From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <epctbr$8qk_002(a)s846.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>In article <45B946A9.FB9C416(a)hotmail.com>,
> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> You keep assuming that these people are deterred by Western
>>> >> civilization laws and the punishments associated with breaking
>>> >> them. You have an invalid assumption.
>>> >
>>> >And you keep thinking the answer is to lock up ppl on *suspicion* alone !
>>>
>>> So far, until methods can be created to deal with this catefory of
>>> people, yes.
>>
>>The category known as *suspects* ?
>>
>>
>>> England extended the minimum holding time.
>>
>>To a period long enough for the police to search for and find sufficient
>>evidence to convict.
>>
>>
>>> That's not going to be an adequate change.
>>
>>It's worked just fine so far.
>>
>>
>>> There will have to be more as new methods of attack are created and
>carried
>>> out.
>>
>>What have terrorist 'methods' got to do with investigating a crime ?
>
>Sigh! They include the 30 day retention time in their plans.
>
>>
>>
>>> >That's unacceptable in a civilised society.
>>>
>>> You mean, a Western civilized society.
>>
>>No, any decent civilised society.
>
>Which, by your definition is the Western. Take a look at
>what constitutes a "decent" civilized society when the
>extremists are in charge. That is what they intend the
>world to have; these politicians are expansionists.
>The West, who has dropped that tactic, is going to have to
>deal with it.


So we should become like them to deal with them? Then they win -- our
democratic society has been destroyed.

>
>/BAH
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <a987c$45b9e85e$4fe725d$6399(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>T Wake wrote:
>
>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:epaaq8$8qk_007(a)s795.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
>
>>>It
>>>has continued to underestimate dangers and doesn't seem
>>>to learn from its mistakes. They can afford to make
>>>these errors because their governments assume the US will
>>>save them with its military might. When we don't succeed
>>>according to their expectations, we get dismissed as not
>>>knowing anything about how to do foreign policy nor
>>>statemanship.
>
>> You round up with this drivel, which simply shows your lack of
>> understanding.
>
>Less than a year ago, in February 2006:
>
>"Lebanon's interior minister has quit after protesters
>sacked Beirut's Danish embassy in more ructions over
>cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad."
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4684250.stm
>
>And we said nothing
>
>Lebanon, over the past few days, has had its Krystalnacht.
>
>"One person is reported dead and several others
>injured in violent clashes between university students
>in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
>
>"Officials said the rioting broke out after students
>belonging to a Shiite group, which supports the
>Hezbollah-led opposition, argued with members of a
>pro-government group over Tuesday's general strike.
>
>"The violence spilled into nearby streets as protesters
>tossed rocks at one another. Several fires were set in
>the streets.
>
>"Hezbollah has pledged to topple the western-backed
>democratic government in the country."
>
>http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&nid=46566
>(and others.)
>
>This rioting has gone on several days.
>
>And we said nothing
>
>The handwriting is on the wall, with nobody reading it (again).
>
>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:06:31 -0600
>Message ID: <R9GdnWobLK3FuijYnZ2dnUVZ8tOmnZ2d(a)pipex.net>
>
>[BAH]
> >If you try to think a little bit, Iran won't need to have
> >> bases in the beginning.
>
>[T Wake]
>Blimey. This means your earlier post was nonsense then?
>
>http://www.silentera.com/CBD/img/elephant.jpg

Another civil war. Let them settle it. Suppose Britain or France had imposed
a settlement during our Civil War. Resentments and grudges would have
festered for a long time and then exploded. Better to settle things.
From: T Wake on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
news:epcvkk$8qk_001(a)s846.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
> In article <c866$45b94bf5$49ecf8f$1275(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> In article <6f37f$45b7d4b2$4fe74e1$20782(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
>>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ken Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In article <ep7plh$8qk_001(a)s899.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>>>>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>[.....]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Or the defense attorney produces a legal loophole. That's
>>>>>>what happened in Italy. Now, I have not heard if Italy's
>>>>>>legislatures (or whatever they call theirs) has plugged
>>>>>>the loopholes. England's response was holding people for 30 days.
>>>>>>This is not adequate.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>These "loop holes" you see are the rights of defendants to a trial etc.
>>>>
>>>>Usually they're mistakes made by legislators when they're
>>>>drafting a new law.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>You are arguing that the government should be able to hold people
>>>>>without
>>>>>cause for as long as the government chooses to do so.
>>>>
>>>>I haven't seen that. Has she actually said that?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, I haven't. They jumped off the deep end with their assumption
>>> that these matters fall into the criminal category and claim
>>> that this will deal with the dangers of these terrorists. What is
>>> really puzzling is that their method did not stop their
>>> home grown terrorists at all. Their methods allowed those people
>>> to continue to make messes and they appear to be willing clean
>>> up the messes.
>>
>>The never have gotten over Ghandi and their guilt for
>>their wholesale mistrating of all their colonials for
>>centuries. There appears to be some British sense that
>>if they spoil their criminals the government will
>>finally be better loved around the world. LOL
>
> I think this has more to do with the West figuring out that
> exspansionism wasn't working and started to stop. It took
> until WWII for Germany and Japan to change their minds.
> France still has wafts of it hanging around but is no
> longer willing to military might behind their ideas.
> Now we have society centers in the Middle East who are
> finally rich enough to fund expansionistic projects.
> India and Pakistan haven't settled their boundary differences.
> China is inching their boundaries slowly out.
>
> It isn't guilt that causes the English to behave the way they do
> in these matters. It is socialism that does.

