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The Baltimore Riots: The Stunning Comments By Orioles Owner's Son
The day after violent protests left Baltimore burning in the wake of a funeral held for Freddie Gray who died after sustaining a spinal injury while being taken into policy custody, Americans are struggling to explain how the events that transpired on Monday evening are possible in modern day America. While most are united in their condemnation of indiscriminant violence, many still feel a palpable sense of injustice after witnessing multiple instances of alleged police misconduct over the past year.
In this context we present the following culled from Twitter messages posted by Orioles Executive Vice President John Angelos, son of majority owner Peter Angelos:
“Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.
That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.
The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, an ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importance of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ball game irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.”
Not exactly what the US Department of Truth wanted to hear.
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As they say in Balwmer -- "Go Boids"
You all had the chance to eolect Ron Paul last time round, but you gave Obama a second term.
You get the government you deserve and he, with Hillary and Kelly has destroyed the land of the free.
No sympathy
So you have not read any of the articles about how those who can afford to pay for elections get to pick the candidates? Ron ain't got that kind of bread backing him. No platform for you Ron, unless you sell out some of your soul...
Hey MsC,
may i ax you a question in chat?
Fucked up but true.
Forget about Diebold?
Fuck Ron Paul. He's another secret society Free Mason.
And who might I ask is on your short list for President?
Let's see the Tweet about what someone in his position can do about it. I don't want to be negative, this is intelligent commentary, but a group of these folks who meant it could rally an army behind them if they played it right. It will not be convenient. Blood and treasure.
His remarks were a bit self-serving.
He has a ballpark to protect.
If John Angelos keeps speaking out like that, he is liable to make it to the Nobel Prize Winner's Tuesday kill list.
Truth is treason in a fascist, police state.
Obama's secret kill list – the disposition matrixhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/14/obama-secret-kill-list-disp...
more fundamental drivers:
1. abandonment of the Constitution and the rule of law
2. abandonment of morals
3. abandonment of personal responsibility
4. abandonment of work ethic
5. abandonment of honesty & virtue and the subsequent glorification of vice
Don't forget there are more benefits for sista girl to select the state as the baby's daddy. The Baby's daddies are now entering the streets with the belt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H0vJGBnWkA
Bingo!!!!
Why is the name of 'Mandela' always invoked - as if some sort of pre-requisite so as not to look politically-Incorrect...? The man had more blood on his hands than Mugabe.
Ol' Nelson was a straight Leninist who had no problem with violence to achieve what he regarded as just ends.
I don't think Mandela ever truly had 'just ends' in mind. He was just yet another Western-backed operative (à la Lawrence of Arabia), and as such he has always been a popular (for TPTB) part of the Western propaganda narrative, because he is safe to invoke, having never seeked anything but failed approaches and broken ideas.
Call him whatever you want. The guy spent 27 fucking years in prison. He obviously had conviction and believed in what he preached. No Western operative would put themselves through that bullshit to try and fulfill some foreign governments goals. You guys are talking out of your ass.
He believed in necklacing...because tryanny is such a good idea that you have to force people to adopt it.
"The guy spent 27 fucking years in prison. He obviously had conviction and believed in what he preached."
LOL wut?? There are lots of people who have spent 27 years in prison, that doesn't qualify a person for anything. As for "belief" and "conviction", he believed in Communism and was convicted (properly) of being a murderer and terrorist.
The difference was, he had plenty of communist and "progressive" friends on the outside who helped bring the Apartheid system down and all he had to do was to wait for them to do their work. Apartheid was an obsolete and flawed system so it was going to come down eventually, Mandela just waited it out-- and given that he had the proper communist leadership credentials, he was the logical one to put into power.
I was just commenting on the "Western operative" bullshit. I really do not know that much about Mandela tbh. But again, no Western operative would have put up with the shit he did. Maybe his ideals were flawed, maybe he was crazy, whatever. But he definitely wasnt a "Western operative"
It's not like he did 27 years because he wanted to, he was there against his will no matter what, so you can't really say "he had conviction" because whether or not he had it was totally irrelevant to his being locked in the slammer for 27 years.
