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R.i.p Osama Bin Laden - World Hide And Go Seek Champion (2001 - 2011)
Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Fri May 6, 2011 @ 7:27pm
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'' Sorry, I can't threaten anyone today, my terrorist is in the 'Shop '' .. :p
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Fri May 6, 2011 @ 9:49pm
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pain is all in your mind, if someone has information that can lead to saving 'innocents', torture away!

really, all this 'human rights' bullshit goes too far, what we do to some other living creatures is abysmal
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» M-A-X replied on Sat May 7, 2011 @ 3:35pm
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Originally Posted By DZZZ

[ winnipeg.ctv.ca ]

Al Qaeda confirms his death, lets see how far Alex Jones will go to make his theory on how he died in 2001 seem valid..


I knew it since day 1 because every intelligence services here confirmed it (brits, USA, Canada, France, Dutch, slovakia, german ect)and today, Al Qaida itself. Exept if you think that EVERYOOONNEE of them is part THE conspiracy theory.

Yes, it's time to pass to something else, turn the page.

Of course Betty_haze, I will do 12 000 km if it's needed to save you. No problem.

Poor folks in Montérégie, it's sad im already taken here, I will be volunteer to help them but im sure my friends will get the job done
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Sun May 8, 2011 @ 12:48am
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Originally Posted By ALIENZED

pain is all in your mind, if someone has information that can lead to saving 'innocents', torture away!



this is why torture continues, because people say things like this...
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Strik_IX replied on Sun May 8, 2011 @ 9:49am
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Alienzed has got to be the most hippie looking right winged capitalist on earth...
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD replied on Sun May 8, 2011 @ 12:27pm
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I understand why humans are egotistical and think that they deserve universal special treatment... but that notion is bull shit, we're sentient beings and can complain, but an individual's rights always are and always should be completely disregarded when the issue is bigger than one person.
Say there's a bomb in your child's school and one man knows where it is and how to disarm it. The doors are rigged to detonate the bomb if anyone tries to leave the school, and the bomb is timed to go off within the next hour. Would you defend that person's human rights and say he cannot be tortured because it violate human rights?
Do all those children and teachers not also have the right to live?
The difference is that the man you might torture for information made his choice, whereas the children and school employees were given no such choice to make.

What do you do when human rights seem to protect the potential victims and the potential attacker but are in stark contradiction with each other?
EVEN given the fact that you might not get the information you need in time, do you sit there and let hundreds of innocent people die, or do you do whatever it takes to give those innocent people a fighting chance?

Is torture good? fuck no. Is it unacceptable given some circumstances though? No.
I think that sometimes the ends do justify the means.
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sun May 8, 2011 @ 7:53pm
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The info that is obtained during "enhanced interrogations" is most of the time unreliable. If torture actually worked, they would have captures ObL years earlier.
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Sun May 8, 2011 @ 8:36pm
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Originally Posted By ALIENZED

Say there's a bomb in your child's school and one man knows where it is and how to disarm it. The doors are rigged to detonate the bomb if anyone tries to leave the school, and the bomb is timed to go off within the next hour. Would you defend that person's human rights and say he cannot be tortured because it violate human rights?
Do all those children and teachers not also have the right to live?
The difference is that the man you might torture for information made his choice, whereas the children and school employees were given no such choice to make.


Under such specific circumstances, where there is 1 person with the info, and very little time, fine burn the fuckers feet to get him to spill th beans ...

But in reality, torture is a long process, drawn out, which is also part of the torture. Plus, in the situation like with Osama etc., we don't know WHO has the information, therefore innocent people may also be interrogated / tortured. And, it's unreliable most times, 'cause people might say anything to stop suffering, and others who will never divulge info for martyr-esque reasons, will die first.

I'm pretty sure there are other ways of figuring things out, of doing research, of gathering intelligence. If torturing people takes so long anyway, then why not just find other ways of seeking the truth.

Anyway, if all this was truly a good idea, then maybe the American population should torture all the politicians and people who run things like the CIA, to get to the truth behind the 9/11 attacks, JFK assassination, etc. Wait, all of a sudden torturing doesn't seem like a bad idea :p
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sun May 8, 2011 @ 8:42pm
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"I think that without a doubt, torture and enhanced interrogation techniques slowed down the hunt for bin Laden," said an Air Force interrogator who goes by the pseudonym Matthew Alexander and located Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, in 2006."

