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Nice Castro-esque hat.

This love affair that moonbats have with all things communist/socialist really boils down to nothing more than a fashion trend, rather than some kind of social conscience.

They really just want to wear the communist/socialist fatigues because they think it looks hip. Sad indeed.

Wow. The brandondarby.com site is a jaw-dropper. These moonbats intend to kill the messenger. Literally. If there was ever any question that the Weather Underground is alive and well, this allays all doubt.

And what does "the global struggle against capitalist neoliberalism" even mean?

"And what does "the global struggle against capitalist neoliberalism" even mean?"

It means that mommy and daddy spent a lot on tuition, only to produce a spoiled moon-brat who can parrot a sociology professor.

"Clearly, he's betrayed the trust of the community, and all the communities he's worked with," said Lisa Fithian, a social-justice activist who worked with Darby in Austin."

So trust is to turn a blind eye to justice? And since when is fire-bombing a form of social justice?

Cool. Hopefully two things will happen as a result of this:
1. Darby's testimony will help put Crowder and McKay in prison, where they belong.
2. Afterwards, Darby will begin to not necessarily ditch his liberal beliefs (After all, not all liberals are psychos like Crowder and McKay), but at least mature and become less moonbatty about them, so he can become a productive member of society.

"...so he can become a productive member of society."

That is if the moon bats let him live. He clearly has NO future as a member of any "social justice activist" group. Did you take a gander at the brandondarby.com site Van references in this post?

The problem here is we tolerate murderous thugs like this Lisa Fithian person. Statements like hers should be the red light for law enforcement to surround the house, pick her up, lock her away. There is no first amendment rights that extend to supporting terror and murder.

These people mean to destroy the United States. We at least owe it to this country to defend ourselves. If they prove the stronger and win, so be it. But for God's sake, let's not go down without a fight!

FROM STORY:
But Michel McKay, who came to Minneapolis on Monday with $20,000 in available bail money and a willingness to put up $500,000 in real estate as collateral for his son's release, insisted that the younger McKay is not a violent man.

"He's never been in trouble before," McKay said of his son. "He's a little bit gullible, a bit naive. Not political. I guarantee you he could not name five Democrats or five Republicans in the House."

****-----sounds like a typical Obama voter all right******

McKay's father said he's just "a little bit gullible"? Well, that shows you the source of the problem. Now, just add some irrational Marxist friends, a bunch of communist professors, a free education, and bingo, you have an anarchist ready to destroy anything or anyone one who dares disagree with his warped notions!

In any other country, these dangerous morons would be "put to sleep". But, since we are a nation of weak-minded fools, we tolerate this, and a whole lot more. Maybe we deserve everything that's coming.

After Obama associates with Louis Farrakhan, Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dorn, and Rev Wright not to mention endorsement by every international terrorist in the world just what would you expect Moonbats to conclude--that terrorism is a bad thing? I wonder if a defense attorney will someday read the list of Obama associates at some trial for a guy like Darby and give a little knowing smile and say, "The defense rests."

Wow. I'm famous!

:-)

lock her away.

Lock her away?

You are far more generous than I.

In doing a Google search on Lisa Fithian, a question comes to mind.

Is she fugly because she is a Moonbat, or is she a Moonbat because she is fugly?

Upon looking at the anti- Darby site, I've discovered a third possible benefit for lucid, law- abiding American ciizens which can arise from this:
3. News about Darby spreading through the various anarchist/ communist radical groups causes the groups to all become extremely paranoid about the possibility of FBI moles possibly being planted within their own groups, and eventually turn against each other out of fear and a desire to "out" suspected moles in their ranks, which will thus severely undermine their unity and movement (Not knowing whom you can trust is not a good way to encourage teamwork and group participation, after all) and lessen how much damage they can do at their riots, I mean their "Direct actions."

"And since when is fire-bombing a form of social justice?"

For many of those anarchist psychos, they are encouraged to use any means necessary, including possibly violence, to fight against what they see as "Oppressors of the people" (i.e. Conservatives, police, banks, churches, Starbucks cafes, Wal- Mart stores, etc.). On their public announcements and websites, they usually try to hide their violent intentions (Thus protecting themselves from possibly getting arrested on incitement- related charges) by instead using euphemistic terms such as "Direct action," "Diversity of tactics," and "Civil disobedience." This is why it is important that insiders like Darby be used more often, to determine what groups may actually pose a threat by planning on getting violent.

"And what does "the global struggle against capitalist neoliberalism" even mean?"

Kathleen,

Moonbats get their wings by coming up with one-sentence statements that would fit on a bumper sticker.
I had to laugh at this one, though. Capitalist Neolibreralism?

1) Capitalism is in direct conflict with Liberalism.

