Stupidity and power are a very dangerous mix.
“We need a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was quoted as saying by CNS News.
He reportedly made these comments while speaking at the Annesbrooks HOA candidate Forum
held last month.
In a video obtained by the website, Johnson asserts that “corporations control … patterns of thinking.”“They control the media. They control the messages that you get,” he added. “And these folks … are setting up a scenario where they’re privatizing every aspect of our lives as we know it. So, wake up! Wake up! Let’s look at what’s happening.”
Notice that Johnson isn’t bugged by the ability of Big Labor to extract billions of dollars from workers and then use those dollars to power political speech and action that those workers may oppose. That’s fine. It’s corporations that are the problem.
Now, show of hands. Which of you dastardly corporations controlled Hank’s pattern of thinking when he said he feared that the island of Guam might capsize? Was it you, Koch Industries? How about you, Halliburton?
Let me lay some science on Rep. Johnson. You’re not going to get your amendment, and Guam is in no danger of capsizing.
Go ahead, play the race card. Get it out of your system.
Aren’t most media organizations corporations? Who knew the New York Times’ free speech rights were ‘so called’?
They ‘control the media’? They INCLUDE the media!
And who controls corporations? PEOPLE!
I swear, leftists talk as if a “corporation” were an alien form of life, and not just a collection of people.
To “leftists” and Libtards, that’s what corporations are – “alien forms of life”. That’s what they were told in school, and because they’re all “good little boys and girls”, they never “dig” deeper than what teach tells’em. They BELIEVE; truely, they do! It’s their greatest source of pride, conforming to the max. John Dewey would have been mighty proud of them — so purrrfaectlieee socialized.
OTOH, I’m rapidly coming to “believe” in Murray&Herrnstein — most of this crap-thinking is hereditary; and not by meme, but by gene! Taking that thought a step further, meme and gene need not be exclusive. –”A meme is only the gene’s way of ensuring its perfect copy”?– Possible, even likely, that they reinforce one another in a perverse kind of way as soon as the previously dominant culture relaxes its “enforcement” efforts? Dark thoughts, indeed!
Let’s not even laugh at Hank Johnson. He’s just the kind of guy to become “commandant” of some future FEMA camp. Don’t think so? Look around. The African continent, even today, is full of just such types. Driven by powerlust, abysmal stupidity, and terminal ignorance of reality, yet often brilliantly “street smart”, they flourish for a while, leading to waste and slaughter of whole nations. Mugabe is a good recent example, while Obozo’s father might have become just such a one, if misfortune and drink had not intervened.
So beware. Hopefully, there’s a way to get this particular moron voted back out. Even the dumbest of the Ga. electorate deserve better.
Watch the video, Folks.
Watch it.
And cry.
OTOH, the perfect Representative for the people who have just elected Obama for a second term.
OTOH, even the dumbest of the dumb are entitled to representation in Congress.
(I am assuming this former member of the “choom gang”, who couldn’t quit, is a perfect reflection of his Ga. constituency. OTOH, was he just back from his lunch break? Why’s he so skinny? More snorting than smoking? They all like that in the CBC? — So many questions!)
” Which of you dastardly corporations controlled Hank’s pattern of thinking when he said he feared that the island of Guam might capsize? ”
Actually, it was me. Just testing out a new mind control ray device. The “stupid” setting is working out fine. The “make a rational choice, American voters” setting, not so much.
Thanks for laugh, it was getting rather grim around here.
Thanks for the kind words. At least humor isn’t taxed & regulated to death — yet.
In a video obtained by the website, Johnson asserts that “corporations control … patterns of thinking.”
“They control the media. They control the messages that you get,” he added. “And these folks … are setting up a scenario where they’re privatizing every aspect of our lives as we know it.”
Well they don’t seem to be putting out very conservative messages, but liberal ones. But thanks for the confirmation that the media is monolithic.
And government, through public schools, control non-thinking. Too Orwellian to contemplate!
Anyone want to take odds when CivilWar II starts?
Personally, I’m in favor of a Constitutional Amendment requiring all congress critters to have a minimum IQ of 90, no “retests” permitted, regardless of voter preference. I know, I know. About as likely as amending the first. Harry wouldn’t like it; nor a whole bunch of others. Wonder why!
– on an ice floe.
He’s from Cynthia McKinney’s old district. It must be something in the water.