This is why Westboro Baptist Church is a joke

[kandrathe]

Everything about warfare is "irregular". I don't want to live in a world were warfare is "regular", but here we are.

I just get freaked out by how Orwellian things are getting.

Like, peace keeping troops. Ah, it's not like they are going to shoot you with those guns. Or obliterate you with our Peacekeeper missiles. Or, using our civilian friendly precision guided Smart bombs. For decades, we've run an Imperial presidency. Even now, with the failure to get congressional war powers for Libya, under the pretense that what we are doing in Libya is not hostile. This is the same guy who said, "The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

Or, The Patriot Act, which allows the government to violate our right to privacy and unreasonable search. Now, we have to worry about domestic use of UAV's, and being hijacked by smart dust.

Whistle blowers are charged with espionage, for unauthorized "willful retention" of documents. Or, the Justice Departments new rules that require lying (even to Federal Judges) to prevent revealing that the documents sought under Freedom of Information Act requests exist.

This would be the perfect thread for Orwellian double speak. The one with the alleged church group who engages in hate speech.