I was fairly clear that even if Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction he wanted them and pretended he had them. That was not the reason the US invaded him and toppled his government. Saddam was a known sponsor of terrorism and was documented to have paid for or provided training for the terrorists who attacked the US on 9/11. When a state participates in an attack on the US it's government is removed and we put one in place that we like better. We did it for Japan, We did it for Afghanistan and we did it for Iraq. The solution to not having the US stomp on you is to let us be. We are used to everyone not liking us. We really don't care that much about that. If you attack us we will hurt you badly and make sure you cannot do it again. When you grab a sleeping tiger by the tail you should have a plan on dealing with his teeth.
It is considered good manners in the US to call somebody "Sir" or "Mam" when you don't know them. This does not imply subservience. A police officer has a gun, a taser, handcuffs, a long flashlight and a club. He also has the authority to put those handcuffs on you for no reason. He has the authority because he has a gun, a taser etc. If you object he may beat you senseless, and then trump up charges to have you spend time in jail. I have had a cop come to my home, threaten to take my children and put them in state custody simply because I didn't think that I needed to be polite to an aggressive asshole on my front lawn when I was flipping hamburgers on my front porch. The simple fact is while I may have won in the long run, his abuse of his authority would have been damaging to my children and there was no defense regarding that but to roll over and acknowledge he had the power. It is not a good system, but it is the one we have. My experience has been that more than half of all cops are good honest public servants who are pursuing a professional career of protecting and defending the public. That leaves millions who are power mad assholes who abuse their authority regularly. We do have a severe problem with police and public figures that abuse power. Our difference is that we point it right out and say so and regularly arrest them and put them in prison. We just haven't done it enough yet. In the US we air our dirty laundry in public. That means that everyone hears about it. You never hear about the career public servants who provide honest service for 40 years and retire. We have our problems, but we are honest about them. We are also tired of you pompous fools telling us how superior you are to us. We don't ask you to come here, we don't really want you to come here, and we certainly don't give a flying fuck about your opinion of us or our system. So kiss my Yankee ass, I'm going to have a beer with the good honest cop who lives across the street.
I can understand the need for a 'tax' on very much public infrastructures like a massive telephone land line system or cable systems...
I can't believe I read that statement! Please tell me it was a slip of the thumb. The only need for any tax is so that the government can steal more of your hard earned money and give it to people who don't want to work for it. This is just an example of them being more creative about identifying achievers. People with LAN's obviously have more than one computer, therefore they have more than they really need and therefore they have something to take.
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I was fairly clear that even if Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction he wanted them and pretended he had them. That was not the reason the US invaded him and toppled his government. Saddam was a known sponsor of terrorism and was documented to have paid for or provided training for the terrorists who attacked the US on 9/11. When a state participates in an attack on the US it's government is removed and we put one in place that we like better. We did it for Japan, We did it for Afghanistan and we did it for Iraq. The solution to not having the US stomp on you is to let us be. We are used to everyone not liking us. We really don't care that much about that. If you attack us we will hurt you badly and make sure you cannot do it again. When you grab a sleeping tiger by the tail you should have a plan on dealing with his teeth.
It is considered good manners in the US to call somebody "Sir" or "Mam" when you don't know them. This does not imply subservience. A police officer has a gun, a taser, handcuffs, a long flashlight and a club. He also has the authority to put those handcuffs on you for no reason. He has the authority because he has a gun, a taser etc. If you object he may beat you senseless, and then trump up charges to have you spend time in jail. I have had a cop come to my home, threaten to take my children and put them in state custody simply because I didn't think that I needed to be polite to an aggressive asshole on my front lawn when I was flipping hamburgers on my front porch. The simple fact is while I may have won in the long run, his abuse of his authority would have been damaging to my children and there was no defense regarding that but to roll over and acknowledge he had the power. It is not a good system, but it is the one we have. My experience has been that more than half of all cops are good honest public servants who are pursuing a professional career of protecting and defending the public. That leaves millions who are power mad assholes who abuse their authority regularly. We do have a severe problem with police and public figures that abuse power. Our difference is that we point it right out and say so and regularly arrest them and put them in prison. We just haven't done it enough yet. In the US we air our dirty laundry in public. That means that everyone hears about it. You never hear about the career public servants who provide honest service for 40 years and retire. We have our problems, but we are honest about them. We are also tired of you pompous fools telling us how superior you are to us. We don't ask you to come here, we don't really want you to come here, and we certainly don't give a flying fuck about your opinion of us or our system. So kiss my Yankee ass, I'm going to have a beer with the good honest cop who lives across the street.
I can understand the need for a 'tax' on very much public infrastructures like a massive telephone land line system or cable systems... I can't believe I read that statement! Please tell me it was a slip of the thumb. The only need for any tax is so that the government can steal more of your hard earned money and give it to people who don't want to work for it. This is just an example of them being more creative about identifying achievers. People with LAN's obviously have more than one computer, therefore they have more than they really need and therefore they have something to take.