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