Sunday, November 20, 2011

102 Reason not to pay taxes. The Republican Tea Bag philosophy to a better life.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

SOPA ? Who's got the soap-a? More chains and shackels coming up for you!

 

SOPA: Why the 'broken web' should stay broken

By Zack Whittaker | November 17, 2011, 3:43am PST

Summary: The web may not be perfect, but SOPA is a reactionary bill to a broken copyright system. One thought alone: The ‘broken web’ is ironically what makes it work.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) will starve the web of the oxygen that it needs, issue its marching orders and censor the U.S. web as we know it.

One finds it ironic as an outside observer, from a country that does not have freedom of speech as such, to a country that dubs itself the ‘Land of the Free’.

And this is coming from someone who thought the Patriot Act was bad enough.

With the realisation that the SOPA may actually pass through Congress and become law, one has to question why the sudden shift from copyright-ownership powers, to powers in government; seemingly a slippery slope to China-style censorship endorsements?

The copyright system is broken, but so is the web. While one system needs reform, the latter should remain broken — as long as the core principles of the web are adhered to.
The problem is: there are no rules of the web, only the rules of law. And, with a borderless, inter-connected network spanning all but about two countries on the planet, there will be fallout far-and-wide from this bill that threatens to bring online freedom of speech to an end.

Maria Pallante, head of the U.S. Copyright Office, said:
“It is my view that if Congress does not continue to provide serious responses to online piracy, the U.S. copyright system will ultimately fail.”
Is it that copyright, although admittedly damaging to certain industries, is being used as the excuse to instigate control over the Internet?

The Internet is more than a means of displaying information. It has exploded into a rapid, uncontrolled center for communication, a vast network of information and data that the western community has complete access to. How long can we expect governmental structures not to try and bind its citizens?

When peer-to-peer networking first gained popular traction, particularly amongst the younger tech-savvy generations, all industries — including entertainment and music — had the chance to tweak their business models.

They had the opportunity to offer better value for money to their customers, who instead of waiting for staggered global release dates and the cost of $16.99 for a CD were suddenly able to share and download the same product within minutes for free.
No wonder it caught on.

Instead of changing with the times, the industries instead focused their efforts on trying to squash the insurgence. They tried the ’sacrificial goat approach’, charging individual ‘leechers’ — those who download but do not redistribute in turn – extortionate amounts of money that they would never be able to pay back.
The taking down of individual torrent sites that linked to the torrent file itself set a precedent where some website owners made a mockery of fractured, vague legal systems being imposed across borders; though it has not even begun to scratch the surface of the ‘endemic’ problem.

Governments worldwide are not focusing on the bigger picture. Instead, in a bid to satisfy the perverse Hollywood relationship the government has, it is not focusing on one very key outcome.
Citizens will not accept a government that censors the web.
To consider Pandora’s box theory, illegal copyright infringement, piracy, or ’stealing’, whatever you may call it, is ingrained into modern society to attempt to limit and control.

How would the general public react if the U.S. had a situation similar to the UK riots — which considering the economic state may not be such a fantasy? Would they calmly accept the restriction on Facebook or Twitter for an unspecified amount of time? A week? A month?

This could be ‘due cause’ to restrict and monitor social networking. Doesn’t this in turn limit how we can communicate, and if need be, organize public lobbying or peaceful protests?
Oh, hello China. Why are you smirking at us oh-so smugly?

It’s also amazing just how many people fighting for this bill aren’t versed in technology. Take Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas): “I’m not a technical expert on this”, he exclaims.
Would it not make more sense for the copyrighted material sharing ‘phenomena’ to be studied properly by technology experts, as the entire scenario relies on technology to make it possible?

The backlash will arguably definitively come from the younger generation. In reality, there are children still in high school who know more about programming and DNS entries than most of those arguing in Congress. Workarounds will be sought, discovered and widely accessed.

But who will enforce the ‘Great Firewall of America’: the copyright infringement police of Hollywood, or U.S. law enforcement? If it is the former rather than the latter, either way it routes at least some way into turning into the end-scene from V for Vendetta.

With the act handing over tremendous power to even small copyright holders, this could in turn cause online entrepreneurship to stagnate or even decline. Who would wants to spend time and money on a venture that could be shut down within a matter of days, whilst lawyers take their cut and argue over the issue?
Innovation may be exploding due to the freedom of the Internet and the rapid expansion of social media, but this bill could pinch out the flame.