2) Neoliberalism? What the hell does that mean? New-liberalism? So, wait, I've heard of a "Classic Liberal", though anyone who fits in that circle generally refers to themselves as a Jeffersonian Liberal, or more simply stated, a Libertarian.

Neo-what? Has there been some crazy new ideas that arose out of Progressive Liberals other than wealth redistribution, political correctness, and waving the white flag of defeat in front of anyone who might wish our demise? If there has, I might actually like that label!

Well Mike, I still don't think you put someone to death for what the might do. But you sure could lock them up forever for plotting murder and the ultimate violent overthrow of our government.

What I don't understand is our "tolerance". These pus-brained lunatics have WEBSITES. What the hell are we waiting for? They can catch child pornographers by tracing their web addresses, why not these guys? If they're advocating domestic terror, smash them now, smash them hard. SCREW the ACLU, let 'em bitch. Once these terrorists are rounded up and jailed, then the lawyers can sit around and make all the noise they want. We'll at least have cleaned up one mess.

moonbattery knows no bounds.

I suspect that if our law enforcement and legal systems weren't so over-run with "Liberals", these folks would have had the clamps put on them quite some time ago...hopefully, I'm just being overly cynical, though...

The Moonbats would be just fine if Bush wasnt harshing their mellow. Of course once they find out Obama was cloned and replaced with a duplicate by Karl Rove, their mellows will continue to be harshed.

the darby website is frightening. it's a sign of things to come: if you do not agree with us, if you tell on us when we plan to blow up people and things, we will destroy you. it truly makes me afraid of what's to come.

These are the "useful idiots" who will be the first against the wall when the revolution really comes.

MOONBATS they should be the enemy of us all and they are MOONBAT HEAD a new DICK TRACY villian

I think I might have a new hobby... join the College Democrats and the local DHQ as a volunteer and wear a wire.

Eoin - that could be the modus for the radical arm of the Young Republicans. But, they'd never pull off a successful infil, since the Young Republicans actually bathe and have self respecting grooming standards.

The more moonbats in prison the more some hollywood suckface director like OLIVER STONE will want to make a movie about him

EOIN, Be careful about becoming a mole in the Democratic machine or they might go all "Che" on you.

"the global struggle against capitalist neoliberalism" HAHAHAHA

Direct from a degree majoring in sociology. What else does a sociology major say? "You folks ready to order?"

And jj, moonbattery and fugly chicks go hand in hand.

"And what does "the global struggle against capitalist neoliberalism" even mean?"

I am not sure, but I suggest they take their loud and in-your-face tactics to China and see how the Chinese gov't. reacts.

What else does a sociology major say? "You folks ready to order?"
~ Karin

LOL!!!

First, let me say that anyone who promotes violence or plans violence against anyone else is wrong and if convicted in a fair trial should go to jail. AND if one has knowledge that someone is planning an act of violence against a person or persons, one has an obligation to make the proper authorities aware of such plans. That being said - you people are the moonbats; and no I am not some 20-something bleeding heart liberal whose mommy and daddy paid for everything. I am a veteran, my husband is a vet, and my son-in-law is a disabled Iraq vet. I am a physician who is still paying off my student loans at 53yo and I am the proud mother of a Marine F-18 pilot. I am also a life-long progressive democrat who does not think the government should be spying on anyone who is engaging in legal activity and so far except for those few people arrested during the RNC convention - no where have I read that Common Ground was suspected of illegal activity before Darby began spying for the FBI.
And for those of your who are confused by the term neoliberalism - it is a term that describes an economic philosophy that espouses policies such as free markets and free trade. The word "free", I suppose being a synonym for "liberal. And the synonym for neoliberalism and actually a more accurate word is: neoconservatism. Which is the word that the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation use to describe “…a worldview that has harnessed the full force of the U.S. military machine in the service of the corporate agenda”. (Quote from “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein). So, you see the term is not one a student would learn in their Sociology classes but in their Economics classes. And these are concepts, I have learned by reading books, lots of books. And not just bits and pieces of blogs or tirades such has been written here. Finally, I did take a "gander" at the "Brandon Darby is a Snitch" website and unless they have pulled some Comment Section - there is nothing there that threatens Darby in any way. The only things that I have found frightening are many of these "moonbat" comments on this site.

what does "the global struggle against capitalist neoliberalism" even mean?

Posted by: Kathleen at January 4, 2009 1:05 PM

It basically means "I hate my dad."

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at January 4, 2009 5:39 PM

1) Capitalism is in direct conflict with Liberalism.

No. The conflation of the American left's ideology - which ranges from half-baked Euro-style socialism to full-on Maoism - with the term "liberal," is an artificial one. The American and international left are truly liberal only in regard to a select few social issues - gay rights and so forth.

