QP, you can't argue with REVIrus, he doesn't have any actual philosophical, political, economic, religious, or ethical views or really anything that has any semblance of a concrete worldview. He doesn't know how the world should be organized (not even in the sense that he thinks he knows but is wrong, like most politicians, but in the sense that he literally has no idea about how anything should be organized), he doesn't understand how capitalism, communism, socialism, or really any economic system works. He has the most tenuous grasp of international and domestic politics.

Believe me, ask him any question about anything to do with our social experience and he won't have anything to add to the conversation except to scoff at what you say.

He just thinks that Jews are behind everything. This is not meant to be a refutation of his claims, I'm just saying, this is what he thinks, and this is all he knows. Arguing with him is like playing tennis with a brick wall. Brick walls are not tennis players, REVirus is not a person that you can engage in discussion with and expect any fruitful result. There is nothing he doesn't think is the result of a Zionist conspiracy. I can assure you that REVirus also thinks that Gov. Walker is supported by some sort of Zionist conspiracy as well.

REVirus is just a guy that refuses to accept that we live in chaos and turns to belief to explain everything. Some believe in God, some believe in conspiracy. No amount of proof can disprove God, no amount of proof can disprove REVirus's belief. REVirus takes what he believes on pure faith --there is only implication and interpretation. Nothing will provoke a recalcitrant experience in REVirus. His beliefs are not up for revision, and not only that, but he will never establish any grounds for reversing his beliefs, which means everything he says is dogmatic. Don't worry about what he has to say, you will feel better about it.

Nevertheless, I have a question for RE Virus: do you agree with the the anti-union bill or not? Or, alternatively, do you think that Wisconsin should not ban the right of public workers to form unions, but, rather, place restrictions on the organizations in question?

You made a good point: unions exist, but should not have to in a perfectly just society. However, since humans, by nature, are imperfect, the existence of the aforentioned institutions are necessary.

Ethically, I find the practice of one individual owning another person ethically distasteful,

I find your second opinion--specifically that Jews control the media--problematic, simply because, if that was the case, then they, theoretically, would also control you. For me, your tendency to resist, rather than go along with, with what you consider as Jewish philosophy is proof enough for me that this claim is specious.

Tonight, I will watch the films which you recommended, and will make appropriate commentary on them (i.e., how they relate to unions) when time permits.

An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill.

The Republican governor signed a bill on March 11 that eliminates most union rights for public employees.

In an email from February 19, Indiana deputy prosecutor Carlos F. Lam told Walker the situation presented "a good opportunity for what’s called a ‘false flag’ operation."

The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism discovered the email among tens of thousands released to the public last week following a lawsuit by the Isthmus and the Associated Press.

"If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions' cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions," Lam said in his email.

"Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest," he continued. "Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions."

Lam resigned from his position after the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism published an article about his email.

On February 22, an alternative paper in Buffalo, New York managed to trick Walker into taking a call from their editor posing as tea party tycoon David Koch.

When the editor posing as Koch suggested planting some troublemakers in the protests, Walker responded that "we thought about that," but said it was not necessary "because sooner or later the media stops finding ’em interesting."

"My only fear would be is if there was a ruckus caused is that that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor has gotta settle to avoid all these problems," he said.

Walker had promised to lay off 1,500 state workers if the bill to curb collective bargaining rights for public employees didn't pass.

In mid-February, 14 Democratic state senators left Wisconsin to stall a vote on the bill. There are 19 Republican senators, but the Senate needs a minimum of 20 members to be present to debate and vote on any bills that spend money.

While the 14 Democratic senators remained in Illinois, Republican state senators removed all references to spending from the bill and passed the proposal to limit public employees' collective bargaining rights.

Wisconsin citizens upset withWalker's attack on public employees' collective bargaining rights have launched a boycott campaign aimed at his campaign contributors.

You are right to disregard the majority of the media, as their reporting is often tainted by conservatism or liberalism.

