The American Asylum

[Miulang]

Re: The American Asylum

First GM, now Ford is announcing a cut in its workforce of 25-30,000 employees. The end of America as a manufacturing giant is definitely here. We are truly a nation of buyers and not a nation of producers anymore.

Miulang

[Miulang]

Re: The American Asylum

Progressives of America, unite! I agree with about 99% of what Molly Ivins writes, so I guess that must mean I am a Progressive.

Miulang

[Miulang]

Re: The American Asylum

Would you give up your job for up to $140,000 in return for no health care coverage when you leave? That's the dilemma 113,000 GM and Delphi hourly workers will be faced with. It's hard to believe that GM and its actuaries believe they can SAVE money by offering this payout. It just goes to show how important it is for this country to figure out a way to support a single-payer, universal healthcare system soon. Otherwise, those people who take the severance will end up taxing the healthcare infrastructure and taxpayers in even more expensive ways. If the majority of people who are offered this payoff accept the offer, it will set a very bad precedent for the rest of the workers in this country.

Miulang

[Miulang]

Re: The American Asylum

If you really care to learn why people from all over the world dislike us not only as a government but as a people, read here. Even though America has always been a beacon for immigrants from other countries,

"...More than a million legal and illegal immigrants enter the United States every year, but when presented with a choice, people around the world say they no longer see America as the prime land of opportunity. Asked where a young person should go to lead a good life, no more than 10 percent of respondents to a 2005 Pew survey in 13 of 16 countries recommended the United States. Australia, Canada, Great Britain and even Germany were all preferred destinations. ..."

The growing antipathy towards America may end up being our salvation from the illegal immigrant problem!

Miulang

[Menehune Man]

Re: The American Asylum

The growing antipathy towards America may end up being our salvation from the illegal immigrant problem!

I think we're still to easy to illegally enter and it is definitely still easier to legally immigrate here than the other countries listed.

[waioli kai]

justUS nests of justUSness

As the mainland United States becomes more an island unto itself, becoming iincreasingly difficult to enter as well as exit, the citizens and non-citizens so contained, as in "protected", become ever more the hostages of militarUSt$ corporatUSts, capitalUSts and their zionUSt foreign policy which inflames with the planet with their insistence on justUS.

Their "protected" citizenry are the soft underbelly of justUS.
The monster justUS thrives virtually omnipotently, unaccountable for the destruction, death and inhumanity rendered over all which is in its path beginning with continents of indigenous peoples they exterminated on one continent and kidnapped for perpetual slavery to take to another continent to build the capitalUSt wealth of an economy founded in drug trade, tobacco. An unmoral economy noted most especially for its worship of extreme personal wealth and for its believers/followers/leaders' truth-defying claims of righteousness in the face of all the immorality, injustice on which is amassed the wealth retention system of corporatUSt America.

[waioli kai]

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Universe

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Earth

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: fill-in-the-blank

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Iraq

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Palestine

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Afghanistan

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Nicaragua

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Chile

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Guatemala

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: El Salvador

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Angola

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Persia

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Cuba

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Space

[helen]

Re: terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare

One thing I could never understand about your posting is this "$" that you insert in from time to time? What does it mean?

[waioli kai]

Re: terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare

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helen= -- ' One thing I could never understand about your posting is this "$" that you insert in from time to time? What does it mean? ' --

Most often it is another way to print a "s" where "$" serves to save my having to write a bunch of words to denote the $ (money, financial, monetary, $US, corporatUSt, militarUSt, corruptionUSt and/or imperialUSt United States) nature or aspect of the word to which I attach " $ " to pluralize the word and/or show singular or plural possession. It just makes written communication easier, while it doesn't alter the way the word is spoken; so long, that is, that it is spoken as an "s" sound and not the "kuh-ching", or whatever sound that "$" makes.

