Saturday, June 30, 2018

" YES TO IMMIGRANTS... NO TO TRUMP+GOP ( good guy Democrats ? )


Thousands Expected To Gather For 2 Rallies Protesting U.S. Immigration Policy

 
The mass protests are a counter force to a FASCIST mandate for oppressively screening " illegal immigrants " . But one sign read : " YES TO IMMIGRANTS ... NO TO TRUMP + GOP "

            The Democrats are hardly a paragon of morality on immigration or any other major social issue. Is THEIR HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism on a higher moral ground ?

          How about: " NO TO BOTH PARTIES OF THE AMERICAN PLUTOCRACY " ?

        " Democracy in America " was so blissfully pristine until Donald Trump was elected LEGITIMATE president of the United States ( no help from Bad Vlad Putin needed ! ) ?.

Does St. Augustine's " City of God " have a message for " Christian " socialists today ?

[ The fundamental pastoral point made by A. writing on the two cities is that Christians live in this world but they are not of this world.


 They are present here as strangers sojourning in a foreign country, enjoying the  blessings the world has to offer, but always ready to move on.[[13]] Heaven is the Christian's true home, and it is to heaven that his affections and his loyalties should be directed.


  It was probably the happenstance observation of the analogy that obtained between this metaphor for Christian life and the facts of the situation in Africa after 410 that inspired A. to join the intended work on the two cities with the rejoinder to the skeptics of those years.


  The skeptics were to be found among wealthy and discontented refugees from Rome, who found themselves living as aliens in Africa, discontented and frustrated, taking the pleasures of the theaters and shows, but always hankering to return to the great city far away.


  The neat, even witty, polemical point of the opening book of ciu. is that the refugees have exactly the right attitude:


  they need to realign their loyalties and their longings toward a greater city, farther away, and then only will they see the fate of temporal kingdoms in true perspective. ]




            EXCERPT ABOVE FROM  BOOK REVIEW




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Did homeless friend " Emo " witness a child prostitution ring in downtown Providence ( 1998 ) ?

Child prostitutes in downtown Providence ?






My friend " Emo " - being homeless - is very familiar with

    the night scene in downtown Providence. He is very suspicious that he

    witnessed a  young " blond blue-eyed " boys prostitute ring operating

    boldly out of the Holiday Inn in downtown Providence, R.I. The time

    of this was around midnight, July 26.





              The group of " come hither " cuties were on the side of the

    hotel facing the Civic Center.





              " These kids should be home in bed or under visible adult

    supervision ", Emo commented.





              A little cynical I thought : " A police sting operation " ?

           Trying to catch some vulnerable candidates for high office in

    the Ocean State ?





                " Emo " wanted to call the police. Next time he will.


  I told Emo I will e-mail the Projo about this local  scandal.



           Mark Patinkin had a write up on poor homeless and brilliant

    Emo the Cat Man  - who lost his house to City Hall a while back.



            Keep his name out of it until I talk to him again.

Where is my old homeless friend " Emo " today ? ( Radical Ron 's, 1998 blog entry )

" Emo "- Patinkin column ( June 23, 1998 )


I have known the subject of Mark Patinkin's excellent column

    today (  "  Mo  quotes Robert Frost and rescues cats " -June 23 )

    - " Emo " Hovannesian - neighborhood philosopher, rescuer of stray

    cats, down and out lost soul eccentric, heir to an imagined Czarist

    Russia oil fortune, now pathetic victim of  Mayor Cianci's " neighborhood

    improvement " --since 1970.


 He is a chartered member of Our Gang.

       I can assure Providence Journal readers that he is no " fabrication ".

    He is our answer to New York's Ratso Rizzo of " Midnight Cowboy "

    fame. In fact playing " Emo " would be a perfect role for brilliant

    actor Dustin Hoffman, a sure Academy Award Winner !



