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Title: Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist
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URL Source: http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-b ... nders-hes-a-diehard-communist/
Published: Jan 17, 2016
Author: Paul Sperry
Post Date: 2016-01-17 08:39:52 by Ada
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As polls tighten and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders looks more like a serious contender than a novelty candidate for president, the liberal media elite have suddenly stopped calling him socialist. He’s now cleaned-up as a “progressive” or “pragmatist.” But he’s not even a socialist. He’s a communist. Mainstreaming Sanders requires whitewashing his radical pro-Communist past. It won’t be easy to do. If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he’d never pass an FBI background check. There’d be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file. He was a Communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War. Rewind to 1964. While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. After graduating with a political-science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.” Modal Trigger Photo: Reuters This subversive hero of Sanders, denounced even by liberal Democrats as a “traitor,” bashed “the barons of Wall Street” and hailed the “triumphant” Bolshevik revolution in Russia. “Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on earth,” Debs proclaimed. “They have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world.” In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery. Sanders still hangs a portrait of Debs on the wall in his Senate office. In the early ’70s, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies. “Mainstreaming Sanders requires whitewashing his radical pro-Communist past. It won’t be easy to do.” After failed runs for Congress, Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. Local small businesses distributed fliers complaining their new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.” His radical activities didn’t stop at the water’s edge. Sanders took several “goodwill” trips not only to the USSR, but also to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our hemisphere. In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist- Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.” Undermining anti-communist US policy, Sanders denounced the Reagan administration’s backing of the Contra rebels in a letter to the Sandinistas. His betrayal did not end there. Sanders lobbied the White House to stop the proxy war and even tried to broker a peace deal. He adopted Managua as a sister city and invited Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to visit the US. He exalted Ortega as “an impressive guy,” while attacking President Reagan. “The Sandinista government has more support among the Nicaraguan people — substantially more support — than Ronald Reagan has among the American people,” Sanders told Vermont government-access TV in 1985. Modal Trigger Photo: AP Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation. Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.” Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua and other communist states to America. For starters, he proposes completely nationalizing our health-care system and putting private health insurance and drug companies “out of business.” He also wants to break up “big banks” and control the energy industry, while providing “free” college tuition, a “living wage” and guaranteed homeownership and jobs through massive public works projects. Price tag: $18 trillion. Who will pay for it all? You will. Sanders plans to not only soak the rich with a 90%-plus tax rate, while charging Wall Street a “speculation tax,” but hit every American with a “global-warming tax.” Of course, even that wouldn’t cover the cost of his communist schemes; a President Sanders would eventually soak the middle class he claims to champion. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, right? Modal Trigger Comrade from Vermont Former mayoral advisers from Burlington defend their old boss. They note that Sanders was never a member of the Communist Party and deny he was even a small-c communist, even while acknowledging he named their city softball squad the “People’s Republic of Burlington” and the town’s minor league baseball team the “Vermont Reds.” What about those communist sister cities he adopted? “Bernie established them to support people-to-people exchanges which might support peace in the long run,” said Bruce Seifer, who was one of Sanders’ central economic planners directing Burlington businesses to “reinvest their profits in the community.” In an interview, Seifer claimed that it was “no different than President Nixon opening relations with China.” Please. Sanders and his Sanderistas are all still pining for what Debs called “the Greater Revolution yet to come.” What’s revolting is how this hardcore commie’s campaign has gotten this far. With his ascendancy in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders is no longer just a fool; he’s now a dangerous fool. While it may be hard to hate the old codger, it’s easy — and virtuous — to hate his un-American ideas. They should be swept into the dustbin with the rest of communist history. Paul Sperry is a visiting Hoover Institution media fellow and author of “The Great American Bank Robbery,” which exposes progressive policies behind the mortgage bust. Email: Sperry@SperryFiles.com
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May all be true, but he's still preferable to Hillary.
...worse than that, if possible: the 'American' electorate has become a dangerous fool. Also, he and Hillary are identical - sexually, socially, and politically. "The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." Lod.
