Adam Says: Proof the World is Doomed

For some odd reason Jeremy and I seem to get an inordinately high amount of forwards from right wing religious militant types… not that we are stereotyping or anything. I guess these things wouldn’t upset me so if they did give people cause to pigeon hole, and stereo type myself and other Christians who do not agree with uber-nationalistic proclamations of God’s “support” for various political causes. This forward especially got me because I am what you may call a “communist sympathizer,” or at the very least “inclined to socialist ideals.” Honestly the Cold War is over and the Red Scare is nothing but a note in history books; can we not move past this “communism is bad” mentality? Is this constructive? Did you know Hugo Chavez is using the profits from Venezuelan oil to insure that all the residents of his country have health care, and he is using the profits to insure the economic prosperity of the entire nation and not just wealthy oil company executives (as is the case in the U S of A.) So Chavez doesn’t like President Bush… big deal, and he is not a fan of the materialism and consumerism of our country... oh no!... Look we cannot keep propagating this kind of hateful nonsense, it is time we stepped back and spoke on issues intelligently and civilly without the baseless accusations and fear mongering. I know this is a little out of the ordinar for our normally light hearted PTWID Fridays, but this one just got me really fired up...

CITGO Beginning to Change Name To PETRO EXPRESS VERY IMPORTANTI am forwarding
this, because Chavez is starting tofeel the loss of revenue from his holdings.
Hesubstantially OWNS CITGOThis is a very important move that everyone should be
aware.ANNOUNCED JUST RECENTLY, CITGO, BEING AWARE THATSALES ARE DOWN DUE TO U.S.
(CUSTOMERS NOT WANTINGTO BUY FROM "CHAVEZ"), HAVE STARTED TO CHANGE THENAME OF
SOME OF THEIR LOCATIONS, TO: "PETROEXPRESS" DO NOT BUY FROM "PETRO
EXPRESS""PETRO EXPRESS" IS ALSO 100% OWNED BY COMMUNISTDICTATOR "CHAVEZ" THERE'S
NOT A DAY THAT GOES BYWITHOUT HIM "BAD MOUTHING" THE USA! YET, HE STILLGETS RICH
OFF US BY BEING ABLE TO SELL HIS GASOLINEIN THE USA. LETS SEE IF WE CAN'T CHANGE
THAT! PLEASE KEEP THIS MEMO GOING SO EVERYONE KNOWS WHATIS HAPPENING. WITH
ENOUGH PARTICIPATION, WE CAN MAKE A LOT OF CITGO AND PETRO GAS STATIONS DRY
UP!UNLESS YOUR TANK IS BONE DRY, DON'T EVEN STOP THERE,AND IF YOU HAVE TO, ONLY
BUY A GALLON!PASS THIS ON....I DID!

You may be asking, “Isn’t there some truth to this?” Nope its all false; adding fuel to my fire of indignation… log onto http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/citgo.asp and check out the facts for yourself.

Real quickly let me speak to the questions of communism. First, Communism is socio-economic system and not a form of government, and as such its natural rival is capitalism and not democracy... to take that point further you could have communist democracy, but this leads to the short coming of communism... because it is part of Utopian thought it is always going to be unraveled by mans totally un-utopian sinful nature. This is the point at which capitalism is strongest, it assumes man is sinful and uses that sinfulness (greed) to propel itself... both systems will eventually be undone by mans sins... however; communism will slowly fade out while capitalism will go out with a big bang... So why do communist systems break down (like the USSR)? Because there are sinful men in charge of them who do not want what is best for the whole, but I would rather hope for a day when we can make a communist society work than point fingers at the failures of evil men.