Bitemenow10 + 1

@ Dejan0707

America is still the land of opportunity. I won't get worried about the "rise" of China and India until they start having an illegal immigration problem. I don't see people lining up outside of Chinese and Indian embassies, begging to emigrate.

lol @ the osama 0 obama 1 sign

more like osama 1 obama 1

your move terrorism

Jingoism is just fucking sick.

I mean look at this.
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/05/kids-celebrating-osama-bin-laden%E2%80%99s-death/

"Obama can say that America isn't at war with Islam all he wants...but...it is."

Wow, you actually believe in that statement, mephistopheles?

Sicarius +1

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannon drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says “Love your enemies,” he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies– or else? The chain reaction of evil–hate begetting hate, wars producing wars–must be broken, ore we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)

* cannot

Also, Sicarus +1

For some reason I find it particularly disturbing that the child holding the "Yeah, Osama's dead" banner seems to be wearing a CND banner....

Please explain to me how america is the land of opportunity?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110223/ts_yblog_thelookout/separate-but-unequal-charts-show-growing-rich-poor-gap

* a CND shirt, even.

We flew some planes into buildings and America got mad.
I said "we're moving with my auntie and uncle in Abbottabad."

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/05/nailing-bin-laden-was-it-a-military-or-a-media-operation/


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Clarifying 'Police Militarization'
Sorry for not explaining it myself, its just theres so much information thats readily available, and people here tend to critisize me for not including links anyways.

http://reason.com/archives/2007/07/02/our-militarized-police-departm

http://www.copwatch.org/Militarizationofpolice.html

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/4203345

http://boingboing.net/2007/09/03/the-militarization-o.html

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/the_militarizat.html

http://tidewaterliberty.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/pilot-article-on-police-militarization/

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14363

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-militarization-of-american-police/

http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg.htm

http://www.davekopel.com/waco/lawrev/cansoldiersbepeaceofficers.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384822,00.asp


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@ Sicarius

(I only read the first three sources, but thank you for taking the time to look up all of those. Also, thank you for not including Wikipedia)

I think that police departments should have access to (and be able to use, if the situation requires) military-grade weapons. Criminals can easily obtain automatic assault rifles, so why should we care if police officers do? Technological advances have caused the arms race between police and criminals, not police militarization. In the 1950s and 1960s, criminals would not have anything more powerful than a hunting rifle, a pump-action shotgun, revolver, or semiautomatic pistol. During those years (and previous years) the venerable (but relatively weak) .38 Special revolver was a match for the crooks of the day. Now, thugs can get their hands on AR-15s, submachine guns, and semiautomatic shotguns. It is the police's responsibility to protect civilians from criminals. How are they going to protect civilians if criminals have them outgunned?

I believe it is better to use too much force than not enough.

"I believe it is better to use too much force than not enough."

Janet Reno certainly thought so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIUec0mYEMU

Can someone explain to me why it is popular to misspell America as "Amerika" when making snarky, anti-American comments? Is it because it is the German spelling and Germans are worthy of ridicule or something...?

I believe Amerika with a "k" is a reference to a made-for-TV movie from the '80s about a Soviet occupation of the United States.

Wow, I had NO idea. It's odd, though. On my initial, superficial look at the Wikipedia page about this series, it looks like it depicts an apathetic America that is too coddled to defend itself, which is really the opposite stance that I detect in people screaming AMERIKA, where America is supposed to be a bloodthirsty, overly violent, police state. Weird.

No actually Amerika with a K goes back at least to the SDS, whose more radixal elements such as the weather underground used "Amerika" as a derogatory term for the country, I believe it might be a short form of Amerikkka but Im not sure what the origins of the SDS spelling was.

Europe is much better then America

@ Chester

You are delusional.

That's true

Europe is much better than America for Islamic immigrants; other than that it's all about the Western Hemisphere.

I agree with JetJaguar.

uh... guys

the k is just a misspelling to make fun of idiotic hyper-patriotic Americans, primarily from the South from where I hail

common misspellings include: AMERIKA, UHMURRKA, AMUURRIKA, etc.

re: America and the internet, yes, you invented the internet, but then did nothing with it for almost 30 years (nothing except military and scientific applications) until some european scientist make the world wide web (www) and made it free for everyone in the world to share information...

built on top of the internet (and science often is built on the shoulders of giants, or so i hear) sure, but made accessible to the world by a person not working for their own profit.

Demonstrating that free technology *can* change the world when proprietary technology merely makes certain individuals a profit.

Of course last time i said this an American called me a Communist!

To which i replied, 'well if that's what you want to call it, Communism must be the way to go!'

pffft. The French had Minitel up and going in 1982. Try and keep up, America.

I read that the CERN invented the internet.