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Title: I am posting about terrorism. Therefore I must be a terrorist.
Post by: Unknown Target on April 07, 2005, 02:33:38 pm: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=10&u=/ap/20050407/ap_on_re_us/teens_held
Title: I am posting about terrorism. Therefore I must be a terrorist.
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 07, 2005, 03:14:14 pm: In other words - because she's from a foreign country that doesn't like the US and wrote a suicide note, she must be a terrorist. But it's ok, they admitted they *might* be exaggerating things! :)

:sigh:

So, is there still a line for Australian citizenship these days?...
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Post by: Taristin on April 07, 2005, 03:24:22 pm: Yeah, it starts behind me...
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on April 07, 2005, 03:21:12 pm: No, if you're Islam you must be a terrorist.

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From the article:about suicide and Islam
Title: I am posting about terrorism. Therefore I must be a terrorist.
Post by: Ford Prefect on April 07, 2005, 05:16:48 pm: Quote
So, is there still a line for Australian citizenship these days?...

I hear they're almost as bad as we are.
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Post by: vyper on April 07, 2005, 05:29:06 pm: Pre-emptive wars, pre-emptive arrests, don't ya just love this way of thinking?
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Post by: BlackDove on April 07, 2005, 05:35:52 pm: It's like Minority Report without the prophets.
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Post by: Annorax on April 07, 2005, 05:50:55 pm: They should be executed soon.

Whether that's a bad thing, I don't know. They shouldn't have been stupid enough to be in the US.
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Post by: Grug on April 07, 2005, 05:59:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect

I hear they're almost as bad as we are.

LMAO!

Don't be so niave my friend.
We are cautious, but not paranoid dillusionals. :p

@WMC Come on Down! :D
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Post by: Ford Prefect on April 07, 2005, 06:10:27 pm: That's good to know. It was just my understanding Australia's government was relatively gung-ho.
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Post by: vyper on April 07, 2005, 08:03:55 pm: And people wonder why I say we should have federalised the empire.
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Post by: Taristin on April 07, 2005, 08:06:21 pm: It's Britain's fault the world is as fuct as it is! :p

Or so I wanna claim! I have to pass the buck somewhere. ;)
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Post by: vyper on April 07, 2005, 08:20:01 pm: You're actually right - we really should've been more progressive. If we had been the empire would have evolved into a multi-continental country, operating as federal states with an imperial parliament (like the US senate) operating in wesminster.

Instead some bright bastard decided to start the commonwealth and try and batter folk into submission. Bloody englishmen.
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Post by: Rictor on April 07, 2005, 08:17:39 pm: I would just like to point on that the website in quetion has a big "Does Europe Hate US" banner, hocking some program on Discovery by Thomas Freidman.

Eughhhh.

Other that that, not to be a cynic, but is anyone actually surprised by this stuff anymore? I mean, after they suspended a kid for drawing violent pictures, it's all all out the window.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on April 07, 2005, 08:24:38 pm: Terrorists beware. (http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4114)
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Post by: Grey Wolf on April 07, 2005, 08:25:42 pm: Well, you have to remember that American aristocrats did break away so they could start their own industries before the entire Commonwealth concept. Perhaps they were afraid of that happening again.
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Post by: vyper on April 07, 2005, 08:28:07 pm: Thing is, they would've never had the popular support had the issue of representation not been so strong. :)
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Post by: Nuclear1 on April 07, 2005, 08:28:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Terrorists beware. (http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4114)

Literalists beware. (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=joke)

It's a joke, dude. Don't take everything anyone does to be serious. ;)
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Post by: Rictor on April 07, 2005, 08:31:44 pm: I'm pretty sure Ford knows that anything posted on the Onion is, needless to say, satire.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on April 07, 2005, 08:32:53 pm: Just reinforcing that ;)
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Post by: Taristin on April 07, 2005, 08:39:49 pm: *honks at the van*
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Post by: WMCoolmon on April 07, 2005, 08:56:59 pm: Quote
Originally posted by nuclear1

Literalists beware. (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=joke)

It's a joke, dude. Don't take everything anyone does to be serious. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
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Post by: Rand al Thor on April 07, 2005, 09:09:15 pm: I've said it before and for the next four years at least I'll be saying it again.

The USA is a facist corporate state run on the basis of fear that persecutes members of its own society.
It sounds pathetic saying it but its the glaring truth.

And I gotta say the last funny thing I remember from the Onion was 'F**k it; we're going to five blades!'.

Ahhh... those were the days.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on April 07, 2005, 09:14:10 pm: Damnit, The Onion is satire? I think I'd better stop citing their articles in my Government class.
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Post by: Ace on April 07, 2005, 09:24:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vyper
Thing is, they would've never had the popular support had the issue of representation not been so strong. :)

The popular support for the American Revolution isn't as high as the history books make it out to be.

If Britain was a little bit smarter in management of their colonies and was more serious about "The British Empire" they could have held onto the territories.

Of course probably each provence would have grown its own effective government over time, and world war one would have led to something closer to independent states in a British Commonwealth.

The US was insular enough until the 20th century that a British-dominated US wouldn't have changed history too much until that point.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on April 07, 2005, 09:57:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Damnit, The Onion is satire? I think I'd better stop citing their articles in my Government class.

You're paying for that sarcasm detector that just exploded.
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Post by: Taristin on April 07, 2005, 10:07:12 pm: Sarcasm detector... that's a useful invention...
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Post by: redsniper on April 07, 2005, 10:05:55 pm: EDIT: this goes below Raa's post.

...which some people here need desperately. :rolleyes:
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Post by: vyper on April 08, 2005, 08:03:31 am: KABOOM