The elite’s government FEARS you!!!!!!

Their fear is manifested in the laws they pass. Here is a law banning what MANY of the Founders wrote is a RIGHT of citizens when a government no longer represents them:

Section 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, 
o teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of
overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or
the government of any state,territory,district or possession
thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by
force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of
any such government; or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or
destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, 
circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or
printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty,necessity,
desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any
government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts
to do so; or Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society,
group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the
overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with,any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the
purposes thereof -

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by
the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five
years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this
section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty
years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any
department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms ‘‘organizes’’ and ‘‘organize’‘, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes,
and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.

Corporate America is becoming increasingly more powerful and
influential. Yet, according to the government of for and by the elites YOU,
a citizen, have to accept whatever the government does with NO recourse other than voting…... and there is sufficient proof that shows to me voting is worthless since the entrenched power structure ensures that the emplaced elite class can not be removed.

The Founders specifically wrote of the people’s right to abolish a government when it no longer represents them.

Tyranny is upon is!!!

First and foremost, its not “class-warfare” but “Empire-warfare”!!!

It’s actually an Empire-war against the working-class which uses the old red-baiting term ‘class-warfare’ to make the working-class demand for reasonable economic treatment sound somewhat ‘socialist’, if not downright ‘Commie’.

If we let the bastards pull the Frank Luntz word-lie of calling it ‘class-warfare’, rather than what it truly is; “Empire-warfare”, then they have won the word battle—- just as the bastards did with ‘death-taxes’.

Second, the result of the ‘empire-thinkers’ winning in this guilefully disquised “Empire-warfare” is not merely that the working-class gets soaked——but the real threat is that Empire winning always leads to a country and its people dying.

‘Empire-warfare’ winning and firmly establishing a reign of Empire, rather than democracy, always, as Hannah Arendt warned in the Nazi Empire means that “Empire abroad, entails tyranny at home”.

‘Empire-warfare’, if not successfully confronted by the vast majority of average people who believe in ‘democracy-thinking’, will inexorably lead to the financial, political, and total destruction of any country that allows the cancer of Empire to spread.

This truth is easily seen in what the ruling-elite global corporate/financial/militarist EMPIRE, which hides behind the facade of its Two-Party Vichy sham of faux democratic government, has already done to the human, educational, financial, industrial, and ecological death-spiral of our once great country.

Third, the real economic oppression of the vast majority of average ‘democracy-thinking’ people in America is already worse than anywhere in the world——except Zimbabwe—- as proven by economist’s ‘gold standard’ of judging income inequality.

The GINI Coefficient of Income Inequality in the global Empire today (which still poses as America) is literally ‘off the charts’ compared with all other real advanced democratic countries. All of Europe and Japan have GINI Coefficents of Income Inequality between 0.23 and 0.34, while the American Vichy Empire has a GINI of 0.49—- almost matching Zimbabwe’s and exceeding the former Soviet Empire (Russia’s) and China’s.

WOW! We can start cheering for our team (actually the Empire’s team, on which we are ‘played’).

“We’re number one! We’re number one! We’re number one—in income inequality!!”

Great chant, mindless fans. Get used to cheering that if we don’t start confronting the ruling-elite global EMPIRE that has us by the balls.

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

I agree that the rationle used in the SC decision is sophistry and disingenious.  However, I disagree with Mr. Dionne regarding minimum wage laws, which increase unemployment.

Obbop: Your ,,, “the pervasive ongoing invasion of the once-sovereign USA by multi-millions of often hostile invaders from the south” indicates a lot of fear and hatred aimed at some huge anonymous “enemy” from Mexico and Central America—in other words, you are using scare tactics like a lot of other misled, mistaken people these days.
  Inspiring fear is a method used by propagandists to take power away from people.  Fear makes people want to either fight or crawl in a hole. Neither response helps to solve problems but only makes them worse.

“The 2010 election is turning into a class war. The wealthy and the powerful started it.”

I believe those at the apex of the pyramid-shaped socio-economic hierarchy desire an oligarchy within the USA.

One reason the pervasive ongoing invasion of the once-sovereign USA by multi-millions of often hostile invaders from the south is that many of the countries/cultures/societies to our south are currently oligarchies and the invaders will accept an oligarchy within the USA.

Citizens, expect an increase in the number of working-poor citizenry as We, the People are steadily, in increasing numbers, shoved down into the mire of economic despair.

But, the endless brainwashing from your youngest age requires yo to obey your betters, the master class, and support and defend “the system.”

Obey.

It is your patriotic duty.

You DO support the troops, don’t you?

Are YOU a Commie?

Love it or leave it.

Pinkos if you do not OBEY.

The plutocracy have always known about the class war. But the called it something
else, globalism, new world Oder, free trade.

The have used their money to open the borders, break unions, and create laws that
allow them to send their corporations over seas, while getting the tax payee to foot the
bill.

