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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:13 AM
GINOBIFFARONI
Quote:Originally posted by Geezer: Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: I know they're a bunch of repressive dickheads, Geeze, my POINT is that we really should quit providing them with an *excuse* for it. And we should start that by developing a negotiation scheme other than pointing a gun at them and demanding they comply. We did. In 2007 at the Six-Party Talks we agreed to provide them with food and fuel, and they agreed to stop playing with nuclear weapons. That sure worked. Even if we left them completely alone, they would still be able to manufacture an *excuse* relating to Japan or South Korea. Given the government's control of the media in North Korea, they could probably blame San Marino and most of the population would buy it. North Korea CAN'T come into the world. They can't allow their people to know what's actually happening. They will manufacture threats, and spread them through their media, even if no threats exist. They need to keep their wall up and prevent any contact with the outside. BTW, countries other than the U.S. have tried negotiating with North Korea. They get the same broken promises and treaties, and have for years. It's just the way North Korea handles foreign policy. You know what insanity is, Frem? Doin the same stupid shit over and over and expecting a different result. "Keep the Shiny side up"
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: I know they're a bunch of repressive dickheads, Geeze, my POINT is that we really should quit providing them with an *excuse* for it. And we should start that by developing a negotiation scheme other than pointing a gun at them and demanding they comply.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:15 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:32 AM
Quote:Even if we left them completely alone, they would still be able to manufacture an *excuse* relating to Japan or South Korea.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:07 AM
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: They don't like us, fine, they don't HAVE to like us, and if they do pick some shit we're quite capable of turning their country into a blackened wasteland, so why bother with em ?
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:28 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote: But I guess if it's not you getting blown up, just Japanese or South Koreans, it's fine.
Quote:Kim has pretty much said he'd be willing to lose 70% of North Korea's population in a war. He and his cadre have plenty of hideouts. They don't care about the population in general, and know that even if they did use a nuke, there'd be too much international handwringing for anyone to respond in kind.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: So your "solution" it to just blindly knuckle under to the government and go with whatever they say is easiest, right? Let me guess, they actually sold you on it with that "it's for your own good" line of bullshit. I have no idea what your talking about here man. There's no way our government today would ever propose any solutions I've suggested. Look around you.... Is even FOX news and that dipshit O'Rielly or even the pill popping Rush so bold as to say these things?
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: So your "solution" it to just blindly knuckle under to the government and go with whatever they say is easiest, right? Let me guess, they actually sold you on it with that "it's for your own good" line of bullshit.
Quote: I hate to sound racist here, but personally I don't think middle easterners should be allowed to live in the US. The only other answer would be to "label" them like the Germans did the Jews in WWII and I'm not down with that. They should be allowed to sell their possessions and take the money back with them. We should work hard to make their transitions to their home countries as easy as possible. Once there, it is not our problem what happens. If Imus can't get away with a "nappy-headed-ho" comment, surely suggesting what I am would be a career ending move, politically or otherwise. So.... you gotta be kidding me.
Quote:And who are these "sheeple" you speak of who are cowering under their beds right now? I mean, besides AuRaptor, I really haven't ever seen anyone who's as terrified of muslims as you seem to think they are.
Quote: I mentioned "sheeple" and people who cower under their own beds separately. There are many sheep who leave the bedroom and pretend that it isn't happening and there are sheeple who are oblivious to it happening too. Though the Rethugs have the lock primarily on the hiding-under-the-bed type, the Demons have plenty of sheepish tenancies as well.... but that's another post all to itself. Quote:Also, how do you weed them out? Do you just walk up and ask them if they're muslim? Do you round up anyone who isn't white? Do you patrol the mosques? Do you serve pork and detain anyone who refuses it? There is no weeding out. Did I even mention Muslims or the Muslim faith one single time? I said ALL of them... Christians too.
Quote:Also, how do you weed them out? Do you just walk up and ask them if they're muslim? Do you round up anyone who isn't white? Do you patrol the mosques? Do you serve pork and detain anyone who refuses it?
Quote: But I'm not going to say anymore about that. I do offer my condolences to them when the innocents have to suffer for the actions of the extremists. Don't worry... because this is a suggestion that would never come to life in the real world. The government would have far too much to lose by imposing it. The people would have to do it themselves, but to think it or dare suggest it results in a lot of hatered and misunderstanding coming from the other side (and I know that I've crossed the line into extreme "insanity" as based in the real world when Frem is in 100% disagreement with something I say). I just don't want to see that bloodshed that will inevitably happen when another few smaller "somethings" happen. We'll probably never see something the scale of 9/11 again, at least not in the second wave, but the message delivered will be of tenfold strength next time. These people are not stupid and, having a diploma in social engineering myself, I know a little bit about getting close enough to somebody to get them to think that they're doing what they want to do when they're really doing what you want them to do. My suggestions are to avoid senseless bloodshed on our own soil, on both sides.
