Chomsky

My letter to one of the Community Columnists

This is an email I sent to one of the many idiots the Journal Sentinel picked to be a Community Columnist over me. Typical intellectual garbage. I thought I would post it just in case she responds. Here is a link to her column.

Dear MS. Carlson,
I read your column on Tuesday and was a little disturbed. Your essay was in relation to the proposed referendum to raise the sales tax to pay for various services. To be fair, I really don’t believe this is the right thing to do but that is my opinion, nothing more.
What I found so disturbing was your remark about how you applaud Mr. Walker’s veto of the resolution. I am a little confused by this remark because I figure that you must be an American citizen, most likely a naturalized one, yet you hold contempt for Democracy.
Why is it a good thing that the people’s right to exercise their right to vote should be thwarted? Shouldn’t people in America have the right to vote on an issue instead of having Government tell us we are not allowed to? Where does the Government get the right, or privilege, to stop us from voting? Is it that you believe Government is the best decider on all the issues and one man should be allowed determine everything? Because remember Scott Walker is part of the Government.
From where I sit this is classic class warfare. I really enjoyed the line about a radio caller who saves $30 dollars a month by not shopping in Milwaukee County. Because that is all it is about, me, me, me! Screw the rest. Why should any of you care if the old widow across town has enough to eat or can take a bus to the clinic? She made her choices and should have to not eat, right? Why should you care? It isn’t about the most important person, you.
I mean your essay was basically a stereotype. “I spend $500 dollars on garbage from a department store, while others can’t feed their children. I really need to have a plasma T.V. because I earned it. Forget all those others who made bad choices in life since everyone who is struggling is so because of the choices they made, not their parents, not the State, just them. Also while were at it, since there are more of them then there are of us, we better not let them vote.” What are we just the rabble who is allowed to “participate” in elections when you people decide we can.
Who the hell do you people think you are? Is Scott Walker now an elected Monarch? Is that the kind of system you would prefer? Where the more “educated”, or indoctrinated, get to make all the choices because the common person is to stupid to know what he wants. Of course, this is the same common person that the Right claims to be a champion for.
I am sorry if you think my rhetoric is a little heated but I believe strongly in Democracy, one person one vote, and you disagree. Democracy is supposed to be the law of the land, unless it may hurt your pocket book but allow others to find more work.
Nevermind, you only care about yourself, and by extension you family, and no one else. You hold contempt for the common person and their wishes. I am slowly beginning to see how the “right” in America is truly anti-american values. They don’t believe in elections, they don’t believe in a jury of one’s peers, they don’t believe in the right to assemble, they don’t believe in the right to free speech, they don’t believe that persons should not be unreasonably searched, they don’t believe in the right to a speedy trial, they like cruel and unusual punishment, and on and on. Oh wait they do believe that everyone should have the right to be armed to the teeth.
Opponents of democracy need to be unmasked for the good of the country.
The comedy is how you people label silly liberals as elitists because they drink fancy coffee. What is tragic is that people listen to you.

Scott Ritter

A History of the American Empire

Mumia Abu Jamal On Nader and Obama

You know the fucked up thing is how many college age kids got behind Ron Paul and not Ralph Nader. Could it be that Ralph threw his hat into the ring to late for those kids to know he even existed? Or do they really want the destruction of the state as Ro Paul does? Or is it that they are fucking ignorant? My guess is ignorance.

Finally

Finally, today, that bastard died. Jesse Helms died today of natural causes at 86 years old. THings like this make me envious of those people who believe in hell because I would be feeling some schadenfreuden.

Interesting read

U.S. has highest level of cocaine, pot use

What was Clinton's problem.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela is to be removed from U.S. terrorism watch lists under a bill President Bush signed Tuesday.

The man became the President of South Africa and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but he is finally not a terrorist in America's eyes. This makes Cat Steven's refusal to be let into America seem logical.
The funny thing is that many Israeli apologists ask, "where is the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?"

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Why is it that North Korea was allowed to build a nuclear bomb during the Bush administration but we are told this administration will not allow Iran to do the same? The odd thing is that North Korea has missile technology that allows them to reach the United States whereas the Iranians do not. Why the difference? Is it oil or Israel?

Chomsky on Al Jazeera

Nader on Obama

Today's talking point.

Today the US Supreme court rejected the application of the death penalty to child rapists. The ones that rape children not children that rape. I can imagine, since pedophiles are rightly condemned, many people will be saying this was a terrible decision. They will say these people do not deserve to remain alive.
So the talking point is, if child rapists know that they may get the death penalty, if the abused child talks, then they will not allow the child to talk. In other words they would murder the child, since either way if it talks he gets the death penalty or if he kills it, and is caught, then he gets the death penalty. In killing the child he makes it more plausible that he could get away.
Now I would much prefer the chance to recover from being raped as a child as opposed to attempting to recover from being murdered. No amount of counseling is going to bring a murder victim back to life.
Oh ya, and the death penalty has never been shown to be a deterrent.

R.I.P.

The Israelis are fucking monsters!

Ya right.

SO Tim Russert died on Friday and the accolades haven't stopped yet. The one problem I have is this narrative that he was a good journalist. THis notion that he asked the "hard" questions. One example they showed was him asking Cheney what if we aren't greeted as liberators in Iraq but instead as occupiers. Cheney responds that he doesn't see that happening and, that is it, no more questions. I remember because I was watching that Sunday and I remember screaming at the TV.
IT is amazing how quickly convenient myths are created. Years from now the story will be that we had bad intelligence on Iraq and there were no dissenting voices in the Intelligence Community. Nothing about the VIce President's office setting up its own intelligence group to create 'intelligence" about Iraq or Cheney personally visiting the CIA.
I just love the bullshit fairy tale about how America always tries to do the right thing for the right reason but sometimes we accidentally slaughter 3.2 million Vietnamese and 58,000 Americans.
What is sad is that American, who must live in total denial at all times, accept it.

Finkelstein

Here a student asks Dr. Finkelstein if he attended the Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran.

Go Moyers

One Billion Dollars Gone

Interesting fact

Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for President exactly 45 years to the day that Dr. King delivered his "I have a dream" speech.

My letter to the Journal Sentinel

Letter writer David Hughes showed the goals of American conservatives when he asked, "Why should I have to pay a tax for something I don't use?" in his rant against mass transit ("Don't fund transit," June 1). It seems to be the goal of American conservatives to tear up the social contract and attempt to hammer any human solidarity out of us. Basically, he is asking why he should care about others in society.

Another prime example of this thinking was the attempt to privatize Social Security. That's basically asking why we should care if the old widow across town has enough to eat.

If human beings are social animals, and reciprocal altruism is the basis of our advancement into a highly scientific civilization, do American conservatives suffer from some unknown malady that makes them go against human nature?

Justin Loper
Shorewood
Link to Journal Sentinel