While substituting "$" for "s" doesn't change the pronunciation of a word as long as the sound for "s" is spoken, when "U" is substituted for "i" and "s" is made upper case "S" as in militarUSt for militarist, capitalUSt for capitalist some words' pronunciations change a little bit, while, ironically perhaps, other words pronounce as if they should be spelled with a "US" in the first place. The word "terrorUSt" is that kind of word, especially when spoken with a Southern drawl as does President Bush. Being able to substitute "US" for "..is..", "..ice" and such really saves a lot of effort in writing by requiring next to zero qualifiers.

Then there's the distinction between U.S. (as an abbreviation of United States of America), and US (without the . periods) where the latter is connotative of the upper class/economic/political/powers of the United States, the super "us", if you will. If you one is not sure if one is or is not a member of US of the United States, or US of the corporatist West, that is the first sign that one is not a member of US, but that does not necessarily preclude one from living the delusion that one is of US. There are many U.S. citizens who are mad az za kite, but seem to be sufficiently insulated from personnally deleterious consequences of their delusions; certainly, Hawaii has its share of such individuals, if not more than its share in some communities.

[MadAzza]

Re: terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare

One thing I could never understand about your posting is this "$" that you insert in from time to time? What does it mean?

It means, "I am a troll."

It also, in most cases, means, "I am continuing my futile attempt to make taxpaying U.S. citizens feel guilty about working harder than I do and earning money, which must be evil because I don't know how to do it, and Mommy says I am a good boy! So there!"

That's what it usually means, anyway. Most of the people who write "u$" in the place of "U.S." are on government entitlement programs of some sort. It's how they assuage their guilt -- by blaming the giver (taxpayer) for their shortcomings. They are usually ignored by those who matter, which further fuels their self-inflicted low self-esteem, and they spiral further downward in their vitriol. Vicious cycle, that.

Oh, and it also correlates to illiteracy. But don't blame the DOE -- this stuff is self-inflicted.

[waioli kai]

Cuba, terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare on

terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt War: Cuba

The illegal Guantánamo Base

' The United States illegally maintains a naval base in Cuba against the will of its people. This facility is situated at the Guantanamo Bay, one of the biggest of Cuba. It is located 64 kilometres from Santiago of Cuba, the second city in importance, and 920 kilometres from Havana. It encompasses an area of 117.6 km2 (49.4 of mainland and the rest of water and marshes). It delimits a coastline of 17.5 kilometres. The bay has good characteristics as far as depth, security and capacity, but at the present, it lacks of strategic importance.

The Platt Amendment, a U.S. Congress´ Law, was imposed to the first Cuban Constitution at the beginning of the 20th century. In December, 1903, the United States took possession, "until they need it", of the Guantanamo Bay, by means of a one-sided treaty. Since then, and for more than half a century, this base was center to stimulate prostitution, illegal games and drugs. '

[waioli kai]

Re: Cuba, terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare on

Excerpts from:

Summary Of The Main Terrorist Actions Against Cuba (1990-2000)

From 1959 on, counterrevolutionary groups created and run by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out numerous terrorist activities which have cost our country valuable lives and vast amounts of resources.

Encouraged by the fall of the socialist camp at the beginning of the 90s, these groups intensified their violent actions against the Cuban people and its leaders from US territory and from other bases of operations in Central America.

Below are listed some of the most important of these actions, which are of public domain.

July 17, 1990. Following lobbying by Florida Republican Congresspersons, Ileana Ross and Connie Mack, U.S. President George H. Bush released from jail well-known terrorist Orlando Bosch, the man chiefly responsible for the October 1976 blasting of a Cuban civil airplane in mid-flight, killing all 73 on board.

October 14, 1990. Two armed terrorists sneaked into Santa Cruz del Norte as part of an action concocted in Miami. They had orders to carry out violent actions. Their weapons and false documents supplied in Miami were confiscated. They also carried literature urging people to join what they called “The Cuban Liberation Army” headed by Higinio Díaz Anne who had given them money and propaganda before they set out.

