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Broad would have us believe we are watching "Being There" and not "The Manchurian Candidate." His argument is superficially appealing as most reasonable people would conclude that it requires the simplemindedness of a Chauncy Gardener (in "Being There") to reason that instructing China and a motley assortment of terrorist nations on how to beef up their atom bombs and how not to omit the "key steps" when building hydrogen bombs would somehow blunt and not stimulate their appetites for bigger and better bombs and a higher position in the power food chain.

But it is Broad's failure to fully connect the dots -- clinton's wholesale release of atomic secrets, decades of Chinese money sluicing into clinton's campaigns, clinton's pushing of the test ban treaty, clinton's concomitant sale of supercomputers, and clinton's noxious legacy -- that blows his argument to smithereens and reduces his piece to just another clinton apologia by The New York Times.

But even a Times apologia cannot save clinton from the gallows. Clinton can be both an absolute (albeit postmodern) moron and a traitor. The strict liability Gump-ism, "Treason is as treason does" applies.

The idea that an individual can be convicted of the crime of treason only if there is treasonous intent or *mens rea* runs contrary to the concept of strict liability crimes. That doctrine (Park v United States, (1974) 421 US 658,668) established the principle of 'strict liability' or 'liability without fault' in certain criminal cases, usually involving crimes which endanger the public welfare.

Calling his position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty "an historic milestone," (if he must say so himself) clinton believed that if he could get China to sign it, he would go down in history as the savior of mankind. This was 11 August 1995. (There would be an analogous treasonous miscalculation in the Mideast: clinton failed to shut down Muslim terrorism, then in its incipient stage and stoppable, because he reasoned that doing so would have wrecked his chances for the Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, according to Richard Miniter, Madeleine Albright offered precisely the Nobel-Muslim factor as a primary reason for not treating the bombing of the USS Cole as an act of war.)

Mia T, 2.11.04
BUSH, THE CLINTONS + WMD PROLIFERATION:
The REAL "Imminent Threat"

The clintons really must stop fretting about their legacy.

Their sui generis, simultaneous proliferation of both the weapons of mass destruction and the eager deployers of same secures their place in history.

The only possible hitch: their global success as vertical proliferators renders western civilization -- and along with it, the legacy construct -- certainly tenuous, if not totally moot.


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<< [The clintons'] sui generis, simultaneous proliferation of both the weapons of mass destruction and the eager deployers of same secures their place in history.

The only possible hitch: their global success as vertical proliferators renders western civilization -- and along with it, the legacy construct -- certainly tenuous, if not totally moot. >>

As ever: Awesome.

I thank G-d you and I are on the same side -- and am slowly overcoming my incredulity that the already bursting pride I feel at being privileged to have become an American, [An AMERICAN-American, that is] was and is so almost-overwhelmingly enhanced by my realization that we are.

Thank you.

Blessings -- Brian

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Consider the recent news…

North Korea may have the bomb, or is damn close. Iran has nuclear secrets. Libya has been researching nuclear weapons and had a boatload of research materials and supplies seized by out guys last summer. Pakistan's equivalent of Edward Teller just admitted selling his knowledge to anybody with the cash. Saddam was researching the bomb and we've already found evidence of this (in addition to his use of WMD's in gassing the Kurds). We can probably add the list another dozen nations that are tyrannized by Islamic lunatics or run by thugs with masculinity issues.

The bottom line is that the nuclear genie is out of the bottle and we have NO control over the technologies anymore. Thanks in no small part to the traitor krinton and his Chinese allies, the hope for the world remaining relatively free of this threat is gone forever. The legacy is to one day having to tell your children or grandchildren that the likelihood of their generation being flash-fried into cinders is higher than it ever was for the baby-boomers by at least an order of magnitude.

The same g-g-generation that brought us free love (and unleashed epidemic levels of STD's and illegitimacy) and the widespread use of mind-expanding drugs (and a chemical dependency industry) has also brought the world peace - at last. I think the reader can readily grasp what I think of the boomer g-g-generation's grasp on reality. The fact that the RAT party has degenerated into a circus of freaks assaulting the nation's foundations is no surprise. As a corollary of their insanity, it should be no surprise that the "best and the brightest" of my g-g-generation would also reason that since disarmament didn't work, if everyone had the bomb, nobody would be crazy enough to use it. Building on a g-g-generational legacy of unparalleled stupidity, facilitating international suicide shouldn't surprise even the most jaded cynic.

So, there it is. Every tin-pot despot now has access to the secrets of the bomb. The disintegrated Soviet bloc has no idea where their nuclear weapons are and even less an idea of how much fissionable material is missing from their reserves. Nonetheless, the (former) Soviet bloc continues forging ahead with their nuclear weapons systems. The potential exists for a genuine nuclear holocaust under every bed and behind every tree because the bogeymen of today are suicide bombers.

Now, you'd think that a sane government would take steps to assure its safety through destroying enemies that have attacked its people and destroying their capacity to wage war. You'd also think a prudent plan would include missile defense systems. You might even think that rooting out terrorism "root and branch" and destroying people that already use WMD's and conventional terror everyday would be a good idea.

But you'd be wrong.

The greatest threat to the world today is that the United States isn't crippling itself with bogus treaties like Kyoto. The greatest threat in the world is the United States acting unilaterally in its defense against killers that have attacked us and nearly everyone else in the Western world. The biggest threat in the world is a President that acts - proactively - to contain and eliminate a threat based on intelligence and the proven threat potential. The most evil thing on earth is a nation like the United States that is willing to destroy non-aggressive legitimate heads of state like Saddam Hussein simply because there are factual connections to a greater complex of terrorism across the globe and the man, legally, pulps his enemies alive in the peace and sanctity of his own national prison camp.

Yes, the threat is great.

Generation Xer's, Yer's and Zer's, please, do me a favor. When you guys acquire power would you put all of your parents (unless you really want to take care of them yourselves) into state run nursing homes. By then, we'll have a decaying national health care system that will provide palliative care for all but the elite anyway. Take your doddering, gray-haired, pony-tailed parents and wheel them into piss-soaked rooms with the gibbering idiots that have destroyed themselves with free love and dope. They have taught your generations so well and, soon, it will be time to give them back the love and wisdom that they have always displayed to you. When the time comes for them to complete the circle of life, wheel them into the chamber of eternal peace, have the slacker state employee put on a little Jerry Garcia for them, and give them the injection.

Peace and love.