Not just that, he’s content to keep Mexico in “perpetual third world status”, dooming its citizens to a difficult life. Seems that’s more of an issue than Gloria Allred’s mock outrage at a successful Republican businesswoman. This goes to what a potential Governor actually has said — what he believes.
The folks at Verum Serum unearthed this telling video of the guy all but singing the praises of a peasant society:
Here’s the transcript of the first half of the segment. When you watch the video, make sure to catch the first word Brown says after the host compares him to the Unabomber (not in transcript):
Jerry Brown: These people from Mexico, they’re pushed out of their own country, by this modernization process. Which American corporations push. Then they get here and take work that no American can take. The answer to that is not more crime, not more police, not more surveillance, not more elimination of American or anyone else’s liberty. But slow down the process of modernization in Mexico. Raise the wages here…
Host: Slow down the process of modernization!?…I feel like I’m talking to the Unabomber here, what is this?
Wonder why the media aren’t talking this guy to account for things he actually said as Verum Serum reminds us:
Some how Brown has made it almost to the end of this campaign without having to answer for any of the radical policy ideas and crazy conspiracy theories he ranted about on his Pacifica radio show in the 90′s. Sure this was a long time ago, but these were not some random musings of a private citizen. These were deeply held beliefs expressed by a man who had spent a lifetime in politics, and who was intent on continuing to make an impact on the political landscape here in California.
*Well, he doesn’t object when the comparison is made.
Ah hah! Ashpenaz must be Jerry Brown in a pseudonym!
Awesome Find!!!!
You know, as crazy and nutty as much of the programing on Pacifia is, I actually like to listen to it sometimes. It’s often fascinating to me that some people are so devoted to such fringe ideologies. But you need that in a healthy democratic society. The biggest flaw in the ideology they often express, is that “the movement”… ie the forming and promotion of unions or the fight against “the establishment” is so important to them that they can’t comprehend what the dire consequences of their actions would be if they actually succeed. Still, I would even give a little donation if I had the spare change to help keep them on the air. They often do a better job of explaining and promoting a (semi)rational POV of the leftist agenda than Air America ever did. AA was just loud and annoying.
If Brown wants to raise wages in the United States, the simplest way to do it would be to enforce immigration laws.
It would also have the useful value of reducing unemployment.
Jerry Brown is one of the scariest candidates in the country right now. His own history should disqualify him from even ‘civilized conversation’.
I don’t know if younger voters really understand the ‘Governor Moonbeam’ reference.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown#Governorship_.281975.E2.80.931983.29
In 1979 San Francisco punk band the Dead Kennedys’ first single, “California Über Alles”, was released and sung from the perspective of then-governor Brown painting a picture of a hippie-fascist state, satirizing what they considered his mandating of liberal ideas in a fascist manner commenting on what lyricist Jello Biafra saw as the corrosive nature of power. The imaginary Brown had become President Brown presiding over secret police and gas chambers. Biafra later said in an interview with Nardwuar that he now feels different about Brown, as it turned out he was not as bad as he thought he would be and subsequent songs have been written about other politicians deemed worse.[25]
Brown proposed the establishment of a state space academy and the purchasing of a satellite that would be launched into orbit to provide emergency communications for the state—a proposal similar to one that was indeed eventually adopted. In 1979, an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, then at the Chicago Sun-Times, picked up on the nickname from Brown’s girlfriend at the time, Linda Ronstadt, who was quoted in a 1978 Rolling Stone magazine interview humorously calling him “Moonbeam”.[26][27] A year later Royko expressed his regret for publicizing the nickname[28] and in 1991 he disavowed it entirely, proclaiming Brown to be just as serious as any other politician.[29][30]
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It should be noted that Jello Biafra later became active in front organizations run by the Revolutionary Communist Party.
One documented case can be seen here: h__p://www.revcom.us/a/1247/rnc_protest_nion_call.htm
(*Note: Link was intentionally disabled by me. I don’t like to link communist sites to more reputable ones. Copy/Paste the link, then replace the “T’s” to see the page.)
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It’s shocking, how completely backwards Brown has things.
That’s a myth, but let’s ignore it for now. Brown continues:
Exactly wrong. Lack of modernization in Mexico, and high wages in a protected America, is exactly why Mexicans have wanted to come to America. The solution is to increase the modernization of Mexico, so it will be less of a hell-hole.
Yeah, I did just recall the other day how some Democrats despise human freedom to the point that they think it’s keen to be a medieval serf. Anti-capitalist, anti-modernity and anti-freedom seem to go together. Marx claimed to be scientific and pro-modernity, but that was a ruse. The deeper tendency of the Left goes back to Rousseau: hating independent and rational people, instead admiring primitive tribalism and not caring about the oppression and suffering it entails. We see that today in the environmentalists who believe that humankind is a blight on Gaia, rather than the Earth’s rightful master.
Drinking margaritas doesn´t qualify Jerry Brown as an expert on Mexico. Mexicans, like anybody else, are adaptable. Modernization is not what is chasing mexicans out of their country. It´s the political system. Felipe Calderon is the the second consecutive president from the right, but yet they keep many of the socialist policies of the PRI in force. i.e. the tortilla subsidy and PEMEX as a government owned business. What Mexico needs is a team of economists to implement more capitalism and encourage local entrepreneurs to grow their businesses, providing more jobs, more demand, and more circulation of pesos.
Attorney General Brown wants more welfare and fewer jobs.
My homework is to reread the Book of Revelations for possible California allusions.