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random thought of the moment:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some Bans Are Bad

February 5th, 2003 by Funky Dung

This is what happens when you don't have a written constitution.

Internet Hate-Speech Ban Called 'Chilling'
Council of Europe's Internet restrictions raise uneasy questions about civil rights online.
By Michelle Madigan

"WASHINGTON—As European leaders move to ban Internet hate speech and seek support from the United States, civil liberties groups charge that the proposal would violate free-speech rights."