Why American Conservatives Are Suddenly Freaking Out About Guillotines
http://www.alternet.org/economy/why-american-conservatives-are-suddenly-freaking-out-about-guillotines
On the June cover of the conservative magazine American Spectator, a vision arises from the collective unconscious of the rich. Angry citizens look on as a monocled fatcat is led to a blood-soaked guillotine, calling up the memory of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, when tens of thousands were executed, many by what came to be known as the "National Razor." The caption reads, “The New Class Warfare: Thomas Piketty’s intellectual cover for confiscation.” One member of the mob can be seen holding up a bloody copy of the French economist's recent book, Capital in the 21st Century.
Confiscation, of course, can only mean one thing. Off with their heads! In reality, the most "revolutionary" thing Professor Piketty calls for in his best-sellling tome is a wealth tax, but our rich are very sensitive.
In his article, however, James Pierson warns that a revolution is afoot, and that the 99 percent is going to try to punish the rich. The ungrateful horde is angry, he says, when they really should be celebrating their marvelous good fortune and thanking their betters:
“From one point of view, the contemporary era has been a 'gilded age' of regression and reaction due to rising inequality and increasing concentrations of wealth. But from another it can be seen as a 'golden age' of capitalism marked by fabulous innovations, globalizing markets, the absence of major wars, rising living standards, low inflation and interest rates, and a thirty-year bull market in stocks, bonds, and real estate.”
Yes, things do indeed look very different to the haves and the have-nots. But some of the haves are willing to say what’s actually going down — and it's a war of their own making. Warren Buffett made this very clear in his declaration: “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
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a family tradition. My mom's family ancestor helped dead King Charles 1 of england. Ten years later they were running for their lives ... always a hiccup in the path to progress. 
A far better system than that endured by the "common folk" in this country. They should be grateful. 
Same question I had. 
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As well as one heck of a great bumper sticker and T-shirt slogan.
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To paraphrase:
Q: What do you call it when a couple of Goldmann-Sachs executives go to the guillotine?
A: A GOOD START!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actual cutline (paraphrase from an old memory): "Dan Quayle, left, holds a pumpkin next to his head at a country fair..."
Ford, whom Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live parodied falling down an airplane stairway. Unfortunately, it helped America ignore Ford's important role in JFK cover-up.
Gerald Ford: Skeptics on Warren Commission posed ''No problem.''
The good gnostic at DailyKos asks a great question that gets to the heart of the problem that faces We the People:
What did Gerald Ford mean when he told J Edgar Hoover that the Warren Commission members who disagreed with the lone gunman conclusion were "no problem"?
Gerald Ford: Warren Commission skeptics "no problem"
by a gnostic
Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 02:06:56 PM PDT
The Washington Post reports that, per newly declassified documents, Gerald Ford was secretly forwarding information to the FBI about the Warren Commission inquiry into John F. Kennedy's assassination and that Ford, then a congressman, told the FBI that skeptical members of the Warren Commission posed "no problem" to ____ (fill in the blank), that three members "failed to understand" the bullet trajectory, and that two members were skeptical that the shots came from the Texas Book Repository.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/08/564843/-Gerald-Ford-Warren-Commission-skeptics-no-problem
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Ford Told FBI of Skeptics on Warren Commission
A December 1963 memo recounts that Ford, then a Republican congressman from Michigan, told FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. "Deke" DeLoach that two members of the seven-person commission remained unconvinced that Kennedy had been shot from the sixth-floor window of the Texas Book Depository. In addition, three commission members "failed to understand" the trajectory of the slugs, Ford said.
Ford told DeLoach that commission discussions would continue and reassured him that those minority points of view on the commission "of course would represent no problem," one internal FBI memo shows. The memo does not name the members involved and does not elaborate on what Ford meant by "no problem."
Here's the original story from the AP:
Ford told FBI about panel’s doubts on JFK murder
Former President Ford confided to FBI about panel's doubts over JFK assassination
MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
AP News
Aug 09, 2008 09:19 EST
Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly released records from Ford's FBI files.
