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September 27, 2014
Rachel on the Fast and Furious Fiasco which was orchestrated by the GOP. Then she covers how all of MSM chose to NOT cover the momentous and noteworthy action taken by the Obama administration that same day, using a faked smear of Shirley Sherrod to make sure that no one knew what Obama had accomplished.
Rachel wondered if the American public would fall for the Faux, Rush, Beck, Infowars, Libertarian, GOP smear machine again. They have, repeatedly, because the MSM is as unanimous in their obstruction as the elected GOP. And that's how it has infected online boards, even 'progressive' ones:
Rachel on Holder's strong condemnation of Stand Your Ground laws. In this video she shows the corruption of the SYG law creators and supporters, and gives coverage of how Holder goes over his own experiences and being forced to have 'The Talk' with his own son after the Trayvon Martin shooting and trial. That didn't even touch on the experiences in his family.
Rachel includes a talk with an attorney who worked for the Holder DOJ who explains the limitations of civil rights litigation, but mentions the 141 hate crime convictions won under Holder:
Rachel deals with false memes pushed by MSM, and the disinformation put out about Holder. She adds the exchange where batshit crazy Gohmert claims that a flat recital of facts that are REALITY, so anathema to those who disregard facts on all sides, is a personal attack. This fact free, over the top rhetoric is common when people condemn Holder.
A red-faced Louie protests that the facts by Holder impugn his 'character' and 'integrity.' Then Gohmert accuses Holder of casting 'aspersions on my asparagus.'
Louie plays the role of a fool, but the court jester Touchstone, sees the truth:
...Of a certain knight that swore by his honor they were good pancakes, and swore by his honor the mustard was naught... But you can’t swear by what you don’t have - and this knight had no honor, or if he did, he swore it off before he ever saw those pancakes and that mustard...
In their next encounter, Holder still wishes him well:
'Good luck with your asparagus.'
Rachel goes into his work on voting rights and many other civil rights matters. After his resignation, she tells us he'll finish visiting the last US Attorney after having visited every other one. The scandals he cleared up from the Bush administration have made him hated. She's honest, but he's been too busy for sound bites.
Rachel wrapped up with this, in which she explains the extraordinary work he is doing now to extend voting to more Americans, how he has already changed unfair drug laws, and helped to keep people out of prison. And so much more:
The Rachel Maddow Show - AG Eric Holder and his Accomplishments:
I'll post more on what this quiet but determined man has done for us and the cases for and against him.
WARNING: This is the BOG and this post is for those support the President, his Administration and his policies. This group was set up the DU Admins and is a 'safe haven' and NOT a forum for those who do not support our SOP. It's in the pinned thread at the top of the BOG (Barack Obama Group) index thread. TIA for respecting the spirit of the BOG and its members.
Rachel Maddow's Praise of Eric Holder
Rachel on the Fast and Furious Fiasco which was orchestrated by the GOP. Then she covers how all of MSM chose to NOT cover the momentous and noteworthy action taken by the Obama administration that same day, using a faked smear of Shirley Sherrod to make sure that no one knew what Obama had accomplished.
Rachel wondered if the American public would fall for the Faux, Rush, Beck, Infowars, Libertarian, GOP smear machine again. They have, repeatedly, because the MSM is as unanimous in their obstruction as the elected GOP. And that's how it has infected online boards, even 'progressive' ones:
Rachel on Holder's strong condemnation of Stand Your Ground laws. In this video she shows the corruption of the SYG law creators and supporters, and gives coverage of how Holder goes over his own experiences and being forced to have 'The Talk' with his own son after the Trayvon Martin shooting and trial. That didn't even touch on the experiences in his family.
Rachel includes a talk with an attorney who worked for the Holder DOJ who explains the limitations of civil rights litigation, but mentions the 141 hate crime convictions won under Holder:
Rachel deals with false memes pushed by MSM, and the disinformation put out about Holder. She adds the exchange where batshit crazy Gohmert claims that a flat recital of facts that are REALITY, so anathema to those who disregard facts on all sides, is a personal attack. This fact free, over the top rhetoric is common when people condemn Holder.
