Comments on: What Powers — And What Weakens — Terrorist Organizations?

By: david

david — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:22 +0000

It’s topics like this you should create programs for in your austinbay.thearenausa.com channel.

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:05:02 +0000

The entire organization is based on Islamic principles of warfare, law, and establishing Islam as the primary and only religion on Earth. You can’t understand anything they do without knowing the life of Mohammed, sharia, and Islamic history.

So naturally you ignore it completely. What would we do without CFR experts?

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:45:22 +0000

P. Ami,

The difference is: when something significant is stolen a police report is filed. Which makes policing a whole lot easier.

You are correct there is no quality control on the black market. I hardly see that as a recommendation.

Might I add that it is easier for kids to get illegal drugs than it is for them to get a beer. So just how is it helping?

And that is not to even go into the self medication aspects of illegal drug use. But tell you what. Go to your local emergency room and ask the psychiatric intake nurse about illegal drugs. The medical profession understands what the general public seems ignorant of.

Or check out what the NIDA has to say about the genetic aspects of illegal drug use. We are targeting people who are genetically different. You would be outraged if we targeted insulin addicts because of their genetic defects. They have a deficiency problem. Illegal drug users are no different in that fundamental respect.

But genetics is only 1/2 the story. The other half of the trigger is trauma. So we are targeting the genetically different and the traumatized. Way to go. About 70% of female heroin users have been sexually molested. Male heroin users are 25 to 50 times more likely to have been abused than the general population.

A war on the abused. Great. Just great.

And it finances criminals and terrorists. The benefits are unending.

By: P. Ami

P. Ami — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:44:33 +0000

@M Simon,
While drugs are one aspect of the black market, we find much of the black market selling stolen products. Could it be that we should get rid of property rights? Perhaps we should be rid of regulations as well, since much of what can be bought on the black market are items deemed dangerous, improperly labeled, or failed at quality control checks. Where we to be rid of property rights, quality control and regulations, then there’ll be nothing black to market and the War on Terror will be won.

By: TomZ

TomZ — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:47:36 +0000

Well done, Dr. Bay

I could not help noticing your assuredly intentional inclusion of “Walk Like an Egyptian.”

I suppose we both came of age in the 80s.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:04:17 +0000

Money – no mention of Black Markets. In other words governments passing laws that finance criminals and terrorists.

It is like the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre never happened.

Black Markets are why a pile of vegetables are worth their weight in gold.

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