Politics & Government - 24 September 2006

2006-09-24 19:27:27 · 4 answers · asked by apar c 1 in Other - Politics & Government

He signed on to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution". Since then, he has:

1) Lied in order to involve us in an illegal and immoral war, and the subsequent occupation of Iraq.
2) Logic dictates that, since #1 is true, he is guilty of the murder of over 2,600 of our own men and women, and 130,000 innocent Iraqis, as well as the mutilation, amputation, and maiming of those who are injured, but still alive.
3) Manipulating and dis-allowing the press to accurately report on the daily horrors of the war and subsequent occupation, including the torture at Abu Graib and the Iraqi civil war that is now responsible for 100 DEATHS PER DAY by "insurgents".
4) Illegal wiretapping of his own citizens.
5) Lying about #4.
6) Re-writing the law to excuse #4.
7) Illegal torture against the Geneva Convention.
8) Lying about #7.
9) Getting his criminal Neo-Con friends to re-write and Amend the Geneva Convention laws so he has an excuse for Gitmo torture.

TRY, NEO-CONS!!!

2006-09-24 19:26:35 · 15 answers · asked by Rebooted 5 in Law & Ethics

Would you vote for David Letterman if he ran for president?

2006-09-24 19:25:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2006-09-24 19:22:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am australian and I know i am going to get a torrent of abuse from patriotic americans as i'd say most people on this site are american
.i have lived in america 3 times and went to school there, so i am not just making claims about somehwere i have never been.

Why do americans often assert that america is the best and how great it is and then they turn around and complain about george bush (OK did u vote? if the answer is no then u hav absolutely no right to complain), the death penalty (which appears to occur more in USA than other western countries), unemployment coz they don't hav any social security, pollution (when american cars are pretty much the biggest in world).

I'm not saying everything about america is bad. I'm just making the point that how can u b so patriotic yet complain about 'the lucky country' so much? What makes american so patriotic? is it saying the pledge everyday in school?

2006-09-24 19:17:38 · 19 answers · asked by emo garrett 2 in Politics

Jesus said: "You will recognize them by their fruits." The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to "spread the faith by the sword"?

Well, they just did not.

For many centuries, the Muslims ruled Greece. Did the Greeks become Muslims? Did anyone even try to Islamize them? On the contrary, Christian Greeks held the highest positions in the Ottoman administration. The Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians and other European nations lived at one time or another under Ottoman rule and clung to their Christian faith. Nobody compelled them to become Muslims and all of them remained devoutly Christian.

True, the Albanians did convert to Islam, and so did the Bosniaks. But nobody argues that they did this under duress. They adopted Islam in order to become favorites of the government and enjoy the fruits.

In 1099, the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and massacred its Muslim and Jewish inhabitants indiscriminately, in the name of the gentle Jesus. At that time, 400 years into the occupation of Palestine by the Muslims, Christians were still the majority in the country. Throughout this long period, no effort was made to impose Islam on them. Only after the expulsion of the Crusaders from the country, did the majority of the inhabitants start to adopt the Arabic language and the Muslim faith - and they were the forefathers of most of today's Palestinians.

There is no evidence whatsoever of any attempt to impose Islam on the Jews. As is well known, under Muslim rule the Jews of Spain enjoyed a bloom the like of which the Jews did not enjoy anywhere else until almost our time. Poets like Yehuda Halevy wrote in Arabic, as did the great Maimonides. In Muslim Spain, Jews were ministers, poets, scientists. In Muslim Toledo, Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars worked together and translated the ancient Greek philosophical and scientific texts. That was, indeed, the Golden Age. How would this have been possible, had the Prophet decreed the "spreading of the faith by the sword"?

What happened afterwards is even more telling. When the Catholics re-conquered Spain from the Muslims, they instituted a reign of religious terror. The Jews and the Muslims were presented with a cruel choice: to become Christians, to be massacred or to leave. And where did the hundreds of thousand of Jews, who refused to abandon their faith, escape? Almost all of them were received with open arms in the Muslim countries. The Sephardi ("Spanish") Jews settled all over the Muslim world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, from Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the north to Sudan in the south. Nowhere were they persecuted. They knew nothing like the tortures of the Inquisition, the flames of the auto-da-fe, the pogroms, the terrible mass-expulsions that took place in almost all Christian countries, up to the Holocaust.