A red-faced Louie protests that the facts by Holder impugn his 'character' and 'integrity.' Then Gohmert accuses Holder of casting 'aspersions on my asparagus.'
Louie plays the role of a fool, but the court jester Touchstone, sees the truth:
...Of a certain knight that swore by his honor they were good pancakes, and swore by his honor the mustard was naught... But you can’t swear by what you don’t have - and this knight had no honor, or if he did, he swore it off before he ever saw those pancakes and that mustard...
In their next encounter, Holder still wishes him well:
'Good luck with your asparagus.'
Rachel goes into his work on voting rights and many other civil rights matters. After his resignation, she tells us he'll finish visiting the last US Attorney after having visited every other one. The scandals he cleared up from the Bush administration have made him hated. She's honest, but he's been too busy for sound bites.
Rachel wrapped up with this, in which she explains the extraordinary work he is doing now to extend voting to more Americans, how he has already changed unfair drug laws, and helped to keep people out of prison. And so much more:
The Rachel Maddow Show - AG Eric Holder and his Accomplishments:
I'll post more on what this quiet but determined man has done for us and the cases for and against him.
WARNING: This is the BOG and this post is for those support the President, his Administration and his policies. This group was set up the DU Admins and is a 'safe haven' and NOT a forum for those who do not support our SOP. It's in the pinned thread at the top of the BOG (Barack Obama Group) index thread. TIA for respecting the spirit of the BOG and its members.
September 27, 2014
Republicans Air Early Attack Ad on Newborn Clinton - little Charlotte already under fire / Borowitz
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025591366
P. S. What's that site with her voting record again? I need to bookmark it because I keep losing the link in my files. Someone posts the revelant votes on different issues to me on threads where she is being savaged and they disprove the misinformation. Sorry for not keeping track, I'm always doing half a dozen things at once online and offline. TIA.
A lot of happiness in this photo:
Republicans Air Early Attack Ad on Newborn Clinton - little Charlotte already under fire / Borowitz
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025591366
P. S. What's that site with her voting record again? I need to bookmark it because I keep losing the link in my files. Someone posts the revelant votes on different issues to me on threads where she is being savaged and they disprove the misinformation. Sorry for not keeping track, I'm always doing half a dozen things at once online and offline. TIA.
September 27, 2014
I look at the end results, not the shiny libertarian promises used on liberals and progressives who may not realize they're no longer either. They consider themselves to have evolved, swayed by the anti-government message so much, they forgot that government is in need of their assistance to protect social equality.
Which the libertarians do not, as they are consumed with the rights of those who have historically been elevated above those who are struggling for survival.
Whiteness, NSA Spying and the Irony of Racial Privilege
http://www.timwise.org/2013/06/whiteness-nsa-spying-and-the-irony-of-racial-privilege/
Libertarians brush women's rights to the side as well:
Years ago, after listening to AJ rant on TSA groping, I tuned in, hoping to hear a rant as the GOP passed the law on trans-vaginal ultrasounds in TX. I had a faint hope the 'freedom and liberty' Libertarian crowd might stand up and protest this being mandated by the fascist government in TX:
Hey, don't like being groped at the airport? Try some real groping.
Mandated for daring to ask for a legal procedure. You will be billed for it as well, despite your not wanting it to be done. There you go, little ladies, we know what's best for you.
'Just close your eyes and think of... Liberty? Freedom? Privacy rights?'
No fourth amendment for you, sweetie.
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. Search and seizure (including arrest) should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it. The Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Paul Ryan has promised that the GOP will repeal the Fourteenth Amendment along with its clause for Equal Protection under the law and Birthright Citizenship, when they get enough red states to do it through state conventions. I call it a 'clear and present danger' to life and liberty, because it's apparent in the 'hands on' fascism being enacted state by state by the GOP, that females need that old Fourteenth.