I really do get a kick out of all of this political banter. Everybody (voters) battling to see who gets the smallest shit sandwich for lunch everyday for at least 4 years. Americans trying to assuage their guilty conscience by arguing the lesser points respecting the so-called candidates and ignoring the truth. The truth is that Washington D.C. is the seat of satan these days and no amount of blog-talk is ever going to change that. Insanity is defined as continuing to repeat the same act expecting a different outcome. Discussing the scumbags every (s)election cycle and comparing notes as to who has the potential to be the worst choice is sheer nonsense such as little children playing doctor. "Honest, April 15th is the real April Fool's Day". "The almighty Dollar ain't worth a buck". Doug Scheidt
Sexually? Even if so, Sanders has less blood on his hands.
Will you vote? I will out of habit even if its just handing in a blank ballot.
No. It's really difficult to have people realize that it's all controlled and that their vote in a FEDERAL (S)election is simply a means to have the consent of the governed/ruled. The FEDERAL GOVT leaves NOTHING to chance. [Last time I voted was for Nixon in the 1972 selection process]. "Honest, April 15th is the real April Fool's Day". "The almighty Dollar ain't worth a buck". Doug Scheidt
You are probably correct not to participate. I must be an addict :-). Most of the time its third party or even a blank ballot, which is a type of protest vote that goes right over their heads.
I hate being manipulated by a known enemy ... The U.S. INC. "Honest, April 15th is the real April Fool's Day". "The almighty Dollar ain't worth a buck". Doug Scheidt
Aside from the numerous reports that Bernie Sanders and his wife moved campaign and nonprofit funds to benefit his family and friends, we cannot say that Bernie is as massively corrupt or as brutally vengeful as the Clintons. But while the senator has staked out some pretty strong economic nationalist positions in the past, he's thrown all of that overboard in his campaign for the dem nomination. He wants to allow illegals to purchase insurance under Obamacare, and he wants to "ensure the return of unjustly deported immigrants and unify broken families" under a program of "humanitarian parole." IOW, immigration reform on steroids. There's not a dime's worth of difference between him and the rest of the Labor, err, I mean Democrat Party. And, let's don't forget, he's no less the senator from Tel Aviv that Clinton was. Neither is there an imperial war that he won't lay down for. In that respect, the whole Senate has gone to hell in a hand cart. This article below is a little dated, but is interesting as seen from the viewpoint of his leftist allies. There's a lot here that I wouldn't normally give a hoot about, but I think that Hillary may be mortally wounded. It's getting to be much too late for the likes of Biden or any of the other national wigs to file for primary slots. Iowa is February 1. It is more likely than I ever imagined that Bernie could be on the national ticket. On the surface, the election in Vermont to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords was a classic battle between capitalists and workers. In one corner loomed the Republican�s forward Richard Tarrant, a multimillionaire and former CEO of the software company IDX. Nicknamed �Richie� Rich, he spent nearly $7 million of his own money to create the illusion of popular support, blanketing the state with obnoxiously large campaign signs. In the other corner thundered Independent Bernard Sanders, known throughout Vermont as simply �Bernie.� Sanders served four terms as mayor of �the People�s Republic of Burlington� during the 1980s, and eight terms after that as Vermont�s lone representative in the House of Representatives. He built a reputation for attacking corporate interests, supporting universal health care and defending union jobs. Sanders knocked out �Richie� Rich, winning the vote by a whopping 2-to-1 margin. Everyone — from the British newspaper, theGuardian, to Democracy Now�s Amy Goodman — has heralded the election of the first socialist senator in U.S. history, an independent who will stand up to the two mainstream parties, oppose war, roll back corporate power and lead the fight for workers and the oppressed. While it was fantastic to see Tarrant humiliated, Sanders� election to the Senate doesn�t represent a radical departure from politics as usual. He may have a portrait of Eugene Debs hanging in his office, but his politics have little in common with that great American socialist. In the 1980s, as Burlington�s mayor, Sanders mounted a challenge to the Democrats and Republicans, maintaining a consistent anti-imperialist position in solidarity with the Nicaraguan Revolution and trying to implement pro-worker policies. But that was long ago. Now Sanders is independent in name only — he in fact supports the Democratic Party. As his long-time antagonist and now ally, Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean, said on the NBC�s Meet the Press, �He is basically a liberal Democrat, and he is a Democrat at that — he runs as an Independent because he doesn�t like the structure and money that gets involved… The bottom line is that Bernie Sanders votes with the Democrats 98 percent of the time.