They fought health care reform, and anything that would benefit
Working people. Working them to death, then collecting on dead peasant life insurance
policies.

They certainly exhibit what Marx called class consciousness, something working people
haven’t as yet developed. Thanks to daily diatribes by the plutocratic media.

Class warfare it’s been here all along. I t seems to be ok with the rich when they do it,
but watch what happens when working people start doing it.

It’s well paste time for some outrage.

MINIMUM WAGE AS A PERCENTAGE OF PER CAPITA GDP

Dionne: Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 perhaps “the most far-reaching program, the most far-sighted program for the benefit of workers that has ever been adopted here or in any other country.”.

So, what’s happened since Roosevelt signed that act?

Here below, for comparative purposes, is a list of countries with minimum-wages (from here).

Indicated is a percentage constructed in this manner:
•  The wage is corrected for purchasing-power-parity (meaning making them comparable from country to country based upon what a wage may purchase)
•  It is divided by the per capita GDP generated by the national economy, also comparable across national boundaries.
•  Which gives the percentage as noted in the listing below.

US (36%)
France (69%)
UK (57%)
Netherlands (48%)
Australia (51%)
Canada (44%)

EXPLANATION OF THE PERCENTAGE

The higher the percentage, the more the minimum wage represents a return on the economic value of the economy. Wages are already accounted for in GDP figures. They are represented (as labor factors) in the production of goods/services as measured by the GDP.

The minimum wage as a percentage of the per capita GDP thus shows its weighting as regards the per capita GDP. It is not the representation, however, of the portion of the GDP that is attributed to all minimum-wage jobs in an economy – let’s be careful of that possible misunderstanding. 

CONCLUSION

Fortunately, the minimum-wage (or below) is earned by only 1.73M Americans, or 1.3% of the employed workforce (of 135M). Of these the women to men ratio of those earning the minimum wage (or below) is 2.2. About 2% of the 1.7M workers earn below the minimum wage. (From BLS stats, here.)

The higher the figure, obviously the better ... for the poor slob who earns a minimum wage.

Given the percentage of the workforce that earns the minimum wage (or below), I leave the conclusion, therefore, to the reader, of its relative importance to the total workforce.

BACK TO THE BEGINNING

Dionne: The Republicans’ success in blocking legislation that would at least have required the big spenders to disclose the sources of their money means voters have to operate in the dark.

It’s true that the Robert’s Supremes went ballistic on this decision. Only a three-year old would confuse “freedom of speech” – individuals possess this freedom, not corporations or institutions or animals or buildings or houses …. or any other entity on earth, including penguins.

It is a Human Right and has nothing whatsoever to do with Free Enterprise. In fact, the Reps can’t even get Free Enterprise right (but they do think its vested-interests are on the Right).

Free enterprise, in economic terms, is the ability of any individual or group of individuals (public or private) to access and participate as an agent within a given market towards the Supply of goods/services thus responding to Consumer Demand. There is no government monopoly or that of a monarch – which is necessary to stipulate. Because it was by giving away such monopolistic rights to “favoured friends” that monarchies, by taxing the royal monopolies, were able to obtain funds to maintain their elegant standard of living. 

So, I say again: We started in 1776 a rebellion in America to do away with a foreign monarch (King George III). Here we are, 230 years later, back to the beginning whereby the monarchy has been replaced with a Born-In-the-USA Plutocracy.

Which is admissible of an electorate only when said electors are brainless twits. The sadness of a democracy is that even the stupid have the right to vote – and they do.

“The tragedy is that liberals and secularists, like Obama, are not viewed as competitors by the corporate forces that hold power, but as contaminates that must be eliminated. They have sought to work with forces that will never be placated. They have abandoned the most basic values of the liberal class to play a game that in the end will mean their political and cultural extinction. There will be no swastikas this time but seas of red, white and blue flags, and Christian crosses.”—Chris Hedges

Obama is a useful tool.  FDR went after these bastards balls out.  Obama?  He keeps the left down.  The Obama White House complains and snarls when the left dares to disagree.  When we dare to defend principle.

One pundit just after the election predicted that while Obama came to public power just before the financial crisis, it would be the next leader, during this world meltdown who would be the “transformative leader.”

The question is: will the near future’s transformative leader be a Hitler (favorite of the oligarchy who financed him and who they thought they could control), or an FDR (bitterly hated to this day by these same bastards)?

The oligarchy holds the power now, and we know what kind of leader they will want.

“That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy.”
  “Speakers?  Corporations are “speakers?” Corporate money MAY have influence over or access to elected officials ...! Correction: Corporations are NOT speakers, and corporate money absolutely WILL INFLUENCE elected officials.  Who’s kidding whom here?
  “...does not MEAN that those officials are corrupt?”  Maybe not, but what it DOES mean is that the money is an attempt to corrupt them and is likely to be highly successful, as we know from experience. The inevitable result is that those of “the electroate” who are of average intelligence or above will inevitably “lose faith in” this democracy.
  If this kind of reasoning of the SCOTUS is to be believed, any boob can become a Justice.  Outrageous!

