Terrorist Attack on the Whitehouse

I’d finished all my work today relatively early and so I was scanning BBC News and saw something about Pakistan building another nuclear reactor. It’s their prerogative I suppose, and as long as they keep it under wraps and keep any terrorist elements out of the works, so they can’t be used against the west to try and assassinate Tony Blair or kill the American President or anything along those lines, then I don’t give a toss.

Anyways… so I tried to lookup the location of the reactor and couldn’t get anything… and as I had to look up Longbow Lake Campground on Google Maps, I got to wondering… what about a Google Map of the Whitehouse. So I did and there’s a rather good satellite image of the Whitehouse.  You have to give the Yanks their dues… Washington definitely is an awesomely designed city.  Anyone with half a brain knows it was designed to impress visiting foreign heads of state… I can imagine it does.  Rather looks like the very first version of Sim City on the Super Nintendo hahahaha.

Anyway…  the Whitehouse looks way different from the air than I thought it would.  Mebbe that’s coz I never visited it.  Looks like there’s more trees than in real life… I bet each one of the leaves is not really organic material, but some highly sensitive nuclear powered weapon designed to detach from the trees and immediately annihilate any trespasser.  I think I can even see the muzzle of a Secret Service agent’s gun poking out of the leaves hahahahaha j/k.

So to anyone plotting a terrorist attack on the Whitehouse beware.  The killer leaves will shred you to bits… and by any chance you get past the 300,000 incendiary exploding leaves… you’ll then have to make it past the five-hundred-million blades of special grass sharp as razors, and past the 300 secret service agents hiding in the trees ready to pounce on your head.  Just give it up and go have some Tim Hortons.

On a slightly related note… you gotta read the book ‘Executive Orders’ by Tom Clancy.  It’s got a really good plot in it about a Secret Service Agent traitor who’s really a sleeper Iranian-born assassin.  Of course it makes you wonder… it must REALLY SUCK to be the American President… always having to watch your back and have thousands of others watch your back.

Gun Control

I just almost had an argument on MSN with my sister Marie. It came about when we were talking about guns. I told her I’m going to apply for a gun license on August 1st. Right away immediately she started getting negative and didn’t even want to talk about it. She said that friends of hers had been hurt, shot and murdered by guns. I found the fact that she wants a ban on guns a bit funny because we got into a heated argument the other day about her liking New York saying she could definitely live there. Like HELLO? America? Constitution? Right To Bear Arms? Trigger happy Yanks?

I told her that the firearm would be for hunting deer. I stated that it would be for food, and not for trophies but she still didn’t want to hear it.

I was trying to tell her that hunting is a traditional part of my son and daughter’s cultural heritage. It’s one of the few traditional things that Aboriginal people in Canada can do today. Am I supposed to just stop them practising their culture because of some assholes in metropolis cities all over the world who shoot people out of vengeance or for material gain?

What people don’t understand is that a gun is only dangerous when it’s in the hands of an irresponsible person. It’s the same as a butter knife… a letter opener… or a large dog. If you use it right they’re entirely safe.

What is needed is more background checks, reference checks, character interviews and less restrictions on the good people who need or want firearms for legitimate uses.

Hunting isn’t part of my culture, and it won’t ever be… but it is a part of my children’s. It bothers me that people will look down on me or think ill of me trying to help my children practise something their people have been doing for hundreds of years.

People who want a blanket ban on firearms are either ignorant of the facts or misinformed.

As most people who know me know I’m not a big fan of American culture in general and of the way Americans do most things so I’m not for anyone having a gun for whatever reason. Just the more sensible people having better access to firearms, and looneys not.

Terrorism in Britain

Benjamin Franklin once said ‘Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both’.

Clearly the man was on drugs at the time… or he was not the victim of a terrorist attack.

How are we supposed to protect ourselves without allowing the Government the tools they need to protect us?

Many people whine about being in a police state, using unauthorised phone taps and that sort of thing… so what?

I’m not up for the Government using legalised hit squads such as the ones that executed Jean Charles de Menezes but I am definitely in favour of more powers for the Government in tackling terrorism.

It’s very very hard to think up a system of giving the Government more power to tackle terrorism without allowing the possibility of the Government being able to use it to control its citizens or turn Britain into a police state. For instance… if the latest legislation Gordon Brown is talking about to increase the amount of time authorities in the U.K can hold a terror suspect without charge goes through… how can we ensure that this same law can’t be used in 100years to hold political or social opponents? What if in 100 years it becomes an offence to be Muslim… how will we stop this law from being used against a particular religion, race or cultural group?

About phone taps… whilst I really don’t care if a group of tea drinking MI5 agents know how many times I washed my nuts in the shower… or which women I want to fornicate… or which celebrities don’t turn me on… or how many times I shagged my woman… or anything usually private like that… how can we ensure that information collected through phone taps aren’t archived and used against our citizens in the future?

Righteous and fair lawmaking is very hard. I’m so glad it’s not me doing it.