Posted on 11/14/2019 1:26:02 PM PST by Jim Noble
Does that make Lincoln a socialist, then? I recall him doing similar stuff during the Civil War, including the implementation of what became our income tax.
-PJ
Bkmk
And big media is the communications division for deep state. Deep state controls the news/communications. When the CIA destabilized or covertly aided in the process of destabilizing/overthrowing countries in the past, it always attempts to seize and or control the media. It's an essential part of the process.
Yes, but it is not at all clear who controls who. Big Media is a Big Player.
Not necessarily....see...if it took an Amendment for the income tax to be instituted, and if Lincoln jammed through an income tax without an Amendment, that would make him a Statist, not a Socialist.
Does it really make any real difference regarding whether or not he’s socialist or a statist? The whole income tax thing was pretty much a socialist ideal.
Besides, you want an idea of unrestrained freedom? Look at France during the French Revolution. There was absolutely no law and order there and just mob vigilanteism, and by extension, free because there was absolutely no order or law in place, and that was a very bad thing and arguably a precursor to socialism.
Read “Silent Coup: The Removal of a President”.
The facts there tell a far different story and John Dean is the one who is the main guilty party trying to get possession of a little black book from DNC HQ with his girl friend’s name in it who was a Call Girl and that would be Maureen.
Yes he worked for Naval Intelligence before he became a reporter.
No I don’t think that was the first time, I think JFK’s killing was one also.
But the fact remains that suspending habeus corpus and enacting an unconstitutional income tax emanates from a state vs individual preference. A socialist believes in state ownership of the modes of production. I agree there is likely overlap beteeen socialists and statists (I'd also argue there is overlap between "crony capitalists" and NeverTrumpers and statists). But one is not ipso facto the other.
I wouldn’t call our country a democratic-republic. If anything, that’s France, especially post-Revolution. We’re a Constitutional republic, and if anything, the Founding Fathers deliberately tried to avoid labeling our country a democracy. Besides, democracy IS mob rule.
And just as an FYI, I’m also against anarchism (and unlike some political graphs, I refuse to list anarchism as being of the far right. Actually, I’d list it at the same place as totalitarianism, whether it be communism, fascism, Nazism, or any of that, that being on the far left).
Federalist 10 is all about how a republic can be a check on factionalism begotten by democracy. But I never said we are a democracy. We directly elect our representatives yet the two wolves can’t outvote the one sheep on what’s for dinner.
You didn’t say we were a democracy, that is true, but you did say we were a democratic-republic, which we are not. We are strictly a Constitutional Republic.
And yeah, good thing for Federalist 10. Too bad Thomas Jefferson was against the Federalists.
Woodward was in communications in the Navy. Handled codes and sensitive intel. It’s widely assumed he was CIA after.
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