[ www.commondreams.org ]
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Mon May 9, 2011 @ 1:17am
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what people who are for torture have forgoten is that these people you are torturing haven't yet been convicted of any crime...the answer to that is 'but, YES YES, we KNOW he did it" really? nothing has been proven in a court of law. "but we know! damn it". No you don't. Torture is always wrong there is no reason for it. It can't be justified.
I'm feeling surly right now..
Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» recoil replied on Mon May 9, 2011 @ 8:48pm
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Originally Posted By BETTY_HAZE


yeah maybe our politic powers "created" those extremists by administrating an unfair world with way too lil very rich people and way too much poor..



lol. that's quite an understatement. let's just take even one example.. the My Lai massacre - a coldblooded execution of 540 men women and children in 1968 - was this America "adminstrating"?









you're not being honest in your assessment.


but it's hard in nyc for people to forget, majority of my friends were traumatized that day. personally i don't even take subway in rush hours to manhattan or hang out much in time square and places like that because i am way too nervous..

and i don't even really look at those yellow/orange/red alerts or mass medias much bc i will flip out.

and peeps can tell me woah you paranoid blablabla but it happened everywhere in europe.. soon a subway will blow or something of that nature will happens :(...


I understand.. I think these extremists who blow people up on subways or buses are the worst kind of scum who should be eradicated. I also think it's disgusting that they're allowed to come to places like Britain and Canada and be free to preach hatred at radical Mosques. Like the filmmaker who got murdered in the Netherlands for insulting Mohammed. They pinned some death threat to his chest with a knife and left him there in the street. These freaks are able to immigrate to the Netherlands from whatever shithole they came from, and enjoy all it's freedoms. And look at what they do with that freedom... brutally murder a citizen just because he expressed his opinion about their religion.

but still the day i'll come face to face with a motherfuckin' extremist who wants to chop chop my head, i'll be happy that a guy like max or a police officer or a firefighter come to my rescue.. anyway.. that doesn't mean i agree with our foreign military policies or even the concept of war culture..


but sending troops to fight Afghan tribemen and villagers isn't going to make your world safer. maybe I'm missing something. can you explain why you think it would?

I find a hit a brick wall a bit with your thinking, because you reference 9/11 as though it was perpetrated by terrorists in Afganistan. you essentially say “we can't forget what they did that day", whereas I feel confident that "they" were the Neo Cons.

so I can't really have any more conversation about "the day the terrorists struck America, unless you're talking about Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush et al

Originally Posted By M-A-X
Of course Betty_haze, I will do 12 000 km if it's needed to save you. No problem.


again, I know you mean well, but what do you realistically hope to achieve before your leaders quietly abort the mission?

Originally Posted By BETTY_HAZE

some infos leaked on wikileaks were concerning this upcoming "mission" and they had to act faster..

also now "some" have new "great" arguments concerning the enhancing interrogations techniques (torture) and the us ghost jails.. bc governements is now saying that's how they got their tips about the couriers etc.. and eventually leaded them to him and his killing..

it's a big ethical dilemma!

what you guys think??? :

if in the eventuality of an imminent bomb somewhere...in your area let say.. would you torture someone if you were sure that person would give you infos and that would save the life of innocents?



well using Northern Ireland as a case study of state-sanctioned torture...

A very famous example was that of the Guildford Four. The movie “In The Name of the Father” was based on it. IN 1974, the IRA bombed two pubs in Guildford, England frequented by British army servicemen, killing 4 soldiers and one civilian. The British police were under intense pressure to make an arrest, so they rounded 4 Irish people – 3 men and one woman – living in England.

They were subjected to severe beatings, sleep deprivation and torture, and were told by the investigators that they were going to have their their family members murdered if they didn't confess. So after a few days of this they finally they signed confessions, and were given life sentences - even though they were completely innocent!

the actual IRA men who did the bombing were in jail on unrelated charges. They instructed the authorities that they had innocent men serving time for a crime they didn't commit. The courts ignored them. Despite this confession, the IRA men were never charged for it, and the Guildford 4 served 12-15 years in prison. The one suspect's elderly father, Guiseppe Conley - also completely innocent - was convicted along with his son for the bombing, and died in prison in 1980.

