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Aerows

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22. I am not suprised by

Reply to JEB (Reply #19)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 07:39 PM

Dec 2014

seeing some of the same people clam up when the idea of defunding and shutting the CIA comes up. Every single time there is a suggestion of lessening the grip of authoritarian secret agency's tight control on the US, citizens, and far more importantly, their budgets, you see the same people come out of the woodwork with the same tired excuses of why it is impossible.

I can just about list the people that will chime in that it is impossible. I'm waiting for the person with "no dog in this show" to turn up. It will make this thread complete.

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Abolishing the CIA [View all] 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 OP

Even if it were abolished, the abolition would be temporary. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #1

What's possible v. what is preferable? OK. 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #2

We tried co-creating a world without violence after World War 1. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #3

Where did Geneva Convention come from again? 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #4

The Powers are all in violation. No one did anything to stop Bush. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #5

Daring us indeed. 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #8

We have chaos and nightmare right now. So what we ARE doing isn't sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #11

Feel free to abolish the CIA if you can. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #13

No they wouldn't, not only should it be abolished, those who have committed sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #14

I want that too, but a statement of principle is not a statement of intent. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #15

You're right about no other country achieving it without being defeated, such as Germany eg, sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #17

There are always neocons - always cancerous pieces of shit against all humankind. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #24

Yes, there are but in civilized societies they are kept on the fringes and would sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #29

I'd like to see the good take precedence over the perfect Aerows Dec 2014 #20

Some "3rd wayers" are deluded people who are on your side. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #26

LMAO! Aerows Dec 2014 #27

? True Blue Door Dec 2014 #28

yeah, that's so not gonna happen nt arely staircase Dec 2014 #6

Yeah, it wouldn't be perfect Aerows Dec 2014 #21

Ah, No Ryan Fitzomething Dec 2014 #7

So you agree with the Kennedy's assassins? 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #9

Sorry Ryan Fitzomething Dec 2014 #10

So you honestly believe JFK's murder is completely unrelated 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #12

Let the rest of the world abolish their intelligence agencies FIRST Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #16

It doesn't work that way Aerows Dec 2014 #23

But it also doesn't work in the way of outright abolition... Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #31

I agree that it isn't Aerows Jan 2015 #33

There are over a dozen intelligence agencies in the US. HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #18

No accountability, huge budgets, big profits for JEB Dec 2014 #19

I am not suprised by Aerows Dec 2014 #22

That kind of talk just put you on "the list" 951-Riverside Dec 2014 #25

Yah, i know. I've been there awhile I suspect. 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #30

Abolishing the CIA Aerows Jan 2015 #32