COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka says England, a Cesspit (Cesspool) of Islamisn.



Pity the decent normal Brits.

It was their rulers and masters that allowed the trashing of the country by needless thoughtless immigration by opportunistic people that were cultural misfits in England, and in fact held their hosts in contempt, much as the English left held their perceived lessers in England in utter contempt, seeing them as racist dolts needing cultural diversification and guidance.

The British establishment, after doing their damage in the Muslim World, have in their self righteous penance, taken a once great country and in thirty years turned it into a cultural sewer.

The English intellectual left has a lot to explain for and one day will be brought to account for what they did to Britain.

Meanwhile the United States needs to come out of the sentimental fog of seeing Britain as it was in the fifties and sixties.

Britain has become a security threat to itself and to the United States. One example is that Britons can come into the US without a visa. Other countries such as Poland must have visas.

There are far greater security threats, home grown, weaned, educated and radicalized in English schools than any other country in Europe. The United States needs to wake up, face reality and examine its visa policies regarding the UK.

Britain is euthanizing their culture. That is their problem. There is no need to make it ours.
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England is 'cesspit of Islamists', says Soyinka

James Meikle
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 February 2010



England is a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has said in an interview in which he also accused Britain of allowing the existence of "indoctrination schools".

His extraordinary attack on what he views as Britain's part in fuelling Islamist terrorism was published on the US news and opinion website The Daily Beast. It was coupled with his assertion that the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie meant that the assumption of power over life and death had passed "to every ­inconsequential Muslim in the world".

Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1986, made his claims in response to a question about his homeland of Nigeria being added to the watchlist of countries deemed to be incubating terrorists, after the failed attempts of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring an airliner down over the US on Christmas Day.

"That was an irrational, knee-jerk reaction by the Americans," the writer said. "The man did not get radicalised in Nigeria. It happened in England, where he went to university.

"England is a cesspit. England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist ­Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence.

"And yet England allows it. Remember, that country was the breeding ground for communism, too. Karl Marx did all his work in libraries there …"

Soyinka added: "This is part of the character of Great Britain. Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness."

The attempted Christmas Day bombing has helped to raise fears that some British universities are becoming places in which young Muslims are radicalised – Abdulmutallab attended University College, London. But Soyinka, who splits his time between the US and Nigeria, suggested that British Muslims were being radicalised earlier in their lives.

"I doubt you can have the kind of indoctrination schools in America as you do in the UK," he said. "Besides, there's a large body of American Muslims in the US – the Nation of Islam – which has created a kind of mainstream Muslim institution. The Muslims there are open Muslims, whereas in Europe they tend to go into ghetto schools. "The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam – which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings."

And , speaking about the fatwa issued by Khomeini against Rushdie, he said: "It all began when he assumed the power of life and death over the life of a writer. This was a watershed between doctrinaire aggression and physical aggression. There was an escalation. The assumption of power over life and death then passed to every single inconsequential Muslim in the world – as if someone had given them a new stature.

"Al-Qaida is the descendant of this phenomenon. The proselytisation of Islam became vigorous after this. People went to Saudi Arabia. Madrasas were established everywhere."




84 comments:

  1. This is another good report on Anjem Choudary A prominent British radical Muslim. He makes no secret of his fervent desire for Sharia to replace democracy in Britain. He is confident that it is Allah's plan and destiny to rule the world.

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  2. There is a reason we are not the United Colonies of England, rather than the United States of America.

    It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of Imperialists.

    Cosmic Karma, comes home to roost.

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  3. It almost always does, eventually.

    The Brits bullied the whirled for hundreds of years, now the payback for that is due, and payable.

    The wogs are large and in charge, in merry old England.

    Bully, bully for them.

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  4. Florida GOP Senate: Rubio 49%, Crist 37%

    Crist’s fortunes appear to be tied in part to national unhappiness over President Obama and his policies. Many conservatives began rebelling against Crist when he became one of the few Republican governors to embrace Obama’s $787-billion economic stimulus plan last year. The national Republican party establishment endorsed Crist early on, but a number of prominent national party conservatives have since announced their support for Rubio. Nationally, the GOP’s Florida Senate race is being watched as a test of the new “Tea Party” mood among many conservative and traditionally Republican voters.