Real IRA men were hardcore and battle-hardened.. well-versed in resisting interrogation and torture. so all the British government gained were meaningless confessions from innocent men, a massive backlash from Irish nationalists, and a tarnished reputation in the eyes of the world.

a society that sanctions torture is a society that's sold it's soul. /end of
Update » recoil wrote on Tue May 10, 2011 @ 7:22am
edit 1 - regarding the My Lai massacre by American soldiers of Charlie Company, I meant to type that the death toll was 504, rather than 540.

[ news.bbc.co.uk ]

Elsewhere in the village, other atrocities were in progress. Women were gang raped; Vietnamese who had bowed to greet the Americans were beaten with fists and tortured, clubbed with rifle butts and stabbed with bayonets. Some victims were mutilated with the signature "C Company" carved into the chest.

By late morning word had got back to higher authorities and a cease-fire was ordered. My Lai was in a state of carnage. Bodies were strewn through the village. The death toll totalled 504.
Update » recoil wrote on Tue May 10, 2011 @ 7:25am
edit 2 - when I wrote..
but sending troops to fight Afghan tribemen and villagers isn't going to make your world safer. maybe I'm missing something. can you explain why you think it would?


I meant to address this question to M-A-X
Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» M-A-X replied on Wed May 11, 2011 @ 11:06am
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Originally Posted By RECOIL

but sending troops to fight Afghan tribemen and villagers isn't going to make your world safer. maybe I'm missing something. can you explain why you think it would?


From the realities I saw on the ground, it's much more than that. We're making hundreds of development projects like building schools, clinics(sadly, only fews), wells, irragation projects, helping with agriculture, ect and also gouvernance and security projects(building a police station to increase the security of a village). Dont forget that this is a guerilla type war, you need to win the hearths and minds of the population in order to win. fighting villagers and afghan tribemen wont make any goods, on the contrary. So all this will(we hope) make the country more stable and increase the level of life of the population, wich was very low during the taliban reign.

But that is not always successfull, some elders are working with the taliban, playing a game with us. Other times, the afghan minister of education is not motivated to pay a proper salary to the teachers...making them quit the job. Right now we working really really hard, thinking, improvising to keep these projects open. I know im doing the right thing and all this work is not futile, because when I talk to the villagers during patrols, they want schools, getting an education for their kids making their lifes better. They're tired of this, it's been 40 years of war non-stop for them.
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Wed May 11, 2011 @ 1:33pm
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"More than twice as many Americans -- over 6,000 -- have now died in the two wars that followed 9/11 than did in the original attacks, along with more than 100,000 Iraqis and Afghans. Over three million Iraqis and 400,000 Afghans remain displaced. Several hundred thousand U.S. soldiers suffer from long-term war-related injuries and health problems, with more than 200,000 diagnosed with traumatic brain injury alone." [ www.huffingtonpost.com ]

All that for schools, clinics, wells and agriculture?

Seems a little harsh...

For fun, perhaps?
[ www.youtube.com ]
Update » databoy wrote on Wed May 11, 2011 @ 2:40pm
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» M-A-X replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 11:15am
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Originally Posted By DATABOY

"More than twice as many Americans -- over 6,000 -- have now died in the two wars that followed 9/11 than did in the original attacks, along with more than 100,000 Iraqis and Afghans. Over three million Iraqis and 400,000 Afghans remain displaced. Several hundred thousand U.S. soldiers suffer from long-term war-related injuries and health problems, with more than 200,000 diagnosed with traumatic brain injury alone." [ www.huffingtonpost.com ]

All that for schools, clinics, wells and agriculture?

Seems a little harsh...

For fun, perhaps?
[ www.youtube.com ]


That's my personnal experience on the terrain that I was talking about, answering a specific question. Your counting 10 years of war, the afghan war, the Iraq war and the 9/11 attacks all at once

Wait, maybe I should stop that and call artillery on villages. Yeah! Why not spice up these numbers a little bit?

Yes, it's war. It's ugly, people suffer. Exept reading these statistics, are you doing something about it? Does it change something in your daily routine?
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Strik_IX replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 12:01pm
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Yes, it's war. It's ugly, people suffer. Exept reading these statistics, are you doing something about it? Does it change something in your daily routine?


Aux armes, citoyens!

Formez vos bataillons!

Marchez, marchez !

Qu'un sang impur!

