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My Apologetics - March 2007

If you had Absolute Power What would you fix?

March 31st 2007 13:43
If you had Absolute Power What would you fix?

hanson
If only she was Asian...
Let’s face it there are a lot of sucky things in this world. The best advice I have received about avoiding stress is to tear the front page off the newspaper before you read it. Every day there is a new crisis that will somehow make our lives harder.


Take the climate issue for example. According the News the Polar caps will melt, the tides will rise, the Maldives Islands will be a shipping lane and we will all have tread water like in Water World. Now take the Interest Rates. This has got to be barometer of the working class. One quarter of one percent and housing prices drop like lead balloon. Friends walk up and down holding their ulcers and cursing the way they voted last time. What about this Iraq War thingy? Need I explain where it is all going or should we really celebrate and laugh it off. Did you know that George Bush has a sense of humor? I saw him on the set laughing and joking to a packed house of party hacks. I think they were jokes. People were laughing but maybe they were just happy. What is more important than the IR Laws? I know John Howard got his wish. What about you? Feel more secure with out your unfair dismissal rights? Now that I think about it, they suck.

bush
Actually he still didn't get what he wants. But it is a good looking banner.
The list of things to fix is endless: old men escaping in pajamas from their repatriation hospital; Toxic waist dumps; toxic waist without dumps; Truancy of the young; Aged students that won’t leave school; Kids that won’t leave home; Homes without kids; The population under and over; Drugs prescription and illicit. There is no end to what needs fixing, or as I am constantly reminded, when am I going to clean up the garage?


So in everyone’s life there is a garage that needs cleaning before the issues become like old magazines ready to tumble over and crush us all. If I had absolute power let me say that is one place that would be swooshed to another dimension.

Howard
He got what he wanted. See how happy he is.
Wow this absolute power thing is addictive. If I had it I would so overwhelmed for a few seconds, then straight away I would go off. The temptation to go bananas would be hard to resist. It would be too tempting to force a certain African leaders head up his own ass. I feel sorry for his poor donkey. Yet used in benign manner it can be glorious wonderful gift. Just providing rain that only falls where it is needed for the exact duration it is needed. How about, suddenly turning terrorist uniforms into pink leotards and the explosive belts into cans of whipped cream. We could watch the terrorist cream them selves. Here is an idea, turn Pauline Hanson into Chinese, Aboriginal and Muslim on alternate days of the week. If she says, “Please explain?” she ends up in Guantanimo Bay. Make tobacco companies tell the truth about their industry. What about Sir James Hardy posthumously losing his knighthood for his contribution to asbestosis?
ganesh
The power of a God comes highly recommended

With absolute power we can solve all the problems of the world absolutely.

So where would you start?
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Armchair Generals and Keyboard Field Marshals: People that really tick me off.

March 30th 2007 00:12
yep
Courage from behind a computer screen is not real courage.
Armchair Generals and Keyboard Field Marshals: People that really tick me off.

Kill em, blast em, declare war and show em what it means to take us on.
Yep I’ve heard and read them all.

The funny thing is such brave proclamations always come from people who safely positioned behind their computer screens typing away as if they themselves have a personal stake in the issue. The answer it seems is just a few taps of the keyboard away and suddenly the fantasy world of their making is set right. I call it a fantasy world because it does not accept any responsibility for what they promote. Sending in the marines is an abject term that is little more that just expecting the enemy to receive an almighty smiting. What marines? Our brave boys in uniform etc...etc…, as if they come in blister packs from the toy shop. The concept of these being actual people is only useful when used to promote their cause. Letters home to their perfect wives and their perfect children make perfect propaganda, but amputees and mental patients should be hidden away.

Sometimes we find these armchair generals as journalist, other times as bloggers and other times as talkback radio hosts. They have already chosen a side, which is their prerogative, and then choose to force that view with the enthusiasm of a lynch mob motivational speaker. What is really difficult to accept is that such people rarely if ever go anywhere near the fighting that they are promoting. The howlers calling for the War in Iraq had never been to war and never had to deal with blood, mud and death. When the fighting and killing starts they still cheer as if it is some kind of sports game. The verbal courage of such people is only match by the distance they are from any actual fighting. Perhaps it is a child like wonder about the glamour of war as taught by television or perhaps cowards love to make brave noises lest everyone realizes what they are.

