People don't understand what entrapment is. It's not an undercover cop going "Hey look, there's a nice gold watch over here that someone left, maybe you should take it." and then arresting you when you do. It's not illegal to provide an opportunity and then catch the criminal in the act. It IS illegal to say "Hey, go steal that guy's gold watch or I'll kill your whole family."
I know. What would happen to our democracy if corporations spent time publicly protesting instead of handing out bribes? This is our democracy: where legislation is bought and paid for, just like our founding fathers intended. These companies shouldn't be out raising public awareness, in an attempt to inform the public about the issues. An informed public is no part of a working democracy. These companies should be in back rooms, where they belong, throwing as much money as it takes at congressmen to get what they want. Ah... Democracy.
You need n dollars to run your company. x dollars come from government subsidy. "A fraction" can still be a significant amount (but usually in English it means less than 1/2). You will still need n-x dollars in donations. Not having x, and not getting n-x in donations are both serious issues because that will put you below n. What's so hard to understand?
The US is not filled with terrorists at every corner, just waiting for us to relax airport security so they have a chance to blow up as many Americans as possible. You've fallen into the fear.
Ignoring the fact that there are still ways to get a bomb past security despite these scanners, here's a list of places where you could kill more people, with less security, by blowing up a bomb there instead of on a plane:
Pro Sports Event
Mall
Large classroom auditorium
Popular (i.e. rivalry) High School Sports Event
Concerts
Conventions
etc...
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in these places? Oh yeah, because the number of terrorists in America willing and able to blow themselves up in one of these locations is so incredibly small that we are actively killing more Americans using this technology than they could ever hope to achieve.
- To list or precisely define rights, is to limit them (to those explicitly mentioned). Therefore no Bill of Rights please! (again, I can see some merit in this argument - the rights that are important today might not be important in the future, or rights we haven't even thought of today might become relevant, so if your Bill of Rights is difficult to amend it may become 'out of date' rather quickly)
Well the Ninth Amendment is supposed to protect us Americans against that but politicians and political shills often find it more convenient to ignore that:) ("You have no constitutional right to _blank_ so the government can _blank_ you hard in the _blank_ any time they want")
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See the difference? Read up on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
I know. What would happen to our democracy if corporations spent time publicly protesting instead of handing out bribes? This is our democracy: where legislation is bought and paid for, just like our founding fathers intended. These companies shouldn't be out raising public awareness, in an attempt to inform the public about the issues. An informed public is no part of a working democracy. These companies should be in back rooms, where they belong, throwing as much money as it takes at congressmen to get what they want. Ah... Democracy.
Can't it be both?
You need n dollars to run your company. x dollars come from government subsidy. "A fraction" can still be a significant amount (but usually in English it means less than 1/2). You will still need n-x dollars in donations. Not having x, and not getting n-x in donations are both serious issues because that will put you below n. What's so hard to understand?
I was halfway through the summary before I realized which CA they were talking about....
I agree with you 100%
Walk up to a white person, call him a n*gger. Walk up to a black person, call him the same. See which one gets you punched in the face.
The US is not filled with terrorists at every corner, just waiting for us to relax airport security so they have a chance to blow up as many Americans as possible. You've fallen into the fear.
Ignoring the fact that there are still ways to get a bomb past security despite these scanners, here's a list of places where you could kill more people, with less security, by blowing up a bomb there instead of on a plane:
Pro Sports Event
Mall
Large classroom auditorium
Popular (i.e. rivalry) High School Sports Event
Concerts
Conventions
etc...
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in these places? Oh yeah, because the number of terrorists in America willing and able to blow themselves up in one of these locations is so incredibly small that we are actively killing more Americans using this technology than they could ever hope to achieve.
Oblig: XKCD
- To list or precisely define rights, is to limit them (to those explicitly mentioned). Therefore no Bill of Rights please! (again, I can see some merit in this argument - the rights that are important today might not be important in the future, or rights we haven't even thought of today might become relevant, so if your Bill of Rights is difficult to amend it may become 'out of date' rather quickly)
Well the Ninth Amendment is supposed to protect us Americans against that but politicians and political shills often find it more convenient to ignore that :) ("You have no constitutional right to _blank_ so the government can _blank_ you hard in the _blank_ any time they want")
I just came here to post this. I'll. just post a link instead: Bright Futures