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A newly released memorandum provides more details about Ford's role as the FBI's informant. DeLoach wrote on Dec. 17, 1963, to outline what Ford told him in the congressman's office about the commission meeting the day before.
"Two members of the commission brought up the fact that they still were not convinced that the President had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository," DeLoach wrote. "These members failed to understand the trajectory of the slugs that killed the President. He stated he felt this point would be discussed further but, of course, would represent no problem."
There was no explanation of what Ford meant by "no problem."
Warren Commission records released in 1997 revealed that in the final report Ford changed the staff's original description of one of Kennedy's wounds. Ford said then he only made the description more precise. Skeptics said Ford's wording falsely made the wound seem higher on the body to make the panel's conclusion that one bullet hit both Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally more plausible.
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Source: AP News
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=288461
This is thanks to DUer Debra Conway and her colleagues at JFK Lancer:
Gerald Ford's Terrible Fiction
Moving the Back Wound and the Single Bullet Theory
Read Gerald Ford's correction to the Warren Commission Report Draft:
page 1 page 2
The initial draft of the report stated:
"A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder to the right of the spine."
Ford wanted it to read:
"A bullet had entered the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."
Autopsy Face Sheet
Drawing showing area of back wound
JFK assassination eye-witnesses, including the observations of at least one Secret Service man in Dealey Plaza and several FBI agents present at the Bethesda autopsy, placed the president's back wound exactly where the mute testimony of the president's jacket and shirt showed where the wound was: six inches below the collar line.
CONTINUED w DOCUMENTS, EVIDENCE, LINKS...
http://jfklancer.com/Ford-Rankin.html
Look where the bullet hole in the president's jacket is:
No wonder Ford had to lie to sell the magic bullet theory. No one at all would believe the, ah, story.
In reality he has, just as much anyone else that supports capitalism as a means to the end, decided everything they can touch is just more disposable trash. The fabric which our society is base is made on our collective ingenuity and not how much your divided share is worth at an auction.
Warren Buffett and making war on one's own being, what a concept to ponder
In France, for example, there is a 20% value added tax on everything, a 55% payroll tax employers pay tax on wages paid to employees, and an income tax that gets to over 55% in no time flat. An employee takes home maybe 20-30% of what he costs his employer. Why there is big unemployment is easy to see--it's too expensive to hire anyone to work for you. So what does the government do with all this money they rake in? Like one-celled animals, they divide and make more of themselves. They award themselves huge perks and lifetime pensions, create new agencies and subdivisions, send out brigades of "auditors" and customs squads to collect fines. If no law justifies one, they make one up on the spot (I've seen this). They collect a commission on fines they rake in, so they have every incentive to terrorize small businesses that can't pay for legal help to defend themselves, and leave the big companies alone because the big boys can pay the necessary bribes to protect themselves.
In other words, the state is not always benevolent, and state corruption is just as easy to achieve as private corruption (remember what happened to Ceaucescu in Romania). A degree of oversight is equally as necessary, and the trouble with the state being all powerful is that they are the ones who oversee themselves (see "Union, Soviet" . Stalin was not FDR. A degree of benevolence is necessary at the top, or the masses get oppressed no matter what the system. Bush Lite wasn't wrong when he joked that a dictatorship was fine as long as he was the dictator. There is a reason most of France hates Hollande's guts right now. He thinks Bush was right.
You know, the bit where society would fucking COLLAPSE because the 1% are the driving force of all things and the rest of us will revert to savagery without their divine presence. 
As long as it isn't run by Mr. Drysdale.
for a conservative magazine, considering how much of what the 1% says and does today is reminiscent of the French aristocracy before the revolution. And I confess, when I think of the Koch brothers a guillotine does come to mind. 
But frankly, I'd be a lot happier seeing them stripped of their wealth, forced to go to a shitty job and work their ass off, day after day and year after year, not earning enough to pay all their bills. THAT would be justice! They've proven they lack the philosophical capacity to put themselves in the other guys shoes. Do it to them literally. Real karmic justice.
A guillotine is too good for them. Too quick.
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would be more fun (bets accepted for distance records.) And it's not like they'd survive the landing, either... 