Courage is a strange word that can be thrown about to taunt people in to doing stupid things. Drink a keg of beer; run naked across the MCG; go to war without knowing why. Such taunts are not new and have been used to create some terrible disasters. “Be brave, be bold, be bloody Macbeth. No man born of woman shall harm thee.” Also pay no heed to conscience…as “Conscience makes cowards of us all.” In modern times these words have been transformed into ‘luvies’; ‘lefties’ and ‘Traitors’. Perhaps what is true is that taunting is still the weapon of the coward.

I often see words written in haste by people that would no know an inch about the subject that they claim to know and scratch my head. The word kill seems like an affirmation that they were taught. “We’ve got the Bomb and so we can do whatever we should to keep it that way.” The problem is when the say ‘we’, they actually mean not specifically ‘them’. In fact as they wrap themselves in their national flag and sing anthems they will be happy send letters of tearful support in the same breath that send another person to be killed ‘heroically’ on the front. The fantasy is complete as they distance themselves from any bad news. Bad news is seen as lies invented by the enemies of their ‘glorious fight for freedom’.
The reality is that war is not some game for crotchety of grandmothers sitting on porches with a shotgun waiting for an in invading army that will never come. Nor is it that fantasy created by the recruitment posters and warmongers that have bunkered them selves safely behind their computers. No is it some kind of football match or holy crusade where Internet buffoons try win ‘brownie’ points, insult by insult.

The simple answer for such people is this: Where is your tin helmet, where is your uniform and where is your gun? Show me the scars from the battle field that you have been on. Show me your valor. Show me you courage by going to the very place that you are so willing to send others. Go to the harshest place with the bitterest enemy and show how courageous you really are. Walk past refugee camps, speak to children with out parents, and hear the lamenting of parents without children. Face up to reality instead of inventing it.

Until then what right has any of you to talk about courage?
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Pleading Guilty does not always mean you are guilty: Hicks Case.

March 28th 2007 23:31
Pleading Guilty does not always mean you are guilty: Hicks Case.

hicks
Davis Hicks
Talk to any lawyer and you will find that the situation of plea bargaining and negotiation as a common practice. Have a car accident and the negotiation starts when the amount of compensation is discussed. You may have not been at fault but the question of contributory negligence suddenly enters into the picture. There is a huge gap between legal justice that is there to maintain an ordered and predictable system and moral justice which is meant to do what is right. The television version of a lawyer defending the innocent person until he is free is a fantasy. At some point in many serious crimes the issue may come up that the case is lost despite the fact that you are innocent and you best course of action is to negotiate as short a sentence as possible. So in exchange for the most serious charges being dropped the person may opt for charges that would give them a suspended sentence and walk free. Unfair and unjust as it may seem it is how the legal system operates.

Given the same principle of behavior it should be no surprise that David Hicks has pleaded guilty to lesser crimes. After serving 5 years in a prison that could only be described as modern Devils Island his options were limited. The legal system that was invented by the Bush administration left no possibility of a not guilty verdict even went the extent of creating retrospective legislation to ensure all possible bases were covered. The crime of giving aide to a known terrorist organization only previously applied to American Citizens needed to be modified to cover Hick’s, thus it is without question retrospective. The sentence for such a crime is life and it is unlikely that there would be any chance of parole.

The prison itself is a gulag set up to produce gulag results. It was intended to be a place to drop the enemies of America and leave them there forever. That is why it was put outside of USA territory, to prevent any access to the proper legal system. It is a special court that no American citizen will ever have to face no matter what heinous terrorist act they commit. Instead it is a court set up specifically for foreigners and aliens in a legal loophole created just for them. Cases have dragged on through the courts and have been fought against by Bush who considers that as president and commander in chief he should have unlimited powers to deal with terrorism. The fact that there even a tribunal has more to do with politics than with any desire for justice. So far there have only been two people to face the tribunal, one pleaded guilty to every terrorist act from 9-11 to the beheading of a journalist. The other is David Hicks.

After 5 years David Hicks eventually face the tribunal and within minutes two of his defense team were dismissed by the judge and prevented from defending him. This left him only Maj. Mori to defend the case alone and as such would have been virtually impossible. There was also the likelihood that this case could drag on for another 5 years leaving David Hicks in the same prison cell for that period. Even with a verdict of not guilty it would be worse than a plea bargained guilty verdict. Common sense tells you that serving 10 years to be found not guilty is a pointless exercise and it also means the possibility of new charges being laid in that period. Common sense also tell you that David Hicks’ only chance at real legal justice is out side of what is basically a Kangaroo court set up for political trials. Once in Australian he may have access to the Australian legal system that can challenge his conviction in the American tribunal. As such it is understandable why he may choose to plea bargain at this stage.

