Artful Dodger: You should read your links....

"The Obama administration's limitation on lobbyists isn't a direct ban. Lobbyists are still allowed to be a part of the administration working on areas that they have not lobbied on."

Artful Dodger: He said corporate lobbyists according to the site you are C&P from. Has he hired 50 corporate lobbyists?

Artful Dodger: No corporate lobbyists, federal lobbyists??

Is this the same as in the UK, where former MP's are offering their contacts to companies, making claims that are not true????

Artful Dodger: So he employed 4 more.. I find that hardly big news compared to the number already working to pervert USA democracy.

Artful Dodger: Are these lobbyists he's hired corporate ones as discussed in his own words? Doesn't sound like it.

the Ralph Nader incident and the menthol cigarette episode are disgusting

Tuesday: maybe not, but it is , at least to me a very interesting link

Tuesday:as they label themselves... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus
some , especially the older generations, of all ethnic backgrounds,, are reluctant to join the melting pot

Artful Dodger: Which bit?

As for the birth of terrorism.. That is in dispute. Various groups from the world's history have been awarded that status. Islamic fighters for freedom, Jewish killers of Jewish collaborators with the Romans. The RCC in it's formation period when religion came armed with swords and fire.

Moses... the ten plagues. Could it be said that even though he just envisioned a natural event be terrorism, even though there was no way he could stop the eruption.. he used such sight as a means to plant terror in the heart of the Egyptians. That God was angry.

Ferris Bueller: I don't think some people would like Christ's return. The temple money changers, book sellers n' "send me 10 bucks to fight the devil" businesses would suddenly be redundant.

Maybe the Hippocratic oath would be more remembered rather than the dollar.

"Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus." - John Fugelsang

Ferris Bueller: I'll give you an example.. The IRA was supported by outsiders, mostly through NORAID as well as support from Libya and other groups. Arms shipments came from primarily the USA and Libya as well as deals with arms dealers in Europe.

They even managed to smuggle small arms on the QE2!!

One guy got caught trying to buy SAM's...

Gaddafi gave help as a result of the British support to an attack killing his adopted daughter by the USAF.

Artful Dodger: Ok.. let me put it this way. Since when were people of middle eastern origin the only ones to blow up or hijack planes. The first one was in 1931, there have been over 600 hijackings. At one time 41 on average per year.

(V):   Good point.  Our "bowl" of terrorist is also quite big.  The "right" only chooses to focus only Muslim terrorists which is certainly a PART of things.  This obsession, though, is because they really don't want to acknowledge domestic terrorism that hits close to home for them.  Besides, others brought up profiling of black people in LA.  That subject opened the door to discuss domestic matters in the US.

Artful Dodger: Perhaps you should read back to WWII

http://www.spectacle.org/yearzero/tribunal.html

"....Unlike Quirin, which was unanimous, two justices dissented in Yamashita. Justice Murphy argued that the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process applied to enemy belligerents:

The immutable rights of the individual, including those secured by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, belong not alone to the members of those nations that excel on the battlefield or that subscribe to the democratic ideology. They belong to every person in the world, victor or vanquished, whatever may be his race, color or beliefs. They rise above any status of belligerency or outlawry. They survive any popular passion or frenzy of the moment. No court or legislature or executive, not even the mightiest army in the world, can ever destroy them. Such is the universal and indestructible nature of the rights which the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment recognizes and protects when life or liberty is threatened by virtue of the authority of the United States.

Justice Murphy concluded that the defendant "was rushed to trial under an improper charge, given insufficient time to prepare an adequate defense, deprived of the benefits of some of the most elementary rules of evidence and summarily sentenced to be hanged." He said that the use of military tribunals to try a "fallen enemy commander" formed part of a cycle of vindictiveness and retribution and represented an abandonment of American ideals. "To conclude otherwise is to admit that the enemy has lost the battle but has destroyed our ideals."....."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8597217.stm

FROM LAST YEARS G20 SUMMIT

STILL NO NEWS ON THE GUY WHO DIED THOU

Artful Dodger: Nope... any reasonable person will see it was a more complicated matter than first thought. These things happen.

It's not like someone deliberately lying.

