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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
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> 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
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> 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,
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
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
taker
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On 27-Dec-03, at 10:31 PM, Tyler Durden wrote:
> "As long as truth is no defense against "hate speech," and "hate
> speech" includes
> things which clearly don't involve anyone hating anyone else, "hate
> speech" is simply
> a code phrase for suppre
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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
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>> 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 be
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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 hat
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm
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Michael
"Smithers this is ridiculous, this is America. Justice should favour
the rich!"
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> 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
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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,
d
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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 ju
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>> 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
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> Ah. I feel much better now. Thank you for sparing me the rest of your
> drivel from now on...
>
Enlighten me: Why is Castro a bad guy? Because he tries to hold onto
power? Well, look around you have it everywhere.
Because he doesn't submit to the
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> 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 t
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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 forei
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> 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
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On 19-Dec-03, at 2:35 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
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> 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 Sovie
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> 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 nationa
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On 18-Dec-03, at 9:34 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
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> 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 Persia
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> 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
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> 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 g
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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
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).
James A. Donald wrote:
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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.
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> 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,
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 t
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On 17-Dec-03, at 5:43 PM, Jim Dixon wrote:
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>> 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 co
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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
>> cour
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 loc
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 exa
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.
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,
annihilat
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
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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
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