By: clavdivs
JFK told the media nothing then not to run the missle stories in 62' (ORTSAC, clever code word eh) Was he being Totalitarian? well, the tabloids could run a new story...opps forgot about that aspect....
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the skinny has it that the government told the media to back off the investigation As little as I respect our media in general, we do not (yet) live in a totalitarian state, and I don't believe the...
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elpapacito - Think your idea, which is simultaneously very funny and very practical, deserves it's own movement. clavdivs - In context my friend, in context! I also posted that "Military Coup of 2012"...
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LH, sometime in 2002, the skinny has it that the government told the media to back off the investigation. thats all I know except for some autopsy aspects that show he suffered more damage then your...
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troutfishing: exactly, but not necessarily in the middle of Sahara or open sea which is an extremization done to prevent the majority of people from partecipating if they so wish ; if they wanna go...
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clavdivs, I hope you were supplying that link to bolster my point rather than to answer my question, because the last story that even mentions the anthrax investigation is a year old, and the last one...
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I love it! Future political conventions will - for the public safety - be held in deserts or out on the open sea. That way, politicians won't be able to take cover amidst the innocent masses.
View ArticleBy: amberglow
that's a really good point, elpapa...i for one want the Republicans to stay the hell out of my town this summer. Let's put one party's convention in Joshua Tree, and the other in Death Valley or...
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Quoting A.G. Ashcroft : The Madrid railway bombings were perceived by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to have advanced their cause. Al Qaeda may perceive that a large-scale attack in the United States...
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This is one area where I think the constitution should be unclear dam i did not think of that, really. that is interesting and ingenius, like, what if the founding fathers and sons went around like...
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...and one more thing about al-qaida. This means roughly 'the Base'. The base as in a gathering or focal point to arabs going to jihad in afghanistan. By it's nature, it is an ad hoc organization that...
View ArticleBy: KirkJobSluder
clavdivs: No, but close. Robert Kennedy was weeks away from a certain democratic nomination. The constitution is unclear about this issue. This is one area where I think the constitution should be...
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I'm comforted to know that there are those in the US military establishment who might oppose a naked power grab. well thats a relief. Come on man, have you learned nothing from hamilton? "General,...
View ArticleBy: pyramid termite
I'm wondering something ... aren't federal elections, by the Supreme Court's own ruling in 2000 run by the states ... if the feds cancel - what would happen if some state governors announced they were...
View ArticleBy: KirkJobSluder
The notion that Bush might be engaged in a conspiracy to cancel the November elections seems to defy logic. 1: The presidency is not everything and the November elections are not just about the...
View ArticleBy: homunculus
An Overreaction? Not everyone thought John Ashcroft's warning was justified.
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Of course, if we are worried about possible terrorist attacks, we will have to increase security and limit protests around the two conventions and this summer G8 economic summit. They aren't raising...
View ArticleBy: rushmc
If something happens again, three years after 9/11, things won't be the same. As others have said: Bush is running on a campaign of protection. If he can't protect, what good is he? You are presuming a...
View ArticleBy: KirkJobSluder
Has it ever happened that a nominee died between the convention and the election? Not with the President but with other offices. Fundamentally, the primary system is party tradition rather than...
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