Socialism is an economic policy. Fascism is a policy of having a leader with absolute power, that uses force to suppress opposition. They can exist together or separate.

And the Nazi’s were a socialist party. That would be the opposite side of the spectrum of conservatism.

Ah, that one. That was the conversation where you pretended to be a law enforcement officer.

Of course that was different but I’m not surprised you don’t understand why.

Wasn’t that at USC?

Hardly private property.

Socialism is an economic policy. Fascism is a policy of having a leader with absolute power, that uses force to suppress opposition. They can exist together or separate.

No a dictatorship is having a leader with absolute power.

Fascism is an economic/political system where the state controls economic activities while allowing people to retain “ownership” of property.

It also has elements of nationalism, whereas communist states were supposed to be all one big happy family. (It didn’t work out that way.)

Man Train, where is the overlap between conservative and nazi ideology?

I don’t see it.

If you’re going to spew arrogance, at least get some of it right.

It is both funny and sad to read comments which conflate run of the mill, generic assholish police behaviour, which has been SOP for a quite a while now, with the current exective branch policies.

Oh noes, the brownshirts! Fear the communist. Which is it, guys? Socialism or Fascism? Do you even know the basic definitions of these words?

So much braying, so little actual content.

When you read shit like this as satire, it ends up being funny… but the truth is the sad part. People are actually that retarded.

The people have been assfucked by the political elite continually, Democrat or Republican, for ages. Your petty and shallow world views and manufactured outrage are a monumental joke… on yourselves.

Keep grabbin’ your ankles, champs!

Ah yes, if it were code pink they would be allowed. Free speech only to those who share the same viewpoint.

Free speech is fine with socialists, provided you are saying what they want to hear.

Ziegler is a moron. This will really advance his career.

What a dumbass. This is where conservatism is heading.

How far the party of Reagan has fallen.

In the first place the only difference between fascism and communism is in the ownership and management of the economic engine. In Communism the state owns all the facilities of production and therefore administers those facilities with political appointees. Because the managers seldom know anything at all except sycophancy communism fails miserably from the get go.

In fascism, a partnership or shared ownership, if you wish, takes place between the management of the facilities of production and the state. Wherein the state leaves management teams in place at the production facilities and reaps the benefits of their expertise in their relative fields. However, just as in communism, all goals and policies are dictated by the state and under the total control of the state. Except, that fascism does work. The trains can run on time, power generation can be done, production levels can be maintained and even improved, because the people who know how to make it happen are left in place to do what they know how, so long as they obey the state.

For the ordinary man, woman or child, there are no noticeable differences because both rob him/her of their liberty, their autonomy over their own lives and most often even those lives. Nothing gains as much contempt as a groveling subservient to the state,and both systems abuse them greatly.

Both are socialist systems, the administration of the total power is just done differently.

You people are supposed to be in college, or graduates of college. I sure couldn’t tell it, from the level of ignorance in your comments.

You people are supposed to be Americans. I sure couldn’t tell it in some of the comments by people who thought the police acted properly in this case.

Cowardice and ignorance are not traits I find attractive, but I couldn’t just leave this alone. How weak is the case for USC, the cops, or their supporters when they dare not allow a free(?) citizen to be asked a question absent any threat or misbehavior?

I sincerely hope most of the commenters here are not wasting assets going to school.

Well, we all know that wasn’t possible because y’ll can’t keep your mouths shut whether you have something to say or not.

Projection.

The dumbest things I have ever heard came from the mouths Nazis… uh I mean Conservatives.

Hey libtard. I don’t suppose you have any examples that are comparable.

Easy. Lets watch some cops rough up a woman journalist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

The cops were being gentle with your melodramatic wimp by comparison.

USC is a private university, so I would say they have every right to prohibit any kind of activity on their property no matter how arbitrary the reason. However, I do think the handcuffs were unnecessary in this case – Zieglar was obviously not combative. I also believe that even though they have the right to stifle a journalist on their property, this is not very good publicity for the USC School of Journalism, to say the least!

Private property.
Designated area.
Authorized media.
Detained not arrested.

And Zeiglar thinks this clip supports him?

It’s private property. They have the right to plan for how many people show up. Without authorizing media representatives, they could get too many unplanned reporters to deal with or they could get too few to make the event worth holding.

Even so, they designated an area for unauthorized reporters — again, on their private property. They didn’t have to do that, but coming onto their private property he had to follow their rules.

By the way, what was that petty, self-serving sneering of “I understand what you think the rules are” all about?

Speaking of self-serving, the only sense in which Zeiglar was arrested was the dictionary definition “to stop.” He wasn’t arrested, and the cops made every effort to keep from actually arresting him despite trying to explain why he needed to move and still having to cuff him and drag him off the sidewalk while he tried to employ passive resistance — also unsuccessfully.

USC. Both the California and the South Carolina logos, are public institutions, supported by taxpayer funds.

A private institution that does not accept public taxpayer funds would be Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Nice try, cretin.

Nazis were not Conservatives.

They were Leftist homosexuals.

Ooooooo.

Betcha that fucks with your worldview.

I believe the instance you’re talking about was the Kerry event where the guy was disrupting the event.
This guy wasn’t disrupting anything.
I’m not surprised Ellinas is too dense to see the difference.
The Whistler on April 16, 2009 at 03:27 pm

No. The one before that. The guy without a library card.
I’m surprised Whistler forgot that one.

Wasn’t that at USC?

Hardly private property.

thats why they called him a protester, not a guy trying to get a story. i will be interested if the liberal lawyers at the aclu will want to take this one up.

Well Mr. Man-Train (or stinky-line-of-homos-playing-choo-choo)

Try clicking on the link and reading a passage, any passage, of the Pink Swastika.

I can afford you the opportunity to broaden your mind and actually learn something, but if you refuse, well that is your business.

Covering your ears and shouting might drown out the truth for you, but does not change the truth.

Click, read and learn.

Fascism and National Socialism were both outgrowths of the LEFT. Benito Mussolini (who coined the term fascist) was a Socialist. So too was Corporal Schicklegruber.

It was the Communists who insisted that fascism was a creature of the Right, and that because they refused to acknowledge any ideology to their left.

The dumbest things I have ever heard came from the mouths Nazis… uh I mean Conservatives

You apparently don’t read much of what’s posted by our resident lefties e.g. dino, han, buzz. Anyone is capable of saying stupid things, even you and me.

To CorpulentMeatSack,

National Socialism was/is facism, fathead.

Ahh… just wait for Obama’s brown shirts to start policing the streets this way. They’d better wear armor. Ooooh, was that too extremist for gay Dino?

What an obnoxious jagazzz.

This type of behavior is representative of Ziegler’s work.

This demonstrates that he is is obnoxious to the point of trespassing on private property by trying to harass people because he disagrees with their reporting.

He was disrespectful to the law enforcement officer who was giving him his options to leave peacefully.

Ziegler had to be confrontational on every issue challenging authority about how they manage their private property.

What a douche.

Police asked him to move, leave the premises, and the asshole refused. Should have tased him.
It was not long ago that you guys were cheering when police tased someone in a library for not moving fast enough after orders were given for him to leave.
He is provoking the police. The guy is an idiot.

I loved how he kept a smile through the whole thing. The look on his face was one of total incredulity and not that of someone who intended to get that reaction. It should be repeated as we draw closer to the midterms as just another example of the left’s intolerance of anything but their own ideas right to the point of shitting on the first amendment.