How much do you love freedom?
Andrew Cory
I am informed that Saturday was the anniversary of Tiananmen Square. The remarkable thing about the incident was the extraordinary lengths some people will go to in order that their liberty may be secured. How far would you go? Would you go as far as:
I'd like to think I would, but until the time comes...
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I'm afraid not many would. Too distant. Of course 9/11 was a fluke. These wiley bastards may up the ante next time and use a bio-chem weapon. All the harassing of old ladies with wire in their bras will be for naught.
Smallpox would be my choice. I wouldn't use crop dusting planes either, I would use infected suicidal terrorists to infiltrate our porous southern border and mingle with the people at crowded venues e.g. sports events, mass transit, welfares offices et al. Six infected subjects would be sufficient. Did I mention OUR POROUS SOUTHERN BORDER!
Our public health system will be completely overwhelmed because the first cases would go undiagnosed until second and third generation cases were already well in progress. The CDC's current ring containment model will be useless. Assuming a "reasonable" response by the time we got a grip on the epidemic there would be 30K deaths [low estimate].
Read this essay I wrote sometime ago if you haven't already. I think it makes the point. I don't fault the American couch people entirely because the MSM has provided a very distorted view of reality in the GWOT.
The MSM for various reasons seems content to run Bush bashing stories and fails to report the serious threat the free world is facing from Islamofascism. The result is a false sense of security and introspective navel gazing.
We will win in the end. I for one don't wish to be one of those causalities before the American people and the Euro Weenies finally wake up and realize what the stakes are and wipe this cult like religious ideology of hate and evil, Islamofascism, from the face of the earth.
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I'm generally a fairly tolerant and level headed person but folks the train is rapidly coming down the tracks.
It's a trick question. You don't remember, because you never knew it. To this day, no one knows who that guy was.
He's probably rotting in a Chinese gulag somewhere, if he's still alive at all.
Whether or not the matador goading the 60-ton steel bull is dead or alive is not important. He gave the western news media the photo opportunity they all wanted, and I'm certain that is all they really gave a damn about.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
No bounds, AC. I see some degree of humor in just about everything that has to do with the human story. Sometimes it's light and fluffy; sometimes it's mordant. (You might as well be happy and not glum, because either way, when it's all over, you sure as hell croak.) You want to call that cynicism, I won't feel insulted.
As for name-calling, I haven't read enough of your stuff to tag you with any specific example from the animal kingdom. Until I do, you remain inoffensively inorganic.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
After that, I was reduced to fighting them by studying how Communism had thoroughly fucked up every country in which it came to power. That, plus taking one of their beautiful young victims away from them and making her my wife. (She was, and still is, a damned fine victory. Of sorts.)
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I'm judging this in American interests as well as those of the Chinese.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI