[threadbear]

Thomas Friedman, the voice of reason, who sees both sides of an issue and can be reliably counted on to arrive at some kind of middle ground "solution" ---exposed for the scumbag he truly is.

This guy is toxic waste poured into a three piece suit.

"New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has urged the US government to create blacklists of condemned political speech - not only by those who advocate violence, but also by those who believe that US government actions may encourage violent reprisals.

The latter group, which Friedman called "just one notch less despicable than the terrorists," includes a majority of Americans, according to recent polls."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0728-03.htm

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'T')homas Friedman, the voice of reason, who sees both sides of an issue and can be reliably counted on to arrive at some kind of middle ground "solution" ---exposed for the scumbag he truly is.

This guy is toxic waste poured into a three piece suit.

"New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has urged the US government to create blacklists of condemned political speech - not only by those who advocate violence, but also by those who believe that US government actions may encourage violent reprisals.

The latter group, which Friedman called "just one notch less despicable than the terrorists," includes a majority of Americans, according to recent polls."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0728-03.htm

[emersonbiggins]

Is Friedman proposing another House Un-American Activities Committee?
Or, perhaps it can be in the Dept of Homeland Security. Oh Goody!

#%@!* chicken-hawk brownshirts. McCarthy would be proud...

[hotsacks]

Funny,I don't see Friedman in a three piece suit. I see him in Ports linen slacks and custom made shirts,just slightly left of preppie. He eats at 21 but prefers The River Cafe. He reads the classics,particularly Shakespeare and Sun Tzu, and donates regularly to the David Suzuki Foundation. Vacations in France,to refresh his reasoning powers. All things are good for T.Friedman so long as they are American or American derivatives. His next column will argue the historical precedents and the present imperative for a blacklist. After all,a lifetime figuring out what makes a 'civilized' man gives one the right to dictate these things.
It's weird now,what with the radical-in-a-Porsche age passing and narcissism merging with senility. Friedman will be extremely influential in the public arena in coming days. He's stuck his finger in the wind and smelled fascist gunpowder.I'm sure it's an odour that reminds him of home.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'I')s Friedman proposing another House Un-American Activities Committee?
Or, perhaps it can be in the Dept of Homeland Security. Oh Goody!

#%@!* chicken-hawk brownshirts. McCarthy would be proud...

[Specop_007]

I'm not entirely against this, but as usual the .gov would take it WAY to far.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m not entirely against this, but as usualy the .gov would take it WAY to far.

[I_Like_Plants]

Time for a "necktie party" for Friedman! He's so afraid his neocon ideals won't get carried through (and thousands of working-class Americans won't get to die for his plans) that he's willing to bring in Stalinist measures.

Well, when people get desperate and hysterical because they might lose power over the life and death of others, that's when what they fear most is most likely to happen - they go down in flames.

Let's hope the US gets an attack of common sense soon, and Friedman is tried and convicted for his words and actions which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans and possibly millions in the 3rd world, and yes of course they bring back hanging, we've discussed the effeciency of that elsewhere on here. A good rational American court to try him, pass the verdict, and remove said "industrial waste in a 3-piece suit" from our environment.

Dance 'n' dangle, Friedman!

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m not entirely against this, but as usualy the .gov would take it WAY to far.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m not entirely against this, but as usualy the .gov would take it WAY to far.

[erl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '
')Please enlighten us. Who would you consider blacklisting? ACLU? Sierra Club? Chairman of the National Democratic Party? Give us some scope.

[hotsacks]

Yep,just a guy spouting off in a newsheet no one reads,certainly not any lawmakers who make up their own minds about these things and pay no attention at all to columnists and their ilk.
God's in his heaven,all's right with the world.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('erl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '
')Please enlighten us. Who would you consider blacklisting? ACLU? Sierra Club? Chairman of the National Democratic Party? Give us some scope.

[k_semler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'T')homas Friedman, the voice of reason, who sees both sides of an issue and can be reliably counted on to arrive at some kind of middle ground "solution" ---exposed for the scumbag he truly is.

This guy is toxic waste poured into a three piece suit.

"New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has urged the US government to create blacklists of condemned political speech - not only by those who advocate violence, but also by those who believe that US government actions may encourage violent reprisals.

The latter group, which Friedman called "just one notch less despicable than the terrorists," includes a majority of Americans, according to recent polls."

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0728-03.htm

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'I')'m not entirely against this, but as usualy the .gov would take it WAY to far.

[Doly]

Only Muslims? Why not chicanos as well, now that we're at it?

[VinceG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('erl', 'T')his guy wrote an article. That's it. No congressional hearings, no bills introduced, nothing more than one guy spouting off.

[threadbear]

Lord, I hate neo-liberals as much as neo-cons. What is idiot Friedman's last book called? The World is Flat? Actually, it's Friedman who's flat. His examination of political economy is shallow and cursory, and his soul is a collection of false hopes wedged between the thin veneers of cardboard he uses to construct a theatrical lie about the effects of globalism.

This article shows the real dynamics underlying Friedman's stage managed production --the World is Flat.

Alexander Cockburn:

“The suicides”, Sainath says, “are a symptom of vast agrarian distress. For every farmer who has committed suicide there are thousands more facing the same huge crisis who have not taken their lives. In fact, we will never know how many suicides there have been, since there are so many ways of not counting them. We do know that in seven or eight states since ’97 and ’98 and most particularly since 2000 farmers have taken their lives by the thousand. In the single district of Anantapur, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, so beloved by the neoliberals because of its “reforms”, over 3,000 farmers have taken their lives between 1997/98 and 2003.

http://www.counterpunch.org/