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The Center For Security Policy ^ | July 15, 2005 | Frank Gaffney

[LowCountryJoe]

Me the commie? I extol capitalism and you, central planning. Who's the commie again?

[Paul Ross]

Me the commie? I extol capitalism...

You do not. You extol China. And last I checked, oh yeah, they are a communist state, and super-heavily into central planning...from currency pegging, technology theft, intellectual piracy, mandatory partnering, and government ownership and control.

Who's the commie again?

Put on your shoes, Kruschev, stop banging the table.

[Admin Moderator]

Once more and you'll earn a vacation.

[Paul Ross]

I have never defended China's political and economic systems other than to say that they appeared to be heading in more of a market friendly direction and that directional move is a good thing.

Your self-revisionism is showing. Your profanities won't make it any less so.

Your embellishments of the Chi-Com predations being "good" for us..."It's Win, Win!" "They only get pretty green pieces of paper!" "When the Bank is owed millions of dollars, its the Bank that's in trouble" , you and your friends arguments you pile on with, you don't seem to recall either?

Then there are numerous blessings of neglect and omission you demonstrate on both their political coercions and market rigging (internally & externally), their espionage, their intellectual piracy, their subsidies, their tariff regimes, their non-tariff barriers, their hypocrisy, and the supine position you urgeshows you have gone FAR beyond cheering superficial "appearance" changes.

Deng Xiaoping instructing the hardliners...who didn't quite get that they would be intensifying the war against capitalism...by subverting it from within with a covert camouflaged attack on its seats of power, and rob it of the foundations of industrial power: What does it matter whether you call the cat black or white, so long as it catches mice."

[LowCountryJoe]

Don't bother pinging me any longer. You cannot be reasoned with, you write the most outrageous things about your debate opponents but, yet, cannot handle when they write things about you the way they see you come across to them. You post incessantly long-winded commentary from others that is uber-boring; try underlining, bolding, or font color change to show what you feel most important. Your arguments are sometimes weak and when you get called on their inaccuracy/weakness, you cannot bring yourself around to concede that they (or you) were incorrect. Your excessive fear and worry are just plain tiring. In all seriousness, I hope you seek some kind of help or that, somehow, help seeks you for the fear/worry.

I will do you the same courtesy. I will not ping you, refer to you, or respond to your posts any longer. It's better that I keep distant from you because I do not have the patience or the maturity to let some of your views and opinions - those directed toward me - go unchallenged. I expect you to reciprocate but I will not hold you to it.

Now, take your last crack at me. I'll read it, if you bother replying, but I will not respond. Here's to extreme nationalism and autarky, the 'true' conservative virtues!

[Paul Ross]

Your excessive fear and worry are just plain tiring.

Undoubtedly you would find Winston Churchill, and Whittaker Chambers equally tiring and boring. Liberals thought Reagan was a tiresome crank.

Yet of those who really knew these giants...they saw a dedicated and faith-filled life that was constantly fed by an inner well renewing their hopes and nourishing their strength to carry on. They were living proof of the sure promises God made in Isaiah 55

We can only aspire to their level of humble faith. God will do the heavy lifting for us.

Hence, I remain optimistic that we can still save the Republic from our Communist enemies. Foreign and domestic.

Semper Fidelis.

[Paul Ross]

Ping.

FYI

[bvw]

The universe of Brilliant, obviously. You-know-it-all!

Do you *party* with the Fidelity guys? How's their Chinese funds doing?

[bvw]

Among other reasons why (wu wei) China has had an easy buy-in:

Fidelity removes head of trading desk

Fidelity Investments yesterday removed the powerful and high-profile head of its scandal-hit trading desk. Scott DeSano, 44, has been shunted into ``Strategic New Business Development'' in a move so sudden that Fidelity had no time to pick a successor. [...]

It is only nine months since DeSano was being flattered in a front-page profile in the Wall Street Journal, where he was credited with pressuring brokerage firms, squeezing their fees to the bone and saving his employer hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

But he was badly tainted in the scandal that erupted at Fidelity over the winter, when it emerged that many traders in his department had been accepting lavish gifts, ranging from fine wines to tickets to Wimbledon, from brokers.

[Paul Ross]

A blast from the past, I thought I should ping you to...