That being said, the reason he gets mentioned so often is because after he got out, in fairness to him, he was a huge unifying force and advocated for all the touchy-feely stuff like reconciliation, forgiveness, etc. I grew up in SA in those years and the changeover to a black government could have gone a lot worse; there were many genocidal haters in the new power structure but Mandela made sure they weren't given a voice. I can't speak to the pre-prison terrorist Mandela since I wasn't around back then.
Too truthy.
You can't believe how many people this hasn't hit, that so arrogantly proclaim the unemployed are lazy.
Folks are too hypnotised by teevee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofhw0lWpVZc
WillyGroper,
Is your wife's name BettyWont? ;-)
haha!
BetHeWont...like trying to put a marshmellow in piggy bank.
rofl
He just doesn't want his Daddy's stadium torched.
Winner!
The Alt-World 2016 Dream Team is shaping up nicely:
POTUS - Ed Snowden
Veep/Handies - Belle Knox
Sec Treas - John Angelos
Sec Def - Jesse Ventura
Sec State - Ron Paul
AG - Harvey Silverglate
All other Cabinet agencies dissolved.
Where does Bruce Jenner fit into the dream team?
That's a nightmare, baby.
yeah -Bruce. The new Poster boy for the elites who keep pushing an promoting our values by their sleaze on TV which substitutes for real news. He should at least be given a liason position as the presentative of the trangenders within the Ministry of T\ruth.ZOr perhaps we can make him the next Ambassador to Israel, since they took time out from their genocide of the Palestinians to rescue 25 babies of transgender parents in Nepal -what Humanitarians.
Belinda Jenner can be head of FED, it needs someone who had some balls at some point in their life.
Coney Island freak shows are looking for new acts.
Fed Reserve Chairman - William K Black
I had him in my Attorney General bracket....
We need someone who can count gold bars properly.
He can be Chairman only if he promises to fire himself within 3 months by permanently shuttering the place.
I bet he'd volunteer without pay under those conditions.
no burning tire necklaces? what kind of unrest is this. wimps
I blame Bernanke. Oh, OK and Hitler too.
Now that he has spoken out and told the truth about our made in America fascist plutocracy, I wonder what is going to happen to him? That is the story I am going to follow.
1/3rd of this country points at the Oligarchy for the problems & where we are today. (The more informed obviously)
1/3rd of this country blames the leeches of society (Failing to see the leeches at the top & the problem w/ a bloated Centralized Gov.)
1/3rd of this country doesn't see the point in even talking about or learning about the problems. (What difference will it make?)
The last third of course are the ones who have resigned to the fact that nothing will change unless you MAKE THEM CHANGE...
Those people are of course why we are here talking about the riots to begin with...
He was doing OK until he mentioned Mandela, a convicted terrorist.
He had to, he had no choice. I'm sure he's fully aware. However, he had to tap into the mindset, PsyOp, & False Narrative the Blacks / Whites have bought into.
And now for the Challenge - round. Please name terrorists that later became the head of their chosen State after they won their war. I'll throw in the Menachim Begin just to make sure we don't go off on a Israelite tangent.
The same guy who is a terrorist to his enemy is a Patriot if he prevails.
I'll raise you a George Washington
The Brits have the most nominees - add all the US founders and go to Michael Collins and Eamon Devalera for starters.
Well done Smedley, you're obviousliy far more informed than most of the masses in America...
Camden Yard = Sheeple Stock Yard
Yea, you can blame corporations and be correct but you must also blame ALL levels of government. Over zealous environmental and occupational safety laws play a BIG part in the shipment of jobs overseas. Also the huge liability judgements issued by juries across the nation have contributed quite a bit to offshore production. Every coal powered electric plant that is shut down contributes to the exodus.
Then there is our overpriced and ineffective educational system that graduates hundreds of thousands of people each year that have no marketable skills.
None of this is by accident by the way, it is all part of the master plan to destroy the USA!!!!!