There are some that will try to make mileage from the guilty plea and claim that on principle a guilty person would never plead guilty. Such people are deluded from the realities of what occurs all the time in the legal systems around the world. If justice was always fair and swift them without doubt no innocent person would ever plead guilty. Yet if justice is long and includes torture and abuse who knows how long someone could wait before looking at some form of escape even if it is to plead guilty.

As such regardless of what is said or pleaded by David Hicks the case will always been seen as show trial with a show guilty plea to match.

A Gulag guilty plea from the American Gulag.
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Sri Lankan Air Force Base Bombed by LTTE

March 27th 2007 01:57
Sri Lankan Air Force Base Bombed by LTTE

dass
Security tightens after the attack
Yesterday the Sri Lankan Air Force Base in Katunayake came under attack from LTTE (Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam) using aircraft. The LTTE otherwise known as the Tamil Tiger’s is a terrorist organization trying to obtain a separate homeland in the North West of Sri Lanka. It is the first time that the organization has used air craft for attach. In 2001 the LTTE made an attack upon the same air force base destroying several military planes then attacked the adjacent International Bandaranaike airport destroying a number of passenger aircraft


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Theologically Crippling Disease and other afflictions

March 25th 2007 11:34
Theologically Crippling Disease and other afflictions.

ch
You have to admire the way Jack Chick invented his own reality to match his own bigotry. Hey that rhymes
I would rather talk to the wall than some people who have crossed my path. This is because they have a knack of irritating even the patient of people with the meager understanding of the subject that they claim as their own. After reading an article about certain forms of brain trauma that cause people to act irrationally I began to wonder if it should be labeled as a disease. Something like Turret Syndrome, where the person cannot help themselves from making expletive outbursts. “How the Holy Crap, Ding Dong, up the Duffus are you to day Madam?” Instead it is an affliction that forces people to labor a point about a subject merely because it is the side that they chose first and cannot admit defeat, or because they enjoy arguing that black is in fact white. This is a serious problem in society that does no seem to get much attention. Perhaps one the problem has a name it can be taken up by medicos and a cure can be found


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Police confirm Cricket Coach Woolmer was Murdered

March 23rd 2007 01:00
This was just sent to minutes ago.


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Now Lets Talk about Broadband Investment

March 22nd 2007 23:35
Now Lets Talk about Broadband Investment.

Time for Myapologetics to take of its political harpooning hat and put on its technical hat


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Is There No Hope of Avoiding Divine Punishment? There is Gunna be a Smiting.

March 21st 2007 02:35
satan
So glad you could drop in.
Is There No Hope of Avoiding Divine Punishment? There is Gunna be a Smiting.

b&C
So what do you think Cheney can we take him on?
If you accept the premise of Devine Punishment or even Karma you must begin to wonder at what point the table start to turn and what seemed like a great idea starts to go all pear shaped. History is a terrific resource for the Divine punishment rule


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No Legs, No Idea who thought this film up:

March 19th 2007 22:40
NO LEGS.
1980, a year that the was almost seventies trash and not quite eighties new rhomantic. Martial Arts movies were flooding the market and people needed new concepts to entertain the crowds. So what does any self respect film maker do? You guessed it, they may a martial Arts film with an assasin with no legs. Classy.
Watch this clip and see if you agree


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If there is one lesson over the last 4 years it is this.

March 18th 2007 23:27
If there is one lesson over the last 4 years it is this.

John Coward
Kings start wars but nver have to fight in them. Welcome to the history books Howard. You will not be forgotten.
The Prime Minister of Australia should never have the power to take us to war without the permission of the parliament. This power is too great for one man to have and can be easily abused by a self serving egotist wanting to put their name in the history books. Power is like a drug and so is adulation as a war Prime Minister. Everyone remembers Churchill, but who remembers who followed. Everyone remembers Hitler but who led Germany after the war? Who will ever forget Howard? He is a Prime Minister at war and history always remembers war and the leaders in that war. History remembers the speeches and captures the photographs. It remembers the expressions on people’s faces and the dark times. It remembers ever the smallest victories. Yet a peaceful time is forgotten


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Jobs that are never advertised but you really want.

