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DHS Tries to Safeguard Against Giant Monster Attack
KnightShift writes "Earlier this month the Department of Homeland Security halted the publication of the Monsterpocalypse Series 3: All Your Base Strategy Guide due to 'national security concerns.' In a statement on its website Privateer Press, which publishes the popular kaiju-inspired collectible miniatures game, reported that 'Homeland Security pulled the shipment for an intensive examination last week when it arrived in the United States. While no comment was made to the nature of the investigation, several crew members within Privateer Press believe the government became concerned over some of the more radical ideals espoused by several factions within the Monsterpocalypse game.' Privateer Press Chief Creative Officer Matt Wilson added that 'I am confident that the investigation's outcome will reaffirm the rights of free speech and protest of the radical environmental group Green Fury at the perceived devastation man is having on our planet as well as the freedom of people to practice religion without governmental oversight — even those religions which may very well bring forth the minions of the ancient Lords of Cthul.'"
My tax dollars are being used for the Department of Homeland Security to investigate subversive books? Is this a repeat from the 60s? Do they, in fact, have in their hand a list of known communist supporters? Seriously, the only nice thing I can say about the DHS is that I'm not getting all the government I'm paying for.
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C'mon, this seems like an obvious attempt by this company to call some attention to themselves by claiming DHS was investigating this "guide". The article is a press release from the company with no other corroboration this actually happened and what the extent of this was.
And of course, slashdot bought into it hook, line, and sinker because they are such anti-authority, anti-government poseurs. They just gave them some free advertising. Good job "editors".
A hold up of 30 minutes doesn't exist due to the fact that not everything is done by a single person. It more likely goes like this. Person A realizes that the marked weight doesn't match the weight of the package (or some other miscellaneous clerical error). Person A fills out a bunch of paper work and puts it in a queue to be processed by person B. Person B has a backlog, so anything going in takes a day or so to get processed. This is intentionally done by person B so that it doesn't ever look like he's not busy. If there's always a backlog, he much have enough work to do. So eventually person B gets around to processing the package, and filling out a bunch of other paper work. Person B then decides it's fine and puts it in person C's queue of things to be sent out. Person C eventually gets around to processing it, and filling out even more paper work. After which it continues on with shipping.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Strange, I'm a Christian and I don't see evidence in the Bible that Jesus ever bothered to cast demons out of _places_. My reading is he drove demons out from _people_.
Since they have so much time on their hands, maybe you could ask them to go feed the hungry, provide drinks to the thirsty, hospitality to strangers, care for the sick, or visit the imprisoned.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2025:34-46;&version=31;
Does anyone find it odd that Reagan managed to somehow thwart the Soviet Empire, with its vast and genuine spy networks, enormous weapons apparatus, all without either firing a shot or compromising the Constitution? Yet, somehow, we have to do that now against, a bunch of dudes with AK-47s and some Korans? There's far more people in the USA sympathetic to the ideas of communism than islam, and so if we didn't need to spy on ourselves against the commies and the russians, why should we need to do so now against a less sympathetic islam? Could it be that right wingers have forgotten that the central premise of Reagan's vision was that the cold war is a war that would be won based on having more freedom, and not less, and that the same lesson could just as easily be applied to Islam?
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