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2003-04-20 Fifth Column

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-20 12:03 pm|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I been reading that alot lately,about the downfall of the U.S.A.I only have one thing to say if it falls it better be a whimper instead of a bang,because if its a bang this world going into a dark age it never recover from.We have enought nuclear power destroy alot of this world.

Posted by djohn 2003-04-20 12:12:43|| 2003-04-20 12:12:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Dear Dar Al-Hayat:

Would this imaginary money be what you don't use to pay your imaginary rent or buy your imaginary food and clothing? Or are you a leech, depending on someone else's imaginary money for your upkeep? (I'm betting yes.)

Let's see you cross North Korea's imaginary border - I'd like the popcorn concession for that show.

You urge everyone to share. OK, I'll share this: You're full of shit.

(Gee, maybe you're right - I shared, and I feel better already!)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-04-20 12:18:26|| 2003-04-20 12:18:26|| Front Page Top

#3 ..."capitalist pigs"? What happened to "Love on another"?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-20 12:22:23|| 2003-04-20 12:22:23|| Front Page Top

#4 It is a shame that a REAL PIG like this one exist.
Freedom of speech?
Soldiers are DEAD to defend the freedom of this REAL PIG who will never understand their honor and his own PIGGINESS.
He or she should get out of this Country and go to China or somewhere else to enjoy the good life without that money he SAYS to hate.

Posted by Poitiers 2003-04-20 12:23:39|| 2003-04-20 12:23:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Love on another? Oh, so now you bring Clinton- Lewinsky up again

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-20 12:24:17|| 2003-04-20 12:24:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Dear "American" --
I, a liberal, truly do not want to see any person trapped in a horrible, oppressive system where they feel that they cannot express themselves fully and openly. I am saddened that you feel so threatened here that you cannot sign your real name.

I do not feel that I would be living up to my responsibilities as a liberal if I didn't allow you to find your bliss, so to speak. So, if you wish, I will use some of that capitalist lucre I have accumulated, meager though it is, to help you escape to a land where you will be liberated.

I so believe in freedom of choice and association that I would be willing to buy you a one-way ticket past America's "imaginary" borders to whichever utopia you choose. It would have to be "economy class", so I hope you don't mind being around those other victims of capitalistic hegemony in the back of the plane.

Look at it this way, maybe you can use the time back there to agitate for social change amongst those who have not reached your level of political consciousness! Yeah, there's no free booze back there like in first class, but the cause, baby, the cause!!

I cannot ignore a tortured soul in pain, especially on Easter. Please let me know how I can help.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-20 12:28:44|| 2003-04-20 12:28:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Okay, Fred, you've lost me here. How is this "news" and not an "opinion piece"? And why are people assuming that "American" is indeed an American?

Posted by Tom 2003-04-20 12:53:51|| 2003-04-20 12:53:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I think you are falling into a trap here. This article doesn't sound like it was written by a poor tortured American soul, it sounds like something an editor of that paper wrote up himself. Or was Mr Sayaf at work here? "I now inform you that you are too far from reality." Good he found a new job. But he was better at his old one. At least more entertaining.

I'll rather side with Mark Twain when it comes to America: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Posted by True German Ally 2003-04-20 12:53:59|| 2003-04-20 12:53:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Tom,

Watch the meme. The U.S. collapsing started with Binny, and it's been spreading from the Islamists to the anti-globalization anarchokiddies. I'm assuming this was written by one of them. They're effectively allied now.

Posted by Fred 2003-04-20 13:02:35|| 2003-04-20 13:02:35|| Front Page Top

#10 The left (and you know I don't mean Bill Clinton by this)has been predicting 'the imminent collapse' of capitalism since Marx's "Communist Manifesto" in 1847.Followed by revolution,a communist state,eternal bliss for all blah blah blah.It's the Islamists who've been loaning ideas from the western leftists,although they'd never admit it.Change 'Allah' for 'Marx' and look how similar the movements are.

Posted by El Id 2003-04-20 13:18:32|| 2003-04-20 13:18:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Any system based on greed, any system that promotes the concentration of power, any system that enables those with money to influence political decisions is FLAWED!!

You mean, like Iraq, where ALL the power was concentrated in the hands of one man, and all the wealth generated by that nation only went to support his desires? Do you realize that EVERY NATION ON EARTH has a government based on greed, one that promotes the concentration of power, and one that enables those with money to influence political decisions? That includes the vaunted Vatican. The big difference is, in our country, we have a system set up where every person willing to work for it can reach those "august heights" of power and money. We also have a system of checks and balances that, up until the early part of the 20th century, worked very well to keep those with money and power hobbled. We still do a pretty good job of it.