March 18th 2007 08:18
Jobs that are never advertised but you really want.


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Aveu, L' (La Confession): How to make anyone confess to anything

March 16th 2007 00:54
Aveu, L' (La Confession): How to make anyone confess to anything.

the confession
False Confession can be extracted from most people in a few months
Perhaps the best example of the psychology of interrogation and torture ever brought to film. It is a film that asks simple questions and gives their answers in a clear manner. Set in Stalin’s Soviet Union it follows the path of a man caught up in the purges. Based on a true story we see a once loyal and active hero of the revolution being arrested without charge and then subjected to all forms of abuse in order to extract a false confession. The 1974 film does justice to this era and shows how only human can be truly inhuman


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I want to be John Howard’s Speech Writer

March 15th 2007 00:28
I want to be John Howard’s Speech Writer

Dear Johnny


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If you were God who would you smite?

March 13th 2007 23:19
smite
Push that button!
If you were God who would you smite?

Lets face it there are people in this world that just seem to give everyone the irrates. They can be anyone from a Leader of the Free World to a despot Dictator to our next door neighbor. You can kill a thousand people but as long as you have a cool persona no one is ever irritated. It is the smug arrogance and obvious injustice that makes people wish they had their own personal smite button. With one gesture of the finger you could send an almighty bolt of lightning to fry these SOB’s to a crisp. ZZZaaaapppp and they nothing more that smoking charcoal


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The Naked Ambassador in El Salvador

March 12th 2007 21:57
The Naked Ambassador in El Salvador

The Israel Ambassador to El Salvador was found drunk and naked except for bondage gear two weeks ago


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Starting Your Own Religion: A case study

March 12th 2007 01:21
Starting Your Own Religion: A case study

There is this person I know that started his own religion. Here is how I saw what happened. The names have been changed to protect guilty and innocent from each other


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Why the US and Iran don’t get along?

March 11th 2007 06:30

Why the US and Iran don’t get along?

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CIA Assassination Training Manual Online

March 8th 2007 23:27
CIA Assassination Training Manual Online

killer
How to kill a bunch of guys at conference table. Make sure that they have no chance of escape and mow them down.
Following up on my previous post about the CIA Torture Manuals Online I have also found the declassified text of another instruction manual. This time it is the CIA document called ‘A Study of Assassination’. The document had a controversial life inside the CIA and was claimed to be forbidden from being used. Pres. George Bush senior was always vocally opposed to political assassination and has answered difficult interviews saying that he thought it was unjustified. Pres. George W Bush junior was happy to go along the concept after 9-11. So as a document on its own there nothing to indicate who actually believed that it was worthy of commissioning and for what purpose


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Educated Beyond your Intelligence

March 8th 2007 03:41
hh
BS can baffle Brains
Educated Beyond your Intelligence

You see these people everywhere; they are the ones who we have given every chance and opportunity. They wave their minor qualifications as if they were as good as major qualifications and experience. Yes they have read a book or two but they cannot manage to understand a basic thing in those books. Opinions bleed from every cavity as if the whole world needed to be set on the correct path that only they know. They may even hold no opinions until they are told what to think by a friend, a magazine and a television interview. These are the sad cases of people who are educated beyond their intelligence. We cannot blame such people for their fate, it is sickness born out of being too lazy to think for them selves. Such people are useful to the puppeteers of the world because they do all the irrational arguing and time wasting for the more intelligent evil overlords in the making. Here are some examples


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CIA Torture Training manuals available on the Web

March 7th 2007 00:18
CIA Torture Training manuals available on the Web

Two documents that were used as training manuals by the CIA were declassified through freedom of information. Theses are Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation manual from 1963 and the Human Resources Exploitation training Manual from 1983. Both documents give an insight into the mentality of a torturer and their motivations for doing so. The manual are written in an objective manner which is typical of most internal government or corporate documents. The tone of the writing reflects upon the subject with no more interest than any number of bland training manuals that have been written. Had it not been about the subject of torture and “coercive techniques” you would have to think that the author was writing instructions for building a school basket ball team


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Is Maj. Mori being charged to prevent Justice for Hicks? What are your thoughts?

March 4th 2007 23:08
Is Maj. Mori being charged to prevent Justice for Hicks? What are your thoughts?

This is another open forum but I will add a bit of back ground informati