Rapper T.I. on the Beyoncé backlash: ‘How they gonna protest against our protest?’

CPT L S - There is no such thing as decent democracy. Democracy is mob rule whereby NO rights exist beyond the vote of the moment, or the inflammation of the mob. "Less government" as those confined to it by the Constitution does not leave a vacuum, it does leave breathing space for growth, and innovation though. Funny how BIG government has brought us this "oligarchy" you are so fond of invoking... how is it that less government would bring us the same thing? Do you not see the contradiction in your statement? Or is it your contention that since big government has brought us Oligarchy, that MORE big government is the answer to ridding us of the Oligarchy? That sounds both counter-intuitive, AND contradictory, does it not?

CPT L S - I have to smile when you give praise to FDR and Eisenhower. For it was FDR that gave us the "military Industrial complex" that Ike warned us about. It is also odd that you laud FDR on his union stance when he was clearly against the Public Sector unions, in particular. Perhaps you should be disturbed by the trend that an ever growing percentage of union workers ARE public sector, against the adamant wishes of your hero FDR.

If the equation of size of government vs level of oligarchy, is inverse as you say, how is it that we have more Oligarchy under our ever growing government? Doesn't sound very "inverse" to me. In fact, it looks like a very direct relationship... unless you're actually going to suggest that our government has been getting smaller, and less intrusive all these years.

Regards

I would also ask how America was more democratic when FDR tried to allow himself to place more Justices on the Court (than the 9 allowed) when Congress, and his existing Court finally started to push back against his Constitutional intrusions? Were you aware of this attempt to usurp power from the Constitution, from the Congress, from the States, and from the People? How is this "more" democratic? We can be thankful his attempts were thwarted or we would likely have found ourselves in a Dictatorship, rather than an Oligarchy, a Republic, OR a Democracy.

CPT L S - Crazy discourse more so when all failed to see that money is being made by the bad/good press. There is nothing like being led my nose ring, look how much money The Interview made; lousy movie too.

I suspect that Beonce is as radical as Jane Fonda; that is, not much. Someone else, a Svengali is driving this bus. Jane Fonda had Roger Vadim and Tom Hayden. I wonder who is pulling strings with Beonce...

You don't think Jane Fonda was radical, CPT Jack Durish?

SGT (Join to see) - Actually, no. Jane Fonda wasn't smart enough to be radical. She was a defective woman, seeking the approval of a cold and distant father, and thus led to be manipulated first by a scheming film director and later by a political hack, a true radical, Tom Hayden.

CPT Jack Durish, Being a Vietnam veteran, I don't know how you can defend her, after going to Hanoi and playing with their weapons like it was cool. I don't know if she visited any POW's, but I do know she was never given messages by the POW's, and turned them over to the NVA. But, she protested the war and made a bad move, by going to Hanoi. Her excuses or reasons for going to Hanoi, do not matter to me. Yes, I know she apologized, but apology, not accepted.

Yup...and I believe this video is adding FUEL TO THE FIRE.

Sgt Kelli Mays, of course it does; that is the whole point of racist mobs.