Garpal Gumnut
Ross Island Hotel
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GarpalThese terrorists play by different rules.
They are now using mentally disabled women to plant bombs.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/disabled-women-used-in-bombings/2008/02/02/1201801078388.html
Surely a ban on reporting terrorism investigations/trials for a set number of days or weeks would be reasonable given the enemy that the rational world is facing.
They are playing by medieval rules and we are fighting back with one hand tied behind our backs.
gg
No .. we need the media to keep those in power accountable and not abuse their power.. more power to the media.
This is what free country is all about.
Imagine they charge you for something and if they cant get enough evident, they decided let put this sucker down to Terrorism charge and we are out of the spot light and you are in a black hole. You wouldn't want that happen to you or anyone else
Thanks ROE,
But how can you preserve our freedoms if terrorists are blowing themselves up and people with disabilities are used as cannon fodder for their aims?
The Bali bombs and bombers are a prime example. Australians there were just having a holiday, and poof, they are dead or maimed.
gg
Garpal
Mick is an idiot.
Apart from that, what the hell has Keelty got to do with suicide bombers?
By not invading their country for a start.
They gave the viet cong the same wrap when the American invade vietnam.
These are bad guys, they murder and kill.
Look at Vietnam now are they war mongering people American made them out to be? Are they harming anyone?
You can't change history. Whether you agree with the "invasions" or not, many of these terrorists feels the west have been dominating them for the last 1000 years
They are intent on destabilising our states and systems founded on rational principles and thought.
gg
That is crab, George Bush and Blair use this excuse to go to war and you certainly fall for it.
There dozen of countries that has freedom and Christian values are these guys blow themselves up in these countries? so why not them but UK, USA and Australia?
Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Belgium you name it there are more country than you can count.
I've tried to find a link ... but Indonesia, Singapore and Spain,
They are now using mentally disabled women to plant bombs.
I can't agree - why sacrifice some freedoms to protect others? Doesn't make sense to me.
"Those who would give up essentialy liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
yep , I agree - with you (and Benjamin Franklin)I can't agree - why sacrifice some freedoms to protect others? Doesn't make sense to me.
"Those who would give up essentialy liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
H. L. Mencken:
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
H. L. Mencken: The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.
Helen Keller: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
I can't agree - why sacrifice some freedoms to protect others? Doesn't make sense to me.
"Those who would give up essentialy liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Drugs are illegal, one could argue that Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, yet it's banned. The government has a responsibility to not only protect people from others, but to protect people from themselves, this means removing freedoms.
So why don't we ban alcohol, cigarettes, double cheeseburgers and about a thousand other things that can hurt or damage health if abused?
Or should personal responsibility be a part of the equation?
Why do Australians need a nanny state? Why do we need the government to not only provide for us from cradle to grave but also protect us from ourselves? Are we really that incapable of running our own lives?
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