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Blue_Tires

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31. But it also doesn't work in the way of outright abolition...

Reply to Aerows (Reply #23)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:23 AM

Jan 2015

anyone who does is deluding themselves...

Yes, I despise racial profiling, but you don't see me saying "abolish the criminal justice system"...

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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