Vikings: No.. the topic was aircraft scanners and how someone abused them. It then turned onto terrorism. No-one is skirting the issue that radicals who fly under the Muslim banner hate America..... yet they are not the only ones who are terrorists.

"but they must not be lumped together like apples and oranges"

Our fruit bowl usually has apples, oranges, bananas and other fruits such as pears, plums, etc in it.

Big bowl

That you may choose to focus on just 'Muslim bannered' terrorists is your choice. But us in the UK and in Europe through the various terrorist threats and others committing hate killing cannot and will not.

Bernice: Spitting image was a great series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQa4iFmkW4

The only way to diffuse the problem with Muslim extremists is by dealing with the recruitment points used, that which is causing the angers. It worked in NI, where 99.99% of those at war are now at peace. They want peace to work.

... Bin Laden and his gang was a leftover of the cold war, I remember the news showing how these "brave guys" are killing Russians in Afghanistan. Their weaponry, the bad Russians, etc.

The west trained them to conduct guerilla warfare.

What gets me is with the Bin Laden family being based in the USA at the time with their links.. Surely they knew in US intelligence that Bin Laden was heavily against the USA.

Artful Dodger: OK, sorry I was in that lot as well......

I was wondering how long this was going to take....nit picking I mean.

Ferris Bueller: Well here is the first post in the thread, and as you can plainly see, it is aimed at airport security, it is the side of people who do not like profiling at airports that has changed the subject to domestic profiling by citing those examples as non muslim terorist attacts which no one is denying


Subject: Interesting item. Maybe we should do as Israel does.
Modified by Artful Dodger (27. March 2010, 12:57:51)
March 27, 2010
Airport worker caught in body scanner abuse
Thomas Lifson

That didn't take long. Human nature (male variety) remains constant. The BBC reports:

A Heathrow Airport security guard was given a police warning after he was allegedly caught staring at images of a female colleague in a body scanner.

Israel manages to overcome the most threatening environment for airline terrorism in the world by use
of profiling, but in the United States, thanks to political correctness, we insist on considering elderly grandmothers from Iowa a threat as serious as the Detroit crotch bomber.

As a result, attractive females can expect to be ogled at airports. Sorry, ladies. PC strikes again.

(V): The point is being completely missed or rather turned off topic, domestic idiots are not targeting the airports, muslim terorist are, period!!!! That is a fact that cannot be disputed and is the subject of this debate. What happens internally has nothing to do with it and any attempt do to so is simply an attempt to skirt the issue.
The topic is PROFILING AT AIRPORTS. If you want to change the subject that is fine but they must not be lumped together like apples and oranges

(V): well I dont really think it is a laughing matter, but that video is hilarious.

Bernice: Perhaps by dealing with key issues. Israel is not flavour of the month at the mo in Europe and the USA. Spying, assassinations, bribery.. murder, taking land and property of those who legally have the right to live there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPtMfhpQ4Y

Vikings: Since when did government officials stop being Americans? Since when did those government officials stop having families with relatives.. Their names might be Joe, Bob, Jim.. they might buy regularly at Joe's corner store. Bob the accountant might have these officials using him for working on the taxes... and in visits to government offices Sue might end up as collateral damage.

They wish to cause terror and death, in that there is no difference between your internal and external terrorist threats.

Bernice:

Is it that different from little "cadet" training for kids? What about parents who teach their kids to use guns, or who send them to "military school"? We have video games designed by the Pentagon. Those games have as their objective to desensitize youth and to advertise a career in the military for them. Most war video games are being produced with funding from the military. Many Hollywood movies have funding from the military too, and the military supplies vehicles, aircraft, ships, etc. when film companies want to make movies. For the military it is "free advertising".

We might feel that we are better, but our culture is a culture of violence too. The difference is that instead of fundamentalist islam, we sell freedom and democracy as an excuse for militarizing our youth. Then we are surprised about things such as the Columbine High School Massacre.

Übergeek 바둑이: Then Bin Laden family is one of the rishest families in the world


you didnt mention the assistance this family got from the Bush family,

In Capitalism everything is a business and everything generates profit for somebody. People forget that terrorism is not an exception.Whether covertly or openly, there are those who have profitted from terorism. In western governments the corrupt have profitted from cimes such as drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, prostitution, racketeering, etc. Likewise, there are those in western society who have profitted from terrorism.

