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Well, now that read the rest of the posts it is clear this thread is nothing but another pitiful loony right-wing attempt to make more of their wild arse accusations and predictions and totally ignore the actual subject of the thread. Not worth any further attention, nothing to see here, moving on.
Casper
We are witnessing history where governments in the Middle East are being overthrown by unarmed protesters and the ruling elite just walk away from their seats of power to save their own backsides. It really is quite amazing .
It's a great day for Osama bin Laden. That's always been what he's wanted, to get the US out of countries like Tunisia and Egypt.
That's why they "hate you for your freedoms," because you have freedoms, and they don't and the reason they don't is because you support evil dictators like that who deny them their freedoms.
Read Mohammed Talbi. Talbi is a Tunisian. He wrote a scathing attack in "A Record of Failure." My favorite quote from Talbi is,
"[We have] the freedom to shut up."
He was talking about what happened when the UN Commission on Human Rights came to Tunisia and no one spoke out, because the only freedom anyone has is the freedom to shut up, unless they want to be exiled or imprisoned and tortured by CIA-trained secret police. The major daily in Tunisia ran a 12 column blank editorial the day after the UN Commission left.
Imagine opening up the newspaper and where you expect an editorial to be, it's nothing but blank spaces. That was the editors' way of protesting. But that's what happens when the US interferes with the internal affairs of countries (in this case because Tunisia borders Libya run by the Great Satan Ghaddfi).
Hopefully Jordan and Saudi Arabia will be next.
What did King Abdullah II do? He dissolved parliament. How democratic is that? And you can't complain, because if you do, the CIA-trained secret police will throw you in a torture chamber. And where does Abdullah get money to fund his secret storm trooper police?
Well, gosh, only 1/6th of Jordan's GDP is US foreign aid.
If the US cut off funding to dictators like that, they'd be out of power in month or less. The US funds Egypt too, and lets that jackass stay in power, and the same for Saudis.
There are 31 "Muslim" countries and 16 are democracies. Which ones are democracies?
Gosh, that's easy, the ones that don't have a single cash-crop like oil.
Guess who backs all "Muslim" dictatorships? The US.
So what if they're successful and the new governments in Tunisia and Egypt start selling oil in Euros and Rubles, instead of or in addition to US Dollars?
It's cool. As people start looting and rioting here (just like Katrina and Kent State), libs can still log onto CD and blame Bush in their cozy suburban home (until it's burned down by hungry malcontents from the intercity)
I could not care less about the people of Eygpt or their government, after 9-11 they danced in the streets there. They should not be getting any money or symathy from Americans.
Casper
This would not happen in America so quit being alarmists. That is about the most absurd thing I have read yet on City Data.
I gather you don't keep up with current events in DC.
China, Egypt, Iran..all three have now evidenced that the internet CAN be shut off by the government if they have enough control of it.
The day part of the Internet died: Egypt goes dark - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110128/ap_on_hi_te/us_egypt_protest_internet_outage - broken link)
"In fact, there are few countries anywhere with all their central Internet connections in one place or so few places that they can be severed at the same time. But the idea of a single "kill switch" to turn the Internet on and off has seduced some American lawmakers, who have pushed for the power to shutter the Internet in a national emergency.
The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called "almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history."
The individual states will be the first line of defense against a communication shut down here.
Conservative run States will have none of it.
I'd like to see Obama or any of his administration or anyone from the FCC come tell Rick Perry to shut off all communications and shut down cable and internet.
Rick Perry would say straight up, "Over my dead body. Go pound sand"
It's a great day for Osama bin Laden. That's always been what he's wanted, to get the US out of countries like Tunisia and Egypt.
That's why they "hate you for your freedoms," because you have freedoms, and they don't and the reason they don't is because you support evil dictators like that who deny them their freedoms.
Read Mohammed Talbi. Talbi is a Tunisian. He wrote a scathing attack in "A Record of Failure." My favorite quote from Talbi is,
"[We have] the freedom to shut up."
He was talking about what happened when the UN Commission on Human Rights came to Tunisia and no one spoke out, because the only freedom anyone has is the freedom to shut up, unless they want to be exiled or imprisoned and tortured by CIA-trained secret police. The major daily in Tunisia ran a 12 column blank editorial the day after the UN Commission left.
Imagine opening up the newspaper and where you expect an editorial to be, it's nothing but blank spaces. That was the editors' way of protesting. But that's what happens when the US interferes with the internal affairs of countries (in this case because Tunisia borders Libya run by the Great Satan Ghaddfi).
Hopefully Jordan and Saudi Arabia will be next.
What did King Abdullah II do? He dissolved parliament. How democratic is that? And you can't complain, because if you do, the CIA-trained secret police will throw you in a torture chamber. And where does Abdullah get money to fund his secret storm trooper police?
Well, gosh, only 1/6th of Jordan's GDP is US foreign aid.
If the US cut off funding to dictators like that, they'd be out of power in month or less. The US funds Egypt too, and lets that jackass stay in power, and the same for Saudis.
There are 31 "Muslim" countries and 16 are democracies. Which ones are democracies?
Gosh, that's easy, the ones that don't have a single cash-crop like oil.
Guess who backs all "Muslim" dictatorships? The US.
So what if they're successful and the new governments in Tunisia and Egypt start selling oil in Euros and Rubles, instead of or in addition to US Dollars?
Eeewwww. That will get messy.
It is strange how the USA didn't 'adapt' after 1989.
There became little need to prop up dictators around the world,we had no real enemy left.
The individual states will be the first line of defense against a communication shut down here.
Conservative run States will have none of it.
I'd like to see Obama or any of his administration or anyone from the FCC come tell Rick Perry to shut off all communications and shut down cable and internet.
Rick Perry would say straight up, "Over my dead body. Go pound sand"
Rick Perry is vying for a '12 presidential spot. All of this p*ss off talk is worthless.
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