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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
He's not joking about that Agent Orange thing.
There's a picture of what happened to a bunch of stillborn infants
◊ whose parents were infected with Agent Orange.
... Fuck. The use of Agent Orange should be made a First-Degree International Crime Against Humanity, Punishable by Broadcast-Live-Television-Worldwide Public Execution via Electric Chair, Overriding Any Legal Immunity or Security Council Veto Whatsoever.
As it may be obvious, harming children and infants in real life, including unborn ones, is within the forbidden area marked by my red line. Traumatizing, torturing, or doing other atrocities to fictional child characters for the purposes of the story is one thing; doing so for real kids is a whole different matter for me.
edited 10th Jan '13 5:30:17 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.<rolls eyes> Fat chance of that happening anytime soon, unless it gets knocked down from superpower status.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Or unless civilian courts would grant class action lawsuit in favour of the Vietnamese victims and the Army veterans.
On the brightside some organizations composed of Army Veterans also do work to help the victims in Vietnam, such as the Vietnam Friendship Village.
aslo:
edited 10th Jan '13 5:42:53 AM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.Even if it's fiction, the idea of seeing children go through something like that is hard to swallow.
Agent Orange was used during the Vietnam War. The program's goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving guerrillas of cover. Another goal was to destroy the ability of peasants to support themselves in the countryside, forcing them to flee to the U.S. dominated cities. It was to deprive the guerrillas of their rural support and food supply.
Creating a toxin that destroys the environment and forces people away only ever works when it lacks side effects that causes people to die.
edited 10th Jan '13 6:01:37 AM by Sledgesaul
@Baff
But the Iranian Government said the low quality substitutes are not the cause of the pollution.
Does a State Legislature even have the power to do that?
Rick Santorum buying ads to oppose Chuck Hagel
Rick Perry: New York governor envies Texas economy
I'm skeptical about the chances of a constitutional convention ever actually happening, but yes, it is legal. You have to get a certain amount of state legislatures to agree to meet on that issue, so it's not just one state calling a convention and jerking around with Constitutional law.
Also Rick Perry is blowing smoke out his ass.
What was that, Gov. Perry? I couldn't hear it over our New York awesome.
NYS! NYS!
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Governor O'Malley: Assault weapons ban poised to pass this year
Texas will never lose its relevance. It's just a Texan way to have a pissing contest. It even has a trope! *
Obama signs a law giving every president after W. and their spouse lifetime Secret Service coverage.
... How the heck that law's passage would save the US money? Wouldn't it cost them more by having to assign (and of course, recruity) more Secret Service agents than usual for personal bodyguarding purposes?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.So...what the fuck is this about HSBC, the banking firm, helping terrorists and drug cartels launder money, and getting no charges pressed, and a 1.6 billion dollar fine?
Because they're "Too big to fail."
Fuck this.
We are such a corporate run society. We're not going to try to pretend otherwise anymore.
At the very least, everyone involved in those deals should get jail time. You know, Guantanamo? Like we do with other people who aid terrorists? Oh. Right. Those people aren't rich.
edited 10th Jan '13 1:34:08 PM by DrTentacles

Did anyone even bother to read the news?
The reason for the pollution in Iran its because they can't import gasoline.
So they have to use nationally refined gas which in turn is of lower quality and thus pollutes in orther of magnitudes greater than what normal gas would pollute (while still within refining standards which are shit anyways because they where introduced by western corporations when they didnt have the technology to produce less polluting gas more efficiently).
We had the same problem in the city where I was born because the gas we used came from an old refinray and thus air quality was terrible. In fact it is still terrible.
On the other hand this might be a possitive development for Iran since it might incentivize them to modernize their refinaries.
It sort of reminds me Agent Orange (A crime against humanity and the use of a chemical weapon agaisnt a defensless civilizan population, which not only killed the enemy (the vietnamese people) but the military service men who where unlucky enough to be order to spray the stuff or who had to go trough contaminated zones.)
Also it reminds me of the CIA running around Central American pretending to vaccinate people but infecting them with syphilis instead.
Oh... the good old times.
edited 10th Jan '13 4:55:21 AM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.