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Did anyone see Arudhati Roy's interview? Despite the typical corporate robot provocateur "questions," Roy is utterly brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYW_-xAKD5s
Two points:
1. Maybe the Naxalites (Maoists) have it right. Ghandi makes no sense when there is NO AUDIENCE for protests, Ghandi makes no sense when the capitalist state exercises full spectrum dominance. Roy's points here are good.
2. This video is from CNN/IBN - India. Time Warner CNN would NEVER permit a 21 minute interview with a leftist intellectual on any subject INSIDE the US. We are truly the most heavily indoctrinated and hopeless people in human history. There is hope where civilization's remnants remain, like Venezuela and India and Bolivia. We'll have to look south for inspiration.
We Can Block that Signal
Great. Remind us how much more totalitarian the United State's government has become.
Roy, another anti-Semitic lefty.
In order to keep the banks solvent, every American will be required to have (let's say) $250 in their bank accounts at all times, or risk fines.
There is hope where civilization's remnants remain, like Venezuela and India and Bolivia.
Too bad many Venezuelans wouldn't agree with that, but hey, what's the opinion of the actual people suffering under Chavez to do with leftist grandstanding?
@anon 4:26pm
I find it striking that people like Martin King, Nelson Mandela, Bishop Tutu, and now Roy are routinely labeled anti-Semitic.
In polite conversation one is supposed to smile knowingly at this. "Look how angry and carried away these people are"...
While these "do-gooders" may have raised some good points, they are obviously like children and we certainly do not need to change our lifestyles or opinions, anything that would change anything, really.
However, I have never seen anything remotely connecting anything of the thousands of pages written by any left activist non-chalantly labeled anti-Semitic to the real thing.
Seriously, I would change my opinion about any and all of King, Mandela, Tutu, Roy... if any evidence of anti-semitism could be provided. Would you be willing to give specific quotations to this effect?
We know from Nixon tapes that the late Irreverand Billy Graham agreed with Richard Nixon's anti-Semitic views, and then there was Jesse Jackson's notorious "Hymietown" remark.
In the words of The Cognitive One aka Aggie Dude aka Dave, I don't have time to site my sources. You do it.
OK OK, let's try this instead: See I don't have to come up with quotes. I know what they are thinking. They use code words, and I infer what they really mean.
If you aren't clear on these methods, just ask TCO.
Barry is intellectually lazy. He's played more golf games to date than Bush did in 8 years. He's a busy man-child.
anon,
We know from Nixon tapes that the late Irreverand Billy Graham agreed with Richard Nixon's anti-Semitic views, and then there was Jesse Jackson's notorious "Hymietown" remark.
Jesse Jackson (see wiki entry)
Billy Graham (see wiki entry)
both profusely apologized for having used a slur or having gone along with Nixon, respectively. This may not be enough to let them off the hook, at least it isn't for me - especially when you are a public figure then you should adhere to some standards also in conversations not meant for public release.
It is particularly problematic for Jesse Jackson to have used such language since this makes it easy for people to simply dismiss his critical statements about US foreign policy in the middle East, media bias in reporting on Palestine, etc.
I honestly do not know why you bring up Billy Graham in this context - while an interesting character for an "evangelist", he was never left-wing or consistently anti-war, for that matter.
apologies to Ted for being doubly off topic - first for discussing Arundhati Roy instead of his comic and now for discussing Billy Graham instead of Arundhati Roy ;-)
I know why Incitatus doesn't like Chavez. He campaigns on a platform, wins the vote in an internationally supervised election, and then does what he says he will. United Statesians find that insane. Your supposed to be nominated by Wall Street, buy the vote or steal it, and then - with this mandate - do whatever it takes to make the rich richer.
Quote Incitatus, in an apparent attempt at white supremacist capitalist-butt-sucking neoNazi humor, "what's the opinion of the actual people suffering under Chavez to do with leftist grandstanding?"
By every standard, the poor are doing better under Chavez. And they're the majority. But, funny this, so are the rich (thanks to higher oil prices trickling through banks, etc). They've NEVER done better under ANY government in Venezuelan history. Chavez is also the first president in V's history not to declare martial law... unlike all those pro-democracy types supported by the US Empire. Illiteracy is no more. More folks are now seeing doctors, getting high school and college degrees. Agriculture and industry are being jumpstarted after decades of overdependence on oil exports. Solar and wind power are actually being developed too - Chavez (not Bush or Obama) regularly talks about a post-oil world... INCREDIBLE given the power of oil production in the country. I've been to Venezuela four times recently - compared to the hopeless and compromised USians, it's wonderful to see a justly proud people building their country.