Abreuve nos sillons !

Maybe we should all join the armed forces and "do something about it". Apparently you fail to comprehend his point, which is the fact that lives were lost on 9-11 which is pretty much this war's catalyst.

The end result is an astronomical death toll when compared to what happened then. But hey, who cares when armies can simply destroy a few countries, instate "democracy" and rebuild (by handing out contracts to good friends).

C'est bien beau de vouloir combattre pour les bonne raisons, mais bien des soldats ne semblent pas voir le "big picture".
I'm feeling so many robots! right now..
Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» MolocH replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 12:06pm
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Originally Posted By STRIK_IX

C'est bien beau de vouloir combattre pour les bonne raisons, mais bien des soldats ne semblent pas voir le "big picture".


Faut pas lui en vouloir.

Comme je disait: "Dogs of the military".

Le machine militaire est faite comme ca. Les protagonistes sur le terrain onts aucune calisse d'idee de ce qu'ils fonts, ils fonts justes le faire. Pis Max, avant de me dire que je sait pas de quoi je parles, dit toi que j'ai fini mon service avant que tu gradues du secondaire.

Le personnel deploye est au meme niveaux que e hardware, une commoditee.
L'individu est relege au niveau d'equipement. Juste le motherboard/cpu qui va avec la piece d'artillerie. C'est comme ca que ca marches depuis l'empireromain. Il faut pas s'y meprendre.
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Masa replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 12:20pm
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Originally Posted By STRIK_IX

Aux armes, citoyens!

Formez vos bataillons!

Marchez, marchez !

Qu'un sang impur!

Abreuve nos sillons !

Maybe we should all join the armed forces and "do something about it". Apparently you fail to comprehend his point, which is the fact that lives were lost on 9-11 which is pretty much this war's catalyst.

The end result is an astronomical death toll when compared to what happened then. But hey, who cares when armies can simply destroy a few countries, instate "democracy" and rebuild (by handing out contracts to good friends).

C'est bien beau de vouloir combattre pour les bonne raisons, mais bien des soldats ne semblent pas voir le "big picture".


+1
And for the lol factor.
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 3:46pm
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Originally Posted By MOLOCH

Le machine militaire est faite comme ca. Les protagonistes sur le terrain onts aucune calisse d'idee de ce qu'ils fonts, ils fonts justes le faire.

Et pire encore, quand tu reçois un ordre, que t'aille des doutes ou des objections ou non, c'est pas à toi de questionner ce qu'on te demande de faire, faut juste que tu le fasse, chain of command oblige, point final.
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 4:58pm
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to add something to what Recoil was mentioning about the "lost" bin laden video from a few days after 9/11 where he claimed that they weren't responsible:

[ www.wired.com ]

Inspire magazine’s second issue, published last summer, was all about convincing U.S. Muslims to do whatever they could locally for the jihad. One suggestion: constructing an “ultimate mowing machine” — tricking out a pickup truck by welding “blades” to the grill, to “mow down the enemies of Allah.”

Baroque proposals like that fuel speculation in national security circles that Inspire may be the work of a western security service — a spoof on terrorist propaganda, rather than an authentic vehicle for it. If so, Osama bought it hook, line and three-quarter-ton sinker.

“Bin Laden said this is something he did not endorse. He seems taken aback,” a U.S. counterterrorism official tells ProPublica. “He complains that this tactical proposal promotes indiscriminate slaughter. He says he rejects this and it is not something that reflects what al-Qaida does.”
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Thu May 12, 2011 @ 5:32pm
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Originally Posted By M-A-X

Yes, it's war. It's ugly, people suffer. Exept reading these statistics, are you doing something about it? Does it change something in your daily routine?


I didn't vote conservative, if that's what you mean.
;)

My daily routine gets marred on a regular basis by news of soldiers killing family's in third world country's in my name and with my taxes.
Since I'm in a democracy and my vote is worth about one in 14 million , once every 4 years, I use information to try to reach peoples as best I can.
It was said that cnn helped end the Vietnam war by showing the peoples what war really was: lots and lots of peoples killing each other.
Right know, the spreading of information is my only peaceful tool against a machine more powerful than the the president of the U.S.
I might not be planting flowerbeds in Kandahar...

:P
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R.i.p Osama Bin Laden - World Hide And Go Seek Champion (2001 - 2011)
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