The End

[smokedamage]

Anyway, Lynndie England, Abu Graib cover-girl is going to jail for being a thug which is a good thing.

An officer and a gentleman finds himself at odds with "the way things are" and speaks out. He's one of these much vaunted American heroes, but i somehow suspect that his career as a soldier is over.

"Show me pictures of dead Iraqis and i'll

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[illykai]

Cricket in Texas... Can you even buy cricket bats in the US?

[smokedamage]

There is one Pakistani guy who runs a by-appointment only warehouse north of Dallas. It seems to be far more difficult than buying say, weapons grade plutonium. There is that much traffic between the subcontinent and here, and that seems to be the main source of equipment.

Yes cricket in Texas boggled the hell out of me. Although it does have the climate for it - a climate like fucking Sharjah...

[isotripy]

Cheer! tell it like it is!

[smokedamage]

*thumbs up*

[journalsoup]

"there is however, something seriously wrong with the way that those with money can do whatever the fuck they want, to the point where they are all but completely unassailable (i am told)."

Wait.....you mean to tell me...people with money have power? When did this happen?!? Why didn't someone tell me!
Heh, hasn't this been the case for pretty much the entirity of recorded human existance? Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that this is hardly a new american problem, nor an "american" problem, nor even a new problem.
This is simply a fact of human existance.

"First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women."

KeL

[smokedamage]

It has got to the point that where, intelligent americans do not even believe that they can do anything - anything, not even say an armed revolution at the most extreme edge of ideas. How can anyone live like that? Under this illusion of freedom, i mean it's not even an illusion. There is no freedom

[journalsoup]

"There is no freedom

[smokedamage]

Well, what is freedom? What sort of freedoms can one expect living under a government

[smokedamage]

i have no idea, you can go anywhere in seconds.

[i_heart_dworkin]

last few weeks here? where ya going? :(

[smokedamage]

England.

[i_heart_dworkin]

England's nice. I was there for about two months a year ago. Ever coming back?

[smokedamage]

i doubt the govt will let me.