Amazing. You leap from unsettled's nonsense to this.

I will ask again, are you trolling or are you just insane?

> It only takes
> a teensy upset of the society to push it into communistic dictatorship
> or an anarchy. Either way, the Western civ piece of the
> society will disappear.

Nonsense.



From: Phil Carmody on
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> writes:
> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

[SNIP - gibberings]

> You're losing the plot again.

She's an American sitcom. She doesn't have a plot.

Phil
--
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/In God We Trust, Inc./.
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <epcrmf$8ss_006(a)s846.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>In article <RpudnXjBi_-ulCTYnZ2dnUVZ8rKdnZ2d(a)pipex.net>,
> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>>
>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>>news:epak56$8ss_005(a)s1090.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
>>> In article <45B782A7.A2676982(a)hotmail.com>,
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>> >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>>>>> >> >T Wake wrote:
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >> You see, here you demand that people be punished on the suspicion
>>> that
>>>>> >> >> they intend to do harm.
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> It is sad you do not see this is a morally wrong thing to do.
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >Naive views.
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >You've ignored that conspiracy to commit a "main crime" is a
>>>>> >> >criminal act even before the "main crime" has been committed.
>>>>> >> >People are sent to prison for this rather frequently.
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >Conspiracy is the usual case in the forms of terrorism that
>>>>> >> >are the basis of these discussions.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> When someone is arrested for this, do they not get to post
>>>>> >> bail and get out? Why would such a person stop making
>>>>> >> plans to make a mess just because he's been arrested and
>>>>> >> may have a trial in two years?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >In the UK you can't buy yourself out of jail by posting a bail bond.
>>>>> >It's
>>>>> >down to the police themselves in simple cases and a judge in more
>>>>> >serious
>>>>> cases
>>>>> >whether bail will be offered.
>>>>>
>>>>> What if your judge has your opinion that there isn't any serious
>>>>> threats by these terrorists?
>>>>
>>>>If the judge believes that, I'd be inclined to trust his opinion.
>>>>
>>>>You see in the UK there has to be a high standard of evidence before a
>>>>charge
>>> is
>>>>even brought in the first place.
>>>
>>> Exactly. Your chances of having a mess becomes more likely than
>>> less likely.
>>
>>This is another sign of your dislike of democracy and people's rights. Why
>>you live in the West is beyond me. Other than the religious orientation you
>>would be much more suited in the Middle East.
>
>Not at all.
>
>>
>>What you are saying here is that because innocent people can not be
>>punished, there is more chance of something bad happening.
>
>You keep assuming that those who are planning to destroy your
>infrastructure are innocent. They are not.

You keep assuming people are planning to do that. They are not until
convicted.

>>
>>You are really off the rails.
>>
>>>>> >Terrorists would clearly be held ( and are so in fact ) on remand
>>>>> >pending
>>>>> >their trial.
>>>>>
>>>>> But only if your police can gather enough evidence to prove there
>>>>> is a likelihood of guilt.
>>>>
>>>>That's how a decent justice system woorks. Correct. We don't lock ppl up
>>>>on
>>>>suspicion alone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I think London escaped a mess by the skin of their teeth.
>>>>
>>>>Which supposed 'mess' did you have in mind ?
>>>
>>> I think it was on the news this past summer.
>>
>>There were lots of things on the news. Can you be any more specific?
>>
>>Is this another example of where your memory may have conflated multiple
>>bits of information and caused you to conclude something different to
>>everyone else?
>
>Perhaps the BBC made up another story. There were a lot of
>news items here that talked about a terrorist cell who had
>plans to blow up the Underground. The news here reported
>that the cops decided to move in and arrest them because
>the cops thought the date of the bombings were within
>the next week. Nobody blinked about the delay of picking them
>up.
>
>/BAH