> Nanotech is just a tool, like anything else, and can be used for good or evil. Since people are, mostly, good...
Give everyone in the world a button that can kill everyone in the world. That button is just a tool, but even if most people are inherently good (which is debatable), kiss your cheeks goodbye.
> They are getting off lightly compared to the pain and injustice they inflicted.
"They" (the illegally detained people in Guatamalla) are not the people who flew a plane into a couple of your corporate buildings. Those people are dead. These detainees have not even been given a trial so no one who claims to believe in the USA's ideals of 'justice' can say that these people are guilty.
> If they want those concerns addressed they should talk to us about them.
This is either an extremely sarcastic joke, or you are not familiar with your country's track-record when it gomes to dealing with foreign countries. "Talking" to the USA is possibly the worst thing that a nation can do to try to get them to stop doing something... it shows that you're not in complete obedience.
I can't give you the specific details on this example but I do remember hearing on the news a couple days after the attack on the WTC that a Saudi prince offered New York a million dollars if it would meet and talk rationally about reforming its policies in the middle east. Mayor Julliani refused.
another excellent example is what your country did to Nicaragua. The US was attacking this country and funding militant groups in the country in their efforts. Nicaragua was actually pretty clever here - they did not ask the United States to "please stop terrorizing and killing us" because they saw what happens to other nations when they do this. They brought their case to the United Nations.
The World Court declared that the United States was guilty of War Crimes in this case and ordered them to pay reperations. The US ignored the ruling and stepped up the bombing, eventually killing tens to hundreds of thousands of people.
Outside of the United States, your country is well known to be the leading source of terrorist attacks and a huge supporter of terrorists. I implore you to research this yourself and not disregard it with an idiotic statement like "we're jealous of your freedom".
Look up talks or texts by Noam Chomsky (http://chomsky.info), as an example - he is a great researcher and reporter on the US's foreign and domestic policies. A lot of "right-wing" people claim that he just outright lies about most of his facts, but that's just a cowardly way to disregard the truth. If he was a perpetual liar in his thousands of speeches and over 50 books he would not have been kept on as a professor at MIT for the past 30-40 years.
> We'll be living in a much better world when OBL and Mullah Omar are seen hanging from lightposts in downtown Kabul.
This type of logic does not always work. History has shown us that when a man has nothing left, brutally displaying the corpse of someone who was caught will not deter them from trying the same.
Don't misinterpret me as a "Saddam sympithiser" or someone who in any ways is justifying the death of 3,000+ civilians during the '9/11' attacks. I believe that the perpretrators should be hunted down (rationally), put on trial, and, if found guilty, punished to the full extend that you desire.
Rest assured though that no matter how much money you pump into wars on concepts or innatimate ideas, and no matter how many rights your country takes away from it's own citizens, you will continue to face these types of attacks and related problems as long as you stubbornly refuse to analyze or deal with the "motive" of these attacks.
Not to sound like a radical but here's my radical statement du jour:
We've got to open our eyes and see what's going on here and act on the issue... now.
There is no one looking out for the interests of the poor (everyone who's not rich (ie most of us)).
The decision makers such as the management and CEOs of these companies (AKA the top 1%) are not interested in making us prosperous. They are solely interested in increasing their own financial status.
Every business in the capitalist system's main and sole goal is to make money, at whatever cost.
Bill Gates' personal fortune is the equivallent to 40-50% of the poorest people in the USA combined.
Political leaders and parties are being purchased and financed by corporations so they'll look the other way when they break the law or create new legislation to help these corporations out, usually at the cost of the poor (again, us).
The trade unions and labour laws that do exist are being perpetually undermined and stripped away by major corporations and the politicians in their pockets.
The wealth gap between the Rich and the rest of us is widening every day. The rise of temp agencies and shipping jobs offshores have made increasing fortunes for corporations while the workers are working more with more responsibilities and higher work-place risks with lower and lower wages and protections.
Take a look outside the mega-corporation friendly US commercial press for your information, read the works of people studying social issues from a non-economical (eg your company makes money == good) standpoint, such as Noam Chomsky (MIT Professor) and find out what's really going on here.
Yeah go ahead and call me a stupid communist if you want... but you've seen the trend going on now - what do you think is going to happen? Who's standing up for you? Don't complain when you discover that CEOs and management of multi-billino dollar corporations don't give a damn about you.
