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1984 Comes To Boston
walmass writes "In preparation for the DNC in Boston, 75 cameras monitored by the Federal government will be operating around the downtown Boston location. There are also an unspecified number of state police cameras, and 100 cameras owned by the Metro Boston Transit Authority. Quote: 'And it's here to stay: Boston police say the 30 or so cameras installed for the convention will be used throughout the city once the event is over. "We own them now," said police Superintendent Robert Dunford. "We're certainly not going to put them in a closet."'"
a nation full of hatred towards Americans and the ultimate goal of killing Americans
There is no such fucking thing. That's baseless hyperbole used to sucker you twits into supporting the war. Everyone does things for a reason. Everyone wants something. Even terrorists have demands. It's very nice to be able to simplify politics down to a children's book level. But it isn't simple. The Iraqi people are people. They have needs and desires. They would like this to happen or that to happen. They would like jobs, and goodies, and reasonable prices, and many of the same things you like. Even Saddam Hussein is a person. You can have whatever opinion you want of him, maybe he's insane, maybe he's been an asshole, maybe he's been murderous tyrant, but I will not grant you that he's a two dimensional caricature of anti-American hatred, because that's just propaganda.
I'm curious, do you apply the same principles in your day to day life when you run into a disagreement? If a restaurant puts the wrong kind of dressing on your salad, do you just not even bother "YAPPING" at the server because he probably won't give you the free salad you deserve? Do you just walk out of the restaurant with your salad and without paying? Is that how you solve disagreements? Selfish doesn't even begin to cover it. Sometimes you have to make some concessions, even if it's really, really distasteful and you don't want to. I can't remember the last time the USA gave favourable concessions to anyone in a negotiating process. You may have the most powerful military in the world, but that doesn't make it right to demand that every disagreement in the world be solved your way.
Oh, and congratulations on your "lasting peace" in both Afghanistan and Iraq, I hear that's working out really well.
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