Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Re: [New post] Former Black Panther in England: 'I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection'

This is an interesting site, "The Coto Report".   Some of PlainOl's Peeps here!!  <Grin>!


 
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:


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Former Black Panther in England: 'I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection'

The pre-planned assassination of a gang member by London's thug cops on August 4th set off a fresh wave of riots in the Tottenham area. When this BBC anchor didn't like what 68-year-old journalist and former Black Panther Darcus Howe, had to say about it -- the interview became hostile.

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Re: Fwd: [New post] Former Black Panther in England: 'I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection'

I call it an insurrection'
---
I call it a race riot.

England was warned decades ago about multiculturalism and importing
dissimilar immigrants. Maybe now they'll begin to understand.

and for those who don't think it can happen in the USA ... get a clue!

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Re: Which Republican Candidate Is More Conservative?

Which Republican candidate is more conservative? When it comes to the
key issues of liberty, property, and peace, they are all statist and
interventionist to the core.
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true

it's time to replace the GOP with honorable Americans who will put
Americans and USA first

On Aug 16, 1:05 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Which Republican Candidate Is More Conservative?by Laurence M. Vance, August 16, 2011
> Although the next presidential election is more than a year away, campaigning has already begun. With a liberal Democratic incumbent in the White House, Republican candidates are loudly touting their conservative credentials. The battles over which candidate is more conservative are heating up.
> "I have fought against irresponsible spending while Governor [Tim] Pawlenty was leaving a multi-billion-dollar budget mess in Minnesota," said GOP presidential hopefulMichele Bachmann,a member of the U.S. House from Minnesota. Although the Pawlenty campaign claimed there was "very little difference" between the two candidates' positions, Bachmann's press secretary countered that there was "very little difference between Governor Pawlenty's past positions and Barack Obama's positions on several critical issues facing Americans." At the recentGOP debate in Iowa,Pawlenty and Bachmann went after each other with even more vigor. (Pawlenty seems to have gotten the worst of it and has since withdrawn from the race.)
> But whether it is Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, or other announced candidates, such as Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, or Mitt Romney, the conservative rhetoric is still the same.
> Because Republican candidates must appeal to the conservatism of Tea Party members, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, Reagan conservatives, et cetera, they will sometimes tailor their message to target a specific group. But their emphasis is always on how "conservative" they are.
> The importance to Republicans give to being "more conservative" or "the most conservative," overall or on some particular issue, is just the opposite of what Democrats do: they generally shun the "liberal" label. I don't recall Democratic candidates in the last election disputing over who was "more liberal" or "the most liberal."
> But is being "more conservative" on some issue a good thing?Conservatives support the welfare state.The largest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson's presidency was undertaken not by liberals, but by conservatives. The Republican version of health-care reform, known as the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, was introduced by the Republican House speaker, supported by the Republican leadership in the House and Senate, passed with overwhelming Republican support, and signed into law by a Republican president. Those were the same Republicans who campaigned in the 2010 election on how conservative they were.
> And then there is the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a partnership between federal and state governments that was created in 1997 thanks again to a Republican majority in Congress. It provides federally funded health insurance to children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid. When the program was up for reauthorization in 2007, it passed in the Senate by unanimous consent and in the House over the objections of only three Republicans. It was only when Obama the Democrat became president that some Republicans in Congress suddenly became more conservative and opposed the program.
> In their pre-election "Pledge to America" in 2010, Republicans -- who campaigned up to election day on how conservative they were -- proposed to "support Medicare for seniors," and "protect our entitlement programs for today's seniors and future generations." The Republicans even criticized Obamacare for cutting Medicare and forcing millions of seniors "off their current Medicare coverage."
> Conservatives also support that relic from the New Deal Social Security. They may talk about raising the retirement age, changing the cost-of-living adjustments, and reducing benefits, but they accept in principle that the government should have a Social Security program.Conservatives support the regulatory state.It was a Republican president who gave us the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. When was the last time a conservative called for abolishing those, or any other, regulatory agencies? Or even for slashing their budgets? The federal government regulates every conceivable facet of business and society. The Federal Energy Policy Act of 1992 mandates that "all faucet fixtures manufactured in the United States restrict maximum water flow at or below 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm) at 80 pounds per square inch (psi) of water pressure or 2.2 gpm at 60 psi." The same act regulates the amount of water that toilets can flush. Conservatives sometimes complain about too much federal regulation, but as with their calls to eliminate "waste, fraud, and abuse," they are long on rhetoric and short on action. They may talk about reducing government regulations, but they accept in principle that the government should be a regulator.Conservatives support the nanny state.It was a Republican president who signed into law the ultimate in nanny-state legislation -- the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that mandates the phase out of incandescent light bulbs, beginning with the 100-watt bulb in 2012 and ending with the 40-watt bulb in 2014.
> The worst part of the nanny state that conservatives support is the war on drugs. You know, the war that has failed to prevent drug abuse or reduce the demand for drugs while at the same time eroding civil liberties and unnecessarily swelling prison populations. Conservatives are the main proponents of federal drug laws, that is, of locking people up in cages for buying, selling, growing, processing, using, or possessing a plant.Conservatives support the police state.We have Bush and the Republicans to thank for the tremendous expansion of the police state since 9/11. The USA PATRIOT Act is widely supported by conservatives.Earlier this year,31 out of 40 Tea Party-supported candidates voted in the House of Representatives in favor of extending the PATRIOT Act. And where is the conservative opposition to the groping and fondling of the TSA? In the name of "national security," conservatives will generally support any expansion of the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the police state in general.Conservatives support the warfare state.Perhaps the most troubling thing about conservatives is their support for war and militarism. Indeed, the very heart and soul of conservatism is war. Patriotism, Americanism, and being a real conservative are now equated with support for war, torture, empire, imperialism, and militarism. Earlier this year, conservatives gave one of the chief war criminals, Donald Rumsfeld, the "Defender of the Constitution Award" at their annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The presenter? None other than the notorious Dick Cheney. The major Republican candidates (except, of course, for Ron Paul) are all the same on one key issue the warfare state. They all support war, killing more Muslims, the U.S. empire, the CIA, an interventionist foreign policy, and bloated military budgets.
> Lamenting recently on his radio show that Republicans control only the House, the conservative Sean Hannity posits a solution to the country's fiscal woes in a conservative Senate and a conservative president.
> Let's hope not.
> The problem with American conservatism, asLew Rockwellof the Ludwig von Mises Institute has explained,is that it hates the left more than the state, loves the past more than liberty, feels a greater attachment to nationalism than to the idea of self-determination, believes brute force is the answer to all social problems, and thinks it is better to impose truth rather than risk losing one soul to heresy. It has never understood the idea of freedom as a self-ordering principle of society. It has never seen the state as the enemy of what conservatives purport to favor. It has always looked to presidential power as the saving grace of what is right and true about America.Ronald Reagan's claim that "the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism" is bogus. The two ideologies are poles apart. It would be more accurate to say that the very heart and soul of conservatism -- given conservatives' support for the welfare state, the regulatory state, the nanny state, the police state, and the warfare state -- is not discernibly different from that of modern-day liberalism.
> Which Republican candidate is more conservative? When it comes to the key issues of liberty, property, and peace, they are all statist and interventionist to the core.http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108m.asp