I think Walker has committed a criminal act. As soon as he was aware of criminal conspiracy on the part of the Indiana prosecutor, because that is a crime to conspire to stage a gun attack against an elected official he was duty bound to report that to the police. He did not. This needs to be investigated.

it was pretty obvious to a lot of Seattle residents who paid attention to events during WTO `99 that the "Black Bloc Anarchists" were peopled with members paid to incite a false flag op to discredit the 100,000 peaceful protesters (many from labor unions)

It makes me wonder what these people have been up to all these years here in Indiana. Funny that the local papers aren't running this story. Lam is but a product of the political culture he's part of, it's likely that he's just the tip of the iceberg of dirty right wing politics in Indiana.

Dirty right wing politics in Indiana? Surely not. Not when our governor is a former big boy in a major pharmaceutical company. They're honest enough people. They don't profit off of death and destruction in any way, shape, or form. They're not trying to label all school children with mental disorders.

Or request that the US use depleted uranium Tomahawk missles in Libya (and elsewhere) in order to profit from the mountains of "test subjects" they will have in the next 30 years for the uber profitable 500 or so types of radiation cancer in research institutes and "medicines/treatments," whilst throwing as much nuclear power waste "somewhere else" on the planet. Naaaahhhhh...

Well, since this guy is a prosecutor.. you know people aren't getting fair trials there as he's obviously not above fabricating evidence to get his way.

False flag operations have been used against labor far more often than most people realize.

Former Harvard Professor Gary T. Marx wrote a scholarly paper on the subject entitled "An overlooked category of Social Movement Participant: The Agent Provocateur and the Informant". Most of the content deals with the COINTLPELPRO era, but there is also a section dealing with provocateurs and false flags during the Robber Baron era and the early 20th Century. Bombings, machine gunnings etc. were committed by private security agencies like the Pinkertons than blamed on union leaders, socialists and anarchists.

It is an ideal tactic because the media (including much of the left) refuses to even acknowledge the possibility that the latest "terrorist attack" may have staged by an intelligence agency or private contractor. To do so would undermine the legitimacy of many of society's most fundamental institutions.

Why is the Christianic Republican domestic terrorist not in prison? He tried to stage a murder attempt to deny Americans their rights, freedoms, and liberties so why is that terrorist traitor not in prison? ... Not to mention the fact that he is an 'effing prosecutor! Good lord. Putting that criminal in a position to judge peoples lives!

How is this not a criminal conspiracy? Staging a false flag attack requires lying to law enforcement about the identity of the perpetrator. Making false accusations to the police is a crime. If the Wisconsin or Indiana attorneys general are too right-wing, corrupt or incompetent to bring charges, why isn't the US Department of Justice involved? The Indiana creep used the internet to transmit his illegal proposal; that's interstate wire crime, and comes under Federal jurisdiction.

In my earlier statement, I neither agreed nor disagreed with opinions that cast what it is transpiring in Wisconsin as part of a bigger conspiracy act. In fact, I used the following words: "I do not know."

I will not rule out the possibility that Walker's new law is part of a larger gubernatorial conspiracy;

You've stated your opinion on Wisconsin's Anti-Union Bill in a number of torturously similar ways. I think you've made the point now.

RE Virus, if you want me to answer your questions, you must first tell me which ones you want me to address. I will gladly oblige. However, please be forewarned that, just because I field your queries, it does not necessarily that I will concur with you on every point.

The more I read source material pertaining to Carlos F. Lam's decision to instigate trouble in Wisconsin by urging Scott Walker to stage a "false flag operation," the more I feel appalled by their conduct. It seems to be another case of "dirty politics."

But who places politicians in these powerful government positions? The governed.

So who is irresponsible, these politicians, or their constituents, who thought highly enough of their ideals to elect them?

Sadly, individuals will continue to vote for irresponsible people to govern them, but that is their own fault. If more people read, rather than watch American Idol (the American Idol reference is borrowed from RE Virus), then America would not be in a political quagmire.