McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jun-15-10 05:33 AM
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Red Scare, Muslim Scare: When Business Profits Trump Constitutional Protections Updated at 5:33 AM
Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 05:37 AM by McCamy Taylor
I. Profits in Danger
After Russia had its communist revolution, the powers that be in the west were scared. What if American workers decided to overcome their ethnic, racial, religious and gender differences and join together in a massive movement modeled in the IWW or Wobblies, the only U.S. labor organization at the time that admitted women and minorities? What would happen to the privilege of the elite class? What would happen to their ability to make massive (obscene even) amounts of money from the sweat and tears of their employees? What would happen to the Morgans and the Rockefellers? The feds needed an excuse to shut down labor unions...
After Iran had its Muslim revolution and nationalized its oil, the powers that be in the west were scared. What if other oil producing Middle Eastern countries decided to nationalize their own oil reserves? What would happen to the elite at Exxon and Chevron? How would they be able to afford their jets and yachts and vacation homes if they could not make a fortune selling other people’s oil? What would happen to David Rockefeller's political clout? The feds needed an excuse to invade oil producing countries at will...
II. Congress and the President to the Rescue
In 1918, Woodrow Wilson persuaded Congress to pass the Sedition Act.. It violated the 1st Amendment of the Constitution by restricting speech critical of the U.S. government during time of war...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8559945And from there its a collage of wiki links to the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Patriot Act etc and how they've been used to prosecute CAIR, the Holyland Foundation etc.
Because, you know, the Framers always intended the COTUS to protect political movements that slaughtered 120 million of their own subjects or foreigners who violently react to duly elected political agendas.
Of course this is the same crowd that swears churches must accept whatever meager rights lefties would allow them to have, i.e. no signs, no handing out Bibles, no starting religious based conversations unless invited etc, and they sure as hell have no love for dissident media or the RKBA.
IOW they want to use the COTUS to suppress the COTUS.
Sorry lefties, just because you keep losing elections doesn't mean you're allowed to violently oppose us.