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Re: GOP operatives fear lasting Ron Paul problem

The fact is that there are fundamentalist Muslims who believe in
dar-al-islam that control many of the Nation-States within the Middle
East,
and these individuals want to see Western Civilization, (to include
the
United States, first and foremost) gone, done away with, destroyed,
G'Nite.
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that's true ...

Doesn't have a thing to do with Nation Building, it has to do with
self
preservation
---
to invade, destroy, and rebuild muzzy countries in the name of
democracy in insanity.
solution: find the terrorists, kill them, and then bring the troops
home.
we do NOT have a responsibility to rebuild what is destroyed nor do we
owe their innocent civilians squat!!!
in fact, they owe US an apology and should repay US for the expense of
getting rid of their scum

massive aerial assaults work best and saves US lives


On Aug 16, 12:58 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone who thinks that there are just a few misplaced Muslims, and the World
> of Islam is still the religion of peace is out of touch as much as Stinky
> is.
>
> The fact is that there are fundamentalist Muslims who believe in
> dar-al-islam that control many of the Nation-States within the Middle East,
> and these individuals want to see Western Civilization, (to include the
> United States, first and foremost)  gone, done away with,  destroyed,
> G'Nite.
>
> Doesn't have a thing to do with Nation Building,  it has to do with self
> preservation.
>
> Anyone who doesn't understand this,  including Ron  Paul, is flat out
> misplaced.  *See* Whoopie Goldberg, Babs Streisand,  Rosie O'Donnell,  Sean
> Penn,  Barack Obama,  Ron Paul,  and a host of other confused Moonbats and
> Crackpots.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > It is the naivity of Paul's foreign policy and his lack of supporting
> > a
> > strong national defense that is troublesome
> > ----
> > pulling US troops home is not naive nor does it weaken national
> > defense
>
> > those in favor of nation building and US intervention would disagree
>
> > On Aug 16, 6:20 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think York aptly describes the issue, but to categorize "GOP
> > Operatives"
> > > as fearing Ron Paul is a bit of a stretch.
>
> > > First, I am not sure what a "Repulbican Operative" is.  Is it someone who
> > > campaigns, supports,  and even financially contributes to the Party?
> >  Then I
> > > would qualify as an "Operative" and I don't fear Ron Paul nor do I fear
> > his
> > > supporters, including the crackpot supporters.  I drink beer with them,
> >  go
> > > to Church with them,  play poker (when I am in Tampa) with them, and when
> > > the subject of politics comes up, try to show them the fallacy of Paul's
> > > ways. Most of the Paul supporters I know agree, with a hand full, that
> > can
> > > best be described as, "Crackpots".
>
> > > The truth is, that most all Americans agree with a smaller, fiscally
> > > responsible government that adheres to the Constitution of the United
> > > States.  Paul stands for that, as does the Tea Party movement, which
> > again,
> > > much to the dismay of Democrats and far left extremists,  I believe is
> > the
> > > majority of this Nation.
>
> > > It is the naivity of Paul's foreign policy and his lack of supporting a
> > > strong national defense that is troublesome and therefore disqualifying.
>
> > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:53 PM, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
>
> > > > *GOP operatives fear lasting Ron Paul problem
> > > > *By: Byron York
> > > > 08/15/11 8:05 PM
>
> > > > Republicans dodged a big bullet at the Ames straw poll on Saturday. If
> > just
> > > > 77 of the 4,283 people who voted for Rep. Michele Bachmann had voted
> > instead
> > > > for Rep. Ron Paul, then Paul would have won the straw poll. In the end,
> > > > Bachmann came out ahead with 28.55 percent of the vote to Paul's 27.65
> > > > percent. No other candidate was close.
>
> > > > Some well-connected Iowa Republicans viewed it as a bullet dodged
> > because
> > > > they had long feared the possibility of a Paul victory. "It would pour
> > jet
> > > > fuel on the East Coast narrative that Iowa is just too nutty to have
> > such an
> > > > important place in the nominating process," says one of those
> > Republicans.
> > > > Before the poll, they saw a Paul-Bachmann one-two finish as the
