And so it begins again.....
Random thoughts and strange ideas...
My first post here, I went to sign up and it told me I already was registered. I guess I forgot. LOL
I barely ever use the email address I registered with to NV and here, but looking at it earlier I saw that in the dying days over there, I was made an admin of two different nations. So thanks to whoever made that decision, even though I'm the last person who should've been given that sort of power.
An instructive editorialized story for anyone who cares to ponder it--
In this day where we have the President making it clear that legitimate dissent is tantamount to treason, and anyone who engages in it should be punished to the full extent of the law as he interprets it to read, I think of the fate of a different place, where the reality of living on a day to day basis is far different.
The country we call Zimbabwe now used to be the notorious apartheid state of Rhodesia, which was an international pariah long before South Africa was considered the Worst Place in the World to be a person who wasn't white. But in 1980, the ruling white minority government gave up the fairy tale that 500,000 honkies could hold back 8 times as many blacks from doing what they pleased. And that decision gave the world the presence of one Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the country as his own personal fiefdom ever since.
You have to hand it to Bob, he has turned the idea of Rhodesia's very existence on its' head. He has essentially disenfranchised any of the remaining white citizens there and seized every square inch of land that any Caucasian even remotely considered having an ownership stake in.
He's told anyone who wants to argue with him to go f&ck themselves if they didn't like the way he was doing business. He's as honest and upfront about what he stands for and believes as Elijah Muhammad or H Rap Brown ever was--he doesn't like white people. And in that sense, he's far more honest as a politician than Mitt Romney, John McCain, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell or any other prominent Republican who has been in a position or potential position of power could ever be in this day and age. I wrote a NV seed in 2008 stating that I would've cast a vote for Mugabe or Slobodan Milosevic if either of them had been the candidate opposite McCain.
But for all of his personality defects and shortcomings as a leader, Mugabe isn't ordering his police to go around and pull cars driven by white people over on the flimsiest of pretexts and those police aren't emptying their clips at the slightest provocation. I'd bet we'd be hearing a massive uproar if that was occurring. Or maybe we here in the U.S. just wouldn't care enough to get hot and bothered. News like that only gets reported by the BBC and other international outlets generally and it seems far enough away that it's not really an issue for us to concern ourselves with.
Lebron James was pictured wearing a t-shirt with the following: When We March, you get mad, When We Sit, you get mad, When We Speak Out, you get mad, When We Get Shot, you say nothing. I think that speaks volumes as to where we are as a country right now.
When dissent is criminalized, there is no freedom for anyone.
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Welcome Baker, from another ex-viner. Police ARE overstepping their authority far too often in this country, they literally get away with murder. Although I understand the racial element here; I 'm uncomfortable with the way many on the left define the problem as police abusing and killing blacks, as if it never happens to white people. It does, in fact, one of the worst cases was the four cops who beat a homeless guy to death while he begged for his life and cried for his father. He was white, and every murdering bully who killed him got off scot-free.
We've gotten to the point where the police are allowed to murder us, and it matters not what race we are. Our justice system stands behind the police, no matter what. The 'wall of blue' must be torn down, we need serious civilian oversight on, and authority over, the police in this country. Bringing the race of their victims into it, complicates the issue unnecessarily in my opinion, and makes it more difficult to address.
I agree completely with every word. The issue is conduct by police against all people regardless of race and the way that situations escalate far too rapidly than they did 10 or 20 years ago.
I'm not anti-police; I know dozens of them here where I live, and several ex-officers too. I've made the argument that in encounters where the person is unarmed or at worst armed with something other than a firearm, a truly trained gunholder can put them on the ground with a non-lethal shot as easily as one can shoot to kill.
I wish I had a rational idea of where we could start to change the whole culture of police without starting from square one. I don't know if anyone does.
For someone who doesn't like white people, Bob sure as hell went apeshit over the white girl who won Zimbabwe's first Olympic gold medal a few years back. He said she made the whole country proud, called her Zimbabwe's Golden Girl, and gave her a suitcase with $100,000 cash in it.
everybody's got their own situational ethics.
. I probably over-generalized Mugabe's real attitude for a bit of license.
I’m feeling you I don’t care much of what is happening in Berkeley myself. It really kicked in when that liberal mob shut down Trumps speech in Chicago.
You mean the anarchists hired by the Clinton Mafia?
you can contribute to the topic, but these sentence fragment troll replies are going to be squashed right now. Only intelligent discussion is permitted in my thread.
Are you saying you intend on snuffing out free speech and opposing opinions? I thought your article was indicating that’s not good.
if you and your friends are incapable of expressing a cogent argument, then yes....that's exactly what I am saying. You can call it whatever helps you sleep at night, but I call it demanding you to prove you have the ability to write in sentence form above the ability of a third grader. Or else, you'll be taken as seriously as a third grade child should be.
so... free speech is good unless it bothers you?
that is exactly not how it works.
but, that attitude, which is shared by your socialist/communist friends, is why the left has lost over 1300 seats in govt across this nation...
so.. by all means, please continue
Trump is the President, if a "mob" prevents him from saying what he wants, that is legitimate dissent.
Berkeley is a question of access to public places and the mitigation of danger to a wider public. In 1965, the Regents of The University of California made it a policy that any person could be forcibly removed from a campus if they were not a card carrying registered student and charged with criminal trespassing. Do you think that sort of rule would get very far today? (it didn't last long then either).
Right wing speakers don't need to go to Berkeley to get their message heard, they go there for some perverted idea that they have something in common with the Free Speech Movement. But those people aren't dissenting; they are spouting the Establishment line that Dissent is a Crime. There are a whole lot more ways to be heard in this era than there were in the 1960's.
they are going because they are invited to speak. same as any left wing speaker. I am sure you feel that right wing students are as deserving left wing students.
being and editorial piece, I doubt this will stay up long.