        When THEY are demolishing his humble house at 327 Dexter St., I

    want all Rhode Island to hear his plaintive cry : " I'm here! I'm here ! "



       I first met Emo at the former " wild-hippie " Armando's Bar in

    downtown Providence.He was the friend of another " our gang " friend-

    now a math teacher at URI - who now and then -too drunken to go home-

    crashed in my bathtub in a squalid rooming house on North Main Street.

    Those " welfare blues days " !



       " Emo" was the gang's technical advisor on race track gambling. Once

    I made a " grandma bet " and won enough money to treat myself to an ice

    cream sunday at Lincoln Downs.


He is still one of the few people in Providence with whom I can

    discuss IDEAS- and the OLD DAYS.

       I hope Mark Patinkin's column will help people to see him as I've
     always seen him - a saint without God.

          I thank  Mark again for finding a great - if rather pathetic story.


The property you are searching for is no longer an active listing.


          " Emo " was evicted from 327 Dexter St.




327 DEXTER ST, Providence, RI

327 DEXTER ST, Providence, RI

$119,900
What others say this house is worth:
$286,790
$243,771 - $329,808

Billionaire LIBERAL sees positive side of nuclear war !


Capital Gazette Keeps Working, And Publishing, After 5 Die In Newsroom Shooting

 
Headline today :
POLITICS
[ says 'Nuclear war' could provide 'course correction' from Trump presidency, billionaire liberal donor  ] THE LIBERAL agenda for the New McCarthyism ?]




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Tom Steyer Democrat


     

    Mad billionaire Democrat

    The more nasty SOCIALIST IRS : " They're coming to get you, Martha ! "

     

    SEP candidate Niles Niemuth says “the attacks on immigrants are aimed at the entire working class”  


    “There’s enough for everybody though. There’s so much money, but some people have so much that you couldn’t even spend it in your whole lifetime.”



    I keep thinking how easy it should be in the early days of a triumphant socialist revolution to separate the parasite ruling class from their cash flow wealth. For emergency situations it should be so easy to transfer wealth from the various bank accounts of Donald Trump ( now perhaps confined to the top floor of " Trump Towers " ) to-say- my old homeless friend " Emo " in Kennedy Plaza Rhode Island.


     " Emo " knows that greed is not good. He just wants to celebrate a very Merry Christmas for a change. And a bonus for ALL getting SNAP benefits.

              I hear those frequent IRS commercials on radio ( " They're coming to get you, Martha ! " ) and think that's just what we need : a SOCIALIST IRS . " They can seize your assets ! "

       Happy campaigning to Niles Niemuth .





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    Friday, June 29, 2018


    Capital Gazette Keeps Working, And Publishing, After 5 Die In Newsroom Shooting


    The mainstream news media and the Democratic Party are not less vicious and malicious than Trump in promoting the BIG LIE about "Trump-Russia collusion " and the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism . Nothing HATEFUL about cheering for nuclear World War III - which will create millions of refugees with nowhere to go ?

    Sanctimonious hypocrisy will not restore power to the Democratic Party come November election. A turn to " democratic socialism " might help - for a face lift if nothing else. The Democratic Party is moribund. God is NOT on its side, Maxine Waters .

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    The moral blindness of Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed


    Five killed and others injured in Annapolis, Maryland Capital Gazette shooting  

    One newspaper editor did not set much of an example for mental balance :
    {“This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul,” Cox wrote in the deleted tweet, according to TheWrap "

              More urgent than rigid gun control is a better mental health system in the USA.

                  Those " liberal " Democrats who see Trump as an American Hitler have no quarrel with his belligerent , FASCIST foreign policy . Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed is cynical about Trump meeting with that Russian " dictator " Vladimir Putin . Trump is once again offending OUR " allies " , said Reed.

                   Can working class Americans still learn the ABCs of " democracy " from bourgeois politicians and scholars and journalists ( no ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE , of course ! ).
                   

    Jack Reed (via Public) / Reed: Trump-Putin Summit is Ill-Advised, Ill ...

     
    17 hours ago - Reed: Trump-Putin Summit is Ill-Advised, Ill-Conceived, and if Past ... summit with Vladimir Putin right on the heels of a critical NATO meeting in ...