> > worst-case
> > > > scenario. They ended up with Bachmann-Paul -- a result establishment
> > > > Republicans viewed as somewhat better than the other way around -- and
> > got a
> > > > lot of the criticism anyway.
>
> > > > The criticism came not just from Democrats or so-called Eastern elite
> > RINOs
> > > > (Republicans In Name Only). "Ron Paul is going to destroy this party if
> > they
> > > > keep him in there," said Rush Limbaugh the day after the Aug. 11 Fox
> > > > News-Washington Examiner debate in Ames. "This is nuts on parade."
>
> > > > Key Republicans in Iowa -- and around the country, too -- are genuinely
> > > > baffled by the Paul phenomenon. They understand (and share) many of
> > Paul's
> > > > views on the Constitution and limiting the size and scope of the
> > federal
> > > > government, even if they think Paul sometimes goes too far. What
> > perplexes
> > > > them is Paul's take on foreign policy, especially the threat of Iran
> > > > acquiring nuclear weapons.
>
> > > > "Why wouldn't it be natural that they might want a weapon?" Paul asked
> > at
> > > > the Fox-Examiner debate. "They'd be given more respect. ... What's so
> > > > terribly bad about this?" As for sanctions against Iran, Paul said,
> > > > "Countries that you put sanctions on, you are more likely to fight
> > them. ...
> > > > I say stay out of their internal business."
>
> > > > The crowd in Iowa State University's Stephens Auditorium included a
> > large
> > > > group of Paul supporters who broke into loud cheers every time Paul
> > spoke,
> > > > including when he gave his views on Iran. "That audience goes nuts,"
> > > > Limbaugh said the next day. "I think, 'Oh, my gosh, what am I watching
> > > > here?' "
>
> > > > It's likely most Republicans agree with Limbaugh's assessment, and
> > Paul's
> > > > ability to say such things and still remain a force in the party
> > confuses
> > > > many in the GOP. "What part of his support is attributable to a
> > different
> > > > world view, and what part is attributable to the economic libertarian
> > world
> > > > view?" asks the well-connected Republican, who freely admits he doesn't
> > know
> > > > the answer.
>
> > > > No one fears that Paul will walk away with the Republican nomination.
> > But
> > > > with a strong core of supporters, he has the means to stay in the race
> > > > nearly as long as he wants. That core support also earns him a spot in
> > > > high-profile debates. To qualify for the Fox-Examiner debate, for
> > example,
> > > > candidates had to have at least 1 percent support in five national
> > polls.
> > > > Paul qualified with plenty of room to spare; in the most recent
> > > > RealClearPolitics average of polls, he has 9 percent support, well
> > ahead of
> > > > fellow candidates Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick
> > Santorum,
> > > > and, until his withdrawal from the race Sunday, Tim Pawlenty.
>
> > > > Paul also has enough money to do what he wants. He reported raising
> > $4.5
> > > > million in the second quarter of this year, with about $3 million in
> > the
> > > > bank. Since he has decided to retire from the House, he can also spend
> > > > unused funds raised for congressional campaigns.
>
> > > > Speaking of retirement -- one aspect of the Paul phenomenon that has
> > > > received little attention so far is his age. Born in 1935, he will be
> > 77
> > > > years old on Inauguration Day 2013 -- the same age Ronald Reagan was
> > when he
> > > > left the White House after serving two terms. If Paul were elected and
> > > > re-elected, he'd be 85 at the end of his time in the White House. Even
> > > > though Americans are living longer, most people would probably agree
> > that's
> > > > too old for a president.
>
> > > > But the Paul campaign isn't really about the practical possibility that
> > he
> > > > might become president. It's more about Paul's supporters forcing the
> > larger
> > > > political establishment to acknowledge that he's right. "The day will
> > come
> > > > soon when candidate Paul will get his due," tweeted one supporter
> > recently.
> > > > "Blowback is gonna be a b---h."
>
> > > > Of course, most Republicans don't believe that. But Paul commands
> > enough
> > > > support to make his presence known all the way through next year.
>
> > > >http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/08/gop-operatives-fear-la.
> > ..
>
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Which Republican Candidate Is More Conservative?