But instead on the day I tuned in, he was cheering the Ron Paul GOP/Teas/Libertarians calling into his show who'd worked to pass the ultrasound bill and abortion restrictions in Oklahoma, urging them to get it passed in every state, just as ALEC and the fundies want. Fortunately, It was later ruled unConstitutional in OK.
And there's not a peep from him on this, perhaps he doesn't believe women have a right to protest what's being done to them, their rights to be 'secure in their own bodies,' doesn't matter?
And police grabbing a peaceful woman exercising her Constitutional right to be there, not interfering except for having a rebellious mind in public since 'you don't need no thought control' when hands will do the job, legally 'petitioning government to listen to their grievances' isn't going to be called 'oppression'?
Animal Farm. All animals are created equal. But some animals are more equal than others. All your uteri are belong to us.
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/1014519458#post12
The end result will be a Koch Kingdom in place, and I guess that's not an offense to some. But it it to me, as I've seen their plans for me and my life. And they will silence Warren if the GOP control the Senate, but some aren't looking to the end result:
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
They have gotten just about every thing on their list, playing to all sides who don't understand the world the Koch brothers are forcing on us piecemeal. They are positioned to finish the task. Not voting for Warren's party is a vote to let them have it all:
BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, Americans have come to believe this is how it has to be. It's the recipe for neo-feudalism.
Another explanation of this here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025591549#post1
So the Libertarian brand is the kiss of death for any of those who will affected. For others, it's 'Meh.'
Division on the civil society side allows right winger austerity to win. From your link:
Meanwhile, Dotcom’s Internet Party bombed, even costing its tiny ally the only seat it held in Parliament.I look at the end results, not the shiny libertarian promises used on liberals and progressives who may not realize they're no longer either. They consider themselves to have evolved, swayed by the anti-government message so much, they forgot that government is in need of their assistance to protect social equality.
Which the libertarians do not, as they are consumed with the rights of those who have historically been elevated above those who are struggling for survival.
Whiteness, NSA Spying and the Irony of Racial Privilege
http://www.timwise.org/2013/06/whiteness-nsa-spying-and-the-irony-of-racial-privilege/
Libertarians brush women's rights to the side as well:
Years ago, after listening to AJ rant on TSA groping, I tuned in, hoping to hear a rant as the GOP passed the law on trans-vaginal ultrasounds in TX. I had a faint hope the 'freedom and liberty' Libertarian crowd might stand up and protest this being mandated by the fascist government in TX:
Hey, don't like being groped at the airport? Try some real groping.
Mandated for daring to ask for a legal procedure. You will be billed for it as well, despite your not wanting it to be done. There you go, little ladies, we know what's best for you.
'Just close your eyes and think of... Liberty? Freedom? Privacy rights?'
No fourth amendment for you, sweetie.
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. Search and seizure (including arrest) should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it. The Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Paul Ryan has promised that the GOP will repeal the Fourteenth Amendment along with its clause for Equal Protection under the law and Birthright Citizenship, when they get enough red states to do it through state conventions. I call it a 'clear and present danger' to life and liberty, because it's apparent in the 'hands on' fascism being enacted state by state by the GOP, that females need that old Fourteenth.
But instead on the day I tuned in, he was cheering the Ron Paul GOP/Teas/Libertarians calling into his show who'd worked to pass the ultrasound bill and abortion restrictions in Oklahoma, urging them to get it passed in every state, just as ALEC and the fundies want. Fortunately, It was later ruled unConstitutional in OK.
And there's not a peep from him on this, perhaps he doesn't believe women have a right to protest what's being done to them, their rights to be 'secure in their own bodies,' doesn't matter?
And police grabbing a peaceful woman exercising her Constitutional right to be there, not interfering except for having a rebellious mind in public since 'you don't need no thought control' when hands will do the job, legally 'petitioning government to listen to their grievances' isn't going to be called 'oppression'?
Animal Farm. All animals are created equal. But some animals are more equal than others. All your uteri are belong to us.
