Bradley Manning Finally Charged

Hero Bradly Manning has finally been charged by the US military for ‘aiding enemy’. As you’ll remember Private Manning was arrested a year ago on the suspicion that he leaked documents showing a US military massacre of civilians to the notorious whistle blowing website WikiLeaks. Manning has now been formally charged and has still refused to enter a plea. The 24 year old is charged with 22 counts of “aiding the enemy”, which means he is facing up to 150 years in prison.

This is somewhat good news as previously it was believed that he was going to be charged with treason, which would carry a death penalty. With him only facing prison time, there is a possibility of a campaign to have him released, or have the ruling over turned on technicality. A Mumia Abu-Jamal-style movement could possibly seek to have him released one day.

He is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of military field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan and US diplomatic cables between November 2009 and May 2010. The most embarrassing of these for the US contained reports of civilians being murdered by US soldiers and subsequent cover up. Mr. Manning has placed himself at great risk to release this information to the world.

In a case of having ‘aided the enemy’ the prosecutor would have to demonstrate that an enemy of the US state has taken hold of this information and used it to harm the country. Some have suggested that WikiLeaks itself has been declared an enemy of the US government, and that alone is enough to have him charged with the crime. If WikiLeaks is considered and enemy of the state then Manning has supposedly aided them.

However I think a more likely scenario is they will try in court to prove harm by other actions. All they would have to do in order to demonstrate that Manning ‘aided the enemy’, would be be show that his leaking of information harmed a diplomatic relation with a country seen as an enemy. It would have to demonstrate that any organization or other government considered to be an enemy of the US state has altered its diplomatic position in negative or unfavourable way.

Do you know of any so-called enemy states that have been angered by this or brought it up in relation to other events?

Source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/201222321522212347.html

More Ezra Levant Hypocrisy

Maoist Rebel News fans, periodically I do videos on Canadian conservative media personalities. One of my favourites to do videos on is Ezra Levant. Now, Sun Media Ezra Levant has a weekend getaway where people who sign up an pay a fee can “hang out” with Levant, play some winter sports and discuss politics. Some top Toronto Sun journalists will be there and some invited “enthusiastic” Sun readers. This is all taking place up north and they’re calling it “Freedom Weekend”. Which to me sounds a lot like a conservative circle jerk.

Much to Levant’s displeasure, former Toronto Star (a competing newspaper) editor Jon Miller didn’t like it. Miller likened the “freedom” weekend to a terrorist training camp. In fact he was so offended that he ranted about it in an article in Tuesday’s Toronto Sun. But Let’s give Miller a chance, let’s see his quote in its full context.

“Makes you wonder when was the last time a group of ideological warriors went north to train in the backwoods and plot to storm Parliament, blow up the CBC, seize the airwaves and spread terror across the land. Oh yeah, the Toronto 18 did that. Didn’t police arrest the lot of them and call them the gravest threat to our democracy?

“I think a weekend with Ezra and friends could be something just like that.

“The only thing that sets them apart from the Muslim extremists is that Sun Media will be charging you admission.”

Of course Levant and company are not terrorists. Unfortunately that is a word that is thrown around far to easily by everyone. The one defining characteristic that is supposed to define a terrorist is the use of violence. That is something the Sun journalists do not use. They much prefer to use insults, and vitriol. As well as a half naked woman without which their readers would revolt against them.

Regardless, what caught my eye was this line from Levant’s column in response:

“What a disgusting man.

“Why did he liken me, my fellow Sun personalities and Sun readers to terrorists?”

While a legitimate question about a questionable action, it is also very telling. Was Levant able to answer this question as he goes around calling people terrorists? I don’t know if he can. But I know he has called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation terrorists. He clearly likes throwing the word around against people.

I think a good question to ask here would be: “Why doesn’t Ezra Levant like being falsely accused of something he goes around accusing people of?” Isn’t he capable of taking the same name calling and abuse he inflicts on others? Apparently he can’t. Certainly he is no terrorist, I would say he is more of a hypocritical coward. With such blatant hypocrisy its a wonder anyone could see any credibility on the man.

But then, we do not expect much from the Right. Even less form the Toronto Sun, the right wing media not intended for intellectuals. They prefer the Globe and Mail and the National Post.