    In Florida's Senate general election contest, Crist and Rubio both hold a double-digit lead over their likely Democratic opponent, Congressman Kendrick Meek, in the latest Rasmussen Reports polling of likely voters in the state.

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    Republicans lead open-seat Senate races in Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Ohio. Democrats lead in Connecticut, and the race is close in Illinois. North Carolina incumbent Republican Senator Richard Burr is ahead but potentially vulnerable. Following last month's upset GOP Senate win in Massachusetts, political analyst Larry Sabato wrote that if the election were held today, “The (59-seat) Democratic majority in the Senate would be reduced to just 52 seats.”

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  5. And how, one wonders, does Mr Rubio poll against his possible Democratic opponents?

    That is all that really matters.
    Whether or not he can beat Mr Crist for the nomination, that is secondary to whether or not he can win the general election.

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  6. It is a shame that Rasmussen does not report those findings.

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  7. The superiority of the Lee-Enfield .303 could not maintain the Empire, not when the quality of the British men fell below that of the wogs.

    When English Princes could no longer go to war. That is the telling tale. They can train, but not deploy to the danger zone.

    William the Conqueror would be ashamed of his descendants.

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  8. When the fertilizer hits the impeller and your Camry delivers you a high-speed final act, you will be inturd at your local cemetary, the cesspool for old farts.

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  9. ervative and traditionally Republican voters.

    In Florida's Senate general election contest, Crist and Rubio both hold a double-digit lead over their likely Democratic opponent, Congressman Kendrick Meek, in the latest Rasmussen Reports polling of likely voters in the state.

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  10. Voters not too impressed by the Barry, Harry, and Nancy show.
    ...and it shows, wherever it's polled.
    Including Massachuttes, with 19 percent Pub registration!

    (California, 39%)

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  11. The wogs, they are willing to die for their beliefs, the Brits, afraid to fight, for theirs.

    For home or hearth, in Afpakistan.

    But wait, the Brits have no homes or hearths, in Afpakistan.
    So what would they be fighting for, there?

    Other than control of the heroin trade?

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  12. To claim that there is a "War with Islam", when the United States has established, by force of combat arms, two Islamic Republics in the last 6 years, just ludicrous.

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  13. In Iraq the United States removed a secular government, to replace it with an Islamic Republic.

    Them's are the realities of US policy, with regards Islam, the Religion of Peace.

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  14. The Long War is an equal opportunity war.
    Islamics welcome.

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  15. Why risk a Prince, for a fix?

    That was the Queen Mother's question.

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  16. Women, and many Christians were better off under Saddam.
    Christians, rapidly disappearing.

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  17. Harry wants to go to 'stan again.
    Harry the Helicopter Warrior.

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  18. He may "want to" but his mother won't let him.

    Silly boy, thinking he is a real man, whilet still coddled in security blankets.

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  19. Man, you shoulda been around for the Revolutionary War.

    Brits can't get a break.

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  20. "We are the Whirreled"
    is being re-recorded to benefit Haiti.

    Them celebrities are so self-sacrificial.

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  21. Harry's mother has been dead for thirteen years.

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  22. Death reportedly covered on video.
    I did not search for it.

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  23. Harry has a Hell of a lot more balls than your average American High School Grad.

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  24. Probly more than your average Italian High School graduate, but there you go!

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  25. Hard not to laugh at merry ole England...

    It was they, after all, that kissed the arab's ass in the middle east... Giving Arabia to the wahibists.. Drawing up bullshit countries that fit thier fancy... and of course, screwing over the Jews...

    From far flung colonies in Pakistan and India, Jamaica and the Far East the Brits have plundered the globe...

    Let us not forget the opium war....

    So to see England IMPORT all the worst from their former colonies back to their small island in a strange way is kinda funny....

    The bad news? America is repeating England's mistake and importing the worst from somalia, iraq (palestinians), gaza and more to come and live in America...

    Rat may get his wish and see America turn into a cesspool and yes that will make him happy...

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  26. Dinnerjacket to execute 9 Tehran Protestors.

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  27. notice the silence coming from the world about Iran hanging protesters....

    yep world of pussies....