We are not a world of nations. We are a nation of this world. For Humanity's sake, stop trying to outdo one another.

For humanity's sake? Show me one major achievement that wasn't done to "outdo" someone else, or to achieve personal fame and wealth?
"Humanity" is not some unified whole - it is a fractured, divided mob that can only be evaluated as being in a constant state of change. Some move forward, others slide back, some just cut across everything, leaving chaos in their wake. For "Humanity's sake"? You've got a hole in your sock - your brains are leaking out.

Share!!! Help each other. Love one another. Borders are imaginary. So is money. Educate yourselves.

Stealing again, are you Dar? Tapping into the JudeoChristian faith for the words you need to try to manipulate others? How gauche. Who isn't sharing, Dar? Is Islam sharing? Do we see money going to help poor starving children coming from Saudi Arabia? What happened to all the money Hussein made in his "Oil for ~~Palaces~~ food" program? Why were there tons of food and medicine stockpiled in warehouses, while the local people starved, and died like flies without medication? Why did Stalin starve 10 MILLION Georgians and Russians, just to concentrate his power?

The capitalist United States provides more money, food, and human capital than any other nation on earth, and more in some cases than whole REGIONS of the earth, and we share it with everyone. All that capitalist power allows us to concentrate wealth, more than enough to meet our needs, which gives us the ability to help others, and we do. But that's not good enough for you, because it's coming from capitalism. What an idiot you are! How can people share if they don't have more than they need? How can people give when their own needs aren't being met? How many African and Asian countries are so destitute they can't even meet the minimum requirements of their people, because their system is so rotten only those at the very top can acquire any wealth at all? The only nations in Africa and Asia that can feed themselves are those that have a capitalist system, or some modification of a capitalist system, because that's the ONLY system that produces an excess of goods, services, and food.

Don't let capitalist pigs buy your submission and control your media. Make America the last of it's kind. Evolve.

Into what, something like Cuba, where the economy is so bad people can't make enough to feed themselves? Into North Korea, where the local people have to eat GRASS AND RATS? Into China, where a disease epidemic was unreported, because it might bring "bad feelings" against the government? Show me ONE NATION, one PEOPLE, who have enough of everything they need, outside those nations run by "capitalist pigs". Even China, in order to feed itself, had to turn to capitalism. Check out Moscow today - during the Soviet era, there were always food shortages. Today, there aren't great excesses, but the Russians can feed themselves, even after divesting the nation of its most productive farmland.

You are a hypocrite and a fool. You have no concept of how the REAL WORLD works, but you want to force your ideas onto others, and IN MY NAME!!! How dare you!!! You are not representing me. You do not represent my God. You do not represent the good, faithful, loyal, and PRODUCTIVE people of the United States. You are a parasite, and a deadly one. The sooner you leave, the sooner you remove yourself from this place you loathe so much, the better off this nation will become.

Somebody grab the flush lever, and pull!

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-20 13:43:17|| 2003-04-20 13:43:17|| Front Page Top

#12 "Trust me, we are not necessarily proud of our geographic, circumstantial identity."

AH HA !! It's the new Dixie Chicks song !?!

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-21 07:44:24|| 2003-04-21 07:44:24|| Front Page Top

#13 we wish to send you a message... from those who understand.

Pitiful, they think their own poorly-informed opinionised position can claim a monopoly on 'truth'.

Oh please, shed some of your enlightened wisdom on the rest of us plebs, as we can't possibly be as sensitive as YOU innalekshuls!

Posted by anon1 2003-04-21 08:13:14|| 2003-04-21 08:13:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Make that 279,999,999 'Mericans... this imaginary "American" just exploded from all the bullshit he tried to pack into such a tiny space.

I KNOW I'm supposed to feel "bad" about our success and freedoms and wealth and lifestyle and power and all of the amazing accomplishments we've achieved in just a fraction of the time that many of our detractors have been piddle-farting about on the planet. - but I don't. And THAT kinda sorta little-bit maybe makes me feel bad... NOT!

Fuck 'em if they can't handle reality or take a joke: their own pathetic systems and history and the obvious fact that they haven't the will or the guts to change - when it is blindingly obvious that there are better systems and ways out there that they could emulate. Just Fuck Them. Of course, I don't have any strong feelings on the subject..

What a hoot! LOL!!! Good find Fred!

Posted by PD 2003-04-21 08:14:50|| 2003-04-21 08:14:50|| Front Page Top

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