What about approaching the manufacturers of cameras for the funding to enforce the legality of their product? I mean, why would I buy a camera if I couldn't use it?

On another note for protest; how about getting a flash mob to make detailed drawings of "sensitive" locations?

They can pry my camera out of my cold dead hands.

This discussion gives me faith. It's not all done for.

I have no problem being some sort of target. There is never anything fatal. Of course, I'm preaching to the choir.

I have this to say:
Take it back. I don't know how, I don't know what, but your values and opinions and way of life have been taken away from you. Take them back. Stop killing people. Stop torturing people. Stop ignoring those less fortunate. Stop just being really, really evil.

If this were a galaxy far, far away; yer bildin teh deth str.

Okay, I give up. There. You win.

Yippee.

Please make the big movement. I don't care what it is but please DO SOMETHING. You are already inside. You are smart people, you know what's going on. Your news progammes tell you the body count from Afghanistan and Iraq every evening, right? You are watching this... uh... because you're paying for it... uh... explosions... people dead... your entire country on a mortgage to the East... hello?

On the other hand; maybe I'm nuts. It's plausible that I see conspiracies where there are none.

xopl;

I'm not an american. and, yes, I have protested the shit out of this. and, yes, your government doesn't want me in their homeland.

I'm pretty much betting that I can't fly anywhere. I don't want to try that theory because my guess is that I would end up in a torture cell for five years with no trial, no charges, no recourse and lots and lots of torture.

Forgive me if I say 'wake the hell up'. You and your country are doing really, really bad things. If you aren't doing anything to stop it then you are collaborating.

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Antinous:
I said I didn't want a flame war. I think you underestimate the resolve of Canada. I think your president underestimates it. We're not in your war, we welcome your draft-dodgers, we have peace and sovereignty. And the last time I checked your dollar was plummeting as everyone suddenly realizes that you are spending a shitload of money on a made-up crusade and the foreclosure-guy is knocking at the door.

Maybe we should close our border now.

Ceronomus:

Alls I'm sain is fixumacate it. Yew have a screwedimified country. And thats OK. I'm just shakin my hed and wonderin how such an intelugunt, bright, wonderful, free place is suddenly terrimified to the point of prosecutioning everyone and letting god sort 'em out.

Again, don't respondify; make the insanity stop. If you are a US citizen you have the power. More power than that guy in Afghanistan who's going to be shot in the head tomorrow morning for trying to get some water.

Please don't reply. DO SOMETHING.

I don't want a flame-war. Don't waste time even responding to my rant. DO SOMETHING.

When the hell will the people of amerika rise up??? WTF is wrong with you? The entire world is wondering why you elected a moron, why you declared war on everyone, why you abuse your own citizens, torture prisoners, maintain concentration camps, spend a billion dollars a day on a war that is idiotic and still sleep at night.

What the hell is wrong with you? Did you not study history? I wish I lived in the US so I could lead a protest!!

Do you remember when there was a 'coalition of the willing' to make Iraq another state of the US? WTF happened to the search for Bin Laden? Suddenly oil is double the price and no-one is making any noise?

Forgive me if I say it but amerika deserves to die. You were the great ideal once but now you're just sheep. You are already dead, you just don't know it yet. Maybe when you're done screwing over the world you'll figure it out.

And here is my last bit of vitriol: go to any country anywhere in the world and wave your flag proudly. See how long you live.

Censor me if you like. I already know how this ends.

Okay, so, let me get this straight...

These people are labouring under a DARPA contract (I think?) to build a robotic pack mule that can navigate terrain using a crazy array of sensors, software and hardware costing millions of dollars.

Why not use a good old fashioned organic mule that can live off the land, reproduce for almost nothing, live off the land and is quiet? Is it any wonder that the US military is bankrupting amerika?

Does this make you just feel sick? I am so glad that I live in a free country and not the US.