Politics & Government - 3 June 2007

I'd just like your opinions on this..

Do you think that the death penalty is good policy? Why?

By good policy, I mean that it achieves positive results (benefits society) but is also practical and fair...?

Thanks!

2007-06-03 14:55:07 · 19 answers · asked by Emily 7 in Politics

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=3839

What do you think?

2007-06-03 14:53:43 · 6 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

2007-06-03 14:49:51 · 30 answers · asked by fisherman 3 in Immigration

FACT: The supposed hijackers miraculously made it past security checks and cameras without being seen, and without showing up on film.

FACT: The BBC did a bit of rudimentary research and found that 9 of the hijackers were still alive….so why haven’t the feds revised their list of suspects!!!! They’ve stuck to their cover story for 6 years now.

FACT: Muhammad Attas passport miraculously survived the planes inferno and fluttered down to the street in front of the Feds. And why exactly would the man need his passport if he was on a suicide mission anyway?

FACT: The Feds have openly admitted they confiscated 80 security tapes from in and around the pentagon, yet all they could leak out was 4 doctored frames!!!….when it was pointed out that the white vapour trail could only be made by a missile, they tried to say that they never released those frames, and released a second version with carefully added lens flares to obscure the viewfinder. They also tried to say they never released the first version, yet they are the only ones who had the footage!!! Jets use turbo fan engines which do not produce white vapour unless they at very high altitudes where the air is colder!!!


FACT: Bin Laden is NOT wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 attacks. Check out the FBI web site. Reason? They don't have sufficient evidence to convict him. Perhaps this is why Bush said he really doesn't care if we catch him or not.

FACT: There are hundreds of televised claims from the morning of the attacks saying that witnesses heard or felt explosions prior to the collapse of the towers. These include fire-fighters, police, news reporters, security guards, employees of the WTC and civilians.

FACT : There is video evidence of a massive explosion at street level 3 seconds prior to the first tower collapsing, this is what overturned cars and blew many of them up on the street.

FACT: - WTC 7, we are told, collapsed from fire alone. This was unprecedented for a concrete and steel frame building. Furthermore, it fell symmetrically at free fall speed. Science and deductive reasoning will easily support the cause of this collapse as DEMOLITION. Fire does not have the energy to do this. Besides, Larry Silverstein declared on TV that they “pulled” building 7. Larry is on record as saying.” The decision was made late in the afternoon to pull it” Pull it is demolition slang for imploding a building.
That means the explosives and cutting charges were already in place!!!!

FACT: The steel from WTC was shipped overseas before an investigation was even opened. This is the greatest destruction of evidence and malpractice in the history of forensics and its also illegal according to US law, as all disaster sites must be preserved for investigative purposes.



FACT: Thousands of first responders have been afflicted and some have even died from respiratory failure. The government will not support investigations into the many reports which show that these heroes have micronized steel, glass, and concrete in their lungs. Fire, and the collapse from gravity would not produce this type of dust. Demolitions, however, supports the evidence, as explosives are the only substance that can turn concrete to dust.

FACT: We were told that NORAD didn't intercept any of the planes that day. This spans from about 8:24 A.M, the time of the first report of a hijacking, to 10:06, when the last plane crashed in Shanksville Penn. NORAD has a prior track record of intercepting planes within minutes. Standard Operating Procedure was not followed that day. The Bush Administration changed their story three times.

FACT: The investigation into 9/11 was initially opposed by the Bush Administration. The 9/11 families pressed for one. They got it, but with remarkable conditions. The total costs of the investigation, including the NIST report, was only $16 million. The cost to investigate the Space Shuttle crash - $50 million. The cost to investigate Clintons spunk stain on a dress…… - $42 million. In other words, the greatest failure of our defenses deserved less money than the shuttle and Clinton's perjury. What an insult to the 9/11 families and the loss of their loved ones.

FACT: No one has been fired for the failures of 9/11. The Kean report assumed that WTC7 wasn’t important enough to investigate.

FACT: Right before the attack a spike in “put options” on Boeing, United Airlines, and American Airlines increased dramatically and was never investigated. Millions are still unclaimed. This indicates people knew in advance. Why didn’t the FBI check out these leads? Its impossible to place put options anonymously!!! So why was the investigation stopped?

FACT: In August 6, 2001 A Public Daily Briefing Memo that was titled BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN THE US was brought forward. Yet prior to its declassification, we were told by Rice and Fleisher that there were no warnings. Had this news been made public, couldn't travellers, law enforcement, and airline workers have been a little more guarded or informed to notice something that day? Wouldn't we have guessed right away that the first report of a hijacking was indeed a terrorist? Or would we have dismissed it as "one bad pilot" and continued to read "My Pet Goat" while America was attacked?

FACT: When the United States is under attack the first measure is to secure the President.
The entire nation knew 2 weeks in advance that President Bush would be at Booker Elementary Grade School. Why did his body guards and secret service men let him remain at this location for 20 minutes after the attack? Holding the book “My Pet Goat” upside down while he tried to address a bunch of 5th grade students?


The bottom line is - If the deaths of 3000 people occurred under the control of a corporation, people would have been brought up on charges of criminal negligence. Immediately! Despite the growing movement and mounting evidence into the WTC collapses, the government still has made up its mind that it is fire that brought these buildings down and that 9/11 was simply a failure of imagination. They feel no one is to blame. This was the conclusion they had prior to the investigation. What the 9/11 Commission produced is the anti-thesis of the scientific method. Much of the evidence was outright omitted. Since they determined the conclusion prematurely.