Ezra Levant’s Toronto Sun article:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/07/terror-training-camp

FBI Sued By Megaupload Users

Are you angry about Megaupload being shut down? Well, so am I and so are many other people around the world. So angry in fact that some scorned Megaupload users have filed a lawsuit against the FBI. Since it is estimated that 4% of the internet uses Megaupload, you can be sure there have been some well connected and potentially powerful people among them. Its not specifically stated who exactly has filed against the FBI, but its believed to be some people from the various “Pirate Parties” around the world.

The case is simple, in the hundreds of millions of people who use the services there are countless people who legally share files. While the FBI and the corporate entertainment elite were quick to complain about supposed losses surrounding pirated material, they negelcted to consider what they would be doing to people who were not breaking the law. Those who have been using the file sharing service for legals means of sharing files. Myself included, a copy of “Children of The Secret State Debunked” was kept on Megaupload.

People who have used the online file sharing service for legal purposes have a legitimate case against the FBI. The sharing of information has been one of the greatest achievements of humanity, the vast spreading of knowledge has been a boon to the education of everyone. There are enough of us alive today who didn’t have the internet when they went to school. For the first few years of high school I didn’t have internet, to research a project or an essay you actually had to go to the damn library and pour over books to get information.

There are even those doing business that use Megaupload on a daily basis. Shutting down the site did cause them to lose access to some of their material if not important documents. The FBI and the profit motive driven property defenders have caused financial losses among smaller enterprises. The tunnel vision selfishness of property ownership has cause other businesses revenue. That is the mentality of property ownership, selfishness to the exclusion causing harm of others. Those affected are absolutely just in coming after the FBI and even those industries seeking losses and damages. They are responsible for causing them.

In a world dominated by capitalism, perhaps this is one lesson the ruling class can learn without violence in the streets, or by having Anonymous take down a service or too. This shows one of the many contradictions of capitalism, the drive for individual profit and the defence of “intellectual property” inherently undermine the functioning of others drive for individual profit. This has the potential no matter small to turn one group of the bourgeoisie against another. Hopefully a lesson can be learned in some way by them.

Pirate Party has created a website where international users of Megaupload furious over the debacle can register a complaint. American users of the site, say the group, should approach the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, with their concerns.

Source:
http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-megaupload-pirate-authorities-911/

Pat Robertson’s Double Standard On Fascism

Back on February 15th 700 Club leader Pat Robertson made some rather telling remarks about Obama, calling him a dictator and saying that he is trying to make America into a totalitarian state.

Listening to Pat Robertson complain about anything being dictatorial is agonizing. The man himself is a Christian fascist, long story we all know, wants to force everyone to be a Christian and invade and kill anyone who refuses to convert. Its been rehashed over and over again, repeated in as many atheist videos as there are contradictions in the Bible. The hypocrisy inherent in his statement already well spoken about, there is no need for me to go over it.

What is more important to point out is the political hypocrisy behind his statement. During the years of the Bush administration the same fascist laws were being pushed into effect and he was right on the bandwagon cheering them on. In fact this is a very typical stance of the right wing. They have no qualms about a Republican putting through laws to spy on its citizens, take away rights, remove due process and murder millions over seas in Arab countries. They were the most vocal supporters of these measures and screamed all the same freedom rhetoric cover-story for fascism that the government did.

Its interesting to see them all change their tune when a Democrat decides to continue those same policies. Once the new liberal leader is put into place, then all the identical fascist laws have a completely new dimension, completely altering their perception of it. Its telling to see how much the view of those same laws changes once a person of a supposedly different political stripe takes control of them. Nothing has changed, the laws remain the same. The same ruling class holds the same power as before. Its only the superficial front man that has changed. Such behaviour reflects the truly unscientific nature of their thinking. they’ll have no acknowledgement that they supported these same fascist measures under Bush. They’ll refuse to acknowledge that it was their supporting it previously gave it all the momentum to be passed into law.