    Are not LYING journalists " the enemy of the people " ?

    It is absurd to connect this " targeted " killing of five employees in a newspaper building with the politics of Donald Trump or urgency for gun-control. The obsessive stalking of a female is a sign of a severe emotional disorder. We need a better mental health system more urgently than we need rigid gun-control.

    One newspaper editor did not set much of an example for mental balance :

    {“This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul,” Cox wrote in the deleted tweet, according to TheWrap "

                   Mr. Cox later apologized. Are not journalists " the enemy of the people " when they promote the BIG LIE about " Trump-Russian collusion " and condemn the " dictator " Putin while the American plutocracy - which owns the mainstream news media-has destroyed " Democracy in America " for working class people ?

                          What is so " heroic " about that VOICE OF THE CIA - the New York Times ?

    Thursday, June 28, 2018

    In working class America not much concern about Bad Vlad Putiin spoling OUR " democracy "


    The Election Of 2016 Is Nowhere Near Over, And Still Pulling Americans Apart

     
    While establishment Democrats keep hoping to strike gold in this bizarre Russia-Trump-Collusion investigation- TWO YEARS ! - working class Americans have quite other concerns than Bad Vlad Putin spoiling OUR " democracy ". It is the Democratic Party that will implode come November .
       

      We socialists must build bridges .. civility is not counter-revolutionary

      I think the World Socialist Web Site is just speaking with the EXPERIENCE of more than a century of CLASS STRUGGLE war behind it .

       More than 100 years ago the American socialist Eugene V. Debs protesting the slaughter of the Great War- the " war to make the world safe for democracy "- in his famous Canton Speech-warned the American workers not to be sucked in by the Democratic Party. In 1917 Wilsonian blather was the ruling class line just as today the " liberal " Democrats ( where is the anti-war voice in this " Party of the People "? ) -are promoting the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism.

            Presently the American ruling class is DESPERATE for a foreign enemy ( besides cartoon generic " terrorists " ).

            You can be sure that CLASS WAR - the only just war, said Debs- is not on THEIR agenda.
      Of course, we must not assume that every vocal supporter of the Democrats is a bought and sold enemy of the working class. Revolutionary socialists must build bridges to all groups that would really benefit from " progressive " social change. For example, it is foolish to alienate working class Christians or ANY ethnic group -
      or any " identity politics " group with a real grievance and history of discrimination.

                     Rather than call religious people " stupid " in the manner of the late Christopher Hitchens socialists should just encourage them to take New Testament humanity seriously. And what kind of socialist was New Atheist Christopher Hitchens in the end ?

                    Today in this crisis of human civilization different views of God and Faith can be put aside until more serene times -when ordinary people will be free to re-examine traditional religious creeds.

            WE socialists must build bridges. Civility is not counter-revolutionary. And it would not surprise me if more than a few entrenched privileged class individuals have an " epiphany " about social justice .

      Neither Marx nor Engels discovered revolutionary socialism in a London or Berlin slum.

      Wednesday, June 27, 2018

      What we really need , Mr. George Nee , is an INDEPENDENT Labor Party


      Supreme Court Deals Blow To Government Unions


      Labor leaders in Rhode Island still think they can check the ruling class attacks on organized labor by complete and abject subservience to the Democratic Party :

      [ " We have received very quickly, very strong support from our congressional delegation and Governor Raimondo,” George Nee, president of the Rhode Island chapter of the AFL-CIO, said at the news conference. “When you’re in a fight, it’s good to know you have friends." ]

      What WE really need , Mr. Nee- once a young idealist active with the United Farm Workers- is an INDEPENDENT Labor Party - somewhat like the British Labor Party but with more CLASS STRUGGLE backbone .

