For instance, the fact that stockbrokers retain the shares and vote them on your behalf is control. It puts you into a state of complacency. 95% of individual investors never even read the proxy. How do you think the Murdochs got re-elected to the board of News Corp?
Perhaps you should burn your copy of Wikipedia. Courts interpret the Constitution and the Laws, and as such, are the only determinant of your rights. You certainly don't make them.
As for your repeated attempts to repeal the Bill of Rights on philosophical grounds, perhaps you should consider just what the laws would look like, and how much of them the courts would be protecting you from, were the 1st and 4th and 5th Amendments not there to tell them where the precise limits on governmental encroachment should be.
You may think you have rights you don't, but there's nothing written anywhere to back you up, so rights you think you should have are indistinguishable from rights you know you shouldn't have. I have the Bill of Rights and 200 years of court documents on my side. Therefore, I win.
There are ways to make the passengers irrelevant. They involve having enough buddies and weapons on the plane. That's easier to do when you're obliging whiners by not checking for no-fly names and weapons.
As for the gun-on-a-plane thing, no, a single bullet won't do much most of the time. But a bullet or three in the right spots will take any aircraft down. Loaded guns have no business being on commercial aircraft, even if they're in the hands of air marshals.
And the passengers on Flight 93 didn't stop the terrorists. They only stopped them from reaching the Pentagon. And if the underwear guy or the shoe guy hadn't been a couple of fuckups, we'd still be wondering how they got bombs on on those planes. Their tactic, by the way, wasn't novel. The use of small amounts of explosives is all over air-safety threat assessments pre-9/11. But we weren't doing Israeli-style security before 9/11, so we certainly weren't going to go farther than they do.
You need to learn what the word "absolutely" means.
You don't even have an absolute right to free speech.
You have a right to be on the public ways. You don't have a right to drive on them. There's plenty of court cases on this and none of them makes driving a right.
As for your opinion of whether I do or don't support the Bill of Rights: fuck you.
The fact that there are more people whining about security at airports than dying in hijackings is a good thing. Because back when it was the other way around, that shit was whack.
1. Driving is a privilege, not a right. 2. Welcome to the Interstate, it doesn't belong to you and it's not a national park. 3. Out west they've been doing this for decades looking for vehicles trafficking in illegal immigrants and illegal drugs. 4. Do you mind if we search your computer?
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Because with Assange, hypocrisy is a lifestyle.
You mean it translates to source counts on Google News.
The stories with the most active sources get on the front page.
But people who habitually read the news see them all anyway.
People who don't are noise in the democracy.
They control where the jobs go, what commodities cost, and where and what gets built.
That's more than enough.
For instance, the fact that stockbrokers retain the shares and vote them on your behalf is control. It puts you into a state of complacency. 95% of individual investors never even read the proxy. How do you think the Murdochs got re-elected to the board of News Corp?
We need a global democracy to combat this.
ST:TOS didn't do that. Which is why it's awesome.
SW 1-3 had to invent Midichlorians. Which is why it sucks.
With a new rocket and fuel depots, we can get to freakin' Pluto.
Perhaps you should burn your copy of Wikipedia. Courts interpret the Constitution and the Laws, and as such, are the only determinant of your rights. You certainly don't make them.
As for your repeated attempts to repeal the Bill of Rights on philosophical grounds, perhaps you should consider just what the laws would look like, and how much of them the courts would be protecting you from, were the 1st and 4th and 5th Amendments not there to tell them where the precise limits on governmental encroachment should be.
You may think you have rights you don't, but there's nothing written anywhere to back you up, so rights you think you should have are indistinguishable from rights you know you shouldn't have. I have the Bill of Rights and 200 years of court documents on my side. Therefore, I win.
Then vote to change it. And keep voting.
England's "representative government" has not been a democracy for the entire time it's been a parliament.
It helps not to open your letter to your congressman with "Hey! Asshole!"
>rape, pillage and murder with no consequences
The military tries and jails people for those things. They just don't want the locals doing it.
I thought it was just a little box with another copy of the Internet in it...
Would you tell us your name?
What is the sound of 1.33 billion people laughing their little yellow asses off?
There are ways to make the passengers irrelevant. They involve having enough buddies and weapons on the plane. That's easier to do when you're obliging whiners by not checking for no-fly names and weapons.
As for the gun-on-a-plane thing, no, a single bullet won't do much most of the time. But a bullet or three in the right spots will take any aircraft down. Loaded guns have no business being on commercial aircraft, even if they're in the hands of air marshals.
And the passengers on Flight 93 didn't stop the terrorists. They only stopped them from reaching the Pentagon. And if the underwear guy or the shoe guy hadn't been a couple of fuckups, we'd still be wondering how they got bombs on on those planes. Their tactic, by the way, wasn't novel. The use of small amounts of explosives is all over air-safety threat assessments pre-9/11. But we weren't doing Israeli-style security before 9/11, so we certainly weren't going to go farther than they do.
Read the back of your driver's license.
Or ask yourself why you have to have a license at all.
You need to learn what the word "absolutely" means.
You don't even have an absolute right to free speech.
You have a right to be on the public ways. You don't have a right to drive on them. There's plenty of court cases on this and none of them makes driving a right.
As for your opinion of whether I do or don't support the Bill of Rights: fuck you.
They stop about 100 guns a month from being carried on planes by passengers.
So let the Israelis do the threat assessment and the Palestinians implement security, and the problem in that part of the world won't grow?
The fact that there are more people whining about security at airports than dying in hijackings is a good thing. Because back when it was the other way around, that shit was whack.
1. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
2. Welcome to the Interstate, it doesn't belong to you and it's not a national park.
3. Out west they've been doing this for decades looking for vehicles trafficking in illegal immigrants and illegal drugs.
4. Do you mind if we search your computer?
Is there a chipset that does RAID 5 or 6 in HW?
How do these things take to RAID configurations?
And I'm sure that religion's ceremonial acts include a lot of smoke and the phrase "ya mon."