� Ironically, that�s more often than most Democrats vote with the Democrats. Sanders� voting record is also not so very left wing; one study found that 38 other congressional representatives had a more progressive voting record. Sanders� relationship to the Democrats has been developing for many years. In 1992, he supported Bill Clinton as a �lesser evil,� though he later abandoned this impolite phrase to unapologetically endorse Democrats for the White House ever since. In the 2006 Senate election, he didn�t even really run as an independent. The Democrats cut a deal with Sanders — they wouldn�t run a candidate against him, in exchange for him supporting Democrats in other races. The Democrats backed up their word by nominating Sanders in their primary, which he refused to accept to preserve his nominal independence. But Sanders did accept support from national Democrats like Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Barbara Boxer. He also accepted a large donation from Hillary Clinton�s Political Action Committee, HILLPAC, which featured him as one of its most important candidates. Sanders in turn backed Democrats against third-party alternatives. In the election to fill his House seat, he and his supporters helped dissuade Progressive Party hopeful David Zuckerman from running, and went on to support the Democrat Peter Welch, who eventually won. Sanders� endorsement of the Democrats no doubt helped him build his war chest of about $5 million, over 80 percent of which came from out of state. To put an exclamation point on his all-but-declared membership in the Democratic Party, Sanders celebrated his election victory, contrary to his tradition of hosting a separate party, with the Democrats. He has promised to caucus with the Democrats in the Senate, and the media thus takes him for granted as part of the new majority in the Senate. For veteran Sanders watchers, this capitulation to the corporate Democrats and their apparatchiks is nothing new. He has made it one of his missions to agitate against voting for Ralph Nader, the Green Party and, in some cases, Vermont�s Progressive Party. During the 2004 election, Sanders announced on Vermont Public Television, �Not only am I going to vote for John Kerry, I am going to run around this country and do everything I can to dissuade people from voting for Ralph Nader… I am going to do everything I can, while I have differences with John Kerry, to make sure that he is elected.� The political consequence of his capitulation to the Democrats has been a long list of unnecessary compromises and outright betrayals that will only mount in the Senate. Despite his own claims, Sanders has not been an antiwar leader. Ever since he won election to the House, he has taken either equivocal positions on U.S. wars or outright supported them. His hawkish positions — especially his decision to support Bill Clinton�s 1999 Kosovo War — drove one of his key advisers, Jeremy Brecher, to resign from his staff. Brecher wrote in his resignation letter, �Is there a moral limit to the military violence you are willing to participate in or support?� So outraged were peace activists over Sanders� support of the Kosovo War that they occupied his office in 1999. Sanders had them arrested. Under the Bush regime, Sanders� militarism has only grown worse. While he called for alternative approaches to the war on Afghanistan, he failed to join the sole Democrat, Barbara Lee, to vote against Congress� resolution that gave George Bush a blank check to launch war on any country he deemed connected to the September 11 attacks. Ever since, he has voted for appropriations bills to fund the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, despite their horrific toll on the occupied peoples as well as U.S. soldiers. Sanders has been critical of the war on Iraq, but he has supported pro-war measures — such as a March 21, 2003, resolution stating, �Congress expresses the unequivocal support and appreciation of the nation to the President as Commander-in-Chief for his firm leadership and decisive action in the conduct of military operations in Iraq as part of the ongoing Global War on Terrorism.� He also opposes immediate withdrawal from Iraq, despite the fact that a majority of residents in his home city of Burlington voted for such a position in a town meeting resolution in February 2005. The day after his election to the Senate, Sanders declared, �I don�t think you can do a quote-unquote immediate withdrawal. I think the policy has got to be we will withdraw our troops as soon as possible, and by that, I mean that I believe we can have our troops out in the next year, and maybe a significant number of them before that. I don�t think you can snap your fingers and just bring all the troops home tomorrow. I just don�t think that�s practical.� Even more shocking, Sanders scuttled any action on a wave of Bush impeachment resolutions that swept Vermont towns in 2006. Like House Majority Leader-to-be Nancy Pelosi, who has promised not to impeach Bush, Sanders argued that impeachment was impractical, and that activists should put energy into electing Democrats. Outraged, Dan Dewalt, the organizer of the impeachment resolution campaign in Vermont, said, �We think we have quality politicians in Vermont. We�re wrong. We have politics as usual in Vermont. Our so-called independent congressman, Bernie Sanders, can�t get far enough away from impeachment.� This summer, Sanders voted for House Resolution 921, which gave full support to Israel�s murderous war on Lebanon. He also voted for HR 4681 that imposed sanctions on the Palestinian Authority with the aim of removing the democratically elected Hamas government. In response, longtime War Resisters League leader, David McReynolds sent a public letter to Sanders, stating, �Because of your vote of support for the Israeli actions, I would hope any friends and contacts of mine would not send you funds, nor give you their votes.