--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > Oh wow, let us expand our current highly popular and
> > successful Iraqi operation to embrace a quarter of the
> > world. Wouldn't it be nice? No, come to think of it, it
> > would not be nice.
"J.A. Terranson"
> Since
gt; definitely be expanded!
Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, and
it's existence was successfully kept secret from the CIA for
this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they would have
instantly leaked the information, the same way they have leaked
so much other stuff.)
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James A. Donald:
> > Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA,
> > and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the
> > CIA for this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they
> > would have instantly leaked the information, the same
ghly equal. It is a potentially
disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to
the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth.
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e suffering under that yoke
> today.
There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating
system, so Linus did.
If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will
attack you.
That is the difference between private power and government
power.
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Jame
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > There is nothing stopping you from writing your own
> > operating system, so Linus did.
Eugen Leitl wrote
> Yes. Corporate lawyers descending upon your ass, because you
> -- allegedly -- are in violation of some IP somewhere. See
> you
--
James A. Donald:
> > Corporate lawyers did not descend on Linux until there were
> > enough wealthy linux users to see them in court, and send
> > in their own high priced lawyers to give them the drubbing
> > they deserved.
Eugen Leitl
> You're misinterpre
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will
> > attack you.
> >
> > That is the difference between private power and government
> > power.
ken wrote:
> But in most places at most times the state is run at least
>
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > The state was created to attack private property rights -
> > to steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but
> > from the beginning, always at the expense of other rich
> > people.
On 14 Feb 2005 at 13:18, ken wrote:
> More
reak time of
SHA256 from 2^128 to a mere 2^109 or so.
So SHA256 should be OK.
2^69 is damn near unbreakable. 2^80 is really unbreakable.
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James A. Donald
> > > As governments were created to smash property rights,
> > > they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those
> > > with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the
> > > most property.
Steve Thompson
> &g
urpose of attacking
private property rights. You want to steal something like
land or women, you need a really big gang.
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ing - needs to be fixed by
implementing cryptographic procedures that are so old that they
are in danger of being forgetten.
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, the authorities received only selected
excerpts, only what the owner of the records chose to reveal.
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word, and dictionary attacks should be sufficiently
expensive that a strong password (not your ordinary password)
is secure.
Can anyone suggest a well reviewed, unpatented, protocol that
has the desired properties?
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tell us that the principle of rewarding uploaders and storers,
and starving leachers, is pretty much central to the success of
a protocol and its software.
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o
unwilling to change the official price.
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lent goods in exchange for
our rather dubious and shaky dollars so abundantly
printed by the Bush administration, is that the chinese
banking system is even more dubious and shaky. Chinese
prefer to stash their wealth in America, rather than in
China.
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James A. Donald
, a warning comes up an
unobtrusive and easily ignored warning if he has
never received a signed message from that source, a
considerably stronger warning if he has previously
received signed mail from that source.
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James A. Donald
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ils a certificate asserting
that holder of that key can be reached at that email
address."
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itical races.
The question then, is how will this prohibition against
political speech on specific politicians and campaigns
be applied to the internet. "A" list blogs claim to be
the press, so the argument is that "A" list blogs should
be exempt from this rule because
--
James A. Donald:
> > In my blog http://blog.jim.com/ I post "how email
> > encryption should work"
On 8 Apr 2005 at 22:17, Bill Stewart wrote:
> I see a couple of problems with your proposal. I'm not
> sure I like your external trusted mail-server
> a
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:20:46PM +0300, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> > Second, has anyone seen http://www.wmtransfer.com/ ? Ok, it's
> > Russian, so not a lot of trust in there... on the other hand, it
> > DOES mean it's unlikely to bow to US pressure.
On 20 Apr 2005 at 19:23, Pawe Krawczyk wrote:
>
based on
such transactions. The real obstacle is that 99% of
customers cannot understand WebMoney's security, or use
Pecunix's PGP based interface. If you try to sell them
Chaumian blinded transactions, the average mobster is
going to be seriously boggled.
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ican troops seem to be finding an ample
supply of Saudis in Iraq.
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4rzwuJwOGk4RYWsWPOFN78tEmJamA31vLTloe7Rnv
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James A. Donald:
> > While it doubtless would have been better to behead
> > the Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi
> > dictatorship, nonetheless American troops seem to be
> > finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq.
Major Variola (ret)
> In what imaginary
Tyler Durden wrote:
Holy crap. Some shitty little township can now bulldoze your house
because someone wants to convert the space into a Waffle House.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/
Where's Tim May when you need him? Where's the RAGE?
How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldoze
ably Thomas, who voted
against this decision.