This is the best summary of the last 40 years of absolute bullshit that we have lived through in this once great country of ours. The ruling elite are fucking traitors and it's as simple as that.
Anti-Semite!!!
Want to play a game?
Find the Semite under 1 of 3 coconut shells.
That becomes all the more apparent when you consider that they have been feeding the dragon (China) for profit....
You don't feed a fucking dragon, when it's done eating, and has now grown, it's appetite will be huge & it will turn to eat those who have been feeding it!!! (What a bunch of fucking fails those elite have been, though they don't care, but something tells me they will soon be radioactive dust...)
London bridges falling down, falling down, my fair lady...
If the Blacks in the slums would get off the Crack ... they'd finally wake up and start straightening thier lives out .... the Crack keeps them dumb and docile to their plight.
Where did you go to college?
You sound like a Yale man.
Yale...bastion of the sodomites. An academic cespool of degenerates and reprobates.
And drug distributors.
And parrots pushing the femenist / lgbt agenda... (Would pedobears or zoophiles be too harsh?)
It was GW Bushes CIA that introduced crack to the inner cities.
They are Nazi trash to be destroyed indeed!
WOW!
I hope the Nazis don't black bag him at 4 am.
Send him to Argentina for some re-education.
Well said by Mr. Angelos. People with jobs and a life don't riot. Jobs are vanishing and it's because of the path we started down decades ago. The dots can be connected if anyone tries just a little. But most people don't - they watch the news for 3 minutes and think they've got it figured out.
MLK, Gandhi, Mandella, great opposition leaders? how about making at least a mention of the greatest opposition leader (JC) in all of recorded history? its a world going absolutely mad
If you need to hire 5,000 people to build iPhones - AND if you also assume the pay rate per hour would be the same -
Would you rather hire 5,000 of the Baltimore protesters or 5,000 people from China?
Why?
BTW - I am also assuming you actually want to build phones and keep a production schedule. ;-O
You sound like the plantation owners of old.
You can't educate those monkeys!
It's people like you that need to be removed from the planet.
You are over thinking it -
But sort of proved the point -
If you need to hire 5,000 people - is educating them the first thing you want to do?
I have evaluated dozens of sites to build and locate manufacturing facilities.
You need labor that already has the basic skills - and if the area you are considering doesn't you move on to someplace else.
Last time I checked - throwing rocks and setting fires is not high up on the list of required skills for most companies.
I see your point.
You're thinking in terms of quarterly earnings.
I'm thinking in terms of unutilized human resources.
Tell me what you would do with these uneducated things?
Should they be turned into field and house servants again?
No comment?
Are you playing the race card?
I have hired thousands of people that are not white - mostly Asian and Hispanic but also hundreds of blacks. So roll your racist BS up in a ball and shove it up your ass.
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Classic - last night on TV - interviewing a lady that is on the Baltimore city council -
She was asked what needs to be done to help the area.
She says they need companies to come into the area and invest -
In the background the CVS building is burning to the ground.
You want to build a new facility and hire a few thousand people to work there?
- would you pick an area that has a good chance the people that live there will go full fucktard and burn down their own neighborhood ?
How much does Baltimore spend on education per student?
It is not a question of CAN you educate someone - it is more a question of do they want to be educated.
Quarterly earnings important? Hell yes - how long do you stay in business if you can't make any money?
"Tell me what you would do with these uneducated things?"
NOT my place to DO anything with them - I am not their master.
If I was in their shoes I would get some type of education / job skill and then MOVE.
He's been reading my tattoos.
That's pretty bold. Considering the statist cocksuckers at MLB already hate the Orioles and the Angelos family. They gave away the ASG to the corporate real estate fraud that is the Washington Nationals.
John Angelos, remove the metal detectors at the games. I don't need to be treated like a criminal for entering Camden Yards.
How about, don't go to Camden Yards in the first place, and stop giving that fucker your money?
Time for the Obama administration to divert attention away from his disastrous home policies and bomb China.