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  28. "The bad news? America is repeating England's mistake and importing the worst from somalia, iraq (palestinians), gaza and more to come and live in America..."

    Don't forget welcoming Mexican Drug Gang members/murderers.

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  29. I don't disparage the English military.

    It was their rulers and masters that allowed the trashing of the country by needless thoughtless immigration by opportunistic people that were cultural misfits in England, and in fact held their hosts in contempt, much as the English left held their perceived lessers in England in utter contempt, seeing them as racist dolts needing cultural diversification and guidance.

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  30. Deuce said...
    I don't disparage the English military.


    I can, I have, but I wont today

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  31. Iran hangs 2, ignores deadlines, threatens war, terrorist trials, budgets being busted, obama sliding towards caretaker presidency, ships headed to the gulf, china pissed about weapons sales, global warming fraud...

    and msnbc talks about:

    black student tasered high school brawl.

    conservative blogger /acorn exposer wanted to shoot film of LA congresswoman's phone not being answered...

    Gays in the military

    Rush Limbaugh dancing to Lady Gaga

    Avitar winning Oscars...


    and you wonder why 51% of the public are dumber than a dingleberry?

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  32. Who woulda thunk>

    50 is the new 40 and

    Muslim is the new "Jew"!

    Cesspit hunh? Nice imagery.

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  33. Muslims LOVE to claim they are the NEW Jew of Europe..

    Let's See the Nazis murdered Dan the Tailer, Saul the Jeweler & Michael the Fashion Designer..

    The Muslims burn 100 cars a night in France, rape most of the reported rape cases in Denmark, Belguim & Switzerland, garb their women head to toe, cut off their clits, behead those that mock them...


    Yep they're JUST like the Jews...

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  34. Ash said...

    "Muslim is the new "Jew"!"

    Hmm...The majority of Muslims residing in the UK are on the public dole...

    Is that the comparison you are making?

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  35. I was astonished a couple of years, ago, to find out that under all manner of tax regimes collections almost always had one thing in common. They came in at a touch over 19% of GDP.

    That's right. With the top rate going from 90% to 28%, and almost all points in between the American Taxpayers figured out how to keep 80% of their money.

    Now, last year was not "normal" times. We had a doozey of a recession/near depression. And, we're Not out of the woods, yet. So, last year collections came in light at about 15%, and this year probably won't come close to the 19 - 20% line, either.

    BUT, if gasoline/diesel costs don't drive us back into a Whopper of another Recession we should be reverting to the mean. That's why only a sucker would fall for the $1.6T 2011 Deficit talk.

    Remember, we will likely be sitting on top of a $15T economy this time next year. 20% of $15T is $3T. I could be a little optimistic with my $600B number, but, somewhere between $600B and $800B seems eminently sensible for 2011.

    This is still way too high, but by making a big deal over the $1.6T, or whatever the high-ball number du jour is, the Pubs leave themselves wide open to the Dems plan to Trumpet "The Astonishing Success" of the Obamahama Financial Plan in cutting the projected deficits in half.

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  36. If gasoline prices go back to $4.30, and the economy tanks again, all bets are off.

    Of course, if that happens (and, I'm afraid it might,) the government borrowing some money is going to be the least of our problems.

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  37. So, what else has been going on in the last 22, or so, years? Let's see, it's been a little warmer. And, the CO2 level is up about 12%.

    And, . . . Oh, Yeah The Trees are Growing Like Crazy!

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  38. That which is unsustainable will not be sustained.

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  39. But, first, you have to figure out what's sustainable.

    Technology is amazing.

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  40. "Retired teacher Jo Danielson is living on the edge with an abdominal aneurysm, a dangerous bulge in her aorta, the largest single artery in the body.

    But because Danielson, 73, also has heart disease and diabetes, doctors have told her she wouldn't withstand the major abdominal surgery needed to expose the aorta and fix it.

    Instead, doctors have recommended for a less invasive, endovascular aneurysm repair, in which a device called a "stent" is inserted into the diseased aorta through a big artery in the groin.

    But she will have to wait until April, when the Vancouver Island Health Authority's next budget year begins. The health authority has placed a cost-saving, yearly cap on the stent procedure because of the extra cost."
    Read the whole story here

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  41. Victor, if she was a poor, or uninsured, woman in Mississippi she would have the same problem.

