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Brendan Eich and the New American Totalitarian State

Imagine going to work one day only to be, in effect, fired -- not because of anything you did or didn’t do at your job, but because of something you did in your personal life. Something religious. Or maybe, something political.

Imagine if you were denied a promotion at work because a co-worker found out you had made a personal donation to a conservative candidate. Imagine if your environmentally-correct boss discovered that, in your free time at home, you supported an organization that exposed the fallacies of man-made global warming and asked you for your resignation. Imagine if you were the successful CEO of Widget Corp, lauded and respected for your accomplishments, but clients or customers found out you were a tea partier and demanded you be forced out.

That’s exactly what happened to Brendan Eich, a highly-respected tech guru in Silicon Valley and co-founder of Mozilla Corporation, after he was appointed CEO in late March. In less than a week, he was forced out of this position for no reason other than that he had a made a $1000 contribution to the Prop 8 initiative in 2008. His own money. On his own time. In his private capacity. Mozilla had nothing to do with it. Nor did he discuss gay marriage at work.


http://www.americant...rian_state.html

[Rogerdodger]

he had a made a $1000 contribution to the Prop 8 initiative in 2008

So Brendan Eich had the same position as President Barack Obama at that time...before Obama "evolved"... just in time for the 2012 election.

Interesting selective outrage on the part of the radicals.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 April 2014 - 01:24 AM.

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MOZILLA CEO's exit tests Silicon Valley's tolerance...

When Eich made his $1,000 donation in opposition to same-sex marriage, the political landscape for gay rights was different than it is today. Even presidential candidate Barack Obama and his Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton were five years away from embracing legalization of same-sex marriage.

Maher: 'There Is A Gay Mafia -- If You Cross Them, You Do Get Whacked'...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 April 2014 - 01:48 AM.

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MOZILLA CEO's exit tests Silicon Valley's tolerance...

When Eich made his $1,000 donation in opposition to same-sex marriage, the political landscape for gay rights was different than it is today. Even presidential candidate Barack Obama and his Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton were five years away from embracing legalization of same-sex marriage.

Maher: 'There Is A Gay Mafia -- If You Cross Them, You Do Get Whacked'...

Andrew Sullivan chimes in:

The Hounding Of A Heretic

The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.

The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. After an OKCupid decision to boycott Mozilla, the recently appointed Brendan Eich just resigned under pressure:



http://dish.andrewsu...f-brendan-eich/

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OKCupid decision to boycott Mozilla...so Brendan Eich just resigned

Here's a bit of intolerant tyrannical irony: In 2008 Brendan Eich had the same position on gay marriage that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton professed.

But wait. There's more!

OKCupid CEO donated to anti-gay marriage candidate
OkCupid's co-founder and CEO Sam Yagan once donated to an anti-gay candidate. (Yagan is also CEO of Match.com.) Specifically, Yagan donated $500 to Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) in 2004, reports Uncrunched. During his time as congressman from 1997 to 2009, Cannon voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Gay activists may bring unwanted backlash on themselves.
Employers may begin thinking twice before hiring anyone who is gay.
No one will ever admit it, but...

Remember the failed Chick-fil-A gay boycott?

Edited by Rogerdodger, 08 April 2014 - 10:50 PM.

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Centralization and Sociopathology

Concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature.

Sociopaths/psychopaths excel in organizations that centralize power, and their ability to flatter, browbeat and manipulate others greases their climb to the top.

http://www.oftwomind...zation5-13.html

03 June 2013
Federal Judge Rules for Property Rights, Smacks Down Abusive Feds

In an historic 104-page ruling, Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court of Nevada has struck a major blow for property rights and, at the same time, has smacked down federal agencies that have been riding roughshod over Western ranchers and property owners

Judge Jones said he found that “the government and the agents of the government in that locale, sometime in the ’70s and ’80s, entered into a conspiracy, a literal, intentional conspiracy, to deprive the Hages of not only their permit grazing rights, for whatever reason, but also to deprive them of their vested property rights under the takings clause, and I find that that’s a sufficient basis to hold that there is irreparable harm if I don’t … restrain the government from continuing in that conduct.”

In fact, Judge Jones accused the federal bureaucrats of racketeering under the federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations) statute, and accused them as well of extortion, mail fraud, and fraud, in an effort “to kill the business of Mr. Hage.”


