Comments on: Hey You!

By: 300baud

300baud — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:53:09 +0000

Bull. Government merely conspires to remain government. Commercial interests exploit that to make us pay for what we think of as our rights. Writing letters does no good, you need to write cheques in either case. Or, just unplug.

By: Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:48:29 +0000

Ooops correction…
Sorry for that, but all the irrelevant prattle responding to one sentence in the article just got me into a sandy kind of mood.

By: Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:47:25 +0000

Beach baby, Beach Baby give me your hand
Give me somethin’ that I can remember
Just like before we can walk by the shore in the moonlight
Beach baby, Beach baby there on the sand
From July ’till the end of September
Surfin’ was fun, we’d be out in the sun every day

Mmmm, I never thought that it would end
Oooooh oooooh, mmmm, and I was everybody’s friend Ooooh ooooh
Long hot days
Cool Sea haze
Juke box plays
But now it’s fading awaaaaay

From THE FIRST CLASS

Sorry for that, but all the irrelevant prattle responding to one sentence in any article just got me into a sandy kind of mood.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:10:14 +0000

“The governments your parents elected are conspiring to remove your civil rights.”

You got that right. Or it should be more correctly stated, “the US is conspiring to remove your civil rights” via every lobby group going.

Even the UK court judges can’t call for an inquiry into what happened with their people because the US threatened to pull intel support if they did.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:07:58 +0000

Where I grew up, a long time ago, no one drove on the beaches. When I saw an American show with them doing that (probably the Monkees or something) I was waiting for them to be arrested.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:49:45 +0000

“Right now we donât have this problem so I donât see the point talking about this while our societies and our contries are in perile.”

I said that only to establish the baseline. If we have *no* restrictions on our freedom, we live in anarchy. Most of us don’t want that, so most of us agree that some restrictions on freedom are a *good thing*.

The premise of the OP is that “the sky is falling”, and something must be done about it. However, the evidence that the sky is falling that we are offered is practically non-existent, and the solution is, apparently, to appeal to the cynically political side of the same tossers who (allegedly) caused the sky to start to fall.

Want to save our habitat? Learn permaculture. Want to save our nations? Learn history and political science. Me, I’d be happy to see the sky cave in.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:28:15 +0000

Nobody is proposing anarchy at this point.

But for the US what is proposed is to go back to stick to the constitution.

Is it too much to ask the governement to abid by the supreme law of the land and not try to enforce unconstitutional pseudo laws such as the DMCA?

Eroding the law is a foolish and stupid thing to do for corporate leaders because once the law is gone this is the law of the strongest, the true Anarchy.

Clearly they are physically weak and they don’t stand a chance in such a setup even if they try to pay somebody to protect them.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:09:47 +0000

“Total freedom is anarchy.”

Right now we don’t have this problem so I don’t see the point talking about this while our societies and our contries are in perile.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:20:58 +0000

Okay, that was too glib to be understandable.

Total freedom is anarchy. I’m willing to give it a try, but it’s sort of the antithesis of modern human civilization. The examples given are either examples of perfectly reasonable restrictions (given that reasonable people may sometimes differ) on our freedom intended to benefit all of us, or examples of corruption of government by private interests. To jumble them all up together as some sort of insidious but inexplicable, supervillain-like assault on our “rights” is asinine. The proposed solution is even worse.

The real solution is to educate yourself. If you believe this crap, you’re in no position to help anyone.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:14:45 +0000

It was a vapid call for further vapidness.

By: surfer

surfer — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:02:57 +0000

you see what we have to contend with Tom, you post a great article about the whittling away of human rights, and some asshat sheeple posts to rain on your parade. Nice article by the way, it points out the drastic measures needed to return what should never have been taken away in the first place.

stw

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:04:09 +0000

If its a human beach, SUVs don’t belong there. If it’s a natural beach, SUVs especially don’t belong there. Why do you think people deserve the right to act like jerks?

Fish are a communal resource, if it is ethical to think of them as a resource at all. Why should we not expect people to get a license to exploit the commons for their own ends?

I’m a lot more concerned by the fact that you need to have a credit card to enjoy so many of the expected privileges of adulthood.