SOPA is not about catching those who infringe copyright law.
It’s centered instead on the means to do it. The third-party who provides the service, such as a government regulator or even a private industry member — because governments do love to outsource, particularly in shady areas to distance itself from the judiciary — will mean that the Twitter’s, Facebook’s and the Tumblr’s of the world can immediately incur liability.

Small businesses can be hit with bogus or difficult to prove copyright claims, and be shut down within days.

The average user will not be able to bypass the bill’s measures, but it is not the average user that infringes copyright on a mass level.

Beyond anything else, there is no solid evidence to suggest that without this bill, the copyright system will fail. It should be businesses that adapt their business model, and find a cure to a solution that it in part created. Putting copyright into perspective and relative proportion.
 
The list of opponents to this bill runs down the length of my arm. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, AOL, Yahoo!, eBay, Mozilla — and of course, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — all oppose this bill and the measures it could enacts.

But instead of countering child abuse imagery, online terrorism and cybercrime, Hollywood is instead bidding its efforts on self-preservation amongst other things.

The web of politics that enmeshes economics, corporations and the public is well known and heavily documented. But something is heinously wrong when the balance of power shifts to the point where intended laws to protect the film and music industry are more severe, restricting and infringing of civil liberties than the laws set to prevent and report the spread of online child sexual abuse.

Putting a band-aid over a wound does not heal it. All in all, you cannot control something you do not understand the nature of.
But Congress will try anyway.



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Monday, October 3, 2011

Portable 12 Volt Motorcycle Helmet Air Conditioner


Motorcycle Helmet A/C: The Holly Grail.

There have been many patents and prototypes for an air cooled helmet. A few companies even got products to market but most seem to have failed. The exceptions are cool suits which are expensive, cooled by ice and very bulky. The other system I have seen is a small compressor Air Conditioner. Currently produce only for the military, the company would not reply to my inquiries.

Looking at the other idea and patents for helmet air conditioning. I got to pick and choose what worked the best. The use of the Peltier seems to be the only common denominator I ended up using.

The best delivery system for cold is liquid, not air. This was one reason I ruled out air delivery systems.
Whole systems built into the helmets adds too much weight and any holes added compromise the integrity of the helmet.

This lead to the following bench test contraption.

To Start with, I purchased a complete Peltier cooling system for around $30 USD on the internet. This is the system that is used in 12V carry along cooler/warmers.
This included cold and hot heat sinks. Neoprene insulating pad, Duel shaft fan and a Thermal switch. Plugs into a 12 Volt outlet. The TEC is a mystery. The seller thinks it may be 80 watts and there are no markings.

 The Plan:
To loop poly-tubing through the channels of the cold side and run them to a cap embedded with water loops. The Peltier system would fit in a small back pack and plug into a 12 volt accessory plug.




This is what 39 feet of 1/8" ID polyethylene tubing looks like wrapped around a 6" by 5" finned aluminum heat (cold) sink. I used aluminum ducting tape to hold it in. The center area was left open for the photo.

This is the first completed system. 

I had to make tubing connectors, The cap was custom made by Ebayer Hatsbyaya, $4 and fits perfectly, is placed the cap over a mixing bowl (simulated head). 
I took test temperatures under the bowl. 
I placed the pump before the chiller in the off chance if there was any heat generated by the pump, it would not bleed into the chilled water heading to the helmet.

Pump #1:  A new windshield washer motor, $9 from the web. It never worked. I took it apart to find one of the o-rings used to seal the drive shaft was larger than the space allotted letting the motor case fill instantly with water.

Pump #2 Shown above is a 12 volt RC model fuel transfer pump. This pump lasted 105 minutes. Upon dis-assembly I found the impeller had stripped off the shaft. I assume that the back pressure of 1/8: tubing was to great. $15 pumps were not built for this.

Pump #3 A Mr. Gasket Electronic fuel pump, $48 at Autozone. This pump lasted 2 hours. Pump failure is undetermined as of yet not having the time to cut it open but there was a lot of oil in the water.

What follows is the very limited data I was able to collect.

The first several tests caused coupling failure, each cost a day in drying time for the new coupling. My kingdom, such as it is, for a 3-D printer!

Test #1 R/C model pump, set up as shown above. 
72 seconds to circulate once.
10:55 Turned chiller and pump on. Ambient temperature, 86 F
12:00 Turned the pump off and left the Peltier running to cool the sitting water.
12:16 Turned pump on.
12:20 Ambient temperature 96.5 F, Interior of mixing bowl 87.5 F
12:35 Ambient temperature 99.5 F, Interior of mixing bowl 89.0 F
12:40 Pump failure.

