Re: US Finally Kills The 2nd Ammendment

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9-Jan-04, at 8:37 PM, Greg Broiles wrote: Further appeals to Congress and the states are no longer a sure bet. The soap box and the ballot box have been throughly tried, is it now time to get out the ammo box? You're forgetting the jury

Re: Sources and Sinks

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is why the Tax Freedom Day approach is more useful. Tax freedom day is of course the day when the average American or Brit or whatever has stopped working for the government and has the rest of his income for himself. For most years, this

Re: Sources and Sinks

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ever heard of toll roads? Yes, those things you drive on and pay for their use. They work quite well in many of the socialist European countries so they ought to work in the land of the free too. Yes, the way this usually works is that the

Statement on H.R. 2417

2004-01-02 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031213-3.html Statement on H.R. 2417 Statement by the President Today, I have signed into law H.R. 2417, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. The Act authorizes funding for

Brazilians reciprocate on US travel policy

2004-01-02 Thread Michael Kalus
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1073024337.asp SAO PAULO - Brazilian police photographed and fingerprinted all arriving Americans on Thursday - tit-for-tat for a similar US program that begins next week. In all, 230 American citizens were thus identified Thursday at

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Kalus
Major Variola (ret) wrote: TV stations which exploit the aetherial commons are a tricky case. The government licensors have to be very careful not to induce censorship. Yet, the FCC has guidelines what can and cannot be aired. Thus no free speech as you claim it to be. Michael

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Kalus
Tim May wrote: For every negro welfare momma who took money for the past number of years, tell her to pay it all back, with compounded interest, or face time in a labor camp to repay what she stole. And if she cannot, or will not, which is ovewhelmingly likely, harvest her organs (if any

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Kalus
Major Variola (ret) wrote: TV stations which exploit the aetherial commons are a tricky case. The government licensors have to be very careful not to induce censorship. Yet, the FCC has guidelines what can and cannot be aired. Thus no free speech as you claim it to be. Michael

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Dec-03, at 9:53 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: All symbols that are related to Nazism. One of the reasons (if not the reason) why they banned Wolfenstein 3D. Interesting. So even if the swatsika is protrayed as a bad thing (to the point of

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-27 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Dec-03, at 9:53 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: All symbols that are related to Nazism. One of the reasons (if not the reason) why they banned Wolfenstein 3D. Interesting. So even if the swatsika is protrayed as a bad thing (to the point of

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Dec-03, at 12:37 PM, Eric Cordian wrote: A Berlin criminal court sentenced 38-year-old Michael Regener to 40 months in prison after a six-month trial that tested the boundaries of free expression in a nation with strict laws against hate

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The German law clearly defines what is hate speech. It is not an easy task as you can see in a six month trial. Germany, or any State that restricts words or thought, needs a regime change with extreme prejudice. Then I guess you better

Play it again Donald...

2003-12-26 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 .. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm - -- Michael Smithers this is ridiculous, this is America. Justice should favour the rich! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.3

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Dec-03, at 12:37 PM, Eric Cordian wrote: A Berlin criminal court sentenced 38-year-old Michael Regener to 40 months in prison after a six-month trial that tested the boundaries of free expression in a nation with strict laws against hate

Re: I am anti war. You lot support Saddam

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It really is that they hate us for our (relative) freedom. Believe it or not, but most people do not care about what way you live. The only way they know about your freedom by watching american TV. So blame it on yourself. I can see that on

Play it again Donald...

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm - -- Michael Smithers this is ridiculous, this is America. Justice should favour the rich! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.3

Re: I am anti war. You lot support Saddam

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It really is that they hate us for our (relative) freedom. Believe it or not, but most people do not care about what way you live. The only way they know about your freedom by watching american TV. So blame it on yourself. I can see that on

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-Dec-03, at 10:58 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- James A. Donald: I am anti war. You lot are pro Saddam. Michael Kalus Why. Because we OPPOSED the war on Saddam? Because you have been justifying his actions, denying his crimes

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-Dec-03, at 8:41 PM, James A. Donald wrote: I am anti war. You lot are pro Saddam. Why. Because we OPPOSED the war on Saddam? That's an interresting logic you have here: I am against the war, unless of course, it is initiated by lies,

