to my continued astonishment I agree with Tim again. By the way, I read that wrongful conviction thing last night and thought its point about wrongful conviction being a more important issue than the death penalty was quite good.
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:10 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree man. > > I think in addition to new ideas in foreign policy we need new ideas > domestically. We need to roll back the intelligence apparatus that's been > built up, and we need to get most of the intelligence community out of > working internally. We need to end the war on drugs. We need to clean up > our criminal courts and prosecutions badly. > > Check out this report on wrongful convictions, scroll past the first page > of nonsense: > > http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_07_4_roberts.pdf > > Simply put, we cannot support the size and scope of the operations of our > government, nor should we. The safety net policies, corporate welfare, the > military industry, it's out of control. The number of laws on the books in > insane too. It's just a damned shame that most of the constituents can't > see beyond their own nose, beyond their immediate needs. They continue to > give us the same power seeking pandering fools. > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:40 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I think NATOs usefulness is at an end, but I think we need to be out of > > the > > > U.N as well. > > > > > > We spend far too much money on defense, and we aren't doing what would > be > > > necessary to win the war we still have going. We have compromised with > > the > > > Taliban, and are now trying to bring them into the government. Not > > because > > > they've moderated or modernized, but because it's easy. The results > will > > > be much like those of the Paris Accords. > > > > > > Bring our troops home. Secure our borders. Enough is enough. > > > > > > > Yes....YES.....YES!!!! > > > > The US was pissed after 9/11, so we were gonna drop some bombs...but we > > tried to keep our good-guy side by getting into nation building. We > weren't > > going to just bomb the shit out of afghanistan, we were gonna rebuild it > > and whatnot. > > > > We should enact a new foreign policy. Bring our troops home. Secure our > > border. You are free to do whatever anti-American bullshit you want in > your > > own country, but the SECOND you put America or Americans at risk, we are > > simply going to unleash bombs from the sky...drones and whatnot. With > > intent to kill. No rebuilding, none of that shit. Just death. > > > > I could live with that. The Bush doctrine of taking the fight to enemy > and > > pre-emptively trying to avoid another 9/11...is simply too costly, and > > turns us unfairly into the aggressor. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351224 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
