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No. 1 ID: fef1d2 Locked Stickied hide watch quickreply   [Reply]
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Welcome to my United States of Eagleland! I am your host, your protector, your general... ZERO!

I have established this board so that all may speak what is in their hearts! Never shall you be banned for your words, your expressions, your dreams! Abide within our few laws, and all are welcome here!

But a warning! Outside these borders, the Freehaven siblings have sold themselves to the evil empire of Britannia! What you speak on this board may have consequences without, and I cannot guarantee your safety once you leave these lands!
>> No. 2 ID: fef1d2
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And I am Kallen Kozuki, leader of Zero's honor guard. Even though this is a land of justice and those damned Britannian sympathizers Sage and Sechs are fascists, they've still got a few right ideas.

So no posting stuff off the DNP! And nothing that's illegal in the real world!

My Guren and I won't show you any sympathy if you do!
>> No. 800 ID: debd05
"If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." - Noam Chomsky


No. 16779 ID: 0a9f6d hide watch expand quickreply   [Reply]
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>According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941.

>As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in the cases of community defense following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Along with AR-15 type rifles, the M1 rifles are the quintessential firearms of responsible citizenship, precisely the type of firearms which civic responsibility organizations such as the Appleseed Project teach people how to use.

>According to a South Korean official, “The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions.

I'll just go ahead and say it..

God fucking DAMNIT!

The South Koreans finally getting rid of their old M1's and refurbishing them in order to sell them to the US civilian market was going to make M1 Garands a metric fuckton cheaper to buy and find good quality M1's. This fucking pisses me off as I was actually hoping to get one.

Seriously though, gangs and terrorists?

Is that a fucking joke, or are the people responsible for blocking this just complete fucking morons who have no clue about firearms at all?
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>> No. 17070 ID: 0a9f6d
http://www.worldnewsheardnow.com/more-proof-of-anti-constitutional-agenda-with-gun-sale-nix/2361/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/01/obama-administration-reverses-course-forbids-sale-antique-m-rifles/

Clearly a ruse by firearm sellers.
>> No. 17071 ID: e15538
>>17070
>Asked why the M1s pose a threat, the State Department spokesman referred questions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ATF representatives said they would look into the question Monday afternoon, but on Wednesday they referred questions to the Justice Department. DOJ spokesman Dean Boyd referred questions back to the State Department.

So really, you just want to ban the sale of firearms and can't come up with a good excuse for your reasoning.
>> No. 17072 ID: 0a9f6d
>>17071
My favorite part

>"They clearly were used as military guns, and the fact that they likely can take high-capacity magazines makes them a special safety concern," he said.

So does that mean that all military firearms should be banned? I'm sure a lot of people with AR-15's and M1's wouldn't take very kindly to that.
>> No. 17073 ID: e15538
>>17072
I also think that only applies to the M1 Carbine, not the standard M1, right? Besides, any semi-automatic weapon with an external magazine can carry a high capacity clip.


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http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream/2&hpt=C1

Well this isn't good...
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>> No. 17064 ID: 0a9f6d
>>17061
No, he doesn't.

http://savetheplanetprotest.com/
>> No. 17067 ID: 88c69b
>>17064

Nah, you're right, he doesn't.

Except for that bit about stopping immigration.
>> No. 17068 ID: 88c69b
>>17067

And I mean that in the least insulting way possible.
>> No. 17069 ID: d0be48
>>17064

I wouldn't be surprised if that was a troll, even if it does sound plausible.

The environmentalist movement has always had that pocket of whackos that are more anti-human than pro-environment. Paul Erlich comes to mind.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201315000

>Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

>That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant.

>The judges veered into offensiveness when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was open to strangers, they said, such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited.

>The court went on to make a second terrible decision about privacy: that once a GPS device has been planted, the government is free to use it to track people without getting a warrant.

Sup brah? Y'wanna go to the land of sun, surf, weed, and the paranoia that the government is totally out to get you?
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>> No. 17051 ID: 892a1b
>>17049

What is wrong with Britain?

As to California, last I heard they were shutting down all the schools and closing all of the prisons to save money. Is that true?
>> No. 17052 ID: e03b4f
>>17051

Britain has 1 CCTV camera for every 13 citizens.
>> No. 17053 ID: 7f9e97
>>17052

Actually, I'd heard that it was getting close to 1:1.
>> No. 17058 ID: 0fa5b8
>>17051


Nah.. just banning plastic bags statewide.


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So why is there nothing on this board about ACTA?