    Medicaid would tell her doctor that they would pay for it when it became an "Emergency" procedure. In other words, "call us when you're a day, or two, from death.

    Don't tell me it ain't true; I know the example.

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  42. and of course that lady has the option of going the the States, or India, or England, and paying for the service tomorrow.

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  43. Rufus said:

    "Victor, if she was a poor, or uninsured, woman in Mississippi she would have the same problem."

    Maybe she would, Rufus, but that is not the point.

    There are really two points I would like you to consider about this case:

    1. With universal health care comes rationing.

    2. It is against the law for this woman to pay for this treatment in Canada. Of course, if she has enough money she could go to a foreign country.

    If you care about justice, Rufus, this should appall you.

    Underpinning your sentiments about the poor is that they deserve something that they have not, cannot or will not have earned.

    This means that someone who has earned the money to pay for that benefit you wish to give to the "poor" will be compelled to pay for it.

    Does your moral compass tell you that that is justice?

    Several days ago you did not answer Allan's question: (I'm paraphrasing) How does anyone "deserve" a claim on anyone else's paycheck?

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  44. viktor,

    The proposed health care legislation in the US contains no rationing provisions but rather it attempts to get all Americans insured. They are not trying to do anything near what Canadians have.

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  45. I'm selective about whose questions I answer. I'll answer yours.

    Why should a poor renter subsidize your home-ownership by paying More taxes, so you can "Deduct" your mortgage interest?

    Why should a poor woman in Ms subsidize your Group Health Care by paying more taxes so your group policy can be provided to you with "before taxes" dollars?

    Why should a poor, childless soul pay more taxes so your children can receive a subsidized education?

    We do things as a nation we think are appropriate, Victor. We don't let people starve, and we don't let people die if we can get them to the emergency room in time to save them.

    We do, however, allow many people to live in pain, and miserable circumstances by not providing them with reasonble, and timely healthcare.

    I think we would have a better country if we didn't do that.

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  46. Rufus, you just made good arguments for less taxation and a simplified tax code.

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  47. I probably did, Whit. But it ain't gonna happen; so why dream.

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  48. Rufus

    These rhetorical questions you ask of me are a diversion.

    You still do not answer my question about the "justice" of one person being deserving of another person's income or assets.

    Before socialist style wefare regulations, that is to say: the world as I knew it when I was young, I don't remember people dying in the street.

    There were a combination of factors that prevented this:

    Tough love was the order of the day. People were not allowed to backslide.

    When circumstances occured that were beyond a person's ability to cope there was a lot of charity performed. People freely gave of their money and the professional classes, especially, freely gave of their services.

    And there were lots of jobs. Many of them very low paying to be sure. But people were expected to earn as much as they could before people's natural charitable instincts kicked in.

    What do we have now after the "do-gooders" have made welfare a "right?"

    We have resentment against the poor and downtrodden because we are compelled to give to them regardless of the merits of their individual cases. Further, anyone on welfare thinks it is foolish to earn anything if that money they earn is simply deducted from their welfare check.

    This has a corrupting influence on the work ethic of the poor.

    My adice, Rufus, is to let people's natural charitable intincts be left alone and we should all work harder to promote a free economy that opens up more opportunity for gainful employment.

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  49. Viktor,

    Either you get what America is all about or you don't. You do; he doesn't.

    You may recall that recently I raised a point about observant Jews giving not less than 10% of their after tax income to charity. I followed by asking how many contributors here could say the same. The silence was deafening.

    Communalists naturally believe that what is mine is mine and what's yours is mine. When they get enough guns, they enforce this policy.

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  50. Yeah, Victor, we used to have Slavery, too.

    Those were Not the good old days. You're either young, or your memory is playing tricks on you. We've Never had it anywhere near as "good" as we have it now.

    Look, I'm willing to pay a little more in taxes for those that can't get insurance, now, to get it. You're not. Maybe it would cost you more than it would cost me. Maybe not.

    Maybe I'm right about it being better for the country. Maybe, you are. That's the good thing about a Democracy, I guess.

