Comments on: Irresponsible boycott bandwagon

By: JMK's Brain

JMK's Brain — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:02:47 +0000

JMK,

California is already bankrupt. Just a few less dollars from us will put you in the Pacific Ocean. Get over yourself. Government bodies have no place in boycotting private companies and citizens. It might just be illegal and it’s dangerous. Extremely dangerous to a free society.

The nazi government did the same thing to the Jews. For just about the same atrocious reasons. This time it’s LA socialists, not german socialists. Quite analogous, IMHO.

[Above — Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech to a crowd in the Berlin Lustgarten urging Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. He defends the boycott as a legitimate response to the anti-German “atrocity propaganda” being spread abroad by “international Jewry.” Below — Nazi storm troopers block the entrance to a Jewish-owned store. Their signs read: “Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops!” and “Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!”]

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/boycott.htm

By: JMK

JMK — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:01:14 +0000

Julie –
You’re kidding, right? Boycott California?
We’re the seventh largest economy. In the world.
We make the movies you watch in Hollywood, and the computer you use in the Silicon Valley. Yeah, the leading high-tech sector, with your Apple, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. Oh, and don’t forget eBay, Twitter, Yahoo and Google (youtube included). If you’re using Mozilla Firefox, by the way, that’s also from us. That’s just some of the tech companies we have.
Watch TV? We have Disney, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox.
We produce the food you buy at franchises, and the clothes people wear.
For people that watch sports, we have four Hockey teams, four basketball teams, four football teams and five baseball teams.
We have Berkley, Stanford, and UCLA.

Arizona has what? P.F. Chang’s and canned green tea?
Give me a break.

But go ahead, try to boycott California and make us “feel the pain”. Stop seeing any movie made in Hollywood, stop using the major sites on the internet and the programs you run on your computer (assuming that computer doesn’t come from us in the first place), cut out 90% of US wine selection, and don’t get food at Safeway or get your clothes at Gap, or any of the brands based here.

I’d be amazed if a single person, much more an entire state, could get anywhere near boycotting California.

Oh, and while you’re at it, you’ll need to stop purchasing anything from New York city. They’re Boycotting AZ as well.

By: PatsPuppies

PatsPuppies — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:43:25 +0000

I am embarrassed to be a native California. The people running our state need to be gathered up and put in an asylum. While they’re getting shock therapy, I think I’ll look for a home in Arizona where they seem to know what illegal means.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:52:14 +0000

This whole issue is stupid on the face of it. Why should anybody have a problem with identifying and removing criminals from our American society? That’s what an ‘illegal immigrant’ is you know. A criminal who has broken the law of this land.

The politicians who are pretenting to be angry about Arizonas’ new law are only hoping to be re-elected with the illegal votes of non-citizens.

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:33:05 +0000

“The recent spate of political leaders in California calling for continued budget cuts for health and human services programs demonstrates that none of them truly care about the people hurt along the way.”

“Here we go again with irresponsible California politicians posturing for the cameras, but calling for yet another safety net destorying measure. Their behavior is demonstrable of leaders who do not feel the pain of their constituents who are unemployed and underemployed, living in poverty or in ill-health.”

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:39:44 +0000

This will come back to bite you in the butt California.

The rest of us in the other 49 states plan to boycott you. My boss who owns a restaurant just canceled his order for 26 cases of Napa Valley wines. It’s a start…….YOU WILL FEEL THE PAIN SOON.