Lattice of Coincidence: telling me I can't invest in genocide is a curtailment of my freedom

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

telling me I can't invest in genocide is a curtailment of my freedom

News item: The Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act (DADA) passed the House of Representatives today by a vote of 418 to one.

3 comments:

Smiff said...: Dat guys is phokked in da head, and he's still the best Repooplican running...; July 31, 2007 at 4:05 PM
Fungster said...: So there were US companies out there that couldn't divest out of foreign companies that had dealings in Sudan (& Iran, separate bill) because they might get sued? And they needed the govt to step in and say "don't worry, divest and they can't touch you" before they would sell? Sounds like corporate welfare to me. They should have said "if you don't divest in these companies we'll sue you."

And, of course, there's a loophole. Gotta have more than $20 mil invested. Guess what foreign companies are gonna be moving quick to reduce their investment to $19,999,999.99?; July 31, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Smiff said...: Genocides should be run more like a business. lol; July 31, 2007 at 6:58 PM

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A lotta people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a buncha unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give ya an example, show ya what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like, "plate" -- or "shrimp" -- or "plate of shrimp" -- out of the blue, no explanation. No point looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about Bermuda Triangles, UFOs, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing? Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine.... People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something: there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well, where did all these people come from? Hmm? I'll tell you where: the future. Where did all these people disappear to: hmmm? the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really... yeah, you got it! Time machines!"

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

telling me I can't invest in genocide is a curtailment of my freedom

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