What was achieved:

The system as set up did manage to cool a helmet by 9-9.5 F. There was no head body heat load nor a heat load from the sun. However, neither the tubing nor the cooler have any insulation.

Changes after test one:


Both aluminum heat sinks were polished where they contact the TEC. This insures a more uniform contact surface for a higher thermal transfer.
The poly tubing was replaced with 24 feet of 1/8" OD copper tubing. I found that tube bending tool did not work as well as using a spring cover over the area to be bent.

Set up number two, ready for testing.

Test #2  Mr. Gasket pump, set up as shown above. 
6 seconds to circulate once.
4:10 Ambient temperature. 92 F. Start chiller, no pump.
4:35 Water temperature at chiller inlet, 93.5 F.  Water temperature at chiller outlet, 73.0 F Core temperature of chiller, 53.3 F
4:36 Start pump.
4:46 Inlet temperature, 84 F outlet temperature 79F.
Mr Gasket pump spurts oil into the water loop and seizes.

Lessons learned:

Pumps are the Achilles heal of the system.
1/8" OD tubing is too small to be effective in real world use. I believe it also lead to the pump failures.
Efficiency through insulation has much room for improvement.

Future plans:
As I post this, I am waiting for the remaining parts to assemble a complete, off the shelf, wearable unit that can be tested under real world conditions. 

Parts for the next unit include: 
2-Corsair H60 coolers (Received)
Larger TEC  (Received)              
Aerogel Insulation (Received)

This project is open source. Anything posted in this article is free to be used for personal consumption.

I will continue to work on this blog as needed as information is prepared

If this has been a help, saved you money...send a little my way. Any proceeds will be used to fund this and other ideas as they come along. Sorry, donations are not tax deductible.

Thanks for looking at the musings of a Crazy Old Man!

Steve

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Number One United States Leads The World!



#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on the entire globe. Thanks to the "War on Drugs" one half of Americas prisoners are incarcerated for Marijuana use.


#2 According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world. Thanks to our fast food and zero healthy eating instructions.


#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin. We just can't live up to that stylized TV and movie lifestyles.


#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week. Reding iz fundermantial.

#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet. When people are told they can't, they will plus we can afford it.

#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far. A lot more cars to steal and unemployed people with nothing to do.

#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world. That's reported. Many country do not keep adequate records. Still no excuse for rape , anytime, anywhere, either sex.

#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world. Shot first and run.

#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.It's a job these days.

#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world. We need to be kept in line for the wealthy.

#11 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth. And we rank 37th in the world?

#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet. A happy population is a docile population.

#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world. Stepford wives wanted.

#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world. You need a job to pay your loan.

#15 More pornography is created in the United States than anywhere else on the entire globe.  89 percent is made in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made in the rest of the world. Go listen to ♪♫ California Girls ♫♪ by the Beachboys.

#16 The United States has the largest trade deficit in the world every single year.  Between December 2000 and December 2010, the United States ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars with the rest of the world, and the U.S. has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976. This is where your job went.

#17 The United States spends 7 times more on the military than any other nation on the planet does.  In fact, U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined. Lets see, we spend $4Trillion off the books for wars and now we are in debt for $4Trillion so logically the poor and middle class are being made to pay for Republican hostility.

#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does. We leave a piece behind after every war. I project that in 100 years, we will have a military base in every country.

#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world. Tax loop holes for the rich and for corporations. Every one including corporations would pay a simple 5% tax, we would have no deficit.

#20 The U.S. has accumulated the biggest national debt that the world has ever seen and it is rapidly getting worse.  Right now, U.S. government debt is expanding at a rate of $40,000 per second. It was not this way in the Clinton era.

Bush spent it.

Obama is blamed for it.

So are you convinced that we are in trouble yet?

Steve
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Ronald Reagan Myth, Facts and the Rewriting of History


Ronald Reagan was 100 years old in February. His birthday was celebrated by conservatives and the Tea Party. I hate to break this to them but the so called "King of the Conservatives" died when he was 93.

If I say this out loud, I risk getting hit in the head by a shovel wielding neocon, but Reagan would never be accepted by the GOP/TP today because of his liberalism! I will break it down into an easy to follow format, the fairy tale, followed by the truth.
As always, I you are welcomed to refute anything printed in this blog. Also please note the absence of any real arguments as it is difficult to prove a fact wrong.