What I find amusing is the number of libertarians who supported the fascist policies under George Bush, but refuse to support them under Obama. Many of them were gungho for Homeland Security after 9/11 and all the false flag attacks and phony threats that have occurred since. Interesting to see how the same people who supported George Bush and the fascist policies have now suddenly come out against them when they perceive that a socialist has been elected. Is this a demonstration of a disingenuous nature?

We can plainly see this hypocrisy is primarily the property of the right wing. Which is why I chuckle inside when they complain about Obama’s fascist laws.

Terrorist Attacks Hit Syria

According to CCTV the Syrian SANA news agency is reporting a terrorist attack against a refinery in central Syria’s Homs. They’re reporting it as an “armed terrorist group” attacking a 50 million litre tanker. The government was not specific on who was responsible, they only described the attackers as an “armed terrorist group”. The civil defence workers have managed to put out the fire and no causalities or injuries have been reported yet.

This attack comes a day after an oil pipeline in the same Homs region was attacked with explosives for the second time in a week. These perpetrators have also not been identified. There have been other incidents of violence as well including a car that was booby-trapped, it exploded in the Ariha area killing a a law-enforcement agent.

The Syrian government has said they believe the incidents to have been caused by terrorists backed up by foreign powers. They claim its an armed gang that have caused more than 2,000 army and security personnel deaths in the last few months. The UN however estimates the Syrian death toll to be around 6,000.

Many in the global community see these attacks as having been funded by Western powers and possibly Israel as well. This would be in keeping with their actions in the past. According to several reports it is suspected that the US is funneling weapons to the Syrian rebels. The US is the largest exporter of weapons in the world and are known for supplying movements to carry out their interests. Unfortunately there is no 100% this is what is happening in Syria.

Source:
http://english.cntv.cn/20120218/117311.shtml

Pepper Spray Cop Sued by OWS Protesters

In a moment of justice, Anthony Bologna, the now famous pepper spray cop who assaulted peaceful protesters, is being sued by those victims of his. The peaceful demonstrators who were sitting on the ground refusing to move were assaulted with pepper-spray, a non-lethal weapon, when no one was omitting any acts of violence. The iconic image of Bologna spraying protesters became an internet sensation causing him to show up on countless memes. In addition, during the time of the incident his identity and contact information was released online by hacktivist group Anonymous prompting a continuous stream of harassment. Victims of the police brutality spoke to Russia Today.

“It took about three seconds for it to register what had happened. At that moment, my mind kind of went blank. I was just so confused as to why. I just fell to the ground.”

- Chelsea Elliott of Brooklyn

As punishment for assaulting peaceful protesters the New York police took away 10 vacation days from the officer. Both Chelsea Elliott and Jeanne Mansfield, the women attacked, say that is not enough for the violent violation to their civil rights. The women say they seek compensation from Bologna, New York City, the NYPD and other unidentified officers for the vicious assault. A lawyer by the name of Aymen Aboushi will represent the two women in Manhattan federal court.

Patiently both women waited while the police did an investigation in the actions of Bologna. When the investigation was over the police refused to release a copy of it, and instead said that Bologna was to be punished for “using pepper spray outside of department guidelines.” They claimed he was concerned for the safety of other officers and that the limited use of it supposedly restored order, “without any escalation of force or serious injury to either demonstrator or police officer.”

Such incidents of mindless violence perpetuated against the masses which police have sworn an oath to protect is becoming more common. As the capitalist class sees its privilege begin to slip away, they will resort to more and more brutal repressive measures to stifle dissent and get people back to shopping and spending money. The capitalist class can only hope to hold on to its privilege so long as it can maintain control of the people.

Source:
http://rt.com/usa/news/nypd-bologna-women-incident-333/

Report Shows West Mischaracterizing Syria

In the last few months we have heard nothing but about how horrible Syria is and how they have been mindlessly brutal towards its population. The West was not the only ones speaking so ill of of Syria and Assad. The Arab league was also quite vocal in their condemnation of the situation in the country. Endless stories of violence against the population have been sent to us depicting a particular situation. The image is that Assad has just mercilessly slaughter his own people for his benefit. However all not not be as it appears. An Arab League report from January 27th shows that the situation in Syria has been “mischaracterized”.

