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December 16, 2004

Bush to close GPS in emergency

Pretty frightening, really:

President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday.

The gun lobby in America argue that gun ownership is essential to US citizens, to allow them to overthrow despotic governments.

But if those very same despotic governments actually persuaded the majority of US citizens that the despots are actually the good guys...

Posted by brian_turner at December 16, 2004 07:21 PM

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