President Bush should make it clear that he will pardon any CIA/military/contractor who was acting in good faith in the Global War on Terror, against any overzealous Monday-morning quarterbacking prosecutions. All patriotic candidates in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes should follow suit. And there will be overwhelming public pressure for this. Anyone who thinks the American public is in favor of coddling the perpetrators of 9/11 is living in the twilight zone.

And in other news all the received wisdom on the Iran NIE is turning out to be dross. The American people, by an overwhelming margin in a recent poll, consider Iran to be mortal threat to both Israel and the US. And Defense Secretary Gates has just reiterated that the military option remains very much on the table.

Anderson was one of my favorite SF authors.. His characters were always well drawn and his plots sufficiently complicated to keep one guessing until the end..

Look up "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows", without a doubt the best Flandry novel that has a nasty surprise twist for the main character at the end.

After nearly a million miles on crotch rockets and never being touched by a car I do feel like a bit of a telepath. I can usually tell when someone is going to do something stupid before they know it themselves.

I teach motorcycle safety courses and I tell my students to ride in such a manner that even if they were totally invisible they wouldn't get hit anyway.

It's harder than it sounds.

I kind of feel like an alien, too.

A stranger in a strange land, if you will.

Aychyachy...Your authoritarian tendencies are starting to show...

That's what all the real fascists tell me.

Aychyachy... I'm an obstinate, hard headed, obsessive jerk and you have just made yourself a focus of my obsessive tendencies. I'm going to ask you what your "better metric" is until you either answer or go away.

You've made Kitt's day, if not his week.

Yes, fascists are so worried about the incredibly high incarceration rate in their country.

What is your "better metric", eh?

I predict that you will not provide an answer.

Nah, I'm a multitasking obsessive jerk.

The government is pushing for a "drug free America", given that drugs are available even in maximum security prisons, a "drug free America" will not be a free America.

-- Aycharaych

A "drug free America"? Not on my TV. Someone is "pushing drugs" on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure the current right wing infested and ineffective government had a hand in it. Now is a good time to abolish the FDA and legalize all drugs. Big pharma can't wait.

http://www.drugfree.org/

http://www.dfaf.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_a_Drug-Free_America

The organization first entered the wider public consciousness in 1987, with its This is Your Brain on Drugs broadcast and print public service advertisements (PSAs), which used the analogy that if a person's brain is an egg, then using drugs would be like frying it. This, in addition to a PSA where a television, a trip to Paris and a new car all disappear right under the nose of a cocaine user and another about how a drug-induced high is like diving into an empty swimming pool, were all praised in a speech given to those involved executively with PDFA by then-President George H W Bush in late 1989.

And:

PDFA also participates in the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, co-ordinated by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). At the core of which is a paid advertising program featuring messages produced by PDFA, who donates all PSAs to the campaign.

"President Bush should make it clear that he will pardon any CIA/military/contractor who was acting in good faith in the Global War on Terror, against any overzealous Monday-morning quarterbacking prosecutions. All patriotic candidates in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes should follow suit. And there will be overwhelming public pressure for this. Anyone who thinks the American public is in favor of coddling the perpetrators of 9/11 is living in the twilight zone."

President Bush should be more worried about his own pardon rather than pardoning some freak of nature who thinks it's fun to torture people. Seeing Bush perpwalked into some federal slammer, or even better a slammer in Iraq, would really be the Katz meow.

Yes, fascists are so worried about the incredibly high incarceration rate in their country.

It's kind of like every single neo-Nazi and KKK member in the country supporting Ron Paul for president and now hating Bush and his policies. Ain't polictics cool? When you begin to understand how fascism actually operates in the context of American politics, you realize none of their positions are sincere. They are all red herrings, just like the Southern Strategy. If they were ever open and up front about their true intent and goals, no one would be willing to support it openly, although we know far too many Americans don't object strenously enough to their machinations. Reagan got elected, didn't he? Perhaps they don't see it, or don't want to see it.

LWM... How much blogo oxygen do you suck up in one day? Does every link or article have to be written by a "lawyer" in order to have credibility in your eyes? For crying out loud! The house of crap we are in has largely been built by lawyers who have conveniently excused themselves from any accountability. The "little people" are always left holding the bag while bearing the scars.

What I was attempting to do was show that the very individual who has been evasive and negligent in how they've handled what should be considered a very serious matter has turned their laser beams on the country as a whole and laid further groundwork for future abuse. Granted the link wasn't the best but "what the hell" you KNOW better than the rest of us.

While I was pretty traumatized by the original 9/11 the outspoken efforts by Salonistas and other Democrat partisans to enable another one will likely result in massive schadenfreude if it goes down in San Francisco. Especially if Glenn winds up base jumping sans parachute.

Would you personally be among those "masses" experiencing schadenfreude?

This disgusting smear, lampooned: http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/07/do-we-need-another-terrorist-attack.html.