The report shows that at the beginning the Syrian government was cooperating:

“The Mission [i.e. the Arab League investigative team] noted that the Government strived to help it succeed in its task and remove any barriers that might stand in its way. The Government also facilitated meetings with all parties. No restrictions were placed on the movement of the Mission and its ability to interview Syrian citizens, both those who opposed the Government and those loyal to it.”

The report also shows that the media has greatly exaggerated the violence in Syria:

“The Mission noted that many parties falsely reported that explosions or violence had occurred in several locations. When the observers went to those locations, they found that those reports were unfounded.

The Mission also noted that, according to its teams in the field, the media exaggerated the nature of the incidents and the number of persons killed in incidents and protests in certain towns.

…

Since it began its work, the Mission has been the target of a vicious media campaign. Some media outlets have published unfounded statements, which they attributed to the Head of the Mission. They have also grossly exaggerated events, thereby distorting the truth.

Such contrived reports have helped to increase tensions among the Syrian people and undermined the observers’ work.”

The report also shows that while both sides are committing acts of violence, much of it is coming from the rebels against government:

“In Homs and Dera‘a, the Mission observed armed groups committing acts of violence against Government forces, resulting in death and injury among their ranks. In certain situations, Government forces responded to attacks against their personnel with force. The observers noted that some of the armed groups were using flares and armour-piercing projectiles.

In Homs, Idlib and Hama, the Observer Mission witnessed acts of violence being committed against Government forces and civilians that resulted in several deaths and injuries. Examples of those acts include the bombing of a civilian bus, killing eight persons and injuring others, including women and children, and the bombing of a train carrying diesel oil. In another incident in Homs, a police bus was blown up, killing two police officers. A fuel pipeline and some small bridges were also bombed.

…

Recently, there have been incidents that could widen the gap and increase bitterness between the parties. These incidents can have grave consequences and lead to the loss of life and property. Such incidents include the bombing of buildings, trains carrying fuel, vehicles carrying diesel oil and explosions targeting the police, members of the media and fuel pipelines. Some of those attacks have been carried out by the Free Syrian Army [the main opposition group] and some by other armed opposition groups.”

Its obvious what is happening here, the facts about what is happening on the ground in Syria is being covered up. The Arab League report is being covered up by the Arab league and the corporate media. The image that Assad is an “evil” man who is slaughtering his people out of some infinite boundless cruelty was not backed up by this report. When the elite don’t get the message when want they silence anyone who disagrees and buries anything that contradicts their wishes. The push for war in the country is clear as day, even the wealthy in the Arab world are chomping at the bit to get a share of the profits. Before this report I had not yet taken sides on this issues. Now after this report I am leaning towards Assad in this conflict. Already the Western made fictional Al-Qaeda has sword an allegiance to the rebels and the US is suspected to be funnelling weapons to the rebels. That is certainly enough for me to side against them.

Arab League Report:
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ehauben/Report_of_Arab_League_Observer_Mission.pdf

Mises on Nazi Economics Debunked

I read an absolutely atrocious blog post from the Mises institute that was sent to me by a subscriber. The post by George Reisman declared at the beginning the intention to show “why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one”. The premise is simply ridiculous and obviously an attempt to erase the blatant capitalist nature of capitalism from the Nazi government. Its also a very transparent attempt to paint a untruthful picture of socialism with the purpose of scaring people away from it. The fascist McCarthy would be proud of their propaganda effort. Mises and the Mises followers must have missed that part about Hitler killing because he thought communism and socialism was a Jewish conspiracy. They tend not to be too historically accurate.

Interestingly it begins with the simple line “For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a party with ‘socialist’ in its name to be but socialism?” Anything can be called anything, its the content that matters. This is the same group of people that think the government holding businesses accountable for mislabelling their products is fascism by the state. Saipan is close enough to be able to say “Made in America” right? Labels on products say PRC, instead of People’s Republic of China aren’t being misleading at all are they, they’re not trying to obscure the fact their made in China right? Not to mention the manufacturing town in China called USA. Which of course is never mistaken for U.S.A..

