Actually Echo... I came here to post because I am running a label with someone who was banned from here, and also someone who ISN'T banned from here: CLAW. So that part of your statement is false.
Second of all, I'm not a leftist--I'm a CONSTITUTIONALIST. If you don't agree that the CONSTITUTION is the supreme law of this land, you change it--you don't ignore the thing.
The asshat comment was probably out of line. Sorry for that--it wasn't justified, nor was the comment it was in response to. It was the way he said it, not WHAT he said. His comment was a shot at me, and I took it fairly personally. I posted some Ron Paul videos and asked who people supported--I didn't say he was the guy I was voting for, just posted the videos for people to see. If you look at my YOUTUBE account, you will see that I've actually only uploaded 2 videos on youtube...
1 of them is a MUSIC VIDEO for the label, and the other one is a video calling out CBS for ignoring Dennis Kucinich in a debate, and deleting every poll that he is winning in a landslide. Hardly far right propaganda. It was a video calling out the media for ignoring viable candidates. So you may just be wrong. Also, talking about Right Wing ideas and discussing them from that point of view shouldn't be seen as ADVOCACY for those issues... if you want a Left Wing circle jerk, why not just say so, man? It's no fun to discuss politics when everyone agrees--so I took the least popular opinion and was arguing for the other side.
I realize that you have an invested interest, and so you can't open your mind and even CONSIDER the other side--I can. Hell, if you look at my Myspace page I have 3 Presidential Candidates in my top 10... and Ralph Nadar, and several other less notable leaders. I advocate discussion of positions--not the positions themselves.
Lastly,
When you work for 5 months out of the year to pay INCOME TAXES, and you have NO CHOICE in the matter, you are a SLAVE. That is NOT Freedom. It's slavery. For National Healthcare to work, you have to tax people. Period. That means that you have to take money from me and give it to someone else.
That's theft. What if I don't want to pay money to support the war, national healthcare, etc?
I shouldn't have to do so--if I don't have the FREEDOM to decide to opt out of that bullshit, social security(which I'll never be able to collect, etc)--then what good is Democracy?
Wanna know what a Dennis Kucinich presidency with a complacent congress will look like? USSR, CUBA, VENEZUELA(NOW!)
Hugo Chavez is taking over corporations and nationalizing them. If you think that the medical industry is going to take financial risks to create medicines and new products when the threat of the government coming in and stealing the fruits of that labor is almost a certainty, you are crazy. That's not propaganda, that's fact. Look at history--Name one Socialist state that is doing well right now... now name ONE socialist state that lasted more than 100 years. Nuff said.
Freedom died in 1913 when the IRS and the Federal Reserve were illegally thrust upon us by a vote of 3-0 in the senate... in case you are wondering, those numbers ARE correct--no quorum present. Not a single voice of dissent.
Since 1913 the value of our dollar is 4 cents, compared to the dollar of 1913 when it was backed with Gold.
Capitalism also brought you such things as the clothes on our backs, record labels, 90% of the websites you view, ALL television, ALL movies, MOST books... come to think of it, if it costs money, that's what capitalism brought you.
Again, it's not the system of Capitalism that is flawed, it's the implementation of Capitalism. Constitutional government and real Republicanism doesn't look anything like the shit parading around as Republicanism today. You think this nation was meant to be an EMPIRE?
I don't think I'm smarter or better than anyone, though it may seem that way because I present facts as facts, and not as opinions and possibilities. I'm throwing them out there and you are free to disagree--but saying "how old are you, probably young judging by what you are saying..."
I have a Masters Degree in Philosophy, and am currently working on a Masters Degree in Peace Studies(Conflict Resolution) with an Emphasis on Middle Eastern Foreign Policy... there is no Bachelors program for Peace Studies though, so I went the Political Science route. If that tells you anything, consider how long it takes to acquire that kind of Resume and you can guess that I'm not as young as you thought at first.
Because I subscribe to no particular doctrine or political philosophy as a whole, you may confuse me as Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, etc... one thing you will NEVER accuse me of being, is a STATIST.
On Billy Graham... he's dying of cancer. Cancer affects a LOT of people I know, and it's amazing to me how few of these supposedly accepting Peace Advocates are the first to trash Christianity, but they won't touch Islam. Why not? I would say that they're approaching the same numbers of bodies in the name of their Messiah...
Ok enough to you... now to Municiple:
Im a member of the CFR. I speak there regularly on issues related to China.
Thanks for admitting this, as a speaker for CFR, could you please justify a few things for me, perhaps? Namely...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JPlvdSQ6cAM
to create a world system of control in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole
CFR membership -- THE ruling establishment of the United States
Media members of the CFR?
Tom Brokaw
Dan Rather
Barbera Walters
Jim Lehrer
William F Buckly
RUPPERT MURDOCH!
But who else?
Michael Eisner of Disney...
Thomas Murphy of ABC...
AOL
Time Warner...
are you getting the point?
The sphere of influence here?
So the question, is why would people from Opposite political leanings all be a part of this organization? It's simple... they aren't from opposite leanings at all...
Clinton, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, etc etc etc...
Who wasn't a member of CFR?
Oh yea.. Kennedy. He also tried to get rid of the Federal Reserve--he died less than 2 weeks later... his "assassin" was also assassinated. There are TWO official stories of this HIT on Kennedy, both contradict one another, both are OFFICIAL and BOTH claim the other was wrong... This isn't some conspiracy... the STATED purpose of CFR is to Destroy national boundaries and install one world government... and has been called by Reagan and Bush Sr. THE NEW WORLD ORDER in their speeches.
In the last Democratic debate you watched 3 of the Democratic front runners stand up and say that they couldn't promise to have us out of Iraq within 8 years!
If you think voting for Obama, Clinton or Edwards will end Iraq, you are mistaken. Hillary is preparing for war with Iran--and the Democrats are OWNED by AIPAC(American Israeli Political Action Committee)... why do you think they don't advocate for a free Palestine?
In final summation:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Watch this movie. It streams on the page. Mindblowing.