Shaun Altman's Blog! comments

"Obama for America!" by IntLibber Brautigan

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:35:33 -0800

I realize that a lot of people have become convinced that Obama is the great savior of the American soul, the redeemer of our sins of the past decade(s)/centuries, depending on who you talk to, and some even believe that he is this big centrist (appointment of ultraliberal Rahm Emmanuel as chief of staff, and having a record of voting for every tax raising, regulation increasing, and gun seizing piece of legislation as an Ill. state legislator and as US senator that he could get his hands on, notwithstanding).

I myself am certainly no supporter of Bush in most things he's done. His disregard of the sanctity of the US Constitution I found deeply offensive, and his willingness to follow the Cheney/big oil/neocon party line has helped to further the continuing bankruptcy of the country.

I distrust democrats more than republicans, however, for one simple reason: republicans have never treated me and other law abiding gun owners like myself as threats to national security like democrats have and continue to do.

Even after the Heller case convincingly told the left that the 2nd amendment recognises our preexisting, natural, human right to keep and bear arms, to defend ourselves and our families, Obama continues to state he believes that gun control laws to restrict peoples access to firearms is legitimate provided statutory cover can be created to declare the targeted persons as threats or criminals of some sort.

Furthermore, Obama and fellow liberals are trying to blame our capitalist system for the current economic morass, when the real culprit was their own attempts to legislate into existence home ownership for high-risk residents of poor neighborhoods who had neither the means, credit record, or ability to pay off mortgages, nor a history of showing habits of making payments on such liabilities. The massive amounts of poisonous mortgages fraudulently dumped on the mortgage securities market, by Fanniemae and Freddiemac, at the behest of congressional democrats, were the core cause of the poisoning of the entire mortgage securities industry.

The current mess is EXACTLY what you get when you try to use government to interfere in the free market, JUST as the current mess in SL is exactly what you get when the de facto state, i.e. Linden Lab, actively interferes in and bans various key economic sectors of the emerging virtual world economy of SL.

Such people however cannot be confused by the facts. Their minds are made up (just as they are made up that Obama is not actually a Kenyan born non-citizen who was improperly elected, because that would contradict the will of Oprah).

American HAS come together. We did so after 9/11 when 3000 Americans were unjustly murdered in their workplaces and while peacefully travelling. The world prior to 9/11 did NOT like Bush's stance that the US was NOT the worlds policeman and was NOT in the business of nationbuilding. 9/11 made America say, "ok, you want policing and nationbuilding? You are going to get it, American style, not the way YOU want it, but the way America wants it."

Unfortunately SOME Americans do not seem to think that America, for Americans, a sovereign nation defending itself, is worth standing for and fighting for. They have been mistakenly led to believe that internationalism, multilateralism, 'global villages' etc are inherently good, more important than America and what it stands for. They think that people like Kim, Ahkmadenijad, Chavez, and other tyrants retain moral equivalency, that islamofascists propaganda that the worlds ills are Americas fault are valid arguments. Domestically they believe various leftist propaganda like the Black Liberation Theology of Reverend Wright and Obama that says its all Americas fault, that we damaged our reputation and image by our actions, and that our reputation is not actually just smeared by the continued propaganda of the international leftists and islamofascists infiltrating and subjugating European and latin american cultures.

Whenever democrats get elected, folks like you Shaun always appeal for everybody to unite and move forward together. Tell me, have you ever responded to similar appeals when the Bushes or Reagan was elected? You certainly should know how I feel when dems consider me a threat to national security for my gun ownership, I am sure you feel somewhat the same way when some right wingers talk negatively about homosexuality.

The difference is that you made it through 8 years of neoconservative government in a culture that now is more accepting of homosexuality than ever before. No gay persons were shot in their homes by government stormtroopers, or burned to death because they refused to surrender to machine gun armed swat teams sent to collect a mere $5.00 tax.

My good libertarian friend, Claire Wolfe, said in 1992 after the Clinton White House sent Janet Reno to butcher children and their families in their homes in Texas, "It's too late to work within the system, and too early to start shooting the bastards."

It is convenient to talk about right wing repression, but the facts are that historically democrats are far more likely to use jackbooted government thugs on citizens, and give those thugs a pass when they kill innocents, than republicans do.