So maybe we can see why they would take such a superficial trait as proof. Besides, America is capitalist country, its leaders remind us of that every day. So why do they think America is really socialist? “For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a parties that praise capitalism, to be but capitalism?” America is also called the leader of the free world, and the best country in the world. Why doesn’t the Mises institute agree? Why do they deny the simple fact that America is called the freest and best country in the world? Why do they hate their country so much? Clearly its called capitalism, so it must be. Why does the Mises institute need to lie?

The really obviousness of the fake socialism in the name came from the persecution of all Leftists in the country. Anyone who has even a beginners knowledge of Nazi Germany knows Hitler had the entire Communist party massacred. Communists from other countries and at home were sent to the Concentration Camps to die. People in trade unions were sent to Concentration camps to die. Hitler had the Reichstag burned down and blamed on communist “terrorism”. Why would he have persecuted “his own kind” if they were socialists like him? How much more obvious can you get? Sending Communists and Labour organizers to be killed. You don’t kill off an entire party and those around it who are the same as you. Its really obvious these people were killed for being socialists. Well, its not as obvious as their name.

In continuing to try and “prove” Nazi Germany was socialist, they quote Mises himself saying private property didn’t exist. “…private ownership of the means of production existed in name only under the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the substantive powers of ownership…”

What they’re saying in this part is that despite the fact businesses were owned by individuals, profits pocketed by individuals, run with market, it wasn’t capitalist because the state planned the economy. They continue fraudulently saying that the state decided how much the business owners could receive in profits. In actuality the various large enterprises were run by very wealthy Nazi party supporters. They entered into deals with Hitler to be the exclusive supplier of a particular product and decided upon a rate of tax which they would pay to the government and keep private profits. The tactic here is clear, just deny to pocketing of private wealth and deny how it came about. This is what they call crony capitalism, or as the rest of the world calls it, capitalism. Essentially, “that’s not real capitalism.”

In a dishonest statement Mises goes on to say that since this isn’t real capitalism, just cronyism, it “was logically implied by such fundamental collectivist principles”. In other words, even though one person actually owned it and took profits and worked it in a way no one competed with him, it must be socialism. One person owning the enterprise is collectivism. We see them trying the same thing today. In our time corporations and the 1% (so to speak) use connections with paid off government officials to achieve similar conditions and they scream “that’s not real capitalism”. Because the profit motive, the desire to make as much money as possible would never incentivize someone to block competition and hoard a market and wealth for themselves. Tremendously dishonest.

“But what specifically established de facto socialism in Nazi Germany was the introduction of price and wage controls in 1936. These were imposed in response to the inflation of the money supply carried out by the regime from the time of its coming to power in early 1933.”

Okay, now here he’s decided it is de facto socialism. He’s saying well its not socialism but close enough, like taking the name of Party at face value. Price and wage controls exist relatively in the society we have today, in fact wage controls are what they refer to the minimum wage as. So what they consider to be wage controls really doesn’t mean much at all since all regulation to them is “control”.

In any case price and wage controls at this time was absolutely necessary, Germany in the beginning was in a desperate situation, World War One ended in great disaster for it, both socially and economically. This was the actual cause of the inflation was WW1. In 1923 the largest denomination was a 100 trillion Mark. In December 1923 the exchange rate was 4.2 trillion Marks to 1 US dollar. This was hyper inflation actually, this was not the Nazis doing, this was the doing of German capitalism going to war. So when they say price controls were carried out because of inflation “carried out by the regime from the time of its coming to power in early 1933″ is outright lying. They are outright taking a problem caused by capitalism and trying to dump it on socialism.

Essentially, if Nazi Germany had been socialist, then they just stated that socialism cured the problem caused by capitalism. Its a smart thing to do, if you have hyper inflation you need strict economic controls to fix the problem. The Nazis were just using the same common sense that anyone would have used. Except Mises of course, he would have advocated just letting the hidden hand magically fix everything.

“The effect of the combination of inflation and price and wage controls is shortages, that is, a situation in which the quantities of goods people attempt to buy exceed the quantities available for sale.

Shortages, in turn, result in economic chaos. It’s not only that consumers who show up in stores early in the day are in a position to buy up all the stocks of goods and leave customers who arrive later, with nothing — a situation to which governments typically respond by imposing rationing. Shortages result in chaos throughout the economic system.”

