Re: WAR: Apparently the internet does NOT see censorship as damage and route

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 22:07:39 MST

  • Next message: Lee Corbin: "RE: WAR: Apparently the internet does NOT see censorship as damage and route"

    REgarding Google removing data from the web: yeah, so? Google isn't the
    web, and its owners can remove whatever they want from their own
    servers. That isn't censorship, that is version management.

    RE: much about al Jazeera being off the internet...

    Having heard that the NY Stock Exchange has decertified Al Jazeera's
    correspondent at the exchange, I think that either a) some pissed
    hackers have whacked Al Jazeera's server, or b) given that al Jazeera
    will likely come under prosecution for war crimes (making POWs a public
    spectacle and contributing to their humiliation) they might have even
    been pulled offline by their own government at this point.

    As I've repeatedly stated on this list, it appears that far too many
    people are either ignorant of the Geneva Conventions, or just don't
    give a damn about them. Do you think they are rules that only the US
    can be held to? Don't you realize that if one side tosses out the
    Geneva Conventions, this frees the other to do the same? Do you think
    they only apply to military units when their own country isn't under
    attack?

    Today we saw a lot of evidence that Saddam and his henchmen have tossed
    out the rulebook wholesale. They are using human shields, they are
    dressing in civilian clothes, they are faking surrenders as a means of
    ambush, they are using hospitals as bases of operations for military
    attacks, they are hiding in cemetaries, they are shooting civilians who
    are revolting against them, and they are even dressing up as American
    troops and taking the surrender of other Iraqi troops only to shoot
    them for doing so. I would not be surprised if many of the 'human
    shields' are their own men dressed as civilians.

    Much has been trumpeted on this list by people like Samantha, Hubert,
    Amara, Naddy, and others that they consider the US to be the big
    threat. Who is it that is breaking the rules here? Not the US. Who is
    it that is violating human rights willy-nilly? Not the US.

    Our forces are struggling not just to free people who want to be freed,
    our forces are working hard to get them aid so they can eat and drink
    tomorrow, while Khofi Annan has abdicated UN responsibility for any aid
    to people in Iraq, and Turkey is only interested in using the
    opportunity to eliminate Kurd forces, and the socialist/communist
    organizations around the world continue to demonstrate they are not for
    human rights, they are not for democracy or freedom. They are only
    interested in subverting the rule of law and attacking the real bastion
    of liberty in the world.

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    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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