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Sun, 04/07/2013 - 15:07 | 3418291 screw face
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(and testicles) +1

Woooh Jah, attack of the giant squid, swab the poop deck, make way for Davy Jones locker.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 06:57 | 3418088 bank guy in Brussels
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More graphical entertainment on US corruption

The US government 'Terrorist Identification Chart' - quite funny

http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Terrorist-Identi...

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 10:47 | 3418302 Nobody For President
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Scottish terrorist - OMG! Cracked me up.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 10:47 | 3418301 Nobody For President
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Scottish terrorist - OMG! Cracked me up.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 09:16 | 3418194 blindman
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hilarious !

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 06:53 | 3418084 nmewn
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We live in a nation where the well connected (Jon Corzine) can pillage at leisure without fear of prosecution.

Where his former parasitical employees (like Lisa Jackson of the EPA) can be promoted into higher federal office and show the nation true "transparency" by conducting government business via anonymous email accounts under the name of Richard Windsor.

Where David Gregory can smuggle contraband into the nations capitol, show the world he is in possession of it on national television and have no fear of arrest or even charges brought.

A nation where, the top law enforcement officer in the land (Eric Holder) needs to have presidential protection for engaging in international gun smuggling even as the president seeks to ban guns domestically.

The criminals are not in jails, they're operating the jails.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 15:08 | 3419032 screw face
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nice post, wow, 29 where did come from?

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:35 | 3419522 nmewn
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It came from the heart and its all verifiably true.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 12:56 | 3418636 the grateful un...
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transparency means they steal out in the open

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 16:44 | 3419325 Angus McHugepenis
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Here's a clue for all of you. STOP THINKING THAT YOU ARE PART OF THE WORLD THE CROOKS LIVE IN! Just disconnect from them and your brainwashed ways. Bitch about what they are doing all day long or get off your sorry fucking ass and really do something constructive like taking all your money out of the bank and hiding the worthless paper if you're too afraid to buy metals with it.

Jesus H. Fuckingchrist!... just do something. Take the fuckers down without ever firing a shot. That is how you "kill" by watching your enemy strangle themselves.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 03:38 | 3417984 Aquarius
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Why the USA and the West in general is in a state of total meltdown:

This also includes the larger parasitical organizations known as the TBTF Banks and other such organizations.

I propose as my alternative theory for the state of impending USA collapse, or the collapse of the West, the well known Theory of Thermodynamics. I offer a brief outline so as not to bore but detailed enough for those interested to research and to consider my conclusions.

Erwin Schrödinger became involved in Thermodynamics, biology, life and complexity of energetic systems before his escape from Hitler and his move to Ireland. The clues are to be derived from Entropy, a term nobody really understands, but ignore, as if they do. Obviously, the 'collective' comprise energy units known as people, and collectives can be considered complexities which make up Nations. A Nation is a super-collective and all can be considered organizations as well as being considered organisms (life).

Normally organizations escape the Second Law that is Entropy which says that closed systems are attracted to equilibrium, otherwise known as, in the case of life systems, "thermodynamic equilibrium" or better "maximum entropy". An organization or organism which is dead or has become inert, failed, lifeless, inanimate has reached this state of maximum entropy. But, life is different, organizations/organisms can escape this state of maximum entropy, and they do by feeding on "free energy" so that their pollutants or exports are minimized in comparison. But the game must continue in this contango; or dance of the devil. Hence the US is / has been increasing its entropy to delay the day of reckoning of maximum entropy, by feeding on outside (its own borders) on 'free energy' or 'exergy' which belongs to others.

The USA does not use diplomacy; the USA uses might and war as well as destruction, manipulation, and genocide etc. to extend its life expectations to acquire its necessary 'free energy' or 'exergy'. I believe that these resources are coming to an end, one way or another, but nevertheless, when this 'free energy' is not longer available to the USA, that organization will meet its maximum entropy.

