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DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance
js7a writes "Bruce Simpson of New Zealand, the designer of a homebrew cruise missile as reported here, has been left destitute by hastily-imposed restrictions of his national authorities, and is now offering his services to any non-terrorist willing to provide room, board, travel, expenses, and a negotiated rate. There is no question that cruise missile, UAV, bio-warfare, chemical weapons technology, and probably nuclear technologies will all continue to fall in cost significantly for the foreseeable future."
do you seriously not care that he was building a cannon for saddam hussein, a man who has used chemical weapons against his own citizens, launched wars at the drop of a hat and sworn to eliminate several of his neighbors?
im not saying that the US or its current president are perfect, but thats not really a rationale for supporting a weapons scientist. if Bull chose to make wepons for saddam hussein, he should have know the consequenses of his actions, both for himself and millions of innocent civilians who would have been affected by his weapons.
i think the real moral of this story is dont become a weapons scientist for saddam hussein or any other insane dictator. what Bull did was irresponsible at best and, at worst, worthy of a war criminal. i wonder if you would feel the same way had a giant cannon been pointed at your house.
I guess he had to resort to more criminal behavior when he cannot supply for his family or feed himself. When you see $45 on the counter and consider buying CDRs to burn or mouths to feed, I guess he knew what he had to do. It's definitely not the right thing to do, but when you're starving, you usually tend to do the wrong thing. Why do you think people rob gas stations to steal a measley $20? Usually it's to buy alcohol or supply an unhealthy addiction. Starvation can be an addiction.
Is there a difference between the mossad and the CIA? I mean there are mossad agents torturing iraqi prisoners in US occupied prisons.
evil is as evil does
The so called isrealies started mordern terrorism.
in the early fifties they bombed so many of the british occupational forces, they left.
The United States uses terror as a daily routine.
Remember Bushes your either with us or agianst us over Iraq. Firing Cruse missles into Pakistan to get them to cease nuclear arms development a few years back. The Patriot Act. Macartheyism. JFK theatening "mutual nuclear annialation" during Cuban missile crises. I could go all day.
Dont belive everything the TV tells you.
Just another impersonal enemy created to keep us in line
Yesterday Communist today terrorist
Sorry about the anonymous post, I just got to heated
hunter
The real moral of the story is, if you're a ballistics expert, A) don't tick off your funders, B) don't tick off Israel, and C) learn to take a hint.
If you're anyone on this planet, ballistics expert or not, it's just a bad idea to piss off Israel. It is the one country on the planet that the USA is afraid of.
To disagree with Israel's politics, is to forever brand yourself as an anti-semite.
LK
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