Rule of Law? Moral outrage against government? Ghandi? MLK? Tales from the past.
The present script: Blacks vs Whites. Blacks want more government feedings. Whites want more police power. Government obliges both.
As the middle class continues to decay, poor whites and poor blacks will realize they all want the same things.
The results of the "Father" being replaced by EBT, Foodstamps, WIC, Welfare, Free Heathcare, Section 8 housing and you name it...Have more kids get more free stuff....Lawyers/Judges don't like "Fathers" except for Wednesdays and every other weekend....Fathers have been rail roaded over the past 50 years and here we are.....
Correct, and you havent' had fathers teaching their sons and daughters about liberty vs. tyranny and how to shoot, hunt, trap, etc. for decades. This practically eliminates any form of revolutionary "militia" from forming up and being effective on short order.
The revolution was led by wealthy individuals who put their lives and livelihoods on the line to help outfit and lead armies against tyranny. Until we get that support again, true revolution will not occur. The wealthy could start with a tax revolution... if they are owners of corporations there is no better time than to stop paying taxes in masse... that would be true peaceful civil disobedience that could start the process.
Obama’s Republican CollaboratorsTuesday - April 21, 2015 at 12:00 am
This week, Congress takes up legislation to cede His Majesty full authority to negotiate the largest trade deal in history, the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, and to surrender Congress’ right to amend any TPP that Obama might bring home.
Why the capitulation? Why would Republicans line up to kiss the royal ring? Is Middle America clamoring for “fast track”? Are blue-collar workers marching in the streets to have Congress grant “Trade Promotion Authority Now!” to Barack Obama?
[...]
Where once wages rose inexorably in America and the middle class seemed ever to expand, we read today about income inequality, the growing gap between rich and poor, and wage stagnation.
Did $11 trillion in trade deficits since Bush I have anything to do with this? Or do we think that the 55,000 factories and 5-6 million manufacturing jobs that went missing in the first decade of this new century had no connection to those huge trade deficits?
Is there a link perhaps between all those factories closing in the USA and all those factories opening in China, or between a U.S. average annual growth rate of 1.8 percent since the turn of the century, and a Chinese average annual growth rate of around 10 percent?
http://buchanan.org/blog/obamas-republican-collaborators-15909
Sounded presidential to me, you'd win in a landslide John.
"When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it."
Gerald Celente
What difference does it make? He's playing to the crowd. The globalists know what the problem is. They just don't want to do anything about it.
He forgot about a PC, nanny, welfare state that has destroyed too many of this country's families and values. And a federal government whose lawlessness is trickling down through everything.
John's remarks are not entirely self-serving.
That is a message from the heart!
Thank you Sir.
You speak for millions.
I hope they leave the ballpark untouched.
Angelos for presidente!
My only complaint is he said Mandela was an advocate of 'peaceful protest'. Doesn't jibe well with the following:
"Go safely Umkhonto. Umkhonto we Sizwe. We the members of the Umkhonto have pledged ourselves to kill them — kill the whites.” These are lyrics from the anthem of Umkhonto we Sizwe, or “Spear of the Nation.” The organization is better known as the MK, the military wing of the Marxist African National Congress (ANC). The MK was established by its commander, Nelson Mandela
The MK led a terrorist insurgency that included bombings of public places. It killed many, many more civilians than it did members of the regime’s security forces — copiously including women and children. Indeed, it killed many more people than the approximately 7,000 black South Africans who, according to the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, were killed by the regime during the 46 years of apartheid. In fact, twice that number, over 14,000 people, were killed between 1990 and 1994 — the period during which the ANC was legalized and black-on-black violence became rampant.
- excerpted from the National Review, Andrew McCarthy, 12/14/13
How many years did Mandela spend in Prison like a "peaceful" soul?
You know that the presidente of Angola was a rabid marxist and...his daughter is the richest woman in Africa! A Marxist is the best candidate to becoming Clinton compatible...Just like the Presidente of Kazakhstan, the guy who was a top Marxist "tovarich" but became a king of Oil in his own rights post 1991!