I believe Hymen Minsky stumbled unknowingly upon Thermodynamics when he stated and I paraphrase, 'stability leads to instability'. Damned right but this fact was well known long before he came on the scene and, of important note, he being almost totally ignored by the Economist Elite of the World, that lot that appear to be driving our comtemporous holocaust du jour, just might ensure that maximum entropy is achieved so much sooner than later. And which promises to be horrific. Does it need to be so?

However saying all this, allow me to add as - hopefully - stimulation, as organisms are attracteed to boredom of the linear gradients, but appear to naturally swerve at the moment of truth to begin feeding far afield of (foreign /alien) exergous 'free energy', just like looting bands of feudal wannabe lords and tyrants of yore, there is a natural driving force here that is being ignored.  Not by Schrödinger et al, but cetainly by those who call themselves the "leadership elite". "Critical Mass" - natural justice, natural physics, an intelligent planet - is the "finger of God" that trigger entropy until Chaos rules supreme. Such things are Principles; Cause and Effect, they occur/ are occuring constantly; why don't we see them?; why does science ignore them? Why don't we validate them, after all, this information has been around in the public domain for around 3,000 years and more, I suspect. Wash and Rinse; the cycle, a new cycle, Era and or Epoch begins.

There is, in conclusion, a vast difference between closed and open systems and such systems may be the preferences of the reader. But I propose that each system of life is neither an open or closed system but a super-capacitor. This fact alone suggests that every collective of life forms, organisms, organizations, nations or whatever, have the capacity to morph life on Earth into something wonderous and magnificent, in a complete contrast to the killing, thieving domination of the political and banker driven organized crime system which we have imposed on us today. 

This planet has limited material resources except in one instance which we chose to ignore; man as a Super Super-Capacitor is the planet's greatest potential resource, if given the opportunity of accomplishment.

Ho hum

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 08:53 | 3421378 new game
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like a tornado that rips through and  ONE home still stands.

will you survive?

do you feel lucky?

life is just not fair,

or is it?

best post ever; thank you for such deep thoughts...

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 02:16 | 3420927 kurt
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I don't see no thriving pulsating dick-shaped Capacitor waiting to discharge its load into a new, fresh hole-new-world. I see a dead rat stuck to the lawn like sticky tape, pulled up, underneath, crawly skitterin' things, running from the light. One guy, holding the flashlight, is drunk and gets punched by another, "Ain't it be-u-ti-ful!". A third guy says "nope, there's something terribly wrong here."

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 23:56 | 3420745 williambanzai7
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I have conversations along similar lines with the artist who does my art prints. He is absolutely convinced that we are on the verge of a spiritual awakening of human collective consciousness that will crush the current power structure.

There are many ways of looking at how this can happen. Physics is one such approach. I say the more the merrier because everyone comprehends the world from their own perspective and the more these can be integrated, the greater the potency of human capacitance. When the stored human energy is finally released, woe onto those who attempt to continue the current sheme of subjugation.

So let the spiritual masters sit with the physicists and so on and discuss how we will eventually rid ourselves of the corrupt scum that is holding humanity back from realizing its greater potential.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 05:11 | 3421065 CompassionateFascist
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Banzai photoshops are worth a thousand words. His words, however, are drivel. For every Rachmaninoff...10,000 Kim Kardashians and Kanye Wests...producing more of same. This world must burn, and only a few will survive the tempering flame. 

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 14:18 | 3422799 silverserfer
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you are a bad parent. Your kids will be put in the protective servies of "CARL'S JR"

CARL'S JR! FUCK YOU,  I'M EATING!

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 10:19 | 3421670 williambanzai7
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Keep watching your TV chief. That seems to be your preferred method of data collection.

However, and this may come as a great disappointment to you, the people out here in the rest of the world couldn't give a flying fuck about Kim Kardashian or Kanye West. They do, however, complain constantly about the cost of housing and groceries going up.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 11:14 | 3422005 Enslavethechild...
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The people are catching on.

They now realize that an "economy" is something that takes more out than it puts in (because of interest).

