recieved this email in a forward, there is alink to the reporters actual 'photo essay' in the text below, check it out, discuss, form your own opinions and look for the facts in it; find out for yourself Subj: Fw: Pictures taken downtown Los Angeles on May Day co sponsored by the SEIU ... This is just a few of the photos and reports on this....Search the web for Pictures taken downtown Los Angeles on May Day co sponsored by the SEIU and various Communist groups and then These pictures are nauseating. Where are we headed.....where Obama wants us. Look at the pictures below…were they taken in Cuba? Venezuela? Bolivia? Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Argentina, maybe Puerto Rico? Nope…Los Angeles, USA just 4 days ago…this is what happened while we slept…while we went to school, went to work, while we raised our families. While we watched CNN or CBS, ABC or NBC or listened to NPR or read the New York Times and never saw, read or heard a minute of coverage of this travesty…while we let our guard down and we let the Marxist/Socialist/Communist Left and Progressives creep into our schools, the unions, the media and our government…banners and posters with the images of Ernesto “Che†Guevara (Castro's executioner) and Lenin would make Fidel Castro, Joe Stalin or Karl Marx proud to be an American! A May Day rally in Los Angeles, [URL="http://www.answercoalition.org/la/news/tens-of-thousands-march-on.html"][COLOR=#0068cf]co-sponsored[/COLOR][/URL] by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era. Not only did the SEIU help to organize the rally in conjunction with communists, they marched side-by-side with communists, while union members carried communist flags, communists carried union signs, and altogether there was no real way to tell the two apart. Southern California citizen journalist and photographer “Ringo†was on hand to record the day's events, and posted a full-length photo essay on his site Ringo's Pictures. To bring this important photo essay to a wider audience, I present here a small selection of Ringo's May Day pictures; visit his site to see dozens more photos from the rally. When I tell people that public political rallies are more and more being led by communists and socialists, most folks simply don't believe me. Aw, come on, you're just giving decent protesters an extreme label, they say. No, actually, I'm not: The communists freely and proudly declare their affiliation. And the SEIU has no problem marching arm-in-arm with them. “Smash Capitalism†is a slogan the SEIU apparently endorses - or at least doesn't mind marching behind. In case you think the SEIU is some peripheral out-of-the-mainstream organization: The SEIU devoted $28 million to Obama's campaign, making the SEIU “the organization that spent the most to help Barack Obama get elected president.†Furthermore, who is Obama's favorite White House guest and one of his closest confidants? The individual who has visited the Obama White House the most: SEIU President Andy Stern, who has visited 53 times. Obama is closely linked with the SEIU. The SEIU is closely linked with communists. You do the math. Did I say communists? Sorry, I meant Communists (with a capital “Câ€). Note how the Communists that day (like the women on the right in this photo) carried solid red flags symbolizing their ideology. Keep that in mind as you view the next photo… One of the SEIU leaders picked up a Communist flag and led a contingent of rank-and-file SEIU members. Everyone was OK with that. The way you can identify the SEIU members in all these pictures: They're the ones in purple t-shirts carrying blue-and-yellow signs. So, as you can see, the communists and the union members intermingled as the march progressed. In case you were wondering what the SEIU was saying during all of this, here's a video of the SEIU chanting “Legalization or REVOLUTION!†Clear enough? And it wasn't just the SEIU at the march - other “normal†unions like the AFL-CIO were on hand as well. There were plenty of teachers' unions attending too, and they brought along many of their public school students for some good old-fashioned communist indoctrination,. Most of the idiots in the US who walk around with Che buttons or Che shirts do so simply because they foolishly think he's “cool.†These hardcore communists carry his image not because he's “cool,†but because he was one of the most radical revolutionaries who ever lived. Right up there with Lenin, apparently. In order to have a more “civil dialogue†with their political opponents, the marchers made a puppet of a demonic Statue of Liberty aligned with the “Tea Bag Party.†OK, I guess Hitler comparisons are off the table for now - too many people have called it taboo. So what's second best? The Devil! Tell me the honest truth: If the Tea Party had marched in a rally behind a banner held up by fascists or neo-Nazis, don't you think it would have been national news? But the nation's biggest Obama-supporting political organization marched behind banners like these, and not a peep about it in the media. Hmmmm…. Until recently, the average American has regarded fascists and communists as equally noxious and equally malignant. As well they should have. But the drive these days by the left side of the spectrum is to make communism and socialism somewhat less remarkable and more palatable. For two years they angrily denied the Tea Party accusation that Obama's policies and supporters had a socialist bent. But in recent months, as the accusation had started to gain traction, the new leftist tactic has become: “What's so bad about socialism after all? You're demonizing a very popular and respectable ideology!†__._,_.___ -- "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
I actually went to that. It was the Socialism Conference in Los Angeles- Saturday May 21st, 11AM - 5PM at Los Angeles City College, correct? ORGANIZE & FIGHT. I am a activist for PSL. I had a blast, learned the meaning of socialism and the words of Karl Marx as well as how Capitalism is evil and will collapse very soon
I had a feeling you would of been there... Ya damned evil Capitalism the worst system there is...glad I don't think like that anymore.
I picked through some of the links to look at a few. TBH, it's just pictures of people holding political signs which reveal how ignorant they are.
This coming from someone who sits on his ass arguing with strangers rather then actually doing something about what he believes in...yeah were the ignorant ones /sarcasm
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. What happened there is a case of government intervening and fucking things up: They literally killed and wasted pigs as part of their plan to help everyone and raise prices (lol), it was wasteful and stupid. The only form of capitalism you could call that is crony capitalism, since it was government using regulation to benefit a certain industry at everyone else's expense. That's not a true capitalist tactic mang. Our government shouldn't have the power to do that sort of thing.
Obviously you miss the point. When has it not been a capitalist tactic to reduce supply to increase demand?
Ladies, gentlemen, prepare the riot gear. American and allied troops have died fighting to stop the spread of communism, and to encourage democracy around the world. We let them march down one of the major cities in the US ...preaching communism? The fuck?
I don't think reducing supply increases demand. It just increases price. So basically the government made everyone pay more for less.
Idk dood. here look at wiki it also says that if price goes up, demand will go down. So it looks like reducing supply for no reason isn't good for anyone.
You support capitalism but outcry against things that are of a capitalist nature. That was pretty clear from the start.
Yeah this is AMERICA GUYS! Who are these People.....to have FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT!!!! ITS DisGUSTING.......... .........................................