Professor Steven Jones has conclusively proved (using steel samples from 911) that Thermate was used to cut the steel support columns, this is proof that cannot be denied, the best they can do is shut up and try to rubbish his findings on the internet as best they can.

http://www.prisonplanet

2007-06-03 14:48:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Are they essential, or a natural byproduct of the democratic process?

2007-06-03 14:38:58 · 13 answers · asked by powhound 7 in Government

I don't understand what the point of a "President" is. Are Americans afraid of democracy?

2007-06-03 14:34:42 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Every democrat candidate, except for Obama, voted for the Iraq war back in 2003. What makes them any different from Bush? I believe Obama is the best choice for the president at this time.

2007-06-03 14:32:03 · 20 answers · asked by Shane W 2 in Elections

2007-06-03 14:20:14 · 19 answers · asked by Carlos M 1 in Law & Ethics

it would be the marion iowa police station btw.

heres the site link: http://www.cityofmarion.org/police/

2007-06-03 14:15:30 · 8 answers · asked by kendralovesyoux_x 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

and im not looking for the state

is there a specific agency?

2007-06-03 14:13:15 · 8 answers · asked by The Dude 3 in Other - Politics & Government

can i get some direct quotes and recourses?

2007-06-03 14:10:19 · 3 answers · asked by ? Electric Emiily ? 4 in Military

Why is it that everybody say AMERICANS caused all the terror and war in the world, AMERICANS have ruined the Arab countries. It's as if they think we all had a part in it some how. WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, WE JUST LIVE HERE!

2007-06-03 14:05:27 · 22 answers · asked by Riley 3 in Politics

2007-06-03 13:59:30 · 14 answers · asked by YO Mama 2 in Military

what a dumb blond traped in a mans body

2007-06-03 13:57:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-06-03 13:56:41 · 9 answers · asked by me 5 in Politics

2007-06-03 13:55:10 · 4 answers · asked by WolfMage 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-03 13:52:53 · 2 answers · asked by christine2550@sbcglobal.net 2 in Other - Politics & Government

What are some ideas to help control illegal immigration that you have come up with?

2007-06-03 13:49:33 · 24 answers · asked by Jamie 2 in Immigration

2007-06-03 13:49:14 · 19 answers · asked by wainwater27 1 in Civic Participation

It doesn't seem fair.

2007-06-03 13:42:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

at winning?

2007-06-03 13:41:25 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-06-03 13:37:27 · 12 answers · asked by Ayoung A 1 in Politics

2007-06-03 13:36:59 · 11 answers · asked by WJ 7 in Politics

I live in Australia and when you are 18 you are legally classed as an adult. You can drink you can smoke, you can vote. My mother left my son $50,000 in her Will, but he is not allowed to have access to this money until he is 21. He is 20 now and would like to have access to his money, if not all of it...$10,000 of it. My sister is executor of this Will...he has asked her for this money, but she is ignoring his phone calls. One solicitor advised me that because he is legally an adult, he can get this money. My son just spoke to a solicitor then who said what is said in the Will stands and if it says 21, then he cant get it till he is 21. Can anyone throw any more light on this subject.

2007-06-03 13:36:26 · 1 answers · asked by rightio 6 in Law & Ethics

I'm seeing a lot of partisan and/or racial stereotyping going on here. That's just idiocy. People are posting serious questions and looking for serious answers. If you want to flame each other and troll for attention please go back to IRC. The rest of us want a free exchange of valid information do we not?

2007-06-03 13:33:35 · 5 answers · asked by Dull Jon 6 in Politics

My girlfriend is not a citizen and I am. I was born here, my parents were born here and there citizens too. If we get married, how hard would it be for here to become a citizen? and how long would it take?

2007-06-03 13:33:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

My Boyfriend is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and is thinking of coming to the US to see if he can work for a couple of years. He has an "Abogados" degree which is an Attorney-At-Law and is currently working for a firm. I believe that it's considered at least a LLB in the US. My question is, I live in New Jersey and he will be living with me so he needs to work in New Jersey or NYC...the train is close to me. I'm having a really hard time finding any information on what's required for him to work here...

Can anyone give us any advice??? thanks so much!

2007-06-03 13:29:57 · 6 answers · asked by Kimmymara 1 in Law & Ethics

REPUBLI-CAN
DEMO-CANT

2007-06-03 13:24:59 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528

The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.


The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code," is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their "Seal of Approval" for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.

2007-06-03 13:21:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Fourteen U.S. soldiers were killed by bombs and small-arms fire in Iraq over the weekend, the U.S. military said Sunday, as factional violence continued to ravage soldiers and civilians alike. A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 27 at an outdoor market in Balad Ruz Sunday, according to a Diyala province security official. The explosion came shortly after noon (4 a.m. ET) as the market, just east of Baquba, was packed with shoppers, police told The Associated Press. In another market attack in Baquba, gunmen fatally shot two civilians, the Diyala official told CNN. Also near Baquba, gunmen set up a fake police checkpoint just west of the city Saturday evening and killed three Iraqi civilians and wounded five others, the official said. The attacks came amid a weekend of violent clashes between coalition forces and insurgents in Diwaniya, Falluja and eastern Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood.

2007-06-03 13:18:57 · 24 answers · asked by zeca do trombone 5 in Military