They are also catching on to the fact that governments exchange monopoly money for real wealth, and then con you into paying taxes to pay for their theft (double-dipping).

Keep up the good work William

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 12:43 | 3422365 williambanzai7
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I have a very simple metric. I just don't have to spend much time explaining what I am thinking liek just a few years ago.

People just seem to grasp the whole theing very quickly now or they already know, perhaps vaguely, that something is very  wrong. The resistance to the idea of a global financial rip-off by the elites seems to have universal acceptance, unless you happen to be one of them.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 14:24 | 3422834 silverserfer
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 control of technology in the hands of the people could lead to enlightenment. Control of technology currently in the hands of global elite mafia scociopaths is what we have now

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 10:00 | 3421642 Enslavethechild...
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Sounds like you need to turn of your television

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 21:21 | 3420343 prains
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Knowledge needs to be APPLIED

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 22:19 | 3420210 honestann
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I think we can simplify the phenomenon you are trying to address (assuming I understand your intent).

Actions have consequences.

And I suppose you could sorta reformulate that statement and end up with "causality".

However, the huge missing link in the above is what I call "consequences shifting".  While actions have consequences, those consequences are not guaranteed to fall upon those who took the actions.  And modern predators are extremely adept at shifting consequences so the positive consequences fall upon themselves, and the negative consequences fall upon others.

This is the opposite of natural ethics (so sez me).  What is "natural ethics"?  Simple:

When every human enjoys/bares/suffers 100% of the consequences of his own actions, and enjoys/bares/suffers ZERO consequences of the actions of others.

I'm not sure why I've never seen anyone formulate natural ethics this way.  It is so simple, so natural, and so intuitive.  Think about it.  Natural ethics is "causality applied to human actions" (and their consequences).  Nothing fancy, nothing obscure, nothing arbitrary, nothing religious, nothing mystical, nothing the least bit strange or obscure.

Want to fix the world?  Easy... in principle.  Just eliminate consequences shifting.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 00:21 | 3420801 anonnn
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[forgot h/t to Hillel]

That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of law. All else is commmentary.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 15:45 | 3419147 Disenchanted
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Aquarius:

 

Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars sort of parallels what you are getting at...I think. Population as a form of energy and such. The diagrams at that link are however above my pay grade.

A couple of quotes from that link:

 

 

Then the response of the household to future shocks can be predicted and manipulated, and society becomes a well-regulated animal with its reins under the control of a sophisticated computer-regulated social energy bookkeeping system.

 

 

Since most of the general public will not exercise restraint, there are only two alternatives to reduce the economic inductance of the system.

 

 

  1. Let the populace bludgeon each other to death in war, which will only result in a total destruction of the living earth.
  2. Take control of the world by the use of economic "silent weapons" in a form of "quiet warfare" and reduce the economic inductance of the world to a safe level by a process of benevolent slavery and genocide.

The latter option has been taken as the obviously better option. At this point it should be crystal clear to the reader why absolute secrecy about the silent weapons is necessary. The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight upon the face of the earth.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 18:21 | 3423989 blindman
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@.." The latter option has been taken as the obviously better option. At this point it should be crystal clear to the reader why absolute secrecy about the silent weapons is necessary. The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight upon the face of the earth. " ...
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interesting quote which convinces me that the author/s are
mad men and isolated psychopaths in a world gone wrong of
their own making. these people are the types that rape and
then seek prosecution of the victim. imo. they appear
powerful for a time and have many followers and converts
but the truth wins out in the end my friend, count on it!
I do.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 15:14 | 3419049 screw face
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I think someone, at ZH, has a magical red button to play with, but what do i know, i am just an old 1 eyed fat-man.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:04 | 3419388 Henry Hub
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In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 19:33 | 3420008 Squiddly Diddly
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THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walkin'  -  I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side  .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 14:27 | 3418888 cherry picker
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And therein lies the Ethic of Reciprocity, something that has been around a long time before the separation of BC and AD insofar as time is concerned.

