2.17.2003
>We will lose citizens in a war on Iraq. Just like we would lose citizens in a terrorist attack.
jeff... i can't believe you're fooled by this 'terror of the month' propaganda.
terrorist attacks are the best thing that could have happend for bush. it makes his job easier... it arouses an almost necessary 'patriotism'...
"you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists"... fuck
for sake of argument, lets say the world is just like the mainstream media would have us believe. that the evil saddam indeed has the means to harm americans somehow.
lets just apply some basic karmatic (new word :) thinking to the situation.
violence begets violence.
we cannot qwell potential terrorists with ammunition. it will simply just NOT happen.
"killing for peace is like fucking for virginity"
I just think its funny that we can condemn another country for having a tiny fraction of the weaponry that we harbor... its arrogant.
Please examine this PDF.
But what you say? Saddam is an EVIL man? he gassed his own people?
No.
He gassed the Kurds... and at the time the US was supporting his actions.
The news convieniently gives half-truth.
He starves them?
Yes people are starving... largely because of US trade sanctions...
This country is freaking cause he's making deals with the russians. (for arms AND oil)
mmmmm time for some quotes
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system,
there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless,
that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
(Noam Chomsky)
Democracy: Three wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.(Stanley Garn)
Harmony seldom makes a headline.(Silas Bent)
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.(Adlai Stevenson)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.(William James)
Alliance, n.:
In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that
they cannot separately plunder a third.
(Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary")
'Anyone who is capable of being elected president,
should on no account be allowed to do the job'
(the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
(John F. Kennedy)
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
[President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)]
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans, both north and south
08 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance,
understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
jeff... i can't believe you're fooled by this 'terror of the month' propaganda.
terrorist attacks are the best thing that could have happend for bush. it makes his job easier... it arouses an almost necessary 'patriotism'...
"you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists"... fuck
for sake of argument, lets say the world is just like the mainstream media would have us believe. that the evil saddam indeed has the means to harm americans somehow.
lets just apply some basic karmatic (new word :) thinking to the situation.
violence begets violence.
we cannot qwell potential terrorists with ammunition. it will simply just NOT happen.
"killing for peace is like fucking for virginity"
I just think its funny that we can condemn another country for having a tiny fraction of the weaponry that we harbor... its arrogant.
Please examine this PDF.
But what you say? Saddam is an EVIL man? he gassed his own people?
No.
He gassed the Kurds... and at the time the US was supporting his actions.
The news convieniently gives half-truth.
He starves them?
Yes people are starving... largely because of US trade sanctions...
This country is freaking cause he's making deals with the russians. (for arms AND oil)
mmmmm time for some quotes
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system,
there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless,
that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
(Noam Chomsky)
Democracy: Three wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.(Stanley Garn)
Harmony seldom makes a headline.(Silas Bent)
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.(Adlai Stevenson)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.(William James)
Alliance, n.:
In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that
they cannot separately plunder a third.
(Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary")
'Anyone who is capable of being elected president,
should on no account be allowed to do the job'
(the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
(John F. Kennedy)
Men don't change. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
[President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)]
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 Americans, both north and south
08 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance,
understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
< 05:54 >< /~ chad >
