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Title: Occupy Wall Street a favorite of Communists and dictators
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URL Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog ... _communists_and_dictators.html
Published: Oct 13, 2011
Author: K.E. Campbell
Post Date: 2011-10-13 07:29:35 by CZ82
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Comments: 18
Occupy Wall Street a favorite of Communists and dictators K.E. Campbell The occupying protesters' day got off to a good start. Iran's supreme leader and "new leftists" in the People's Republic of China have endorsed their cause. During a speech yesterday in Kermanshah, Iran, before a crowd of "tens of thousands," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: The corruption of the capitalist regime has become evident for these people (the protesters)... This movement will soar to completely mark the downfall of the West and the capitalist regime. The speech was broadcast on Iran's state-controlled television. Khamenei claimed the "corrupt foundation has been exposed to the American people" and the protest movement in the U.S., ultimately, "will grow so that it will bring down the capitalist system and the west." A general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard described the protests in the U.S. as the beginning of an "American Spring" that will culminate in the toppling of "the Western capitalist system." The occupiers (the Pot Party?) are drawing the attention, admiration, and support of fellow travelers in communist China too. According to an article in Asian Times titled "New leftists salute Wall Street brethren": China's new leftists - socialist critics of the country's capitalist-style economic reforms - are beginning to lend support, declaring the [U.S.] demonstrations as a "great revolution" that sounds the death-knell for capitalism throughout the world. The new leftists oppose what they view as Beijing's "pro-capitalist and pro-U.S. policies" and "apparently see the U.S. protest movement as strong evidence in support of their faith." (That would be faith in authoritarian government, not God or a Creator.) The primary website of China's new leftists, called Utopia, includes prominent references to the "Wall Street Revolution", the "Death of Capitalism", and praise for socialism and "Mao-style ideology". In a show of support for the U.S. occupiers, public gatherings have been held in at least two Chinese cities. Both gatherings were unhindered by Chinese authorities. Four days ago, in the city square of Luoyang in Henan province, participants "put up a big picture of Mao and displayed a huge banner with the slogan "To Staunchly Support American People's Great 'Wall Street' Revolution!"". Hugo Chavez endorsed the Occupy Wall Street protests days ago. So far, neither Fidel Castro nor Kim Jong-il has commented publicly, though North Korea's state-controlled news service issued a press release describing the protests as being "against exploitation and oppression by capital" and declaring that similar protests "are expected take place in other capitalist countries." It is doubtful the endorsement by despots, dictators, and other oppressors will give the occupiers pause. Some people prefer an iron fist over the invisible hand or at least something more akin to it. Many of the protesters apparently buy into the premise and false choice of a Baltimore Sun reader who, in support of his anti-free-market stance, asks: "Which is worse, a society ruled by a power-hungry, greedy dictator or a government run by power-hungry, greedy corporations?"
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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)
Nixon never should have went to China. We should break off diplomatic ties with them and aim all our nukes their direction.
We should break off diplomatic ties with them and aim all our nukes their direction. Why? Because they have a better business climate that we do? That's not their fault. It's the fault of stupid U.S. politicians.
Because they are our enemy.
Which is why they've lent us over $1 trillion?
Is a loan shark your friend? What about those payday loan places. Are they your friend? They are loaning us money so they can own us. Not because they like us.
#14. To: A K A Stone (#13)
Democrats ... got their economics education --- by reading "Donald Duck" comic books. 58 posted on Friday, October 07, 2011 14:15:24 by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
What about those payday loan places. Are they your friend? The U.S. Treasury sets the interest rates for Treasury bills. The interest rates are at historic lows. So, the analogy doesn't wash. I've to been to China. I've been to Taiwan. I've been to Hong Kong too. In fact, I was in Taiwan in August just as the U.S. said that they would not sell the Taiwanese some fighter jets. No one was panicked. No one thought that the "Red" Chinese would invade at any moment. There are too many economic ties between the two countries for any "invasion" to occur. This is all hyped up in the American media. Sure, China is still a one party state and I wouldn't want to live there. But they are no longer communist. They are more like some of the right-wing dictatorships of Latin America in the 1980s -- authoritarian but freeing up their economies so they can move up the economic ladder. General Augusto Pinochet versus Mao Zedong. Neither are good, but one is vastly better than the other. China's stated goal is to become a big Singapore. I've been to Singapore many times. I love Singapore. To the extent that China are our "enemy" is the extent that American neo-cons want to make them our enemy. ditto with Russia. American domestic politics are pushing them into the enemy camp. It's not them. It's us.
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#9. To: A K A Stone (#1)
Nixon never should have went to China.
#11. To: jwpegler (#9)
Why? Because they have a better business climate that we do?
#12. To: A K A Stone (#11)
Because they are our enemy.
#13. To: jwpegler (#12)
Which is why they've lent us over $1 trillion?
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Is a loan shark your friend?
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