What can't you understand about the label "marxist" that a Yalta + Oil deal cannot abort ?
Its Tweedle Dee to America's Crusading, capitalistic, "exceptionalist" Tweedle Dum.
Only Che stayed "noble", 'cos he never became head of Petrobras like Dilma did ! Now the acrid smell of corruption...
Hahaha...when the labels come off we are all greedy oligarchs in the nude, dude !
Mandela stayed a "noble" icon precisely because he stayed in jail. Thats why he goes down in history as the "good guy". Burden of proof of his darker soul inexistent under Apartheid.
If every American could rally behind that statement maybe we could get someplace with this mess we find ourselves in.
Start things right by burning the UN to the ground.
Then, take a shit on Rocky's ice in the Plaza.
If blacks want power, open local banks or credit unions.
If they refuse to charter you, protest that!
Then you could help your communities.
Stop listening to the fucking communists!!!
You have too many blacks who've sold out.
That's a fact of life you need to police in your communities.
spoken like a true american patriot and hero!
Self-serving G.
MLK, Gandhi, and..........MANDELA???????!!! Are you kidding me? No way Mandela belongs in that group. Tighten up that fact base, rich-boy.
Malcolm X was a true leader, not a whore hopping asshole like MLK.
So was hitler, what's your point.
Hitler, which one, the whore hopping asshole or a leader?....perhaps you can be both, perhaps its a requirement
John Angelos is a thoughtful American worthy of accolades for his leadership in a time where ethical leadership is in short supply, America.
"political elite that have shipped middle class and working class jobs away"
As Janet Yellen said everyone should be playing the Wall Street casino and becoming rich.
She can't figure out why everyone isn't playing it.
Here's my problem:
Many of the posters on Twitter are claiming it's unfair to protect property. But they are so short sighted the don't realize property destruction is the kyptonite of investment -- which is where jobs come from. Congrats, you've burned down a CVS and now your neighbors have even less hope of an economic future than before. Further, a culture that gives no fuck about education (see: truancy rates) will not be employable in "good paying jobs" because those require "good skills".
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They also burnt a nursing home that had been under construction for 8 years. expected to Open in December. Built by a Baptist church for 60 residents.
talk about tragic.
Of course, do we really know who the "they" are in this context?
Provocateurs perhaps?
"Further, a culture that gives no fuck about education (see: truancy rates) will not be employable in "good paying jobs" because those require "good skills"."
Not if you got an AA job like Diversity Manager in the Gub'mint.
I thought Twitter was limited to 130 character??????????
I didn't know you could, now, publish your dissertation on Twitter???
What he said is not a political statement or a controversial statement or even stunning. It's just speaking truth to power.
WOW! he really nailed it!!.....no pun intended
But ... but ... "Hope & Change" remember? Hey John, did you vote for Emperor Goebbels? I'm betting you did twice, so blame yourself first you stupid fuck for falling for the socialist empty suit. At least the sea levels are dropping - right?
www.traderzoo.mobi
Would Romney or McStain have been any better? And that's the problem. The electorate gets presented with a choice between two pre-vetted hand puppets.
That is the new democrat economic plan based on the broken window fallacy. The democrat party noticed that these homes were aging in these cities. They also believe that the only way to create jobs is to break windows. In this case rioting, looting, violence of all sorts and varieties creates a wonderful economic opportunity. After all what better way to apply Obamacare than through rioting.
All those homes and businesses in Fergusen, Oakland, Baltimore and God knows what is next on the democrat parties list. Need upgrading and repairing so burning them all down will create jobs. Well as long as people are willing to invest in those cities again. If not then the Fed can always print some more dollars. Which by the way are worth more than all the natural resources on earth. This printing of fiat tiolet paper will be more than enough to rebuild those cities thanks to undocumented alien labor.
Democrats believe that extra welfare benefits for all of those who lost their jobs and of course all those undocumented aliens who will work to rebuild the city. Will need to be expanded since most of their labor won't make enough to buy food even with the fruit of their own labor. So as you can plainly see this massive and humungous expansion of welfare, illegal undocumented labor, rioting, violent uprisings etc. will make everyone employable in some way.
So what about the miners, the oil producers and others? Well, they are just the Koch brothers and nobody likes them. So democrats will just make them slaves full of leveraged debt. If the miners riot the democrats will always blame the Koch brothers. After all you got to always blame someone in the democrat party.
Not bad for a guy in the 1% plugged into the power elite. Takes some balls to make a public statement like that at a time like that.
Kudos.
You guys sure are easy. I say he's a pussy tring to deflect hatred away from his 1%-er status. Why did he wait until now to say this?
If he's such a bad ass, he should name names.
American political elite my ass.
WHO IS THAT?
You guys sure are easy. I say he's a pussy tring to deflect hatred away from his 1%-er status. Why did he wait until now to say this?
If he's such a bad ass, he should name names.
American political elite my ass.
WHO IS THAT?
He said it because The riots will have an impact on his bottom line.
"he should name names."
The question is- what good are the names- what are you going to do, given those names?
Then you'll want addresses.
And what will you do with those names and addresses?
Nothing.
The same as you do now without the "names."
who slipped him the truth pill? right fucking on. one gets so used to expecting the standard lie template from anyone who isn't an obvious vicitim that when this truth is heard from a successful person or one who would be expected to toe the line, the first reaction is..'what's the catch' and when the second shoe fails to drop the refreshing hope rises untainted. i would love to get back to simply enjoying things like baseball. knowing what i know and seeing what i've seen though has pushed those things way down the priority line.
thanks for the hope!
Truth is such a rarity in public statements you fell a sense of shock when you hear it.
Like 'Is he allowed to say that ?'. Popular figures from the media could do a lot on these lines and are sometimes smart enough see the truth, but they mostly fear for their careers.
We have arrived at voluntary de facto censorship.
the bottom line is america can't compete with 2 billion people willing to work for 50 cents an hour, not sure how you get around that without a completely isolated society, unions got out of control too to the point you couldn't make money, car industry best example, unions have a stranglehold on gm etc. while kia doing great in georgia
there's plenty of middle ground between "completely isolated society" and "strip mine the economy and ship it abroad, rigging legislation to optimize and encourage the process along".
internet stutter
exactly - the fed may have stolen from the american people, but the american people lived far, far above their rightful means for decades because of the petro/bombo-dollar.
What goes up...
they're just trying to let the thing deflate in something like a controlled manner.
Ultimately that will fail.
We'll have deflation, deliberate monetary fuckery, inflation, confiscation, acquisition of the real by the large banks and usual suspects.
Oh dear.
Pass the Grey Poupon.
Burning down local businesses is reprehensible, but I don't find myself with a lot of sympathy for a smashed-up CVS. Many of these huge corporations are behind the regulatory capture that prevents small businesses from effectively competing with large, politically-connected kombinatii
The REAL criminals and looters are in Washington, D.C. but they get away with murder because the only time they SEE a judge is when they look into their pockets...
blood alone moves the wheels of history
The Benito version or the Dewight version?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1ieZPoG3I
I guess either one works...for a while anyway.
Great observation and the guy is 100% right.
Still no justification for the looting last night tho.
Wow!! Run for president Mr. Angelos?
Most concise summary I think I've ever heard!!
...Now go hide because someone/something may be looking you up....
The people don't exactly elect the President. The corporate media are the tools through which the race is decided. After facilitating his ascension in the polls for the Nielsen views it would propagate, they'd hack a guy like Angelos to smithereens were he uppity enough to try to become a contender. See Perot.
Even .1%'ers need to know their place.
Every time a USA citizen stands up and speaks the truth, he is stoned with AD HOMINEM ATTACKS.
Let him among you who is without sin throw the first stone.
Or, did you NEVER do ANY harm to ANYONE by ANY action you took to survive and feed your family?
In my experience, the most difficult thing to do is to tell the truth. Most people do not want to hear it.
Wow....AWESOME!!! What a Hero!!