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/1014519458#post12
The end result will be a Koch Kingdom in place, and I guess that's not an offense to some. But it it to me, as I've seen their plans for me and my life. And they will silence Warren if the GOP control the Senate, but some aren't looking to the end result:
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
They have gotten just about every thing on their list, playing to all sides who don't understand the world the Koch brothers are forcing on us piecemeal. They are positioned to finish the task. Not voting for Warren's party is a vote to let them have it all:
BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, Americans have come to believe this is how it has to be. It's the recipe for neo-feudalism.
Another explanation of this here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025591549#post1
So the Libertarian brand is the kiss of death for any of those who will affected. For others, it's 'Meh.'
September 27, 2014
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
They have gotten just about every thing on their list, playing to all sides who don't understand the world the Koch brothers are forcing on us piecemeal. They are positioned to finish the task. Not voting for Warren's party is a vote to let them have it all:
BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, Americans have come to believe this is how it has to be. It's the recipe for neo-feudalism.
Another explanation of this here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
They'd silence her and Sanders. The Koch brothers want her kind of regulation gone:
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
They have gotten just about every thing on their list, playing to all sides who don't understand the world the Koch brothers are forcing on us piecemeal. They are positioned to finish the task. Not voting for Warren's party is a vote to let them have it all:
BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"
What else do the Koch brothers want?
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.
Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”
In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...
Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.
Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.
For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch
to kpete:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298
We've heard these memes for years, Americans have come to believe this is how it has to be. It's the recipe for neo-feudalism.
Another explanation of this here:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
George Monbiot - December 19, 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange. Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
More at the link about the meaning of positive and negative freedoms and how the word is being used against us:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
September 27, 2014
These clowns can't tell the difference between stating facts and being smeared. But then, reality is always attacking their puny minds!
The universe is just so mean!
And I was very proud of Rachel's presentation.
I don't see her much, and think the librul (GOP) media will kick her off the air if she goes as far as she wants. She really knows the limits well and she pushes them at times.
Oh, yeah. Gohmert whining about 'character' and 'integrity' when all Holder did was state the facts!
But he didn't have that servile tone Louie thought he should, no doubt!These clowns can't tell the difference between stating facts and being smeared. But then, reality is always attacking their puny minds!
The universe is just so mean!
And I was very proud of Rachel's presentation.
I don't see her much, and think the librul (GOP) media will kick her off the air if she goes as far as she wants. She really knows the limits well and she pushes them at times.
September 27, 2014
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110225511
What are the Obamas hiding?
Coffee Gate was surpassed by Latte Gate:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110225511
What are the Obamas hiding?
September 27, 2014
Keeps me warm in the winter, with a little bit of red beans and brown rice!
Oh, for a minute I thought you meant Zatarain's. Don't diss my Creole spice mix!
Keeps me warm in the winter, with a little bit of red beans and brown rice!
September 27, 2014
I had no idea they'd make something like that. Basic fare, but good...
That amazing indulgence I came across in British Columbia:
I had no idea they'd make something like that. Basic fare, but good...
September 27, 2014
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
~ Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
This is vile and why I don't read newspaper comments. They're worse than the KKK! Bet if I flew an
Irish flag and the Union Jack, they wouldn't object. And the couple were flying the American flag, too. I've given up talking to these goons. They make me sick. Problem is, they are all armed with itchy fingers.To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
~ Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
September 27, 2014
Well, I have a confession to make. Over 40 years ago, a census taker came to my home.
DH and I were still in our teens, so that is my only excuse. We'd taken in a number of stray cats, got them neutered and spayed, and given them various names. Some of were regular names, some not. They were not inside, they were outside enjoying their usual cheap thrills.
When the lady with the clipboard and forms sat down in the living room, she asked how many were living in the house. We gave her our names and those of the cats. We didn't mention they were cats, and she didn't ask, just dutifully wrote our names and those of the NINE cats.
And then she left and we waved her goodbye. We didn't get any mail about registering to vote, though. We wondered if she really put that in the database, as she'd listed them as family members. Which they were, you know.
Now you know.
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