Here the author is blaming inflation and price and wage controls as a source of shortages. Well, yes that does cause shortages. Inflation does indeed along with these other factors cause shortage. The inflation caused by capitalist economics led to the necessity of measures to bring inflation under control. I know why he’s saying this, he’s using the fact shortages happened and the false notion of Nazi Germany being socialist to blame socialism for shortages. The shortage caused by capitalist led inflation. These policies of controls to fix the inflation problem are like complaining about having to undergo surgery to remove a cancerous mass from your body. This is simply trying to juxtapose shortages with socialism, while ignoring the causing factor have come from capitalism.

“The combination of price controls with this further set of controls constitutes the de facto socialization of the economic system. For it means that the government then exercises all of the substantive powers of ownership.”

Now Mises has returned to the argument of de facto socialism again. Capitalism caused a monumental problem in the hyperinflation with government intervention being the only solution to the problem. A market, despite the opinion of any fundamentalists, cannot regulate itself. Basically government intervention was the only way to save capitalism from its unregulated self, so therefore since it is regulation put out by the state, its “de facto” socialism. Once again this means very little considering he and his followers think all regulation is socialism. Nazi Germany could say “this lake too polluted to swim in without being infected” and they would think its socialism.

The abstractions of socialism do not stop there.

“This was the socialism instituted by the Nazis. And Mises calls it socialism on the German or Nazi pattern, in contrast to the more obvious socialism of the Soviets, which he calls socialism on the Russian or Bolshevik pattern.”

Okay, so de facto socialism is basically covert sneaky socialism. Interesting how everything is socialism if you simply change the definition of socialism to include anything you don’t like. Its similar to watching a Catholic berate a Protestant telling them they’re not a real Christian because they don’t follow the Pope.

“Of course, socialism does not end the chaos caused by the destruction of the price system. It perpetuates it. And if it is introduced without the prior existence of price controls, its effect is to inaugurate that very chaos.”

The problem here is that the so-called socialism actually did bring inflation under control. Which was its intended purpose, it didn’t perpetuate it. So “not real capitalism” solved the problem caused by real capitalism and then didn’t make it worse as Mises says the “not real capitalism” it would. The he claims “its effect is to inaugurate that very chaos”. The purpose of “not real capitalism” is to cause the problem that capitalism actually did cause.

From here the blog post turns into a socialism bashing session that supposedly “proves” socialism is totalitarian. But that is for an entirely different video, one I’ve already done more than once. Most of it is just whining about socialism doing the same thing capitalism does in a different context. I’ll give you an example by taking on a few blatantly glaring hypocrisies.

“In sum, therefore, the requirements merely of enforcing price-control regulations is the adoption of essential features of a totalitarian state, namely, the establishment of the category of “economic crimes,” in which the peaceful pursuit of material self-interest is treated as a criminal offense…”

Here George Reisman exposes his complete ignorance of socialist theory. The goal of a socialist society is to decrease class differences. Laws regarding economics is a tool to carry out that transformation which is the purpose of the system, class struggle. (Class antagonism, which Mises followers classically deny exists. Therefore Occupy Wall street doesn’t exist.) This is not any different than copyright law and patents, necessary laws to combat “economic crimes” in capitalism. Threats of legal action and lawsuits are the threat used against “peaceful pursuits” of profit making and more generally just an expression of freedom of speech. YouTube videos taken down for containing “copyrighted” material. Steve Jobs sued an endless number of people all through his career to keep anyone from competing with him. Any product that bore even the slightest resemblance to “his” was threatened with lawsuits. His actions lead to the bankruptcies of many companies. He didn’t want anyone to compete with him, he would have done the same to Microsoft if he could have gotten away with it. You also have to look no further than the 50 years Kim Dotcom is facing for allegedly participating in copyright infringement.

“The answer is a combination of severe penalties combined with a great likelihood of being caught and then actually suffering those penalties. Mere fines are not likely to provide much of a deterrent. They will be regarded simply as an additional business expense. If the government is serious about its price controls, it is necessary for it to impose penalties comparable to those for a major felony.”

