scienceblogs.com— Its official, fellow Americans. A fantastic article breaking down exactly why things are just that bad here in the States.
Sep 29, 2006View in Crawl 4
"When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.When they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.When they came for the trade unionists,I did not speak out;I was not a trade unionist.When they came for me,there was no one left to speak out."Martin Niemöller
You guys don't realize that the nat'l debt has been that way for a long time. Huey Long, back in the 1930s, ran his campaign based on the nat'l debt. He was assassinated. A big bunch of the nat'l debt goes to things like rebuilding Japan and Europe after World War II. Here on digg, not too long ago there was a nice article about how Great Britain was just now paying off it's last payments to the US from the World War II era. Also, anytime small countries request foreign aid, and we give it to them, indirectly thru the UN and what not, that contributes. Anytime the US gives a lump of cash to Africa to end hunger and AIDS and etc. that's you and me and all of us paying for it. After close to 100 years of doing that s**t, borrowing money and jsut paying interest on the s**t borrowed, you have a massive national debt. It'd be easy to get rid of, in theory. All you have to do is raise taxes, and eliminate a bunch of services. But I don't see many people going along with that, do you?
Bleah, it needs restoration. We own a fine Mercedes, but we have let the floorboards rust through. We need to sandblast the crap off our Constitution. And that may mean replacing or deleting large parts of our government.
The big picture is, that this country is kept from being the world's largest Banana Republic only by the Bill of Rights, and the Bill of Rights is effective ONLY if people fight for their rights. Telling people who demand their rights to shut up or move is nothing more than saying that you LIKE the idea of living in a Banana Republic.
If America were a dictatorship, this story would not be on Digg. Digg would not exist.There would be no opposition to Bush. Admittedly, this bill sucks. It gives the president broad power as to what to define as proper interrogation technique, something to be left to the courts. I hate terrorists just as much as the next guy, but having the ability to detain anyone suspected of terrorism, suspend their right to appeal their detainment, and torture them as one man sees fit is insanity.However, some of you clearly are not very intelligent. This is not the end of democracy. This bill has not yet been passed into law, the full text is nowhere to be found, the CIA still has to have a good case for marking someone a terrorist, and future presidents can always push this sucker out. Story marked as inaccurate.
Why do you think there's a relationship between dictatorship and having GeStaPo agents carting people away in the dead of night? Once that starts happening, you can bet the dictator is not long for this world. Any really successful dictator will let people say whatever they like (talk doesn't hurt, and the more people are allowed to rant online, the less likely they are to actually DO anything - besides, there'll be a lot of people saying "hey, as long as you're free to say that, it's not really a dictatorship, so shut the f**k up or leave!")
tehnicoSep 30, 2006
Plutocracy Or Polyarchy...<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarchy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarchy</a>Whatever your level of faith in the system will determine which you feel is more accurate.
perrygeoSep 30, 2006
"When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.When they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.When they came for the trade unionists,I did not speak out;I was not a trade unionist.When they came for me,there was no one left to speak out."Martin Niemöller
nakedsnakeSep 30, 2006
You guys don't realize that the nat'l debt has been that way for a long time. Huey Long, back in the 1930s, ran his campaign based on the nat'l debt. He was assassinated. A big bunch of the nat'l debt goes to things like rebuilding Japan and Europe after World War II. Here on digg, not too long ago there was a nice article about how Great Britain was just now paying off it's last payments to the US from the World War II era. Also, anytime small countries request foreign aid, and we give it to them, indirectly thru the UN and what not, that contributes. Anytime the US gives a lump of cash to Africa to end hunger and AIDS and etc. that's you and me and all of us paying for it. After close to 100 years of doing that s**t, borrowing money and jsut paying interest on the s**t borrowed, you have a massive national debt. It'd be easy to get rid of, in theory. All you have to do is raise taxes, and eliminate a bunch of services. But I don't see many people going along with that, do you?
williamdyerSep 30, 2006
Bleah, it needs restoration. We own a fine Mercedes, but we have let the floorboards rust through. We need to sandblast the crap off our Constitution. And that may mean replacing or deleting large parts of our government.
yinepuhotepSep 30, 2006
The big picture is, that this country is kept from being the world's largest Banana Republic only by the Bill of Rights, and the Bill of Rights is effective ONLY if people fight for their rights. Telling people who demand their rights to shut up or move is nothing more than saying that you LIKE the idea of living in a Banana Republic.
poq17Sep 30, 2006
If America were a dictatorship, this story would not be on Digg. Digg would not exist.There would be no opposition to Bush. Admittedly, this bill sucks. It gives the president broad power as to what to define as proper interrogation technique, something to be left to the courts. I hate terrorists just as much as the next guy, but having the ability to detain anyone suspected of terrorism, suspend their right to appeal their detainment, and torture them as one man sees fit is insanity.However, some of you clearly are not very intelligent. This is not the end of democracy. This bill has not yet been passed into law, the full text is nowhere to be found, the CIA still has to have a good case for marking someone a terrorist, and future presidents can always push this sucker out. Story marked as inaccurate.
miseseanOct 2, 2006
Err...NakedSnake, "the documents that were drafted from the beginning" were overthrown in 1789! Ever heard of the Articles of Confederation?
miseseanOct 2, 2006
Why do you think there's a relationship between dictatorship and having GeStaPo agents carting people away in the dead of night? Once that starts happening, you can bet the dictator is not long for this world. Any really successful dictator will let people say whatever they like (talk doesn't hurt, and the more people are allowed to rant online, the less likely they are to actually DO anything - besides, there'll be a lot of people saying "hey, as long as you're free to say that, it's not really a dictatorship, so shut the f**k up or leave!")
nicholaiFeb 26, 2008
Blind partisan?
nicholaiFeb 26, 2008
We can't count on the democrats. We need to push for more than two options.
nicholaiFeb 26, 2008
You said Reagan didn't grow government, have you heard of something called the "war on drugs"?
nicholaiFeb 26, 2008
You watch to much TV?