Politics & Government - 21 October 2006

2006-10-21 16:54:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and to be fair, America has killed their share of civilians in the past. Remember Dresden?

2006-10-21 16:54:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

America on Line is attempting to force me to pay for a service i did not use, i know they do this to thousands if not millions of people, and i want to find them and join a class action suit if one is going on, The deceit, and unprofessional way they are treating me is almost hard to believe.I DO REMEMBER somewhere on a web site their were hundreds of people who posted exactly the same story,, if anyone can give me info please do, and please no jokers, or one liners, this situation could and is happening everywhere , After i have proven i did not OWE THEM MONEY, or use AOL, they agree, then they are pursuing me aggresively to collect money,,with bully tactics, is very stressful, and greedy is not the right word for them.. but i can't find anything better at this time,
please give me feedback if you are familiar with this subject, and thank you..

2006-10-21 16:53:58 · 2 answers · asked by Maureen K 4 in Law & Ethics

I heard about a guy running for Sheriff who changed his name to Andy Griffin.
Best answer to be my chief of staff!

2006-10-21 16:50:32 · 16 answers · asked by m s 1 in Elections

2006-10-21 16:49:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I just read Black Chameleon Memoirs, which chronicles the life of a successful criminal. This story is suppose to be based on a true story, but I really wonder if someone can really do all the things that the main character did and not get caught. What do you think? Do you know of any successful criminals?

2006-10-21 16:49:04 · 30 answers · asked by Chavis 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Do you believe that the original purpose for the Invasion of Iraq was to divide up the oil among the 5 largest oil companies, break OPEC and allow these oil companies to become the new OPEC

2006-10-21 16:48:40 · 29 answers · asked by Wayne S 1 in Other - Politics & Government

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20040804/ai_n12552125

should churches have any special treatments and how about chruch vs. state.

2006-10-21 16:48:27 · 4 answers · asked by mendoza512003 2 in Law & Ethics

You are in no way being detrimental to anyone else. Is attempted suicide really a law?

2006-10-21 16:48:26 · 7 answers · asked by Dr. Answers 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

My eye doctor said that I am myopic, unable to focus, and unable to read the handwriting on the wall.

2006-10-21 16:46:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

We all know that Bush has severely damaged the Republican party, and that is a certanty that a Democrat will take back the white house in '08.
But my question is, do you think Bush has damaged the party beyond repair??
I think it's a deffinite possibility.

2006-10-21 16:46:36 · 14 answers · asked by Blalalalal 2 in Government

they take every chance they can to avoid real issues and try to talk about a conspiracy theory. or some what if scenario that relies on emotion and not common sense to answer.

2006-10-21 16:46:30 · 8 answers · asked by drew e 1 in Politics

2006-10-21 16:43:21 · 9 answers · asked by carolinatinpan 5 in Immigration

I am sure to hear Lib lies and media half truths.

2006-10-21 16:40:53 · 31 answers · asked by carolinatinpan 5 in Politics

2006-10-21 16:40:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

After all these years, The Face of Mars still looks like a face despite political control policy hit pieces calling it science by using plausible deniability.

Now without the influence of the political negativism, do you think the Face warrants humanity's leap to Mars?

If MRO confirms the Face as artificially designed by intelligence, or hints further thereof, would you demand a manned mission plot it's course to Cydonia?

How many would be too afraid to go into that implicated reality? How many think we humans should steer clear away from the implications & Mars because of possible alien intelligent interaction?

2006-10-21 16:40:02 · 5 answers · asked by MARS REVEALER 1 in Government

Every day we live in the constant reality of a GWOT. As Americans, we are stressed by threats of terror in our own country and are spread out all over the world in the name of the fight against terrorism. When will the GWOT end? Or do you think it will end? Also, what do you think will take to end this war? Feel free to pick and choose which questions you would like to answer. This is an open-ended discussion.

2006-10-21 16:38:09 · 12 answers · asked by sforce973 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-21 16:36:31 · 10 answers · asked by bennyaleena 1 in Civic Participation

2006-10-21 16:35:59 · 11 answers · asked by carolinatinpan 5 in Elections

The strategy is staying the same. but so are the results : More than 2,700 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. At least 73 U.S. troops have been killed in October alone, a pace that if continued will make it one of the deadliest months for U.S. forces.

2006-10-21 16:35:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Peace and prosperity....don't you miss it?

2006-10-21 16:35:27 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Ethics is a very large topic, but distorting truths on a daily basis, accepting large sums of money for not doing to much, omitting evidence to win your point of view are all a huge compromise in ethics? The reason why there is so much of this, I think is because this behavior is inherently part of the profession, just as much as science is the pursuit of truth ? Even those on the boards protect this behavior and do nothing to protect its victims, in fact this behavior is as routine even at the top levels. It is not just a profession, it is a slipery and lucrative slope to moral death and lack of conscience, or caring. Often the poor, the honest, have different treasures ,, the gold is not money, not wordly.... it is truth and caring.

2006-10-21 16:35:10 · 4 answers · asked by EM-water2 6 in Law & Ethics

I t seems to me that running for high office in America is far more personal than it is here in the UK.By that,I mean it appears to be more about the individual than it is about the party as a whole.
If that is the case,how did a draft-dodging,drug taking alcoholic with a criminal record get to become President?Especially when you factor in that his wife killed someone through dangerous driving who,by pure coincidence, just happened to be the guy who had recently dumped her.
Whatever happened to American morals?

2006-10-21 16:34:39 · 22 answers · asked by rosbif 6 in Government

Mexico gangs displaying severed heads By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer
Sat Oct 21, 6:33 PM ET



VILLA MADERO, Mexico - The drug lords at war in central Mexico are no longer content with simply killing their enemies. They are putting their severed heads on public display.