Such finagling inevitably gives RISE TO CORRUPTION OR TO THE APPEARANCE OF CORRUPTION.  It’s a done deal—until it is revoked.(Please excuse capitalization, but I want to emphasize the lunacy of the defense here.)

DavidByron, October 11 at 12:28 pm:

‘Is he suggesting that there wasn’t a class war running before now?  Who can take such a view seriously?’

Dionne is a WaPo writer.  Don’t expect any kind of radical analysis.

Hammond Eggs - I assume by your comment that you can
answer Mr. Dione’s three questions:  Who is paying for
this?  What do they really want?  And who gave them the
right to buy an election?

We await your answers.

Dear Mr. Dionne: You and the Warshington Post are part of the machinery destroying this nation.  You are part of the cowardly liberal class that Chris Hedges speaks of elsewhere.  Your status will not spare you from the death camps that are on the way.  You, Obama, the Clintons and every other greedy kid glove opportunist who calls him/herself a “liberal” will be swept into the same mass grave. In fact, you will be dispatched first.

BP & “ethics” (LOL@ 50¢):

(snip)-During the 2008 election cycle, individuals and political action committees associated with BP—a Center for Responsive Politics’ “heavy hitter”—contributed half a million dollars to federal candidates. About 40 percent of these donations went to Democrats. The top recipient of BP-related donations during the 2008 cycle was President Barack Obama himself, who collected $71,000.

BP regularly lobbies on Capitol Hill, as well. In 2009, the company spent a massive $16 million to influence legislation. During the first quarter of 2010, it spent $3.53 million on federal lobbying efforts, ranking it second (behind ConocoPhillips) among all oil and gas industry interests.

Its registered lobbyists include a number of former federal government and high-ranking political campaign officials, including longtime political operative Tony Podesta, former congressional chief of staff Bob Brooks, former congressional legislative director David Pore and vice presidential aide Michael S. Berman, the Center’s research shows.

The oil and gas industry, of which BP is a member, reported $169 million in 2009 lobbying expenditures.

Comparatively, the entire environmental industry spent $22 million on lobbying in 2009—not much more than BP alone spent for the year. The most active member of the environmental industry, the Nature Conservancy, reported $2.2 million in 2009 expenditures. Last year, BP was active lobbying on the American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009, which allows increased oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico, in areas closer to shore than current law allow(snip)MORE

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/01

Is he suggesting that there wasn’t a class war running before now?  Who can take such a view seriously?

Let me get this straight.  Perhaps the majority of
voters out here believed that money was corrupting the
political process so the SC, suspecting such was the
case, has made corruption of the political process
legal.

And let’s not forget that the purposes of a government,
why any society has one in the first place, are to
protect us from each other and ourselves and to do for
us what we can’t do for ourselves. The latest ruling by
the Court has abolished all three purposes.

It’s just shuffling the chairs to make it look as though change is taking place; it’s a subterfuge to hide the blindingly obvious, which is that it will lead to the old reliable, ‘business as usual’.

“... corporations and affluent individuals are pouring tens of millions of dollars into attack ads aimed almost exclusively at Democrats.”

That obvious fact alone proves both parties are NOT the same.

P.S. Here’s some ethics. According to records, over a fifteen year period, during runs for the Senate and for the Presidency, President Obama received 77 thousand dollars in donations from BP’s PAC as part of a total of 880 million he received from all sources, or less than 0.01%. Two years later, a BP drilling rig exploded in the gulf, and President Obama pinched BP for 20 billion to create a fund for gulf residents so they could get immediate restitution instead of having to wait decades for cases to wind through the courts. The bastard!

Obama was the largest recipient of BP contributions
during his short stint as a senator and out spent
any previous presidential campaign in history to
become president, but that wasn’t a problem then
right? Oh yeah, it was all for this hopey-changy
stuff that promised us peace and brotherhood… what
a crock!
Politicians are all the same you dolts, its always
been about the money. A democrat will accept the
funding of “shadow class” warriors just the same as
a republican, and to cry racist at anyone who
disagrees with you is towing your masters load for
them - get over yourselves and more importantly get
over them, they don’t care & never will.
Vote your conscience, vote your ethics.

Good old Dionne, as irrelevant as ever.

“Today I’ve bought something about animation and I’d like to share the good things with you. It’s a great site, the url is…”

I wouldn’t click on a site like that…since it’s totally irrelevant to the thread by EJ Dionne and is a “hook” about animation, it may well be a trojan horse program that will milk your PC of your personal information.  It may be a “legitimate” ad but that’s how the ID thieves work.  If it’s “legit”, it’s still inappropriate.  Let him buy space for ads.

I ask the management to investigate and remove such posts and consider banning the poster.