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know who you are referring too, but that comment is amusing, because it is exactly the kind of lambaste broadside that one hears on Faux news channel all the time. Anyway, I say that Saddam has human rights, just like everyone else, which

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-21 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know who you are referring too, but that comment is amusing, because it is exactly the kind of lambaste broadside that one hears on Faux news channel all the time. Anyway, I say that Saddam has human rights, just like everyone else, which

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-21 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-Dec-03, at 8:41 PM, James A. Donald wrote: I am anti war. You lot are pro Saddam. Why. Because we OPPOSED the war on Saddam? That's an interresting logic you have here: I am against the war, unless of course, it is initiated by lies,

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-21 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Bill Stuart pointed out, this is not an American war. This is a war (or so the U.S. claims) based on alleged violation of an agreement between Iraq and the UN. It seems to me that American Courts or American Tribunals have no authority to

Indications Saddam Was Not in Hiding But a Captive

2003-12-21 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=743 Indications Saddam Was Not in Hiding But a Captive DEBKAfile Special Report December 14, 2003, 6:55 PM (GMT+02:00) A number of questions are raised by the incredibly bedraggled, tired and crushed

Re: the Kuwait issue is not associated with America

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-Dec-03, at 1:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what your motivation is for wanting to rewrite history, but that isn't what Glaspie said. I am guessing here that he just wants to believe that the US is acting in their foreign

Re: the Kuwait issue is not associated with America

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-Dec-03, at 1:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what your motivation is for wanting to rewrite history, but that isn't what Glaspie said. I am guessing here that he just wants to believe that the US is acting in their foreign

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Dec-03, at 11:55 AM, ken wrote: Nomen Nescio wrote: Let's face it: not even the Nazi war criminals were treated in the way Saddam has been treated. Eh? And have you heard about the Soviet Union? I'll take it then that the US has

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The US has global hegemony because in reality its policies are reasonable, because it isn't worth anyone's while to try to oppose it. that I would like to oppose. It is rather the fact that in the past it wasn't very feasible. The world is

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 National Sovereignty, like the divine right of kings, just is not taken seriously any more, and the only people weeping big salt tears about its passing are those who enthusiastically hailed all the Soviet violations of it as wars of national

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The west, including the US traded and continues to trade heavily with Castro, yet somehow that does not lead you to believe they think Castro a good guy, nor does it lead you to believe they are actively supporting him. I don't think Castro is a

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-Dec-03, at 9:34 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 18 Dec 2003 at 15:42, Michael Kalus wrote: By January 1984, /The Washington Post/ was reporting that the United States had told friendly nations in the Persian Gulf that the defeat

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Dec-03, at 2:35 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 18 Dec 2003 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: Yet, I shed and continue to shed tears for a race of people that refuses to respect the rights of men and their nations. Like the Soviets. Or

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This green light story is a commie lie (originally a Baathist lie, but these days mostly repeated by commies) I take it then that the heroic rescue of Private Jessica Lynch is also the truth, while the story about the use of excessive (and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Dec-03, at 11:55 AM, ken wrote: Nomen Nescio wrote: Let's face it: not even the Nazi war criminals were treated in the way Saddam has been treated. Eh? And have you heard about the Soviet Union? I'll take it then that the US has

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The US has global hegemony because in reality its policies are reasonable, because it isn't worth anyone's while to try to oppose it. that I would like to oppose. It is rather the fact that in the past it wasn't very feasible. The world is

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This green light story is a commie lie (originally a Baathist lie, but these days mostly repeated by commies) I take it then that the heroic rescue of Private Jessica Lynch is also the truth, while the story about the use of excessive (and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The west, including the US traded and continues to trade heavily with Castro, yet somehow that does not lead you to believe they think Castro a good guy, nor does it lead you to believe they are actively supporting him. I don't think Castro is a

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18-Dec-03, at 9:34 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 18 Dec 2003 at 15:42, Michael Kalus wrote: By January 1984, /The Washington Post/ was reporting that the United States had told friendly nations in the Persian Gulf that the defeat

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 National Sovereignty, like the divine right of kings, just is not taken seriously any more, and the only people weeping big salt tears about its passing are those who enthusiastically hailed all the Soviet violations of it as wars of national