Then Bin Laden family is one of the rishest families in the world and Osama Bin Laden raised funds for his terrorist operations by bringing cheap weapons to war-torn African countries and exchanging them for blood diamonds. Then those diamonds were brought to Europe where they were sold at high prices. Osama Bin Laden made a fortune, and so did De Beers, the big diamond monopoly, and all those "commodities traders" who bought and sold diamonds for profit.

After the Sep. 11 attack, weapons manufacturers made superprofits by selling weapons to both domestic and foreign markets. Very often the same weapons that are used by Coalition forces also end up being sold to Al Qaida fighters through the black markets.

Security firms have made a bundle by selling security systems, scanning sytems, consulting services, security "guards" (mercenaries), etc. Mercenaries is the old name, now we call them "security contractors".

"Oil service" companies have made a fortune in "reconstruction". In the first year of the war Haliburton made US $38 billion in profit by selling mostly water and foods to the military, as well as putting out oil well fires, rebuilding pipelines, etc.

Of course, the media have made a fortune. News organization, TV and cable channels, even filmmakers have profitted from the war on terror.

In general, the higher the "level of terror" and the "security threat", the higher the profits from terrorism have been. The more paranoia is sown in the population, the bigger the profits. It is why western governments have shown every interest in feeding public paranoia. When those at the top are running the companies that make the most money, they have every interest in using terrorism for profit.

(V): Anthrax was sent to Government officials not to grandma's house, Timothy Mc Vey bombed a Federal building, not Joe at the corner grocery store, The white supremacists were going to target a local official, not Bob the accountant whereas terrorist blowing up airplanes want to kill grandma, Bob and Joe, I am not afraid for my wife flying from these people, they have no wish to harm her but I do worry about her flying because of the foriegn/muslim terrorist, because she is exactly who they wish to harm,
as far as being upset about being profiled, I used to get profiled because of my looks, I understood it and I lived with it, as long as I wasn't doing anything wrong I wasn't worried

Artful Dodger: The point is while so called Islamic fighters (who we in the west trained) are killing, or planning killing.. do not lose sight of the other groups hell bent on some vengeance or other plan for mass murder.

Some old granny could be a white supremacist sympathiser, others have used the blow a plane up system before. Lockerbie was in 1988, others have happened.

Vikings: The government is made up of people off the USA, these groups are made up by people of the USA. ... I don't get it.. are you saying the terror felt by those targeted was any less real than terror felt by those killed by terrorists on a plane. Those who were targeted by the anthrax bomber(s?) was less real?

I worked in a chemical warehouse, where each chemical had to be hazard rated on a scale of 0-10 ... fatal was 6.2, the real nasty stuff was the mutagens. If there was a fire.. we would run upwind!!

(V): no, what I am telling you is that domestic terrorist have an agenda against governments and groups, not to strike fear into people who fly,
for example, Timmothy McVey-The government
Bruce Edwards-The government
The recent suprimist group- their local government to start with

suicide bombers on airplains-the people

Artful Dodger: Maybe we shouldn't have trained them "freedom fighters" so well... well Reagan called them that when us in the west taught them how to blow up the USSR military machine back a while.

And that some think suicide is martyrdom shows how far off from real Islam they are. Like those who threatened Kevin Smith over the film "Dogma" with death.

Just because they say they are Christians, don't mean they are in heart, mind and spirit.

The UK's main problem has been an American export.. kids trying to be rapper gangsters. The pirates off Somalia... they have been causing much in the way of problems.

Extremists are only part of the problem.

Vikings:  It seems to me profiling for terrorists is both an internal & external matter.

Vikings: Are you telling me that because your internal terrorists do not (so far) use planes they are not a threat to USA civilians, etc.

Suppose they start using private small planes from small airfields, or start on the 1000's of internal flights instead of just bombing and killing.. will they then score enough points on the 'who will kill a civilian' scale?

No. The FBI will pursue anyone who threatens your people. Whether internal or external terrorists.

What do Timithy McVey, Bruce Edwards and the idiot white supremacists all have in common?
None of them have attempted to take down an airplane and therefore are completely irreverent to this conversation.

Remember the original basis for this debate was profiling on airplanes, not internal security.