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In Michoacan, the home state of President-elect Felipe Calderon, 17 heads have turned up this year, many with bloodstained notes like the one found in the highlands town of Tepalcatepec in August: "See. Hear. Shut Up. If you want to stay alive."

Many in Michoacan's mountains and colonial cities are doing just that: They are tightlipped, their newspapers are censoring themselves and in one town, 18 out of 32 police officers quit saying they had received death threats from drug smugglers.

In the most gruesome case, gunmen burst into a nightclub and rolled five heads onto the dance floor. In another, a pair of heads were planted in front of a car dealership in Zitacuaro, a town best known until now as a nesting ground for monarch butterflies.

By a highway outside Tepalcatepec, suspected drug smuggler Hector Eduardo Bautista's tortured body was dumped on July 10. Near a black metal cross put up by his family at the spot, killers apparently avenging his death have been leaving severed heads — five so far — each with a threatening message.

Beheadings and accompanying notes in sometimes cryptic and misspelled Spanish are becoming a ghoulish vogue among the gangs that grow marijuana, cook methamphetamine and run cocaine in Michoacan. There have been 420 homicides in the state this year, including 19 police chiefs and commanders, and Juan Antonio Magana, the state's attorney general, says well over half the killings were drug-related — the work of smuggling gangs reorganizing after authorities captured some of their top leaders.

"These are groups that are very big, very strong and are out to dominate territory," Magana said in an interview.

Drug smuggling in Michoacan has traditionally been controlled by a syndicate known as Los Valencia. Police arrested its leader, Armando Valencia, in August 2003 and one of his lieutenants, Carlos Alberto Rosales Mendoza, a year later.

Now, anti-narcotics investigators say, the Gulf cartel based in northern Mexico is battling its way into Los Valencia territory, relying on "Los Zetas," ex-Mexican army operatives-turned hit men. Los Valencia loyalists have fought back fiercely.

Many notes attached to slaying victims are signed "The Family," a possible reference to Los Valencia. Some mention "La Chata," a known alias for a top reputed Gulf cartel hit man.

"They don't need to leave written messages. The mere fact that they are using such high levels of violence is sending messages of intimidation, causing fear," Magana said. "But doing it shows other gangs they can act in even more gruesome and violent ways than their rivals."

With a vast and sparsely populated Pacific coast and the rugged Sierra Madre del Sur Mountains, Michoacan is good territory for producing and smuggling drugs.

Many farmers have abandoned avocado, coffee and corn in favor of marijuana in the highlands, where roads are few and police can't easily penetrate. Smuggling gangs have cleared forests for airstrips. Small planes crammed with Colombian cocaine streak in, leaving loads that are ferried to the coast and stowed on fast boats that speed north toward the U.S. border.

Michoacan also has become a den for hidden meth labs.

Journalists statewide have covered the murders but some have avoided digging further after receiving death threats. On Oct. 13, police recovered the body of an unidentified man who had been shot 38 times and dumped outside the town of Tacambaro. An attached note in fluorescent yellow marker appeared to directly threaten the media: "The family and the ZZs are the same thing. Media outlets, don't sell out."

Calderon, who will be sworn in as president on Dec. 1, wants a new, better trained federal police force to investigate drug smuggling, longer prison terms for drug convicts and more extraditions of kingpins wanted in the U.S.

He says Mexico also needs more help from U.S. law enforcement, since Mexican smugglers are serving American drug users.

Attorney General Magana denies Calderon's contention that Mexican law enforcement is overwhelmed. But in Villa Madero, a logging town of crowing roosters and stray dogs asleep on cracked asphalt streets, the abrupt mass departure of police officers suggests a different picture.

"There's an enormous pressure here," said former officer Reyes Alberto Gamino, now retired at 21. "It's very dangerous."

Mayor Alberto Villasenor has said the police were fired for failing to show up to guard a municipal dance Sept. 16. The former officers claim they quit because gunmen were waiting to kill them for arresting a reputed drug boss.

One of the officers who resigned is Gildardo Villa. Interviewed in front of his home, Villa seemed nervous, looking over his shoulder constantly and answering questions in hushed tones.

"The threats had been coming for a long time," he said. "That's why we left."

Inside his cramped City Hall office, Justice of the Peace Apolinar Yanez acknowledged that police are afraid of the gangs, whom he described as "very well armed and very dangerous."

"I'm not going to tell you who they are, not going to give you names or tell you what kinds of activities they are involved in. I don't want problems," Yanez said. "But they were threatening the police."

Since the police officers quit, many in Villa Madero say they are afraid to leave their homes.

"There's a fear that affects everyone," said Enrique Acerra, 70, who runs a used-clothing store. "It's hard to feel safe."

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2006-10-21 16:34:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Will be 3000 in less than a week...
What do you think the final number
of dead American soldiers will be?

2006-10-21 16:33:29 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Just wondering if most of you people knew that. Did you?

2006-10-21 16:28:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

For example, between consenting adults why are prostitution, polygamy, gay marriage, incest (without procreation), and for that matter bestiality illegal?

Do these behaviors need to be supressed in a civilized society? And, if so - wouldn't social stigma and religion keep them that way?

Summary: I'm just looking for the sociological and psychological underpinnings of society's legislation of sexual behavior among adults.

2006-10-21 16:26:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-10-21 16:26:30 · 3 answers · asked by deusted 1 in Military

I herd that when i police officer ask you to take a breathalizer you can say no and not take it
is this true?

2006-10-21 16:26:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

or are they destened to be an infant nation that will eventually destroy the world with ignorance (im not saying all americans are ignorant but you can not rule out their public school system)

2006-10-21 16:26:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government