      Old labor activist in RI, George Nee, cannot break with his " friends of labor " Democrats


      DSA member Ocasio-Cortez beats incumbent Congressman in New York Democratic Party primary






      Quick reaction here in Rhode Island to the latest Supreme Court attack on organized labor. The head of the AFL-CIO ,George Nee ( I recall him when he was a more idealistic labor activist with the United Farm Workers ) had a tense press conference this afternoon covered by the local radio station. Said Knee :

      [ " We have received very quickly, very strong support from our congressional delegation and Governor Raimondo,” George Nee, president of the Rhode Island chapter of the AFL-CIO, said at the news conference. “When you’re in a fight, it’s good to know you have friends." ]

      Yep , turn once again to the " friends of labor " in the moribund Democratic Party.
      In reality they are such treacherous enemies of the working class -with " Wall St. Gina " Raimondo leading the pack.

      You can read about this type right here on the World Socialist Web Site.

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      George Nee responds to Supreme Court ruling on union dues

      Happy campaigning , Socialist Equality Party candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth


      Socialist Equality Party to run Niles Niemuth for Michigan’s 12th Congressional district




      In Rhode Island I cast a WRITE-IN-VOTE for the SEP's candidates White and Niemuth in the 2016 presidential election. I agree with those Rust Belt state voters that Hillary Clinton was not even " a lesser evil ". ( But nor was Trump ) . Suspicious of the " democratic process " here , I took a digital photo of my ballot choices.

      Happy campaigning, Niles Niemuth for Congress.

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      Radical Ron voted for these guys in 2016

      But do phlegmatic types make good revolutionaries ?


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         " For a site that is otherwise excellent, you all can be so full of piss and vinegar sometimes. "




          • But do phlegmatic types make good revolutionaries ? Was it Chairman Mao who said : " The revolution is not a tea party " ?



          • I am not turned off by " middle class civility " in any case. 

          • Way back in tumultuous 60s the local "Trots " were famous for wearing suits and ties, short hair, speaking and writing standard English, and a drug free life style - at least when running for governor or senator. Yet THEY were the real revolutionaries and they were a key to the success of the anti-war movement.

          • But back then I was also fond of those talented rebels Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and talk about " piss and vinegar " , " Revolution for the Hell of It ".

          • [ " You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a CIA that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home. "
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          •                                     ABBIE HOFFMAN quote
            But Lenin was right anyway: " Ultra - Leftism is an Infantile Disease ".

          • Poor Abbey committed suicide ( so thought William Styron in his book on depression " Darkness Visible " ) and Jerry Rubin sort of sold out. 

          • So many YIPPIES evolved into YUPPIES
            .

        No " socialist " safe in the Democratic Party- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

        Discussion on World Socialist Web Site  

        DSA member Ocasio-Cortez beats incumbent Congressman in New York Democratic Party primary



        Local Rhode Island talk radio this morning SHOCKED by the unexpected primary victory of a " socialist - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . The mainstream news media would have us believe that " socialism " is forever anathema within the United States. 

        Before the bigshot newsman came on all I heard was " socialist " victory in New York - a devastating blow to the Establishment of the Democratic Party. And that young woman was a disciple of Bernie Sanders ! 

        The bigshot " celebrity " only referred to Alexandria Ocasio -Cortex as a " liberal " and " progressive ". For him " socialist " still bordered on the taboo, the officially " dangerous " and sinister un-respectable.

        But no " socialist " survives " as a serious socialist in that snake pit of the Democratic Party. It will reform YOU quicker than YOU will reform this ruling class controlled party.

        Whenever I comment elsewhere about the ruling class controlling BOTH the Democratic Party and the Republican Party some anonymous troll invariably asks : " Have you had your meds this morning ? "

        Was that not a STALINIST tactic : DISSENT = mental instability ? Is that a " conversation " -a snarky remark "

        You will see in the coming election season how the ruling class tries to control the parameters of public debate . To be sure, CAPITALISM will not be up for debate - not even with " socialists " like old Bernie Sanders still around.

        The " liberal " Democrats will all agree on the wickedness of Donald Trump and his base of " deplorables ". They might even scorn ordinary " civility " - which never hurts revolutionary socialists. 

