Anti-Terror Stupidity

Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect

Here's a story of what happens when you insist your government protect you from boogiemen. Bureaucrats are the one's who must implement, in this case, anti-terror regulations. Bureaucrats just aren't capable of independant thought, that's why they became bureaucrats, so they don't have to think, just act on rules set forth for them.

Some Anti-Terror laws and regulations are bad enough, but the idiots who enforce them can be a real pain.

"WITH her year-round tan, long blonde hair and designer clothes, Sally Cameron does not look like a threat to national security.

But the 34-year-old property developer has joined the ranks of Britain’s most unlikely terrorist suspects after being held for hours for trespassing on a cycle path.

Ms Cameron was being hailed yesterday as Scotland’s answer to Walter Wolfgang, the 82-year-old heckler manhandled out of the Labour Party conference last month. She was arrested under the Terrorism Act for walking along a cycle path in the harbour area of Dundee."

Political Correctness: The Scourge of Our Times

"Does anyone know the origins of Political Correctness? Who originally developed it and what was its purpose?"

"I looked it up. It was developed at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which was founded in 1923 and came to be known as the "Frankfurt School." It was a group of thinkers who pulled together to find a solution to the biggest problem facing the implementers of communism in Russia."

"The problem? Why wasn't communism spreading?"

This is a good article for those who are unaware of the origins of "Political Correctness", just how dangerous it is, and why it just doesn't smell right to so many people.

Intelligence on Vietnam War 'faked'? Seriously?

This late-breaking news revelation, is about as old as the Vietnam War itself. I can't believe this is being put out as if it's something we didn't know about, a loooong time ago.

"ONE of America's top spy agencies faked key intelligence used to justify its intervention in the Vietnam War, it has been revealed."

"But the revelation was kept secret by the National Security Agency, partly because of fears that it would boost criticism of the intelligence services over the war in Iraq."

"According to material uncovered by the NSA's own historian, Robert Hanyok, middle-ranking officers altered material relating to the Gulf of Tonkin incident."

This is the third article I've seen today about this, and none of them have bothered to mention that this revelation was in fact, revealed decades ago. This came out back in the 70s, before the war even ended.

This is but one reason I always end up pissed whenever I read or watch news reports. The selective memories of the people who inform us, is truely incredible.

This is what you see when you reach a certain age, and have lived through a number of historical events. You learn that the media cannot be trusted with history. You see things being reported about the past, that never happened, or happened in a completely different way. And, as in this case, media amnesia.

Trademarking the Smell of Strawberries?

" EU turns up its nose at attempt to trademark smell of strawberries"

"A French perfume company specialising in luxurious cosmetics and toiletries has narrowly failed in an attempt to trademark the scent of ripe strawberries. The Paris-based Eden Sarl is the latest business to have the EU turn its nose up at an attempt to lock down a particular smell and turn it into a unique selling point."

This is getting ridiculous. It's just wrong to trademark common elements. The only things that should be allowed, are unique creations, that have been invented.

This attempt, is only a small part of what is currently going on. Companies the world over, have been attempting (with some success) to patent, trademark, and copyright elements that should remain in the public domain. Many thought it humorous when Donald Trump wanted to trademark "You're Fired", but it should've highlighted a growing trend of business to control and profit from ordinary things we all use and have common access to.