On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 04:57 PM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
Helping the Enemy?
The U.S. Army is catching some flak for patenting two devices that could be used to launch bioweapons. Critics say the patents may violate a weapons-control treaty--and could give terrorists a blueprint for manufacturing the devices.
The government always exempts itself from laws, or ignores the laws, or is not pursued by "law enforcement." At the trivial side of the scale, this is what allows cops to speed on the roads for no actual need. They are used to going fast when they want to, so they do. Other cops either ignore them (for various reasons) or give them "professional courtesy" as soon as they identify themselves as fellow cops. On the more serious side of the scale, governments run drug operations, ship contraband, smuggle arms, torture suspects, conspire with criminal regimes around the world, and set up criminal enterprises to benefit themselves and their friends. And on the most serious side, governments force taxpayers into Ponzi schemes for their retirements while carefully exempting themselves and their own retirement funds. It is for this last kind of sin that Congresscritters should be dealt with so very harshly. So very harshly. Too bad the most important flight got delayed out of D.C. and didn't make it to the most important target. --Tim May