13 Replies to “Bill Whittle on the Left: “They are not good people.” [Darleen Click]”

1. newrouter says:

   July 31, 2013 at 10:13 pm

   repost here

   @ page 63 of “The Power of the Powerless” V. Havel

   ” Had this happened, it would have been a perfect example of small-scale work in action. Unfortunately the precise opposite occurred: the manager of the brewery, who was a member of the Communist Party’s district committee, had friends in higher places and he saw to it that the situation was resolved in his favour. S.’s analysis was described as a ‘defamatory document’ and S. himself was labelled a ‘political saboteur’. He was thrown out of the brewery and shifted to another one where he was given a job requiring no skill. Here the notion of small-scale work had come up against the wall of the post-totalitarian system. By speaking the truth, S. had stepped out of line, broken the rules, cast himself out, and he ended up as a sub-citizen, stigmatized as an enemy. He could now say anything he wanted, but he could never, as a matter of principle, expect to be heard. He had become the ‘dissident’ of the Eastern Bohemian Brewery. I think this is a model case which, from another point of view, illustrates what I have already said in the preceding section: you do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. “

2. newrouter says:

   July 31, 2013 at 10:38 pm

   Stop Making Sense – Talking Heads – Full Concert

3. newrouter says:

   July 31, 2013 at 10:58 pm

   @ 66
   ” than this: it is impossible to talk about what in fact ‘dissidents’ do and the effect of their work without first talking about the work of all those who, in one way or another, take part in the independent life of society and who are not necessarily ‘dissidents’ at all. They may be writers who write as they wish without regard for censorship or official demands and who issue their work – when official publishers refuse to print them – as samizdat, They may be philoso- phers, historians, sociologists and all those who practise indepen- dent scholarship and, if it is impossible through official or semi- official channels, who also circulate their work in samizdat or who organize private discussions, lectures and seminars. They may be teachers who privately teach young people things that are kept from them in the state schools; clergymen who either in office or, if they are deprived of their charges, outside it, try to carryon a free reli- gious life; painters, musicians and singers who practise their work regardless of how it is looked upon by official institutions; everyone who shares this independent culture and helps to spread it; people who, using the means available to them, try to express and defend the actual social interests of workers, to put real meaning back into trade unions or to form independent ones; people who are not afraid to call the attention of officials to cases of injustice and who strive to see that the laws are observed; and the different groups of young people who try to extricate themselves from manipulation and live in their own way, in the spirit of their own hierarchy of values. “

4. palaeomerus says:

   August 1, 2013 at 12:23 am

   We are waiting for the democrats to go too far with their purgy purging and divide and conquer routine. Once they have drummed too many people out of polite society for stupid horse shit the resentment will fester and grow until no one can hear them anymore when they accuse and threaten. New connections will begin to form and the democrats will have no control over them. Eventually the cops will see which way the wind is blowing. They will nod thoughtfully and begin clearing a path tot he front steps. THEN, being out of free phones and rent checks, and loan gurantees, having spent all the money they might have bribed the angry and unemployed mob with, they will be in serious trouble. Sadly we will all be in serious trouble then too because knuckles and bottles ain’t fair, they just land where they land.

5. Reno Sepulveda says:

   August 1, 2013 at 7:44 am

   Whittle is great but what we need is somebody that can condense that speech into 5 minutes tops. If that certain somebody was an attractive Mulatto Lesbian even better!

6. StrangernFiction says:

   August 1, 2013 at 7:53 am

   American whistle blower granted asylum from Marxist regime in Russia.

   You really can’t make this stuff up.

7. John Bradley says:

   August 1, 2013 at 8:13 am

   The section from 20:40 to 26:10, while a little longer than 5 minutes, would nicely stand alone as the recruting aid we could use.

   And while potentially an aesthetic improvement, if we happened to find “an attractive Mulatto Lesbian” to say those things, well by definition, they wouldn’t be an authetic Mulatto Lesbian. Just ask Col. Alan West, or Tammy Bruce, or any of the other conservatives that don’t fit the Left-dictated “what a conservative looks like” mold.

   The filthy race- and/or gender-traitors.

8. David Thompson says:

   August 1, 2013 at 8:59 am

   The ‘smartphone redistribution’ story deserves the widest possible exposure.

9. SBP says:

   August 1, 2013 at 8:59 am

   StrangernFiction: the current government of Russia is far less Marxist than the one we have. It’s just a straightforward thugocracy.

10. Garym says:

    August 1, 2013 at 9:18 am

    Here is an excellent example, on a popular “Conservative” website of the mindset of leaders in the GOP and why we will keep losing.
    http://minx.cc/?post=342130

11. John Bradley says:

    August 1, 2013 at 10:41 am

    …though if it’s any consolation, nearly every one of the hundred+ comments to that post called Gabe some sort of an idiot. It’s as if he’s serving the blog’s resident Alan Colmes, being paid (well, unlikely) to advance the opposition’s viewpoint in an easily smacked-down manner. For teh trafficz.

12. Squid says:

    August 1, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    “If this party cannot sell freedom, private property and virtue, then we don’t deserve to be in this business! Who can’t sell those things, honestly?”

    Where have I heard sentiments like that before?

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