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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 08:52am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11795 of 11803)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

There are some analogies between me and a Komodo dragon - you can call me a "relic of a bygone era" - a "living fossil."

But I'm a human being - and a pretty good example of the species in a lot of ways - smarter than a Komodo dragon - and I ought to be treated like a human being. I've kept my promises to the nation. This thread has been a contribution - and a contribution more distinguished than the usual CIA analyst makes - by a long way.

I've kept some important promises. The nation should keep some promises to me, or at least deal with me decently.

Agreeing to what has happened - or accomodating it - would go a long way. Some problems the Eisenhowers worried about in "a bygone era" are still problems today - a point I've made on this thread many times. This posting speaks of Eisenhower:

rshowalter - 04:48pm Mar 13, 2001 EST (#972 of 977) http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md969_973.htm

He was a grind. He attended to details. I think Eisenhower was a very great man. Though he made mistakes that killed thousands of people, and knew it. In his position, the best of human beings, under the best of circumstances, make mistakes.

In tight quarters, people make moral mistakes, as well - and Eisenhower made some of those, I believe, as well. But he tried hard, he had the good sense to distrust his subordinates when he could, and when he had messes of their making, or his own, he tried to fix them. Often did.

I believe that everybody who cares about the survival of the world should consider carefully the concerns about the military-industrial complex set out in the FAREWELL ADDRESS of President Dwight D. Eisenhower January 17, 1961. http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/ikefw.htm

The core things Eisenhower warned against have happened. In many ways it is humanly understandable -- but there is a mess, it is as dangerous as it can possibly be, and we need to fix it.

I could help with that.

bbbuck - 08:55am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11796 of 11803)

Damn short nap huh? loonster?

Well because loonie is too lazy[and to be honest I couldn't remember myself] the only references to komodos occurred yesterday.

Once again your memory has failed but your propaganda coefficient remains high.

On a lighter note, I have just opened my new website, buck_the_wonder_komodo.com[I've named my new komodo buck]

Please visit and sign my guest book. A free autographed genuine komodo skin rain slicker will be given to the 4444 visitor.

Thank you for your time.

And keep an eye out for incoming missiles.

rshow55 - 09:06am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11797 of 11803)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

11737-8 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.0Oo3a2r1amv.505784@.f28e622/13347 makes some key points, in includes this:

I think, under the circumstances, that it might be particularly good if I could proceed on a basis senior people at Deutsche Bank Securities would think honorable, workable, and fair.

I've been trying to "play it straight" for a very long time.

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ScienceInTheNewsJan4_2000.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/ToE_H_E_G_P_M_xd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Safire_SpookAwardsNRequestXd.html

http://www.mrshowalter.net/etterToDeutscheBankSecuritiesXd.html

rshow55 - 09:08am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11798 of 11803)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Komodo dragons may not worry about betraying investors, but I do. I was ordered to do so - and some promises were made.

Under current laws and procedures, I probably could never prove that in court.

But if the CIA wants to recruit people - and say "trust us" - they ought to think about what's happened to me.

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