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> Nanotech is just a tool, like anything else, and can be used for good or evil. Since people are, mostly, good...
Give everyone in the world a button that can kill everyone in the world. That button is just a tool, but even if most people are inherently good (which is debatable), kiss your cheeks goodbye.
> They are getting off lightly compared to the pain and injustice they inflicted.
"They" (the illegally detained people in Guatamalla) are not the people who flew a plane into a couple of your corporate buildings. Those people are dead. These detainees have not even been given a trial so no one who claims to believe in the USA's ideals of 'justice' can say that these people are guilty.
> If they want those concerns addressed they should talk to us about them.
This is either an extremely sarcastic joke, or you are not familiar with your country's track-record when it gomes to dealing with foreign countries. "Talking" to the USA is possibly the worst thing that a nation can do to try to get them to stop doing something... it shows that you're not in complete obedience.
I can't give you the specific details on this example but I do remember hearing on the news a couple days after the attack on the WTC that a Saudi prince offered New York a million dollars if it would meet and talk rationally about reforming its policies in the middle east. Mayor Julliani refused.
another excellent example is what your country did to Nicaragua. The US was attacking this country and funding militant groups in the country in their efforts. Nicaragua was actually pretty clever here - they did not ask the United States to "please stop terrorizing and killing us" because they saw what happens to other nations when they do this. They brought their case to the United Nations.
The World Court declared that the United States was guilty of War Crimes in this case and ordered them to pay reperations. The US ignored the ruling and stepped up the bombing, eventually killing tens to hundreds of thousands of people.
Outside of the United States, your country is well known to be the leading source of terrorist attacks and a huge supporter of terrorists. I implore you to research this yourself and not disregard it with an idiotic statement like "we're jealous of your freedom".
Look up talks or texts by Noam Chomsky (http://chomsky.info), as an example - he is a great researcher and reporter on the US's foreign and domestic policies. A lot of "right-wing" people claim that he just outright lies about most of his facts, but that's just a cowardly way to disregard the truth. If he was a perpetual liar in his thousands of speeches and over 50 books he would not have been kept on as a professor at MIT for the past 30-40 years.
> We'll be living in a much better world when OBL and Mullah Omar are seen hanging from lightposts in downtown Kabul.
This type of logic does not always work. History has shown us that when a man has nothing left, brutally displaying the corpse of someone who was caught will not deter them from trying the same.
Don't misinterpret me as a "Saddam sympithiser" or someone who in any ways is justifying the death of 3,000+ civilians during the '9/11' attacks. I believe that the perpretrators should be hunted down (rationally), put on trial, and, if found guilty, punished to the full extend that you desire.
Rest assured though that no matter how much money you pump into wars on concepts or innatimate ideas, and no matter how many rights your country takes away from it's own citizens, you will continue to face these types of attacks and related problems as long as you stubbornly refuse to analyze or deal with the "motive" of these attacks.
Not to sound like a radical but here's my radical statement du jour:
We've got to open our eyes and see what's going on here and act on the issue... now.
There is no one looking out for the interests of the poor (everyone who's not rich (ie most of us)).
The decision makers such as the management and CEOs of these companies (AKA the top 1%) are not interested in making us prosperous. They are solely interested in increasing their own financial status.
Every business in the capitalist system's main and sole goal is to make money, at whatever cost.
Bill Gates' personal fortune is the equivallent to 40-50% of the poorest people in the USA combined.
Political leaders and parties are being purchased and financed by corporations so they'll look the other way when they break the law or create new legislation to help these corporations out, usually at the cost of the poor (again, us).
The trade unions and labour laws that do exist are being perpetually undermined and stripped away by major corporations and the politicians in their pockets.
The wealth gap between the Rich and the rest of us is widening every day. The rise of temp agencies and shipping jobs offshores have made increasing fortunes for corporations while the workers are working more with more responsibilities and higher work-place risks with lower and lower wages and protections.
Take a look outside the mega-corporation friendly US commercial press for your information, read the works of people studying social issues from a non-economical (eg your company makes money == good) standpoint, such as Noam Chomsky (MIT Professor) and find out what's really going on here.
Yeah go ahead and call me a stupid communist if you want... but you've seen the trend going on now - what do you think is going to happen? Who's standing up for you? Don't complain when you discover that CEOs and management of multi-billino dollar corporations don't give a damn about you.