Are Americans Licensed to kill?

[Attero Dominatus]

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malaise  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-01-08 06:23 AM
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Are Americans Licensed to kill?
   
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Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 06:28 AM by malaise
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2175506.htm
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One of their private companies, Blackwater, can kill anyone, anywhere, any time; any innocent woman or child or old person in any country, just so long as they "follow the correct procedures", follow "the rules of engagement". Just so long as they say "Stop! Go back!" in English and fire a warning shot above the car-driving housewife they then, with her children, blow to pieces.

Americans are licensed to kill, and the six million or so, once you count in Korea, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, Serbia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Grenada, Haiti and Mexico they have assisted into oblivion, devastating their 50 million relatives, enraging their 16 million male cousins into thoughts of jihad and revolution, we should not compare, apparently, to the 100,000 Fidel Castro killed. Fidel Castro is a bad man. Fidel Castro deserves to die for those 100,000 killed over 50 years.

George Bush by contrast deserves to be forgiven for the 500,000 he killed – or was it only 300,000? – in five years because it was an honest mistake. He really thought there were weapons there, weapons buried in the sand, atomic bombs and things, so those 500,000 deaths and their 6 million devastated relatives are all right; those deaths are forgivable. He meant well.

Where does this attitude come from? Where does this belief come from? Why do we believe it?
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Are you naturally that stupid, or do you have to work at it?

barbtries  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-01-08 06:34 AM
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1. i don't like being painted with that brush   Updated at 5:42 AM
   
where did my country go? am i really so far removed from it? i'm an american. i do not willingly sponsor the policies cited; i actively abhor what the writer abhors. i am an american. where do i go to sign up for the country i used to believe was the home of the free and the land of the brave? i don't like this home of the greed and land of the murderous mother****ers!
all of my hopes are pinned on a change of administration, and they are slender at that. jeez i just don't know what to do.
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And yet you idiots give real tyrants a free pass.

Echo In Light  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-01-08 06:43 AM
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5. In a {truly} "home of the free, land of the brave," the people would've revolted by now
   
Don't hold your breath.
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Umm, this country is still the home of the free and land of the brave.

ixion  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-01-08 07:37 AM
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11. indeed... I don't care for that brush, either
   
this is what people need understand, and what is so difficult to make them understand. Behaving the way BushCo and his Blackwater thugs have behaved worldwide has trashed our reputation. We're seen as killers now. Nothing more than brutal barbarians, because that is the way we've acted abroad. And in the end, that matters. Although because so many people only believe what they see on television, they fail to realize this. It's very sad, and being a pacifist, it is difficult for me to live with.
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asteroid2003QQ47  (407 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-01-08 08:20 AM
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14. "hypothesis" my ass!
   
Your Shining City On The Hill sits on conglomerate bedrock of slavery, genocide and eugenics.
Americans Licensed to kill? Licensed by their "God", there's no closed season and no bag limit. Those killed only really matter to a small circle of friends, after all.
I suppose you think Agent Orange and "Depleted" Uranium munitions, generational genocide against friend and foe alike, is but "hypothesis" too?
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Who ended slavery, liberated people from genocidal governments and halted nazi eugenics? AMERICA you idiot.

malaise  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Mar-01-08 08:23 AM
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15. I need no proof of America's love of killing
   
It is still a hypothesis because many others societies were born of the same killing but they do not believe they have a license to kill.
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[Carl]

If there is a President Obama or Clinton a year from now I won`t like it but you know what...it won`t change my overall outlook on what America is and stands for and always has.

Nowhere in the world has the opportunity for an average person to rise above been as it is here.
DUmmies should thank God for being allowed to live here but like selfish,immature children nothing is ever good enough.

[Attero Dominatus]

If there is a President Obama or Clinton a year from now I won`t like it but you know what...it won`t change my overall outlook on what America is and stands for and always has.

Nowhere in the world has the opportunity for an average person to rise above been as it is here.
DUmmies should thank God for being allowed to live here but like selfish,immature children nothing is ever good enough.

So true. They talk about hating this country but they never leave. I think they are more comfortable than they think they are. Stupid idiots in any case.

[jukin]

Nowhere in the world has the opportunity for an average person to rise above been as it is here.

Nor a country that rewards so well for not.

[Carl]

Nowhere in the world has the opportunity for an average person to rise above been as it is here.

Nor a country that rewards so well for not.

That is a statement for the ages. 

[Bondai]

Nowhere in the world has the opportunity for an average person to rise above been as it is here.

Nor a country that rewards so well for not.

That is a statement for the ages. 

But the Dummies will vote Hugo Obama in 2008....sad state of affairs.

[Rebel]

......but they fawn over Che and the Sickle and Hammer. 

[Sonnabend]

W
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[Red October]

Iraq is getting ready to execute "Chemical Ali."  The man murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, left behind untold enraged friends and family, and would still be in power if not for the United States.  Would still be in power if these leftists had their way.  Like I said before, these leftist assholes don't care the slightest bit about innocent deaths, so long as they die in silence.

[Uhhuh35]

Yeah I have a license to kill, hard to find insurance though...

Maybe Hillary or Obama could do something about that? And what about the unlicensed or undocumented killers out there? Who speaks for them? We need to bring them out of the shadows.

[Airwolf]

Yeah I have a license to kill, hard to find insurance though...

Maybe Hillary or Obama could do something about that? And what about the unlicensed or undocumented killers out there? Who speaks for them? We need to bring them out of the shadows.

 I agree we need to get those  Undocumented killers the same benefits as those that have healthcare  and insurance. You know they do all the  killings that no one else will and they get paid far far less for it. who is speaking for them, honestly. Its getting so hard to get a good contract nowdays that has at least a No bag limit/Open Season implied in the wording. Somedays your lucky to get a 6 week/ males only licence.

[Uhhuh35]

Yeah I have a license to kill, hard to find insurance though...
Maybe Hillary or Obama could do something about that? And what about the unlicensed or undocumented killers out there? Who speaks for them? We need to bring them out of the shadows.

I agree we need to get those  Undocumented killers the same benefits as those that have healthcare  and insurance. You know they do all the  killings that no one else will and they get paid far far less for it. who is speaking for them, honestly. Its getting so hard to get a good contract nowdays that has at least a No bag limit/Open Season implied in the wording. Somedays your lucky to get a 6 week/ males only licence.

Tell me about it. You know, a couple of years ago I killed the wrong person and my insurance carrier doubled my rates! It wasn't even my fault! My "employer" sent me the wrong target photo but did the insurance company listen? Hell no!

Greedy Bastards!