Quote: What if I were to suggest we give them a nice chunk of good land (for real this time, and not the way we screwed the indians) until this shit blows over. I don't think I've ever come off as a racist before. I just don't want to see the end result be a lot of mindless bloodshed or worse yet, a Government which rips up the constitution and imposes invasive behavior on a tyrannical scale by micromanaging of our very lives to prevent the bloodshed from occuring. You got a better suggestion for all of us cupcake?
Quote:I find it ironic that someone who claims to lean libertarian now wants the government to actively take control of who is racially pure enough to live in "your" country. That IS what this amounts to, y'know.
Quote:Also, your argument that this is necessary because internment camps were evil is specious at best. You recognize that the internment camps were evil, but propose that the LESS evil thing to do would be to go them one better, and just jump right on over to deportation. I'm sure you support back-to-Africa movements for blacks, too, right?
Quote: Are blacks Americans? I told you this isn't about racism. You obviously don't know my past or who I am, so it is wildly unfair for you to even ask me about the back-to-Africa movement in that sarcastic tone.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:34 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Some cites to back up any of those claims would be nice. Otherwise, people might just have to assume you're passing on right-wing propaganda.
Quote:MSF began to understand that the North Korean government categorises its population according to perceived loyalty and usefulness to the regime, and those deemed hostile or useless were expendable. In fact, in 1996, Kim Jong-il publicly declared that only 30% of the population needed to survive to reconstruct a victorious society. With no possibility of directing aid to those most in need, MSF withdrew.
Quote:The subway system in Pyongyang, which extends some 34 kilometers and is 100 meters in depth on average, was designed as a massive bomb shelter for the two million residents of that city. In addition, it is believed that virtually every town is equipped with similarly secure shelters. This sense of fear of the threat of a U.S.-backed South Korea accelerated the development of the nuclear weapons program.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:16 PM
FINN MAC CUMHAL
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I hate to sound racist here, but personally I don't think middle easterners should be allowed to live in the US. The only other answer would be to "label" them like the Germans did the Jews in WWII and I'm not down with that. They should be allowed to sell their possessions and take the money back with them. We should work hard to make their transitions to their home countries as easy as possible. Once there, it is not our problem what happens.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: They don't like us, fine, they don't HAVE to like us, and if they do pick some shit we're quite capable of turning their country into a blackened wasteland, so why bother with em ? I don't like what they do to their own, but it ain't our country, and I sure as hell wouldn't provide them a damn thing (I am all in favor of yanking ANY form of foreign aid to anyone these days) till they come to us and offer something in return. They wanna be isolationist, let em, long as they do it on their OWN turf, that's all on them and sooner or later that'll implode on them, but we don't need to go around addressing the worlds problems when we got stuff needing attention here at home - so we should simply take up a stance of neither supporting NOR threatening them, and leave it the hell alone.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:03 PM
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:03 PM
Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:20 AM
CITIZEN
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: As far a 'sympathy' for a government goes - did you somehow forget I am an Anarchist with no sympathy whatever for ANY government ? Besides which, if you dislike 'stalinism' so much, where ya been for the past two administrations AND the current one moving towards it as hard and as fast as they can, eh ?
Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: And it's not like the UN has any real authority when it's pretty clear to the whole world that certain countries don't have to abide by the rules, therefore invalidating it's whole purpose.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:32 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Look at what trusting us and the UN got Saddam - don't shine me, I knew (and called WELL in advance) we weren't using those inspections to prove or disprove a goddamned thing, we were usin em to make sure his county was all but helpless before we invaded it - and everyone else on the planet knows it whether WE admit it, even to ourselves or not.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:38 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: and you DO realize that sending a team into someone elses country to blow shit up, or bombing it, is an act of war, right ?
Quote:In October 1983, a P'yongyang-directed terrorist attack resulted in the cessation of the peace process. A bomb that exploded in Rangoon, Burma, killed twenty-one people, including seventeen high-ranking officials of the South Korean government then visiting Burma. The bombing was planned and executed by personnel drawn from North Korean army units. Chun's decision not to retaliate with force set a precedent that won him praise from abroad and sympathy for his unpopular regime at home. Seoul's reliance on diplomatic and economic measures to counter terrorism rather than a small-scale attack on a North Korean target, which could be used as an excuse for beginning an all-out war, effectively mobilized international public opinion to limit trade and other contacts with North Korea. Another terrorist attack occurred in September 1987 when two North Korean saboteurs placed a bomb on a Seoul-bound Korean Air Boeing 707 aircraft carrying ninety-five passengers and twenty crew members. The plane exploded over the Andaman Sea (south of Burma), killing all aboard. Chun, following the precedent set in 1983 after the Rangoon bombing, ruled out military retaliation and asked the international community to condemn North Korea for its continued belligerence.
Quote:North Korea has admitted kidnapping 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s to help train spies.
Quote: Thousands of South Korean troops backed by helicopters and tracker dogs searched a mountainous area today for the last survivors of a group of North Korean commandos who apparently sneaked into South Korea from a submarine before dawn on Wednesday
Quote: In January 1968 a group of North Korean saboteurs assaulted the presidential palace, the Blue House, in the hopes of assassinating President Park.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Oh, and that's another thing, this planet doesn't revolve around the USA there, dude.
Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:23 AM
Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:43 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Geeze, I am well aware that NK has committed various and sundry acts of war against South Korea - but being the target of those actions, South Korea decides the response, not us. And since neither South Korea nor Japan decided to go to war with em, them being the aggreived parties, why should WE bitch about it ?
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: My folk aren't armed, and due to the nature of our legal system and the possibility of getting sued - are in fact forbidden to even attempt detainment of a perp, SOP is to scare them witless, helped along by the mysterious rumor that our company will put you at the bottom of the nearby lake and end the matter there. I'm sure the bits of chain and cinderblocks next to harry's boat out back have helped feed this rumor quite nicely.
Quote:There's MORE responses than either do nothing or go all out armageddon, ya dimwit -
Quote:As for your pathetic little strawman, Kim Jong ain't got shit to do with us...
Quote: What he DOES have to do with, is South Korea,
Quote:And while what the punk does in his OWN country, distasteful though it may be, is his own business
Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:09 PM
Friday, May 29, 2009 2:11 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Are middle-easterners Americans? You say it isn't about racism, but you want to force an entire group of people out of this country based on nothing more than your own fear of them.
Friday, May 29, 2009 3:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: Nice job of cherry picking to step around me saying we damn well should back em up, all those little keyworded chain yanks musta caught close enough to home to annoy you, especially since you went rakin other posts to take a quote out of context.
Quote: You didn't give a rats ass about "his people" and you still don't, save as an excuse to vilify others when you cannot justify your own cowardly behavior - a deflection I'd usually just ignore and give you a pass on, but not this time.
Quote:If his people don't fuckin like it, then they can do what people have historically done many times, if ENOUGH of your people want you gone, you're gone, and misery and all, the bastard is more palatable to them than throwing his ass out would be...
Quote:So don't come whining to me about the fate of 'his people' when concern for them is no part of your agenda but justification for shit you can't find a real reason for.
Quote:Ponder this. (Re: Saddam) A bullet costs less than five bucks, and we coulda found any number of people willing to fire it for not much more than that, even cheaper if we hired some fanatic fool enough to martyr himself in true hashishin fashion by getting close enough to make sure.
Quote:If this guy is such a maniac as that, then we should have a little chat with the Chinese and give them the nod and a wink while suggesting they find someone to cap his ass
Quote:You really don't have any concept of what yer dealin with, cause it doesn't fit into any of your neat little mental categories - and that offends you, doesn't it ?
Thursday, June 4, 2009 2:52 AM
Quote:Also... Please allow me to put it into terms the Liberals here would understand.... If we internment camp people here, or make them wear badges or ship them home.... well... that's kinda like putting your baby in a dumpster. We're not down with that.... But if we were to prevent people from coming in starting today, well that's like birth control. Hell... even extracting all of the ones who aren't legal American citizens would be nothing more than abortion. Where's the difference?
Thursday, June 4, 2009 3:26 AM
Thursday, June 4, 2009 4:11 AM
BYTEMITE
Thursday, June 4, 2009 4:25 AM
Thursday, June 4, 2009 5:09 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Bytemite: Jongsstraw: Is it just me, or do those women look terrified?
Thursday, June 4, 2009 6:26 AM
Quote:It's North Korea who keeps threatening war, and with the fourth largest army in the world - now with extra added nuclear capability - the world has to react to that. They're doing so in a unified fashion.
Thursday, June 4, 2009 7:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Fremdfirma: But he ain't just OUR problem, this hoo-rah headfirst shit we're known for is less effective than linking arms with our allies, and so far so good on that respect.
Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Maybe your "questions" were just too ludicrous to be taken seriously, 6ix. Deportation is to abortion as fish is to bicycle. Mike Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day... Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. "You're a idiot." -AuRaptor, RWED, May 27, 2009.
Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:00 PM
Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Maybe your "questions" were just too ludicrous to be taken seriously, 6ix. Deportation is to abortion as fish is to bicycle. Mike Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day... Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. "You're a idiot." -AuRaptor, RWED, May 27, 2009. Explain yourself. Regardless of what you think about that analogy, illegals should be deported and the borders should be locked up anyhow. We waste billions, and soon to be trillions fighting wars abroad and enforcing our unconstitutional imperialism on the rest of the world, and yet we practically let anyone who wants to come here do so whether it's legal or not. Rethugs and Demons do this. All they care about is their personal careers, and not the well being of the American people. "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
Friday, June 5, 2009 2:36 AM
Friday, June 5, 2009 7:39 AM
Friday, June 5, 2009 8:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: So, circling back to the North Korea angle, 6ix, what do you suppose would happen if a couple of North Korean "journalists" just HAPPENED to wander across the U.S. border poking around, and then claimed that they had only gotten lost and wandered off their intended path, but were definitely NOT spied? How do you think they'd be treated by us?
Friday, June 5, 2009 8:38 AM
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:44 AM
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