Giant farm subsidies but no federal healthcare help, anyone? Government big enough to give nice handouts to corporate 'people', but not to the poor real people...
Whether or not the tin-hattery is correct, the Muslim terrorists triggered the whole event. Even if it were a 'government operation', that's just terrorism by your own government. Regardless, it's not because some court wasn't bending over far enough for your security services!
Wow, extrapolating much? Also, that was a very multi-national target - for goodness sake, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew of Britain was nearly caught in it.
But unfortunately, you've made yourselves targets with the way you deal with other countries, with your blatant hypocrisies, and your arrogance (and not just you, the British have as well). Add to that a poorly integrated security apparatus and the most deplorably lax airplane security in the West and you had a real recipe for disaster.
And it's not even like it was the first attempt to hit the Towers!
I seem to remember Britain getting a gold medal for rifle shooting, so methinks you're exaggerating a bit there. Yes, the terms of gun control are a bit onerous on sport shooters, but we *haven't* had a gun massacre like Dunblane (or Sandy Hook, or Columbine, or...) since Dunblane. As for violence in the streets, I grew up in London and live in Glasgow - neither city known for their peacefulness. Somehow, we fail to be awash in the gun violence so beloved in 'Mericuh. Sure there are bad hotspots, but they still fail to compare.
Anyway, the Swiss gun-users actually *are* a militia, rather than an over-armed testosterone-high population. Plus, the Swiss have a generally insane regard for laws - I've heard of people speeding there being shot at!
'Overseas' wouldn't apply to any EU nationals with reciprocal health service arrangements, and wouldn't be Swedes. We'd like to be pegged somewhere closer to you between the 'canny' Scandinavians and the numpty USAers please!
I suppose they could qualify as both. What they do with the 'anonymous' patents affecting things like Android would be bullying. However, they are definitely trolling with the dodgy patents.
Yes, but when you can only say that you *probably* won't prosecute someone who is actually doing their job correctly, which is fairly bad all by itself, but that you actually even have to say it at all - that says a lot of unpleasant things about the U$$A. Couple that with the 'illegal' detention of said journalist's partener at the incredibly likely behest of the U$ Government, and a very disturbing picture starts to build.
No, the farmer has a 'duty' of care there. It would be more like someone suing the farmer for keeping hens where a fox would be tempted to break in on them, even though he put protection up.
Unless you mean the 'fox' is the government as a legal institution, as well as the offender via NSA?
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But unfortunately, you've made yourselves targets with the way you deal with other countries, with your blatant hypocrisies, and your arrogance (and not just you, the British have as well). Add to that a poorly integrated security apparatus and the most deplorably lax airplane security in the West and you had a real recipe for disaster.
And it's not even like it was the first attempt to hit the Towers!
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Anyway, the Swiss gun-users actually *are* a militia, rather than an over-armed testosterone-high population. Plus, the Swiss have a generally insane regard for laws - I've heard of people speeding there being shot at!
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Unless you mean the 'fox' is the government as a legal institution, as well as the offender via NSA?
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And it may be a basic legal tenet, but EPIC still have to actually a) prove harm, and b) prove that Google are liable. Good luck to them there!
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