Benjamin Franklin and the War on Terrorism

Posted by Synfinatic on November 22, 2010 at 11:18 pm in Politics, Security Theater.

I’ve been reading Walter Isaacson’s excellent biography of Benjamin Franklin lately and just came across a letter Franklin wrote to his English friend Joseph Priestly in late 1775:

Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed 150 Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000 pounds a head… During the same time, 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all.

Tags: Politics, terrorisim, tsa

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Making it up as you go along

Posted by Synfinatic on May 22, 2009 at 4:55 pm in Politics.

The Rule of Law that is.

Tags: obama, terrorisim

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US Gov’t admits torturing detainees

Posted by Synfinatic on February 6, 2008 at 12:56 am in Politics, Rant.

So between the US national intelligence chief Mike McConnell admitting waterboarding would be torture and less then one month later, CIA director Michael Hayden admitting that the CIA waterboarded three detainees; I guess we can now all agree that the United States has tortured people.

Tags: CIA, terrorisim, torture, waterboarding

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