Greetings to you, O Dark Overlord of the Underworld! From whence dark shadow hast thou cometh? Has the hour arrived when my infernal device is to be taken by thy power? To render me destitute and afflicted? Oh! Such agony! Alas! Alas!
I did. I would think it wouldn't be difficult to discern from the context of the paragraph. But it is helpful to know what your comments were apparently random.
After all, it is not we who have the backbones to bomb brown people "into freedom".
As in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and Syria?
Here is a tip for you. Over the years, Europeans, just like Americans and various Asian nations, have demonstrated their willingness to bomb people of all colors for many reasons, including to make their lands a colony, and lately to free them. It is happening right now.
Your sense of superiority is based on mistaken ideas, bad history, and bile.
Or, if they're going to have him testify, they have diplomats collect him and bring him in on a plain covered by immunity, move him around in diplomatic cars, and house him in diplomatic residences.
The "Assange solution"? How is that working out?
Do you *really* think that it is impossible to basically "fuck you" and bring him there safely if there's the political will?
Its totally possible, as long as various European nations don't want to honor their treaty obligations and don't care about insults to allies. (I thought Europeans were always in favor of honoring treaties?) That can end up working both ways too, and not always in the way of a fantasy great triumphant either. Always keep in mind that the arrival of the future won't stop anytime soon, and it almost always has surprises in store. You may want friends around to help meet some of those surprises.
that was back in 20th century when the US had a Constitution and three branches of govt for checks and balances.
It was a state court that issued the ruling under Virginia law, not a Federal court under Federal law. The US Federal government still has a Constitution and three branches of government for checks and balances.
So you don't like the fact that I used the word "gyp," but you feel free to use "crap", and impose a racial context? I don't consider "wiktionary" an authoritative reference, and even then that definition contains caveat and uncertainty. Other far more authoritative references don't burden that word so. Feel free to pester someone else or I may become niggardly in my civility for a time. (I suggest you look that one up too.)
All I know is I don't want to have anything to do with bombing our own airfields even if Milo is in a catch. If I can pick my troubles I don't really cotton to that. Nudge, nudge.
So, let's try to bring the shill back on topic. We aren't talking about the Weather Underground.
The better example is MLK,...
If we are limited to the topic in the story in the narrowest sense then neither MLK nor the Weather Underground is really up for discussion. I will note in my defense that I was directly addressing a point (who are the terrorists) in the post asking for my comment. If you don't like that then blame the AC that made that post.
Also, I do have to say that you are very free about making broad, dubious assumptions.
So CF, do you shill for them because they have dirt on you or are you just a nihilist who wants to watch America crumble under the iron heel?
That is a false choice. I'm just another free citizen offering opinions in my spare time. It's a good thing too since some people are bordering on hysteria on this and related topics. I would hate for anyone to pee their pants so badly that they end up drowning. You need a life preserver there? Or are you going to be OK?
Former WKYC television reporter Fred DeBrine and sound man Joe Butano have said repeatedly that they heard a Kent State police detective open the cylinder of Norman’s gun and say: “Oh my god, he fired four times.’’ The police detective later denied making the remark, and a campus patrolman’s report said the gun was fully loaded with no smell of burnt powder.
It could be an opportunity for a reform / open government project: Set up a project to coordinate so that every elected member of Congress gets a copy, maybe with a couple of nice bookmarks and sticky notes to specific certain areas with the notation: "Please fix this".
Mr. Forsyth, now 63, and other members of the group can no longer be prosecuted for what happened that night, and they agreed to be interviewed before the release this week of a book written by one of the first journalists to receive the stolen documents. The author, Betty Medsger, a former reporter for The Washington Post, spent years sifting through the F.B.I.’s voluminous case file on the episode and persuaded five of the eight men and women who participated in the break-in to end their silence.
The article and video discuss similarities, but I don't believe that either attributes the motivation as support for Snowden. It appears to be directly tied to the book coming out.
That means that the only people that can actually stop the NSA from doing what they're doing are those so squeaky-clean that they won't want to.
So how did the political establishment manage to make reforms in the 70s after this event? That would seem to let the air out of your theory. And why do you think people with few or no real skeletons in their closet wouldn't want to reform in the case of actual abuses?
Some criminals claim to be irish, so we should unlawfully surveil, harass and frame all the irish people.
Some criminals claim to be leftists, so we should unlawfully surveil, harass and frame all the leftist people.
Some criminals claim to be anarchists and one guy can burn down the capitol building, so we should enact emergency laws to surveil, harass, frame, and imprison all the anarchists....
Difference? Nope. The rule of law and fundamental freedoms exist for a reason.
If you want the rule of law you actually have to enforce the law. Too many people here want the rule, but not the enforcement.
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Greetings to you, O Dark Overlord of the Underworld!
From whence dark shadow hast thou cometh?
Has the hour arrived when my infernal device is to be taken by thy power?
To render me destitute and afflicted?
Oh! Such agony!
Alas!
Alas!
The Federal government was the subject of the post that I replied to. Would you like me to comment on Virginia as well?
I did. I would think it wouldn't be difficult to discern from the context of the paragraph. But it is helpful to know what your comments were apparently random.
Did you have any particular nations and situations in mind? Or is this all classroom note passing?
...what passes for "left" in this country.
It isn't that they don't exist (CPUSA), but that most Americans aren't interested in that path.
We talk about sexuality and its the damn American influence that prevents us from being a nudist paradise.
Don't forget the "polar vortex" and overindulgence, by some, of poutine. (Put it on! Put it on!) . . . ;)
LOL. Hardly. LOL
After all, it is not we who have the backbones to bomb brown people "into freedom".
As in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and Syria?
