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Book-burning comes to the USA

by Orwellian
It has finally happened
Excerpt from a recent newswire article by Al Martin, entitled 'The Global Economic Meltdown':

"It's not people who have checked out books on the making of bombs or surveillance techniques. That's only part of it. This program is actually part of a national database effort undertaken by Homeland Security pursuant to the Office of Internal Security's CTAC Program (Civilian Threat Assessment Classification). They're looking for any books that "espouse views contrary to the security of the state."

This is from the CTAC Memorandum conducted under the auspices of the Office of Internal Security, a part of Homeland Security.

An example is the book "1984" by George Orwell. This book is now considered "seditious." It is the view of the Office of Homeland Security that 1984 promotes distrust of government, therefore constitutes a threat to security. Books that are critical of current state security measures and books critical of Bushonian policy are also on the list. The big program which is being orchestrated to establish a national database on all citizens, a national profile on all citizens by the Office of Internal Security to assign every American citizen a CTAC classification number. Numbers will go from 1 to 8; 1 means that you are a loyal naïve flag waving Republican white heterosexual blond haired blue eyed -- you get the idea. Their naiveté is beyond question. Number 8 will include people like me, people known to publicly espouse views contrary to the security of the state or critical of new state security measures and Bush regime policies. "

World War 2 was for nothing. Nazism has returned, and it now dominates the USA, hence will shortly dominate the world.
by k
Al Martin is hardly reputable. Check his sources (he normally doesn't list them). If they do check out, please, please post them.
by Jim Morrison
I am still looking for the bonfires

if it were to go that far...this soon...then the proletariate would most definatly revolt against the bourgeoisie

by John Fellowes
This thing about CTAC or whatever is probably bullshit, but it has been widely reported that John Ashcroft wants to know what the Americans are reading:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0209/hentoff.php

by Ronnie Ray-Gun
Sorry,Marxism did not work,and did'nt you die in a bathtub?
by Jim Morrison
Take your foot out of your mouth

it is Communism that didn't work you dolt

Marxism is the philosophy of political change through an oppresive bourgeois and struggling proletariate towards a classless society

but I still accept your apology

Jim
by works for me
Communism is what happens when you try to employ Marxism in the real world.
by Jim Morrison
I could be wrong, but I have always considered Marxism as an observational philosophy and not an activist philosophy like Machiavelli's

Communism didn’t work because it employs benevolence. A benevolent ruler (of the Platonic template mentioned in “The Republic” which ironically finds classes a prerequisite for society, yet influenced Engels and Marx considerably) and also a benevolent citizenship that doesn’t strive for advantage over each other.

This “utopia” doesn’t exists anywhere on earth. No creature in nature adheres to a lack of distinction in any societorial cohabitation. Man would have to literally rise above not only nature, but the nature of man itself. I cannot imagine a noncompetitive society. Even the Monks of the middle ages through the renaissance had a caste system.

This is why communism didn’t work. Communism was just the highest state of society derived from the observational mandates prescribed my Marxism.

Again, just an opinion.

Jim
by Jim Morrison
Good Point and I stand corrected...

will have a deeper look in this...looks like good stuff

perhaps noncompedative was a poor word to fit my meaning...maybe not

I did not mean hostile compedativeness though

thanks for the info

Jim
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