� Indeed, Sanders has consistently defended Israel through it worst crimes against Palestinians and Arabs. Unsurprisingly, some Sanders staffers have also worked with the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) — including David Sirota, now a Democratic Party strategist, and Sanders� former communications director Joel Barkin. Finally, in perhaps his worst betrayal yet, Sanders joined a host of liberal Democrats including Barbara Lee and John Conyers to vote for HR 282, the Iran Freedom Support Act — which bears a striking resemblance to the resolutions that set up the framework for the war on Iraq. The act stipulates that the U.S. should impose sanctions on Iran to prevent it from developing weapons of mass destruction and distributing them to aid international terrorism. It also calls for the U.S. to support democratic change in the country, thereby establishing all necessary pretexts for a war on Iran. Democrat Dennis Kucinich voted against the act and denounced it as a �stepping stone to war.� Sanders — like many liberal Democrats — rightly calls attention to the plight of workers and the poor in Vermont and across the U.S., demanding reforms to address low wages, lack of health care and the absence of a social safety net. He argues that much of this suffering is the result of U.S. free trade policy. But instead of agitating for internationalist solutions like cross-border unionization, as proposed by the global justice movement against neoliberalism, Sanders argues for protectionist policies and economic nationalism. Sanders� support for the Democrats confounds his position. After all, it was the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton that passed NAFTA, established the WTO, cut the big deals with China and imposed some of the worst IMF structural adjustments programs on developing countries. Ominously, Sanders� economic nationalism has led him to look for allies among Republican right-wingers like Lou Dobbs and Patrick Buchanan, who see China as a rival to U.S. power and are looking for political justification for a new Cold War. In denouncing Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR) with China, Sanders wrote, �As the greatest democracy on Earth, we must ask why American companies are turning communist China into the new superpower of the 21st century? While Microsoft is �saving a dollar,� it is helping undermine our economic and military security by gutting our manufacturing and technological infrastructure, and moving it lock, stock, and barrel to one of our major international rivals.� Sanders defends his alliances with protectionist Republicans. He told the Nation magazine, �In the sense that we are trying to develop left-right coalitions, we also trying to redefine American politics. Thus, he appeared on a China-bashing panel organized by the Teamsters� Jimmy Hoffa along with Patrick Buchanan in 2000 during a union-sponsored demonstration against PNTR for China. One of his former staffers, David Sirota, recently wrote a glowing review of Lou Dobbs� book, War on the Middle Class. Dobbs mixes populist rhetoric about deteriorating living standards for workers with some of the worst anti- immigrant racism and China-bashing around. Yet Sirota writes, �It is undeniable that aside from Dobbs and a few politicians, America�s political debate is devoid of economic populists. War on the Middle Class confronts this problem head on — and thanks to Dobbs� passion and charisma, it succeeds in sounding the alarm that cannot be ignored.� In cooperating with right-wing populists, Sanders reinforces American nationalism and its attendant racism toward immigrants. Such ideas are an impediment to workers forging solidarity against both American empire and the corporations� divide-and-conquer strategy to drive wages down inside the US and around the globe. Sanders can boast of a good voting record in defending the rights of the oppressed. He has consistently voted for the rights of women, gays and lesbians, and racial minorities. However, he downplays all these questions in favor of a populist appeal on economic issues. As one Progressive Party activist told the Nation, �Sometimes, Bernie�s biggest critics are on the left. Some social liberals quietly grumble that Sanders maintains too rigid a focus on economic issues.� On some pivotal issues, Sanders does worse than subordinate the demands of the oppressed — he joins in the attack. For example, Sanders claims to oppose the death penalty, but he voted for Bill Clinton�s 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which broadened the scope of the federal death penalty and laid the foundation for Bush�s �war on terror� and attacks on civil liberties. In 2004, Sanders was put to the test of whether he would stand up against state- sanctioned murder, and he failed. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft used Clinton�s act to override Vermont law and force a federal death penalty trial for Donald Fell, who was eventually convicted and sentenced to die. Throughout this trial, Sanders remained on the sidelines. Said Nancy Welch of Vermonters Against the Death Penalty, We repeatedly called on Congressman Sanders to join us in decrying the imposition of a death penalty trial on a state that had abolished capital punishment,� said Nancy Welch of Vermonters Against the Death Penalty. �We asked him to participate in a press conference with other political, religious, and labor leaders, but he declined. Even when we directly asked him, on a public radio call-in program, if he would join us in saying Vermont should stay death penalty-free, Bernie wouldn’t take a stand. Meanwhile, on the issue of immigration, Sanders has joined the Democratic Party in its attacks on immigrant rights. While he voted against the reactionary bill sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner and passed by the House last year, he has supported other anti-immigrant bills. He has consistently voted to restrict visas for skilled workers — like the L-1 Nonimmigrant Reform Act, which he himself cosponsored, arguing that it was wrong for corporations to import workers when they are laying off U.S. employees. He voted for the Goodlatte Amendment to eliminate the visa lottery that distributes 55,000 visas a year to foreign workers on a random basis. Sanders voted for the Border Tunnel Protection Act that criminalizes digging tunnels under the border, and anyone who uses them. And he voted for the Marshall Amendment to the 2007 Homeland Security bill that funds electronic verification of employment eligibility. With Bush promising to work with the Democratic majority in Congress to pass anti-immigrant legislation, including more aggressive border enforcement as well as a new guest-worker program, Sanders will be pressed to line up with a lesser-evil attack on some of the most oppressed workers in the country. Like Al Gore�s attempt to rehabilitate himself through environmentalism, Sanders has begun to trumpet green issues, especially global warming. But while his voting record is good on this issue, Sanders has long antagonized environmental activists. After getting elected mayor with the slogan �Burlington�s Not for Sale,� Sanders attempted to cut a deal with developers for hotel construction on the city�s waterfront and other projects in its wetlands. Activists built a campaign with the slogan �Burlington�s Still Not for Sale� that effectively halted the worst development plans. Once in the House, Sanders made one of his worst environmental decisions. He worked with then-Texas Gov. George Bush to lead the charge for dumping nuclear waste from Vermont�s Vernon reactor in Sierra Blanca, an impoverished town inhabited mainly by Chicanos on the border with Mexico. Together, they worked to pass the Maine-Vermont-Texas nuclear waste compact, and then took advantage of Bill Clinton�s decision to allow interstate transportation of low-level nuclear waste. Sierra Blanca, already a toxic waste dump, has thus been poisoned for generations. However much Sanders may oppose the transportation and dumping of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain for threatening the health of people in Las Vegas, he and the Toxic Texan, George Bush, established the precedent for this with their compact in the 1990s. Sanders� positions on energy are also tinged with nationalism. He repeatedly calls for US energy independence from the Middle East, even though most U.S. oil comes from other countries like Venezuela. Such demagogy plays into the widespread anti-Arab racism that surrounds oil politics. Even with these faults, Sanders� overall record looks good, but his support for the Democrats compromises even his best positions. As Jeffrey St. Clair has documented in Been Brown So Long It Looks Green To Me, the Democrats are every much a part of the destruction of the environment as the Republicans. AS IT was with Howard Dean, it is a bit hard for Vermont leftists to believe the national reaction to Bernie Sanders. As Vermont�s long-time political commentator Peter Freyne noted, �He will not leave a party behind him. So what will be his legacy? I don�t see a next Bernie on the horizon. I don�t see what comes after him. There�s a lot wrapped up in one man, and I don�t know where that gets you in the long run.� But, in truth, Sanders is leaving a party behind — the Democratic Party. Whatever his betrayals, Sanders can still give an excellent speech about the evils of corporate power and the barbarity of class inequality, but he does so as a fellow traveler of the corporate Democrats, who he supports even as they move further and further to the right. Figures like Bernie Sanders could help workers form a party of their own to challenge the corporate duopoly, and build a more politically self-conscious working-class movement. Instead, like Jesse Jackson and other Democratic liberals, he is the progressive bait on this capitalist party�s hook — to tempt people who would otherwise want a genuine alternative into supporting a party opposed to their demands and aspirations. Anything we want from Sanders or the Democrats we will have to fight for. And if we want a genuine socialist alternative, we should follow the lead of Sanders� hero, Eugene Debs, who said, �The differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties involve no issue, no principle in which the working class have any interest.� Instead of capitulating to the corporate parties, Debs spent his life building the Socialist Party and the struggles of the working class and the oppressed for our own self-emancipation. Ashley Smith is a correspondent for Socialist Worker. This article first appeared on the Socialist Worker web site:http://socialistworker.org. Thanks to Alan Maass. [emphasis added here and there] "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Too bad Jim Webb withdrew. Him I cudda voted for.