But what would a racist like Incitatus need with FACTS? The very sight of brown people not under the heel of Uncle Sam must scare him shitless.
My only problem with Chavez is that he didn't exterminate the capitalists after the US-Chamber of Commerce coup attempt in 2002. But then again, it's Venezuelans' country, not mine... and they (repeatedly) elected Chavez and his Bolivarian party, not me. Unlike white supremacist Incitatus, I have the humility to believe that the MAJORITY of Venezuelans have the right to govern their own country.
What the reichwing filth in the discussion are TRYING to say is: many lefties don't like Israel's treatment of the indigenous Palestinian population or the US Empire's support of it. The reichwing filth then equates Israel with Jews, which ITSELF is an act of anti-Semitism. Yawn. Next lie... that one's getting old. Really old.
The reichwing filth then equates Israel with Jews, which ITSELF is an act of anti-Semitism.
Yeah equating Israel with Jews is real stupid. It's like equating Obama with Kenya.
Said Esteban:
But what would a racist like Incitatus need with FACTS? The very sight of brown people not under the heel of Uncle Sam must scare him shitless
If you're for real, and not just a troll out for laughs, you're a very messed up person. I cannot be an American white supremacist for the very simple reasons that I'm neither white nor American. OTOH, you are the one with the hateful and blood-thirsty rethoric.
The people suffering (and complaining) under Chavez are the Venezuelans I've spoken too when I was there: not PDVSA technocrats, but regular folks: IT people, hotel staff, cab drivers. The poor are not doing better in a country that has widespread scarcity, barely manages to contain hyperinflation and has to import most of its food.
Mind you, I never claimed that Venezuela was a-OK before Chavez. But something is seriously screwed in a country with an overbearing chief-of-state who changes legislation to keep himself in power seemingly forever, censors and shuts down independent media channels, and has his own brownshirt (I mean, "guayaberas rojas") militia. Oh, and has the gall to admonish Venezuelans to keep their morning showers short to make up for his mishandling of the energy supply.
Dorme bene.
Incitatus: no one is ever a white male American on the internet. LOL!
And as Larry Elders (see Ted's blog entry above) and Barack Obama show, you don't have to be 100% Euro to be a white supremacist. Sort of like you don't have to be French to be a francophile. And I don't see what being or not being an American has to do with white supremacism: why does the British National Party love Israel? White supremacism much?
Of course, a million people in red shirts came out to greet the unpopular Chavez during the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's march toward partial independence a few days back. I could really use that kind of unpopularity. But since you are a white supremacist, it probably confuses you how Chavez is beside the point in a way (because, as you believe, stupid brown people need caudillos to act up, or the firm hand of the US and corporations to set them right)... the real triumph of Bolivarianism is how the energy and creativity of millions of poor have been unleashed in grassroots projects across the country. Democracy is a beautiful thing. The US should try it one day.
As for Brown Shirts - your ignorance of Nazi Germany and contemporary Venezuela is, well, typical for a white American (which, of course, you're merely impersonating). Yes, I remember well when my friends and I were arrested by "blue shirts" during the 2004 GOP convention in NYC. How my friends were visited and fined by the feds after they "illegally" traveled to Cuba. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, I stayed for 2 nights in the wealthy part of Caracas, Altamira, and watched plenty of anti-Chavez protests... and I ALSO watched plenty of leftist protests and shout-downs about Chavez. (As one 70-year-old woman explained to me: "Chavez may be the president of Venezuela, but I am the president of Chavez." Could you ever imagine someone saying that about Bush or Obama in the US? Hahaha... Because, you see, it scares you - but that's the way democracy is.
We're such a free country here in the USA, and I'm so glad you've come to a US-based blog to denounce those brown people, those ignorant lazy brown people in their Venezuelan brown shirts, echoing all the ignorance Americans get from NPR and the Associated Press. That's why - no matter where you're typing and what color your skin is - your communication is white supremacist. Through and through, the content and context tell all.
And try this Latin: Stercorem pro cerebro habes, futue te ipsum. I love the internet.
Esteban, if you're a troll, you need lots of subtlety to become funny. Otherwise you're a very troubled person.
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