Eh, you have your point. Of course, cutting down the actual meaningful part of his part into "Rant Rant Rant" just didn't sit well with me at all. Of course, his post isn't totally out of place here in some ways.

You have a point. I mean, I was an asshole about it. In the future I won't take out personal issues on people via the CE boards.

but this is the internet, man! that's what you're supposed to do on the internet!

scylis... smirk.

I'm tempted to post Nemo's messages here, but then again, he's mostly just repeating himself over and over again. Hopefully he actually does what I suggested to him, but I'm tempted to doubt it. Americans tend to be blissful in their ignorance, which is deeply disturbing to me. Hopefully he does read through it, tho the way he's so emotionally attached to being an American and serving in the military leads me to believe he'll refuse to believe the overwhelming evidence.

...or he'll continue to throw out garbage about using "the right channels" and blah blah blah and try to dodge all of it again even tho I'm not doing anything wrong.

Or worse yet, maybe he already knows the whole story, but still supports the government?

Sorry if my rant was a little long-winded and pocked with typos. But then again, not all of us are brilliant editorialists. I just get used to spellcheckers too much.

My whole point of that rant was that of course Jamie Leigh Jones case was swept under a rug and will be further trivialized by our government because of one simple reason - they have too much to lose.

The last thing our government wants is us to wise up and start taking action.

My whole rant was about that. I suppose I was heavy on the diatribe, and overly semantic in its broadness. It made my point at least to some of you. But then again, many of you fellow posters here were using this thread to flame each other. I suppose that's OK too, huh?

The bottom line point of my post was to say that nothing will change unless we go to the ROOT of the problem - the festering boil on the face of the earth known as the Power Elite. For 1500 years that was the Roman Church and the Vatican, but people like Martin Luther and Henry VIII and Joseph Smith and John Calvin came along and began a change that still took nearly 500 years to be noticeable. Now the Power Elite is that rare few handful of people - in our government AND others - that stand to gain unlimited power and money from the blood of us, the people.

So, yes, I ranted. I'm usually better at it. And if I use enormously outdated and overused quotes, it's because there are actually some people out there who haven't heard them before. People who aren't as well read, intelligent, and wise . . . they are a part of the poplulace too.

BTW - I don't think Bush orchestrated 9/11 - he's too rock stupid to come up with that idea. I was referring to Osama Bin Laden. Yep - we created the terrorist who claimed he was given a task by Allah to wipe the capitialist sinners from the face of Earth. That's the 'holy endorsement'.

You're right, and I would like to point out that the extension to the MEJA is a very important issue here. It is found on a link on her website, or direct link here. Me and some of the other posters had addressed this breifly in another thread, but I think that it bares redress. Because the original act was signed in back in 2000 and there has been plenty of opportunity to test it since then, I think it imperative that the extension be signed in ASAP. Sad as it is, this originated from another awful incident involving two children being molested. But as you can see here, the law is somewhat hard to discern when dealing with the employees of the contractors abroad. The extension would provide clarification on this matter, and eliminate the somewhat grey area that exists. As you may read, the law covers contractors hired by DoD, but those hired by the Dept of State are in the grey area. I'm not sure where KBR falls, but if my memory serves me correctly, then they are included in this law.

I hope that everyone reads the links, merely for info if nothing else. I can garauntee you that I will be submitting my name to the petition to expedite this process.

Thanks for posting a more focused response.

True, but the reason that I'm pissed off here isn't that politicians are doing damage control, that's par for the course, but that they are more or less getting away with it.

It wasn't really. Things turning personal and going off topic are inevitable on the internet I was absent from that debate for the very reason that it got personal and off topic.

I think the problem is more it's general ignorance of history and the lack of concerted organized efforts to better society on the side of the left. That there is a "Power Elite" seems to be a side effect of this problem.

A good point, in regards to many not hearing them. Except you didn't present them in a really effective manner or in a thread where it makes sense. I mean, at least in the way you framed it.