May 15,1991. José Basulto, an ex-Bay of Pigs mercenary and well-known terrorist and CIA agent founded the so-called “Brothers to the Rescue”. He asked U.S. President George H. Bush for three U.S. Air Force type 0-2 planes, the military version of the Cessna which had been used in the war in El Salvador. Congresswoman Ileana Ross started a public campaign and lobbied until the three planes were obtained. A photo of the planes received by this counterrevolutionary group appeared in the press for the first time with a July 19 article by the publisher of the Miami Herald, who flew with Brothers to the Rescue. The letters USAF (United States Air Force) are clearly visible on the planes.

September 17,1991. Two counterrevolutionaries from Miami infiltrated into Cuba. Their mission was to sabotage tourist shops to spread terror among foreign tourists. Their weapons and a radio transmitter were confiscated.

December 29, 1991. Three terrorists from the so-called Commandos L group in Miami entered Cuba illegally. Their weapons and other war materiel were confiscated. These three had received training with 50 or 60 other men in a camp on 168 Street in Miami.

May 8 1992. Cuba files a complaint with the United Nations about terrorist activities organized against its territory. At Cuba’s request, a June 23, 1989 decision of the U.S. Department of Justice is circulated as an official Security Council document. The decision states that Orlando Bosch is banned from entering the U.S. territory because there is substantial proof concerning his past and present terrorist activities, including the 1976 blasting off of a Cuban civil aviation plane in mid-flight.

Today this individual freely walks the streets of Miami after George H. Bush granted him a presidential pardon.

July 4, 1992. A group of terrorists set out from the United States to attack economic targets along the Havana coastline. Once detected by Cuban patrol boats, they moved to waters off Varadero, where U.S. coastguards rescued them after their boat had a mechanical failure.The FBI released them after the confiscation of weapons, maps and videos made during their journey.

July 1992. An operation to infiltrate an U.S. based terrorist into Cuba with the mission to sabotage an economic target in Villa Clara province failed. He was carrying the weapons and explosives needed for the job and had the assistance of Brothers to the Rescue who kept him informed about the position of the U.S. coastguard to make it easier for him to reach Cuban territory.

September 9, 1992. The FBI for illegal possession of firearms and violation of the Law of Neutrality arrests a Cuban born terrorist. He is released without charges.

October 7, 1992. An armed attack against the Varadero Meliá Hotel is perpetrated from a vessel manned by four Miami terrorists who were later arrested and questioned by the FBI, then released.

October 19, 1992. Three Miami based counterrevolutionaries entered Cuba illegally with plenty of weapons and military equipment that were confiscated. At the same time, three other terrorists were arrested in the Bahamas with weapons and explosives apparently destined for Cuba, which were also seized from them. These terrorists had left Miami on October 17.

January 1993. Five terrorists on board a vessel armed with heavy machine guns and other weapons were arrested by the U.S. coastguard as they were heading toward the Cuban coastline. They were soon released.

January 7, 1993. At a press conference in Miami, Tony Bryant, leader of the terrorist group “Commandos L” announced plans to carry out more attacks against targets in Cuba, especially hotels. He said: “from now on we are at war with Cuba” and warned foreign tourists to “stay away from Cuba.”

April 2, 1993. The tanker ship “Mikonos” sailing under the Cypriot flag was fired on 7 miles north of Matanzas from a vessel crewed by Cuban born, U.S. based terrorists.
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May 21, 1993. Nine terrorists arrested by the U.S. Customs Service on board a vessel as they prepared to sail for Cuba to launch attacks on that country. Their weapons and explosives were seized. On August 21, Judge Lawrence King dismissed charges against them.

May 1993. “Brothers to the Rescue” planned to blow up a high-tension pylon near San Nicolás de Bari in Havana province.

October 1993. “Brothers to the Rescue” publicly encouraged attempts on the life of President Fidel Castro and violence against Cuba. It also confirmed its readiness to accept “the risks that come with doing this”. Andrés Nazario Sargén, head of terrorist group Alpha 66, makes an announcement in the United States that his organization has recently carried out five operations against Cuba.