“Government's actions … shock the conscience of the Court"

The court found, "In the present case, the Government's actions over the past two decades shock the conscience of the Court." This finding, coupled with the court’s finding that agents of the BLM and the USFS engaged in a conspiracy to deprive the Hage family of their vested property rights, opens the door to potential lawsuits against the individual agents personally for their unconstitutional actions.


http://www.thenewame...wn-abusive-feds

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Fifteen Things You Probably Do Not Know about Psychopaths

Briefly – A psychopath is a person with a very nasty personality who builds a more attractive and very fake personality to cover his frauds, transgressions, and, sometimes, murders.

Psychopaths have a big void where most people have a conscience and moral values. In a family setting, a psychopath typically abuses the spouse and children and is respected and is even well thought of by outsiders. In a working environment, psychopaths choose their victims from lower-ranking individuals and take care to act properly around higher-ranking individuals. In national and international relations, psychopaths create and exploit divisions based on ethnic, religious, national, or class differences.

Psychopaths are quite predatory. Not only are psychopaths without human feelings, but they are, deep down, contemptuous of all with whom they deal: superiors, subordinates, supporters, opponents, associates, and family alike. Psychopaths genuinely think that they are better and smarter than everyone else

On a macro scale, psychopaths are inefficient, incompetent, and corrupt, much like the Soviet Union. Psychopathy is thought to be incurable at this time.

Control – Psychopaths want to control you – physically, emotionally, sexually, financially, and politically. Psychopaths want to control your soft drinks, your ability to defend yourself, your health care, and your life.


http://www.americant...sychopaths.html

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Common Professions of the Narcissist

Narcissists are clustered in:

politics & corporate management
military & law enforcement
medicine & teaching & clergy
sports & show business

Why is this?

Narcissists seek atention. They are drama queens.
They relate to you as a superior, not an equal. They don't think anyone is equal to them.
They crave applause, adulation and obedience.

They need this input from others to regulate their sense of self-worth.

What's the difference between a narcissist and a psychopath?

Both have incurable personality disorders

Narcissists are not evil - they lack the intention to cause harm. Certain narcissists 'incorporate moral values into their exaggerated sense of superiority. Here, moral laxity is seen (by the narcissist) as evidence of inferiority, and it is those who are unable to remain morally pure who are looked upon with contempt. . Narcissists are simply indifferent, callous and careless in their conduct and in their treatment of others. Their abusive conduct is off-handed and absent-minded, not calculated and premeditated like the psychopath's.

Psychopaths really do not need other people while narcissists are addicted to narcissistic supply (the admiration, attention, and envy of others).

When the egocentricity, lack of empathy, and sense of superiority of the narcissist cross-fertilize with the impulsivity, deceitfulness, and criminal tendencies of the antisocial, the result is a psychopath, an individual who seeks the gratification of selfish impulses through any means without empathy or remorse.


(Millon, Th., Davis, R. - Personality Disorders in Modern Life - John Wiley and Sons, 2000)

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Concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature.

Those ensconced in highly concentrated centers of power (for example, The White House) are in another world, and they find it increasingly easy to become isolated from the larger context and to slip into reliance on sycophants, toadies (i.e. budding secondary sociopaths) and "experts" (i.e. apparatchiks and factotums) who are equally influenced by the intense "high" of concentrated power/wealth.

Increasingly out of touch with those outside the circle of power, those within the circle slide into a belief in the superiority of their knowledge, skills and awareness--the very definition of sociopathology.

Even worse, the incestuous nature of the tight circle of power breeds a uniformity of opinion and ideology that creates a feedback loop that marginalizes dissenters and those with open minds. Dissenters are soon dismissed--"not a team player"-- or trotted out for PR purposes, i.e. as evidence the administration maintains ties to the outside world.

The Washington Post editorial board accuses Obama of being so far into a fantasy world that he’s not even listening to his own Cabinet members about the seriousness of the ISIS threat

Six months ago they warned that Obama’s foreign policy was “based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality,” and the headline on it declared, “President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy.”



http://hotair.com/ar...ign-policy-huh/

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Thrills running up my leg?

Paltrow Gushes to Obama: 'You're So Handsome, I Can't Speak Properly'...

Would Be Wonderful To Give This Man All Power He Needs...

"We're in this very adolescent phase. It's dangerous." ~Gwyneth Paltrow~


AMEN!

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 October 2014 - 09:26 AM.