Which Republican Candidate Is More Conservative?
by Laurence M. Vance, August 16, 2011

Although the next presidential election is more than a year away, campaigning has already begun. With a liberal Democratic incumbent in the White House, Republican candidates are loudly touting their conservative credentials. The battles over which candidate is more conservative are heating up.

"I have fought against irresponsible spending while Governor [Tim] Pawlenty was leaving a multi-billion-dollar budget mess in Minnesota," said GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, a member of the U.S. House from Minnesota. Although the Pawlenty campaign claimed there was "very little difference" between the two candidates' positions, Bachmann's press secretary countered that there was "very little difference between Governor Pawlenty's past positions and Barack Obama's positions on several critical issues facing Americans." At the recent GOP debate in Iowa, Pawlenty and Bachmann went after each other with even more vigor. (Pawlenty seems to have gotten the worst of it and has since withdrawn from the race.)

But whether it is Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, or other announced candidates, such as Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, or Mitt Romney, the conservative rhetoric is still the same.

Because Republican candidates must appeal to the conservatism of Tea Party members, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, Reagan conservatives, et cetera, they will sometimes tailor their message to target a specific group. But their emphasis is always on how "conservative" they are.

The importance to Republicans give to being "more conservative" or "the most conservative," overall or on some particular issue, is just the opposite of what Democrats do: they generally shun the "liberal" label. I don't recall Democratic candidates in the last election disputing over who was "more liberal" or "the most liberal."

But is being "more conservative" on some issue a good thing?

Conservatives support the welfare state. The largest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson's presidency was undertaken not by liberals, but by conservatives. The Republican version of health-care reform, known as the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, was introduced by the Republican House speaker, supported by the Republican leadership in the House and Senate, passed with overwhelming Republican support, and signed into law by a Republican president. Those were the same Republicans who campaigned in the 2010 election on how conservative they were.