        They won't say STOP WORLD WAR III , cut the military budget . In fact, JUNK THE WAR MACHINE !


        " Liberal " fascism in the USA will at least have a kinder and gentler face- like Hillary Clinton's .



          Tuesday, June 26, 2018

          Understanding Melania Trump - a typical American plutocrat


          Clothes Talk. And Melania Trump's 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket Spoke Volumes  

          Melania Trump is not that much different in innate feelings and " way of life " from the rest of the American plutocracy -a tiny minority of very rich Americans who control BOTH the Republican and Democratic Parties, the mainstream news media, and even the " shadow government " of the United States. No, they " really don't care " about the vast majority of exploited and oppressed working class Americans of ALL races and ethnic groups.

                   But the Establishment plutocrats are embarrassed by Donald Trump because he is the Dorian Gray image of their own souls. And not for nothing Oscar Wilde was a socialist.

                     But democratic socialists don't believe in smearing anybody -not even President Trump. He is what he is - an arrogant plutocrat . Leave it to God to judge personal, unforgivable " evil " or to the unforged conscience of the human race.

                            The New McCarthyism IS evil !


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          Who will replace Charles Krauthammer - the Plato of right wing reactionaries ?

          "This anti-Russia, anti-Trump campaign, while resonating with sections of the political establishment and the affluent upper-middle class, has left the general population cold . "

                       Just a FACT ! But where does the mainstream news media report this nearly self-evident truth ? Yes, find working class people with families to support frantic over Vladimir Putin in far away Russia meddling maliciously with OUR " democracy " ?

                       Just when will the Kafkaesque " Trump- Russia collusion investigation climax ?
          Popular anger -pre-revolutionary anger - can never be petty-bourgeois POLITE . But socialists should avoid PERSONAL hatred for the same reason they reject individual acts of " terrorism ".

                     The root of evil is the capitalist SYSTEM. The egocentric politicians come and go-along with their 5 star intellectual representatives like Charles Krauthammer- who just died . He said America was the only country founded on an IDEA . A right wing Plato for ruling class reactionaries.

                        Who will replace Mr. Krauthammer - who sat at the right hand of Ronald Reagan ? Consult Harvard University -which mass produces professional enemies of the working class.

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          Monday, June 25, 2018

          " VOTE FOR SOFT HEARTED ME ! ", Democratic Party circus

          "While the anger of the protesters was genuine, the aim of the organizers is to channel this opposition behind the Democratic Party."

                        Here in Rhode Island two bit capitalist politicians in the dominant Democratic Party pretend to be NICER THAN THOU ( Donald Trump and his base ) . Vote for US because WE have softer hearts and love all kids everywhere !

                       " Liberal " Democrat governor Gina Raimondo is LEADING the attack on working class families in Rhode Island . Some are going hungry because of this defective state computer system ( which seems to be a PROGRAMMED enemy of the poor and elderly ) .

                        They feign horror about immigrant children in detention camps " sleeping on concrete floors " . Have they ever voiced concern for homeless families in Rhode Island - living in shelters like Crossroads - the former YMCA ?

                How many children does the American Gulag separate from their mothers or fathers ?
          How many children go to school in decaying school buildings ( some still breathing asbestos or drinking toxic and lead poisoned water ) ?

                      The news here reports poor kids being SHAMED for not having paid their school lunch bills . No FREE LUNCH in benign LIBERAL Rhode Island ?

                     The phony Democrats protest about the plight of children at the border : " This is not who WE are ! "

                           KINDNESS to desperate immigrant families should be more than a public relations - VOTE FOR SOFT HEARTED ME - circus.

                         And what is the root of the migrant crisis ? Does it have something to do with basic inhumanity of American capitalism and imperialism ?

                             Teeth whitener-and pinkish makeup does not make vampires more charming .

          Saturday, June 23, 2018

          No " science of history " possible in the 21st century of " thinking machines " ?