The Ethic of Reciprocity is known as the Glden Rule, for those who may not know.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 00:16 | 3420795 anonnn
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That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of law. All else is commmentary.

 

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 13:23 | 3418711 seataka
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This seqways to The Vicar:

"The shadows on the cavern wall should not concern you. Those who hold up the forms that make the shadows should not concern you. Those who kindled the fires that show the forms that make the shadows should not concern you. The One who made the cave should concern you. Throw down your oppressors and go in search of the One."

source: http://thevicarslamp.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-great-game.html


Sun, 04/07/2013 - 12:17 | 3418525 petolo
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Thank you Aquarius ! You have given me enough Thought Food for the entire week.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 09:12 | 3418189 blindman
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@ a,
along the lines of your analogy using the capacitor/
capacitance model, the energy or potential power of
a unit of capacitance is by design, its design and its
configuration in the design of the larger capacitor or
structure/device. each capacitor might function in the
overall device as a switch or as a energy source or
a signal modifier or enhancer or attenuator.
all the capacitors relate and are integrated into a design,
or they are not. it seems we are at the place where
there is no coherent overall structure or design and
we are seeing the non competent waste of energy and
destruction of large parts of the energetic system,
decay. not for a lack of energy but a lack of described
function and a lack of integration into the whole system.
.
somewhere in here the "leaking" part of the capacitor needs
to be addressed, and the organic and evolving part where
the capacitor changes itself and its function.
.
the capacitors that are supposed to be functioning as switches
are crossed up and feeding the collective energy to the wrong places
and their leaking and dysfunction is going unnoticed or at least
uncorrected due to a total lack of recognition of their proper
function.
.
there seems to be an entirely different structure and function being serviced
by these switching capacitors from the one that is described to the
general public, there being layers of communication, organization and
functioning that is not reported to the "unwashed".
.
thanks for posting this comment/statement.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 09:34 | 3418220 Aquarius
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@b

"leaking" means to me,, full connectivity albeit, by unknown or should I say, non-consensual means?

Mind is all there is - and Mind has structure, like everything else, thererefore Mind needs context best expressed in structure and organization; i.e. paradigm = culture = belief system.

Basic physics aka  science: "gasp".

"We" are at the place of "entropy" which is Chaos aka Change; Nothing new,  here!

The physics are well known to those of Thermodynamics, steam, energy and such like: the problem lays with those that believe in "miracles", otherwise known as "Economists, and all that hangs off them.

Ho hum

 

Ho hum

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:46 | 3419550 PeeramidIdeologies
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@ Aquarius

Those are some very interesting points you have raised there. The idea of the energetic potential of both individuals and groups, as well as the minds ability to focus it, is something I have always found interesting. Although I do not have a formal education regarding thermodynamics, or anything of the such, considering topics of their like have definitely helped me to grow as an individual.

Thanks for the read, I believe you are on to something special

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 12:32 | 3418570 tradewithdave
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... or with those who believe the 2nd law  is a satistical probability, or that bitcoin is not a complex adaptive system, or that Ross Ashby is a dress shop or that "gubernetics" does not equal means testing your welfare debit card at Wal-mart... BEEP!  "too many cigarettes! alert! register #6!"

 

www.tradewithdave.com 

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 11:30 | 3418411 the grateful un...
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spirit is the red herring in the story of western civilization, two milleniums of ghost chasers have gotten us to this point. all spirit is an expression of the underlying structure of matter. money is the expression of economic activity, or sweat dollars as they used to call it (Noland calls it moneyness, maybe he borrowed that from Colbert) we're very quickly running out of material money, consequently no one cares when it is replaced with notional coinage in a computer (bank) . return to the flesh before its too late, this is the lesson of the mayans, a civilization which got caught up in such flights of fancy that they forgot their essential being.

the phenomenology of the spirit is a tautology, plain and simple. the tautology has its [metaphoric] intention. all of it is rooted in language, the first human technology. the current extensions of man's body [psychic and otherwise] are returning man to his soma, or mammal nature as Brautigan said in his poem, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace.. through his system man seeks to balance himself, and through the invention of random mathematics (an unnatural system which is perfectly balanced) and where economics rests today, in a perfectly random world black swan events are always three or more standard deviations away.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:01 | 3419379 Henry Hub
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I'm glad to see you're putting that PhD in Philosophy to good use. I also see, by you handle, that you're unemployed...bummer!

