Repub-Generated Nuclear Terror
Bad enough when terrorists bluff about their intent to obtain nuclear weapons to frighten the general populace - now we have Republican politicians doing the terrorists' work for them. From Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) was troubled by what might happen when waterboarding and the American right to a fair trial met in a U.S. courtroom. She worried what might happen if terror suspects argued they'd been given "cruel and unusual" punishment at Gitmo.
"This is what scares me because they're in a U.S. court now and the rights are different," she said. "What will they say [about their detention] and what could happen and could they be out among the people again? It's very frightening."
How frightening? Mushroom cloud frightening, according to [Rep. Trent] Franks [R-AZ]. He said that a federal trial would give the suspects "a megaphone to speak to the planet," which he said "only hastens the danger" of, literally, a nuclear terrorist attack.
Yes, we certainly don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud, do we? The only thing we need to fear are the fearmongers themselves. Better to dig a nice deep hole at Gitmo, and throw all these Republicans terrorists into it and forget about them. Also present at the Dec 10 event were Rep. Michelle "Kill the Socialists" Bachman (R-MN) and Frank "Crazy Eyes" Gaffney (Center for Security Policy).
I'm going to create a new variant of Godwin's Law.
- Sigger's Law: "As any discussion on terrorism grows longer, the probability of attributing terrorists with nuclear weapons (or similar destructive capabilities) approaches 1."
- Corrolary to Sigger's Law: "Once such an observation is made, the discussion is finished and whoever mentioned terrorist possession of nuclear weapons has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress."
The terrorists have nukes?
*runs screaming*
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
The Republicans are the kings of Consequences, Shmonsequences.
If they are against something, then they will depict it as something that will LEAD to something bad. Don't like marijuana? Claim it's a gateway drug to heroin! Don't like gay marriage? Claim it will lead to bestiality and incest! Don't like a public option? Claim it will INEVITABLY result in the destruction of all private insurance and, seconds later, the dissolution of the Republic!
On the other hand, if they like something -- say, invading other countries, spending trillions on war profiteering or eliminating civil rights -- then the alternative (doing nothing, usually) is framed as somehow leading to disaster and calamity! If we DON'T invade [Country X], they will take the fight to OUR shores! If we DON'T imprison all illegal aliens, they will create Azteca!
You get the idea. These people are pure foulness. If the media didn't enable and assist them, and if our educational system weren't so broken, these people wouldn't even get elected.
If the media didn't enable and assist them...
That bears repeating at every oportunity.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
And after another day in the news grind, I'm thinking it's irreparable.
... ARE THEM!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
That is truly creepy. and creepily true.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
are hiding out (sleeping) next to large overseas oil and natural gas deposits that just happen to be up for grabs.
Republican fear is the route of Republican greed and hate.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The Prophecies Man!!! Gog and Magog! It sez so in the Bible!
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Now we can watch how fast Obama does fuck-all nothing about it.
Maybe the DOJ will act in a non-partisan way and bust their asses.
The DOJ is not a political entity there Mr. DOJ type guy - don't be chicken!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
This is why the Republicans use it. If you have only stupid ideas, the best way to implement them is to prevent other people from thinking about how stupid they are.
I think he knows he'd have 'an accident' (maybe in a small plane, or a car late at night) if he ever went forward with prosecuting Georgie and Darth for war crimes - or even just regular old Lies.
>>>>this was response to shadow ^
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
It's not really up to him, in a working government with it's separation of powers and all that.
That's what made the seperation of powers so effective and desireable, when we had it.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
They talk about the 'nuclear option' often, and they behave like a terrorist organization. According to the Cheney 1% doctrine then, we must go to war against the GOP. Can we get NATO to help?
Sorry, VJB, but something just isn't correct here ...
The American Taliban have nuclear weapons! (There, I fixed it for you.)
BTW, remember when Darth Cheney and his merry band of mercenaries (Blackwater/Xe) almost got their hands on USA nuke-tipped cruise missiles? You know, when a bunch of highly trained and motivated USAF personnel "accidently" loaded live nukes on a SAC B-52 bomber and flew it around the USA. Those could very easily have turned up "missing", like that 2.3 Trillion USD$ that Rummy did a presser on on 10 Sept. 2001.
As I don my tin foil hat (looks like a Revolutionary War Tri-Corner), I seem to recall that many senior military officers were forced into retirement when faced with the prospect of swearing personal fealty to Dubya. The ones that remained were all on-board for whatever came next (and coincidentally mostly Xtian). And Obama readily absorbed the Cheney stay-behinds into top government management positions. So, who really has control of that "nuclear football" with the launch codes?
When either Darth Cheney or (Lynn) Mini-Cheney publicly speak about the impending threat of nuclear mushroom clouds over Topeka and Chicago, they may merely be vocalizing their blackmail demands.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
What a great use of military ground forces: to guard nuclear missile silos prior to their dismantling. That way the terrorists won’t get their hands on them.
Oh Shit - Sigger’s Corollary! Did I just lose?
The age of reason has really been badly dumbed down. These people are legislatures saying this kind of shit? Aren't most of them Attorney's?
Since when has a Judge let a defendant speak out openly in a court room. What, the rethugs don't know that Judges can control their own trials?
Give me a freakin break.
It just staggers the mind that people this ignorant get elected. At all.
We had a trial in TN not too long ago where the Judge had the defendant gagged!
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That's why the Republithugs BROKE our educational system in the first place! Uneducated people are more likely to BELIEVE the superstitious BS that spews from THUGS mouths every second they speak!
It's the same mind set that creates a C Street FAMILY of fruitcakes who BELIEVE they were CHOSEN by GOD to break every law of man and nature and decency and rule the world through prostitution and domination of women AND any RACE they consider beneath them.
The same mind set that creates a Jim Jones who pulls out the loaded GUN and starts shooting anyone who refused to drink the poisoned koolaid OR feed it to their CHILDREN!
The same mind set that sent the "Manson Family" out to slaughter innocent people by the "man" they believed to be JESUS!
The same mind set that made George W. Bush believe GOD CHOSE HIM to be president because some THUG friends of his DADDY in the Supreme Court CHOSE HIM and that GOD TOLD HIM to break the law, invade 3 countries, slaughter millions of people etc. because HE and Richard the Dick deserved all those WAR and OIL profits for themselves and their BEST FRIENDS.
You just can't get half the population of this country to BELIEVE in that kind of madness IF THEY ARE PROPERLY EDUCATED!
"a megaphone to speak to the planet,"
I think Franks must have just finished reading "Atlas Shrugged", particulary the 70-page speech to the world.
far left loon >.<
... as a "how to" guide, not "what to avoid."
Goebbels would be so proud of them.
What's the mechanism leads from trial to mushroom cloud? Do the terrorists already have nuclear weapons that they're not using? If we give the prisoners a megaphone in the form of a fair trial, will that finally provoke them into using their nuclear arsenal? Or is it that giving the prisoners a fair trial will somehow magically lead to the terrorists gaining nuclear weapons? What is so provocative about a trial? Didn't they know we had these prisoners? Didn't they know the prisoners had been abused? Is there anyone on the planet who doesn't know that?
They are just babbling now, not long to go now. G'bye Republican perverts.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
No! NO! Do you even know the potential repercussions of dumping them in a hole at Gitmo?? After we throw them in and walk away thinking the problem was dealt with once and for all, they could keep digging and eventually escape on the other side of the planet into Australia!!
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