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"Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail
An anonymous reader writes "A Methusen, Mass. high schooler, who goes by the rapper name 'Cammy Dee' has been arrested after posting lyrics that police felt were 'communicating terrorist threats.' This wouldn't be the first time rap lyrics were investigated, but if formally charged for 'communicating terrorist threats' this would a set a chilling low bar for terrorist investigations."
Neither Hitler nor Stalin were socialists
Lol. That's one of the craziest counter-factual statements I've seen in a while. You do know that Hitler was the leader of the National *Socialist* German Workers Party. Right? You do know that Stalin was the leader of the Union of Soviet *Socialist* Republics. Right? You do know that Pol Pot and Mao were leaders of socialist governments. Right?
Now, you may argue that because they were dictators they were not "true" socialists but some definition of socialism that suits a utopian view of it. However, it can be argued that these people and their regimes were the embodiment of "true" socialism. You see, socialism is a system that seeks the collective good. Often that collective good is to the detriment of the smallest minority there is, the individual. When socialism has no other constraints it naturally turns totalitarian, because the collective is considered far more important than the individual. Socialism is not so bad for the queen of the colony, but it really really sucks to be an ordinary worker ant. Socialism is a nice idea, but human nature being what it is, it never works - and has *always* ended up worse than a competing system where individual liberty is primary (although, those individualist systems are rapidly being destroyed as power shifts from the people to their governing elites across the World - and *especially* in the US).
The second problem is the willingness of the US to lock up it's own citizens, it has the highest incarceration rate in the world, higher than China and 7X that of the EU. A very strong indication that the US is not listening to what their own research has been telling them for 40yrs.
Some of this can be attributed to socialist policies. You see, the socialists mean well but it turns out that they have the opposite of the Midas Touch. Instead of turning everything to gold their meddling turns everything to shit. Some socialism is bad, but once it starts taking over then we see the madness of 'collective good' arguments destroying individual choice and individual *responsibility*. For many decades now the socialists and their allies have been abrogating individual responsibility and replacing it with taxpayer-funded government programmes. This has engendered a dependency culture and lead to increased crime. Even now, after the horrors of Boston the socialists of the political left are still trying to find any way they can to put the blame on the US ("oh, poor Muslims, if only all the Bostonians had done then they wouldn;t have been forced by US society to perform terrorism; and other such baloney") rather than accept the reality that *mainstream* Islam teaches jihad for *all Muslim males* to wage against *all non-Muslims* and that the bombing was an act of jihad. Socialists simply cannot accept this reality - despite the bombers themselves stating that this was their aim. The same mindset leads the same socialists to excuse bad behaviour for troublemakers when they are young, which eventually leads them into incarceration. The solution is not to throw more money at the problem - it is to 'nip it in the bud'. Do the crime, do the time - no plea bargins or shennanigans. Same deal for everyone.