Depends on who's definition of "legal" or "illegal" one chooses to accept i spose. when all is said and done it is not the voting system or the "democratic" process that determines these criteria but rather the cunnin guile , wit and dare i say depth of the pockets of the lobbyists that de ermine such criteria. ATB Shaun On 12/02/2015 12:24, doug wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Do you know how many terrorist attacks there has been since Charlie > Hebdo? All those illegal terrorist attacks on our society have been > well publicised in the media, repeated in graphic detail. Police and > the military turning up in armed response units to arrest and capture > alleged and personal terrorists, 19 year old nutters and so on. Very > important news of course...and, I am sure, helps us all to feel more > safe, especally at election time, when our political leaders feel more > vulnerable... > > And yet...how many drone attacks have been carried out by various > democratic nation states? How much property has been damaged, how > many people have died, or been maimed in these attacks since Charlie > Hebdo? How many terrorists have been killed, why haven't they been > named? Why hasn't it all been publicised, to show that our nation > states are after all, carrying out their duty, conducting legal > attacks against those very terrorist organisations which organised the > illegal attacks on our socieities. > > Very strange don't you think...that illegal attacks get lots of > publicity but legal attacks get none at all, no casualty figures, no > property damage reports. No blame for mistakes being made...nuffink. > > It is called accountability, transparency, folks. It isn't a crime > against human rights, nor is it a crime against humanity...why > not...because they don't happen of course...:-). > ATB > Dougie. > > -- *_PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION _* https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/when-time-comes-we-need-be-ready-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda