When asking a question can get you killed

heh, that's weird.

I really should put the effort in and read the links.

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ok, I read the Guardian article. I see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with taking information storage media from a suspected insurgent. If said suspect then turns out to be innocent then I'd hope they'd return the tapes. Maybe they are checking through them, maybe like the best huge organisations they've managed to lose them, maybe they will return them, maybe it's a giant conspiracy, maybe he's an insurgent: who knows at this stage of the story?

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Originally Posted by Taffy_is_a_Taff

heh, that's weird.

I really should put the effort in and read the links.

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ok, I read the Guardian article. I see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong with taking information storage media from a suspected insurgent. If said suspect then turns out to be innocent then I'd hope they'd return the tapes. Maybe they are checking through them, maybe like the best huge organisations they've managed to lose them, maybe they will return them, maybe it's a giant conspiracy, maybe he's an insurgent: who knows at this stage of the story?

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Agreed, the point was that it at least wasn't a case of normal freaking out behavior. If there isn't a case of media censorship of communist Russia type then the American authorities will surely go out publicly with a statement and return the tape, unless it contains classified information.

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Originally Posted by ghost908

By the sound of it, it's only a couple of people in on this. The highly doubt the entire federal government knew and sponsered this raid. My point was, that there are bad people everywhere, and it isn't just in the US. I guess I'm just tired of everyone complaining about how corrupt the US is, when in fact it really isnt that bad.

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Yes it may not be that bad but its still much worse than it should be in America. Just becuase were better than Iran or El Salvador with freedom dosent mean jack to me. We should be the best and currently were not. If this reporter found something out it is his duty to report it wether it looks bad on the goverment or not. Im sick of a few under fed overbearded people dictating American policy back home. We will never get rid of terrorism someone will always get pissed or snort the pages of there holy book. We have to learn how to deal with it, not take away god given rights. Im not willing to trade liberty for the sense and illusion of securety. If that makes me hate freedom or hate America so be it but its a sad day when my fellow countrymen are condoning this act facism.

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Originally Posted by Zalmoxis

The joys of dictatorships are so plentiful and diverse, enjoy.

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:cheers:

Thank you, come again.

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Originally Posted by Watchman

You *do* know who put the concept "military-industrial complex" into common circulation, do you...?

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I don't. :embarassed:

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Originally Posted by strike for the south

Yes it may not be that bad but its still much worse than it should be in America. Just becuase were better than Iran or El Salvador with freedom dosent mean jack to me. We should be the best and currently were not. If this reporter found something out it is his duty to report it wether it looks bad on the goverment or not. Im sick of a few under fed overbearded people dictating American policy back home. We will never get rid of terrorism someone will always get pissed or snort the pages of there holy book. We have to learn how to deal with it, not take away god given rights. Im not willing to trade liberty for the sense and illusion of securety. If that makes me hate freedom or hate America so be it but its a sad day when my fellow countrymen are condoning this act facism.

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Why do you hate freedom? Do you love America? :furious3:

Commie Bastard

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I don't know anything factual yet, but this smells very fishy. Shooting into a journalist residence, storms in and take a video tape? As much as I wish it'll be either mistake or the guy's really an insurgent, the scene points out to good ol' censorship and media intimidation. And that is not good. Whatever happens to freedom. :no:

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Originally Posted by AntiochusIII

I don't. :embarassed:

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The incumbent president around the time the Cold War got going in his retirement speech, that's who. His speechwriters actually nicked it from I think an obscure British theorist - I can check the names if you want to.

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You *do* know who put the concept "military-industrial complex" into common circulation, do you...?

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I believe the individual's name is Dwight D. Eisenhower

Probably the one. Old American presidents aren't my top field, so I'll take your word on that.

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Originally Posted by Watchman

The incumbent president around the time the Cold War got going in his retirement speech, that's who. His speechwriters actually nicked it from I think an obscure British theorist - I can check the names if you want to.

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'This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.'

Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

The term originally inserted by speech writers Williams and Moos was 'military–industrial–congressional complex', but Eisenhower's science advisor thought that was too East Coast.

However, that stuff is all publicly accessible and easy to find. But who was the Brit?

*sound of PolSci textbook pages flipping*
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Correction: the fellow was American. C. Wright Mills by the name. The concept apparently appears in his critical book The Power Elite from 1956.