QUOTE (Augustus @ Dec 2 2008, 10:11 PM)

So you really think authoritarian communist propaganda is more credible than the accountable, although PR-driven spin of democratic politics? At least in a democracy you can get access to the truth if you look for it.
The Russians, even today are told their economy is going well in the current crisis, so well that Putin says he will need to bail out Wall Street, and will be buying American companies on the cheap. Meanwhile the Russian stock exchange is down 75%, and most of the Russian bailouts are going to prop up the oligarchs. The Russian people have no idea about this and beleive what Putin tells them, that their economy is wonderful, and you really think their system is better than the United States? At least US citizens know their head from their arse, (for the most part).
I really couldn't give a crap what the Russian system is like right now. I don't live there ... I don't have basically any relation to them ... in fact the ONLY relation I have had with them in any way in in my adult life is when they became Capitalist a number of companies sprung up there which marketted and sold copyrighted material. One of those companies used our system to screw over the company I work for. They probably only made a few tens of thousands out of our hard work but thats it.
My point being ... thats completely irrelevant drivel and you know it as well as I do. They're using Western methods to run their country ... and big surprise, they're crime ridden, the poverty gap is bigger then it was under the Tzar's and their politics is incredibly corrupt. In fact ... that brings me right around to my point ... thanks for proving it for me.
See ... the fantastic conservative governments you love so much in the West are nothing more then puppets of big business. For example, in Australia, your hero Howard won 3 elections all on lies. That interest rates wouldn't rise under him but would under Labor (the opposite was true). That there is a flood of people on leaky boats headed for our shores (meanwhile under his laws our immigration police pervert the course of justice by deporting the victims of crimes such as sex trafficking). That Terrorists are going to strike our country (when we're the real international terrorists, plundering our region and helping the USA plunder the world).
I mean do you honestly know a single thing about the system you worship???
Its so strongly based on the rules of conforming and servitude that it only needs to give society subtle little shoves. In the Developed world we tell ourselves so often that we're the beacons of freedom and democracy and that we're morally righteous while behind the scenes our espionage agencies and militaries overthrow the VERY democratic governments that try to give their people freedom, from Guatamala to Chile to Vietnam to Iran to Venezuala ... to AUSTRALIA!!! Your own countries democratic institutions were destroyed because of a god damn CIA directive and you want to tell me about how Russia's political system is corrupt?
DON'T respond to any of my post unless you respond to this:
I mean common ... lets approach this with the same historical consistency we approach Hitler and the Nazi's.
-In 1933 the Reichstag was burnt down. The Nazi's executed a 'socialist' for the crime and the world was divided as to 'whodunit' despite the trial. Some called the trial a sham. Others supported its conclusions. Naturally Hitler won the next election over his Socialist foe and was declared Fuhrer.
-In 1942 Goering bragged that it was he who burnt down the Reichstag. Few historians doubt after that confession that it was anyone but Nazi's who burnt it down. Why? Because it makes perfect sense.
-In 1963 President John F Kennedy is shot in Dallas as the USA goes to war.
-In 1964 the USA uses the pretext of North Vietnamese boats attacking US Navy vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin to publicly commit to a war they already started
-In 1968 Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles soon after he announces his campaign for President with the notion of withdrawal from Vietnam.
-In 1973 Agent Morales, head of the Bay of Pigs assault stated to a close associate "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard."
-In 2005 the NSA release classified files which show that the North Vietnamese were not the aggressors at Tonkin.
A pattern is emerging ... do you see it?
I mean, these are only a few snippets. But the reality is far more beautiful and disgusting them even these small snippets allude to. I can think of 2 famous comments from Soviet journalists as to how, while they had to resort to torture, work camps, executions and sheer oppression to achieve the appearance of similar views on an issue, the West somehow, magically has more uniform views.
And you might say, Kennedy, isn't that all past its used by date. If thats the case, then why the hell are we talking about Hitler still? Or priests who worship a guy who died nearly 2,000 years ago for that matter?
See the only difference between the legitimacy of official Soviet documents and US rhetoric is that occasionally the former can be true while the foundation for the latter is so completely based on lies that it is not even conceivable to consider it historically relevant unless you're talking about how gullible the 'free world' is.
So, let me reiterate my point:
Credibility scale:Childs nursery rhyme - Some are based on historical events that have been passed down through oral and written tradition
Priest - Preach from a book that has had so many embelishments its almost indistinguishable from fiction
official USSR document - Occasionally, when it suits the party, may reflect the actual nature of things
US rhetoric - Based so heavily on false pretenses and lies that it cannot be regarded as truth by anyone with any common sense