Politics & Government - 15 August 2006

Today reported on the Guardian web site British officials are considering a proposal to select people for extra screening at airports based on religous or etnic backgrounds. (Article : http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6016515,00.html) Should the U.S. and other countries implement this policy?

2006-08-15 04:19:52 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

without indirectly voting for a commo-crat

2006-08-15 04:19:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-15 04:19:24 · 6 answers · asked by NONAME 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I wanna join the RAF but before I go ahead just wanna know what you people out theyre think is the best armed force i.e. pay, career oppurtunities and the one with the most adventure?

Cheers

2006-08-15 04:19:12 · 4 answers · asked by djdenyer 1 in Military

George Bush should stop trying to subpoena Google for search results by their customers. If any officials are reading this, take note, that we oppose you intruding and breaking our right to freedom of speech and the right to educate ourselves through media and literature, whether it be via the internet or otherwise.

2006-08-15 04:18:25 · 13 answers · asked by buttercup_boisvert 2 in Government

Recently my government strictened the regulations on firearm ownership. Now I am not a Gun nut but I do follow these people in their reasoning that if some one wants a weapon. they will find or make one. Through my carreer in the army I had a descent experience with firearms,and I know what they can do. And I would prefer to be shot with a 9 MM pistol(restricted or forbidden in most european countries) than with a 12 gauge hunting rifle(still allowed in most countries) or be cut open with a knife!!
What's your view. Absolute ban for the public. Total freedom. Or a logically restricted system?
(and don't be naive please fire arms exist we can not get rid of them!!)

2006-08-15 04:17:45 · 33 answers · asked by peter gunn 7 in Law Enforcement & Police

Or do you think that they are excellent and a sure sign of progress and growth. Historical details that mark the evolution of man.
Or do you feel enraged when you are forced to sit on the other end of a hone line and are forced to speak to one of these things becaue you have no other option.
Would you like to blow an air horn into the reciever?

2006-08-15 04:17:02 · 4 answers · asked by profile image 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Seems to me that scare tactics only work on cowards. With the level of illegals we have here from all over the world, the Feds and CIA cannot control or tab these individuals.

2006-08-15 04:15:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If not, why fight it?

2006-08-15 04:14:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It's always OK to go to war if you can convince a majority of the citizens and their representatives that war is the best option without using any deception

2006-08-15 04:12:59 · 61 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-08-15 04:12:16 · 7 answers · asked by Smoothv 1 in Law & Ethics

This will sound like just a rude question that I'm asking just so people will agree with me, but really it's not. I really am wondering. After the whole time I've been using Yahoo Answers, Everyday I see several liberal or members bashing the republicans, what the republicans believe and our President. I'd like to hear from the liberals as well to see their veiw on things.

2006-08-15 04:11:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

(He's lifting weights so much to prepare for the angry mob that's been forming)

2006-08-15 04:10:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2006-08-15 04:09:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Why are Pals reluctant to demand that Arab nations recognize Israel? (If they did, then Israel wouldn't be able to use regional hostility as a legitimate excuse to deny Pal rights would they.) Do Pals have some ulterior motive I don't know about?

2006-08-15 04:08:13 · 6 answers · asked by Brand X 6 in Politics

2006-08-15 04:08:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I know it is unjust and goes against everything our country is about, but seriously people, it is such a solid plan to stop them from blowing us up! I mean they hate us already, so why not go all the way you know?

2006-08-15 04:06:38 · 55 answers · asked by Justin D 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-15 04:04:46 · 7 answers · asked by The "Spence" 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-15 04:04:41 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

and why are they there? Doesn't the government of Nigeria trust its own people. I hear you have to pay whoever is manning the checkpoints a bribe to get through them

2006-08-15 04:03:32 · 4 answers · asked by David C 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-15 04:03:27 · 12 answers · asked by The "Spence" 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-15 04:03:06 · 22 answers · asked by Carlos B 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-15 04:01:15 · 4 answers · asked by Jack W 1 in Law & Ethics

fiscallly ignorant knuckledragging dolts

2006-08-15 04:01:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It seems from the press that there has already been a trial and the "suspects" found guilty.

FACTS:
None of the suspects had made a bomb, none had an airline ticket, many did not even have passports, many had been under surveillance for more than a year (with so many cameras etc, this could apply to most brits).

The "evidence" for the plot was from the ineterrogation/torture of a suspect by the Pakistani dictatorship.

Also, as student, Reid was known as the Stirling University Communist Party "enforcer" and the current UK government has a history of being "economical with the truth".

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MUR20060814&articleId=2962

2006-08-15 04:01:01 · 17 answers · asked by Nothing to say? 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

This is an essay question on a scholarship I am applying for, and was just curious what other's opinions are.

2006-08-15 04:00:09 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

republicans would start killing their first born children , follow and stand by him for sure. But what would the Dems do?

2006-08-15 03:59:38 · 20 answers · asked by Charles Dobson Focus on the Fam 2 in Politics

20 Amazing Facts About
Voting in the USA

by Angry Girl

of Nightweed.com

Did you know....
1. 80 percent of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60 percent of all U.S. votes.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50f the votes in 30 states.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm..how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm..how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: http://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30 percent of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.

http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

2006-08-15 03:58:50 · 9 answers · asked by blank 2 in Government

In CA it's called "Megan's Law."

2006-08-15 03:58:46 · 2 answers · asked by inquiringmind 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-08-15 03:58:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government