he does!!"
WTF does that mean? That makes zero sense! You should have your mom come down to the basement, and take away your crack pipe!
Not only do YOU not fool anyone, you cannot even respond to ANY of my corrections of your logic, NOT EVEN 1!
"We all know you are not an anarchist."
We all? Do you mean you, and your "fascist" 6 youtube accounts?
Anarchism, Wikipedia:"the state, as compulsory government, to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable, and promote the
elimination of the State"
Who does that sound closer to, me or you? You are more like a banal/trite socialist/collectivist.
Oxymoron.
"mass segregation, poverty, union busting, and warlords"
You are for these things, government segregates society(who did it in the U.S.?), increase poverty on a frightening level. I have ZERO problems with worker's organizing...peacefully, and war is the health of the state.
Everything is part of the land. Bringing your flawed point to it's conclusion, NOTHING is created wealth.
"breeding animals is not created wealth"
What does this have to do with anything?
"Land belongs to the earth, and not individuals."
Everything is part of the land! Everything is part of the earth! How can ANYTHING belong to the earth? The earth is not a
living, sovereign thinking organism.
"Accept the simple fact that we are not gods"
YOU must accept the fact that the environment is not a god either, there is NO such thing as ANY god! The ONLY way to create wealth for ALL of humanity is to allow production! And the ONLY way to do that is through property rights!
HAHAHAHA! You brought up Jim Crow laws. Arguing against the natural right of property ownership, you said peaceful, private individuals owning and trading land would lead to people being "coerced off of "white land" like with Jim Crow laws."
"Try actually addressing my point, halfwit."
WOW! If you would take this advice, you might not have started the Jim Crow analogies! "numbnuts"!
"Left-wing" and "Right-wing" are just forms of government.
"Private sector fascist monopolization"
OXYMORON! Fascism is any authoritarian government, private sector is just goods owned and traded privately. And the only entity that holds up monopolization is government barring competition.
You are right, under the coercive socialist/fascist government monopoly people were oppresed in the third reich. If there would have been ZERO government, there would have been no hyperinflationary period, or Auschwitz.
As Doug Newman greatly said, "When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock; when you let governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz"