Tshh

I for one would rather live in a country where thousands died at the hands of terrorists then a state that watches its citizenry as though the citizens were the risk.

The more people are watched, oppressed, troden down, the more rights given to the police, the less freedom we have.

And what is the point of life in a cage?

There is a two fold problem with the current situation.

First we are losing ever more freedom for what realistically is no added safety (the people so far caught have been incompetent idiots.) If a person or group of people really wanted to kill a large number of people they could. That is just a fact of life, people are weak when hit by bullets, pipes, machettes. No amount of spying, no amount of oppresion will remove this fact. A single determined person could easily kill a great number for their cause. (Simple examples - crash a truck on the m25, take a pair of machettes to the local shopping centre or hospital and start hacking away or take a can of petrol pour the petrol through the letter boxes of a number of houses and light them up.) Killing people is easy.

Secondly the more people are suppressed by our governments the more people will hate us. The more people will want to kill us for no more reason then we allow our governments to abandon the principles of freedom.

The hardest, but only real solution is to show resolve, to stick to our ideals of freedom. If we show kindness to a wounded animal and it bites us do we simply kill it or do we try again, and again, until it finally sees that we mean it no harm?

Our only weapon against terror is freedom and justice. Anything else simply proves we are weak and feeble. That for all our technology and our civilisation and our democracy we are nothing more but cavemen with toys.

So many may die, but in the end we would win, where as the way we are going, out only solution will be to crush freedom and kill everything that opposes us at a great loss of life, freedom and principles.

pshh but it's all wasted. So bollocks to it

Now, this is a story all about how

My life got flipped-turned upside down

And I liked to take a minute

Just sit right there

I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised

On the playground was where I spent most of my days

Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool

And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school

When a couple of guys

Who were up to no good

Startin makin trouble in my neighborhood

I got in one lil fight and my mom got scared

She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in bel Air'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day

But she packed my suite case and send me on my way

She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.

I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.

First class, yo this is bad

Drinking orang juice out of a champagne glass.

Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like?

Hmmmmm this might be alright.

But wait I hear the pricey booze, wine all that

Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat?

I don't think sow

I'll see when I get there

I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air

Well, the plane landed and when I came out

There was a dude who looked like a cop and yelled my name out

I ain't trying to get arrested

I just got here

I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared

I whistled for a cab and when it came near

The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror

If anything I can say this cab is rare

But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8

And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'

I looked at my kingdom

I was finally there

To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air

A warning to all, if Germany goes ahead with this then I urge you to stop buying Western Digital drives ... if you did anyway.

I know when mine broke I had to send it to a factory in Germany ... where Fuhrer Merkel could probably install whatever she wants ... I'm not sure wether new drives come from there but its too great a risk.

I wonder if they will be scanning the hard drives looking for signs of Islam? Sounds nothing like the 1930s ...

And don't forget, gentlemen, that innocent research on child pornography for legitimate academic purposes can get you into just as much trouble as your investigations into the causes of terrorism.

I know that you're quite the renaissance man and are boldly pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge, but police forces around the world tend not to employ intellectuals of my calibre and sophistication, and they may well just assume you are a violent pervert.

'Nuff said. (Posting anonymously because I fear the black helicopters)

you bookmark a site with interesting but benign stuff (politics, philosophy, sociology...) and forget about it. After some time, the site radicalizes and the mere existence of the link on your computer gets you in trouble.

By the way, are the police trojans Windows-only?

Of course, sign up to be paid and trained to kill and the rules about dreaming up ever more exotic Death and Destruction are strangely different. In fact they then may not even exist...... making a complete Ass of the Law and Common Justice and it is hard not to conclude that it also makes them Culpable and Instrumental by Reason of Professional Ethical Negligence in the Perversion of the Course of Justice and therefore Members of the Bar of Criminals.

Perhaps we could send all such Criminals to Iraq where apparently both random and routine acts of death and destruction are immune from investigation and/or prosecution and therefore presumably considered normal. It is certainly no place for Innocent civilians to be living in.

Hmmm .... I wonder if that is the Master Pentagon Plan..... Raze to the Ground. It certainly doesn't require any Thinking which appears to be the Commander-in-Chiefs style.

Hey, if the cap fits, wear it and don't whinge and whine and gurn if it helps everyone see the idiot. You deserve it.

I for one would welcome the government and police checking my computer to see if I've done anything bad. As long as they don't tell my wife about my special 'monkey/nun action' interest.

..where does that put Google?

BTW, can we have some political heads with horns? I guess halos won't be necessary.

I alledge that real terrorists also prefer emacs to vi.

This is because vi is blessed by God.

...throw them away now. If the police catch you with them, they've got you on:

1. Instructions to manufacture a 3 stage nuclear fusion bomb in a cave

2. Instructions to crash your 747 into the Capitol building

3. Instructions to create and disseminate Ebola (twice)

and various other minor things including instructions on how to mount a terrorist assault on a large theme park and one on shopping malls (except for this last one, you should have thrown Teeth of the Tiger away already, because it's shite).

You don't need the web at all to get convicted!

They could only use this against ppl they are already spending LOTS of money monitoring.

How do you get the trojan on the relevant box? House breaking is the only guaranteed way. How do they get the info out of the trojan? Many ppl have a router+firewall sitting between the computer and the network.

The people you need to be worried about won't be visiting www.jihad101.com (apologies if that actually exists!) They'll be very well trained already thank you very much thanks to the CIA.

The reason the us and uk are in afganistan?....

Well the answer is 2 fold, oil and poppies. The taliban for years has been a thorn in the side of th U.S. for 2 main reasons, 1st for years the the taliban has impeaded Americian efforts to lay down a pipe-line from 1 of the other "stan" countries through Afganastan to Pakistan to finally end up at the Ariabian Gulf for worldwide distrobution. 2nd reason is poppies, or mainly the revenue from global heroin sales and its use by sercert services to fund "black ops". Since the collapse of the Taliban the production of opium and eventually heroin has gone up about 15 times (if you look at 2002-2003 alone it doubled) this is a major revenue stream of the C.I.A. which for years has been used to raise money without the involvement or go-ahead of the U.S. congress.

There you go, again your governments pledge for freedom is just anothe shallow grab for money and power

>> I for one would welcome the government and police checking my computer to see if I've done anything bad.

I see someone whose hobby is police truncheons. If I were you I'd be careful about not wasting police time.

Occasionally I wonder if this idiocy will ever stop, but then I remember that it's all about control and money and I know it won't.

Let's, for arguments' sake, assume someone manages to get McNab onto the search list. Anyone getting into his computer will find seriously detailed novels about warfare - it's in his books. Following this reasoning we MUST arrest him.

Ah, no, he's Andy McNab. So sometimes we don't use this approach? No, he's McNab. OK, what criteria do we follow? Ah, well, he's [STOP]. Let me first appraise you of the laws of racism, then continue. Ah, silence.

What's that you're mumbling? Oh, I'm helping the terrorists?

BS. By the way they screwed up in Iraq and by the way they bend every conceivable law associated, Bush couldn't have given that creed a better Middle Eastern marketing campaign than if he had Saddam running for president in the US.

I repeat what someone said on Slashdot: can someone give him a blowjob so he can be indicted?

>Thoughtcrime doubleplusbad.

Oh come on David, you memory is clearly doubleplusungood.