The US is no longer one nation undivided. There are Americans, and Globalists. The elections of the past two decades have clearly demonstrated this is a fact, the two halves of this country cannot agree on anything of significance. We are no longer one country. We are two peoples living under one fascist government that changes its flavor of fascism every 4-8 years depending on how effectively the media convinces its brainwashed viewers they were wronged.

You want me to be convinced otherwise, you and the democrats are going to have to prove it to me first. As Barry Goldwater said, "Get your hands out of my wallet, out of my house, and off my back." I can guarantee you that leftists like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and many others in congress see this as a historic opportunity to push forward an ultra-left agenda to eliminate those of us who continue to resist their left wing agenda and retain the ability to do so in an armed state if necessary. I can guarantee you that of the first ten bills before congress this year, two will be gun control laws, two will be tax hikes, and two or three will be regulatory increases on businesses of all kinds.

"Property Snatched by Linden Lab" by Any McLad

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:50:01 -0700

I have used my forum pen-name as I fear percecution at the hands of these "in with the Linden Despots" however an event happened to me in SL completely independantly to the above event but which provides further evidence to support what Shaun is saying.

A few weeks ago I bought a small mainland parcel, and began building my not too outlandish structure. Within 5 minutes of setting up, and with my building definately within the boundaries of my land, my avatar was suspended for 24 hours on "land encrouchment" charges.

It normally takes 5 weeks to get any complaint responded to by a Linden- so for this to have happened within 5 minutes must have been a Linden alt abusing her power.

When I got back - I moved up to a skybox, placing my build well within the limits and then using the object position feature to shift it up at 700m whilst making sure I was on my parcel, which I checked using the \ objects on land feature.

Within 2 days- my account was again suspended- again for "encrouchment".

I therefore sold the land at great loss and moved elsewhere.

An examination of the neighbouring land showed that one of my neibours had some very cutting edge features in the sky- and obviously had been in the game for a long time- and Ive put it down to a Lindens SL pleasure alt abusing their powers to choose their neibours.

This is definately going on.

"Rebuttal to Second Thoughts" by Rassah

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:15:41 -0700

Reading your post made me weary. Reading her huge whine-fest seemed to me as if she was doing more damage to herself than you even could. I'm surprised to learn she works at the UN, but then there are those types of people everywhere.

"Beware of Ravenglass Rentals" by Another Prokofy Victim

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:03:25 -0700

All of Prokofys complaints against the Lindens, against advertisers, and so on is just smoke and mirrors. Its a diversion to draw attention away from her rental scams. You are not her first victim, there are many of us. Sorry, I'm not going to use my avatar name here, because she will get her friend (who is a linden alt) to harass me. Good luck with this scumbag.

P.S. I am not affiliated with Woodbury, I didn't even know what it was until today.

"Beware of Ravenglass Rentals" by Witness X

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:43:32 -0700

Every poster here except Prokofy is a Woodbury goon.

Read at your own risk.

"Rebuttal to Second Thoughts" by Goon

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:58:21 -0700

"Second Life is serious business" = tipping your hand. Funny shit though.

"Beware of Ravenglass Rentals" by MotokoKusanagi Gynoid

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:49:19 -0700

This is really disappointing, and harmful to the Second Life ecosystem.

Thanks Shaun for warning residents against dishonest renters.

"Beware of Ravenglass Rentals" by Prokofy Neva

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:36:55 -0700

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/08/shaun-altmans-f.html

"Beware of Ravenglass Rentals" by Tizzers Foxchase

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:15:46 -0700

Shaun, thank you for bringing this to the attention of your readers.

Having tried renting a home in Ravenglass several times, I too have experienced similar customer service from Prokofy. It is really no surprise that a large portion of Furness and Alston remains vacant.

The customer is always right. Perhaps Mr. Neva needs a lesson in business ethics?

"Beware of Ravenglass Rentals" by Scout Detritus

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:28:24 -0700

Being a land owner in Ravenglass (one of the more chill ones), I can't say I am the least bit surprised Shaun. I have heard about this Procoffee Never's dealings in land bamboozlement before, and I am afraid you were swindled.

I would go as far as to say she is a rent-greifer, taking advantage and greifing unwary renters-to-be...definately not the first, but someone to be wary of in the future. NEW RENTERS BE WARNED!