Sorry guys, but ACTA scares the crap out of me. I have enjoyed the internet for almost 20 years, I have gone wherever I wanted, read whatever I wanted, looked at whatever I wanted, listened to whatever I wanted, and posted/said whatever I wanted. The internet was like the Wild West, untamed and full of limitless possibilities.

Now all that will be gone, for one reason and one reason only. To protect profit interests. The fat cats want to put their grubby hands on my internet, regulate the crap out of it, choke it, filter it, and pre-package it, just like the junk you see on network tv.

Also, if I am walking down the street with my ipod, minding my own business and listening to music, some jackoff, overzealous fucking cop can confiscate my ipod, simply because it's an ipod, which may be suspected of having pirated material on it, and I can be arrested/fined/cut off from the internet, with no due process whatsoever. That is the power ACTA gives the authorities. The balance of power has tilted so far in the establishment's direction that the public has absolutely none of its own anymore.

Fuck. This. Shit.

It is time for a good old fashioned rebellion, the common people against the ruling class elite. Do the citizens of America still have the fight left in them that won them their country's independence 200 years past? Will we not go quietly into the night and let them DESTROY our basic freedoms, just so billion dollar industries can make more billions? Or is it too late? Are we fucked completely, and have the ruling class figured out an unbreakable, iron-clad way to finally control us, using the very technology that is supposed to set us free?
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>> No. 17035 ID: e03b4f
>>17028

1) All conflict leads to unnecessary bloodshed, whether righteous or not.
2) Rebelling just gives the government to commit martial law and then strip everyone of their rights.
3) There is an amendment to the US Constitution that says that you forfeit your citizenship by rebelling against the government, in effect.

>>17032

Piss your congressmen off, there's a reason they have phones and offices: So you can harass them and harangue them about issues that are important to you.

>>17033
...This is a problem?
>> No. 17041 ID: ea9ac3
>>17035
It's not THE problem, but it is a reason why people shouldn't be looking at this through a one way mirror. We always want to make the government an evil entity out to get our rights, but it NEVER IS. If people can't see why the governments of the world would want to codify an international policy on intellectual rights, then they are either stuck in their own opinion column, or are unwilling to actually go out and research this phenomenon. Going from outrage to rebel in less time it takes to Google search demonstrates this desire to go for emotions.

Not a lot of people realize that war was the last thing on our Founding Father's minds. They wanted reason and rhetoric to resolve their grievances with their government. They still believed they were British up until things fell apart.

War is a dumb last resort that signifies that the parties in conflict have given up resolving the situation in a civilized manner.

Harassing your local representative does nothing but exacerbate this situation and is a waste of the Republic and it's principles.
>> No. 17044 ID: e03b4f
>>17041

>War is a dumb last resort that signifies that the parties in conflict have given up resolving the situation in a civilized manner.

Did you not read a huge chunk of my post or do you just want to throw me in with those you want to typify?

>Harassing your local representative does nothing but exacerbate this situation and is a waste of the Republic and it's principles.
Spoilers, we're a democratic republic. So the job of the people is to tell the people representing them what's important to them. if you don't tell your representative enough, they won't represent you and your issues in the republic part of the democratic republic.
>> No. 17048 ID: ea9ac3
>>17044

To answer your first question, no. As in "No, I did read your post", and "No, I am not trying to throw you in with anybody with my statement."

Also, I don't believe telling your representatives what is important to you is "harassment" or "haranguing". I believe it is called "Civic Duty".


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So, what do you think about the plans to build such a massive mosque near Ground Zero, and having the balls to open it on the 10th anniversary of September 11?

Pat Condell rant extremely related.
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>> No. 17034 ID: e03b4f
concerning >>16938 and >>16933

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/08/29/imam_behind_nyc_mosque_faces_divisions_over_center/
>> No. 17045 ID: d8cf48
yo-you're right.

9/11 never happened, I'm sorry to ever question you.
>> No. 17046 ID: 260373
>>17034

Uh. It's a ridiculously blatant puff piece, dude. The first paragraph consists entirely of talking about what a saint the man is.
>> No. 17047 ID: ea9ac3
>>17045
Don't be ridiculous. You are asserting that the violent Muslims that destroyed the World Trade center are building a mosque on top of the former location of the World Trade center. None of that is true.


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Hey, Freehaven, remember years ago when this happened? I recall you having a hand in it. Not as a sole progenitor. But, as one of the hands in the pot. I would've made this thread on, say, 4chan, somewhere, but I know it'll get get lost in the shuffle.

It's time to update the list and I don't care enough to do it. BUT, I do care enough to tell you to do it.
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>> No. 16756 ID: 0fa5b8
>>16718

Only pretty sure?
>> No. 16758 ID: dd696c
>>16756

>Only pretty sure?

