Zbigniew Brzezinski: Publish Lists of Rich People

Is Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to Jimmy Carter, losing his mental faculties?

He's old, 83.

Can we use his advanced age as an excuse for his bizarre suggestion that lists of rich people be made published so angry mobs can pressure them to surrender their wealth?

Brzezinski's inane spewings sound like those of the incoherent Occupy Wall Street protesters. He doesn't seem like someone with an impressive intellect.

From NewsBusters, here's video of Brzezinski:



Transcript

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: You know, I've been looking at this worldwide riots that are developing. They're all a reflection of deep passion, deep resentment, and fear. Now the question’s where will this go? How can this be sort of concretized? And one thought that has occurred to me, and let me sort of mention it here casually without having really thought it through systemically. I think it will be increasingly helpful if there was a movement to publish worldwide lists of people who make largely through speculation enormous amounts of money almost instantly and basically hide the fact from their social contexts. You know, how many Americans are really fully aware of how many other good people – that’s like Warren Buffett and others - who really donate a lot of their earnings to charities, to philanthropy? But how many more are there in the hedge funds, in the banks, in a variety of other places who on the basis of speculation literally make millions of dollars that it would take a century or two for the average person ever to make. I would like to see those lists. And they shouldn't be that difficult to produce. And I think public pressure might have also some effect, not only in terms of moving towards more systematic international coordination and regulation, but also to pressure some of those people to give some of it back, back to society.

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BRZEZINSKI: But unfortunately, there is an even larger number of people who massively enrich themselves over the last decade, incredibly so, to the degree that we now have this highly disproportionate social divisions between the rich and the poor. And I think they should be made known publicly. Public pressure, public condemnation, public shame can be very effective…I think public disclosure by the mass media could go a long way towards a social awakening that's responsible and constructive in its effects and doesn't produce stupid counterproductive witch hunt.

Good grief!

Publishing lists of the rich so the non-rich or less rich can shame them publicly?

Using the "mass media" for a "social awakening"?

Brzezinski can't be serious.

He calls for a constructive "pressuring" of the rich to hand over their earnings. He doesn't want a "stupid counterproductive witch hunt."

Brzezinski apparently doesn't see that his crazy idea would be exactly what he claims he doesn't want - a "stupid counterproductive witch hunt."

This class warfare stuff is escalating to dangerous levels, led by Obama himself, the class warrior-in-chief.

The Leftists are really going off the deep end.

They want to confiscate private property and they're not disguising their goal.

It's scary.

This is most definitely not what democracy looks like.

"Property is theft!"

This is war.