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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lchic - 04:05pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4593 of 4617)
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690 US

670 Ru

145 Aus

134 uk

102 can

85 fr

48 jp

Prioners per 100,000 pop

So America's good at something!

lchic - 04:33pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4594 of 4617)
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Felony Costs Voting Rights for a Lifetime in 9 States

http://www.globalexchange.org/democracy/nyt110300.html

Taking voting rights - medieval http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/05/vote-ltrs.htm

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The UN should pass a HUMAN RIGHT edict that every world citizen has the right to vote - the right to vote as a shareholder in their country.

How can America talk of democracy 'elsewhere' when it doesn't itself understand the meaning of it?

lchic - 05:07pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4595 of 4617)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

OP-EDs Understanding a history of the now is important for the future:

POWER "" Maybe our national faith in free markets is so strong that people just don't want to talk about a case in which markets went spectacularly bad. But I'm still puzzled by the lack of attention, not just to the disaster, but to hints of a cover-up. After all, this was the most spectacular abuse of market power since the days of the robber barons — and the feds did nothing to stop it.

And if FERC was strangely ineffective during the California crisis, what can we expect from other agencies? Across the government, from the Interior Department and the Forest Service to the Environmental Protection Agency, former lobbyists for the regulated industries now hold key positions — and they show little inclination to make trouble for their once and future employers.

So we ignore California's experience at our peril. It's all too likely to be the shape of things to come. ... Iraqis seem to have no love for Saddam

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/opinion/27KRUG.html

Iraq will hide its army within its cities ... some day, they will have to come to the ground. And then we'll be waiting. Every Iraqi has a gun in his house

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/opinion/27KRIS.html

mazza9 - 05:30pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4596 of 4617)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Prioners. What are prioners?

Are they ers of a prior post?

Conversely, are afters the ers at the aft,(back) of the boat? I'm so confused.

Of course, ers, whatever they may be are the key element of an operational Ballistic Defense System. they are an important element in connecting the Dots, (one of my favorite movie candies!!!)

almarst2002 - 05:56pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4597 of 4617)

mazza9 9/27/02 5:30pm

Even Enstein, while not as busy as you mazza presumably are, still found it usefull to think beiong the creation of A-bomb and about the consequences and implications.

We are now the part of the nation that finaly openly declared its intentions to rule and reshape the world by any means including nuclear arms. And NMD is supposed to play a very significant (prior to 9/11 used to be seen as the central) role in this America Uber Alles "game".

So please, don't be so upset seeing some less busy then you people try to imagine this "new world order" we all will be directly or not, responsible for.

mazza9 - 07:00pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4598 of 4617)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

"...Let every nation know. . .whether it wishes us well or ill. . . that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty." JFK's inaugural address Jan 20, 1961.

JFK's Inaugural Address

It's not about America. It's about LIBERTY! We have fought and died for LIBERTY! I believe that JFK is rolling over in his grave because of Teddy's mismash speech in the Senate today. I would have cast my first vote for JFK were it not for that dismal day in Dallas! JFK and Wubya have alot in common when it comes to defending the US from all foes who would take away our LIBERTY!

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