And then there is the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a partnership between federal and state governments that was created in 1997 ­ thanks again to a Republican majority in Congress. It provides federally funded health insurance to children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid. When the program was up for reauthorization in 2007, it passed in the Senate by unanimous consent and in the House over the objections of only three Republicans. It was only when Obama the Democrat became president that some Republicans in Congress suddenly became more conservative and opposed the program.

In their pre-election "Pledge to America" in 2010, Republicans -- who campaigned up to election day on how conservative they were -- proposed to "support Medicare for seniors," and "protect our entitlement programs for today's seniors and future generations." The Republicans even criticized Obamacare for cutting Medicare and forcing millions of seniors "off their current Medicare coverage."

Conservatives also support that relic from the New Deal Social Security. They may talk about raising the retirement age, changing the cost-of-living adjustments, and reducing benefits, but they accept in principle that the government should have a Social Security program.

Conservatives support the regulatory state. It was a Republican president who gave us the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. When was the last time a conservative called for abolishing those, or any other, regulatory agencies? Or even for slashing their budgets? The federal government regulates every conceivable facet of business and society. The Federal Energy Policy Act of 1992 mandates that "all faucet fixtures manufactured in the United States restrict maximum water flow at or below 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm) at 80 pounds per square inch (psi) of water pressure or 2.2 gpm at 60 psi." The same act regulates the amount of water that toilets can flush. Conservatives sometimes complain about too much federal regulation, but as with their calls to eliminate "waste, fraud, and abuse," they are long on rhetoric and short on action. They may talk about reducing government regulations, but they accept in principle that the government should be a regulator.

Conservatives support the nanny state. It was a Republican president who signed into law the ultimate in nanny-state legislation -- the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that mandates the phase out of incandescent light bulbs, beginning with the 100-watt bulb in 2012 and ending with the 40-watt bulb in 2014.

The worst part of the nanny state that conservatives support is the war on drugs. You know, the war that has failed to prevent drug abuse or reduce the demand for drugs while at the same time eroding civil liberties and unnecessarily swelling prison populations. Conservatives are the main proponents of federal drug laws, that is, of locking people up in cages for buying, selling, growing, processing, using, or possessing a plant.

Conservatives support the police state. We have Bush and the Republicans to thank for the tremendous expansion of the police state since 9/11. The USA PATRIOT Act is widely supported by conservatives. Earlier this year, 31 out of 40 Tea Party-supported candidates voted in the House of Representatives in favor of extending the PATRIOT Act. And where is the conservative opposition to the groping and fondling of the TSA? In the name of "national security," conservatives will generally support any expansion of the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the police state in general.

Conservatives support the warfare state. Perhaps the most troubling thing about conservatives is their support for war and militarism. Indeed, the very heart and soul of conservatism is war. Patriotism, Americanism, and being a real conservative are now equated with support for war, torture, empire, imperialism, and militarism. Earlier this year, conservatives gave one of the chief war criminals, Donald Rumsfeld, the "Defender of the Constitution Award" at their annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The presenter? None other than the notorious Dick Cheney. The major Republican candidates (except, of course, for Ron Paul) are all the same on one key issue ­ the warfare state. They all support war, killing more Muslims, the U.S. empire, the CIA, an interventionist foreign policy, and bloated military budgets.

Lamenting recently on his radio show that Republicans control only the House, the conservative Sean Hannity posits a solution to the country's fiscal woes in a conservative Senate and a conservative president.

Let's hope not.

The problem with American conservatism, as Lew Rockwell of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has explained,
is that it hates the left more than the state, loves the past more than liberty, feels a greater attachment to nationalism than to the idea of self-determination, believes brute force is the answer to all social problems, and thinks it is better to impose truth rather than risk losing one soul to heresy. It has never understood the idea of freedom as a self-ordering principle of society. It has never seen the state as the enemy of what conservatives purport to favor. It has always looked to presidential power as the saving grace of what is right and true about America.
Ronald Reagan's claim that "the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism" is bogus. The two ideologies are poles apart. It would be more accurate to say that the very heart and soul of conservatism -- given conservatives' support for the welfare state, the regulatory state, the nanny state, the police state, and the warfare state -- is not discernibly different from that of modern-day liberalism.

Which Republican candidate is more conservative? When it comes to the key issues of liberty, property, and peace, they are all statist and interventionist to the core.


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