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BackInTex
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by BackInTex » Thu May 28, 2015 9:03 am
Sure, we Texans can trust the military!
Live anthrax inadvertently shipped by U.S. military
Four lab workers in the United States and up to 22 overseas have been put in post-exposure treatment after the U.S. military inadvertently shipped live anthrax samples via FedEx, a defense official told CNN.
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War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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Vandal
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by Vandal » Thu May 28, 2015 10:25 am
A little live Anthrax never hurt anyone:

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SpacemanSpiff
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by SpacemanSpiff » Thu May 28, 2015 11:03 am
Maybe they meant to ship it to the Texas State Guard?
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Jeemie
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by Jeemie » Thu May 28, 2015 11:25 am
SpacemanSpiff wrote:Maybe they meant to ship it to the Texas State Guard?
No- they were supposed to go to those WalMart stores...
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by Jeemie » Thu May 28, 2015 11:54 am
So BiT- were you really trying to say this incident makes the fact that many Texans bought into the idea the Operation Jade Helm was a secret plot to take over the Southwestern US less batshit crazy?
Because it really doesn't.
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BackInTex
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by BackInTex » Thu May 28, 2015 12:06 pm
Jeemie wrote:So BiT- were you really trying to say this incident makes the fact that many Texans bought into the idea the Operation Jade Helm was a secret plot to take over the Southwestern US less batshit crazy?
Because it really doesn't.
No. I realize this is apples to those fish.
Just more proof to those that trust everything to the government that they shouldn't.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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by Jeemie » Thu May 28, 2015 12:31 pm
BackInTex wrote:Jeemie wrote:So BiT- were you really trying to say this incident makes the fact that many Texans bought into the idea the Operation Jade Helm was a secret plot to take over the Southwestern US less batshit crazy?
Because it really doesn't.
No. I realize this is apples to those fish.
Just more proof to those that trust everything to the government that they shouldn't.
Change "government" to "humans" and you have a point.
The government isn't any less trustworthy in managing complex processes than private industries are.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu May 28, 2015 12:39 pm
Jeemie wrote:
Change "government" to "humans" and you have a point.
The government isn't any less trustworthy in managing complex processes than private industries are.
but they are better at killing people
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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by littlebeast13 » Thu May 28, 2015 1:17 pm
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Jeemie wrote:
Change "government" to "humans" and you have a point.
The government isn't any less trustworthy in managing complex processes than private industries are.
but they are better at killing people
Government doesn't kill people. People kill people...
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by Bob Juch » Thu May 28, 2015 3:10 pm
littlebeast13 wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Jeemie wrote:
Change "government" to "humans" and you have a point.
The government isn't any less trustworthy in managing complex processes than private industries are.
but they are better at killing people
Government doesn't kill people. People kill people...
lb13
Yep, look at the number of people who kill other people in accidents. That far exceeds the number of war dead.
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