But also USA has no "Cultural Borders". Sure, like art is never original and can often be traced back to people that completed earlier work. Culture is dynamic.
However by leaving borders open in Europe and the USA, the Culture is really under attack. Expanding US Labor Force with Foreign Workers World Wide, but also importing both legal and illegal workers to suppress US Labor Rates... while pretending this has little impact on our NATION, CULTURE, MEDIA, GOVERNMENT, Social Programs, Federal & State Budgets, MEDICAL Costs, Education Costs, Retirement Costs, People.
You have heard of personal Boundries?
And so people in Popular psychology talk about needed space and personal boundires to keep other people out of their life.
The same goes for Globalism and Multiculturalism. The free trade Era is a Failure as it turns out of be another avenue whereby Wealth is stripped from US Workers and Retirees.
But of course it doesn't end there. We have many, many, many US Treaties for Trade. The USA is completely wide open to foreign employers bringing in Foreign Work Force and becoming US Voters and Shaping the Social Structure of the USA.
Cultural Attack in the USA?? What is the word for it??
Who is Leading these Sweeping Cultural Changes??
What is the Agenda for Globalism, Free (Salve) Trade, and Massive Immigration while shipping Jobs to cheap labor overseas and Inflating our Housing, Property Tax, Home Insurance Rates, Medical Care, Education Costs, Federal Government Executive Pay, Federal Debt, Federal Tax Rates, Energy Costs, Water Costs, Military Costs, and Banking Costs.
We need a lot more prominent popular people making these points.
RE
It makes you all wonder where is the nationalism then? Why don't we have people in this country railing against supporting these regimes and not burning Apple and Wal-mart products in the streets, instead of looting for them?
It's because, unbeknowngst to the regimes he mentions, the people in these regimes are actually all now America's slave plantation. China, Bangladesh, etc are just the share croppers of the neoliberal system. And the lords they serve are getting less and less as the market gooses up more on bullshit; this guy knows, he's scared that those ABOVE him will take his wealth.
John Oliver had a good rail this week about the igornance of "supply chain management". But without low prices, the system then ceases to exist. It is only because of these "low prices" that people tolerate their jobs going away, tolerate those in other countries that are abused to make these products.
But what happens when the currency collapses? Or when it is proven that China rogues against not just the US government, but its people (or China goes bust up, and THOSE people revolt not wanting to be neoliberal slaves anymore)?
Then the markets will burn as the streets do. And, if you are a fan of liberty, this is the only thing that "fixes" this corrupt system.
Thanks for that apt link to John Oliver.
There are NO politically possible resolutions to these problems that I am aware of ... Look at the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty (as much as one can, since most of it is secret), and it is clear that things must necessarily get way worse, with no end in sight to how much worse that is going to get.
One ironic fact about cheap clothes made in third world countries being sold in Western countries is that when those clothes become second hand, using clothing, they tend to get shipped back to third world countries, where they are resold at much cheaper prices.
Therefore, as I roughly understand an over-simplified version of the story, the people in the countries producing those cheap clothes for Western market can not afford to buy those clothes themselves, and they can not have any domestic industry that can compete with the clothes that they made for export returning to them as second hand, steeply discounted, clothes.
The whole system is set up by the most wealthy for themselves, while it screws everyone else. There are no good grounds to doubt that will automatically continue to get worse, faster, due to the ways that all aspects of the political processes are totally rigged by the government of the money, by the money, for the money.
Overall, what is happening is that a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system is controlling everything in ways which overall get more and more criminally insane, as a tiny minority gets more fantastically wealthy through those means, which enable them to even more corrupt the politics, so that the overall situation always gets crazier and crazier.
I am not able to believe in anything else than the established systems much continue to become ever more criminally insane, until they drive themselves through a series of psychotic breakdowns ...
Each individual is stuck inside of that situation, where they are driven by their own real circumstances to behave in ways which make short-term sense to them, and may well be imperative for them to do, but which drives the overall longer term consequences for them to get worse and worse ...
