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		<link>http://www.mlah.us/2006/06/12/zarqawi/#comment-110621</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: yup</title>
		<link>http://www.mlah.us/2006/06/12/zarqawi/#comment-3523</link>
		<dc:creator>yup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You worry about the govt kicking down your door and searching your house because you know someone who has guns, but apparently have no problems with the government kicking down your door if you actually own guns?

Is this some anemic way of equating your fear of the govt kicking down your door if you talk on the phone with terrorists, or chat online with terrorists, or post your pro-terror plans on a terrorist website? But I thought you were really upset about the govt &lt;i&gt;surveilling&lt;/i&gt; you if you were engaged in one of these things. 

If the govt has gathered enough information due to that surveillance to convince them that you are, by your words and expressed opinions, a terrorists engaged in financing, planning, or carrying out terrorist operations, why would you not expect them to come knocking at your door? 

So your problem is really with the govt actually coming to stop you from carrying out your terrorist plans (kicking in your door, as you put it)? Is that what you&#039;re saying?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You worry about the govt kicking down your door and searching your house because you know someone who has guns, but apparently have no problems with the government kicking down your door if you actually own guns?</p>
<p>Is this some anemic way of equating your fear of the govt kicking down your door if you talk on the phone with terrorists, or chat online with terrorists, or post your pro-terror plans on a terrorist website? But I thought you were really upset about the govt <i>surveilling</i> you if you were engaged in one of these things. </p>
<p>If the govt has gathered enough information due to that surveillance to convince them that you are, by your words and expressed opinions, a terrorists engaged in financing, planning, or carrying out terrorist operations, why would you not expect them to come knocking at your door? </p>
<p>So your problem is really with the govt actually coming to stop you from carrying out your terrorist plans (kicking in your door, as you put it)? Is that what you&#8217;re saying?</p>
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		<title>By: Sean</title>
		<link>http://www.mlah.us/2006/06/12/zarqawi/#comment-3516</link>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First I&#039;m an anarchist and now I&#039;m beholden to the government. Like it&#039;s impossible to have a different opinion from one separate item to the next. One extreme to the next.

I would have a bigger problem with the gun registry if it allowed them to kick your door down and look through your house just because you know someone that has guns.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First I&#8217;m an anarchist and now I&#8217;m beholden to the government. Like it&#8217;s impossible to have a different opinion from one separate item to the next. One extreme to the next.</p>
<p>I would have a bigger problem with the gun registry if it allowed them to kick your door down and look through your house just because you know someone that has guns.</p>
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		<title>By: yup</title>
		<link>http://www.mlah.us/2006/06/12/zarqawi/#comment-3501</link>
		<dc:creator>yup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Secret prisons! Gitmo! In the words of Gus, that is so six months ago. The people detained in Gitmo (and supposedly in these &lt;i&gt;alleged&lt;/i&gt; secret prisons) were combatants caught in the attempt to do harm to the US. They were figthing US troops on foreign soil, they were caught hanging out with terrorists in Iraq or Afghanistan, they were turned over by allies such as Pakistan, etc. They are foreigners taken outside the US, mostly people from places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Xinjiang, etc. In other words, not the types who really have to worry too much about their resumes when applying to blue chip companies. Unless you feel that job applications are so selective in the Third World? And you still have the absolute &lt;b&gt;gall&lt;/b&gt; to compare them to the Japanese detainees of WWII?

A couple of them (such as Reid and Padilla) could be considered &quot;US persons&quot; who were swept up in the process of planning or committing their acts of terror either in or en route to the US, and were imprisoned with the foreign gang. But the courts have already ruled that those caught in the US, or who are US citizens, cannot be held in the quasi-foreign camps like Gitmo. But seriously, people like Reid applying to be CEO of AT&amp;T? Sure, I really worry about his job prospects for future should he beat the rap against him.

Oh yeah, we&#039;ve released people because they were so low on the terror totem that they were considered no longer dangerous, or there was so much political pressure to release them that they they were not vetted properly, or they were wily enough to not have specific proof against them. None of them have ever gone on to commit acts of terror after their release, now, have they? (You ever hear of &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3745962.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Abdullah Mehsud&lt;/a&gt;?)

Why do EFF and ACLU cry foul so loudly? Well, there&#039;s money to be made in standing up to &quot;Big Brother&quot; for one thing. There&#039;s BDS for another. Folks like EFF see any act by the government as harmful to their self interests, period. Only private citizen hackers like themselves (and of course the ubiquitous Madison Avenue cabals) should be able to surreptitiously obtain private information about other people.

So the Parliament decided all of a sudden to create a whole new category of felon, made up of formerly law abiding citizens, overturning centuries of tradition in the name of social engineering, and you shrug it off by saying that at least the government gave its people the choice of submitting to new regulation of formerly free activity or face consequences. You do recall that the first thing Gorby did when he sent troops into Estonia et al was shut down/lock up the gun clubs? You know, the only places citizens were allowed by the government to have access to firearms? Gee, and you probably wonder why the heck those US Founders enshrined the citizens&#039; right to keep firearms. 

