This video is SO INTENSE I SHAT MYSELF!

Close the door
Lay in bed
Cigarette
Aching head
Never try…
You either do it or don’t waste your time

Frustration
Out patient
Hand-cuffed man
To himself

Navigate slowly
A step at a time
Towards the law
Never try…
You either do it or don’t waste your life

Sherds of life
Eyes cried dry
Touch no-thing
Burned outright

Navigate slowly
A step at a time
Towards the law
Never try…
You either do it or don’t waste your time

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/22/AR2009012200810.html

What a surprise, another asian goes ape shit and decides to kill someone over nothing. At least other minorities kill people for sensible reasons, like they are owed money or someone insulted their manhood. Asians will kill anyone over any perceived slight, way to go shit head! Saw off her head in the cafeteria cause she sucked off someone with a bigger dick than yours!

The kicker is all her “friends” just sat there and watched the whole thing happen! Note one of those liberal dick shits had the balls to try to save her life. Society has effectively taught people that fighting, no matter what side you are on, is evil.
I can’t wait till as the asians start making apologies for their own, and say how he was “corrupted” by America, just like they did with Cho. Apparently no asian person is willing to stand up and say, “Yea, our culture is fucked up!” and try to fix these problems.

A female graduate student was stabbed to death last night at a cafe inside a Virginia Tech dormitory, authorities said. A suspect was being questioned.

Shortly after 7 p.m., police responded to a 911 call reporting that a woman was being assaulted inside the Graduate Life Center at Donaldson-Brown, on the outskirts of the campus, officials said. Campus police took a male graduate student into custody at the scene and were questioning him last night, but no charges had been filed.

Investigators believe the victim and the suspect knew each other, officials said. Police said they recovered a knife at the scene.

The campus was locked down for about an hour while police investigated, officials said.

Are Special Forces even necessary in today’s environment, or simply a hold over from conventional Cold War thinking? I asked myself this today based upon some recent readings, namely The War of the Flea, reading on Russia’s experiences in Chechnya and Afghanistan, and U.S. forces experiences in Somalia, Vietnam, and the ongoing conflicts of OIF/OEF. While there is no doubt that some of the more industrialized nations of the world have some of most highly trained and equipped Special Forces operators there question of their effectiveness is called into question. Despite having a veil of secrecy and almost unlimited budgets they have been unable to counter insurgent leaders, supply chains, and day to day operations. While there actions have successfully increased the cost effectiveness of insurgent tactics it has done little to nothing to actually slow them.

Special Forces are nothing more than highly trained Light Infantry with a security clearance and propensity to keep their mouth shut. Any one who challenges this knowledge should ask themselves then why Special Forces operators adversaries are nothing more than guerrilla units. For that matter, Special Forces adversaries have an extremely good track record for either besting some of the Western world’s finest Special Forces operators or defeating them. For all the secrecy and specialized training Special Forces operators receive one may believe they are damn near bullet proof and immune to the laws of physics. As much as we would love to believe that these operators are God like they aren’t. The truth is that wars are won by light infantry, the rest of the third world has no other option other than to rely heavily upon light infantry, but the West has been both blessed and cursed with technological superiority and a firm distaste for taking causalities.

So the question begs, are these highly trained operators even necessary? Is it better to have a large massive military that is well equipped, fed, paid, trained with high morale and stringent enlistment and commissioning standards or simply the sub-par armed services that we currently employ but rely on a small highly specialized teams of operators, fighter pilots and commanders? Our enemy, who has repeatedly rubbed our noses in the dirt from Che Guevara to Osama Bin Laden seems to prefer the former. While the Special Operations community of many first world nations has is effective it ultimately fails in its primary mission. The authenticity of this has been compounded by the fact that many of these special operations communities have little to no oversight and almost no accountability. The question then remains, why would any elected leader tolerate a special operations community who fails to deliver on promises, is extremely costly, has little to no oversight and is virtually non-accountable for their actions based upon security, all of this on the tax payers dime.

There is simply no need for clandestine activity if our government actually had a pair of balls to just put rounds down range necessary and not get caught up in the illusive concepts of “collateral damage”,  or the “winning of hearts and minds” of populaces we do not need to work in our factories our contribute to our national economy. Perhaps a thorough reading of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz would help some of these misguided commanders, assuming they read it objectively and not in the context of todays’ “war on terror”.

Many Americans have lost faith in their government and have begun to question just about everything our government does or fails to do with, with good reason. If American leadership wants its populaces to be more patriotic, to be more willing to send their sons and daughters into harms way, more willing to buy American products, more willing to trust American institutions then this country must cut the bullshit and stop playing fucking games! You can fool some of the people some of the time but can’t fool all the people all the time. Surprisingly our leadership has yet to learn this and has meddled their fat fingers in everything from the fallacy of gun control to warfare.

Americans live in a nature were collateral damage is not tolerated but torture of detainees is permitted, the funny part is that most people don’t see anything wrong with that!

Get ready to lose your rights for Mexico’s sake! I haven’t read such bullshit in my life. Semi-automatic rifles are easily converted? Uh…no, and where in the fuck do you buy RPGs and grenades in Houston? This article is such fucking B.S. I buy my hand grenades at Acadamy when they are on sale. Obviously these weapons are not just coming from straw purchases in Houston and San Antonio. They have lost control of their countries ports and are blaming us for it. Bullshit! This is just another excuse to pass another AWB with confiscation this time.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6205412.html

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama promised Mexican President Felipe Calderon during a summit Monday that the U.S. would take stronger action to stem the flow of weapons smuggled from Texas and other border states to drug lords in Mexico.

Obama, outlining for the first time his plans for U.S.-Mexico relations, pledged to find ways to collaborate more effectively with Mexico to reduce drug-gang violence, including curtailing the smuggling of guns bought in Houston and other U.S. cities, said his press secretary, Robert Gibbs.

Obama applauded the steps taken by Calderon to improve security in Mexico, including that country’s widening use of assistance provided under Washington’s $1.4 billion Merida Initiative.

Obama told Calderon that he would ask his designated Homeland Security secretary, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, to lead an effort to increase information sharing between law officers on both sides of the border. Calderon launched the war on Mexico’s multibillion-dollar drug syndicates after taking office in December 2006, sending about 30,000 soldiers and federal police into lawless areas. Mexican forces have arrested top drug operatives and seized more then 60 tons of South American cocaine and tons of other narcotics.
5,400 slain last year

But the crackdown has fueled unprecedented bloodshed as drug gangs swelled their arsenals with weapons bought in Houston and other cities by intermediaries. Gangland violence killed some 5,400 people in Mexico last year, about double the number in 2007, including hundreds of Mexican security forces.

One third of drug lords’ victims last year were killed in Ciudad Juarez alone, the industrial city of 1.3 million people bordering El Paso.

That Obama and his advisers agreed to the meeting with Calderon amid a busy transition schedule reflected Washington’s mounting concerns over the violence, said Jorge Castañeda, who served as foreign minister under Mexican President Vicente Fox.

“They sense that the situation is getting a little out of control,” Castañeda said of American officials. “They’re terrified.”

Castañeda referred to a report issued to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point by retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the drug czar under President Bill Clinton. McCaffrey, who made a fact-finding trip to Mexico in December, concluded that the country “is on the edge of the abyss – it could become a narco state in the coming decade.”

McCaffrey listed Mexico’s gangland death toll, widespread official corruption and attacks by well-armed, platoon-strength criminal bands as worrisome indications of the country’s deteriorating security situation.

Although Mexican security forces are not in danger of losing control of territory, McCaffrey wrote, “the challenge is so complex that it will require sustained commitment and attention at the highest levels of our two governments.”
Assault weapons

Mexican officials estimated that 90 percent of the guns smuggled into their country come across the U.S. border and have been complaining loudly for years about the unimpeded flow.

