Anyone watching C-span right now?

[PornoDoggy]

Originally Posted by Trev

Not you, not until the revolution anyway.

Smartasses will have a special re-education camp set up just for them, you know ...

Seriously - who gets to decide who is an extremist?

At various times, advocates of the ten hour work day, advocates of excluding anyone under the age of twelve in the workforce, or advocates of allowing those with a vagina the right to own property and vote were considered extremists.

Even the success of advocates of non-violence like Ghandi and King was due as much to the threat of violence those movements attempted to defuse.

Stalin was very effective at dealing with extremists; Hitler was probably equally efficient. Works good in theory - but it's a pretty slippery slope.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

Smartasses will have a special re-education camp set up just for them, you know ...

Seriously - who gets to decide who is an extremist?

At various times, advocates of the ten hour work day, advocates of excluding anyone under the age of twelve in the workforce, or advocates of allowing those with a vagina the right to own property and vote were considered extremists.

Even the success of advocates of non-violence like Ghandi and King was due as much to the threat of violence those movements attempted to defuse.

Stalin was very effective at dealing with extremists; Hitler was probably equally efficient. Works good in theory - but it's a pretty slippery slope.

It's a hellishly slippery slope, one that no one with any brains is ever going to go near. (Which always lets out the government, whatever government it happens to be.)

Remarks like "shooting all extremists" will remain just that...remarks.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

Remarks like "shooting all extremists" will remain just that...remarks.

That's correct but only when talking as a non-extremist, there are always cases of the "other" extremists shooting the "opposite" extremists..

IRA, UDA, BMP, BMF, NF, KKK, ... are few extremists just off the top of my head.

Notice only one is from the US, I know there's shit loads more but the first 5 are Geo targeted.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Trev

That's correct but only when talking as a non-extremist, there are always cases of the "other" extremists shooting the "opposite" extremists..

IRA, UDA, BMP, BMF, NF, KKK, ... are few extremists just off the top of my head.

Notice only one is from the US, I know there's shit loads more but the first 5 are Geo targeted.

We have lots of little organizations along the same line as the KKK. White supremecists, neo-Nazis, the like. Plus their black equivelents. I'm sure that somewhere there are filing cabinets full of stuff that would make the rest of us ill.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

We have lots of little organizations along the same line as the KKK. White supremecists, neo-Nazis, the like. Plus their black equivelents. I'm sure that somewhere there are filing cabinets full of stuff that would make the rest of us ill.

Would you be surprised if the first 4 on my list where active political parties here in the UK?

Do the KKK have an office in Washington?


We're far to lax here in the UK!

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Trev

Would you be surprised if the first 4 on my list where active political parties here in the UK?

Do the KKK have an office in Washington?


We're far to lax here in the UK!

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did. They can hire lobbyists just like everyone else.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did. They can hire lobbyists just like everyone else.

It's not like the US here, these are registered political parties.

They have as much chance as the next party that their leader will be Prime Minister one day! Not a lobbyist - more an extremist that's learned how to play the game.