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  "Homeland Security Advanced Reseach Projects Administration"
 
(...) There was a good piece in yesterday's Telegraph (UK rightwing paper) which covered some of this ground: (URL) measures are tiresome, expensive - and won't work> "The new measure is like too many of the laws and initiatives introduced since (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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  Re: Are you being secured? (or ...TSA? no: TIA! )
 
(...) I’m sure all (URL) this> is doing wonders for the American tourist industry! Scott A Have you had a look at Arthurs Seat Yet? (2 URLs) (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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  Compassion for Mordor?
 
Not sure this link will work... (URL) Prager has got it all wrong... GWB isn't like Aragorn, he's more like Sarumon, but not as bright. But I found the piece funny anyway, if a bit unkind. (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) What ever happened to all those maps, satellite imagery, intelligence reports and eye witness accounts which pinpointed exactly where the weapons were? Have they been lost? (URL) Yesterday:> Balir: "The Iraq Survey Group has already found (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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  Re: Freedom of Religion? (was Re: A retrospective on moral clarity)
 
(...) None of the detainees have 'spiritual guidance' from their particular religions flavour--so at least there's no 'favouritism' going on--all detainees are being treated equally in this regard. Eh, there are larger fish to fry, as pointed out in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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  Re: Are you being secured? (or ...TSA? no: TIA! )
 
From today's USA Today (URL) actual printed version of the story (at least in the ATL market) had a picture of a Brazilian immigration official subjecting a US visitor to the same indignities we apparently are submitting visitors from Brazil to... (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Interesting article on Wal-Mart
 
Here's an interesting article from Fast Company (URL) actually found the link on an EDI mailing list I'm on (Wal-Mart requires all suppliers to use EDI in trading with it, good for us since we're pretty strong in EDI, but not necessarily great for (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) Ah, the pesky WoMD... I figure they all were sequestered to an undisclosed location. Perhaps in Sweden. Maybe we should invade Sweden to go check. OK, who's in? As for this from the Beeb article where Blix talks about the WoMD that was (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: A retrospective on moral clarity
 
(...) So, then... Is it better to play the realpolitik game, with the State Department and the CIA careerists running things with or without (mostly with) the connivance of the current administration of whatever color/stripe/type? Or... is it better (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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  Babies who threaten to topple Israel?
 
I found this a good read: (URL) who threaten to topple Israel:> "At the heart of all this is simple mathematics. Forecasts from the United States' Population Reference Bureau show Israel's population doubling in 45 years, that of the West Bank in 21 (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) I stress again that I find this relevant. (...) Oh bribery is a crime all right. But I doubt it can fit the definition of war crime. Care to prove me wrong? (...) True, it is close to Europe (we use the term "Mediterranean Basin" as well when (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) Ok. I find it relevant because *you* brought it up, and have not ellaborated what you meant. It's very easy to leave vague suspicion in the air, so what I'm asking you is to be blunt and say whom, in this regard, bribes/is bribed and *to do (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) I agree. I once read that the nearest we have ever come to libertarianism was Pinochet's Chile… OK if you were rich I suppose. Check past posts in this very group and you'll see that libertarianism been comprehensively rubbished by everyone (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)  
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) I think that's a bad assumption. Human beings didn't evolve to what we are by being nice to all the other furry creatures, or for that matter, other local tribes of human beings. Goodness came later, when we had time for that sort of thing. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) Let me get this straight, then: the article only mentions "pressure" by the USA, when trying to make sure others *EXEMPT* US citizens from prosecution in ICC. In essence, are you accusing your own country of covertly "bribing" those who grant (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) Agreed. I don't think you actually can have a pure anything. But you can have systems that are more libertarian or less, and more socialist or less, and more fascist or less, etc. I claim that the more libertarian you go, the better things (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) True, but neither has pure Communism, pure Socialism, or pure Democracy, for that matter. I'm not convinced that we can meaningfully speculate what a "pure" incarnation of any of these systems would be like, except by undertaking selective (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) Scott never does that. :-) Neither do any of the rest of us here. ;-) (...) Rule #1 if you see a big nesting, deeper than 3 or 4, and it's you and Scott(1), and you're not getting anywhere with your point, give up. (...) International Criminal (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) It (in pure form) hasn't been tried in practice. (...) Why? Take as your base assumption that people are basically good, with some exceptions, and set up your system to reward goodness and punish badness. Suffering the consequences of your (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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  Re: Justice for all.....
 
(...) Good example. The system has been set up to exempt tickets from due process, in my view, because they say driving is a priv, and it's not a criminal offence but rather a civil infraction and a bunch of other stuff. That's their explanation, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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