Well, I guess its up to the individual to make sure his power comes from an acceptable source: wind, solar, and If you don't mind the initial environmental damage, hydro.
Where did the reference to TV come from? No one has mentioned the concept of censoring TV at all. We are discussing the concept of unregulated private communications monitoring and the gutting of private encryption. Please try to keep your attention focused.
While it may feel very emotionally satisfying to smack flat every group that we feel might jepordize american safety there is a severe problem with this idea. Right now, at least publicly, nearly all nations in the world feel like America is entitled to go after the people who did this. If we "put the hurt" on everybody we even vaguely suspect, and in the process ignore collateral damage (like the peasants who live in the same village, within the blast radius), we are going to shift the world view back to: America, the Overbearing Military Menace. I suspect it was this image of America that the mastermind of this attack used to delude 4 suicide pilots into flying jumbo passenger aircraft into the WTC and the Pentagon. I personally don't believe for one instant that we will be able to forever guard ourselves against all terrorist attacks. Perhaps it would be more effective in the long term to use a very surgical kind of retaliation. Something that makes the World in general look at the people who planned this and say, "Good Heavens, I don't ever want the United States that mad at me!!" But this awful revenge must leave the innocents who might be in the general vicinity unharmed. Remember, those people who witness the retribution visited on the planners of this attack need to be able to tell the world what they saw.
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Well, I guess its up to the individual to make sure his power comes from an acceptable source: wind, solar, and If you don't mind the initial environmental damage, hydro.
Where did the reference to TV come from? No one has mentioned the concept of censoring TV at all. We are discussing the concept of unregulated private communications monitoring and the gutting of private encryption. Please try to keep your attention focused.
While it may feel very emotionally satisfying to smack flat every group that we feel might jepordize american safety there is a severe problem with this idea. Right now, at least publicly, nearly all nations in the world feel like America is entitled to go after the people who did this. If we "put the hurt" on everybody we even vaguely suspect, and in the process ignore collateral damage (like the peasants who live in the same village, within the blast radius), we are going to shift the world view back to: America, the Overbearing Military Menace. I suspect it was this image of America that the mastermind of this attack used to delude 4 suicide pilots into flying jumbo passenger aircraft into the WTC and the Pentagon. I personally don't believe for one instant that we will be able to forever guard ourselves against all terrorist attacks. Perhaps it would be more effective in the long term to use a very surgical kind of retaliation. Something that makes the World in general look at the people who planned this and say, "Good Heavens, I don't ever want the United States that mad at me!!" But this awful revenge must leave the innocents who might be in the general vicinity unharmed. Remember, those people who witness the retribution visited on the planners of this attack need to be able to tell the world what they saw.