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Warren

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From the Edge

Platform

By Anthony Peyton Porter


I’m thinking of running for something. Not the border. Here are some of the planks in my platform:

First, California may no longer elect its own governor, but will have one appointed by the Green Party.

No one may possess a handgun, especially cops, who will be drafted from the general population for a one-year hitch.

There will be no tax deductions for business expenses, and no bulk-mail discounts.

Corporations will cease being treated as people and will have no rights. Shareholders will be held responsible for the actions of their corporation.

I’d farm out many government functions, including political appointments:

The secretary of commerce will be appointed by Noam Chomsky.

The secretary of defense will be appointed by the Dalai Lama.

The attorney general will be appointed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The secretary of Housing and Urban Development must have been homeless.

The Department of Homeland Security will be appointed by the National Lawyers Guild.

The secretary of the Interior will be appointed by the Sierra Club.

The secretary of Health and Human Services will be appointed by Dick Gregory.

The Department of Justice will be run by Amnesty International.

Personal income tax will be eliminated; income tax will apply only to corporations.

On the res, Native Americans can do ANYTHING THEY WANT.

The number of laws at all levels will be reduced by two-thirds. Make that three-fourths. Then for every new law enacted, an existing law must be rescinded.

All drugs will be legal for adults, and the Drug Enforcement Agency will be abolished.

The Central Intelligence Agency’s name will be changed to the Central Stupidity Agency; it will then be abolished.

Every person will have the same free health care, including all government employees.

All prisoners not convicted of a violent crime will be freed.

Judges will be picked from the general population and assigned randomly, case-by-case.

The rank of public school teachers’ salaries will correspond to the grade level taught, starting with kindergarten and pre-school teachers at the highest level, first-grade teachers next, and so on down to college professors at the bottom.

Abortion decisions will be made only by the woman involved.

Hate-crime laws will be abolished.

All murder will be illegal.

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with this.......

His latest one-ply ramblings had a few good ideas,
many bad ideas and one that is mind boggling in it's
viciousness.

No handguns for anyone?

The most potent anti-rapist device ever invented and
A.P.P. wants to take them away from women? So women
have the sole right to determine the outcome of their
pregnancy but they don't have the right to determine
the outcome of some scumbag's brutal assault on them?

Wow.

Why would you support anything that puts women or any
other potential victim of violence in such a position
Porter?


Warren



It will be a week before I know if it gets printed. Until then, how did I do?
 
Good response, but I doubt it'll do any good. In the 'utopian' world that he's dreaming of, there wouldn't be rapists; only happy, enlightened men praising the virtues of women and singing Kumbiyah with them.

But I guess in reality, women would just have to start carrying rifles or shotguns.

I just hope his ACLU AG doesn't ban brightly colored guns so women can at least accessorize them to match their wardrobes. :D
 
Is that columnist INSANE?

I have a really hard time believing that what he wrote is anything but a joke...but his site seems legit. Is it satire or some other form of tongue-in-cheek writing? Surely he cannot actually mean any of that. But I have the sinking suspicion that he actually does.

CRAZY!!
 
No one may possess a handgun, especially cops, who will be drafted from the general population for a one-year hitch.

Oooooh...they're going to allow open carry of "assault rifles", instead! How generous of them! :p

Someone should really tell the bad guys about the new laws, though...
 
All drugs will be legal for adults, and the Drug Enforcement Agency will be abolished.

Probably the real agenda here. If he got this one, everything else would be gravy.

All murder will be illegal.

Don't really know what to say except I think it already is unless he means justifiable homicide.

As usual...ibtl.
 
That "article" was pathetic. Why would anyone want to embarass himself like that? Does the guy really think of himself as profound or enlightened? He's childish.
 
On the res, Native Americans can do ANYTHING THEY WANT.
Gee, I'm part Apache. I think that the first thing I'm going to do is start torturing stupid "journalists" to death, starting by staking them down and building a small, slow burning fire between their legs, a la "Ulzana's Raid". I just need volunteers to get them ONTO the reservation....
 
Do you ever wish you could give people exactly what they've wished for? It'd be like making a kid smoke a pack of cigarettes.
 
He can't be serious. That's got to be a joke. No one's that stupid. Not even in CA.

This IS serious. He is actually liberal within the gun control crowd. There are many gun control zealots out there that are FAR MORE insane and extreme than him.

I have read many articles over the past few years, and some of their contents are enough to be nightmarishly frightening.
 
Sounds like a criminal/terrorist paradise. I suspect Mr. Porter would be the first person hanged after the suffering masses rebel and overthrow his utopian government.
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I'm all for abolishing of hate crime laws, the rest of the "idea", not so much. He must have smoked some weed laced with something awful to think of all that.

FFMedic
 
Deanimator:
Gee, I'm part Apache. I think that the first thing I'm going to do is start torturing stupid "journalists" to death, starting by staking them down and building a small, slow burning fire between their legs, a la "Ulzana's Raid". I just need volunteers to get them ONTO the reservation....

Where do I sign up?
 
All murder will be illegal.

I thought it was already illegal................................................since the beginning of civilization.

Yeah right Mr. Porter, you are only embarrassing yourself further and further. The more articles you write, you are falling deeper and deeper into a quicksand of your own creation, and more of us will see how crazy you are.
 
It looked to me like the columnist was poking fun at the inane issues with which we have to deal, in a Stephen Colbert kind of way. However, there's so much biting sarcasm floating around nowadays, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly what angle people are taking.
 
Good Lord.......

I know there are a lot of y'all good folks out in Cali just like in the rest of the country, but DAMN I'm glad I don't live there. WAAAAAAY too many wackadoodle liberals for me.

That article reminds me of something: A member at another forum I belong to has a great quote in his sig line. I can't remember who it's attributed to, but this is it:

"I'm all for keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of idiots. Let's start with typewriters."

(It sounds very Mark Twain-ish, but I don't think they had t'writers in his day.)

I think whoever said that had this Porter guy firmly in mind.

:)
 
As long as we're playing fantasy-land....


First, California will be kicked out of the union, along with Massachussetts, New Jersey, Chicago and New York City. They will be ceded to Canada.

Everyone will be issued a handgun, except cops.

There will be no taxes for business income.

Governments will cease being treated as people. Government employees will be held accountable for the actions of their departments.

I’d farm out many government functions, including political appointments:

The secretary of commerce will be appointed by Milton Friedman.

The secretary of defense will be appointed by Genghis Khan.

The attorney general will be appointed by the Heritage Foundation.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development will be disbanded. The buildings they occupy will be sold to developers to convert into upscale condominiums.

The department of the Interior will be run by Halliburton.

The department of Education will be renamed the department of Stupidity and then be disbanded.

Personal income tax will be eliminated; income tax will apply only to non-profit groups.

In one's house, Americans can do ANYTHING THEY WANT.

The number of gun laws at all levels will be reduced by two-thirds. Make that three-thirds.

The DEA will intercept shipments of drugs coming into the country and spike 1% of them with cyanide, and then release them back to their former owners.

Every person will have to buy their own health insurance, including all government employees.

All prisoners convicted of a violent crime will be executed.

Judges will be subject to review by the general population.

Public schools will be abolished and all education will be in private schools or at home.

Abortion decisions will be made only by the woman involved. There will be no child-support ordered for paternity unless the woman was raped.

Hate-crime laws will be abolished.

All murder will be illegal.

Cash contributions only, preferably in gold.

There, fixed it!
 
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