According to a democracy, if the majority wants it, it goes. If the majority wants to make sodomy illegal, then it's the law. America had that on the books for quite a long time. If Americans vote for politicians who ban abortion, isn't that consenting to it?
If the majority votes for sharia, then let them. It's not oppression if they want it. You don't even know what Sharia is, or whether the Islamic salvation front wanted sharia in what way. This wasn't Saudi-style sharia, they are wrong. The majority of Women in Algeria voted for the FIS, so quit complaining.
If it's a one-to-one copy, then it's OK. The examples you cite don't match this instance. I could buy a DVD, cut out the bad part, and sell you the edited one and destroy the older one. It should be OK, because you only get one copy, not two like you claimed.
So the hotdog vendor should have a real tantrum if I decide to peel the skin off the hotdog before I eat it? Heck, I paid for it, and I should do as I please with it, if he agrees to sell it to me.
France and the US went on record saying they supported the coup. They officially recognized the dictators and prevented any sort of sanctions.
They were elected fair and square, and weren't terrorist. Where's YOUR evidence? Why is it the Republican party gets to pass Christian-oriented legislation; Terry Schiavo laws and ban gay marriage and work towards prayer in schools, but when Muslims talk about having religious politicians, suddenly they must be overthrown?
I don't know anything about Haiti, so don't lump me in with them. I'm pointing out a legitimate grievance against US policy, and you're dismissing it as "typical anti-American propaganda." To steal a quote from Malcolm X "Now I am not here to condemn America, I am not here to make America look bad, but I am here to tell you the truth about the situation that [people] find themselves confronted with. And if truth condemns America, then she stands condemned. "
Try not to put words in my mouth. I never said "greatest terrorist." I said, "Bush said anyone who shelters or funds terrorists is a terrorist."
Bush supports the Mujahidden-e-Khalq. Bush sheltered anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch, who was wanted for blowing up a Cuban airliner.
On March 24, 2006, Bush declared "one of the lessons learned after September the 11th is that we must hold people to account for harboring terrorists. If you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you house a terrorist, you're as equally guilty as the terrorist."
Similarly, Vice President Dick Cheney said on March 7, 2006, "since the day our country was attacked, we have applied the Bush Doctrine: Any person or government that supports, protects, or harbors terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent, and will be held to account."
As for Fallujah, what about the use of the banned White Phosphorus? It was a mini scandal.
A simple google search reveals, "Nizar Hindawi, an Abu Nidal operative who was caught while trying, by means of a pregnant Irish girlfriend, to place a bomb on an El Al plane leaving London's Heathrow to Tel-Aviv."
Oh, go in and remove dictators sure, if the intentions are right.
But a better first start would be supporting ACTUAL democracies. For example, the US and France supported the coup against the democratically-elected government of Algeria. The subsequent civil war killed hundreds of thousands. Why do you think so many people were skeptical of the US building democracy in Iraq? What about the US supporting the coup against democratically-elected Mossadegh in Iran, whereupon the dictator Shah Pahlavi was installed?
There's nothing in common with abortion clinic bombings and overseas terrorism. The US allowing Abortion clinics aren't really damaging the community, aside from riling certain people up. Overseas, the US giving weapons to some unfriendly people and keeping dictatorships in power IS hurting people. Terrorism or not, we need to change our policies, which would have an added side effect of decreasing, but likely not eliminating, terrorism.
Bush did worse. During the DNC convention, he announced the US nabbed a high level terrorist (whose name escapes me). The UK went ballistic, since that was confidential and the news forced them to round up the rest of the suspects who were under surveillance, making them lose the trail of who they were really after; the higher-ups. Nice one.
George W. Bush's administration has shielded the terrorist organization, Mujahidden-e-Khalq from prosecution and attack by Iranians and Iraqis. Bush also ordered the destruction of the city of Fallujah, where he's reported to have announced "Let heads roll!" The entire city was punished for the actions of a few, which fits the state department definition of terrorism. Besides, Bush said anyone who shelters or funds terrorists is a terrorist.
Oh boy, all those New Yorkers going on Spring Break with their college buddies are gonna be in for a rough time at the airport then. Behavior is going to give you way way way too many false positives. Besides, if you take the Israeli examples, you just get your girlfriend to carry the package on the plane, since they profile Arabs.
By the way, I know plenty of Muslims with non-Arabic names. Heck, even mine is as European as you can get.
This isn't going to be very effective. What, will Rockstar give them a CD of every jpg image and polygon in the game? Will that be considered "full disclosure"?
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Your argument terrifies me, not sure why.
According to a democracy, if the majority wants it, it goes. If the majority wants to make sodomy illegal, then it's the law. America had that on the books for quite a long time. If Americans vote for politicians who ban abortion, isn't that consenting to it?
If the majority votes for sharia, then let them. It's not oppression if they want it. You don't even know what Sharia is, or whether the Islamic salvation front wanted sharia in what way. This wasn't Saudi-style sharia, they are wrong. The majority of Women in Algeria voted for the FIS, so quit complaining.
