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coalition_unwilling

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Tue Feb 5, 2013, 11:08 PM Feb 2013

Notice to the 99%: You are ALL eminently disposable. The 'drone white paper' [View all]

uncovered by Michael Isikoff is just an exclamation point on a general stance and philosophy of the ruling elite that anyone who works for a living is a disposable commodity, just like petroleum and pork bellies, when you no longer serve the interests of the global 1%.

I'm really astounded that Obama has so little integrity that he allows his name to be forever besmirched by association with this drone policy, but then I remember that American democracy is basically a system to protect the interests of the private property owners and has been since 1776.

So if you work for a living, you are now on notice: you too are completely and totally disposable at the whim of an executive branch unencumbered by such quaint and obsolete notions as due process or judicial review and you are nothing to the global 1%, those who do not earn their livings by the sweat of their brows.

The question, as V.I. Lenin stated 100 years ago, is "What is to be done?"

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"completely and totally disposable" sums it up n/t Catherina Feb 2013 #1
I've enjoyed my time at DU and have profited intellectually and emotionally from coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #3
Please stay. Don't let the Admin propagandists win. DU is a modern public square Luminous Animal Feb 2013 #10
I intellectually and emotionally disassociated myself long ago Catherina Feb 2013 #11
+ alot green for victory Feb 2013 #21
The 99% hiding out in shacks with mass murderers. nt EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #2
Like the 16-year-old kid in Yemen? Don't bother responding. I've already put coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #5
My son just asked me about that Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #29
Sounds like someone woke on the wrong side of the Disposition Matrix this morning! kenny blankenship Feb 2013 #4
I'm so upset I can barely think. And some of the responses justifying this coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #6
OMG!!! They're Coming... greytdemocrat Feb 2013 #7
On a positive note, this thread is definitely allowing me to fine coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #8
I'm not sure I understand how this white paper, or excuses like it, R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2013 #12
I listened to big ed while driving today and he had a great discussion with R Greenwald lunasun Feb 2013 #9
When the same corporations and industries give money to both parties... Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #13
Yeah, they call us "useless eaters". It's starting to look like we're on our own. DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Feb 2013 #22
The oligarch overlords that control our government use distractions rhett o rick Feb 2013 #14
Could you do me a favor? jeff47 Feb 2013 #15
The constitution always applies to the government TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #23
Only within the jurisdiction of the government jeff47 Feb 2013 #24
Do like I do when all else fails. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #16
Thanks. I will be calling and writing Maxine Waters (my rep) today and coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #26
Informed, high-level officials have the power to kill you at will jsr Feb 2013 #17
Lenin is a poor choice DonCoquixote Feb 2013 #18
Message auto-removed SteelPirate Feb 2013 #19
Au contraire, Lenin's question is quite a propos: What is to be done? - n/t coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #25
Lenin is still a poor choice DonCoquixote Feb 2013 #30
Forget about Lenin. It's the question that is all important, not who asked it. We coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #31
Reducing principle and patriotism to a team sport in a rigged game while the Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #20
Go, Blue! woo me with science Feb 2013 #33
Is it too late? I keep saying no, but to be honest, I'm finding it difficult Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #34
I hear you but I don't think you're being entirely fair. Cary Feb 2013 #27
That's capitalism - YOU are a commodity Taverner Feb 2013 #28
Well, to be honest, we were all that long before that paper was ever written... Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #32
kick woo me with science Feb 2013 #35
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