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James A. Donald
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--
From: Ulex Europae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Okay, I've been in a hole in the ground for a few
> years. What happened to Tim May?
Gone very quiet. At the expiration party, he failed to
recommend gas chambers.
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James A. Donald
project is
advanced by more boring stuff: standards, software, and
business. Excessive mention of the ideological
implications of certain standards and software would be
counterproductive.
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James A. Donald
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coffee, that is political?
Surely the non state area of our lives is the non
political area of our lives.
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James A. Donald
> : So when I buy coffee, that is political?
Damian Gerow
> Is it organic, fair-trade, shade-grown coffee?
> Locally grown? Locally roasted? Purchased through
> StarBucks or a local coffee shop? Do the growers use
> their profits to help the growth of c
t attractive heterosexual
women from date rape.
These various isms are not marxism, not exactly, but
they bare a striking resemblance to their parent.
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James A. Donald
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tors does in its well known slave labor camps, and the
liquidation of the kulaks was self defense against a
vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the
proletariat. :-)
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n bet that
> there are other "obvious" targets that have been
> hammered through Tor.
In the long run, reliable pseudonymity will prove more
valuable than reliable anonymity.
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James A. Donald
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wE/La87xer
Date sent: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:38:36 +0200
To: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian G <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL
rorists, because they are just as
likely to target you no matter what you do.
Government regulators are a bigger problem, since they
are apt to forbid any business model they do not
understand, but they tend to be more predictable than
courts.
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James A. Donald
valuable
secrets, since DRM binds the data to the software, and
provides a secure channel to the user. So secrets
representing ID, and secrets representing value, can
only be manipulated by the software that is supposed to
be manipulating it.
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James
--
R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Intel doing their current crypto/DRM stuff, [...] You
> know they're going to do evil, but at least the
> *other* malware goes away.
I am a reluctant convert to DRM. At least with DRM, we
face a smaller number of threats.
hich are mere noise anyway.
These problems, however, are no explicitly political,
and tend to be addressed on lists that are not
explicitly political, leaving cypherpunks with little of
substance.
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--
James A. Donald:
> > Since cryptography these days is routine and
> > uncontroversial, there is no longer any strong
> > reason for the cypherpunks list to continue to
> > exist.
John Kelsey
> The ratio of political wanking to technical posts and
> of
e all the "Child
protection" legislation that congress passed against the
internet - which makes him the nearest thing to a friend of
liberty as you are likely to find in Washington.
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detonate AN, but I have never failed
to detonate it. Perhaps your stuff was contaminated with water
or stabilizer, or perhaps you need a better flame.
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4
re, which is continually rewritten to
meet the latest threats and tactics from the chinese
government.
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will say "Hey, it was not us, it was these terrorists
who happen to have somehow stolen some nukes from persons
unknown. We are completely opposed to terrorism, and are fully
cooperating with foreign investigations."
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--
James A. Donald:
> > Iranian financed military movements, Hezbollah and Sadr,
> > have been fairly well behaved - they don't target other
> > people's children - just their own, but their willingness
> > to cause the deaths of their own children is even mor
On 19 Sep 2004 at 12:15, Tyler Durden wrote:
> My running, personal theory is that Muslim fundamentalism (and in
> general, most fundamentalisms) get going when the locals gain a
> persistent sense that they're gettin' screwed over,
But the Saudi Arabian elite, of among which Bin Laden was born wi
o be willing
to use nuclear weapons.
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James A. Donald:
> > I don't recall the American revolutionaries herding children
> > before them to clear minefields, nor surrounding themselves
> > with children as human shields.
John Young
> No, not minefields, but a good percentage of Washington's
> army and
diligent and competent in
making a noose and placing it on their own necks, is likely to
encounter truly amazing levels of incompetence. I lose
documents I actually *want* to retain often enough.
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. Similarly I support
shelling enemies who surround themselves with captive women and
children, as Sadr did in Najaf. That hostage crisis was ended
by negotiation, but because the administration were reluctant
to shell the mosque, the deal was settled on very unfavorable
terms.
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--
James A. Donald:
> > Has anyone who does not look a terrorist done a suicide
> > mission outside Israel or Russia? Recall the shoe bomber.
> > You just had to look at him. You would think the airport
> > screeners would need to be half brain dead to let him on
xpaying, patriotic,
> > > > evil-hating, English-as-first-language, natural-born
> > > > American.
On 15 Oct 2004 at 21:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> As was Timmy McV, Zeus rest his soul.
Tim McVeigh did not target innocents, nor was he a suicide
bomber.
Nor, incid
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James A. Donald:
> > Just don't let anyone who looks like the shoe bomber fly.
> > Problem solved.
On 15 Oct 2004 at 16:32, Tyler Durden wrote:
> Huh? The one flaw in this logic is that this only works if
> you can send this particular definition of suspicious &quo
--
Damian Gerow
> > > I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that
> > > amount to basically: "You look like you've just left a
> > > terrorist training camp."
James A. Donald:
> > Nonetheless you can probably start fiddling w
et.
> Third, does not being a suicide bomber make your cause more
> noble?
Not being a suicide bomber means there is no need to screen you
from flying on planes.
> Curious why you seem to think McVeigh was justified in his
> actions.
BATF.
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Jame
--
James A. Donald:
> > > > If you really look like the shoe bomber, then you
> > > > should have to drive, or use public transport.
Thomas Shaddack
> Ever tried to drive to Europe? Or to Hawaii?
Hard biscuit
> Why airplanes don't count as a form of publi
lves from these threats.
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bability ratios don't work out so that the
> overwhelming majority of people you throw off planes are
> innocent.
Provided the number of people you throw off planes is rather
small, I don't see the problem.
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--
James A. Donald:
> > Mc Veigh did not target innocents, and if he did target a
> > plane full of innocents, perhaps in order to kill one
> > guilty man on board, there is no way in hell he himself
> > would be on that plane.
John Kelsey
> Well, he targeted a
--
James A. Donald:
> > > > > > If you really look like the shoe bomber, then you
> > > > > > should have to drive.
> > Thomas Shaddack
> > > Ever tried to drive to Europe? Or to Hawaii?
James A. Donald:
> > Hard biscuit
Thomas
--
Thomas Shaddack:
> > > a. The probability ratios don't work out so that the
> > > overwhelming majority of people you throw off planes are
> > > innocent.
James A. Donald:
> > Provided the number of people you throw off planes is
> > ra
he Muslim (not only
> Arab) world for 100 years or so
And the reason they are murdering Iraqi Christians, Filipinos,
Ambionese and Timorese is?
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James A. Donald:
> > A very large number of muslims, particularly arab muslims-
> > a small minority in the US, a large minority or substantial
> > majority in many muslim countries, continually seek to
> > confront the infidel in a wide variety of ways, and
> >
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
> > People who are, for the most part, not like us are trying to kill
> > people like us. Let us chuck all those people not-like-us off those
> > planes where most of the passengers are people like us.
Thomas Shaddack
> Define &q
oldiers in Chechnya.
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orm of
internet money, that there is real demand for this, but the low
security of personal computers makes it insecure from thieves,
and the hostility of national governments make it insecure from
governments.
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over a large swath of the Muslim
> > (not only Arab) world for 100 years or so
James A. Donald:
> And the reason they are murdering Iraqi Christians,
> Filipinos, Ambionese and Timorese is?
And I forgot to mention a hundred thousand or more Sudanese,
not to mention that Al Quaeda mu
--
James A. Donald:
> > Sadre protected himself with Iraqi women and young children
> > as human shields, showing that he expected the Pentagon to
> > show more concern for Iraqi lives than he did.
Thomas Shaddack
> Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it b
f did not work in Haiti and things look
considerably more difficult, and more expensive, in Iraq.
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--
On 18 Oct 2004 at 13:35, John Young wrote:
> James is wired to be unempathetic about victims, as was
> McVeigh, as are fearless military and criminal killers, as
> are national leaders of a yellow stripe who never taste the
> bitter end of their exculpatory spin.
>
> W
ough they should have
been.
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, and promised they could
get rich. Mean while the countries that we were not "kicked
out of" for example Taiwan and South Korea, became rich.
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--
Thomas Shaddack:
> > > It isn't a problem for you until it happens to you. Who
> > > knows when being interested in anon e-cash will become a
> > > ground to blacklist *you*.
James A. Donald:
> > I know when it will happen. It will happen when
oes to stop them is not terrorism. When did
the Northern alliance massacre civilians in territories it
controlled, launch car bombs in market places, and so on and so
forth?
> and I'd have expected that a staunch anti-communist like
> James wouldn't mind people shooting at Russia
--
James A. Donald:
> > War is dangerous to freedom, but we do not have a choice of
> > peace. The question is where the war is to be fought - in
> > America, or elsewhere. War within America will surely
> > destroy freedom.
Tyler Durden wrote:
> So. Why don&#x
de and population movements with the
outside world.
Syria should suffer annihilation, Iran subversion, Sudan some
combination of annihilation and subversion, Saudi Arabia and
similar less objectionable regimes should suffer confiscation
of oil, destruction of water resources, and loss of
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > ... but Bin Laden's indictment not only mentions US troops
> > in Saudi Arabia, but also the reconquest of Spain, the
> > massacre committed by the crusaders in Jerusalem, and the
> > failure of Americans to obey Shariah law.
J.
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > The US government should expose and condemn these
> > objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable
> > regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The
> > pentagon should deprive moderately objectionable regimes of
believe that people like
Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane (who after release announced his
intention to resume terrorist activities and that he would
attempt to murder his hosts who lobbied to get him release) are
lying to cover up torture by the US army.
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--
James A. Donald:
> > The US government should expose and condemn these
> > objectionable practices, subvert moderately objectionable
> > regimes, and annihilate more objectionable regimes. The
> > pentagon should deprive moderately objectionable regimes of
&g
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > > > ... but Bin Laden's indictment not only mentions US
> > > > troops in Saudi Arabia, but also the reconquest of
> > > > Spain, the massacre committed by the crusaders in
> > > > Jerusalem, and the f
ary evidence, but the detainees
must be innocent unless they can be proven guilty by
extraordinary evidence?
Doubtless there are some innocents in Gautenamo - but the usual
reason they are there is for being foreigners in Afghanistan in
the middle of a war with no adequate explanation.
--
--
James A. Donald wrote:
> > > > > > ... but Bin Laden's indictment not only mentions US
> > > > > > troops in Saudi Arabia, but also the reconquest of
> > > > > > Spain, the massacre committed by the crusaders in
, against the smallest possible subset
of Islam, disagreeing only on how small that subset can be.
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> temporary veneer over local politics (again we were too blind
> to see that Marxism was a western transplant that wasn't
> going to do too well in Asia)
Marxism collapsed in IndoChina when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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James A. Dona
, to the North
Vietnamese and the Soviet Union, yet the North Vietnamese
created the Khmer Rouge and attacked Cambodia.
Same thing happened with Laos, where the Americans never got
involved at all to any significant extent.
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James A. Donald
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> conservatives marginalise Khatami, and we're back to abayas,
> beards and jihad.
You have this back to front. Khatami was marginalized by the
mullahs, and BECAUSE he was marginalized, because democracy in
Iran was suppressed, the US government THEN included Iran in
the axi
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Tyler Durden
> > > The US was in Vietnam trying to fight their way up. So it
> > > would have been pretty evident to anyone watching that
> > > the US was trying to undermine the PRC.
James A. Donald:
> > You live in a world of delusion. Your dates are al
ing to kill us , and that we deserve
their past efforts to kill us, efforts that some of them
promptly resumed on release. We are under attack, and you are
telling us to suck it up.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald wrote:
> > We are under attack, and you are telling us to suck it up.
J.A. Terranson
> No. We are under attack by those DEFENDING THEMSELVES.
All of the terrorists came from countries that were
beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help. Saudi Arabia
was cert
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James A. Donald wrote:
> > How could the US have given him support, short of violent
> > means, such as bombing Tehran, which he was reluctant to
> > accept?
Will Morton
> Money. Push it through your favourite UN department.
> Schools and hospitals == go
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James A. Donald:
> > But Khatami was knackered shortly after being elected, so
> > any aid would be aiding the terrorists. We saw how well
> > that worked in Fallujah and Sadr city.
> > >June 2001: Khatami re-elected
> > A few months or weeks the
that would be dangerous
to the freedom of the ordinary New Yorker, but if the
government snatches terrorists in Afghanistan or near Fallujah,
rules of war should apply.
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James A. Donald
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that backed
> the Chinese monetary system prior to 1949, so arguably that
> money had to go somewhere.
liar.
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James A. Donald
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"James A. Donald"
> > All of the terrorists came from countries that were
> > beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help. Saudi
> > Arabia was certainly not under attack. If they were
> > Palestinians, and they hit the Pentagon but not the t
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On 22 Oct 2004 at 11:12, Bill Stewart wrote:
> James - Many, perhaps most, of the POWs at Gitmo weren't
> foreigners, they were Afghans. Many of the POWs at Gitmo
> probably were Al-Qaeda or other organized paramilitary
> groups. But many of them were described by the U
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John Kelsey
> > > I'm still trying to understand the moral theory on which
> > > you differentiate hitting the two towers from the
> > > Oklaholma City bombing.
James A. Donald:
> > The pentagon did not have a branch office in the two
> > tower
s in their subjects.
McViegh did not target innocents. Bin Laden did target
innocents.
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James A. Donald
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James A. Donald:
> > The Taliban were illegitimate, not on legal grounds, but
> > because they were evil.
J.A. Terranson
> Using this line of "reasoning", Shrub is ripe for that
> overdue case of high velocity lead poisoning.
Doubtless he is, but to suggest t
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