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Originally posted by Cuervo
... oh God I wish I could think for myself..."
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by Cuervo
Wait, there are letters after C?
You might have just blown someone's mind, Cuervo.
If God had intended for there to be letters after C, he wouldn't have named it "Knowing your ABC's" now would he?
Originally posted by ReluctantBlossom
Whatever your theory is about how it started, if they succeed at rooting out the corruption that infects our political process, won't we ALL benefit from that??
Why in the Hell wouldn't you want that?
It seems to me that all the people complaining about OWS should try and keep that in mind.
Originally posted by Open_Minded Skeptic
Good. I hope it is exactly what you fear, and I hope they succeed. Obama has not proven quite capable to adequately overcome the focused, bigot-driven hate campaign being waged against him based on lies and distortions, but this country would be orders of magnitude worse off than we are now if the GOP had free rein.
As bad as it may be now, it would be worse otherwise.
Neoconservatism in the United States is a branch of American conservatism. Since 2001, neoconservatism has been associated with democracy promotion, that is with assisting movements for democracy, in some cases by economic sanctions or military action.
In contemporary usage, the term "neoconservative" was used in 1973 to criticize American liberals and social democrats who had criticized the ambitions and outcomes of the Great Society's welfare programs.[citation needed] Although neoconservatives favor free-market policies in economics, they accept a role for the national government in fighting poverty and promoting the public good, like traditional conservatives in Europe and Canada and unlike most American conservatives, influenced by libertarian and states' rights traditions.[1][2] During the 1970s, "neoconservative" was applied to Democrats who had favored a negotiated settlement rather than an immediate withdrawal to end the Vietnam War and who criticized the foreign policy of President Jimmy Carter,[citation needed] particularly his support of detente and criticism of anticommunism. Several[who?] neoconservatives were approached by the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan, which criticized the detente of the Carter Administration; a few neoconservatives like Jeanne Kirkpatrick served in the Reagan Administration. During the late 1970s through 1983, neoconservatives like Kirkpatrick criticized Carter's human rights policies, arguing that they had facilitated the rise of the Sandistas in Nicaragua and risked helping other Marxist-Leninist movements come to power. Neoconservatives were initially skeptical about the AFL-CIO's support of the Polish labor-union Solidarity, but came to support the National Endowment for Democracy's aid to movements for liberalization and democratization in the former Soviet Union. After the fall of Soviet communism, American politics featured less discussion of neoconservativism in the 1990s. Most neoconservatives supported a military response against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and many supported liberating Iraq from Sadam Hussein, although some[who?] have made criticisms of the scope and conduct of both wars.
U.S. Constitution - Article 4 Section 4
Article 4 - The States
Section 4 - Republican Government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Thompson added, “Janet Napolitano is lying to the American people when she says the Report is not based on ideology or political beliefs. In fact, her report would have the admiration of any current or past dictator in the way it targets political opponents.”
The Report specifically mentions the following political beliefs that law enforcement should use to determine whether someone is a “rightwing extremist”:
* Opposes restrictions on firearms
* Opposes lax immigration
* Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship and the expansion of social programs
* Opposes continuation of free trade agreements
* Opposes same-sex marriage
* Has paranoia of foreign regimes
* Fear of Communist regimes
* Opposes one world government
* Bemoans the decline of U.S. stature in the world.
* Upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India
* . . . and the list goes on
The Law Center is asking the court to declare that the DHS policy violates the First and Fifth Amendments, to permanently enjoin the Policy and its application to the plaintiffs’ speech and other activities, and to award the plaintiffs their reasonable attorney’s fees and costs for having to bring the lawsuit.
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Originally posted by Connector
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Again this was planned as a GLOBAL movement by Canadians and protests are happening all over the world. So the Dems most certainly had nothing to do with the original idea, but since maybe trying to co-opt it in the US.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by Connector
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Again this was planned as a GLOBAL movement by Canadians and protests are happening all over the world. So the Dems most certainly had nothing to do with the original idea, but since maybe trying to co-opt it in the US.
Of course it is, it is part of the Global socialist agenda the ORGANIZERS of these events worldwide want, and the mayority of people in their ignorance are believing this will be "for the good of everyone", except that you all are falling for the same old rethoric, exagerations and lies which have been used in the past to transform nations into socialist dictatorships. But this time it is a global event.
People worlwide are so eager for some new change, that they accept anything and everything these organizers claim they will do.
Where do you think all the money for making these worldwide "protests" come from?...
Are you people really that naive?...
OWS a Controlled Movement for the Re-election of Barak Obama and Progressive Democrats
Are you people really that naive?...
Originally posted by Connector
I mulled giving a detailed response, but thought better of it.
I simply provided facts to refute your thread title...
Originally posted by Connector
The movement was started by people from around the globe, with no connection to Obama or even the US? Stay on your own topic.
Originally posted by Connector
What does "you people" mean? What group are you conveniently inserting me in? Are the commies coming?
The neocons, which the left love to bash but obviously have no idea of who they are talking about, for the most part have also been democrats, and or liberals, but claimed to change sides to infiltrate the party