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 11:48 | 3422155 the grateful un...
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unemployed bum-mer

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 12:33 | 3418582 Dealyer Turdin
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    I looked up tautology, still think it's one of those words better expanded into "self-recursive premise", as all the ologies sound so frickin' instititutional grade there is the implication that self-absolved anarchists need not concern themselves with their possible internal arisement... then I looked up your name cuz it cuts out at Un... Quite elegant actually!  Then I thought about how bound up the word spirit is with the idea "future."  Thanks for giving my big wheel a spin upstairs.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 11:11 | 3418372 Sisyphus
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Welcome to the age of the Aquarius! It has just begun.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 07:19 | 3418104 Optimusprime
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Graphene revolution meets Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

 

Strange, but has a ring of truth.  I like it.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 08:21 | 3418155 Aquarius
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Yes, I believe that 'graphene' will be a revolution with much impact. There is inherency to the phenomenology of Spirit; marvelous to be a witness to the changing of the guard. I also like it.

 

Ho hum

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:05 | 3419392 willwork4food
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Nice Aquarius. If I get your main idea right, we are in an approaching maximum entropy situation with the only hope of excaping such is within each of us...something TPTB know, but have gone to greatlengths in blinding us to, with much success.

I suggest that there is an even greater 'capacitor' that overrides all, and insists on balance at certain points in time...especially during Kali Yuga. Kinda makes sense when the Lords are throwing their smaller vessels under buses constantly these days.

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 23:44 | 3417827 Nobody For President
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Hopefully, we get to hang the 'spokespeople' at the same time as the perp...

Most of them are probably lawyers.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 06:56 | 3418085 bank guy in Brussels
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Behind every Corzine are the corrupt lawyers and judges, authorising their thefts and ensuring they don't get prosecuted

What is different and uniquely disturbing about the USA, is how brutal the legal system is for the average person there ... the 30-year prison sentences, almost no one getting a trial, 2.3 million people in American jails, totally innocent people in US jails likely in the hundreds of thousands ...

For all the problems we have in Europe, that is a big difference here ... it is quite difficult to go to jail in Europe, you actually have to do something evil, in most cases. Almost no one is in jail in Europe, compared to America ... 1 out of 1000 Europeans in jail, 1 out of 140 Americans in jail.

The biggest jailer in Europe is the UK ... seems sort of an Anglo problem, 'rule of law' having become too much power to lawyers and the legal system ... whereas in Continental Europe we take people in the streets as ultimate power, not law or lawyers which can be totally captured by the oligarchs.

 

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 07:01 | 3421138 Azannoth
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I think the difference lies is what the Local Regime (US/Europe) perceives as a greater threat,

in the US it's freedom and individuality that must be squashed

in Europe it's non-conformity to the system and rebellion

as Europeans have been "domesticated" to a far greater degree the need for "re-education" is far less than in the US so the sentences are lesser

except when u have people going at the deep-end and denying the Holohoax or something than the system is unforgiving

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 23:04 | 3420655 Buck Johnson
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In the US they for decades if not centuries used the legal system to house and abuse the undesirables of the ruling majority regardless if they where guilty or innocent.  So the poor, minority, disenfranchised and politically unconnected are the ones that see time, and the ones that don't are the opposite and they reap the benefits of a system that is stacked in their favor.  That is why the US won't last much longer because it can't maintain a society like this for to long.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 13:23 | 3418720 cherry picker
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You got that right.

Are we to infer that the worst people in the world live in the USA as their incarceration rate is at the top of the heap and out of the ten most dangerous cities to reside in the world, two are in the USA, Detroit and New Orleans.

Houston, you have a problem.

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