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DeSwiss

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6. How does one wage war on a concept? On an idea?
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 06:11 AM
Jan 2015

Well, I mean besides surreptitiously reading other people's emails, text messages and banking/purchasing information? Those have proven pretty effective tools the US has used in the War On Privacy so they could use the spoils of that war to fight the War On Terrorism. They haven't gleaned much, but they do know now what most people's sexual preferences are, and the kind of porn they watch.

And droning, of course. Drones are sure concept-buster. Among other things.

Seems to me that the concept war (''War On __(Fill-in-the-Blank)__'') is always lost from the start -- because winning it or losing can only exist in the mind of the believer(s) in it. Problem is, the one's who believe in terror wars are the same ones ''defending'' us from the ''terrorists.''

- Most of the terrorist defenders are listed on the NYSE. Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, you know -- the ''M'' and the ''I'' in the ''Complex......''


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