[WebHubbleTelescope]

How to control WMD's: A Plan

So the Neocons started with a plan, a plan theoretical on paper and untested in practice. The Neocons now actually have lots of plans, all likely doomed to failure.

Then we read this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060928/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_audiotape;_ylt=Aiwjc08l6oAL9HjGTOn_1cSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-]Iraq terrorist calls scientists to jihad[/url]

Al-Qaida-in-Iraq's leader, in a chilling audiotape released Thursday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison.

The fugitive terror chief said experts in the fields of "chemistry, physics, electronics, media and all other sciences — especially nuclear scientists and explosives experts" should join his group's jihad, or holy war, against the West.

[Lawmage]

I like it but I suspect the rank and file here at Peak Oil will soundly lambast you for daring to suggest the use of violence in an effort to stop violent men...Good luck though.

[Cloud9]

Kill all the scientist. Seems rather Luddite to me.

[Aaron]

1984

[Lawmage]

Not sure I would call it Luddite. The plan is not predicated on opposition to science per se or to scientists but rather on specific individuals engaged in specif risky behaviors. Would you consider a plan to target chemists working with drug traffickers to be Luddite in outlook?

[perdition79]

The title of this thread, "A Modest Proposal", had me reaching for the steak sauce. Thanks for the letdown.

[Carlhole]

Not simply insane, embarassingly insane.

[The_Toecutter]

The real problem doesn't rest with engineers and scientists, but with the politicians, bureaucrats, business executives, and lawyers who abuse and exploit them on a daily basis.

[WebHubbleTelescope]

A few of you picked up on the Jonathan Swift title. I had to let that out of my system as I see the threat of loose nukes much scarier than the conventional threats and random school shootings. I had seen at least one commenter at TOD come up with the same premise and thought it interesting as a trial balloon, especially in light of Al Queda's recruitment of scientists. I really question whether the call to arms will gain much strength, as burying your head in technical work interferes with praying on your hands and knees to the holy land 100-times a day.

In the end I guess we can gain comfort knowing we are in the capable hands of Darth Cheney.

[mekrob]

This title as well made me think of Swift and the only idea that crossed my mind as to what the post could be about was a new process in which Irish children are turned into oil. But then I read it's about WMD's and now I have to cancel my Hummer. O well

[max_power29]

the Neocons love WMD. Why would they want to limit them? I mean there arent even enough WMDs for the Neocons already so they have to lie about them/make them up.

For rich people War=more money and more power. They would not do anything to decrease the amount of war no matter how crazy or sane the ideas to decrease the amount of war are.

[The_Toecutter]

If our government can have certain weapons, then so should I. It's what our founders intended when they acknowledged in that constitution our right to bear arms.

If our government doesn't want people with assault rifles in their possession? The government should lead by example and not have any in their arsenal should they seek to restrict private ownership. I feel the exact same way about WMDs, including nuclear weapons. If the people have no business having it, then neither does their government.