On the other hand, laissez-faire capitalism is the very definition of what liberalism has traditionally meant - in pure economic terms it denotes the freedom to interact with fellow humans in whichever way one sees as most beneficial to themselves, without coercion (implying that the other parties involved in interactions are also deriving benefit from them thus are willing participants.) Liberalism is far better measured in economic terms than in social terms - for instance a city like New York, considered liberal for its tolerance of gay lifestyles etc., is extremely illiberal towards a majority of its "normal" citizens.

For instance, in Australia, the conservative political party is the Liberal party - so named for economic liberalism. The current government is Labor - left-leaning, tailoring its policies towards workers unions, and intends to impose the largest and most wide-ranging set of controls onto the Australian economy that has ever been conceived in the country's history, has banned smoking in basically every public area throughout the country, and plans (and has already succeeded in many areas) to vastly increase government control over public life - yet on some select social issues (foreign asylum-seekers, etc.) it is "liberal."

The idea that governments which mandate what kinds of food can be served in restaurants, forces people to pay extra for non-diet soda, taxes cars to try to force people onto public transport, imposes penalties for improper recycling, and all the other million-and-one little impositions that governments in places like London, New York, the Eurozone, Australia, and elsewhere, impose on their citizens, are "liberal," is a joke - not to mention their never-ending attempts to increase state control over businesses and take an ever-growing share of business revenue for 'state purposes.'

The idea that more government control over daily life constitutes "liberalism" is one of the more egregious misuses of logic and reason, and the left has only implanted the idea that they are "liberal" into public conciousness by a very, very concerted effort over a long period of time.

2) Neoliberalism? What the hell does that mean? New-liberalism? So, wait, I've heard of a "Classic Liberal", though anyone who fits in that circle generally refers to themselves as a Jeffersonian Liberal, or more simply stated, a Libertarian.

"Neo-liberalism" is a meaningless leftist construct to describe economic liberalism. The idea being that adherence to principles of economic liberalism is some brash, uncouth new ideology developed to mask people's base desires for seeking personal wealth or personal fulfillment rather than state-alloted portions of both - a concept that as we all know is completely bourgeois and has long been rejected by all the greatest minds of our time.

Neo-what? Has there been some crazy new ideas that arose out of Progressive Liberals other than wealth redistribution, political correctness, and waving the white flag of defeat in front of anyone who might wish our demise? If there has, I might actually like that label!

Not really. You're still swallowing the line that the left are actually liberal.

What actually happened - as I see it - is that the socialist/communist left simply realized that calling the (nominal) right "neocons" was too obviously an inaccurate umbrella term, and that their ever-increasing, incremental nanny-statism alongside the right's principles of personal freedom and economic and individual liberty were increasingly giving the lie to their "liberal" mantle. It's just another of the left's constant shifts in position - now, economic liberals are to be denigrated as "neo" or "new" liberals, attempting to corrupt the higher truth of "real," leftist liberalism, with their crazy notions about letting people keep wealth they earn, personal responsibility, &c.

The leftist, humanist, statist snake changes the colour of its scales whenever it wishes and however it wants. The "neo-liberal" label is used as a perjorative by the left - but then words like Republican, Christian, capitalist etc. are also considered perjorative by the left. It's just that "neo-liberal" is such a grossly inaccurate term (and in fact derived from a deliberate inversion of reality) that it is a non-sequiter.

Janet,

Moonbats almost always tell a bunch of lies about their credentials (high academic achievement, military service, relationship to vets etc.), babble in what they think is an enlightened way, and then start calling names. Congratulations, you touched all the bases.

Why don't you claim that you fought in 3 wars and received two medals of honor, were beatified by the pope while still alive, were the lesbian lover of Mother Teresa, gave birth to half the defensive line of the Green Bay Packers, and taught Einstein how to play the violin (eins, zwei, drei. Dammit Albert! Can't you count?). Then we'd really believe you.

As far as reading books. Ayers and Ward Churchill write books. In computer language we say GIGO (garbage in--garbage out).

In the Americas the term "Liberalism" has been hijacked by Socialists. People who do not believe in liberal theories of free trade and liberty.

Europeans have a more accurate definition of liberalism.

Here in the Americas the Left believes that it can lie with such impunity that they can masquerade themselves as liberals and get away with it. Thanks to the media, our education system and arts they have...

SnowSnake - I didn't claim any such nonsense "...fought in 3 wars..etc" and only claimed what is true. I am a licensed physician in the state of NY. But really I don't need to prove my bona fides to you or anyone else on this site. And true, it was not very "enlightened" of me to call names but the term moonbat was being applied so liberally in the other posts, I thought it was an accepted description of anyone who holds a different thought from all of you true Americans. Anyway, it is late. Goodnight