YES! - It's becoming obvious that we are a corporatocracy, and so there is an increasing need to prevent civil unrest.
97%
NO! - The FAA bill, the NDAA, the Patriot Act, Terrorist watch lists, etc, are all just keeping us safe.
3%
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And so we take a nother step towards both a Corporate Fascist Police State and the inevitable response...which is of course a revolution...and frankly one that likely will be violent.... how could it be otherwise?
Our Washington state legislator for our area has warned us that there is going to be a lot of violence this year. He is comparing what's going to happen with the riots and civil unrest of around 1968. I was ten but don't remember that. We are going to have to continue to GROW the occupy movement and make it stronger month by month, up to the election at least. Young people, with the highest unemployment rate, need to show up and stand up for their futures. I plan on getting down to Seattle and participating in whatever means I can with my disabilities. It really made me mad when I heard that govenors across the nation got together to squelch the voice of the occupiers. I plan on finding out how to get our Occupy Seattle movement back into the mainstream news so that more people become aware that it has NOT gone away and that they should join in, since they are also a part of the 99%. Wish me luck. :))) BTW, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of middle aged fifty and sixty something's participating in Occupy Seattle! Yeah!!!!
Miss J.R. Rothschild,
I was around in 1968, and my war was the one going on then. Every Republican President, except Nixon, has invaded another country. During that war the rich escaped the war by going to college, running to Canada, or having a parent in the Congress, because there was a draft. Seperate rules applied at that time also. War wasn't glorified then, as it is now. There was no ceremony for us. War meant killing in the name of someone else, the one that started it. President so-and-so.
But it seems that we weren't heard, then either, until blood was spilled. The Kent State affair was the start of being heard. I am afaird that, until blood is spilled again, and until it is someone more important than you or I , nothing will be done.But you must continue, consistant, in their face, protest, and that is really all you can do. Now that the President has approved of the use of drones over His country, and over His people, can only serve one purpose. There is a greater fear among the 1% because of all the guns we now have. This acts as a deterent, and thus the need for peeking into our homes, tracking us as we live our lives. Even with the military being bought by the Corporations. As seen by foreign Army's deserting and helping the citizens of their country, our soldiers may desert and help us. This scares them.
The legislatiion to arrest groups of people, gathered to participate, in their right to stop the way our government is ignoring us had to be done by law. The rich can hide behind laws when it soots them. If the English citizens had to right to posses weapons, the Gillitine wouldn't have made history. But for the reason America was discovered and settled, we are heading right back to that time, of no voice, just do as I say, or else. The Gillitine was a deterent to keep the citizens under the thumb of the rich and powerful then. Now by law, the Congress has answered the call of the 1% employers to hush the people.
As our generation stopped the Vietnam War, by protest and blood, Martin Luther King stopped the treatment of blacks, by protest and blood, don't your generation give up. I am so proud to see the younger people stand up. The U.S. may gain it's respect yet. And it will be because of YOU!!!
You Mean You FINALLY Noticed?
We've BEEN living 1984 since 9/11!!
George Orwell was only 17 years off...not bad for a book written 50+ years earlier...
You know, I'd like to down one of those drones like the Iranians did...I wonder how much I can get for it on Ebay...."slightly used"...
As John Rambo said: "They drew first blood..."
As Jim Morrison wrote in a song: "They've got the guns, but we got the people..."
The more I see, the more uneasy I become. There is such unbridled corruption everywhere I look. I watched a movie from 1992 starring Eddie Murphy called The Distinguished Gentleman. Eddie is a con man who after over hearing some politicians talking about all the money they make, decided to run for Congress since he has the same name as a popular politician who just died and wins based on name recognition. What goes on in this movie, which is a comedy, is pretty much what's going on right now and this was made 20 years ago. Seems nothing has changed, except that now corporations are people and money is speech and the super pacs.
A humorous look at what politicians say in private and how Eddie exposes them in public. If only we could get that ending now.
ugh, keep the concentration of wealth at all costs.
who specifically is behind this FAA Bill and how did Obama see fit to sign it?!
The focus of the bill is to open the airspace to remote control flight. Within the next ten to fifteen years there will be remote control passenger and freight flight over America. New pilot-less planes are being design now.
If it is the purpose is to open up the airspace to remote flight, then the bill must have included "no cameras" on those domestic flights.
Probably in the fine print, right?
If it is the purpose is to open up the airspace to remote flight, then the bill must have included "no cameras" on those domestic flights.
Probably in the fine print, right?
Look at this video and you all tell me what type of a President we had recently:
http://youtu.be/dlV18GmkHyY
Are we becoming a 3rd world police state? BECOMING? If you are a women, person of color or not very rich the word becoming is a straight line. I don't know about the rest of you .But for me when some enviromentalist had Q-tips sprayed from mace placed under their eyelids while bound I stopped asking such questions. Becoming? Support the Black Cross. Last week it was don't throw chairs through Starbuck's window, now it is 'Becoming'.
Love your show Thom do you have a SAG card?
Right, and it plays out like this. Before getting on a future flight you check to see if there are 'put' orders for the companies' stock to go down. This is a way of 'knowing' if the flight is doomed. You know like just before 911 when AA and UAL stock was sold off. It is just a way to turn a evil doing into something good. No more ice on the wings nonsense.
Like in Portland on KBOO back when the Patriot Act was 'passed' some kind soul phone in to asked if we could use all the up coming FBI wiretaps and spying for domestic use. For example call the FBI and ask, "My wife and I had a fight last night can you play back the tape and sort this out for us"?
Blue Thunder is a movie about an apache helicopter converted to police work.The hero of the movie realizes that he must kill this franken creation in order ot protect the public, just like Robocop.The only benefactors of this overkill are the evil mad scientists who work for the defense contractors.If we spent as much money on the potential destruction of our planet to improve our planet, we could do megaprojects like the smart grid, irrigate the Sahara desert, and leave factory farming, which is inhumane to the poor animals who have to suffer such short miserable lives.We should have a world that leaves fossil fuels and coal in the ground.I even think cars should be banned from our cities.