Funny, you didn&#039;t initially strike me as a person who believes that the citizenry should be beholden to the government and not the other way around.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Secret prisons! Gitmo! In the words of Gus, that is so six months ago. The people detained in Gitmo (and supposedly in these <i>alleged</i> secret prisons) were combatants caught in the attempt to do harm to the US. They were figthing US troops on foreign soil, they were caught hanging out with terrorists in Iraq or Afghanistan, they were turned over by allies such as Pakistan, etc. They are foreigners taken outside the US, mostly people from places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Xinjiang, etc. In other words, not the types who really have to worry too much about their resumes when applying to blue chip companies. Unless you feel that job applications are so selective in the Third World? And you still have the absolute <b>gall</b> to compare them to the Japanese detainees of WWII?</p>
<p>A couple of them (such as Reid and Padilla) could be considered &#8220;US persons&#8221; who were swept up in the process of planning or committing their acts of terror either in or en route to the US, and were imprisoned with the foreign gang. But the courts have already ruled that those caught in the US, or who are US citizens, cannot be held in the quasi-foreign camps like Gitmo. But seriously, people like Reid applying to be CEO of AT&amp;T? Sure, I really worry about his job prospects for future should he beat the rap against him.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, we&#8217;ve released people because they were so low on the terror totem that they were considered no longer dangerous, or there was so much political pressure to release them that they they were not vetted properly, or they were wily enough to not have specific proof against them. None of them have ever gone on to commit acts of terror after their release, now, have they? (You ever hear of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3745962.stm" rel="nofollow">Abdullah Mehsud</a>?)</p>
<p>Why do EFF and ACLU cry foul so loudly? Well, there&#8217;s money to be made in standing up to &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; for one thing. There&#8217;s BDS for another. Folks like EFF see any act by the government as harmful to their self interests, period. Only private citizen hackers like themselves (and of course the ubiquitous Madison Avenue cabals) should be able to surreptitiously obtain private information about other people.</p>
<p>So the Parliament decided all of a sudden to create a whole new category of felon, made up of formerly law abiding citizens, overturning centuries of tradition in the name of social engineering, and you shrug it off by saying that at least the government gave its people the choice of submitting to new regulation of formerly free activity or face consequences. You do recall that the first thing Gorby did when he sent troops into Estonia et al was shut down/lock up the gun clubs? You know, the only places citizens were allowed by the government to have access to firearms? Gee, and you probably wonder why the heck those US Founders enshrined the citizens&#8217; right to keep firearms. </p>
<p>Funny, you didn&#8217;t initially strike me as a person who believes that the citizenry should be beholden to the government and not the other way around.</p>
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		<title>By: Sean</title>
		<link>http://www.mlah.us/2006/06/12/zarqawi/#comment-3499</link>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That paragraph seems pretty clear. Why is it that groups like the EFF are all over this like they are violating something just as clear. The law can be pretty ambiguous in some cases, but that seems like a really clear defenition.

The majority of people targetted by these actions will be of middle eastern descent. Sure their whole families don&#039;t get throw in to camps but where do they end up? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;
Here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june06/guantanamo_05-19.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;
here&lt;/a&gt;

Can you tell me that these people (who cares about the guilty ones) don&#039;t lose everything by being locke up for 2, 3 or even 4 years without charges being laid? The fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/11/terror/main543610.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;
some were released&lt;/a&gt; without charge shows at least in some small way that errors were made. So, what have you been up to these last 3 years?... Oh... You were being held as a terrorist suspect. Yeah, here&#039;s a job! Even if cleared and released there is still a stigma that will haunt them in life. Not to mention the personal trauma.

The problem Canadians had witht he gathering and use of the information in the LLFF was that they didn&#039;t ask us. I can agree that we more or less asked for it indirectly with our demands for social programs. We railed against it for the same reason that any rails against something that is done without permission.

The gun registry was a ridiculous waste of money... but as a note they were given a chance to register their firearms. In fact they still can register their firearms and not face charges. Don&#039;t get me wrong. I think the gun registry was stupid, however it was still done and people were &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2003/06/30/gun_registry030630.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;
given the time to make their ownership legitimate&lt;/a&gt;in the eyes of our stupid new law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That paragraph seems pretty clear. Why is it that groups like the EFF are all over this like they are violating something just as clear. The law can be pretty ambiguous in some cases, but that seems like a really clear defenition.</p>
<p>The majority of people targetted by these actions will be of middle eastern descent. Sure their whole families don&#8217;t get throw in to camps but where do they end up? <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html" rel="nofollow"><br />
Here</a> and <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june06/guantanamo_05-19.html" rel="nofollow"><br />
here</a></p>
<p>Can you tell me that these people (who cares about the guilty ones) don&#8217;t lose everything by being locke up for 2, 3 or even 4 years without charges being laid? The fact that <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/11/terror/main543610.shtml" rel="nofollow"><br />
some were released</a> without charge shows at least in some small way that errors were made. So, what have you been up to these last 3 years?&#8230; Oh&#8230; You were being held as a terrorist suspect. Yeah, here&#8217;s a job! Even if cleared and released there is still a stigma that will haunt them in life. Not to mention the personal trauma.</p>
<p>The problem Canadians had witht he gathering and use of the information in the LLFF was that they didn&#8217;t ask us. I can agree that we more or less asked for it indirectly with our demands for social programs. We railed against it for the same reason that any rails against something that is done without permission.</p>
<p>The gun registry was a ridiculous waste of money&#8230; but as a note they were given a chance to register their firearms. In fact they still can register their firearms and not face charges. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I think the gun registry was stupid, however it was still done and people were <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2003/06/30/gun_registry030630.html" rel="nofollow"><br />
given the time to make their ownership legitimate</a>in the eyes of our stupid new law.</p>
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