Why? Because Islam expressly prohibited any persecution of the "peoples of the book". In Islamic society, a special place was reserved for Jews and Christians. They did not enjoy completely equal rights, but almost. They had to pay a special poll-tax, but were exempted from military service - a trade-off that was quite welcome to many Jews. It has been said that Muslim rulers frowned upon any attempt to convert Jews to Islam even by gentle persuasion - because it entailed the loss of taxes.

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times "by the sword" to get them to abandon their faith.

The story about "spreading the faith by the sword" is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims - the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna. I suspect that the German Pope, too, honestly believes in these fables. That means that the leader of the Catholic world, who is a Christian theologian in his own right, did not make the effort to study the history of other religions.

Why did he utter these words in public? And why now?

There is no escape from viewing them against the background of the new Crusade of Bush and his evangelist supporters, with his slogans of "Islamofascism" and the "Global War on Terrorism" - when "terrorism" has become a synonym for Muslims. For Bush's handlers, this is a cynical attempt to justify the domination of the world's oil resources. Not for the first time in history, a religious robe is spread to cover the nakedness of economic interests; not for the first time, a robbers' expedition becomes a Crusade.

The speech of the Pope blends into this effort. Who can foretell the dire consequences?

2006-09-24 19:15:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

Like: "I wish you'd cuff 'n' stuff me!" First of all, HELL NO, second of all, do you ladies (and I use that term loosely) know where those cuffs have been? Mine have been on child molesters, rapists, crackheads...do you REALLY want them on your dainty lil' wrists?

And this actually happened - I was patting down a suspect in a few violent felonies, and this chica comes up and demands I pat HER down - because it was "her birthday."

And then there's the request to see my "night stick." Um, no.

Anyway, it's getting old, so please skanks, during all of your down-time waiting for your next "paycheck" (welfare check) to come, try to come up with some hot, new pick-up lines to use on your friendly neighborhood law man...God knows they won't work either, but at least we might all be entertained!

2006-09-24 19:15:14 · 15 answers · asked by Glockmeister 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Many banks are offering loans to illegals without income documentation. The government votes to put National Guard on the border, and his week voted to build a fence on the border. A mixed message? Read more at:

http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=2501

2006-09-24 19:05:49 · 19 answers · asked by John L 2 in Immigration

With this news of Christmas lights being offensive and us English not being allowed to fly the English flag in some places.. how can you say this is offensive when the UK is not a Muslim country? (Didn't used to be anyway but only because of immigration that it is getting that way) You should respect the British way of life if you want to come here. If you don't like it you should find somewhere else.

2006-09-24 19:04:49 · 12 answers · asked by claire 5 in Immigration

2006-09-24 19:04:05 · 10 answers · asked by MorgantonNC 4 in Other - Politics & Government

i'm wondering if you have seen this video. as an american, american mexican, 7th generation here. i'm concerned about the tarrist coming threw mexico, and passing there self's off as mexican. i must warn you the video is grusome but true. it's the tarrist attacking an american. it p isses me off to the point we need to seal are borders down and monitor who ever comes threw. and mind you not all muslims are bad. these guys do not represent the muslim faith. they are sadistic dog's.
you will have to go to your tool bar to get the link. but i warn you again it is grusome. www.ulita.com/beheading.php

2006-09-24 19:02:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

One example is: Stealing, people steal when they are thinking of themself. If they were thinking of others they probably would not steal.

2006-09-24 18:57:32 · 9 answers · asked by J T 6 in Law Enforcement & Police

What's worse? Saying NUKE-U-LAR or not being able to define "is"?

Is it a wonder why Osama played inept sex pervert Clinton as a fool?

2006-09-24 18:54:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is this the total legacy of Bill Clinton?

Sex scandals and Bin Laden caught him with his pants down!
What a disgrace!

