Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional NSA Spying

Re:Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional... by Vivtek on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:34PM (#6059345)

I wish they'd been watching for fraud on the part of the biggest banks, which has done America a lot more damage than a smuggled bomb. Putting it in Indianapolis is rank pandering to the Tea Party, though. Back in 2003, my dad (also in (rural) Indiana) professed to be in fear of Saddam Hussein. I told him at the time that even if Saddam Hussein actually had any way to affect him, he'd never heard of Indiana.

And yet it's the heartland running on sheer terror to demand safety instead of their liberty.

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Re:Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional... by Daniel_Newby on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:38AM (#6063890)

Indianapolis was the site of a full-dress-rehersal nuclear interdiction field exercise. It is also a literary allusion to a well-known science fiction story in which Indianapolis is sacrificed to an alien nuclear attack.

Saddam Hussein could have trivially smashed the economy of Indiana as part of larger dsruptions of the world economy. The actual error is that by 2003 he was utterly deterred. Gulf War I taught him all about staying on his little patch of sand.

This discussion contains only the political partisanship you projected onto it. You need to learn that clear strategic analysis often contradicts or supports political dogma by coincidence.

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Re:Bills Introduced by Congress Fail to Fix Unconstitutional... by Vivtek on Thursday July 18, 2013 @06:55PM (#6067095)

Bah. It was in Indianapolis for the reasons I mentioned in my post - pandering and terror. That you now cite it as a reason to worry about Indianapolis is rather circular. As to your citing science fiction, I'd like to remind you that Close Encounters of the Third Kind took place in Indiana as well - should I be watching the skies?

This discussion contains all the political "partisanship" it needs, son. Get over yourself before you presume to tell me what I need to learn.

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