From: R. Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 01:01:19 MST
Thanks Mike
and to the "Its all Americas fault, all the time (tm)"
Sadam thanks you, you give him quite the erection.
btw, I do have the pictures
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:07 PM
Subject: 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.
>
> =====
> 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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