As I say, you are probably right. IMO the office of president should be abolished.
The truth is that the Constitution when adhered to is adequate for the unbiased operation of government. However, the bankers have taken ownership of the government through usury and the use of a commercial fiat monetary system. It is the alchemical mystery of iniquity. These banker scumbags have not only stolen the wealth and industry of America through the exchange of their phoney (paper) currency and credit for the nations GOLD, they have usurped the Constitution by changing our means of exchange from a common law real and honest monetary system to a commercial credit/debt system. "The means of exchange dictates the choice of law" ... meaning common law monetary exchange equals common law jurisdiction (law of the land) or commercial paper which equals commercial law or what is known as law merchant/admiralty law. It's that simple. If you really want Constitutional Law to rule then the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM must be shut down because for now they OWN THE FEDERAL GOVT. THEY OWN YOU. The use of the Federal Reserve system is our choice. When Kennedy had Treasury Notes issued (in our lifetime) they were spent right along side of the Federal Reserve Notes issued by the private banksters. The difference being that the Treasury Notes were issued by us through the treasury whereas the FRNs are issued by PRIVATE BANKERS and they create PRIVATE COMMERCIAL LAW wherein we have some privileges but NO RIGHTS. These so-called privileges are granted by the bankers (but they try to use slick language (sophistry) to convince you that the Constitution yet prevails. IT DOESN'T. In the long run it's up to us as a society to root out these murdering warmongers and voting hasn't worked for 200 years. Millions of Americans were scammed out of their homes by these butchers while the Wall Street bankers got paid bonuses. They have preyed upon our insecurities to enslave us. The most obvious element of this enslavement is THE SOCIALIST SECURITY INSURANCE SCHEME. 1st they number their slaves and then they rule over them as the BENEFACTOR. Luke 22:25 And he said unto them, The Kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, & they that exercise authoritie upon them, are called benefactors. 26 But ye shall not be so; When we criticize Christian zionists for their ignorance we should criticize our own use of the financial scheme that has made slaves of us all. Our ignorance and apathy towards this monetary issue is choking us to death. "Honest, April 15th is the real April Fool's Day". "The almighty Dollar ain't worth a buck". Doug Scheidt
#2. To: Ada (#1)
" Sanders is no longer just a fool; he’s now a dangerous fool."
#3. To: Ada (#0)
#4. To: Bub (#2)
Also, he and Hillary are identical - sexually, socially, and politically.
#5. To: noone222 (#3)
#6. To: Ada (#5)
#7. To: noone222 (#6)
[Last time I voted was for Nixon in the 1972 selection process].
#8. To: Ada (#7)
Most of the time its third party or even a blank ballot, which is a type of protest vote that goes right over their heads.
#9. To: Ada (#1)
May all be true, but he's still preferable to Hillary.
A Socialist in the Senate? The Unfortunate Truth about Bernie Sanders
by Ashley Smith
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 15, 2006
First Published in Socialist Worker
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#12. To: Ada, All (#11)
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IMO the office of president should be abolished.
#13. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#14. To: X-15, Ada (#13)
WW1 and its prolongation by US involvement helped the Communists to come out on top in the Russian Revolution. Contrary to what some historians might imply, the Leninists were not the only faction fighting to overthrow the monarchy. But they supported by a populace weary of war and perceived them as getting them out of the war faster. Obama, and perhaps Sanders as well could be perceived as relative peaceniks, though the former didn't fail to disappoint in that regard. I would actually support a leftist even though I pretty much disagree with them on everything else, IF I was convinced that they would end the empire. Obama didn't convince me in 2008 and Sanders fails to do so now. Give us peace, and we'll get back our liberties and markets with some effort. No peace and we are on the fast-track to totalitarianism in all its choices of left and right.
John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics:
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
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