Posted on 04/25/2012 7:40:43 AM PDT by Pinkbell
A former Soviet citizen who lives in the U.S. in New York and who is adamantly opposed to socialism/communism, often puts videos on Youtube of himself confronting liberals at various events like the Occupy Protests. I has posted a video of him confronting a mother and her son at Occupy who were convinced North Korea is a paradise, and the only thing harming it is imperialist countries like the U.S. Well, this past weekend, he attended the Earth Day festivities somewhere in New York City, and Bill Ayers and his wife spoke. The two spoke of acitivism against capitalism, "privelage", and the military. I am posting video links which you can find in comment 2 to both videos. I transcribed part of Bernadine's speech below:
"I think that the United States is a declining economic and political power in world, not declined, not over. It was the most powerful country for half a century, but I think a declining power and an irretrievably declining economic and political power. Now that's the good news and the bad news because we're 5% of the world's people, right? The United States is 5% of the world's people, and if we can learn to live in a way that is in harmony with the rest of the people of the Earth, a little less consumption on our part, a little less consumption and a lot more generoristy of spirt, a little more equity that isn't just within the United States but that is within the globe. And I think that the dilemma is that, in that decline, the United States is and remains the dominant military power in the world.
You remember that Doctor King, exactly at Riverside Church up there in New York, exactly one year before he was assasinated, in his famous speech there said, 'The greatest purveyor of violence on this Earth is my own country.' Now that was an incredible thing for Doctor King to say. There was tremendous pressure on him not to come out against the war in Vietnam, not to take on the U.S. military, to stay (he won the Nobel), you know, retire already and go to sleep. That was really the pressure on him. Don't connect the great issues of our time of poverty and racism and militarism, but he insisted; he did it because he thought it was right.
I think that that's still true today, that the greatest purveyor of violence on this Earth is our own country, not the only purveyor, not the only purveyor, but the greatest purveyor, and that gives us here in the United States a very particular responsibility if that's true. If that's true, we must stop this military machine, this death machine, this spending on war and violence and more violence and more occupation around the world, not the good occupation, the other occupation.
You know, NATO, the reason that we're demonstrating in Chicago, and I urge you to come if you can but to do something here if you can't about NATO because NATO has become kind of background noise in our minds, right? NATO forces here, NATO forces there, NATO peacekeepers here. It's like a little background, and we don't really know what NATO has become, but NATO is the police force of the global 1%. NATO has become the biggest multinational, mutliglobal force, a military, aggressive force in the world. It no longer has anything to do with being a defensive organization with defending Europe from Soviet attack. It is an aggressive force rebuilt in the war on terrorism to make preemptive strikes and to engage in preemptive war. It's the biggest, uh, holder now of nuclear power. Doctor Caldecod (sp?) was telling everybody before of the dangers of nuclear weaponry, but it's NATO now that has taken all the European nuclear weapons and put them under the NATO umbrella so that they no longer belong to England, France, Germany, and so on, and that way they avoid their responsibilities under the nuclear non proliferation.
I think it's important to remember that I think that capitalism cannot solve our problems. In this declining moment, we have to come to terms with the fact that we don't know what the other is. I don't know what the other is, but I know that capitalism's insane drive for profit and more profit and more profit makes it impossible for them to address our basic issues of healthcare, peace, safety, a green and lasting planet for our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. And I think that that means...what does that mean? I think it means that we have to look to things like what's going on with the people who are the most harmed by the economic crisis in this society, and they are the same people who are most harmed by the military giant and the military predator that the U.S. is in the world."
Bill Ayers basically expounds on his wife's speech.
Then they take questions from the crowd about how to deal with the nonconverted like us FReepers, Tea Partiers, right wingers, and GOP politicians, who, in Bill's words, "don't have a brain in their heads." Bill says he is writing a book about how to deal with Tea Partiers, and then Bill tells about his encounter with a man in the Tea Party.
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No danger of speaking against that in a socialist communist state. The privileged there are the upper communist party members. All others lived a paltry existence.
Thank you, Citizen, for informing us. I know you are Pinkbell, but I’ll think of you as Paul Revere. I teach high school AP European History to 8 intelligent young men and women with whom I will share this video, which captures ivory tower thinking they are soon to be propagandized by.
I didn’t hear any questions. I cut out after about 12 minutes in the 15 minute video and all I heard was that leftist hag whore droning on and on and on and on and on with her leftist hag whore drivel.
I had to go out and get some fresh air immediately after putting the headset down.
The questions are at the end of the second link in post 2. The first link, the one you listened to, was all his wife.
Lamp posts are an underutilized resource in this country....
Hahaha! Look at the picture in the post above yours. Looks like one of them can’t wait to be the first.
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