................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ...or is moral from a society-based viewpoint .......................... 398 TERRORISM .................................................................... ........................................................................ 399 Terrorism is moral from a self-centered viewpoint ............................ ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...lar authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.‘... ... DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congressional seat under a cloud of felony charges for corruption, criminal conspiracy and money laundering. He was u... ...s overruled by another Ku Klux Klan case (63), in which the appellant was convicted under Ohio law of advocating violence and unlawful methods of te...

... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...ery difficult. When Kino fails in an experiment it doesn‟t affect a billion people, as it did in China under the communist dictators. Kino can move f... ...ritage, but a population crisis out of control. It had more than a billion people when I left Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. He... ...It makes me wonder if these individual „rights‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least in pa... ...nia last week did nothing to rinse the memories of the graffiti, the trash on the streets, and even the fear for one's life-- at home, in places of b... ...late away problem industries. Accident and divorce settlements, harassment charges, contract issues and employment problems are all programmed into ... ...curity. Unluckily the government keeps borrowing it to pay for wars to stop terrorism or to spread democracy, for social expenses to keep the elector... ...edit card they stole from me, because the credit card company will pay the charges. But with the government‘s spending I pay even if I didn‘t order... ...d your Global Positioning System to track sex offenders. You remember that convicted sex offenders had to wear transmitters to satellites that showed...

... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...a- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one hand his broad method and concep- tions, and upon the other his ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...v- ered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on the world of toiling and get... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...is discourse was at an end. I have memories, too, of his sudden unexpected charges into the tranquillity of the house, his hands and clothes in- tensi... ... of all the splendours of the flesh, that strange combination of fanatical terrorism and shyness that fenced me about with prohibitions. It caused me ... ...the Expurgator, and it would be altogether disastrous to us if I should be convicted of any personal irregularity. It was just because of the manifest...

...ense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the ... ... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...anistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptat... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ...er Sayyid Qutb.A mem- ber of the Muslim Brotherhood 11 executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic schol... ...sts at the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, including some who were subsequently convicted in the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. The casing... ...s, the U.S.Attorney for the South- ern District of New York prosecuted and convicted multiple individuals, including Ajaj, Salameh, Ayyad, Abouhalima,...

...arrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report withou...

...AVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5...