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Tuesday, January 17 2012
'Patriot' Act vs democracy
avbornbred: “Can you [Cybertariat] explain your comments about our…liberty being destroyed? How is that happening? Since 911 there have been attacks. But, overall, our government has created policies – some outrageous – that have worked so far … thanks to the Patriot Act.” –posted to the…
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Sunday, December 18 2011
America: A secular, democratic republic
Within his quickly archived thread entitled “NATIVITY IN TEXAS UNDER ATTACK [12.15.11],” avbornbred asked: “If the United States is not a Christian nation, then what is it?”

The United States is a secular, democratic republic. As such and as per it’s Constitution’s Establishment Clause w…
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Monday, October 31 2011
Capitalism: '...the borders remain porous' (Part II)
Those who contend that I do not condemn the capitalists who benefit from undocumented immigration are correct, for I condemn and call for the abolition of that which allows for the existence of capitalists and undocumented immigration in the first place – the capitalist system of production …
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Friday, October 14 2011
Undocumented workers and public services
To me, depriving undocumented workers of the public services that their taxes pay for is an affront to simple human decency. Yes, I wrote “public services that their taxes pay for” because undocumented workers do pay taxes. In fact, a…
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Friday, September 30 2011
Socialist critique of the 'Third Industrial Revolution'
(Rather than to respond to Ray Cunneff’s The Third Industrial Revolution within that thread, I have elected to respond via the creation of this new thread for archival and retrieval purposes.)


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Quoted from Jeremy Rifkin’s latest and aforementioned book entitled The…
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Thursday, September 15 2011
The US government and illicit drugs
(Note: Given the peculiar and frenetic Hwy138’s tendency to delete his New Blogs shortly after their having been posted, I have elected to create and post this New Blog in response to the intimation that the US government carries out illicit drug activities toward the creation of "the…
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Tuesday, July 19 2011
Homophobia kills (Part II)
Within the seventy-forth (74th) comment post of the New Blog entitled Lancaster wins in court, avbornbred wrote: “I agree with [Cybertariat], you are gay or bi’ by CHOICE.” (I had written, within the seven…
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Thursday, June 30 2011
Homophobia kills!
As much as I would like to view the hate-speech crime that was committed at the Texas Cattle Company earlier this week as a simple case of vandalism, I cannot because I possess a very clear understanding of the fact that homophobia kills. Along with the thousands upon thousands of lesbian, g…
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Open borders and free markets
In response to my statement that “I believe that it is I who remains this forum’s only advocate of open borders,” avbornbred asked “Can you tell me what the benefits [would be] of having open borders?”
First of all, my support of open borders – of their being no borders at all – is not some…
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Wednesday, May 18 2011
'The Shock Doctrine': In praise and critique


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Author Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, 2006) presents the hypothesis that an investment tactic known as “shock therapy” advanced by the United States and its allies throughout the past few decades employs cri…
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