Hypocrisy here is astounding. The recording music industry (RIAA) tried to bankrupt and make homeless the family of Brianna LaHara, a 12 year old girl who downloaded a song illegally [2]. They launched a lawsuit against a child in order to protect private intellectual property. Criminalizing children was their response to a extraordinarily small theft. Kim Dotcom is facing huge fabricated charges for having a file sharing site. Dotcom is accused of racketeering on top of the copyright charges. [3] He’s facing 50 years for supposedly helping people download copyrighted material. He’s actually facing felonies.

I don’t think its even necessary to go into what its like to be accused of having drugs while Black. As much as Mises people try to deny, the War on Drugs is about keeping Marijuana away so that it can’t be held as an alternative to many products. Not only textiles but as pain killer as well. Its entirely the profit motive of larges companies who want to keep it illegal to protect profits that drives the insanely fascist law behind drug possession. Oh they cry about ending laws against illegal drugs, but they deliberately ignore the source of those laws.

“Under a system of de jure socialism, such as existed in Soviet Russia, in which the legal code of the country openly and explicitly makes the government the owner of the means of production, all black-market activity necessarily entails the misappropriation or theft of state property.”

That is not any different than how laws in every other country were set up to protect companies of private property. Its the entire backing behind the the beatings, arrests and killings of union activists today, and much more in the past industrial Revolution. The violence police commit against Occupy Wall street protesters is of the same source. Violence and killings against those who don’t own is even more common in the Third World.

This entire post was intended to take the failures and the crimes of capitalist Nazi Germany and dump them in the lap of socialism. This is primary example of the academic and intellectual dishonesty behind the market fundamentalist movement.

Oh look sources! More than George Reisman gave.

[1] Inflation in pre-Nazi Germany, “The Economis of Inflation” by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni (Ironically avaiable in the Mises archive) http://mises.org/books/economicsofinflation.pdf

[2] 12 year old Brianna LaHara sued
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96797,00.html

[3] Charges against Kim Dotcom
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/megaupload-founder-kim-dotcom-preps-album-20120124

Original Mises Post:
http://mises.org/daily/1937

Ezra Levant Misfires Again

Right wing post for the low intelligence community, the Toronto Sun, certain likes to abstract the position of Leftists, or Liberal, they don’t seem to know the difference. But that’s nothing really new, they only see invented threats all around them anyway. Brown skin, non-Christians, exceedingly small minority groups or just plain don’t agree with them is enough for them to go into victim mode. But this one from Ezra Levant certainly takes the cake! He’s invented a threat of violent liberals! Or left, its hard to tell, he can’t tell the difference. An invented threat against the chicken-little right wing.

In his article on Valentine’s Day he attempted to display hypocrisy in liberals over gun violence. All of this was crying over some free paper that photo shopped a picture of a gun at Toronto Mayor Rob “Racist, Homophobic” Ford. Fromm this point about photo shopping a picture it jumps to that movie “Death of a President”, the film that gave the fictional account of George W. Bush being assassinated. That’s right, the free Canadian paper is the segway into an American movie. All of which is intended to “prove” a liberal hypocrisy over gun violence.

Of course Levant can’t tell the difference between an American liberal and a Canadian one. Which is unsurprising given his constant attempt to portray himself as American. Always pandering to US conservatives like Ann Coulter, another homosexual and Muslim hating conservative. I almost always give more credit to a Canadian conservative because they have more sense than an American one. Not in Levant’s wannabe case however.

His complaint about “Death of a President” was that if conservatives made such a movie about Obama being killed it wouldn’t have been allowed and wouldn’t have been such a sensation. Problem with Levant’s claim is that “Death of a President” never went mainstream. it had a limited showing in regular movie theatres thanks to crying by the right. Not the big budget Hollywood mainstream he tried to make it out to be. But he would be right in saying it was a liberal fantasy, if more than 80% of the country hadn’t been against the man by the end.

An interesting point to make here would be that despite some movie he’s crying over, he’d do well to remember the white supremacists who were in the middle of an assassination attempt against Obama when they were arrested. Levant must have forgotten about that incident. Does he remember all the Tea Party people showing up to Obama events carrying guns? Remember the images from the news of people at some of the rallies carrying assault rifles? No, he’s deliberately over looked that. He also deliberately ignored the Facebook page that called for Obama to be killed. As well as the Evangelical movements that prayed for him to be killed.

