9/14/12

Shoot First-Aim Later With Fiber Optics Guidance Control-The Obama-Clinton Apologies for Free Speech

In the distant past direct fire weapons required an initial aim accurately placed to make contact with a targeted objected. That slow response time meant that firing quickly to defend against an initial attacker might need to be a secondary object before finding safety from for instance, from an opposition force Army tank. For several decades though it has been possible to shoot quickly and aim later via a fiber optic cable trailing from a missile or torpedo more recently.

A defender can shoot on recognition of tank attack, dive to cover and aim the missile enroute from a safer spot.

I mention this topic because of the President's bizarre comment about Mitt Romney's comment that administration apologies for free speech including videos isn't a good idea. The President and Secretary of State Clinton have been falling all over themselves making apologies about the quality of some video that depicted the historical figure Mohammed.
Videos are no more than bits of digital data with whatever information content is placed in them. People have a right to express that content so long as they remain within lawful criteria.
It is silly for the Moslem world to believe that Muhammad can't be portrayed in videos or pictures. If one is making a video about the Moslem conquest of the middle east it would be idiotic to portray Muhammad with an empty saddle upon a horse directing itself in battle. Muhammad was one of the more egregious military conquerors of history, and his father was keeper of the Ka'aba and other pagan items at Mecca, so pagan scenes before his enlightenment and bloody or sex scenes with enemies and bevies of women respectively is just part of reality.
Surprisingly even Moses had another women besides Jochebed (an Ethiopian woman named Zipporah) I seem to remember reading in Numbers.
If Moslems are to exist in a modern world then like the American homosexual community they will need to learn to tolerate free speech that does not make personal attacks on living people or try to organize criminal acts. Videos are one means of advancing human intelligence-especially philosophy videos. If there are billlions of semi-literate people in the world expecting to use violence or economic sanctions to repress or extirpate individual free enterprise and individual free speech they need enlightenment. The practical way to accomplish that is with free speech.
Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama should apologize to the people of the United States for creating bad foreign policy, unwillingness to defend free speech adequately or to explain it to the Moslem world, poor defense of U.S. Embassies on 9-11, keeping the unemployment rate over 8% for several years, downsizing the U.S. labor force, building up public debt to 16 trillion dollars, printing out money at the Treasury to compensate for bad economic leadership, motivating millions to quite looking for a job, failing to halt illegal immigration at the U.S. borders and so forth.
There are innumerable things for Sect. of State Clinton and President Obama to apologize for,  yet none of those things should be free speech or its expression in videos.

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