Archive for April, 2007

SF Piece: Tribute to an Anti

Web Censorship “Bypass” Unveiled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/technology/6187486.stm

I remember a young Canadian anti-racist whoinisisted helived in a free country. When racist cites were outlawed, he mirrored every “hate” site he culd find in protest. I do not know whether he is out of prison yet.

Antis here talk abut free speech, butnone of them are ever upset about gag laws,and I am sure the Blue Ribbon Free Speech crowd dsavowed this young man completely.

We have an oppositin thread here, but no anti demands the same of their own media. But there was one honest anti once, though I cannot find out what the other antis did to him.

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Dave

The UK Defense Ministry’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre recently issued a new report:

“The middle classes could become a revolutionary class. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat… Faced by these twin challenges, the world’s middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest.”

The report argues that the era of major wars between nation states is over, but that cooperation among nation states on policies that produce ever greater disparities of wealth will usher in an era of class warfare between classes of citizens across national boarders.

Substitute the word “white race” for “middle classes” and “class interest” and the Concepts and Doctrine Centre may have it right.

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Presidents and Body Counts

It is generally agreed that Lincoln was the greatest president. During his term of office, more Americans were killed than in all of America’s other wars combined.

The second greatest is generally conceded to be George Washington. He had an unfortunately almost bloodless eight years as president, but he was the leader when the greatest slaughter in our history occurred before Lincoln took the lead.

Frankling Roosevelt is in the top three. His administration saw the greatest number of American deaths since Lincoln’s championship record, as yet unbroken.

Wilson is termed one of the great presidents, but by the time he kept America out of war to get reelected in 1916, he got us into World War I too late to build up a serious body count, though he WAS a distant third.

Reagan won his war without firing a shot. So he was not a great president.

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Shari

There was an editorial cartoon in our paper this week. It had Lincoln sitting in a chair holding an envelope. Next to him was a big fat slob of a white guy sitting at a computer with a container of “big gulp.” The caption said “The BACK of an ENVELOPE? DUDE I can’t scan and UPLOAD that to YOUTUBE in time for the AM BLOGS!!”

I mention this just to let you “BESTs” know that you are already scaring the hell out of more than you probably know. Of course things have gotten worse for fifty years. It’s unfortunately, a fact of life that things rot until the stench is intolerable. But the time has come. I think that lincoln is also credited with saying that “you can’t fool ALL the people ALL the time.”

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ME:

Lincoln said “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

Which describes US.

He also said, “You can fool some of the people some of the time.”

But when he said the latter, he was THINKING, “But if you do it ONCE, it lasts four years.”

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Lady Churchill

When Winston Churchill’s mother was growing up in her native Virginia, her mother took her to look at a village of poor whites. She said to her daughter, “This is awful. THESE ARE WHITE PEOPLE LIKE US yet they live like this!”

I am willing to bet that, if another TV dramatization of this incident is made, it will quote her as saying, “These are PEOPLE like us …”

Lady Churchill, though an active conservative (thanks for the correction!) had a special empathy for the British working classes that she never had for Virginia blacks or other blacks.

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