2006-09-24 18:50:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

hi i have a couple of questions i really need to be answered since i never seem to get through the main line. my friend is in life for murder. i wanted to know if i had to sign any papers before hand or make an appointment to see him? & if sooo do i really have to be on his list to visit him? i doubt that he would remember to put me on the list. & my last question is how do i make an appointment if the lines are always busy? thanks a concerned friend.

2006-09-24 18:50:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I was wonder what are the laws for driving when you have epilespy and how control do you have to be. What do have to do first. do I have to pass a eye test what is involed in getting your permit. so many question. Its been over a year since my last seizure so now what i want to be able to get a job and get around better. what you think would I legal be allowed to do this

2006-09-24 18:48:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I'm a registured independent.... I have a real hard time supporting Bush even though I think he might be right a lot of issues. But he is making the governments of the world lose respect for us and this is dangerous to our security. It is creating political instabiliy for our nation and increasing our vulnerability from terrorist. He is more of a problem then those muslim extremeist. I think we should abandon Iraq.... save our soldiers... let those fanatic psychos over there kill each other. That way there will be less of those jihad assholes. Your opinion?

2006-09-24 18:42:48 · 19 answers · asked by hearts_pool_chess 2 in Politics

As far as I know, Clinton is not the president anymore. And if you saw his interview with Wallace of FOX News, you will agree that Clinton was prepared for Wallace's attacks.

It just doesn't make sense that they would attack Clinton and yet not attack and blame Bush for not doing anything before 9/11 happened. Bush even said he doesn't care about Bin Laden AFTER 9/11. So where is the outrage?

2006-09-24 18:42:14 · 20 answers · asked by dewdropinn 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Being the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah was a man of dignity and ambition. There's a hollywood movie made on his life starring Christopher Lee as Jinnah. I wanted to know if you guys had any info on him as well. Here's a pic of his. He's the one in the suit : http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2022/images/20031107000407501.jpg

2006-09-24 18:41:28 · 3 answers · asked by Huda_Alee 3 in Politics

OK,if you were a situation to where......A guy speeding on the highway becuase he was chaseing after a car that had his kidnapped daughter in it.....And the guy wouldnt stop when you tryed to pull him over becuase he was tryin to stay wit the car that had his kidnapped daughter in it....would you arrest the guy for not stopeing when you tryed to pull him over....I know that sounds hard to understand,but im not very good at explaining..

2006-09-24 18:37:44 · 8 answers · asked by roy 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

My source was the usa today news paper a few days later

2006-09-24 18:37:02 · 23 answers · asked by Edward C 1 in Other - Politics & Government

what are the objectives when studying charter change?

2006-09-24 18:35:40 · 1 answers · asked by kulot 1 in Government

I live near NYC and every year it comes up that there are many countries owing millions of dollars to NYC because many ambassadors owe years and years of illegal parking tickets. The city is nearly powerless to enforce these laws. I feel they are abusing their rights and they should somehow be force to pay. How can we make them pay and if you disagree why?

2006-09-24 18:31:03 · 6 answers · asked by hearts_pool_chess 2 in Embassies & Consulates

2006-09-24 18:27:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-24 18:26:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-09-24 18:26:11 · 9 answers · asked by hunny_kisses 2 in Immigration

Seeing how the heros of 9/11 were lied about the air quality and many have become sick or died. How can we trust the same people to tell us when there is radiation leaking from a nuke plant? I'm ready to buy a Geiger Counter (radiation measuring device) cause I don't trust them... Yet I'm afraid the FBI will kick down my door for buying such a device suspecting I might be a terrorist... I'm damned if I do damn if I don't... Am I taking it too far? Do you agree or disagree with my point of veiw? Why?

2006-09-24 18:25:44 · 6 answers · asked by hearts_pool_chess 2 in Civic Participation

2006-09-24 18:25:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-09-24 18:22:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

im just seeking opinions on the interview on fox,i tuned in simply because i like bill.please tell me your thoughts,just your opinions,no insults please,i want all opinions,bad or good,so dont hold back,thanks!

2006-09-24 18:20:17 · 20 answers · asked by jen 5 in Politics