October 18, 1993. A terrorist living in the United States is arrested on his arrival in Cuba. His orders were to carry out acts of violence on Cuban soil.

November 7, 1993. Humberto Pérez, spokesperson for Alpha 66, said in a press conference in Miami that their war against Cuba would soon be extended to any tourist visiting the island: “We consider anyone staying in a Cuban hotel to be an enemy ”, he affirmed.

1993. A Cuban citizen visiting the United States is recruited by a terrorist organization to carry out sabotage in Cuba against the tourism and agricultural sectors. He was supplied with some of the materials needed for such actions and was offered the sum of 20,000 US dollars.

March 11, 1994. A terrorist group from Miami fires on the “Guitart Cayo Coco Hotel.”

April 17, 1994. Planes owned by “Brothers to the Rescue” fly at extremely low altitude over Havana and drop smoke bombs. In the following months of 1994 the same group carried out at least seven other similar violations of Cuba’s airspace.

September 4, 1994. Two U.S. based terrorists infiltrated into the area around Caibarién, Villa Clara, with the aim of carrying out sabotage in that province. A number of weapons and large amounts of military equipment were seized.

October 6, 1994. Another armed group fired automatic weapons at the “Guitart Cayo Coco Hotel” from a boat that set out from Florida.

October 15, 1994. A group of armed terrorists coming from the United States landed on the causeway to “Cayo Santa María” near Caibarién, Villa Clara, and murdered comrade Arcelio Rodríguez García.

October 1994. “Brothers to the Rescue” uses one of its planes to train members of a Florida based counterrevolutionary organization to carry out acts of sabotage on the Cienfuegos oil refinery.

In November of that same year, they also planned to make an attempt on the life of President Fidel Castro and other leaders of the Revolution and to smuggle arms and explosives into Cuba.

November 1994. Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and five of his accomplices smuggled weapons into Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, during the IV Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government in order to make an attempt on the life of President Fidel Castro. However, the security belt keeps him at a distance thus thwarting his aim. Posada Carriles later told the New York Times: “I was standing behind some journalists and I saw Castro’s friend, García Márquez, but I could only see Castro from a long way away.”
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[waioli kai]

cont'd, Cuba, terrorUSt warfare on

(Continued) excerpts and condensations from:
Summary Of The Main Terrorist Actions Against Cuba (1990-2000)

March 2, 1995. Two terrorists from the United States sneaked into the coast near Puerto Padre, Las Tunas. They were carrying 51 pounds of C – 4 explosives and other munitions.
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May 20, 1995. The “Guitart Cayo Coco Hotel” was once again attacked by terrorists manning a fast launch coming from the United States.

July 12, 1995. Three terrorists were arrested in the United States as they were preparing to sneak into Cuba using an act of provocation just off the Cuban coast as cover. Despite confiscation of their weapons and explosives, U.S. authorities released them.
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January 13, 1996. Several “Brothers to the Rescue” planes violated Cuban airspace over the City of Havana. Later, terrorist Basulto said: “They say I was flying over Cuban airspace, something everybody knows and which I have never denied.”
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November 1996. Miami television channel 23 carried a live interview with Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch where they stressed their intentions of continuing with their terrorist activities against Cuba.

April 12, 1997. An explosive device was detonated in the “Meliá Cohíba” Hotel in the City of Havana.

April 30, 1997. Discovery of an explosive device in the “Meliá Cohíba” Hotel.

July 12, 1997. Bombs blasted in the “Capri” and “National” hotels.

August 4, 1997. Another bomb exploded in the “Meliá Cohíba” Hotel.

August 11, 1997. The Miami press published a statement from the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) giving unconditional support to the terrorist bomb attacks against civilian and tourist targets in Cuba. The chairman of this organization claimed: “We do not think of these as terrorist actions” and went on to say that any action against Cuba was legitimate.

August 22, 1997. Bomb exploded in the “Sol Palmeras” Hotel in Varadero.