The arms, purchased by middle men in gun shops, include a number of assault rifles easily converted to fire fully automatically.

Houston is a major source of the smuggled weapons, with more than 300 guns used in killings and other crimes in Mexico traced back to the city in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

In the 25 months since Calderon took office, Mexican troops and police have seized more than 28,000 guns, including 15,000 automatic rifles, as well as 3 million rounds of ammunition and nearly 2,000 hand grenades.

Authorities have also captured rocket-propelled grenades and launchers, anti-tank weapons and specialized .50-caliber rifles used for sniping.

“The drug traffickers wouldn’t be so dangerous if they weren’t able to buy these weapons from the United States,” said Felipe Gonzalez, chairman of the Mexican Senate’s Public Security Committee.

“I don’t mean to say this is a U.S. problem, but that we have a shared responsibility.”

Gary Martin of the San Antonio Express News contributed to this report. Powell reported from Washington; Althaus from Mexico City.

stewart.powell@chron.com

dudley.althaus@chron.com

Every Korean I ever knew was full of shit, this one is no exception.

Like most asians, they are so obsessed with appearances and presentation they fail to look at substance or question any perceived authority.  The whole situation is a joke. Some unemployed jackass with no education jumps on the internet and starts posting things which he knows nothing about claiming to be an economic expert. No one fucking questions this guys, people actually take his bullshit advice and next thing you know the government gets involved. Didn’t this all happen before in Korea? Oh yea, that guy who claimed to have solved the human genome or some shit. Korea is a shinning example that presentation and form are no substitute for substance and results.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_skorea_blogger_arrested

Korean blogger arrested

SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean blogger pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges that he spread false economic information on the Internet, a news report said, in a case that drew heated debate over freedom of speech.

The blogger, identified only by his surname Park, gained prominence among South Koreans because some of his dire predictions about the global economy, including the collapse of Lehman Brothers, later proved to be correct.

Known widely by his pen name “Minerva,” the mythological Greek goddess of wisdom, the 31-year-old Park was accused of spreading false information on an Internet discussion site last month that the government had ordered major financial institutions and trade businesses not to purchase U.S. dollars.

Kim Yong-sang, a judge at the Seoul Central District Court who issued an arrest warrant for Park following Saturday’s court hearing, said the case “affected foreign exchange markets and the nation’s credibility,” Yonhap news agency reported.

Park told the judge he wrote articles to help underprivileged people and did not seek any personal financial gain or harm the public interest, Yonhap said.

In about 100 postings on the popular Web site last year, Park criticized the government’s handling of the economy and made predictions, largely negative, on the future. His writings were sprinkled with jargon that convinced some readers he was an economic expert.

Park described himself in Web entries as a former securities firm employee with a master’s degree earned in the United States and experience in the field of corporate acquisitions and takeovers, according to local media.

His deeply analytical style and sometimes prescient forecasts made Park a star on the Web, earning him the nickname “economic president on the Internet.”

But prosecutors said Park was an unemployed resident of Seoul who studied economics on his own after graduating from a vocational high school and a junior college with a major in information and communication.

Repeated calls to the court seeking confirmation went unanswered Saturday evening.

It is rare for bloggers to be arrested in South Korea, one of the world’s most wired and tech savvy nations. Critics say the case could undermine freedom of speech on the Internet.

“It is as if control on the Internet started as of today,” a blogger wrote on a bulletin board in Daum Communications, one of South Korea’s popular Web portals after news came of Park’s detention on Wednesday.

Lawyers for a Democratic Society, a prominent human rights group, has called for Park’s release and urged the prosecution to stop its investigation.

It is extremely intolerant for the government “to punish those who freely express their opinions and discuss them on the Internet,” the group said Friday.

In a statement, the main opposition Democratic Party expressed disappointment over the arrest and accused the judiciary of paving the way for human rights violations.

If indicted and convicted, Park could be sentenced to up to five years in prison or receive a fine of up to 50 million won ($37,250). Park was transferred to a Seoul detention center after the court issued the warrant, Yonhap said.