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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>><span style='color:#1F497D'>>></span>Check with King George on that.  Washington and his gang were terrorists<span style='color:#1F497D'>.  </span>Best, Jeff Davis<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>Ja, but they were *good* terrorists.<<span style='color:#1F497D'> spike</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>Carl Sagan said if we like them, they're freedom fighters. If we don't, they're terrorists. And if we can't make up our minds, they're guerillas. <span style='color:#1F497D'>  darren</span>.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Haaa, thanks Darren.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Puzzling comment by the US vice president:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Biden says if Assange conspired to get classified documents with a member of the U.S. military, then "that's fundamentally different" than if a reporter were given classified material by a source. The vice president tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would argue it's closer to being "a high-tech terrorist" than what happened in <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/the-pentagon.htm#r_src=ramp">the Pentagon</a> Papers -- with the 1971 leak of a government study about U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/19/biden-slams-wikileaks-document-hand-close-terrorism/?test=latestnews">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/19/biden-slams-wikileaks-document-hand-close-terrorism/?test=latestnews</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>So then, that covers two of four cases, but what is a reporter who conspirers with GI Joe?  What if GI Joe gives documents to Wikileaks without the conspiracy?  Is that at terreporter?  So it all depends on whose privacy is being violated?  This determines if the information activist is a terrorist, a freedom fighter, a guerilla or a reporter, and determines if GI Joe is a source or a traitor?  Pentagon Papers = good, Wikileaks = bad?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>I see.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.2pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>