It's actually a link from my profile page. I was hoping that either andy has introduced a feature we can use to create a list of users that we don't want to be able to participate in ANY debates we create. Perhaps its being worked on? I know how to ban users from particular debates but I don't know how to add them to my blocklist.. guess I should ask Andy
What I find peculiar is that violence and terrorism spring from violent and terrible ideology, yet we can't directly address that because naive secularism pretends that goverment entities can somehow be fundamentally neutral concerning religion.
Obviously not. But they could just put the drone program in to high gear.
Modern surveillance technology now allows tracking of anyone with serious anti-US sentiments. Especially if they are talking with and teaming up with others. An aggressive focus on preemptive strikes and detention based on suspicion alone would be quite unpopular, but effective to make opposition to "US interests" seem hopeless. I'm not advocating that, but I do wonder how much "US interest" there is in keeping the lucrative war on terror going..
No. However, the second amendment is interpreted as such: We have the right to "keep and bear arms" so long as they are vastly inferior to those welded by government agents. This is how it is now. I think if the government restricts the weapons a citizen may keep, then government agents should operate under the same restrictions. My position may be better classified as radical than simply progressive.