Here is a tip for you. Over the years, Europeans, just like Americans and various Asian nations, have demonstrated their willingness to bomb people of all colors for many reasons, including to make their lands a colony, and lately to free them. It is happening right now.
Your sense of superiority is based on mistaken ideas, bad history, and bile.
Or, if they're going to have him testify, they have diplomats collect him and bring him in on a plain covered by immunity, move him around in diplomatic cars, and house him in diplomatic residences.
The "Assange solution"? How is that working out?
Do you *really* think that it is impossible to basically "fuck you" and bring him there safely if there's the political will?
Its totally possible, as long as various European nations don't want to honor their treaty obligations and don't care about insults to allies. (I thought Europeans were always in favor of honoring treaties?) That can end up working both ways too, and not always in the way of a fantasy great triumphant either. Always keep in mind that the arrival of the future won't stop anytime soon, and it almost always has surprises in store. You may want friends around to help meet some of those surprises.
Is it 1914 all over again?
I am reasonably sure that Germany would exit the EU if such a program was installed.
The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
Same is true for France. They say that France is one of the few countries who does democracy right.
France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law
Hell, in France they will burn an entire city over a small issue.
You're getting warm.
Some 1,067 cars set ablaze across France on New Year's Eve
France's Less Joyous New Year's Tradition
More than 40,000 vehicles are burned each year in France...
Any ideas on what might be going on? (I don't want to issue a spoiler just yet.)
that was back in 20th century when the US had a Constitution and three branches of govt for checks and balances.
It was a state court that issued the ruling under Virginia law, not a Federal court under Federal law. The US Federal government still has a Constitution and three branches of government for checks and balances.
CSEC Admits It 'Incidentally' Spies On Canadians
So, go to Europe then. Oh, that's right.
The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law
Why is this going on? Is there some sort of pattern that could explain it?
Iran’s fingerprints in Fallujah
Report: Canadian Terrorists Planned Truck Bomb Attack
At Least 4,000 Suspected of Terrorism-Related Activity in Britain, MI5 Director Says
Dutch Arrest 12 Somalis on Terror Suspicions
at this point, anything that comes to light about NSA and shows them in a bad light, I will fully believe until THAT is proven otherwise.
In short, nothing has changed for you. That was true before the recent leaks, wasn't it?
Not without Dutch courage. ;)
So you don't like the fact that I used the word "gyp," but you feel free to use "crap", and impose a racial context? I don't consider "wiktionary" an authoritative reference, and even then that definition contains caveat and uncertainty. Other far more authoritative references don't burden that word so. Feel free to pester someone else or I may become niggardly in my civility for a time. (I suggest you look that one up too.)
This isn't a story about wormholes and warp drive? It's just a story about hackers?
What a gyp!
All I know is I don't want to have anything to do with bombing our own airfields even if Milo is in a catch. If I can pick my troubles I don't really cotton to that. Nudge, nudge.
So, let's try to bring the shill back on topic. We aren't talking about the Weather Underground.
The better example is MLK,...
If we are limited to the topic in the story in the narrowest sense then neither MLK nor the Weather Underground is really up for discussion. I will note in my defense that I was directly addressing a point (who are the terrorists) in the post asking for my comment. If you don't like that then blame the AC that made that post.
Also, I do have to say that you are very free about making broad, dubious assumptions.
So CF, do you shill for them because they have dirt on you or are you just a nihilist who wants to watch America crumble under the iron heel?
That is a false choice. I'm just another free citizen offering opinions in my spare time. It's a good thing too since some people are bordering on hysteria on this and related topics. I would hate for anyone to pee their pants so badly that they end up drowning. You need a life preserver there? Or are you going to be OK?
As I'm sure you're aware there is a disagreement about the facts of the matter.
Shots were fired before Kent State shootings, forensic expert says
Former WKYC television reporter Fred DeBrine and sound man Joe Butano have said repeatedly that they heard a Kent State police detective open the cylinder of Norman’s gun and say: “Oh my god, he fired four times.’’ The police detective later denied making the remark, and a campus patrolman’s report said the gun was fully loaded with no smell of burnt powder.
Light-activated resin
So you're saying that scientists invented slugs and sandcastle worms?
It could be an opportunity for a reform / open government project: Set up a project to coordinate so that every elected member of Congress gets a copy, maybe with a couple of nice bookmarks and sticky notes to specific certain areas with the notation: "Please fix this".
They came forward as a show of support for Snowden.
That appears to be false, unless you can point to something more direct.
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
Mr. Forsyth, now 63, and other members of the group can no longer be prosecuted for what happened that night, and they agreed to be interviewed before the release this week of a book written by one of the first journalists to receive the stolen documents. The author, Betty Medsger, a former reporter for The Washington Post, spent years sifting through the F.B.I.’s voluminous case file on the episode and persuaded five of the eight men and women who participated in the break-in to end their silence.
The article and video discuss similarities, but I don't believe that either attributes the motivation as support for Snowden. It appears to be directly tied to the book coming out.
That means that the only people that can actually stop the NSA from doing what they're doing are those so squeaky-clean that they won't want to.
So how did the political establishment manage to make reforms in the 70s after this event? That would seem to let the air out of your theory. And why do you think people with few or no real skeletons in their closet wouldn't want to reform in the case of actual abuses?
Some criminals claim to be irish, so we should unlawfully surveil, harass and frame all the irish people.
Some criminals claim to be leftists, so we should unlawfully surveil, harass and frame all the leftist people.
Some criminals claim to be anarchists and one guy can burn down the capitol building, so we should enact emergency laws to surveil, harass, frame, and imprison all the anarchists. ...
Difference? Nope. The rule of law and fundamental freedoms exist for a reason.
If you want the rule of law you actually have to enforce the law. Too many people here want the rule, but not the enforcement.