FCC and the internet

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> David Sanders wrote:
>
>> Oh, stop your misinformed nonsense please.
>>> All Democrats should look to Europe for Guidance.  They went the
>>> Democratic Socialist way  years ago and are now fighting their way back
>>> in Germany and France and to a lesser degree  in other countries. They
>>> have to, or they will become the little sisters of Eastern Europe,
>>
>> That is utter nonsense, they are fighting their way back from in
>> Germany's case massive underdemand for their industrial products,
>
> And the phenomenal cost of re-integrating the DDR - which in a less well-
> organized country would have collapsed the economies of both East and West.
>
>> and
>> in France's case massively protectionist laws which have made their
>> economy unviable in the European marketplace.
>>
>> It has NOTHING to do with socialism.  If you want examples of
>> socialism at work look at Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
>>
>>> economically.  It was for seventy five years that the Soviet Union was
>>> pushing socialism.
>>
>> WTF are you talking about? They were "pushing" revolutionary Marxism.
>
> It's just a knee-jerk reaction.  Americans are told that the Soviet Union
> was "socialist" (it must be true - it was in the country's name!), and
> therefore anything else that calls itself socialist must be the same thing.
>
>> There is no one left to back it now.  Markel and the
>>> French leaders are now finding Obama too far to the left and much to
>>> their distaste these days. They have not hesitated to criticize him.
>>
>> In Europe we criticise who we want - many leaders have been criticised
>
> They haven't been critizing Obama for being "left", though.  Those of us who
> appreciate our socialism consider almost every American politician to be on
> the right of the spectrum.
>
>>> find it amazing that democrates don't even recognize that their
>>> progressive Liberal advocacy is in reality Socialism and in some cases
>>> of a far left breed.
>>
>> Maybe they do, is that evil sorry?
>
> No, they don't, because there is nothing recognizably "socialist" about the
> US Democratic party, and never has been.
>
>>> We are out of step with nearly the entire world.  Russia, China
>>> ,India and a great deal of Europe shedding their own socialism in favor
>>> of the stronger Capitalism that provides better and more productive
>>> incomes for all.
>>
>> WTF!!!! India is a captialist democrary and has been for years!
>
> It's the same guilt-by-association as above.  For years, the USSR cozied up
> to India, therefore they're socialists...  In any case, any reading of
> current events in those countries makes it clear that there's no "better and
> more productive incomes for all", but only for a few.
>
>> China is a totalitarian autocracy and Russia has also been captalist
>> since Glasnost (though with a shady goverment).
>
> The best kind of capitalism!
>

You know, right-wing conservative speech sounds frighteningly like this ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

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