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Back in my day, we had a thing called...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)

Yeah...so how did Kent State work out for you?

Now-a-days we've delegated the shooting of simple un-armed protesters to the local police departments.

I appreciate the distinction between "we" and "the US." :D

Personally, I'm ready to surrender. About ten years ago I supported some of the stuff we did, and I'm sorry for my role in that. I have no intention of doing more of the same to make things worse under the guise of "We have to now because people are mad at us!" With any luck they will not be able to afford to get across the ocean with enough strength to hit most of us.

http://billstclair.com/blog/open_letter_of_conditional_surrender_in_the_war_on_terror.html

I am more than ready for the US to lose its immunity for the consequences of its actions.

And I'm also ready for those who want to profit from the silk road to bear the full expense of their own security, rather than distributing it onto the rest of us.

Yes it can.
Just visit http://billstclair.com/html-redirect.html with your no-script enabled to find out ( the redirection occurs after 5 secs ).

Just have to have the right HTML.

Lipid Leggin'

http://billstclair.com/DoingFreedom/000623/df.0600.fa.lipidleggin.html Written in 1978...scary and well worth reading (it's a short story, won't take long to read)

Don't write to your congresscritter Put down that pen! Close that word processing program! Forget all that happy crap you learned in civics class about sharing your views with your "representative." You don't have a representative any more. You merely have someone who thinks he or she is your "leader," unfettered by either your opinions or the Constitution.

Marx was wrong: religion isn't the opiate of the masses, in modern America, the drug that keeps us numb, dumb and well-behaved is a belief that we can still make a difference by politely voicing our views to our would-be rulers and owners.

Other quotes from the book, here.

http://www.billstclair.com/DoingFreedom/000623/df. 0600.fa.lipidleggin.html

Insurance companies just want more money, it has nothing to do with better coverage or reducing *your* costs.

http://www.billstclair.com/blogmax/

So you might ask, how come that you can find such damning data on a site called "gunowner.org" ? And how can they use them to support the idea that gun control = higher crimes ? Easy: they conflate homicides with suicides ! When you add suicides to homicides, you find fewer victims in the US than in other countries ! Ergo, gun control kills people, QED !

Americans conveniently overlook the fact that Europeans have chosen to be a bit more socialist in their economic policies in order to build kinder and gentler societies. Just compare the crime rates between the USA and Europe. The Europeans have largely succeeded.

pakistan's Chief Nuclear Scientist personally travelled, executed, and followed up on the nuclear weapons sales to rogue states like Iran, North Korea, and Libya.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4242771.stm - and I quote
"The US has called Dr Khan the "biggest proliferator" of nuclear technology."

Country-specific proliferation by pakistan.
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Selling to Iran
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/khan- iran.htm

Selling to Libya
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4228713.st m
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/khan- iran.htm

Selling to North Korea
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/khan- dprk.htm

Other states that are not yet CONFIRMED include Syria, Saudi Arabia.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/pakistan/k han.htm

In his startling televised confession Wednesday, Abdul Qadeer Khan insisted he acted without authorization in selling nuclear technology to other governments. A.Q. Khan admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. A.Q. Khan asked for clemency, but the Pakistani government made no public announcement about whether he is to be prosecuted. The confessed proliferation took place between 1989 and 2000, though it is suspected that proliferation activities to North Korea continued after that date. The network used to supply these activities is global in scope, stretching from Germany to Dubai and from China to South Asia, and involves numerous middlemen and suppliers.

Summary
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If you think that the chief scientist of pakistan could travel all over the world and SELL nuclear designs AND ENCASH the money AND SHIP the nuclear materials WITHOUT the permission of the government of pakistan, then the pakistanis are too stupid to be allowed to hold WMDs.

If the government of pakistan did allow the transfer of WMDs to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Libya, Syria, and North Korea, then they are too dangerous to be allowed to hold WMDs. (remember 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists were saudis, and ALL were muslims).

Either way pakistan will be disarmed. Its too much of a basket case to allow them to have WMDs.

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And as a dessert, let me finish by saying that the money for the 9/11 attack on WTC ($100,000) was transferred from Karachi (pakistan) to chief terrorist Mohammed Atta (saudi) by a certain ISI-trained Saeed Sheikh from Mohammed Khalid (kuwaiti). Saeed Sheikh was also responsible for the murder of Daniel Pearl cos Pearl had almost proven that the pakistani intelligence (ISI) was somewhat involved in WTC. Saeed Sheikh is currently in pakistani custody, but FBI/CIA are not allowed access to him. WHY would an "ally" not provide access to such a critically important terrorist ???? Khalid was caught in pakistan too and handed over to CIA but khalid is not pakistani and hence did not know the internals of the ISI involvement.

http://billstclair.com/911timeline/main/essaysaeed .html

Of course, your beloved pakistan is a "stauch ally". yeah fuck right!

Too bad it's Verizon. Oh well, more ethical companies will follow in their footsteps. When I was living in Tokyo two years ago, fiber to my apartment was $5/month on top of service. But DSL was 8Mbps, who cared to pay the extra?

Boycott of Verizon Communications, by Carl Bussjaeger

North American Samizdat - BOYCOTT VERIZON! Free Hunter!

End the War on Freedom - Verizon Must Die

Bob-

These sorts of word games are one of the most basic concepts in propaganda. It's like the whole apocryphal story about Bush bringing up 9/11 everytime Iraq was mentioned, and although he never specifically stated that the two were related, the end result was that most Americans thought the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. This may actually be true but I'll be skeptical since I don't have a link to back it up, but anecdotally it demonstrates the point well.

Most of them were Saudi citizens. This page lists the citizenship of all attackers that were on-board the planes, and it's fairly close to what I remember from various news reports.

The simplest explanation is the best one - US was attacked, thousands were murdered and the US decided it had to eliminate its most aggressive of enemies - namely old mad Sadd himself.

Letter to President Clinton on Iraq

Incidentally, according to this comspiracy-oriented web site, plans were under way to invade Ahghanistan well before 9/11 - in fact, even the Clinton administration was considering it seriously, and plans were so complete that when needed, they were just taken off the shelf (which is why the war was organized so quickly):

US PREPARING FOR A WAR WITH AFGHANISTAN BEFORE 9/11...