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2004-02-24

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Posted by tipper 2004-02-24 12:28:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fun read. The whole "legal" thing is still a damned if you do and damned if you don't. Thats cool, planet earth. The real vs the ideal and all.

Remember, when you import free food. Local farmers are punked.

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-24 1:40:38 AM|| 2004-2-24 1:40:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree with the writer, but would go further and have widespread mandatory drug testing and compulsory rehab in prison like facilities. And if they are incorrigible and don't want rehab then maybe put them in secure facilities, like the lunatic asylums of old wher ethey wouldbe given their junk. It would do wonders for crime rates.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-24 2:22:49 AM|| 2004-2-24 2:22:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is a very calm sensible look at the situation - and thus chock-full of PC-unacceptable components -- today. I think this is one of those classics where a few years down the road everyone will accept these statements as tenets of fact - and obvious.

I wonder, as he and his fellow attendees do, how bad it will be. It is coming cuz they haven't stopped trying. It will be bad - one innocent life lost to the Izzoids is bad. A clarion call is needed to break us out of the gamesmanship between the LLL 9/11 deniers and the realists that has taken root. That call will be what it always is: us leaning into the next punch, all chin and no brains. So I agree, it's when, not if.

Taking the money away from them is, indeed, the best way to slow everything down. From the legalization of drugs to taking away that 40 km strip with the Wahhabists' oil.

The craziest part is human nature. The longer between attacks on targets in the West, the further back into their phantasy that it's all overblown they go. Success breeds opposition. Sigh.

Posted by .com 2004-2-24 2:24:16 AM|| 2004-2-24 2:24:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Alas, if the decadent West recognizes that there is a disparity between the price of production for agricultural commodities and the spot price for illegal drugs...they will drive the narcoterrorists out of business.

We can't have that. Allahu Akbar.

Posted by Mahmoud, the Weasel 2004-2-24 3:18:03 AM|| 2004-2-24 3:18:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "The Yanks wanted to outspend their foes; we preferred to out-think ours."

Cheeze, attitudes in old Blighty sure haven't changed since WWII...

While you're sitting there in your Thinkers pose thinking all the brilliant thoughts to be thunk, you won't mind if we unthinking Yanks get started on nailing these Islamofascist buggers before they can strike ?

pace phil_b, Jon Shep, Tony, Bulldog, et alia British Rantburgers...

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-2-24 12:39:29 PM|| 2004-2-24 12:39:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We have to fight the terrorists, because they insist on fighting us.
This statement is the gem of the entire document. Unfortunately, the LLL refuses to accept this. They believe we can appease these flaming islamofascist murderers. If another serious strike does happen, I hope it happens in the center of the loony left enclaves, so we can get rid of the dead weight.

One major difference between the US and the UK approach is the size of our country. If the UK loses an area 50km in radius, it's an almost cripling blow to the nation, regardless of where it is. The US has the size and diversity to accept such a blow, work around it, and strike back with all the lethal force we possess.

Unfortunately, no one is immune to lunacy. Islamofascism is religious state-sponsored lunacy. In order to survive, we must force those who support this lunacy, as well as those that participate in it, to change, something they are unwilling, perhaps even incapable, of doing. If they refuse to change, or are incapable of changing, the only remaining alternative we have as a free people is to destroy them and the society that supports and encourages them. The faster we do it, the fewer lives will be lost on both sides.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-24 12:44:01 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-24 12:44:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 No problem there Carl. I thought that comment was a bit daft too. Now, if we got rid of most of our welfare state, then we could 'spend like the Yanks too' (proportionally! :). Thing is, and I have to keep reminding RantBurgers of this, the government in power in the UK at the moment is a socialist government, with all that implies. They recently decided to drop the 'New' in 'New Labour', implying that the transformation from the old, leftist Labour party to the new, centrist Labour party was complete. Not a bit of it. Scratch the surface of a 'New Labour' supporter (bloody awful thought that!) and you'll find all the old Marxists and Troskyites lurking below.

Blair has done the right thing as regards the WoT. But domestically, he's a lame duck PM.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-2-24 2:14:14 PM|| 2004-2-24 2:14:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Very cool T-UK.

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-25 12:12:00 AM|| 2004-2-25 12:12:00 AM|| Front Page Top

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