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Alaa Has Been Detained
ahmed saad writes "Alaa (read the slashdot interview) was detained yesterday for activism while in a protest to support Egyptian judges . He's one of the most well known Egyptian activists in human rights, free software (leading Egypt LUG) and free speech in Egypt and worldwide. The Egyptian regime is currently trying to suffocate any movements that are active against it's highly inhuman and dirty practices to keep holding power in Egypt yet are trying to fool the world about their support for democracy and free speech.
Please don't let that happen! Contact to the Egyptian embassy in your country and/or your country's embassy here in egypt, tell your congressmen and thanks in advance for your support!"
Every law that enacts a new police power that isn't objectively strictly needed to do basic law enforcement, every new agency, every new unneeded spending bill and especially fiat currency play into the hands of the tyrants and would-be tyrants
Your above quote has absolutely nothing to do with Socialism *or* Communism. Neither of these paradigms have anything to do with police powers or tyrants, they are economic paradigms.
Also, before you start your ranting, China != Communist. USSR != Communist. Nortk Korea != Communist. A true communist state would have democraticly elected officials. Democracy and Communism are not mutally exclusive. In fact should be said that you could *not* have a truely Communist state without a democraticly elected government, because there is no other way to ensure equal wealth distribution.
The problem with Communism is that in order to travese the void between a Capatilist or Fascist regieme to a Communist regieme, you have to go through a period of transisition about a generation long, whereby the government is *not* electe. This is because if there were proper elections everyone would just vote to go back to the old regieme, because the transitional period is inevitibly rough, and the populace as a whole never has a long term vision.
So, the challenge is to have some party who is powerful enough to lead a country through this period, but humble enough to step down at the end of it. So far in history this has never happened - the people who had good intentions at the beginning are either corrupted by power, or are overthrown by someone who is. It does not mean that the *end goal* of the system is invalid.
The Muslim fundamentalists are going to be pissed about this!
"The no-fly zones were illegal creations of the U.S. and Great Britain;"
I really couldn't care less when they dropped out, you intentionally amended the quote, in order to leave France out.
Since your quote addresses who created the NFZ's, you lied by omission.
"When said pilots are in Iraqi airspace illegally, no, it's not a threat to the U.S."
Again, where does this logic come from? Are they US planes and pilots? Explain how a threat to US planes and pilots isn't a threat to the US. Explain how their location has anything at all to do with this. Explain how something that can cause millions of dollars of damage and deaths of personnel isn't a threat.
And this time, "nu uh" won't do as an answer. Try to avoid "because I said so" and "I'm the mommy that's why" also, as they are simply variations of your current argument.