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Zinegata wrote:And box cutters are used to open boxes and they're technically not weapons, but they're not exactly allowed on airplanes anymore are they?
Well this is a prize little bit of false equivalency right here. Zinegata, this might not be obvious to a moron like you, but you don't actually need box-cutters on an airplane in order to survive. If you want to eat on a multi-day sea voyage, or fix the fucking ship if it breaks and maintain it if it doesn't, you need shit like kitchen knives or pipe wrenches on hand.
Zinegata wrote:I said improvised weapons. Yet the Turkish government was quick to claim "No weapons at all! We inspected the ship!".
Don't be stupid, do all ships in your fantasy world travel sans anything that is heavy or sharp? Do people fix the ship with duct tape and glasses repair kits? Do they fix meals with safety scissors and a bolted down microwave?
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You mean like Megan Fox's potential replacement for Transformers 3?

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/17602.html

:mrgreen:
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And yet, civilians died from those 'harmless' flashbangs and 'paintguns'.

Is Zinegata saying that people shouldn't resist illegal force?

-Crissa

PS, Supreme Court decides that you have to say you want to be silent in order to have the right to remain silent. I'm not entirely even sure how that works... Who's to say you invoked your right? And you don't have a right not to be questioned, anyhow. AUGH.
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And yet, civilians died from those 'harmless' flashbangs and 'paintguns'.

Is Zinegata saying that people shouldn't resist illegal force?
Crissa, they used pistols. I said this already. Several times.

I give up. Death to Israel. Whatever.

You all win the Internets forever.

*points to the sexy replacement for Megan Fox instead*
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Zinegata wrote:I give up. Death to Israel. Whatever.
Yes. 9-9 Because wanting equal rights for people, and pointing out use of force violations is the same as wanting Israel to cease to exist.

This is why you're the bigot, and I'm not. Because I know the difference, and you don't.

Grr.

-Crissa
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I surrendered.
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DEATH TO THOSE WHO OPPOSE ISLAM
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DEATH TO THOSE WHO OPPOSE BAHA'I!
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Death to the People's Front of Judea!
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Death to the Judean People's Front!
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Death to the Front of the Judean People!

Backs and Sides are okay though.
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Zinegata wrote:You mean like Megan Fox's potential replacement for Transformers 3?

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/17602.html

:mrgreen:
Oh, you mean her:

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Death to the Judean Popular Peoples Front!
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Meanwhile, 240 federal administration positions remain empty since Obama took office, due to Republicans in the Senate refusing to give them a vote.

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Crissa wrote:And yet, civilians died from those 'harmless' flashbangs and 'paintguns'.

Is Zinegata saying that people shouldn't resist illegal force?

-Crissa

PS, Supreme Court decides that you have to say you want to be silent in order to have the right to remain silent. I'm not entirely even sure how that works... Who's to say you invoked your right? And you don't have a right not to be questioned, anyhow. AUGH.
It's because you don't have a right to remain silent, the right is against self-incrimination. It's called the right to remain silent occasionally because a lot of people don't understand the right against self-incrimination. And if you researched it, you'd find that the US's rights against self-incrimination are far more extensive than anywhere else in the world I've ever encountered.

Also, you do have the right to not be questioned without a lawyer present, if you assert that right. It's per offense, though, not a general one.
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What does knighthood give you these days? an airline upgrade.
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This is why I don't want AU to become a republic. So I can get knighted (for doing what? I haven't thought that far ahead) and gain random benefits as well as having my name prefixed with Dame.
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Koumei wrote:This is why I don't want AU to become a republic. So I can get knighted (for doing what? I haven't thought that far ahead) and gain random benefits as well as having my name prefixed with Dame.
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You could try the Stephen Colbert route on getting knighthood (Be popular enough that the Queen of Jordan is willing to knight you in exchange for support for a cause)
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Crissa wrote:This is why you're the bigot, and I'm not. Because I know the difference, and you don't.

Grr.

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th »

Actually, if Crissa defines bigotry as "not knowing something she does", then that would explain her disruptive and antisocial behavior over the decade that I've known her.
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What's worse than an oil spill?

...A radioactive oil spill.

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That's not a game! That's an orgy!
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Blasted wrote:That's not a game! That's an orgy!
It's also why everyone needs comprehensive sexual education.
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