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-Dec-03, at 2:35 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 18 Dec 2003 at 21:57, J.A. Terranson wrote: Yet, I shed and continue to shed tears for a race of people that refuses to respect the rights of men and their nations. Like the Soviets. Or

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Kalus
James A. Donald wrote: -- On 17 Dec 2003 at 22:54, Michael Kalus wrote: No, but it is very interresting that all of this didn't matter while Saddam was the good guy for our causes (and by that I mean the Western world general). You are making up your own history. Am I? The west

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, James A. Donald wrote: On 17 Dec 2003 at 22:54, Michael Kalus wrote: No, but it is very interresting that all of this didn't matter while Saddam was the good guy for our causes (and by that I mean the Western world general). You are making up

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, and countless Iraqi refugees all report similar stories of widespread torture and murder. Is it your position that these are all propagandists? Dismissing as propaganda any reports that oppose your argument,

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Kalus
James A. Donald wrote: -- On 17 Dec 2003 at 22:54, Michael Kalus wrote: No, but it is very interresting that all of this didn't matter while Saddam was the good guy for our causes (and by that I mean the Western world general). You are making up your own history. Am I? The west

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, James A. Donald wrote: On 17 Dec 2003 at 22:54, Michael Kalus wrote: No, but it is very interresting that all of this didn't matter while Saddam was the good guy for our causes (and by that I mean the Western world general). You are making up

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Tyler Durden wrote: Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? M.

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
James A. Donald wrote: Firstly, the US army has not violated the Geneva convention: Saddam was eligible for being shot on sight. That might have been. But he was not, and he is shown and paraded on TV (and don't tell me he wasn't because showing a man in his state, showing how he gets

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? You have omitted a bit. A better question might be: how would you have felt if you had looted an entire country for 30 years, invaded two others,

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: If the prisoners at Guantanamo are POWs, why should they be charged with crimes? It is no crime to be an enemy soldier. According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. However, customary practice is to lock POWs up until

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Anatoly Vorobey wrote: If I had record like Saddam's on me? Gee, I'd be real happy I wasn't shot on the spot, or maybe cruelly tortured and then shot, the way I'd behaved to people I'd captured. Or maybe torn into pieces by a shrieking mob. Instead of doing any of that, they check my teeth and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:23 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: Damn lucky, to be honest. No I did not omit this little bit. This is not the question. Oh but it is. Ah? Why? Guilt or not guilt is not (supposely) decided when captured but in a court of law. You

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:43 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. I can only interpret this as your saying that the US Government's judgement in this issue is correct,

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? You have omitted a bit. A better question might be: how would you have felt if you had looted an entire country for 30 years, invaded two others,

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world watching? M.

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
James A. Donald wrote: Firstly, the US army has not violated the Geneva convention: Saddam was eligible for being shot on sight. That might have been. But he was not, and he is shown and paraded on TV (and don't tell me he wasn't because showing a man in his state, showing how he gets

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:23 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: Damn lucky, to be honest. No I did not omit this little bit. This is not the question. Oh but it is. Ah? Why? Guilt or not guilt is not (supposely) decided when captured but in a court of law. You

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-Dec-03, at 5:43 PM, Jim Dixon wrote: According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. I can only interpret this as your saying that the US Government's judgement in this issue is correct,

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Jim Dixon wrote: If the prisoners at Guantanamo are POWs, why should they be charged with crimes? It is no crime to be an enemy soldier. According to the US Government though they are not soldiers. They are unlawful enemy combattants. However, customary practice is to lock POWs up until

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Anatoly Vorobey wrote: If I had record like Saddam's on me? Gee, I'd be real happy I wasn't shot on the spot, or maybe cruelly tortured and then shot, the way I'd behaved to people I'd captured. Or maybe torn into pieces by a shrieking mob. Instead of doing any of that, they check my teeth and

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Michael Kalus
Tyler Durden wrote: Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided. At least here in NYC

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Dec-03, at 11:10 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: Just a few hundred dead federal goons, spread over a relatively short period (~6 months), where the attacks were obviously coordinated, made against

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Kalus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Dec-03, at 11:10 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: Just a few hundred dead federal goons, spread over a relatively short period (~6 months), where the attacks were obviously coordinated, made against