Comments on: Coup, Coup, Kachoo

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:00:35 +0000

It’s just easier to blame a government that wont crush you, suppress you or beat your head into a pulp.

Maybe I have higher standards than this, Gaius.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:33:24 +0000

Sorry, Mwalimu, I hit the delete key halfway through his comment. Life’s too short.

By: NortonPete

NortonPete — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:53:24 +0000

One of the most ridiculous ideas held by the the uninformed is this belief that their cellphone and internet activities should be absolutely private. This is truly “falling down laughingly stupid”. If you want privacy don’t broadcast from a cellphone. Technically speaking, aliens orbiting the Earth could be listening. And the internet is nothing more than a loosely connected series of computers that pass information on to any computer listening. People are so disconnected from the real world that they believe that a cellphone directly connects with who they call. I want the NSA listening in on all calls going to the bad places. And skip waterboarding just pull there fingernails out.

By: Mwalimu Daudi

Mwalimu Daudi — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:52:12 +0000

Imagine being the poor soul ordered to spy on “James”. Talk about a lousy civil service job – being forced to listen to and report at length on his mind-numbing conspiracy theories!

Such a job might even violate safety in the workplace laws. Where are the public employee unions, now that we really need them?

Gaius, whatever you do don’t kick this guy out. He is more fun than a barrel of “Havard” graduates.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:47:51 +0000

Perhaps if you were to look at real, as opposed to echo chamber, violations of liberty you might want to talk to say monks in Burma. Or students in Venezuela.

But I suppose that might sprain a synapse. It’s just easier to blame a government that wont crush you, suppress you or beat your head into a pulp.

Feel like a hero for what you advocate. Just don’t look at reality.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:38:30 +0000

You see that, James? If you can post a comment on a blog, that means Pres. Bush is not spying on Americans without warrants, torturing prisoners, arresting them and locking them up without evidence, or abolishing habeus corpus. The fact that you could post your comment here means that none of that other stuff is happening.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:44:48 +0000

Yeah, I see Bush has silenced you. Must be tough transmitting from the gulag.

By: James

James — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:37:03 +0000

It simply looks like Musharraf is doing what is necessary for Pakistan National Security.

What is the big deal? Bush does the same things in America, except that Bush hasn’t openly suspended the U.S. constitution outright, just ignores the laws as he sees fit, for, I might add, national security. (Those signing statements are pure genius.) Musharraf is taking it one step futher by overt suspensions to Bush’s way of covert constitutional suspensions.

And Musharraf is using the same arguements as Bush’s: “the constitution provides no solution for this situation, there is no way out except through emergent and extraordinary measures,”; Hence spying on Americans without warrents is ok, waterboarding is ok, arresting people and locking them up without evidence, or having a real trial because the evidence is top secret, removing that silly habeas corpus thing, ok.

If Musharraf, who is the president of Pakistan, thinks it’s necessary, it’s necessary. Remember, If the president does it, it can’t be illegal as per Nixon, Bush, and Musharraf. Give the telecom’s their immunity for crying out loud. So they broke a dumb law; Bush said it was for national security. What else do people want?

A Coup? Come on. As soon as things settle down Musharraf will reactivate their constitution.

I wonder if all the nukes are accounted for.