More teen masturbatorial material for the acne challenged. Let's see- it STILL hasn't been proven to work. Sorry for clouding the issue with facts.

Anybody figure out how it will protect us against a dirty suitcase bomb? An attack on a chemical plant (which STILL have not been secured according to the recommendations of the 9-11 Homeland Security group)? Boxcutters? A reservoir? An IED, for christ's sake?

Thought not. That IS the problem, isn't it? No thought, all glitz. It's what these corpse-orations do quite well. And please spare me the outdated fear-mongering of a discredited neocon, corporation suckhole. The no-bid, no-review war profiteers are doing landmark business at the cost of soldiers lives and limbs.

It's not what cost freedom. It's what cost corporate profit?

Great post!

I have friends who helped with their legal fight for return. The case really exposed a very nasty, cruel and uncaring side of the British government.

Paradise Cleansed by John Pilger 10/11/04 - 'The Guardian'

"There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.

The story of Diego Garcia is shocking, almost incredible. A British colony lying midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean, the island is one of 64 unique coral islands that form the Chagos Archipelago, a phenomenon of natural beauty, and once of peace. Newsreaders refer to it in passing: "American B-52 and Stealth bombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to bomb Iraq (or Afghanistan)." It is the word "uninhabited" that turns the key on the horror of what was done there. In the 1970s, the Ministry of Defense in London produced this epic lie: "There is nothing in our files about a population and an evacuation."

Diego Garcia was first settled in the late 18th century. At least 2,000 people lived there: a gentle creole nation with thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a prison, a railway, docks, a copra plantation. Watching a film shot by missionaries in the 1960s, I can understand why every Chagos islander I have met calls it paradise; there is a grainy sequence where the islanders' beloved dogs are swimming in the sheltered, palm-fringed lagoon, catching fish.

All this began to end when an American rear-admiral stepped ashore in 1961 and Diego Garcia was marked as the site of what is today one of the biggest American bases in the world. There are now more than 2,000 troops, anchorage for 30 warships, a nuclear dump, a satellite spy station, shopping malls, bars and a golf course. "Camp Justice" the Americans call it.

During the 1960s, in high secrecy, the Labour government of Harold Wilson conspired with two American administrations to "sweep" and "sanitize" the islands: the words used in American documents. Files found in the National Archives in Washington and the Public Record Office in London provide an astonishing narrative of official lying all too familiar to those who have chronicled the lies over Iraq.

To get rid of the population, the Foreign Office invented the fiction that the islanders were merely transient contract workers who could be "returned" to Mauritius, 1,000 miles away. In fact, many islanders traced their ancestry back five generations, as their cemeteries bore witness. The aim, wrote a Foreign Office official in January 1966, "is to convert all the existing residents ... into short-term, temporary residents."

What the files also reveal is an imperious attitude of brutality. In August 1966, Sir Paul Gore-Booth, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, wrote: "We must surely be very tough about this. The object of the exercise was to get some rocks that will remain ours. There will be no indigenous population except seagulls." At the end of this is a handwritten note by DH Greenhill, later Baron Greenhill: "Along with the Birds go some Tarzans or Men Fridays ..." Under the heading, "Maintaining the fiction", another official urges his colleagues to reclassify the islanders as "a floating population" and to "make up the rules as we go along".

There is not a word of concern for their victims. Only one official appeared to worry about being caught, writing that it was "fairly unsatisfactory" that "we propose to certify the people, more or less fraudulently, as belonging somewhere else". The documents leave no doubt that the cover-up was approved by the prime minister and at least three cabinet ministers.

At first, the islanders were tricked and intimidated into leaving; those who had gone to Mauritius for urgent medical treatment were prevented from returning. As the Americans began to arrive and build the base, Sir Bruce Greatbatch, the governor of the Seychelles, who had been put in charge of the "sanitizing", ordered all the pet dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. Almost 1,000 pets were rounded up and gassed, using the exhaust fumes from American military vehicles. "They put the dogs in a furnace where the people worked," says Lizette Tallatte, now in her 60s," ... and when their dogs were taken away in front of them, our children screamed and cried."

The islanders took this as a warning; and the remaining population were loaded on to ships, allowed to take only one suitcase. They left behind their homes and furniture, and their lives. On one journey in rough seas, the copra company's horses occupied the deck, while women and children were forced to sleep on a cargo of bird fertilizer. Arriving in the Seychelles, they were marched up the hill to a prison where they were held until they were transported to Mauritius. There, they were dumped on the docks.

In the first months of their exile, as they fought to survive, suicides and child deaths were common. Lizette lost two children. "The doctor said he cannot treat sadness," she recalls. Rita Bancoult, now 79, lost two daughters and a son; she told me that when her husband was told the family could never return home, he suffered a stroke and died. Unemployment, drugs and prostitution, all of which had been alien to their society, ravaged them. Only after more than a decade did they receive any compensation from the British government: less than £3,000 each, which did not cover their debts.

The behavior of the Blair government is, in many respects, the worst. In 2000, the islanders won a historic victory in the high court, which ruled their expulsion illegal. Within hours of the judgment, the Foreign Office announced that it would not be possible for them to return to Diego Garcia because of a "treaty" with Washington - in truth, a deal concealed from parliament and the US Congress. As for the other islands in the group, a "feasibility study" would determine whether these could be resettled. This has been described by Professor David Stoddart, a world authority on the Chagos, as "worthless" and "an elaborate charade". The "study" consulted not a single islander; it found that the islands were "sinking", which was news to the Americans who are building more and more base facilities; the US navy describes the living conditions as so outstanding that they are "unbelievable".