The press was less invasive in those days. They only photographed FDR from respectful angles.
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I got issues with Gally being matched up to Nixon, but that is mainly the fanboi in me.

Gally is too godamn badass to be a president.
>> No. 17042 ID: 81539a
>>16714
Who are you going to believe? Your own, clearly faulty circuitry or me? Hell, the image was original saved in my Freehaven Folder. If you need calcification, I remember you changing Clinton to Ryoko. Ring a bell? No? Oh well.


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...Seriously?
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>>17004

Wouldn't exactly be the first time he's partaken of a controlled substance that he denies others the use of.
>> No. 17007 ID: e15538
>>17003
Funny you should mention that. The guy who's trying to ban the sale of M-Rated games to minors in California, Senator Leland Yee, is a Democrat. See Schwarzanegger v EMA.
>> No. 17013 ID: ea9ac3
>>17004

No. That's not what a comic book is. You are referring to picture books. Those are two completely different industries. Picture books have page wide illustrations and a narrative written somewhere on the page describing the scene. Comic books use panels to convey narrative visually, with speech bubbles displaying dialogue.

The medium of storytelling are completely different.
>> No. 17016 ID: 88c69b
>>17006

I'd hardly fault him for doing a little drugs back in high-school. That's just typical teenage behavior.

Unless this is more of a recent thing.


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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/judge_vaughn_walker_hands_vict.html

Fuck you, Prop 8 supporters.
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>> No. 16986 ID: 41a5af
>>16982

I'd be quite fine with that.
>> No. 16987 ID: 0a9f6d
>>16982
I believe the last time I came up with something like this, I was called a bigot and wanted black people to only drink from their own water fountains..
>> No. 16988 ID: ea9ac3
>>16981
>>16982
We have marriage laws. We actually define marriage in a legal sense separate from what it may mean in a cultural standpoint. It's a legal contract. People confuse the the ceremony for the legal contract at the registry.

No religion owns the word "marriage". It's irrelevant what any religion defines marriage as in law, and it is built as such so that we do not let cultural institutions define what a word is for everybody else in our law books. If you let the people decide, everyone would choose "marriage" over "civil union" in a heartbeat.

I must remind that "Civil Unions" were invented as the only choice for non-heterosexual couples to sign such a contract. It makes no sense to keep this term because under our laws, all humans are created equal; not even the existence of different sexual organs can alter that principle.

It may not be a "Christian marriage", but it's a marriage nonetheless as indicated by the laws we voted on.
>> No. 16990 ID: d241fd
>>16856

Both APAs would like to have a word with you.

http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4318061.aspx
http://www.healthyminds.org/More-Info-For/GayLesbianBisexuals.aspx
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/documents/Amer_Psychological_Assn_Amicus_Curiae_Brief.pdf

TL;DR: It's the number, and NOT the gender or orientation of parents that matters in the healthy raising of children.


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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-naked-truth-why-humans-have-no-fur

"The evolution of hairlessness helped to set the stage for the emergence of large brains and symbolic thought."
>> No. 16968 ID: 0a9f6d
As interesting as that is.. I'm disappointed, even if it's not unexpected, that they don't just come out and say why they believe hairlessness (is that even a word?) is connected to humans becoming sapient and asks you to subscribe to read more..

So.. Someone subscribe and tell me, damnit!
>> No. 16970 ID: ea9ac3
I don't subscribe to this magazine, but I remember this issue came up before.

You would be surprised the amount of work it takes to cool the body. Perspiration frees the mouth to do other things than pant--like develop language. Sweating cannot function at maximum effectiveness if there is a layer of fur trapping heat. This effective (though water intensive) mechanism for temperature control increases the range of the human by keeping the body evenly cool while allowing more oxygen intake. This means better chances at hunting. But that also means that humans had to get more clever at hunting to match their extended range. And when you extend range beyond your indigenous biosphere, you have to get very clever at survival. Getting clever involves more nuanced communication skills, and thus a mouth unencumbered with thermo-regulative duties. Encountering cold environments forces the invention of clothing. It is easier to keep warm than to keep from overheating.

Head hair probably stayed as scalp protection from the sun, pubic hair holds sexual pheromones, and armpit hair wicks sweat away from the folds of the underarm to prevent mold and bacterial growth.

And all this came from us trading in our pelts for a body covered in sweat glands. A less than fashionable decision, but one that has benefited us greatly in the long run.
>> No. 16971 ID: ea9ac3
>>16970

Add to that package opposable thumbs, proper feet built for walking and running, and color vision, and you got a recipe for bigger brains to handle all that potential.


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