If it's a one-to-one copy, then it's OK. The examples you cite don't match this instance. I could buy a DVD, cut out the bad part, and sell you the edited one and destroy the older one. It should be OK, because you only get one copy, not two like you claimed.
So the hotdog vendor should have a real tantrum if I decide to peel the skin off the hotdog before I eat it? Heck, I paid for it, and I should do as I please with it, if he agrees to sell it to me.
France and the US went on record saying they supported the coup. They officially recognized the dictators and prevented any sort of sanctions.
They were elected fair and square, and weren't terrorist. Where's YOUR evidence? Why is it the Republican party gets to pass Christian-oriented legislation; Terry Schiavo laws and ban gay marriage and work towards prayer in schools, but when Muslims talk about having religious politicians, suddenly they must be overthrown?
I don't know anything about Haiti, so don't lump me in with them. I'm pointing out a legitimate grievance against US policy, and you're dismissing it as "typical anti-American propaganda." To steal a quote from Malcolm X "Now I am not here to condemn America, I am not here to make America look bad, but I am here to tell you the truth about the situation that [people] find themselves confronted with. And if truth condemns America, then she stands condemned. "
That's not that he said in his 2001 and onward speeches. Bin Laden called for the US to leave, so the people could overthrow the Saudi dictatorship.
...Because Israel got wise to the tactic and now searches everyone. They're not going to wave a Jewish person through if this could happen again.
An El Al flight was hijacked in 1968. There have been ZERO hijackings of that airline since. They learned their lesson.
Try not to put words in my mouth. I never said "greatest terrorist." I said, "Bush said anyone who shelters or funds terrorists is a terrorist."
Bush supports the Mujahidden-e-Khalq. Bush sheltered anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch, who was wanted for blowing up a Cuban airliner.
On March 24, 2006, Bush declared "one of the lessons learned after September the 11th is that we must hold people to account for harboring terrorists. If you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you house a terrorist, you're as equally guilty as the terrorist."
Similarly, Vice President Dick Cheney said on March 7, 2006, "since the day our country was attacked, we have applied the Bush Doctrine: Any person or government that supports, protects, or harbors terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent, and will be held to account."
As for Fallujah, what about the use of the banned White Phosphorus? It was a mini scandal.
Not that I condone the attack in any way, but OBL saw it as a way to economically cripple the US, and thus make them withdraw from the region.
A simple google search reveals, "Nizar Hindawi, an Abu Nidal operative who was caught while trying, by means of a pregnant Irish girlfriend, to place a bomb on an El Al plane leaving London's Heathrow to Tel-Aviv."
Oh, go in and remove dictators sure, if the intentions are right.
But a better first start would be supporting ACTUAL democracies. For example, the US and France supported the coup against the democratically-elected government of Algeria. The subsequent civil war killed hundreds of thousands. Why do you think so many people were skeptical of the US building democracy in Iraq? What about the US supporting the coup against democratically-elected Mossadegh in Iran, whereupon the dictator Shah Pahlavi was installed?
There's nothing in common with abortion clinic bombings and overseas terrorism. The US allowing Abortion clinics aren't really damaging the community, aside from riling certain people up. Overseas, the US giving weapons to some unfriendly people and keeping dictatorships in power IS hurting people. Terrorism or not, we need to change our policies, which would have an added side effect of decreasing, but likely not eliminating, terrorism.
The NY Daily News broke the story.
Bush did worse. During the DNC convention, he announced the US nabbed a high level terrorist (whose name escapes me). The UK went ballistic, since that was confidential and the news forced them to round up the rest of the suspects who were under surveillance, making them lose the trail of who they were really after; the higher-ups. Nice one.
I stopped trusting USIP ever since Bush appointed right-wing zionist Islamophobe Daniel Pipes to it. Congress balked, so he did a recess appointment.
Sounds a bit like Bin Laden's justification for 9/11. Sure, he knew some children and Muslims would die, but hey, it's a war right?
George W. Bush's administration has shielded the terrorist organization, Mujahidden-e-Khalq from prosecution and attack by Iranians and Iraqis. Bush also ordered the destruction of the city of Fallujah, where he's reported to have announced "Let heads roll!" The entire city was punished for the actions of a few, which fits the state department definition of terrorism. Besides, Bush said anyone who shelters or funds terrorists is a terrorist.
Uh-oh, do you think they'll go after me for having an American name and a beard?
Oh boy, all those New Yorkers going on Spring Break with their college buddies are gonna be in for a rough time at the airport then. Behavior is going to give you way way way too many false positives. Besides, if you take the Israeli examples, you just get your girlfriend to carry the package on the plane, since they profile Arabs.
By the way, I know plenty of Muslims with non-Arabic names. Heck, even mine is as European as you can get.
What about DentalMac?
It doesn't require a Genius to fix one. Most of the time, you can solve the problem by searching Apple's website.
To who? ECHELON?
I give up. How many rupees?
This isn't going to be very effective. What, will Rockstar give them a CD of every jpg image and polygon in the game? Will that be considered "full disclosure"?
-1 Tasteless.
-1 Done to death.
Balderdash! Amazon lists it for $40 for the mac.