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U.S. Penalizes Ukraine for Abetting 'Piracy'
The Politech mailing list has a note and follow-up on new trade restrictions levied against Ukraine, since they haven't complied with the U.S.'s demand for 'an
optical media licensing regime.' John Gilmore's response puts the issue in perspective. Update: 01/03 23:08 GMT by M : The RIAA has a press release about the trade penalties and response to Gilmore.
Skipping to the bottom, we see the phrase "...in short, we'll be living in a POLICE STATE."
In short, that's the sign that you can pretty much disregard anything he says. His tin foil is strapped too tightly to his head.
John Gilmore knows whereof he speaks. You clearly don't.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I find it fascinating that people such as yourself can only see evil in the United States and our elected leaders.
America hated all around the world? Or is it just you? What I usually find is that the anti-America world is jealous of America. It's easy to hate when you have envy in your soul. Just think about it. America is just a little over 200 years old and it has eclipsed every country and culture since the dawn of man. Germans, Japanese, Italians, English and French have been on terra firma much longer than us "Arrogant Americans" but are any of them the world's one and only "Super Power"? Of course not, if they were, they would have never needed America to bail them out at different points in recent history.
Don't worry, the Bush family understands that America is hated by evil, envious factions, that is why the current President Bush is pounding the stuffing out of one terrorist regime and preparing a giant can of whoop ass for Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia and possibly the PLO. That hatred is bred from resentment of our success and will be eliminated by the products of our success.
"Boo-hoo....I don't understand why these people are so mad at us...I don't understand why they would blow up our landmarks..."
I really hope you are not an American and just one of the envious little foreign twits mentioned above. If you are an American, I would like you to walk around my neighborhood in lower Manhattan spouting that line. I think seeing the faces of my fellow grieving neighbors would do your childish heart some good as you look at the giant hole in our skyline. Blaming America for the 9/11 atrocity is the equivalent of saying a woman deserved to raped because of what she wore.
Do you think that 3,000+ Americans and people from 80 different countries deserved to die at the hands of 19 rich, spoiled, Islamic brats lead by a multimillionaire turban wearing whack job? That these well off, well educated middle class men really attacked America because we persecuted them by allowing them to drink alcohol, visit strip clubs and fly first class in our country even though some were here on expired visas. It wasn't a landmark that was attacked, JERK , it was people.
But count your lucky stars that Slashdot is in America so small minded, hateful, little twits, such as yourself, can spout off any sort of anti-American nonsense you want with the only retaliation against you being called a small minded, hateful, little twit.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Learn the correct lessons? The USA has learned who and who are not our friends. Hopefully, as US citizens, we will recognize that our tax dollars should not be sent as foreign aid to countries where the population feels that we got what we deserved. If you don't like our policies, feel free not to benefit from the fruits of our labor and the products of our industries. I would hate for you to compromise your stance by doing so.
Its very simple, if you are not with us, you are against us in this war against terrorism. There is no middle ground. No sort of mental gymnastics will justify the attack. You cannot understand the motives of those that attacked the US and still be our ally. This was terrorism on a civilian population not a justified military target. These were not poor, disenfranished individuals that attacked America but middle class, spoiled, evil, Islam perverting brats. The only ideology in their plan was their pure hatred for America and Israel and the Judeo/Christian values we hold dear.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
The US think they are the "world police" and can shape the world just like they want it.
To paraphrase a stand-up comedian I heard once:
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And for that matter, so what if the US wants to shape the rest of the world in its own image? That's traditionally been the right of the victor in any competition for cultural superiority. Rome had it; the Greeks had it; the Brits had it. Simply because the US is only a de facto empire and not de jure, that doesn't mean that we haven't earned the right to do some nation-building.
I can hear your snivelling, silly reply already: "Who says your system is any better than ours?" We do. The 280 million citizens of the best nation on earth, governed by the best system devised yet -- representative democracy. The day we told Triple George to go pound sand was the first step towards achieving that right. November 9, 1989 sealed it when we all heard the death-rattle of our other competitor for cultural supremacy. Now Marxist-Leninism has been consigned to history's fetid dung heap and we can all rejoice that the better of the two systems did indeed triumph.
I do not support mr.Laden [sic] nor mr.Bush [sic].
Congratulations on your neutrality. Ever heard the old axiom, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"?
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They that would sacrifice their