Even as a libertarian and a free marketer, I wholeheartedly agree. If something is deemed important and universal enough that we as a society decides it needs to be done by government, then the work actually needs to be performed by government. Not the company with the lowest bid, that just so happens to be owned by a friend of a politician, who then also overruns the original budget by 400%.
How many times did Hitler himself pull the trigger? Even once? Without the power of words to spur his fellow countrymen, most of those firearms/planes/tanks would never have been manufactured. Words are far more dangerous than weapons ever will be, yet people are more afraid of an inanimate hunk of metal than of a politician with an agenda. It's completely backwards.
Who was responsible for WW2 and the holocaust? Did that man personally kill millions or did he do it with the power of words? What is more dangerous, words or firearms?
By the same token, not everyone who disobeys a law is morally wrong. It's society's job to question and break the law when they feel it necessary, and then it's society's job to determine if the law was just to begin with.
Rosa, I know you think the law is unjust, but do the right thing and sit where you're told. Don't worry, somebody someday will fix the law. Until then it's not your job to break it...
Lose in court? The point is not whether they win or lose. It's about keeping people in line. Look at recent stories where the US government seized websites, servers, etc. Shut down businesses. A year later, they quietly drop the case. Lives have been ruined, companies closed. What then? Sue the US government? Good luck with that. Do you really want to spend your entire life for the next several years trying to sue the government?
Sorry to shatter your view of the world, but there's no accountability in government.
The police aren't really regulated. In theory they are, but all they have to do is claim it's part of the War on Drugs or War on Terror and they're free to do whatever they want.
Treason? The only treason I see having been committed was by the officials who did anything so embarrassing that it needed to be leaked. Maybe if politicians and bureaucrats weren't such unethical, scheming, corrupt slimebags there'd be no reason for people like Assange and Manning to do what they're doing.
Perhaps if you'd learn to read, I was agreeing that there is plenty of right wing crap shoved down our throats, so your insinuation that I'm a Fox new watching Republican just makes you look like a stupid fucking moron.
Ah, so you supported the Iraq war which was shoved down America's throat? Or the war on terror? Or the DHS? Or the war on drugs? Or the Vietnam war? Or No Child Left Behind?
There are plenty of things that both sides of the aisle shove down our throats, you simpleton.
The market is slow to make decisions, because it relies on the input of everybody involved. That's as opposed to government bureaucracy which makes bad decisions relatively quickly and then forces those bad decisions down everyone's throat.
While I may depise what the US/UK/Sweden are doing here, it's a stretch to say Ecuador is doing the right thing. If they're doing the right thing, but it's for the wrong reason, is it really the right thing?
Wealth may not flow from the state, but the state has the power to control the flow of wealth. And right now the state seems to be doing a pretty good job of ensuring it flows into a big pool on Wall Street.
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Which is why the Democrats have been fighting so hard to shut it down, right?
*crickets*
Even as a libertarian and a free marketer, I wholeheartedly agree. If something is deemed important and universal enough that we as a society decides it needs to be done by government, then the work actually needs to be performed by government. Not the company with the lowest bid, that just so happens to be owned by a friend of a politician, who then also overruns the original budget by 400%.
Such a small minded ignoramus.
How many times did Hitler himself pull the trigger? Even once? Without the power of words to spur his fellow countrymen, most of those firearms/planes/tanks would never have been manufactured. Words are far more dangerous than weapons ever will be, yet people are more afraid of an inanimate hunk of metal than of a politician with an agenda. It's completely backwards.
Oh, so you're the smelly cubicle I walk past every day...
At work?
Who was responsible for WW2 and the holocaust? Did that man personally kill millions or did he do it with the power of words? What is more dangerous, words or firearms?
By the same token, not everyone who disobeys a law is morally wrong. It's society's job to question and break the law when they feel it necessary, and then it's society's job to determine if the law was just to begin with.
Rosa, I know you think the law is unjust, but do the right thing and sit where you're told. Don't worry, somebody someday will fix the law. Until then it's not your job to break it...
I had to read that sentence twice. Very awkwardly written. This submission fails on so many levels.
Fortunately it's a problem that's its own solution.
Fascinating, thanks for the link.
You're right, telling people to go into massive debt to learn to fish is apparently the government's job...
Lose in court? The point is not whether they win or lose. It's about keeping people in line. Look at recent stories where the US government seized websites, servers, etc. Shut down businesses. A year later, they quietly drop the case. Lives have been ruined, companies closed. What then? Sue the US government? Good luck with that. Do you really want to spend your entire life for the next several years trying to sue the government?
Sorry to shatter your view of the world, but there's no accountability in government.
The police aren't really regulated. In theory they are, but all they have to do is claim it's part of the War on Drugs or War on Terror and they're free to do whatever they want.
Good idea, report it through the appropriate channels. So he can be quickly and quietly silenced in a military "accident" a few days later.
Soldiers take an oath to defend the constitution. Turning in the scumbags in Washington that piss on that document daily is defending it.
I'm prior service (US Army, 92-94) and I'm not sure I'd have the stones to do what Manning did. I for one salute him.
Treason? The only treason I see having been committed was by the officials who did anything so embarrassing that it needed to be leaked. Maybe if politicians and bureaucrats weren't such unethical, scheming, corrupt slimebags there'd be no reason for people like Assange and Manning to do what they're doing.
How does the second comment invalidate the first? I think you might be legally retarded. Both sides is inclusive of the right wing, you moron.
Perhaps if you'd learn to read, I was agreeing that there is plenty of right wing crap shoved down our throats, so your insinuation that I'm a Fox new watching Republican just makes you look like a stupid fucking moron.
Ah, so you supported the Iraq war which was shoved down America's throat? Or the war on terror? Or the DHS? Or the war on drugs? Or the Vietnam war? Or No Child Left Behind?
There are plenty of things that both sides of the aisle shove down our throats, you simpleton.
The market is slow to make decisions, because it relies on the input of everybody involved. That's as opposed to government bureaucracy which makes bad decisions relatively quickly and then forces those bad decisions down everyone's throat.
That would make the Iraq war the right thing as well. We did oust a dictator after all.
While I may depise what the US/UK/Sweden are doing here, it's a stretch to say Ecuador is doing the right thing. If they're doing the right thing, but it's for the wrong reason, is it really the right thing?
Wealth may not flow from the state, but the state has the power to control the flow of wealth. And right now the state seems to be doing a pretty good job of ensuring it flows into a big pool on Wall Street.