September 4, 1997. Several bombs exploded in the “Tritón”, “Chateau Miramar” and “Copacabana” hotels. The explosion in the latter killed young Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo. On that same day another bomb exploded at “La Bodeguita del Medio “ restaurant.

September 10, 1997. The Cuban Government announced the arrest of Salvadoran national Raúl Cruz León, the person responsible of placing six of the bombs that exploded in various hotels in the Cuban capital, including the one that killed Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo. Cruz León admitted that he had been paid 4,500 US dollars for each bomb.

October 19, 1997. An explosive device was found in a tourist van.

October 27, 1997. The U.S. Coastguard arrested a vessel West of Puerto Rico. They confiscated 2 high velocity rifles .50 caliber with their tripods, night vision gear, and military uniforms and communications equipment. These sophisticated weapons, strictly military in nature, are designed for long-range attacks on vehicles and aircraft. One of those on the vessel said that his aim was to assassinate President Fidel Castro when he arrived on Margarita Island, Venezuela, on November 7, 1997 to attend the Ibero-American Summit.

U.S. authorities found that the vessel was registered by a Florida company whose chief executive officer, manager, secretary and treasurer is José Antonio Llama, a director of the CANF and a Bay of Pigs mercenary.

One of the guns was registered in the name of José Francisco “Pepe” Hernández, CANF co-chairman. A member of Brigade 2506 had bought the other in 1994.

The four crew members on the vessel were identified as: a well-known CIA agent; the captain of a CIA boat used by Florida infiltration teams sneaking into Cuba; the chairman of a New Jersey counterrevolutionary group and a member of Alpha 66.

Despite their confessions and clear proof of the illegal possession of arms, false testimony and arms smuggling, these terrorists were acquitted by a Federal court of law in December 1999 after a rigged trial.

October 30, 1997. Discovery of an explosive device in a kiosk outside terminal 2 at the “José Martí” International Airport in the City of Havana. Two men originally from El Salvador and three originally from Guatemala would later be arrested for crimes against tourist facilities. They all were linked with terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

November 16, 1997. Following a two months investigation, a Florida newspaper reported that the series of bomb explosions in Havana were bankrolled and directed by Miami anti-Cuban groups and that Luis Posada Carriles, a fugitive from justice for having blown up a Cuban plane in 1976, was at the heart of the operation.
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June 16, 1998. After several meetings in which the Cuban Government gave information to the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies about terrorist activities concocted in the United States against Cuba, an official U.S. delegation traveled to Havana including two of FBI top brass, which was given precise details, even films, recordings and other material evidence on the activities of 40 terrorists who operated out of the United States.

July 12, 1998. An article in The New York Times for this date published statements by Cuban American Antonio Jorge Alvarez concerning the fact that the FBI had not investigated information he had volunteered related to an attempt on the life of President Fidel Castro that was being planned for the Ibero-American Summit in Venezuela. Alvarez claimed that the previous year he had provided information that Posada Carriles, and a group working in his factory in Guatemala, were preparing this attempt and the bomb explosions in Havana: “I risked my business and my life and they did nothing,” he said.

July 12 and 13, 1998. In an interview with The New York Times, Luis Posada Carriles admitted to having organized the bomb campaign against Cuban tourist centers. He also acknowledged that the leaders of the CANF had bankrolled his operations and that its chairman Jorge Mas Canosa was personally in charge of overseeing the flow of funds and logistic support to those operations: “Jorge Mas Canosa controlled everything, whenever I needed money he would say that he would give me 5 0000, 10 000, even 15 000 and he did.”

Posada also admitted to having paid Raúl Cruz León for placing the bombs in Havana hotels. Referring to the Italian tourist killed by one of those bombs, he told the Times: “... he was sitting in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

In compiling these reports, the Times used CIA and FBI files, testimony from more than 100 people and more than 13 hours of recorded interviews with Posada Carriles and even documents signed by him.