Reagan never raised Taxes:
 As governor of California, Reagan signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.while he nearly doubled state spending.
As president, Reagan raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office.
including four times in just two years! Reagan raised taxes a total of eleven times during his term as President. Reagan, the anti-tax zealot, is mythology

Reagan cut the federal budget deficit:
During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion. Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously.
Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.

 Reagan’s tax cuts lowered Unemployment rates:

Nationwide, unemployment rose to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut in 1981! It took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class and the economic growth of the 1980′s did little to help them. 

 Reagan cut federal government spending:

Reagan promised to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending but federal spending nearly tripled under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. He promised to cut government agencies like the Department of Energy and Education but ended up adding one of the largest — the Department of Veterans' Affairs which now has a budget of nearly $90 billion and close to 300,000 employees. He also raised defense spending by over $100 billion a year.

 Reagan was anti-abortion:

As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that resulted in more than a million abortions. When Reagan ran for president, he advocated a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited all abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, but once in office, he never signed any anti abortion laws.

 Reagan's dream… a world free of nuclear weapons:

Stemming from the president’s belief that the biblical account of Armageddon prophesied nuclear war — and that apocalypse could be averted if everyone, especially the Soviets, eliminated nuclear weapons. Reagan’s military buildup was meant to crush the Soviet Union and to put the United States in a stronger position from which to establish effective arms control for the the entire world — a vision acted out by Regean’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, when he became president. And don't forget Nancey's psychics.

Reagan was tough on illegal immigrants:

Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty. The bill was sold as a crackdown, but its tough sanctions on employers who hired undocumented immigrants were removed before final passage. The bill helped 3 million people and millions of family members gain American residency. It has since become a source of  major embarrassment for conservatives.

 Reagan believed in open government:

Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran which was subject to an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages.
Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing. When the deals went public, the Iran-Contra Affair, as it came to be know, was an enormous political scandal that forced several senior administration officials to resign.

Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act:

This act placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate.

 Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden:

Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, a prominent mujahedin commander, emerged from these groups.  Reagan’s decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden' ascendancy which led to 9-11.

Conservatives have the tendency to draw their conclusions first then work backwards looking for validation. If facts get in the way of the conclusions, the facts are then ignored. If you are of the ilk and would like to prove me wrong, please do. The best you could ever do is the same old GOP "dance around the subject"!

 Face it, Ronnie Ray-Gun sucked as has everything tainted by Republicans since his presidency.

Steve

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Monday, June 27, 2011

WTF? Face Book Friends and Enemys


Once upon a time, I wrote a very small story on a up and coming artist in the liberal world. The Political Artwork of Tracy Knauss

Twitts were tweeted and a link was posted on something called Face Book. 

A Crazy Old Man Asks WTF?: The Political Artwork of Tracy Knauss
crazyoldmanwtf.blogspot.com. 

The heading from this blog was posted along with with the link to the article. 

HEADING TO BLOG------->Get off my lawn or I will throw monkey shit at your punk ass! These are the musings of a crazy old man. My ruthless (I do miss Ruth) battering on your senses until you get it that everything you know is wrong! I explore the WTF!? factor of life. Your ability to make me ask, WTF were they thinking!

And this is where the citizens of Face Book did a Face Plant.

ONLY IN AMERIKKA! WOW! THE ONE EYE MONSTER IS SCARED OF DAVID! BOOEY, BOOEY, BOOEY! JUST ~ A MORE SOPHISTICATED "SKINHEAD", IMHO! MY FELLOW PATRIOTS ~ BE ON THE ALERT FOR VENGEFUL, ARYAN HATERS LIKE THIS "FREEDOM" LOVING AMERICAN! THEY ONLY LOVE "CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES"! WWJS?" "NOT OF MY FLOCK! NO WAY!"

"A CRAZY OLD MAN ASKS WTF? GET OFF MY LAWN OR I WILL THROW MONKEY SHIT AT YOUR PUNK ASS! THESE ARE THE MUSINGS OF A CRAZY OLD MAN. MY RUTHLESS (I DO MISS RUTH) BATTERING ON YOUR SENSES UNTIL YOU GET IT THAT EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG! I EXPLORE THE WTF!? FACTOR OF LIFE. YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE ME ASK, WTF WERE THEY THINKING!? MORONS!"~ WOULD BE DIC(k)-TA-TORS LIKE THIS ONE ~ DISGUST ME •

Click on "A Crazy Old Man WTF"~To The Skinhead Rant!