Typical right wing hypocrisy. They threaten people, bring guns to a Presidential event, pray to their Jesus to kill people (true Christians), even call for the president to be killed. Hey, that’s alright, no problem. However if you just make a movie about Bush being assassinated they say its going too far, A filmed fictional so-called threat of violence is bad, but real people with real guns at real events is okay by them. What a terrible hypocrisy.

Typical conservative, they want to wave guns around to look like a tough guy and make threats. But if anyone even fictional gun wave back at them, they run screaming that they are being persecuted. They love attacking minorities, ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, those smaller and weaker than them. But stand up to them (even if only in a fictional account) they can’t take it and cry victim. There’s a word to describe this behaviour: Coward.

No. It is not enough to be such a coward. He goes even further and white washes the shooting, the attempted murder of Gabriel Giffords. He whined the “left” was trying to portray him as a conservative, trying to blame them for his crime. In Levant’s description of the event he left out how Jared Lee Loughner said CONSERVATVE Glenn beck”warned” him about “people like Giffords”. Levant ignored the hateful material about liberals in Loughner possessions. He skips the part where Giffords is a Democrat. In a final act of skipping over facts, he leaves out that Loughner declared himself to be a conservative.

Being so dishonest about the Giffords shooting incident should come as no surprise. After all this is the guy who took multiple supposed examples of liberal glorification of violence from America to make a point about Canadian liberals. But then again he probably couldn’t find any Canadian ones, which is why he had to reach for foreign examples. I guess if you can’t make an argument, you can always change the other sides.

Really he’s deliberately altered the meaning of the photo. It was to visually depict the political suicide Ford is undertaking. In fact “political suicide” was the title of the accompanying article. The article spoke about what Ford is doing that is very unpopular. So Levant changed the meaning of displaying suicide to meaning a threat.

But that is the dishonesty you get from Levant and the Toronto Sun.

Sources:
“Kill Obama” Facebook Poll Investigated By Secret Service
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/kill-obama-facebook-poll-_n_302090.html

Ezra Levant article
Ready, aim, misfire: Liberals OK with guns if conservatives are the target
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/13/ready-aim-misfire-liberals-ok-with-guns-if-conservatives-are-the-target

Liberal article
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=185159

Anonymous Declares War on Israel

The online hacktivist community Anonymous has declared open war on the Zionist state of Israel. Early Friday the group made it known that they intended to stop Israel from committing further human rights abuses to Palestine, and help prevent other crimes. They put forth a statement accusing Israel of being a fake democracy, an illusion put forward by the political and economic elites of the country. Anonymous pointed out the crimes being committed against people in the interests of a “select few” that manifest themselves by “trampling the liberties of the masses.” All of this carried out by a campaign of misinformation using a combination of “media deception” and “political bribery”.

Anonymous seems very aware of the nuclear threat posed by the fascist, racist state of Israel. Knowledge of Israel’s nuclear weapons is wide spread, even more well known is the state’s constant threats of using it against any nation that does not support its policies.

“You label all who refuse to comply with your superstitious demands as anti-Semitic and have taken steps to ensure a nuclear holocaust,” said the Anonymous. “We will not allow you to attack a sovereign country based upon a campaign of lies.”

This may be the largest operation Anonymous has even undertaken. This IS the most serious decoration of action the group has ever made, attempting to take on an entire nation. This may have some serious repercussions for all parties involved. This could possibly begin the real campaign by the US government against those who participate in the Anonymous collective.

The group has announced that they have a 3 step plan to take down the state of Israel. Systematically removing Israel from the internet and turning Israel into a free state. The third step they have not revealed yet. In response the Israeli newspaper Haaretz denied the possibility such a campaign could be carried out.

Personally, I am very interested to see how this plays out. I’m very skeptical of what Anonymous could actually do to the Israeli government. Its easy to say something like that, its also quite another to actually do it. I hope they do, I hope severe action is taken against Israel for the criminal actions they have taken against Palestine and the rest of the Arab world.

Source:
http://rt.com/news/anonymous-crusade-israel-iran-081/