2005 Archives You'll see in the archives section above that 2005 is missing. That's some glitch that will hopefully rectify itself eventually. But in the meantime if you want to find my posts from this period they are below:
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Re the atrocity in Spain, and its electoral fallout:
I'm amazed at the stupidity of people who still can't understand that whoever commits these acts is just not part of our civilization. And that to appease them will only take us back to the Dark Ages.
I've often heard a quote (I think it's by Jean Paul Sartre) that is used in defence of these scum suckers: "Terrorism is the atom bomb of the oppressed."
There are heaps of things wrong with that, both intellectually and morally. But just re the "peace-lovers" who invoke it: If they are against America even having nukes, then why do they not condemn these "freedom fighters" for repeatedly using theirs?
The whole point of having a nuke seems to be that you don't use it. You just sort of make it known that you have it to scare the bejesus out of anyone who might want to challenge or attack you, so that they don't.
If your enemy also has a nuke, but also doesn't use it, then you have a stalemate. Far from ideal. But still, no one gets hurt. MAD wasn't quite so mad after all.
But if governments keep appeasing terrorism (that is, the detonation of smaller, but still devastating nukes) as a means of fascists getting what they want, then more and more people will use it. And it will eventually become an all-in nuke-fest involving nukes both small and large.
It's so clear that to solve this problem all over the world, governments have to unite against it, stamp it out wherever it may be. It's like getting rid of rats. You thwock 'em when you see 'em, leave baits around the joint, and you also put poison in their nests. And you do it everywhere.
A lot of bong-suckling bolshies will be pleased with the socialists being elected in Spain, thinking it makes the world safer.
Their logic is utterly arse-about as usual. The scum-sucking psychos who engineered that result through their brutality have now become emboldened and re-energised, and it now makes it more likely that terrorism will be used again. My guess is that they'll attempt something really huge here just before the next elections.