In 2003, in a now notorious follow-up high court case, the islanders were denied compensation, with government counsel allowed by the judge to attack and humiliate them in the witness box, and with Justice Ousley referring to "we" as if the court and the Foreign Office were on the same side. Last June, the government invoked the archaic royal prerogative in order to crush the 2000 judgment. A decree was issued that the islanders were banned forever from returning home. These were the same totalitarian powers used to expel them in secret 40 years ago; Blair used them to authorize his illegal attack on Iraq.

Led by a remarkable man, Olivier Bancoult, an electrician, and supported by a tenacious and valiant London lawyer, Richard Gifford, the islanders are going to the European court of human rights, and perhaps beyond. Article 7 of the statute of the international criminal court describes the "deportation or forcible transfer of population ... by expulsion or other coercive acts" as a crime against humanity. As Bush's bombers take off from their paradise, the Chagos islanders, says Bancoult, "will not let this great crime stand. The world is changing; we will win." "


Finally in 2006 Lord Justice Hooper and Mr Justice Cresswell ruled that orders made under the royal prerogative to prevent the return of the Chagos islanders to their homes were unlawful. They described as "repugnant" the action to exile the population of the islands. "The suggestion that a minister can, through the means of an order in council, exile a whole population from a British overseas territory and claim that he is doing so for the 'peace, order and good government' of the territory is, to us, repugnant," the judges said.

But the government are appealing (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6333223.stm) and the right of return is still being denied!

(sorry for long post - but this one really gets to me!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane_%28Bring_It%29

"Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" is the first single from Cobra Starship, the alter ego of Midtown's Gabe Saporta. The song also features William Beckett of The Academy Is..., Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds. The song gets its title from the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane, and was featured on the film's soundtrack and during the end credits of the film. The music video premiered in the summer of 2006, aptly in time for the premiere of the movie. The video was a quick hit on both the internet and mainstream media, and is featured in the television commercials promoting the film.

The video shows Cobra Starship (Gabe Saporta) walking through Honolulu International Airport, acting as if they were villains sneaking snakes on board in their suitcase and guitar case. Peter Wentz of Fall Out Boy makes a cameo appearance at the 1 minute and 45 seconds mark, talking on the phone nervously as the band members pass ominously. Samuel L. Jackson also makes a cameo appearance at the 2 minutes 16 seconds mark, lowering his shades and eyeing the band members as they pass, then returning to his 100 Bullets comic. He is also seen wearing the unofficial Snakes on a Plane T-shirt designed by webcomic artist Jeffrey Rowland (with snakes flying an airplane) here. The video ends with a sign for South Pacific Airlines Flight 121 as the band boards the plane, the same flight as in the film.

Uhhh, false advertising. "Now you can take your entire music collection with you"....Fat Chance IPOD, not until they come out with the IPOD Suitcase. Chogs got 1800 gigs easy, not to mention the vinyl that will never see digitizing. Plus, doesn't the goddamn battery wear out and render the pretty little thing worthless???

...we need to bring the people of the middle east up to pace with the rest of the world...and they need to know how to play well with others....or this bullshit won't end, until we all have free energy, or the antichrist comes with pitbulls....or some dumass opens a suitcase nuke.....hell, the catylist for ww1 one was an assination.....simple ways of looking at things are usually the best....Stop buying Plastic, Stop driving, (and stop thinking you need to) stop using pharmaceuticals...and don't pay yer freekin' taxes....COLLECTIVELY!-only way bullshit will stop......

Or...Liove with it! We are in Paradise......

Who's the old fart? Chomsky? The quasi-anarchist?

The guy's head is screwed on backwards...if you could bend your body the way that guy bends reality to suit his own conclusions, you'd be Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.

Like the islamofascists, the Soviets respected only brute force, not overtures for peaceful coexistence.

Unlike islamofascists, the Evil Empire was civilized enough to know there was a line they could not cross without both sides ending in mutually assured destruction.

Logic, reason, a civilization worth saving: islamofascists have none of these, just a jihadic distortion of a questionable faith.

If Osama had a suitcase nuke, without a doubt he'd use it, probably on NYC. When Iran gets the Bomb, they will more than likely attempt to use it on Israel.

It's been said that only the paranoid survive. Quite true. And killing terrorists never goes out of style.

Semiapies, choose to believe.

Logarithmic makes the cases. It's a company name. It's like describing a "plastic Samsonite suitcase", he is referring to a "malleable Logarithmic case". We spec Logarithmic's malleable cases all the time for HS bearing containment apps.

Do your seriously believe that QM - or am I feeding the troll? Do you really think simulating the destruction of the most holy place in the world for Muslims will make them think
"Hmm, oh well - I guess it's time to give up this whole Islam business, where can I buy me some rosary beads?"

>>>> What I think the islamofascists will think is, "The West is stronger than us. If we persist in attacking the infidel, they will wipe us off the planet. We cannot win." The islamofascist mind only understands brute force. They are not like Westerners or even--God forbid--the milksops of Europe who have just about rolled over.

>>>> Islamofascists cannot be reasoned with, bribed, brokered with. They do not share our Western values, and in case you're not sure what that means, THEY are the inferior non-civilization.

>>>> We are dealing with a suidical threat to the world's stability and here we are in the West, asleep.


Have you no sense of human nature and psychology?

>>>> I wonder the same thing about liberals anywhere, over the age of 25...

>>>> Well gang, I know what I propose (in simulation for now) sounds harsh, but here's the alternative: pick your most favorite large city, if you have one. Now imagine it consumed by fire under a mushroom cloud, followed by enough radiation to make the land uninhabitable for 1000 years.

>>>> The islamofascists would do it in a heartbeat, if they could get the suitcase nuke in. So far they haven't. Why do we have to wait for them to nuke us before wiping them off the planet? Why wait? Are you still not sure these savages want us dead?