"All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Hermann Göring, 2nd in command in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

I'm not saying that there aren't those that represent *real* threats to the safety & security of the country, but all this fear-mongering just keeps us cowering in a corner.

We need to be alert, but not afraid; prepared, but not paranoid.

Last time I checked, the Constitution was still in effect.

All this talk about "moral obligations" to some debt owed to a faceless corporation:

You think any of us wouldn't be pleased as hell to finally have The System work in our favor for a change? An extra fiver from the teller as she's counting out your withdrawal? The barista at Starbucks undercharging you?

Granted a mortgage is vastly different than a $4 cuppa Joe, but the way I see it is this: If *you* screw up, forget to pay, whatever, you can bet the corporation in question will eat you alive. Overdraft fees, excess fee fees, processing fees, etc.

However, *their* screwup is not my problem. I cheer whenever CEOs finally get their just desserts. I'd love to see corporations such as Bank of America collapse under the weight of their own blatant greed. Corporations and the government have us all by the balls & there isn't shit we can do about it. We have no recourse.

So I say stick it to The Man whenever we can. Screw em.

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Green has nothing to do with their use of an empty plane. Would you ride in an aircraft that was powered by an untested and experimental fuel?

It's simply a safety measure. It is, after all, a test.