G_DDDDDD! Gotta rally the "SOLDIERS FOR PEACE" troops! I KNOW there are more of us than of these Rabid "SKINHEADS IN SUITS" Jen! 'JUST RATTLEs ME TO THE MARROW! THE LUNACY still seems to be epidemic! LOVE IS AN ACTION WORD! BY THIS ~ SHALL ALL MEN KNOW ~ THAT WE ARE FOLLOWERS OF "CHRIST": THE CHIEF RABBI, BROTHER TO ADAM, ABRAHAM, BUDDHA, ETCETERA, ETCETERA~"BONIFIED" MEMBER OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN! SELA!♥

As I have long suspected many people on facebook will click "like" and never read the article, view the video or listen to the sound bite. Is it just a matter of people liking something so that others may like them too.
The game is to gather as many "friends" as you can. I am often asked to be a friend yet often, when I write to these folks, I get no replies. Why be my friend if you don't want to interact with me?

I see some people who spend just about every wakening moment arguing for and defending their side. Others that preach to the choir all day long for it is easier to stay at home and agree with the like minded than to actually visit the real world and have to physically work for change.

"We should all help to feed the poor" you type, over and over. Well get your overfed fat ass off the computer chair and drag it down to your local Harry Chapin food bank and start dishing food on peoples plates....and don't complain to me that you can't because you have carpel tunnel from the keyboard!

So, since this blog was deemed inappropriate by an anonymous turd and liberals think I am a Nazi, what the fuck is a crazy old man to do? Should I tone it down on the politics? Should I not dig up and post discoveries before other news media gets it? Should I stop hurting people with my words? Maybe I should not pick on morons?

HA, had ya going for a minute thinking that I was going to change myself, you moron!


FUCK YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY!

Steve

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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Wearing a Mask Of Tea & Freedom Third Reich Values Slink Into America

Logo of the SAImage via Wikipedia

People are too dumb or too lazy to verify what they spout. This makes it so people, who are trying to get real work done, have to waste their time correcting mis-truths and disinformation just to garnish the slightest bit of public support to make progress anywhere. 

People don’t realize how dangerous this ploy is.
Right now the economy is in the shitter. People are scared. People have lost their jobs they’re angry. They have organized  mobilized into this populist “tea party”. They even think it’s a real grassroots organization, dismissing the fact that they’re being led by billionaires and a corporate media. These are the angry masses that will eat up any scapegoat that their “leaders” feed them.

We’ve seen this in history before. I’m not trying to evoke Godwin's Law or anything but I see a lot of correlations between the right-wing disenfranchised populist uprising here in America a lot of what people experience in Wiemar Germany. There was a lot of angry people, scared about the loss of their jobs and an economy in bad shape. 

Those angry, uneducated people were looking for someone to blame. They didn’t care if they sided with a political party that would be responsible for fucking them over and destroying their democracy, not to mention the massive harm they would do to other groups. No, all that mattered was they found leaders who pretended to have answers. People like quick and simple answers and fixes, certainty and shared anger.

That’s what the Nazi Party gave them. That’s what the Tea Party/Fox News/AM Radio and portions of the GOP are giving this right wing uprising too. Anything intellectual is ignored or met with disinformation an a general air of superior anti-intellectualism.

Everywhere I go: home, at work, on the TV/radio, browse the internet – I see the same message: 

“My opinion is better than your facts!”

This approach is rooted deeply in ignorance and anger. When the populace stops listening to those with brains, ignores factual information and opts for those that shout opinions, we got a problem. 

The Tea Party would be an extremely powerful force if they had a politician that was worth a damn. Every time they have someone who is charismatic, they’re an obvious idiot or crook.

If a Tea Party-er comes along who is charismatic and honest, the US is in trouble. Because of the frustration, disillusionment, justified anger and the absence of any coherent response from liberals. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the Illegal Immigrants from Mexico, the Muslims, Teachers, Women, Unions, Planned Parenthood, NPR, and Blacks (you can toss in atheists, homosexuals and; liberals too). We will be told that WASPy private sector males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. 

Instead of fixing problems that truly affect the all of the working class, the nation will be convinced to support legislation that will further protect and consolidate power for the corporate elite.

All those privacy rights, the voice we have in our government, due process, checks and balances that protect us all? 

Those things just get in the way of security and stability! The right-wing that supports these parties and leaders will get hurt too, just in a more subtle way – they give away their rights and are too stupid to realize what they’ve done to themselves.

Steve
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