          Preface to the thirtieth anniversary edition of The Heritage We Defend

           
          [The ‘transitional programme’ document seems to me—as it pretty much did when first presented—more or less arrant nonsense, and a key example of the inability of Marxism, even in the hands of its most brilliant intellectual representative, to handle contemporary history. ]

                          In the last 50 years I have failed to find any bourgeois historian or intellectual who knows how " to handle contemporary history ".

                What I do find is a sort of nihilistic KNOW NOTHINGISM - " history is bunk "- attitude. The scientific method in general must shun human history ?

                      But how can any aspect of knowable REALITY be abandoned to prejudice and superstition and ruling class insolence ?

                          No more than Newton in physics is Marx dated in the science of history. Newtonian laws can still get us to Mars, recently to Pluto. Marxism can guide us out of this hell in the inner solar system .

          Dr. Karl Menninger on the disgrace of the American prison system


          Survivors Guide to Prison: The American nightmare

           
          There are other MDs- on the left- who have a lot to say about crime and punishment in our capitalist society .The famous psychiatrist Dr.. Karl Menninger wrote way back in 1973 : " People refuse to believe that jails are almost without exception horrible, destructive, ruinous, hideous atrocities of which every citizen should be ashamed ".

           The good doctor then suggested that our jails should be " outlawed tomorrow by popular demand ". Dr. Menninger observed that most of the wretches in jail are not a violent threat to the public, but have " illegally taken someone else's property , and this is a cardinal sin tremendously important in a capitalistic society ".

           Since Dr. Karl Menninger wrote " Whatever Became of Sin " our prison system has only become worse. So with regard to CRIME  this brilliant psychiatrist wrote about " the crime of punishment ".

            Fwd: Why am I banned from the Brown Daily Herald ?



            Date: Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 10:56 AM
            Subject: Why am I banned from the Brown Daily Herald ?
            To: letters@browndailyherald.com


               Could you please explain why democratic socialist Ron Ruggieri is banned from the Brown Daily Herald ?

                         None of my past comments were ever REMOVED . Suddenly I am persona non grata here.

                       I will publish this letter on my blog . If I print my blog address , this communication will be quickly DETECTED AS SPAM.

                        The great FREE SPEECH tradition in the USA alive and well on the university campuses?

                                                                               Thank you, for any condescending attention.

                                                                                " Radical Ron "
                                                                                  .
                                                                                  Cranston, R.I.
                                                                           
                                                         

            American capitalism and the need for pain pills


            Analysis Finds Geographic Overlap In Opioid Use And Trump Support In 2016

             
            What a FAKE NEWS joke ! Working class " deplorables " in the Rust Belt states sensed that " Wall St. Hillary " could not FEEL MY PAIN . So out of a sense of betrayal from the neo-con Democrats they voted for Donald Trump .

                           Of course pain pills are a blessing to humanity WHEN NEEDED . " Drug legalization " implies that the MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT should not obstruct any individual need -real or imagined- to feel good .

                    And that is true of so called " medical marijuana " : NO PRESCRIPTION NECESSARY !
            There would be a lot less PAIN in an economic system that eliminates the profit motive and incurable greed. No Democrat supports democratic socialism . Not even Bernie Sanders.

            The world in which WE ( the plutocracy ) are on top is the best of all possible worlds


            Honest socialists can be known by their lying enemies. By serendipity I came across this article on a teacher strike analyzed from a Marxist perspective on the World Socialist Web Site:

                        The TRUTH here " long on 19th century banalities "

            [ Socialists SLAM Seattle Teachers Union For Capitulating To ...
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            CachedSep 23, 2015 - Like most socialist websites, the World Socialist Web Site is long on 19th-century banalities about workers' struggles and short on any ...]
            Blah , blah , blah !


                 What is the essence of bourgeois political philosophy ? It is this :

                     " The world system in which WE ( the ruling class and our lackeys ) are on top is the best of all possible political and economic systems. So STOP your nonsense protests right now. Tomorrow there will be POLICE to show just who is right! "