July 23, 1998. The Miami press published an article entitled “In the United States anti-Castro plots rarely lead to jail”. The article mentions several cases, such as the 1990 acquittal of 6 terrorists who took guns and other weapons to Nicaragua for an attempt on the life of the Cuban President. It also mentions the Rodolfo Frómeta and Fausto Marimóm’s 1994 acquittals of charges of planning to use Stinger antiaircraft missiles and other weapons in terrorist attacks. The article quotes statements too from well-known terrorist Tony Bryant who said that in 1989 the FBI stopped him in a boat loaded with weapons and explosives and they let him go. He added that he had been intercepted in two of his 14 missions against Cuba, but they never did anything to him.

August 2, 1998. Posada Carriles, in an interview for the program Opposing Points of View for CBS news, said that he intended to launch more attacks on Cuban facilities, either inside or outside the island.

August 1998. Even before President Fidel Castro’s announcement that he would attend the Summit of Heads of State and Government of CARIFORUM in the Dominican Republic, several Cuban born terrorists had planned an attempt on his life to be carried out some time between August 20 and 25.

To that end, terrorist Posada Carriles arranged a meeting in the Guatemala City Holiday Inn Hotel one month before the summit to plan how to get weapons and explosives into Santo Domingo.

September 12 1998. Five Cuban patriots were arrested in Miami who were defending both Cuban and U.S. citizens from the terrorist actions which, with total impunity, are organized, prepared and launched against Cuba from the United States territory.

November 17, 2000. A group of terrorists headed by Posada Carriles was arrested in Panama. They had entered Panama with false documents to make an attempt on the life of President Fidel Castro during the X Ibero American Summit of Heads of State and Government. Their weapons, explosives and a sketch of Castro’s route and public meetings were seized from them. The Cuban American National Foundation is paying for the team of lawyers defending the terrorists.

April 26, 2001. Three terrorists of the Commandos Groups F-45 and Alpha 66 tried to land on the north coast of Villa Clara province and, after firing shots at Cuban coastguard troops who had spotted them, were taken prisoner. Four AKM rifles, one M-3 rifle with a silencer, 3 hand guns, a great deal of materiel, night vision equipment and communications equipment were confiscated to them, all of which they intended to use to carry out sabotage and terrorist actions on Cuban soil.

In addition to the plots listed above, our authorities learned of 16 other plots to assassinate the President of Cuba, 8 plots to try to kill other leaders of the Revolution and 140 other terrorist plots hatched between 1990 and 2001. These were foiled, discouraged or prevented by the work of the Cuban Security and Intelligence Services.

[chriscollado]

Re: terrorrUSt$' terrorUSt warfare

Whatever dude.. Look at your source. The Cuban official facist website. Talk about a biased and untrustworthy source.
Have you ever lived in the region? I was born and raised in Miami, he sent a huge boatload of insane people from asylums and prisions to the US. Have fun with your little campaign though.

[waioli kai]

terrorUSt warfare-Iraq: ! {-} U.S. 2,800; Re: Cuba, terrorUSt warfare on

U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a ''barbarity,'

' HAVANA, June 10 — President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a ''barbarity,'' saying he should have been put on trial. The United States acted as '' judge and jury '' against the alleged leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq, Castro said late Friday.

'' They bragged, they were practically drunk with happiness. ''

'' The accused cannot just be eliminated. '' he told a literacy conference. ''

"This barbarity cannot be done. ''

The U.S. military has said al-Zarqawi initially survived the dropping of two 500-pound bombs on his family, but he died a short time later.

Castro said if Cuba used the same logic, it could bomb the United States to kill its No. 1 enemy, Luis Posada Carriles, who is in El Paso, Texas on immigration charges.

The Cuban government accuses the Cuban-born Posada of masterminding numerous violent attacks against the island, including the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in 1976. Posada denies involvement in the bombing of the plane ...

...'

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson 's "...blinding flashes of the obvious..." comes to mind. ... ... terrorUSt$ get special justUS