We are entitled to our own conclusions and opinions. I respect yours, and the way you’ve stated them.

I lived in an Islamic country for 2 1/2 years where with my height, and strawberry blond hair I stood out like a sore thumb. The town I lived in had a Saddam Hussein Blvd. (Kota Bharu, Malaysia) I studied Islam while there to help do the multimedia cd we were working on, and I can tell you that these bombings beheadings and executions aren’t part of Islam. Its as much perverted as the extreme right wing Christians are. No where, even under Jihad is it acceptable to kill innocents.

As for your family fine, so were mine. I was born in Roanoke, VA but spent the first two years of my life on Camp Lejune where my dad was a drill instructor. He served in both WWII (on Guadelcanal) and Korea (Inchon) , Both times under command of Chesty Puller. I met Chesty when I was 8. He wouldn’t take crap off of anyone, including politicians. He said it because he believed it.

I was in the ARMY during Vietnam but ended up on Okinawa, where I ran two different communications sites that provided communications to the troops in Vietnam.

I don’t know about anything other than my Grandmother was in the DAR, So I must have a relative that fought in the Revolutionary War,
and that my grandfather was in WWI. But What I do know is that to cut and run the way the five names I mentioned previously would have us do, would be a huge mistake, and embolden the terrorists.

Turn the other cheek and you’re ,most likely to get hit again, knock the beans out of the person who hit you, they will think twice before doing it again. I’ve personally seen evidence of that many times over, beginning when I was 6 years old.

As for the uniformed propaganda line, no, it is not propaganda, its just my opinion and I could be wrong. (forgive me Dennis).

The family fortune came not from the Music Industry, but from liquor, notably the Seagrams brand. Interestingly, the family’s fortune swelled during the Prohibition Era in the USA (1919-1933) when it’s products were getting smuggled into the US by bootleggers (like Joe Kennedy.) Edgar should be a careful about being too critical of filesharers as it would be a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.

–TG

He told story after story people people coming up to them and thanking them, hugging them, giving them drinks and food while they walked through streets. Of children coming to the base to sing a song as a way of thanking troops who on their own time, rebuilt a school and got school supplies delivered to them from the US. He told me he hears the words “Thank You” at least 100 times a day and those who don’t speak openly, nod and smile in the way of acknowledgement.

I openly challenge Yee Hah man (White Flag Dean) to personally go to IRAQ and offer to surrender to the terrorists. Or Micheal (FATASS) Moore or Barabara (IMA BITCH) Striesand to do the same. The following week their headless bodies will be found. Hell let’s make it a fivesome send Pelosi and Boxer along too.

“I think the best policy is to declare victory and leave,” said Senator George Aiken (R – Vermont) during the Vietnam war. I think that’s a policy the entertainment industry is adopting in its ongoing battle against peer-to-peer file sharing.

Aiken’s point, for those of you light on history, is that when the war is unwinnable, you simply redefine “victory” and get the heck out.

This logic would explain why the recording industry keeps saying that illegal file sharing is almost finished, yet the amount of stuff available on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks remains staggering.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2005-12-02-file-sharing-lives_x.htm

They never had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning…

Only 2% of people who paid a fee to download music from the Internet cited that the contentious legal issues surrounding online music distribution concerned them. This statistic comes from Ipsos-Reid’s latest research on the consumption of digital media titled “Cultivating Desire: Investing in Market Insights to Reap Digital Content Profits”. This particular paper focuses on ways for content providers to tap into the Internet as an evolving distribution mechanism of mass media. The shockingly low number should come as a warning to the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) who have so far sued thousands for file sharing in the expectation that they can scare consumers in buying instead of trading. First, this is not a way to tap into this audience and second the tactic isn’t working.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/tempo2005.html

Why should copyright holders be given protection for their creation for life plus ?
Their end effort produces a product of no value

Drug companies spend years developing a drug that saves or improves life, yet are protected for only twenty years
Farmers spend millions and get payed at rates that their grandfathers were payed.
The man who repairs your car does not get payed each time the car starts after a repair.
The plumber does not get payed each time you flush after a repair.
When Girl scouts sell you a cookie it,s yours.
When you buy a car, the manufacture does not have the right to tell you how to drive it.

If no music was played from this day on:
People would not die from its loss
There would be food to eat
there would be cloths to ware
there would be water to drink
there would be homes to live in
there would be cars to drive
there would be air to breath
there would be planes to fly
Life would change very little if at all, music is nothing more then fluff, how it’s become a top priority
for the government is beyond me.
The fluff salesman has done their job well i guess.