    At present, It looks like most of the people side with You. Maybe, some day, they'll side with me. I'll probably be dead by that time, anyway. Oh well, life goes on (even if we don't, right?) :)

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  51. A Canadian Premier to have surgery in US

    "It was never an option offered to him to have this procedure done in this province,"

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  52. viktor,

    I am willing to pay more in taxes to have housing equality. Additionally, I have a that plan would put EVERYONE to work, immediately.

    The Congress and the President, in the interest of equality, push a law that would require the demolition of ALL existing housing. ALL the vacant land would then be subdivided into indentically sized lots. Upon these lots new homes would be constructed, ALL from one set of plans, ALL identical in every way.

    You might ask, "But won't this create universal homelessness?" Why, yes it would, initially; but EVERYBODY would be homeless. Can't you see the justice in that?

    Is everybody happy!

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  53. I really think with the abundance of press lights on a cloudy day that it should not be considered an authentic shadow of ground hog punxsutawny Phil.

    There will be six more weeks of winter. I blame la nina not a poor little ground hog that was coaxed out of his house in the wee hours of the morning by blinding lights.

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  54. While the Queen is certainly not dead.

    While she is biologically the Grandmother, she stands in in that maternal role, during the mothers extended absence.

    Especially as regards the military experiences he will not be having.

    His brother, the Infantry platoon leader, has already set the precedent.

    Their mother guaranteed their safety, with her own untimely demise.

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  55. Justice, for the subsidies provided some, but not others?

    Subsidies in education are not equal in dollar amounts or their application, but the "Public School" is omnipresent.

    Subsidies in transportation infrastructure, which benefit some areas, but put others in a disadvantage.

    Subsidies in electrical costs, which allow the Pacific Northwest to be a prolific aluminum manufacturer, to a whirled market.

    Subsidies which allowed the settlement of the Southwestern United States, with the completion of Hoover Dam.

    Subsidies that provided irrigation water to Southern California.

    Federal subsidies and transfer payments are prolific in our society, they are the norm, not the exception.

    Have been since the railroads were given title to huge tracts of land, to subsidize the building of that transportation network.

    Maybe even before that.

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  56. What is your just payment, to society, for allowing you the freedoms that permit wealth creation, while striving for equality of opportunity?

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  57. Why should the United States have provided electricity or water across the Western United States?

    Where was the justice to New Yorkers, for that?

    Private interests could have done the job. We could have had a decentralized electrical grid, if not for Federal subsidies.

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  58. Where is the justice in the Tennessee Valley Authority?

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  59. Almost the first thing George Washington did, Rat, was jump on his white horsie, and lead a 6,000 man Army out to W. Pennsylvania to put down the "Whiskey Rebellion" in which the Western Farmers objected to subsidizing the Big Easter Distillers (of which G.W was, supposedly, one of the biggest.)

    You see, the taxes on brewing applied to the small farmers, but not to the "Big Boys." That was right after he cut the first check to the Barbary Pirates.

    Things ain't changed much at all.

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  60. Capital Gains Taxes?

    Homestead exemption?

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  61. NIH?

    Land Grant Colleges?

    Pell Grants?

    Federal Support for Universities, and Medical Schools?

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  62. Where's the justice?

    No Justice, No Peace!

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  63. Federal limitations on public liabilities for nuclear power electrical generators.

    Where is the justice?

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  64. A draft that excludes college students.

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  65. Equality is dispensed in the basement of the Lubyanka, Comrades.

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  66. A tax that you pay on 100% of your income, but Bill Gates pays on less than 1/20,000th of his (Soc. Sec.)

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  67. Rat Said:

    "What is your just payment, to society, for allowing you the freedoms that permit wealth creation, while striving for equality of opportunity?"

    Good point! In fact, excellent point!

    I acknowledge that there is a "just payment", not for any freedom, mind you, (that is my God given right) but for the use of society's culture and infrastructure.

    A flat tax is the only fair tax. Make, by any means, an income and you pay tax. No exemptions - save one.

    So, if your income is $10K then you pay $1K in tax. If your income is $100K then you pay $10K in tax and so on.

    The one exemption would be to establish a poverty line under which no tax would be paid. This would be a graduated line, the particulars of which need not be discussed here.

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  68. rufus said:

    "Yeah, Victor, we used to have Slavery, too."

    There is no small irony here, Rufus.

    Slavery is non-compensated labor.

    Slavery is also compensated labor that is unjustly confiscated.

    The later is what you propose under a socialized health care scheme, whether you realize it or not.

    "Those were Not the good old days. You're either young, or your memory is playing tricks on you."

    You are right about that age thing. I'm only 71.

    "We've Never had it anywhere near as "good" as we have it now."

    That's true. But if you are saying that welfare schemes are the catalysts for wealth creation then I'm afraid that what you are smoking is a lot better than what I am smoking.

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  69. No, Viktor, a long line of American Servicemen, and Patriots gave you the "Right" to Freedom. God doesn't play them games.

    Ask the poor people caught behind the lines in N. Korea, China, Cuba, and Zimbabwe.

    Unless, of course, you think God likes you more than them.

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  70. And, some of those American Servicemen were Black Servicemen. Soldiers that, when they came home, couldn't get a hamburger down at the soda fountain, or send their kids to decent schools (much less, have them born at many of the local hospitals.)

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  71. If someone, say President Obama, were to stample those "God Given Rights", who you going to call?

    God certainly does not provide equality of opportunity.

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  72. While some here would argue (have posited) that the Founders were scoundrels, most served in the armed forces and all signed off on a Declaration which claimed that America is exceptional because the rights of Americans are G-d given, unalienable.

    Love it or leave it.

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  73. Rufus said

    "No, Viktor, a long line of American Servicemen, and Patriots gave you the "Right" to Freedom. God doesn't play them games.

    Ask the poor people caught behind the lines in N. Korea, China, Cuba, and Zimbabwe.

    Unless, of course, you think God likes you more than them."

    Rufus said:

    "And, some of those American Servicemen were Black Servicemen. Soldiers that, when they came home, couldn't get a hamburger down at the soda fountain, or send their kids to decent schools (much less, have them born at many of the local hospitals.)


    Rat said:

    "If someone, say President Obama, were to stample those "God Given Rights", who you going to call?

    God certainly does not provide equality of opportunity."

    SIGH.

    Do I have to spoon feed you two?

    When I say that freedom is God given it means that I claim freedom as a basic human right and not a man given priviledge and I will defend that right, to the death, if need be, as millions have done before me.

    Does that answer your question, Rat?

    I am thankful that men gave their lives to defend that freedom: American, Canadian, British, ANZACs, etc. And I do not need you, Rufus, to remind me of that.

    And, Rufus, what have the travails of black servicemen got to do with with a health care debate?

    I have tried to be civil to you, Rufus, and what do I get for this courtesy? You play the race card on me.

    Grrrrrrr!!

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  74. ...from a man who walked the walk...

    Walesa's Warning

    "He sees our quest for redistribution of income as not different from the Marxist credo — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

    ...and not a churlish word about big houses or greens' fees...

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  75. viktor,

    Prepare to be cursed :D))

    "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
    ___Azimov

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  76. You were talking about the "good old days," Victor; and I was just trying to remind you that the "old days" weren't so good for some folks.

    And, I do notice that you ignored the question about "before tax" health insurance benefits, and mortage interest. Aren't these, indeed, "subsidies," some portion of which are paid for by poor, uninsured Americans?

    Victor, I'm tired, and going to bed. Your side won. No use in keeping the argument going. Your tax money is safe, and, mostly, it will be for many more years.

    Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. This time, You Won. Enjoy.

    G'nite all.

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  77. Rufus said:

    "Victor, I'm tired, and going to bed. Your side won. No use in keeping the argument going. Your tax money is safe, and, mostly, it will be for many more years.

    Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. This time, You Won. Enjoy.

    G'nite all."




    That was gracious of you, Rufus.

    Goverment interference in the marketplace invariably leads to an imbalance which will, in turn, require further interference which will only lead to even more imbalance. And it never ends except as chaos.

    Our hearts are similar, Rufus. We see societal problems and want to solve them.

    However, you trust your gut instincts to point the way and I put my trust in reason.

    Reason is cold, even heartless, but, at the end it will lead you to the truth.

    A psychiatrist friend of mine told me his secret of successful therapy: he puts the truth on the table. This is almost always painful to the patient. But if the truth is not out there for both of them to see, then how will either of them know what they are trying to accomplish?

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