According to the Communist Manifesto, 10 planks are prior conditions for a transition from capitalism to communism. Here are the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. – (zoning laws, property taxes, emminant domain)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. – (self explanatory)

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. – (estate taxes)

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. – (declaration, and criminal forfeiture laws (law enforcement love criminal forfeiture laws, that’s why the spend so much time fighting this type of crime over other types))

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. – (Federal Reserve (money socialism), legal tender laws)

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. – (DoTrasportation, ICC, FCC)

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. – (DoAgriculture, DoD, NParksService)

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. – (Affirmative Action, encourage the movement of women into labor force by providing ‘free’ daycare through ‘public’ education, minimum wage laws)

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. – (economic incentives for low wage areas, distructrion of Federalism, move toward Central authority)

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. – (DoE, NCLB, Federal Student Aid)

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r188.pdf
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1209-01.htm
http://www.alternet.org/story/72031/?page=entire

The first myth I would like to debunk is that the recedivism for drug law violators is due to lifestyle or illogical choices. First, it is the drug laws themselves which encourage recedivism and random acts of violence, not the drugs themselves. Drug laws make the price of drugs high. When you get addicted, you have to rob or sell drugs or violate other laws to pay for the drugs. When you are caught, you get a felony attached to your name. When you get out of jail, you can’t get a job cause your record, but remember – the price of drugs is still high. So it is easier to sell drugs to get back on your feet. The illegality of drugs combined with the hashness of a felony record create a trap. Once inside that trap, it becomes easier to remain there and try to survive, than to seek a way out.

The second argument I would like to debunk is that the War on Drugs only hurts those who use drugs. This is only true if you forget about the effects of recedivism on families. Creating a system that punishes you after you have served your time, like our felony system does, actually encourages the destruction of low-income neighborhoods. Also, there is a huge burden on tax-payers to fund the police and incarceration system to monitor the underground drug trade. And if you care about other nations at all, the high price of drugs in the US, which is a result of its illegal status, creates the revenue for the international drug cartels that have more resources than the governments where the drugs are produced. Our drug policy has created the Colombia and Afghanistan we see today.

Finally, some say admit these problems and then claim, “well, we can’t just stop fighting drug abuse.” I agree, but this idea is premised upon the notion that the War on Drugs has been effective to some extent. Walk into the ‘hood’. The War on Drugs is a complete and utter failure. It has failed to achieve a solution to any of the problems for which it was implemented. The ghettos could not be any worse! They are filled with drugs, and random violence, as drug dealers mark territory and enforce contracts without a legal system – users spread their addiction around the community through violence and robbery – recedivism and welfare have completely obliterated the institution of family – and now, mandatory sentencing laws are creating the greates penal nation in the world.

We must stop this policy.

“We have Democrats acting like socialists”

How about looking up “socialism” and “socialist” in the dictionary, then posting some names and examples?

Otherwise, you’ll leave us with the impression you’re spouting nonsense and will say anything, no matter how groundless and ridiculous, to advance your point of view.

How about looking up “socialism” and “socialist” in the dictionary, then posting some proof: names, examples, etc.

Otherwise, you’ll leave us with the impression you’ll say anything, true, sensible or not, to advance your point of view, and so caught up in your own hyperbole that you’ve lost touch with reality.

SIGH! Did you really sigh when you noted your error. Of course you did! That’s funny in a gay sort of way…I mean a good gay way…oh…sigh. I have a feeling you know what I mean.

The emotional and mental maturity of an eleven year old and abiding homophobia, just like their hero.

One of them writes this:

So are you a fascist or a socialist? Have the balls to say who you support.

And that shows all you need to know about the typical Ron Paul supporter. Shrill, ignorant, incapable of dealing with a world that isn’t simplistic black and white and far too full of themselves in their self-righteousness.

The United States has 25% of the world’s prison population
The United States has 700 bases in 130 different countries
We support dictatorships and pre -emptive war
We have the historic lowest popularity for a President and V.P. that routinely ignore the Constitution…ditto Congress
We have a shrinking dollar and a looming financial collapse
We have a huge deficit and an aging population…social security? HA!
We have lobbyists, illegal farm subsidies, oil company subsidies and a Corporate run media with a huge bias for their interests
We have a right vs left mentality…when that’s not the real issue
We have a “Federal Reserve” which isn’t owned by the people
We are monitored via satellite, e-mail and phone tapping
We have Democrats acting like socialists
We have Republicans acting like Fascists

If you don’t like Ron Paul, that’s fine. What is it about protecting
liberty, a fiscally responsible and small government and adherence to the Constitution you don’t like?

So are you a fascist or a socialist? Have the balls to say who you support.

I’m voting for Ron Paul because I think the least government is the best.

Ron Paul is not a wasteful spender
Ron Paul will let YOU run your life
Ron Paul is not a fascist or a socialist…he’s something you might not recognize…because the reality of the 21st century is we have become sheep.

Ron Paul is a Patriot…you may realize that when it’s too late.

“You have no right whatsoever to tell me to go away” Jim, get a hold yourself, sigh. This is not your forum. I don’t care how long you have been reading here or posting! “Another fruitcake post and proves my point” I am certain that many folks here have read your drivel and took what they could from it, then moved on without calling names. Rolls eyes….Sighs…..scratching my hand.

SIGH! Did you really sigh when you noted your error. Of course you did! That’s funny in a gay sort of way…I mean a good gay way…oh…sigh. I have a feeling you know what I mean.

You have no right whatsoever to tell me to go away. I was reading this site well before the Paulista invasion. I post against Paul because he’s a nutcase. His economics and foreign policy concepts are nothing but simple answers for complex questions that don’t stand a chance of helping anything. His belief in the gold standard completely ignores the weaknesses of that system. His hyperisolationism would not help the United States. The strong belief of he and his true, blind believers that they and only they understand the Constitution and that it must remain frozen in the 18th Century unless amended by a purposefully cumbersome process ignores the reality of existence in the 21st Century.

And frankly, I don’t think there is any political belief dumber than libertarianism. Communism is a very, very close second but libertarians have a real problem with reality. Anyone who thinks that a nation of 300,000,000 with a polity that consists of states, counties, cities and towns that in turn exists in a world of 6 billion and growing can count on things to work out with a virtually non-existent central government incapable of even trying to come up with national policies for anything other than defense and diplomatic relations has a really weak grasp on reality. At least when I read Harry Potter I don’t think that in reality someone has a magic wand (The Almighty, All-Knowing Mysterious Power of the Free Market) that will solve everything and make it all hunky dory for most people and it’s all their fault for those others anyway.

And I’d never vote for a Neocon any more than I’d vote for a libertarian or a psuedo-libertarian like Ron Paul.

Why?

Why not go and post positively for your Neocon?

Don’t go away mad, just go away.