Maybe, after that get bad enough to go through insane self-destruction, things will be rebuilt on those ruins, by those who survive through that, but I would not count on that.
"Americans are struggling to explain how the events that transpired on Monday evening are possible in modern day America...."
I'm struggling to explain why there isn't much, much more of these...and directed where it needs to be directed.
John Angelo's message is mixed at best in terms of truth and standards, and displays certain degree of ignorance.
There is no such a thing as American political "elite" - there are only earnst puppets of the Money Trust that actually runs America. Outsourcing has been the work of Wall St. Banksters, endlessly greedy US capitalists and corporate CEOs. And if China is a dictatorship (some would challenge that characterization as US propaganda), then you better find a worse term for America, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Living standards of the Chinese people have been rapidly improving under Mr. Angelo's so-called dictatorship, while those of the American people have been devastated under Mr. Angelo's so-called political elites. I'm sure by Mr. Angleo's standards, these elites are all "elected representatives of the people", which by operation of logic, means that it's the fault of the voters that the elites have outsourced American jobs, devastated the American economy, and drastically diminshed the civil rights and protections of the people.
That makes me suspicious of Mr Angelo's actual mindset, especially considering his background as a member of the 1 or 2 percent. He seems to be tacitly suggesting that America is some kind of world model in sound government, when in fact the US political system has been a mixture of Plutocracy, Oligarchy and Corporate Fascism for decades. American descent into a police state is a natural progression, and started well before 9-11.
I appreciate perspective aside from whether I agree with you or not on the tenor of argument. I am always suspicious of false/faux altruism emanating out of the monied classes of plutocrats from Washington, or sports figures drumming up business, but this guy seems oddly sincere in words, and deeds. And I agree that the 'police state' started way before the second World war.
Oh How I Elite Thee, Let me Count the Ways.
- If you have Power, Status, Money, or Intelligence Gathering Methods you may count yourself as an Elite or Special Group, an Insider, with all the inappropriate decision making that goes along with it
- Military Elite, Power of Life & Death, Power to Snatch & Grab
- NATO or Israeli Intelligence Elite, Training, Organization, and Funding to create operations any where
- World Class Banking, Gather Info on Energy, Trends, Technology, Capital Allocations
- Political Elites (could be code for all the wealthy Lobby Groups or Corporations), Officials, their Network, Party Higher Echelon, Lobbyist
- A European or US Think Tank or Foundation
- A European or US Activist Group
- Ivy League Network
- Top Level Academic Researcher
Using the Term Political Elite is really to open a discussion about Power, US or European for Starters, and anyone that can exercise power in the US or Europe
Who here did not know a race war was being set up? Pitting any segment of society against any other serves tptb.
Anything other than ending the money monopoly. That monopoly is why and how this shitshow keeps on rolling over all of the people on the planet. Its not the lies its that we keep falling for them.
Accountability is actually each of our responcability. In that we have a duty to stand up against the evils of this world. To take on and defeet the dickheads not just to cry about it. Stand up and say No! Then back that up with our very lives if need be.
For the slow. I just called ya all pussies. Stupid chickenshit pussies. We need to get out shit together tight.
Seek out the voices of reason and build something strong. Call these dickheads out and run them down. Because it is the right thing to do.
Its easy to hate just put some label on any group. Love is a harder thing because it is the truth. That nigglet is your fellow human. Did you teach him how to fish?
Translation: "Dem knee ghars needs ta bees gibbon mo a da privaledged wite debils stuff, yo!"
Go fuck yourself ya race baiting piece of shit.
You are such a wonderful supporter of diversity. Thank you Andy.
Btw, what are your thoughts on the Muslims? Are you diverse there too?
Religion is fine on a personal basis. Religatards pushing their crap on others is selfserving empire building BS. But hey thats just me.
Oh, we heart you Andrew. God bless.
Andy, you just became my favorite ZH commenter of all time. Kudos.
No worries for Obama and crew he'll be "suicided" in no time
Some things are worth dying for.
Buy when there is blood in the streets!!!