TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime

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Pandering w/r/t how much we support (none / 0) (#2)
by Geekesque on Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 10:04:11 AM EST

a foreign country or embargo a foreign country strike me as the single most idiotic aspects of the American political system.

There shouldn't be an Israel lobby. There shouldn't be a Cuba/anti-Castro lobby.

Yuck.

why not? (none / 0) (#5)
by HeadScratcher on Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 11:43:21 AM EST

freedom is the ability to do what you want...

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: Not, it's not (5.00 / 1) (#13)
by Dadler on Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:09:52 PM EST

Freedom, reduced to its most basic form, is the right to say no. "Doing anything you want" is called anarchy. I can get up in the morning, drive to work, eat a McDonald's burger for lunch, go home, watch tv, read to my kids, go to bed, then do it all over again, and all in the totalitarian nation of China. The only thing I can't do there is tell the government and its oppressive policies to go f*ck themselves. Increasingly, you can't do so in this country either. When the POTUS says MoveOn's Petraeus ad is an insult to the entire military, make no mistake, he is playing the role of Dear Leader, he is putting the military ABOVE the rest of us, saying it's beyond criticism, can do no wrong, and should be feared even by its own citizens.
It is facism, clear and disturbing. He is saying I should basically bow down to the military, to watch what I say, like these scumb*gs warned us after 9/11, watch what I say ...or else. That's the subtext. Or else. Or one of those brave warriors (or mercenaries) might just snap and kill you and it will be justified. That is all suggested and simmers below the surface of his, and Rudy's, dictatorial worshipping and wielding of militarism as GREATER than the rest of us peone free Americans.

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