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I agree with Grasshopper.<br>America is the only nation where the people celebrate in the streets for their national days, as well as for the American 4th of July.<br>Their drawback is, apart from Bush, their dislike for soccer – but after the recent "world cup" antics I just think they may be right.
This means that the USA and GB were wrong to invade Iraq on the grounds that it was fighting terrorism.
They clearly did not exhaust all possibilities to control the situation from the outside.<br>Blair followed doggie-style like a fool.
The entire operation lasted 15 days.<br>Should have lasted 7 but just because I ‘m not an American army general I ‘m going to give the benefit of the doubt and agree with 15 days.<br>The big and obvious question was, how following an invasion you go about governing a muslim-Arab-fundamentalist state with ethnic-religious divisions as many as there are square miles in that country ???<br>The chances of failure were 100%, but no one paid any attention.<br>American cons were shouting "traitors" left-right and centre and they were also saying "if you were close by we ‘d shoot you".<br>I had enough of fools.<br>May be I am a fool myself, but the magnitude of one’s foolishness also plays a role in this game.<br>Those Yankee neocons top the bill and they have broken every kind of world record and it is pitiful they are dictating to the rest of us how the fight against terror should be organized and carried out.
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but civilised society has to try to stop them doesn’t it, both from the carnage they are trying to cause and they’re open mission to impose their sharia beliefs on the entire population of the world. neither of these actions can be acceptable so civilised society has to try to stop this and as the saying goes, you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs – btw, how can you be an innocent illegal street vendor – illegal is illegal so if cameras intended to help the fight against terrorism also rid the streets of other illegals, ain’t that a bonus ?
There is a call for religious / racial profiling.<br>In the interests of national defense may be it has to be applied.<br>National defense cnannot come second to any other social considerations.<br>With regard to the "street vendors" and the like who do not have a license, the lawmakers have quite rightly categorized those things as civil disputes to be settled by the judges. So if the government starts using an antiterrorist strike force to deal with such things they are violating the constitution and civil liberties.<br>I believe there is a move to prevent people from making bets through the internet and some governments push for antiterrorist gadgets to be employed in the process.<br>That’s importing Taliban government methods to me.<br>The method is to hire one or two hysterical journalists and then you step forward and claim you have popular support to limit personal freedoms and privacy, but for reasons quite unrelated with the real enemy in question.<br>
We used to have communist cells a few years ago who were determined to use terror to achieve their ends. They wanted to bring about dictatorial government so that people suffer and hopefully for them join their ranks. They were in any case living in the underground and for them the difference between democracy and dictatorship did not exist. <br>The Soviet Union while supporting them behind the scenes, spent a lot of time to keep them quiet, because they did not want to provoke a war and they were also playing their own diplomatic games.
The islamist terror is different in magnitude because they are suicidal as well as criminal. They are doing these things since the sixties, although the early generations of Arab terrorists were more respectful to human life.<br>There is no way to stop them as they have murdered many of their own who had been educated in the west and were considered moderates.<br>The islamists believe the world is made up of right and wrong and the "wrong" must be punished. The concept of choice (democracy) and the concept of tolerence are unknown to them and impossible to understand.
Somehow they have to be removed from mainstream society (which admittedly is what the terrorist leaders also want).<br>Unavoidably this will make human rights and civil liberties suffer and there will be many injustices carried out in the process.<br>We are already witnessing this with the cameras in the streets, put there to prevent crime but the police also use them to spot some innocent but illegal poor street vendors and chase them away …
UN is simply what we make it to be.<br>If you want to play the Saddam game then UN is not for you.<br>If you want to play the superpower game like Bush does, then UN is not for you either.<br>But without a strong UN, the geopolitical interests of the superpower will inadvertently be hurt in the end, unlike what the neoconservatives believe.
It’s easy to make the tote offer fixed odds.<br>They decide what is the maximum affordable liability and for each runner there is a display showing current price and largest amount of money that can be wagered.<br>Also if someone wishes open price (or sp) he could be allowed to do so.
Well that’s what I mean.<br>If we push for tighter control of betting outlets some people will call it crazy. "What if I get off at each and every tube station on the line and place parts of my bet in local shops" ? "will you interrogate the train drivers also ?", they say.<br>It -initially- looks to me in the case at point authorities were aided by chance (assuming of course it is not all thrown out by the courts as may conceivably happen).
On the other hand some measures are needed to deter any future race-fixing attempts, as well as to make the sport of horse racing more socially acceptable.
What do you think re. those developments.<br>Always assuming those allegations made against the leading jockey and other persons connected turn out to be true, was it their foolishness to use a personal betting account that led to their discovery ?
Do the racing authorities have the power to expose fraud in the industry other than the information supplied to them by the betting sites of the internet ?
This is the subject of a debate going on for a long time and there are all sorts of arguments people tend to put forward.<br>And of course we all talk about clean racing.<br>But, I feel, some pay lip service while others talk impracticalities – and as a consequence we don’t see many results.
